Community Development Programs and Rural Local Government: Comparative Case Studies of India and the Philippines. By E. H. Valsan. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. xxviii, 485 pp. Tables, Charts, Glossary, Bibliography. $21.50.

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-208
Author(s):  
John D. Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Comparative Case Studies

Reconstructing Solidarity

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
Do So

Reconstructing Solidarity is a book about unions’ struggles against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, and the implications of these struggles for worker solidarity and institutional change. The authors argue against the ‘dualization’ thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders, finding instead that most unions attempt to organize and represent precarious workers. They explain differences in union success in terms of how they build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity, in countries or industries with more or less inclusive institutions. Where unions can limit employers’ ability to ‘exit’ from labour market institutions and collective agreements and build solidarity across different groups of workers, this results in a virtuous circle, establishing union control over the labour market. Where they fail to do so, it sets in motion a vicious circle of expanding precarity based on institutional evasion by employers. The book builds its argument on comparative case studies from Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Contributors describe the struggles of workers and unions in diverse industries such as local government, music, metalworking, chemicals, meatpacking, and logistics.

Doing Development One Chicken at a Time: Happy Hollow Egg Production as an Unlikely Spin-Off from an Agroforestry Development Project

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Ben Wallace
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Egg Production ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Village Life

As most of us involved in community development know, often a good idea originates with the people we are trying the help. In fact, one of the keys to success and sustainability in many development projects rests in our ability to accomplish our goals or deliverables within a methodology that is sufficiently flexible to incorporate new ideas into an already carefully defined set of goals. This basic truism of research in community development is illustrated here with an example of a livelihood project seemingly unrelated to the overall goals of an agroforestry development project—Good Roots-ugat ng buhay—that I have directed in the Philippines for the past fifteen years (see The Changing Village Life in Southeast Asia: Applied anthropology and environment in the Northern Philippines, 2005, New York and London: RoutledgeCuzon).

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