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This book is the first comprehensive account of the International
Labour Organization's 100-year history. At its heart is the concept
of global social policy, which encompasses not only social policy
in its national and international dimensions, but also development
policy, world trade, international migration and human rights. The
book focuses on the ILO's roles as a key player in debates on
poverty, social justice, wealth distribution and social mobility
subjects and as a global forum for addressing these issues. The
study puts in perspective the manifold ways in which the ILO has
helped structure these debates and has made - through its
standard-setting, technical cooperation and myriad other activities
- practical contributions to the world of work and to global social
policy.
Despite the growing importance of funds through corporate bonds,
most investigations on the short-term effects of certain events on
firm value are only conducted for stocks. Thus, research provides
an incomplete view on how firm value is truly affected. The author
fills this gap and focuses his research on corporate debt. The
first section of the book provides a comprehensive overview of
existing methodologies to calculate abnormal bond returns.
Subsequently, two frameworks are selected to investigate the
importance of corporate debt when empirically assessing major
corporate events: Synergy disclosure at M&A announcements and
debt offerings through reopenings. Both provide evidence for the
necessity to regard corporate debt to fully assess changes in firm
value.
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of
Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1939.
Implying a thoroughly transnational approach, it sheds a light on
the important role American Quakers played in the emergence of a
humanitarian sector within the USA and beyond. Through the Quaker
lens the book adresses important tensions inherent to the history
of humanitarianism in the 20th century: Following the AFSCs aid
operations from the First World War, through post-war Germany and
Soviet Russia to the Spanish Civil War it deals with the AFSC’s
conflicting roles as a specifically American aid organization on
the one hand and its position within transnational religious and
pacifist networks on the other and it opens a window to processes
of professionalization, the development of humanitarian techniques
and the complex relationship of religious and secular strands in
the history of humanitarianism.
New polities emerged during the processes of decolonization. The
break with the colonial past was not only political, but also more
general. While conventional wisdom defines education as a field of
action reproducing society in time, decolo-nization placed broader
and more radical demands on the field: to produce a new society.
For this purpose, new forms of education and schooling were
required, although the importance of inherited institutions and
practices in education were still significant. This collection of
chapters offers scholarly insights into this problem by covering
different processes of decolonization and the challenges of
education in the last two hundred years.
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