Reviews for Contemporary African Politics and Development: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1981-1990

The average rating for Contemporary African Politics and Development: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1981-1990 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-10 00:00:00 Robert Gordineer Great account of some of the most prominent topics when it comes to women and economics: from the reasons behind "the economic emergence of women", which provides a broad and deep coverage of the history of female employment with different theoretical explanations; to the future-looking policy proposals of the last chapter. The book is quite broad when it comes to topic coverage: it does focus a lot on labor market discrimination: roots, different ways of discrimination, ways forward. The economic role of housewives is also well discussed, as are other topics such as affirmative action, work life balance or the especial -and difficult- situation of lone parents (who are mostly, let's face it, women). The book is easy to read and yet it does not fall short of theoretical insights or deep and contrasted explanations. Loads and loads of data to be found. Fully recommended!

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-01 00:00:00 Robyn Liddell Like the majority of the western historians when they write about the Soviet Union, the writer tended to defame the Soviet economy in a biased way. Mass collectivisation, capital goods industries, central planning are damned from the western point of view, damned because they were what made the Soviets great history. The book didn't provide any new information, only the old lies about famines, coercion, labour camps, and much more of the same stuff that Trotsky used against Stalin, especially the myth of exploiting the peasants to finance the mass industrialisation, which is used throughout the whole book.