Books in the Voices in Development Management series

Bringing together the international community of batik producers, this text discusses the effects of the increasing demands of the fashion and tourism industries and explores ways of maintaining the integrity of traditional designs whilst harnessing the benefits of commercial forms.

Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners in Asia, the Pacific Region, Latin America and Africa, this book makes visible the roles and contributions of women as miners. It also highlights the importance of engendering small and informal mining in the developing world as compared to the early European and American mines.

How do young people make effective transitions into work? This book explores developments in training and in social welfare to show the way administrations in England and New Zealand are reconnecting young people to the labour market through creating social networks.