Taxpayers, Taxes, and Government Spending: Perspectives on the Taxpayer Revolt

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Taxpayers, Taxes, and Government Spending: Perspectives on the Taxpayer Revolt
Robert J. Dworak
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ASIN: 0030561116

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Taxpayers, Taxes, and Government Spending: Perspectives on the Taxpayer Revolt
Robert J. Dworak
Manufacturer: Greenwood Pub Group
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ASIN: 0275914909

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Taxpayers, Taxes, and Government Spending: Perspectives on the Taxpayer Revolt
Robert J. Dworak
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Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged as Japan’s most enthusiastic âinternationalists,â investing in study or work abroad, or in romance with Western men as opportunities to circumvent what they consider their country’s oppressive corporate and family structures. Drawing on a rich supply of autobiographical narratives, as well as literary and cultural texts, Karen Kelsky situates this phenomenon against a backdrop of profound social change in Japan and within an intricate network of larger global forces.
In exploring the promises, limitations, and contradictions of these âoccidental longings,â Women on the Verge exposes the racial and erotic politics of transnational mobility. Kelsky shows how female cosmopolitanism recontextualizes the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their own desires for the âmodernâ West in ways that seem to defy Japanese nationalism as well as long-standing relations of power not only between men and women but between Japan and the West. While transnational movement is not available to all Japanese women, Kelsky shows that the desire for the foreign permeates many Japanese women’s lives. She also reveals how this feminine allegiance to the Westâand particularly to white menâcan impose its own unanticipated hegemonies of race, sexuality, and capital.
Combining ethnography and literary analysis, and bridging anthropology and cultural studies, Women on the Verge will also appeal to students and scholars of Japan studies, feminism, and global culture.

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Hard to rate..........2006-10-29

so I put my rating right in the middle. The previous reviewer hopes that people "who don't know anything about Asia" will abstain from submitting reviews, but ours is a free world so thankfully nobody will listen to him.

Kelsky writes well, which makes for compelling reading here, except in those parts that are loaded with anthropological jargon. Like writers, she has her biases, in her case against white men who have relationships with Japanese women. But her book is hard to put down.

People that don't know anything about Asia should abstain their opinions.......2006-10-14

I was born in Asia, and I've lived in Asia for the majority of my life, and I still go there every year.

Everything said in this book is true. Yes, the truth is offensive and ugly, but deal with it.

Depends on how you categorize it.......2006-01-22

Reviews for this book tend to be All or Nothing. I think it boils down to how you categorize the book. If you view it as a collection of essays with a particular viewpoint and nothing more (as I did), you will probably find it a satisfying read, whether or not you agree with its conclusions. If you approach it as ethnology--a hard, academic tome--then you might find it wanting.

The truth may be opposite.......2005-05-03

Well, to me, it is more like white men are chasing Japanese women. Many yellow fevers come to Japan or other Asian countries. Why doesn't Kelsky focus on this?

This book is so prejudiced, a bad ethnography.......2005-05-03

I think Kelsky sees part of Japan and generalise as a whole... And Japanese women are not likely to honestly tell what we really think in our minds in front of Westeners but just say something white people expect to hear, as Japanese women regard Westeners as outsiders. So, for white men and women, it is really hard to know what we really think. But they tend to take the words as it is. You may not know, but Japanese women very often make fun of white men and women as ugly, fat, bald or etc. I feel very sorry but many Japanese women often say this ... So many of us have no adoration to Westners. If you want to believe what Kelsky maintains, just believe it. Many Westners want to believe themselves to be admired, so it is helpless. But if you do so, you will never know much about Japanese people and culture.

Changing Employment Relations in Asian Pacific Countries

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Changing Employment Relations in Asian Pacific Countries

Manufacturer: Chung-Hua Institution
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ASIN: 9579676011

Employment Relations and Hrm in South Korea (Explorations in Asia Pacific Business Economics)

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Employment Relations and Hrm in South Korea (Explorations in Asia Pacific Business Economics)
Dong-One Kim , Johngseok Bae , and Tong-Won Kim
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific

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Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific
Greg J. Bamber , Peter K. Ross , and Changwon Lee
Manufacturer: International Thomson Business Press
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ASIN: 1861526512

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This book considers human resource initiatives in the workplace and industrial relations reform from the perspectives of employers, managers, unions and academics in the Asia-Pacific region. Divided into five parts, the text explores how key players in particular countries are responding to the challenges of globalisation and the ænew economyÆ. Specific countries covered include Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Taiwan. Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific provides an important regional perspective for students of industrial relations and human resource management at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels.

Employment relations in the Asia Pacific: Changing approaches

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Employment relations in the Asia Pacific: Changing approaches

Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
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ASIN: 1865081892

Employment Relations in the Growing Asian Economies (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business)

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Employment Relations in the Growing Asian Economies (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business)
Anil Verma
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Employment Relations in the Asian Economies analyzes the role of employment relations in the context of economic development in the key Asian economies of China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In recent years, Worldwide interest in these economies has increased as they have become more open and export driven. Although much has been written on this region, few books have concentrated on the human resource aspect of its growth. The authors take the premise that the success of these countries is due to their low wages and suppression of workers' rights. Case examples test the hypothesis that unless a synergy is created between firm-level and state-level human resource policies, economic growth is unlikely to be sustainanble.

Globalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

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Globalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
Anthony Woodiwiss
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ASIN: 0521621445

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This pathbreaking book is the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights and takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse. Using a sociological and poststructuralist approach to the concept of rights, and incorporating transnationality into sociological theory, Anthony Woodiwiss demonstrates how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchialism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls "enforceable benevolence."

Labour Relations in the Asia-Pacific Countries (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

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Labour Relations in the Asia-Pacific Countries (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)
B. Parasuraman
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Made in the Philippines: Gendered Discourses and the Making of Migrants (Routledgecurzon Pacific Rim Geographies, 5)

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Made in the Philippines: Gendered Discourses and the Making of Migrants (Routledgecurzon Pacific Rim Geographies, 5)
James A. Tyner
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The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary contract labor with a huge 700,000 workers a year being deployed to over 160 countries on either 6 month or 2 year contracts. This labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Women in particular are channeled into vulnerable occupations, including domestic service and entertainment. This challenging work confronts the darker side of contract migration raising such uncomfortable questions as does the Philippine government permit and encourage the trafficking, exploitation and abuse of women?

Drawing upon the writings of Faucault, this work argues that migrants and migrations are socially and politically produced. By controlling meanings and discourses, governments are able to re-position their policies to encourage a more positive reading of their strategies. Tyner delves behind this political façade to examine, on a number of levels, how the 'making' of migrants furthers the government's accumulation of capital. Initially documenting how the Philippine government has discursively framed overseas employment since its inception in 1974, the book traces through the many discourses, both dominant and periphery, which represent female entertainers, before finally focusing on a case study of one female migrant and how she negotiates her daily life.

Employing a post-structural feminist perspective, this work provides a new direction in the study of gender and migration which ultimately calls for a re-politization of migration studies. Population geographers, feminist geographers and migrations scholars of Asia will find this controversial work both enlightening and thought-provoking.

Moving Forward: Toward Decent Work for People With Disabilities : Examples of Good Practices in vocational Training and Employment from Asia and the Pacific

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Moving Forward: Toward Decent Work for People With Disabilities : Examples of Good Practices in vocational Training and Employment from Asia and the Pacific

Manufacturer: International Labour Org
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Insects are major pests of both natural and plantation forests in the tropics. This book is the first to provide a broad-based, international review of this subject at a level suitable for advanced students and practitioners. It describes the ecology and biology of the insects with special reference to the economic damage they cause to trees. All relevant control strategies are addressed.

Tropical Forest Insect Pests: Ecology, Impact, and Management

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Tropical Forest Insect Pests: Ecology, Impact, and Management
K. S. S. Nair
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521873320

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Tropical Forest Insect Pests promotes a better theoretical understanding of pest population dynamics, and causes of forest insect outbreaks in the tropics. Covering pests of both natural forests and plantations, it examines the diversity of tropical forest insects; their ecological functions; the concept of pests; and the incidence of pests in natural forests, plantations, and stored timber. General issues on which foresters and forest entomologists hold strong traditional views, such as the severity of pest incidence in plantations vs. natural forests, in plantations of exotics vs. indigenous tree species, and in monocultures vs. mixed plantations are discussed. The final section looks in detail at specific insect pests of the common plantation tree species across the tropics, with recommendations for their control. This is a comprehensive resource suitable for graduate students and researchers in forestry and tropical forest entomology, and for forest plantation managers in the tropics.

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