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Taking a broad perspective of livelihoods, this book draws on more than ninety case studies from thirty-six countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to examine how people are engaging and living with modernity. This extends from changes in the ways that households operate, to how and why people take on new work and acquire new skills, how migration and mobility have become increasingly common features of existence, and how aspirations and expectations are being reworked under the influence of modernization. To date, this is the only book which takes such an approach to buildin

Social change --- Sociology of the developing countries --- Economic sociology --- Third World: economic development problems --- International economic relations --- Social geography --- Economic geography --- anno 2000-2099 --- Developing countries --- Globalization --- Human geography --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs (Newly industrialized countries) --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries --- 316.334.56 --- 316.4 --- 911.3:33 --- 911.3 --- 91 <1-772> --- 316.4 Sociale processen --- Sociale processen --- 316.334.56 Stadssociologie--(algemeen) --- Stadssociologie--(algemeen) --- Economische geografie --- Sociale geografie. Culturele geografie --- Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Onontwikkelde, onderontwikkelde gebieden