Рано или поздно каждый человек должен решить: кем быть, какое место занять в жизни? Успех, благополучие, достойная жизнь и уважение окружающих — как много зависит от правильности этого решения! Но выбор профессии — одна из сложнейших задач. Как оценить свои способности, явные и скрытые возможности? Куда пойти учиться выбранной специальности? Как вести себя на собеседовании с работодателем? Какие шаги предпринять для успешного продвижения по служебной лестнице? Как построить отношения с коллегами по работе? В книге Карьера для "чайников" вы найдете ответы на эти и многие другие вопросы — начиная от выбора специальности до планирования процесса обучения; от поиска работы до построения успешной карьеры. Книга адресована школьникам и студентам, стоящим перед выбором профессии, а также всем тем, кто занят поисками работы, хочет изменить свою жизнь и добиться профессионального успеха.

The idea for this edited collection arose out of a series of interdisciplinary workshops entitled ‘Gender and Migration in 21st Century Europe’ hosted jointly by the Migration Unit and the Feminist Legal Research Unit at the University of Liverpool between October 2006 and April 2007. The same title is adopted for this collection which draws on the presentations and discussions that took place during the workshops coupled with additional invited contributions from notable scholars in the field. In referring to ‘gender’ the aim is to explore how social, economic, legal, political and cultural processes implied by migration govern and reinforce relations between the sexes – not just between men and women, but between female and male children, and between girls and women. Our interpretation of ‘migration’ is also broad to encompass a range of geographical, economic and personal trajectories into and within Europe as well as the emergence and effectiveness of new regulatory mechanisms to address issues of ‘forced’ migration (notably trafficking), cross-national family breakdown and employment migration in an expanding European Union.

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В эпатажном произведении, изданном в США тридцать лет назад, профессор Уолтер Блок с позиций либертарианской этики и беспристрастной логики исследует галерею преследуемых обществом типажей, общественных «козлов отпущения», среди которых: сутенер, проститутка, штрейкбрехер, шантажист, ростовщик, клеветник, наркоторговец, наркоман, спекулянт, посредник и др. Результаты анализа поражают дерзостью и парадоксальностью. «Овцы в волчьей шкуре» — это несомненный интеллектуальный вызов для экономистов и социологов, политиков, юристов, психологов. Книга представляет интерес и для широкого круга читателей, способных отбросить стереотипное восприятие и следовать за движением непредвзятой мысли. Специально для настоящего издания художник С. Ёлкин создал новые иллюстрации к книге.

It is widely assumed that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. Leslie McCall contends that such assumptions are based on both incomplete survey data and economic conditions of the past and not present. In fact, Americans have desired less inequality for decades, and McCall's book explains why. Americans become most concerned about inequality in times of inequitable growth, when they view the rich as prospering while opportunities for good jobs, fair pay, and high quality education are restricted for everyone else. As a result, they favor policies to expand opportunity and redistribute earnings in the workplace, reducing inequality in the market rather than redistributing income after the fact with tax and spending policies. This book resolves the paradox of how Americans can express little enthusiasm for welfare state policies and still yearn for a more equitable society and forwards a new model of preferences about income inequality rooted in labor market opportunities rather than welfare state policies

The United States holds the dubious distinction of having the most unequal income distribution of any advanced industrialized nation. While other developed countries face similar challenges from globalization and technological change, none rivals America's singularly poor record for equitably distributing the benefits and burdens of recent economic shifts. In Categorically Unequal, Douglas Massey weaves together history, political economy, and even neuropsychology to provide a comprehensive explanation of how America's culture and political system perpetuates inequalities between different segments of the population. Categorically Unequal is striking both for its theoretical originality and for the breadth of topics it covers. Massey argues that social inequalities arise from the universal human tendency to place others into social categories. In America, ethnic minorities, women, and the poor have consistently been the targets of stereotyping, and as a result, they have been exploited and discriminated against throughout the nation's history. African-Americans continue to face discrimination in markets for jobs, housing, and credit. Meanwhile, the militarization of the U.S.-Mexican border has discouraged Mexican migrants from leaving the United States, creating a pool of exploitable workers who lack the legal rights of citizens. Massey also shows that women's advances in the labor market have been concentrated among the affluent and well-educated, while low-skilled female workers have been relegated to occupations that offer few chances for earnings mobility. At the same time, as the wages of low-income men have fallen, more working-class women are remaining unmarried and raising children on their own. Even as minorities and women continue to face these obstacles, the progressive legacy of the New Deal has come under frontal assault. The government has passed anti-union legislation, made taxes more regressive, allowed the real value of the federal minimum wage to decline, and drastically cut social welfare spending. As a result, the income gap between the richest and poorest has dramatically widened since 1980. Massey attributes these anti-poor policies in part to the increasing segregation of neighborhoods by income, which has insulated the affluent from the social consequences of poverty, and to the disenfranchisement of the poor, as the population of immigrants, prisoners, and ex-felons swells. America's unrivalled disparities are not simply the inevitable result of globalization and technological change. As Massey shows, privileged groups have systematically exploited and excluded many of their fellow Americans. By delving into the root causes of inequality in America, Categorically Unequal provides a compelling argument for the creation of a more equitable society.

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