Analyses the results of a major household survey of labour market conditions carried out in Jordan in 2010. It cover topics that are essential to understanding the conditions leading to the Arab Spring, including the persistence of high unemployment, low and stagnant female participation rates, and early retirement among prime-age male workers.
German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching effects on them and their families' economic situation.
The book examines the power of nationalism to solder nation-states back together rather than break them apart. In this innovative, cross-continental comparison of nation-building in Germany and Vietnam, the focus is on their shared experience of division, communism and regional integration.