The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism examine women's labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant women's work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement under the Franco dictatorship to workplace...

White run South Africa as a developmental state: an interpretive economic history of twentieth century South Africa -- The conflicted foundations of industrial policy -- Industrial development in South Africa up to World War II-some figures and some business history -- A (near) developmental...

Supported by a number of high-profile case studies, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of Japanese-German economic relations through the whole of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. It also offers clarification on the structure and processes of the world...