Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty, and authoritarian regimes running successful criminal campaigns with the help of financial assistance are all phenomena that raise fundamental questions around finance and
Making Human Rights Work Globally
β Scribed by Anthony Woodiwiss
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 149
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many peoples lives and a central concern of sociology.
β¦ Subjects
Human rights. ; Employee rights.
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