Contemporary forms of slavery

Slavery in Brazil: A Link in the Chain of Modernisation: the Case of Amazonia, (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International, no.7 Human Rights Series). ALISON SUTTON. London, 1994. 154pp., bibliography, maps, glossary, photographs. £5.95. ISBN 0–900918–32–2.

Britain's Secret Slaves: An Investigation into the Plight of Overseas Domestic Workers (with contributions from Anti‐Slavery International & Kalayan and the Migrant Domestic Workers, no.5 Human Rights Series). BRIDGET ANDERSON. London, 1993. 122pp., references, appendices, photographs. £5.50. ISBN 0–900918–29–2.

Child Labour in Nepal (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International and Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre no.13 Child Labour Series), OMAR SATTAUR. London, 1993. 71pp., bibliography, maps, glossary, appendices, photographs. £5.00. ISBN 0–900918–31–4.

Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International, no.8 Human Rights Series), MARTIN SMITH. London, 1994. 139pp., bibliography, maps, chronology, photographs. £5.95. ISBN 0–9009–18–34–9.     

The International Debt Crisis

Book reviewed in this article: Common Crisis (‘Second Brandt Report’). Brandt Commission. London: Pan, 1983. 174pp. £1.95. Adjustment and Financing in the Developing World: The Role of the International Monetary Fund. Edited by Tony Killick. Washington, DC: IMF in association with the Overseas Development Institute, 1982. 232pp. £4.50 pb. The Quest for Economic Stabilisation: The IMF and the Third World. Edited by Tony Killick. 320pp. £16.50 hb, £7.50 pb; and The IMF and Stabilisation: Developing Country Experiences. Edited by Tony Killick. 272pp. £15.00 hb, £6.95 pb. London: Heinemann Educational, 1984. Development Financing: A Framework for International Financial Cooperation. Edited by S. El-Shaikhly. London: Frances Pinter, 1982. £16.50. International Reserves, Exchange Rates and Developing Country Finance. Edited by Norman C. Miller. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1982. 161pp. £15.50.     

Reviews

International Law in the Service of Soviet Anti‐Zionism

L.A. Modzhoryan, Sionizm kak forma rasizma i rasovoy diskriminatsii (Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination). Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 1979. 240 pp.

‘White Book’ Against the Jewish Emigration Movement

L.N. Smirnov and others (eds), Belaya kniga: svidetelstva, fakty, dokumenty (White Book: Evidence, Facts, Documents). Moscow: Yuridicheskaya literatura, 1979. 280 pp. 1.20 roubles.

‘Academic’ Exposition of Soviet Policy

Evgeny Primakov, Anatomiya blizhnevostochnogo konflikta (The Anatomy of the Middle East Conflict). Moscow: Mysl, 1978. 374 pp. Index.

A Report on Human Rights

Human Rights in the Soviet Union: Report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1979. xxi+211 pp. Maps. Diagrams. Appendices.

A Monument to Polish Jewry

Moshe Mishkinsky (ed.). Galed. Measef le‐toledot yahadut polin (Galed. On the History of Jews in Poland*). Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4–5. Tel‐Aviv: Tel‐Aviv University, 1973–79.

Romanian Jewry Between the Wars

Shlomo Bickel, Yahadut Romania. Historia, Bikoret Sifrutit, Zikhronot (The Jews of Romania. History, Criticism, Recollections). Tel Aviv: The Association of Romanian Emigrants in Israel and The Groper Legacy Literary Committee, 1978. 429 pp.     

A conference on Polish‐Jewish relations

A Special Skill. V. V. Chepko, Goroda Byelorussii v pervoy polovine XIX veka. Ekonomicheskoe razvitie (The Economic Development of the Towns of Byelorussia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century). Minsk: Byelorussian State University, 1981. 144pp. 1.20 roubles.

Jewish Anti‐Fascist Committee. Shimon Redlich. Propaganda and Nationalism in Wartime Russia: The Jewish Antifascist Committee in the USSR, 1941–1948. Boulder, Col.: East European Quarterly, 1982.236 pp. (East European Monographs, 58).

Unwelcome Guests David Prital (ed.). In Search of Self: The Soviet Jewish Intelligentsia and the Exodus. Jerusalem: Mount Scopus Publications, 1982. 262pp.

Antisemitic Classic. Lev Aleksandrovich Korneev. Klassovaya sushchnost sionizma (The Class Essence of Zionism). Kiev. Politizdat Ukrainy, 1982. 263 pp. (Critique of the Ideology and Policies of Anti‐Communism Series). 10,000 copies. 1.20 roubles.

The Super‐Powers in the Middle East. Adeed Dawisha and Karen Dawisha (eds.). The Soviet Union in the Middle East: Policies and Perspectives. London: Heinemann Educational Books for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1982. 172 pp. Tables. Index. (Political Science/World Affairs). £5.50; and R.V. Borisov, SShA. Blizhnevostochnaya politika v 70‐e gody (United States Policy Towards the Middle East in the 1970s). Moscow: Nauka, 1982. 216 pp.     

Using transformative learning as a model for human rights education: a case study of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation's International Human Rights Training Program

This paper examines the essential practices and conditions for fostering transformative learning using the Canadian Human Rights Foundation's International Human Rights Training Program as a case study. It suggests that the program's participants challenge their own values and assumptions about human rights, their work and their society through critical reflection. Consequently, it argues that if human rights educators are to contribute to the transformative education of others, it is necessary for them to understand the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the learning process associated with human rights education.     

The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth‐century Barbacoas (Colombia)

Testing the Chains, Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Michael Craton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1982. 389pp. £27.90.

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States. Series II. The Black Military Experience ed. Ira Berlin, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. xxx+ 852 pp. £37.50.

Slavery and Freedom (expanded edition, ed. by William W. Freehling). Willie Lee Rose. New York: Oxford University Press. 1982. xi, 254pp. £6.95.

The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South. Catherine Clinton. New York: Pantheon. 1982. xix + 331pp. $19.95.

Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830–1870. Lawrence J. Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. xi + 344 pp. £20.00.

Immigrants, Minorities and Race Relations: A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Presented at British and Irish Universities, 1900–1981. Victor F. Gilbert and Darshan Singh Tatla. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd. 1984. xxxiii, 153 pp. £13.50.     

Reviews and abstracts

Felstein, Ivor. Sex and the longer life. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 1970. pp. 143, $4.95.

Gallino, Tilde Giani. Il sesso e l'adolescente (Sex and the adolescent). Torino, Italy: Ediscientifica S.F.A. Settore Editoriale, 1971. Student text 103 pp. 2500 lire. Instructor's manual 60 pp. 2000 lire.

Greenwald, Harold and Ruth Greenwald (Eds.). The Sex‐Life Letters, Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, Inc. 1972, Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., N.Y. XXV & 436 pp.

Kuiper, P. C., M.D. The Neuroses. A Psychoanalytic Survey. New York: International Universities Press, 1972. 261 pages. $9.00.

Lieberman, Bernhardt (Ed.). Human Sexual Behavior—A Book of Readings. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1971. 444 pages.

Martin, Del and Phyllis Lyon. San Francisco, California: Glide Publications, 1972. 283 pp; hardcover $7.95.

Neubardt, Selig, M.D. and Harold Schulman, M.D. Techniques of Abortion. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Co. 172 pages. $11.50.

Orth, Penelope. An Enviable Position. New York: David McKay Co., 1972. 303 pages. $7.95.

Zatuchini, Gerald I. (Ed). Post‐partum Planning: A Report on the International Program. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1970. XXX and 477 pp.     

Book Reviews

Abstract

Project on Social History Curriculum. Peter N. Stearns and Linda W. Rosenzweig, eds., six volumes. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982, 1502 pp., 108 transparencies. Reviewed by Mildred Alpern.

Using Local History in the Classroom. Fay D. Metcalf and Matthew T. Downey. Nashville, Tennessee: The American Association for State and Local History, 1982, 284 pp. Reviewed by Gerald A. Danzer.     

Review article: witches,relativism and magic

Enemies of God Christina Larner, Chatto & Windus, London, 1981, £12.95, 244 pp. Rationality and Relativism Martin Hollis and Steven Lukes (eds), Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 1982, £17.50, paper £6.95, 312 pp. Stolen Lightening: The Social Theory of Magic Daniel O'Keefe, Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1982, £27.50, paper £9.95, 581 pp.     

The politics of Agudas Yisroel in inter‐war Poland

Yitzhak Arad, Ghetto in Flames. The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust. New York: Holocaust Library, 1982. 500pp. Index. $8.95.

Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed.). The Chronicle of the Lódz Ghetto, 1941–1944. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. lxviii +551pp. Index. £25.

Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943. Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Brighton (UK): Harvester Press, 1982. xviii + ‐487pp. Index. £28.

Shmuel Krakowski, The War of the Doomed. Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942–1944. New York and London: Holmes and Meier, 1984. xii +340pp. Index.     

Review article: Slavery and slavishness in Russia and America

Hellie, Richard, Slavery in Russia 1450–1725. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. xix, 776 pp.

Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. xiv, 517 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. Our Money, Our Responsibility: A Citizens' Guide to Monitoring Government Expenditures. By V. Ramkumar. World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms. By Thomas Pogge. Taxation and State‐Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent. Edited by Deborah Brautigam, Odd‐Helge Fjeldstad and Mick Moore. Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy. By David A. Crocker. An Introduction to Sustainable Development. By Peter P. Rogers, Kazi F. Jalal and John A. Boyd. The Current Negotiations in the WTO: Options, Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries. By Bhagirath Lal Das. Commodity Prices and Development. Edited by S. Newton and R. Grynberg. WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries. By Anwarul Hoda and Ashok Gulati. Expanding Frontiers of Global Trade Rules: The Political Economy Dynamics of the International Trading System. By Nitya Nanda. Policy Windows and Livelihood Futures: Prospects for Poverty Reduction in Rural India. Edited by John Farrington, Priya Deshingkar, Craig Johnson and Daniel Start. Indigenous Routes: A Framework for Understanding Indigenous Migration. By Carlos Yescas Trujano. Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008. By the World Bank. Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest: Risk, Needs and Rights. Edited by Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. Growth Divergences: Explaining Differences in Economic Performance. Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, K. S. Jomo and Rob Vos. Sub‐Saharan Africa: Forging New Trade Links with Asia. By K. Carey, S. Gupta and U. Jacoby. The Least Developed Countries Report 2008: Growth, Poverty and the Terms of Development Partnership. Prepared by the UNCTAD Secretariat.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. By Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart. Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at 30 Years of the World Development Report. By Shahid Yusuf, with Angus Deaton, Kemal Dervis, William Easterly, Takatoshi Ito and Joseph E. Stiglitz. Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications. Edited by Gil Loescher, James Milner, Edward Newman and Gary Troeller. Inclusion and Exclusion in Local Governance: Field Studies from Rural India. Edited by B. S. Baviskar and George Mathew. Women's Land Rights and Privatisation in Eastern Africa. Edited by B. Englert and E. Daley. Gender Sensitive Disaster Management: A Toolkit For Practitioners: How To Incorporate Gender Mainstreaming in Disaster Response and Preparedness. By C. Pincha. Making Sense of Global Health Governance: A Policy Perspective. Edited by Kent Buse, Wolfgang Hein and Nick Drager.     

Global Distribution of Transnational Human Rights NGOs: The Effects of Domestic Resources and Institutions

This article examines domestic sources of the uneven distribution of human rights transnational NGOs (TNGOs) across countries. I compile an original dataset covering 787 human rights TNGOs during the 2005–2010 period from the Yearbook of International Organizations (supplemented by the directories produced by Human Rights Internet and the Encyclopedia of Associations). I employ the zero‐inflated negative binomial model to explore domestic conditions influencing the location of TNGO headquarters. The analysis distinguishes two processes. First, population size and political institutions are particularly important for the likelihood of hosting any human rights TNGOs. Human rights TNGOs are likely to exist only in strong democratic countries with relatively large populations. Second, domestic resources (economic and human) and institutions (political and regulatory) affect the count of human rights TNGOs in a country. A high level of economic development, a large and well‐educated population, strong democratic institutions, and a less regulatory environment provide favorable conditions for the establishment of more human rights TNGOs. Although human rights TNGOs are transnationally oriented, their establishment is still greatly influenced by domestic factors.     

Has the Time Come to Reevaluate Evaluation? or,Who Will Be Accountable for Accountability?

Evaluation with Power: A New Approach to Organizational Effectiveness, Empowerment, and Excellence, by Sandra Trice Gray and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. 178 pp., $28.95 cloth (vinyl). Measuring the Performance of Human Services Programs, by Lawrence L. Martin and Peter M. Kettner. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996. 138 pp., $44.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. 256 pp., $22.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services: Cross-Cutting Issues and Methods, edited by Edward J. Mullen and Jennifer L. Magnabosco. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Social Workers, 1997. 337 pp., $29.55 for members of the National Association of Social Workers, $36.95 for nonmembers, paper. The Best of Intentions: The Triumphs and Failures of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, by Irwin Unger. New York: Doubleday, 1996. Out of print.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: TORREALBA, R. (Ed.) Migraciones Internacionales en las Américas. TORREALBA, R. and J. A. OROPEZA Estado y Migraciones Laborales en Venezuela. (State and Labour Migration in Venezuela). HUJANEN, R. (Ed.) Joint Study on the Role of Information in the Realization of the Human Rights of Migrant Workers.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Paul Streeten, Globalisation: Threat or Opportunity? D. John Shaw, International Development Co‐operation: Selected Essays by H.W. Singer on Aid and the United Nations System. N.S.S. Narayana, Economic Policy and State Intervention: Selected Papers of T.N. Srinivasan. Martin Khor, Rethinking Globalization: Critical Issues and Policy Choices. William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Angus Maddison, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. Masahiko Aoki and Yujiro Hayami, Communities and Markets in Economic Development. Sheila Page and Adrian Hewitt, World Commodity Prices: Still a Problem for Developing Countries? J. McMahon, Trade and Agriculture: Negotiating a New Agreement? Chris Reij and Ann Waters‐Bayer, Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development. J.S. Shortle and D.G. Abler, Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control. Robert Tripp, Seed Provision and Agricultural Development. Dorothy L. Hodgson, Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture, and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist. Shepard Forman and Patrick Stewart, Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Postconflict Recovery. Joanna Macrae, Aiding Recovery? The Crisis of Aid in Chronic Political Emergencies. Adrian Wood, Raymond Apthorpe and John Borton, Evaluating International Humanitarian Action: Reflections from Practitioners. Ondine Barrow and Michael Jennings, The Charitable Impulse: NGOs and Development in East and North‐East Africa. Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas G. Weiss Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges. Carolyn Long, Participation of the Poor in Development Initiatives. Willem van Genugten and Camilo Perez‐Bustillo, The Poverty of Rights: Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty. Stephen Devereux and Simon Maxwell, Food Security in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen, Debating Development: NGOs and the Future. Nick Johnstone and Libby Wood, Private Firms and Public Water: Realising Social and Environmental Objectives in Developing Countries. Eberhard Kienle, A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt. Atul Kohli, The Success of India's Democracy.     

Review article: Norbert Elias – established or outsider?

The Civilizing Process: Volume 2, State Formation and Civilization Norbert Elias, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1982, £19.50. 376 pp. The Court Society Norbert Elias, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983, £15.00. 301 pp.     

Register of research in social work

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Child Support A Practitioner'S Guide Jan Bowen (1994), Law Book Co., North Ryde, 293 pp. $ 45.00 (paper)

The Independent Social Security Handbook, Welfare Rights Centre (1994), Pluto Press, Leichhardt, 575 pp. $ 29.95 (paper)

Cultures Of Crime And Violence: The Australian Experience Bessant, J. Carrington, K. and Cook, S. (eds.), La Trobe University Press, in association with the Victorian Law Foundation, Melbourne. 221 pp. $ 24.95 (paper) Australia.

Leaving The Fold: A Guide For Former Fundamentalists And Others Leaving Their Religion M. Winell (1993) New Harbinger Publications, Inc. Oakland, CA. 297pp. $ 22.95 (paper) (Available direct from the distributor Boobook Publications, PO Box 163, Tea Gardens NSW 2324, phone (049) 970 811 or through all good bookshops.) Reriatha Reed Social Work Student La Trobe University Albury/Wodonga Campus