This book offers a compelling examination of Malaysia's ambitious '60:40 policy' which prioritizes science education as a pathway to national development.

Drawing on personal narratives and rural experiences, including the author's own family stories, this ethnographically rich study reveals how young Malaysians navigate aspirations for development through STEM education with profound ambivalence rather than wholesale acceptance. Aizuddin demonstrates how these experiences constitute critiques of development orthodoxy, challenging dominant narratives about science education's transformative power.

Essential for scholars of postcolonial studies, education policy and Southeast Asian development, this work provides nuanced insights into how peripheral communities negotiate the promises and contradictions of science-driven modernization in postcolonial nation-building.

From modern slavery to environmental breakdown, the most urgent challenges of our time demand approaches that can work with complexity, rapidly adapt, and catalyse lasting change through the agency of ordinary people.

This book introduces Systemic Action Research (SAR) - a participatory methodology designed to transform "hard to shift" patterns and dynamics in systems. Having implemented more than 30 large-scale SAR programmes worldwide, the authors combine systems thinking, complexity theory, and participatory practice to show how to design, facilitate, and evaluate change processes involving large numbers of system actors in interlinked action research initiatives.

Featuring rich case studies, this is an invaluable guide for those committed to enabling large-scale social transformation and tackling complex crises.

A new "bulldozer politics" has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic. Presentist accounts might explain these evictions as emergent modes of capital accumulation, but Logics of Dispossession challenges that story and situates these acts in a longer historical duree.

Employing a comparative genealogical approach to historical analysis, Liza Weinstein traces the Indian government's power to evict-from its beginnings in the colonial capitals of the British Raj, to developmental state-building projects and the rise of ethnonationalist politics, up to the present neoliberal conjuncture. Drawing on multicity fieldwork, archival research, and a database of more than a thousand eviction cases, Weinstein argues that evictions constitute a historically entrenched tool of city governance, motivated by a shifting set of intersecting, often contradictory logics that have accumulated over time and in locally specific ways across Indian cities aspiring to be world-class.

Becoming an Expert Teacher equips educators with the attitudes, skills, and practices they need to reach their full potential and profoundly impact students' lives. A wealth of research has confirmed the powerful influence high-quality teaching has on student learning and achievement. But what does expert teaching actually look like? How do we begin to define and measure it let alone develop it? This informative and inspirational book distills evidence-informed principles of effective instruction into clear, actionable insights while motivating teachers to commit to the science and craft of expertise. Drawing on evidence from cognitive science, teacher-effectiveness research, and the study of expert performance, the authors show how great teaching is developed-not simply through experience alone, but through purposeful improvement over time.

Teachers tend to grow in their practice along three main routes: classroom experience, professional development, and deliberate practice. Experience and professional learning matter, but do not reliably lead to sustained expertise. Over time, growth can slow as routines stabilise. Expert teachers continue to improve through a different path. They engage in deliberate practice: intentional work on specific instructional decisions, refined through feedback and evidence of student learning.

Rather than settle for basic competencies and checklists of techniques, readers will gain a deeper understanding of what expert teachers do differently, how they think about teaching and learning, and what they need to do to become expert teachers.

Far from the Model Minority centers the voices of five undocumented and mixed-status Chinese immigrant families in New York City and their sending communities in Fuzhou, China. Challenging dominant narratives about Chinese Americans and the model-minority myth, these families have experienced multigenerational exclusion from educational pathways and developed mobility strategies focused on attaining "face."

In China, low social standing led them to prioritize immigration and remittance work over education, as overseas success became the primary way to garner face. Yet in the United States, undocumented status and poverty created new barriers to their and their children's acculturation, and the intersection of undocumented life and the culture of remittances often undermined the intended face gain for families back home and reinforced social stagnation. Based on four years of ethnographic research, Jia-Lin Liu's work explores how these transnational families respond to enduring structural exclusions by reimagining achievement and dignity across borders.

The BRICS grouping - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - jointly founded the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement as part of their efforts to constitute a trade, monetary, and geopolitical bloc. Yet the inability to deal collectively with external pressures, intra-group tensions, and ideological divergences has hampered efforts to establish a coherent and articulated strategy. Nevertheless, given their centrality to the production, circulation, and consumption of agricultural commodities and food products; their abundant reserves of labour and natural resources, and the scale of their domestic markets, the development trajectories of the BRICS countries remain crucial to understanding the future not only of the global agrifood system but also of capitalism itself.

Engaging with recent debates in comparative capitalism and food regime approaches, this book provides a comparative institutional analysis of the BRICS 'varieties of capitalism' and their role in the international reordering of the contemporary 'food regime'. It is argued that the historically embedded legacy of the agrarian question in the institutional configurations and class relations of each country can help to explain the institutional diversity of capitalism. Conversely, to the extent that the dynamics of the agrifood system have a decisive influence on their overall development trajectories, the BRICS-driven shifts in the food regime have much to reveal about the new period of global capitalism that will follow the eventual demise of the neoliberal era.

Opening an original and innovative agenda of empirical and theoretical research, the book will appeal to an international readership interested in agrarian political economy, economic sociology, rural and agrifood studies, and the future of the global economy.

Why research universities remain society's most powerful engines of progress.

Public trust in higher education is under strain. Expertise is questioned, costs are rising, and universities face mounting political pressure. In The Progress Machine, Darryll J. Pines responds to this moment with a clear argument: Research universities remain uniquely equipped to confront the world's most urgent challenges.

Pines, the president of the University of Maryland, examines how institutions of higher learning have driven technological, economic, and cultural change for generations. He identifies five elements that make this possible: a sense of purpose shaped during formative college years; a commitment to scientific inquiry; communities strengthened by diversity and disagreement; an entrepreneurial orientation toward real-world problem-solving; and the arts and humanities, which supply meaning, ethics, and imagination. Rather than treating universities as abstract ideals, Pines grounds his argument in institutional practice. He addresses criticisms head-on, including concerns about affordability, free speech, political polarization, and public accountability. These challenges, he argues, demand reform rather than retreat-and reaffirm the responsibility of universities to serve society at large.

The Progress Machine offers an optimistic vision at a moment of uncertainty while presenting the research university not as a relic of the twentieth century, but as an adaptable institution capable of guiding innovation, sustaining democracy, and preparing future generations to meet complex global problems.

The remarkable journey of a group of Black emigrants from the American South to Liberia after emancipation

In October 1865, six months after the Civil War ended, more than one hundred of the Black residents of Lynchburg, Virginia, left their homes to cross the ocean and begin their lives anew. Their destination was Liberia. They risked everything for the chance to live as full citizens, educate their children, own land, and make a good living-all of which they felt they stood a better chance to do outside the United States, despite their newfound freedom. Why did they leave so soon after the dream of emancipation had finally been realized? And what happened when they ultimately disembarked in West Africa? Out of Virginia tells their story.

In this deeply researched and powerfully written book, Joe Stinnett explores the complex motivations and circumstances that compelled hundreds of Black Virginians to leave the United States and recounts in vivid detail the world they encountered and how they fared after their arrival in Liberia. It also demonstrates in a way few books have done before the local, grassroots nature of the expatriation movement in nineteenth-century America. Above all, Stinnett underscores the depth of determination asserted by Black individuals and families to decide their future for themselves, regardless of the consequences.

Illuminating and captivating stories of life in the American Revolutionary era, from the dean of Virginia history

Brent Tarter knows how to make history come alive. More than that, he knows that the best histories encompass everyone, not just "great men" making speeches in domed statehouses. Drawing on a celebrated career's worth of experience in the archive, producing scholarship aimed not at the ivory tower but at the general reader, Vignettes of Revolutionary Virginia gathers together the most dramatic, poignant, and compelling tales of ordinary people who lived through the extraordinary days of the American Revolution.

As in Vignettes of Colonial Virginia, Tarter relates the incredible stories of his subjects in their own words. They show how life for everyone in Virginia then was radically different from life for anyone in Virginia now. They illuminate the differences that emerged between the struggle for independence and the revolution that it set in motion, and they illustrate the consequences of the disconnect between the Revolutionary language of liberty of 1776 and the continuing existence of slavery and of the hierarchical society of the colonial period. The past may be a foreign country, but Tarter is a handy, engaging guide.

Pentecostal communities are often characterized as focused on personal salvation to the exclusion of engagement with society and culture at large. But as the contributions to this volume show, there is an astoundingly diverse array of traditions that identify with the Holiness, Radical Holiness, or Pentecostal movements, and each brings with it a long and complex history of social engagement-and, at times, disengagement-that needs to be examined in historical context.

Accordingly, this volume explores how churches (and individuals) influenced by Holiness and Pentecostal thought have offered aid to the needy, advocated for social justice, and situated themselves politically, all while navigating their own marginalization as religious communities. The chapters plumb histories of abolition, racial justice, rescue missions, and cultural politics-from African Methodism as a fulcrum for Black liberation to the Pentecostal practice of providing sanctuary for undocumented migrants, the Salvation Army's fraught internationalism, and the development of blues, jazz, and gospel in the Sanctified churches. The book does not offer a single theological vision but rather unfurls for readers the richness of the Pentecostal, Holiness, and Radical Holiness movements' pluralistic engagements with societies in their various contexts.

In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Rebecca Carter-Chand, Dale M. Coulter, Dara Coleby Delgado, Dennis C. Dickerson, Amanda Koch, John Maiden, Priscilla Pope-Levison, Daniel Ramirez, and Randall J. Stephens.

Your guide to a successful academic career that centers joy and avoids burnout.

Academic life is often imagined as a straight path-publish, earn tenure, keep producing-but the reality is far messier. In An Academic Life Worth Living, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza draws on decades of experience as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and academic leader to offer a clear-eyed, compassionate account of how to write, publish, and sustain a joyful professional life.

Having moved across continents and career stages while raising three children, Golash-Boza blends personal stories-from fieldwork and family life to tenure reviews and leadership roles-into concrete strategies for developing sustainable writing practices and making intentional career choices. In the process, she demystifies academic labor while confronting the structural pressures that make burnout feel inevitable. An Academic Life Worth Living is a pragmatic guide for anyone seeking to do meaningful scholarly work without sacrificing health, family, or purpose.

How forty years of neoliberal policy choices created an American health care system that prioritizes profit over people.

How can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the highest health care costs and the poorest health outcomes among its peers? In America's Wrong Turn, John E. McDonough offers a compelling explanation for this troubling puzzle of contemporary US life and shows that this reality did not arise by accident.

Beginning in the later twentieth century, a powerful political and economic philosophy began to reshape the United States and continues to mold the institutions that govern health care, insurance coverage, and population health. Across four decades, the rise of neoliberal thinking elevated privatization, deregulation, and profit maximization as guiding principles for public policy. McDonough illustrates how these ideas influenced medical care at every level, altering government roles, accelerating consolidation, encouraging the financialization of once-mission-driven sectors, and shifting the US health system's priorities away from patients and communities. The consequences of these changes include deepening inequality, eroded public health capacity, and a growing burden of medical debt.

Synthesizing history, policy analysis, and the lived realities of the American health system, McDonough reveals how a national commitment to economic freedom above all else set the stage for today's dysfunctional health care system. Despite today's crises, he also highlights emerging efforts that signal the possibility of a new direction, one based on fairness, accountability, and the restoration of health as a public value. America's Wrong Turn offers a framework for understanding how the United States arrived at this moment and what it will take to create a system worthy of the people it serves.

Ethics and Governance of AI in Healthcare discusses how ethical and human rights issues can be integrated into the transformational potential of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and automation in the fields of medicine and public health.

Through a broad sociological lens, the book takes a critical perspective on the social implications of AI and related technologies. It begins by examining the huge impact that AI is already having on medicine and public health, before spotlighting the inequalities in the way AI is designed and deployed across different social groups, highlighting issues of class, race, and gender, as well as power disparities in the roll-out of these technologies. The book then explores current ethical standards within healthcare settings, including technical and sociotechnical biases encoded into existing systems, before looking at a range of existing governmental approaches to AI regulation in medicine and healthcare. It concludes by suggesting a new sociological framework to ensure the governance of AI fully considers ethical and human rights issues in the future.

Important and erudite, and including practical recommendations, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars across Public Health, Sociology, Health and Social Care, Medicine and Nursing, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in these fields.

This book explores the complex power dynamics shaping China-Myanmar relations within the framework of asymmetrical geopolitics. By examining disparities in resources, influence and capacity, it delves into how China leverages its economic and strategic dominance, particularly through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC). It provides a nuanced understanding of Myanmar's geopolitical significance as a site of competition and its delicate balance between dependence on China and autonomy.

The book highlights China's asymmetric foreign policy strategies, the impact of the 2021 Military Coup on bilateral relations, and the challenges posed by stalled BRI projects amidst ethnic conflict and local resistance. It also examines the socio-political and economic implications of China's investments in Myanmar, addressing issues pertaining to migration, ethnic ties and security. Through rigorous analysis, the book connects these elements to broader South Asian geopolitics, emphasizing Myanmar's pivotal role in China's regional ambitions and its access to the Indian Ocean.

This interdisciplinary volume is an essential resource for scholars, researchers and students in International Relations, South Asian studies, Area Studies, Global Studies and Geopolitics. Additionally, journalists, policymakers and academics interested in China's rise, the Belt and Road Initiative and South Asian geopolitics will find this book insightful.

Strategies for Higher Education Institutions: Resilience and Adaptability provides higher education leaders with a structured methodology for strategic decision-making under deep uncertainty.

The book constructs four plausible scenarios for higher education to 2035, organized around two critical uncertainties: coordination logic (state-led versus market-led) and human-AI centricity (human-centric versus AI-first). It introduces a five-mechanism typology that explains how AI and emerging technologies reshape institutional value propositions, operating models, and capability sets, moving analysis from individual tools to structural forces. The book then translates scenarios into strategic action through the 7C Strategy Wheel and 7C Strategy Selection Framework, connecting environmental diagnosis to strategic posture selection, initiative classification, and signpost monitoring. The primary readers are senior institutional leaders, including vice-chancellors, presidents, rectors, deans, governing board members, and strategy executives. Policymakers, ecosystem players, and researchers in strategic management and higher education will also find applicable frameworks.

The book functions as both an analysis and toolkit. Readers gain methods for stress-testing existing strategies against multiple futures, identifying robust actions that hold value across scenarios, building contingent strategies tied to specific conditions, and establishing signpost-based monitoring systems for strategic recalibration. The scenarios apply globally and are designed for application to specific national, regional, and institutional contexts.

Ectogestation and the Future of Reproductive Rights explores the profound ethical, legal, and social implications of artificial womb technology. It brings together leading scholars in bioethics to critically examine the transformative potential of ectogestation for reproduction, gestation, and abortion.

In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, questions regarding ectogestation have been elevated beyond mere philosophical curiosity. This volume addresses the heightened relevance of ectogestation for reproductive ethics, emphasizing its implications for bodily autonomy, fetal viability, and the future of abortion debates. The book is divided into four thematic sections: the use of ectogestation in clinical settings, questions regarding the pregnant person and gestational justice, the meaning of "birth" in relation to the biological entity gestating in an artificial womb, and how the advent of ectogestation might impact abortion rights in the future. Furthermore, this volume interrogates the intersections of gender, autonomy, and justice, offering fresh perspectives on the societal and philosophical challenges posed by this emerging technology. By engaging with cutting-edge arguments, this volume will provoke further discussion on reproductive rights in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

This volume is essential reading for scholars and advanced students working in philosophy, bioethics, sociology, medicine, medical humanities, and legal philosophy.

Time and again, in heated debates over Brazil's political economy and democracy, one disputed concept emerges: nationalism. Claiming the Nation traces the contested history of the nationalist label in twentieth-century Brazil, examining how both progressive and conservative forces invoked national interest to advance divergent political agendas. Focusing on the period from the 1920s through the end of military rule in 1985, Andre Pagliarini demonstrates how progressive reformers linked nationalism to social justice, economic sovereignty, and mass participation, while right-wing elites often used it to justify hierarchy and technocratic governance. Through detailed analysis of political debates, media, and activism, the book shows how competing attempts to define and claim nationalism in the public square shaped Brazil's civic identity, development, and political trajectory during the past one hundred years. Ultimately, Pagliarini unveils the enduring ways in which control over nationalist discourse became a proxy for determining who legitimately represented the nation and its future.

Throughout much of the twentieth century, an uneasy relationship existed between issues of sexuality and the working-class politics of the Mexican Communist Party and other left-wing organizations. Rather than attributing this tension solely to ideological conservatism, Revolution in the Sheets reinterprets the sexual politics of the Mexican Left by foregrounding toleration as its governing political strategy. Tracing debates in party archives, propaganda, oral histories, and correspondence, Robert Franco demonstrates how leftist parties dismissed issues of sexuality when politically necessary in order to negotiate authority, discipline dissent, or project a moral public image. However, militants also privately practiced interpersonal forms of toleration that, as the social and political winds changed, were later adopted by party leaders as a pragmatic compromise to expand the Left's electoral appeal without upsetting established norms. The embrace of toleration, Franco argues, functioned as a substitute for publicly addressing gender inequality and sexual repression, ultimately circumscribing the revolutionary potential of Mexican leftist politics.

This cutting-edge collection of empirical research focuses on teaching and learning Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) in Singapore and contributes to CSL or Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) pedagogy directly by closing the gap between research and practice.

Studies in this volume are organised according to the different CSL/CFL teaching and learning settings, which include diverse theoretical frameworks (e.g., psychological, sociocultural, and cognitive), methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods), modes of instruction (face-to-face and computer-mediated), targets of instruction (character learning, reading, writing, motivation, and professional learning), and levels of instruction (pre-school, primary, and secondary). With original and engaging teaching and learning tools and techniques, this book is very useful for local and international teachers and researchers who seek to understand and explore CSL/CFL students' learning processes and effective learning strategies as well as professional training methods.

Moving from theory to practice, this volume is an essential and rich resource for courses in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL) programmes, pre-service teaching-training courses, and those who are interested in upgrading their second language acquisition knowledge bases and techniques.

Addressing the central role of variation in human language, this book examines how it operates across multiple structural levels, integrating empirical case studies of change in the lexicon, word classes, constructions, style, and sociolinguistic dimensions.

Drawing on large-scale corpus data, the volume analyses competition among word forms, shifts in grammatical categories, changes in constructions, stylistic differentiation, and language use in relation to gender and social values. It shows how linguistic choices emerge from interacting structural, semantic, and social factors, producing patterns of variation. Using quantitative and computational methods implemented in R and Python, the studies demonstrate how empirical evidence illuminates language use and its role in shaping linguistic systems. Together, these analyses argue that variation is fundamental to linguistic organization.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students across linguistics, particularly those working in corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and computational linguistics, especially those concerned with language variation and change.

"A gutsy, razor-sharp demystification of a powerful organization."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The first-ever history of the Anti-Defamation League and its determined, century-long alliance with Western empire.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a major US political organization, yet its politics have gone largely unexamined. While the ADL is often portrayed as a defender against antisemitism and racism, its history shows that it is better understood as a proponent of the racial state and US empire. From "correcting" the embarrassing racial difference of immigrant Jews to policing the leftist politics of Black, Arab, and Jewish groups, the ADL pursued a conservative version of civil rights paired with aggressive anti-communism. Even as it became an authority on white nationalism in the 1970s, the ADL joined with the emerging anti-left, anti-Arab, and pro-Western neoconservative movement.

This history presaged the ADL's work, from the 1980s to the present, in developing the hate crimes framework as a pro-state policing project, which soon merged with the "War on Terror," the "antisemitism scare," and anti-Palestinian racism. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State presents the ADL's history through its conflicts with social justice movements, illuminating the ADL's outsize role in shaping the ideas about race and rights that have underwritten US empire.

Higher Education Pedagogies in the Wake of Artificial Intelligence explores how universities can retain the best of digital practice while adapting to new ethical, pedagogical, and disciplinary challenges.

This edited volume brings together scholars and practitioners from diverse global contexts to explore the full spectrum of AI-era teaching, from rethinking curriculum design and assessment integrity to embedding experiential learning, digital competencies, and universal design principles. Contributors investigate how AI tools influence student engagement, academic integrity, employability skills, and inclusive learning practices, offering insights grounded in research, case studies, and applied teaching experiences. Together, these contributions provide a comprehensive and balanced overview of the pedagogical issues confronting higher education institutions today.

Uniquely blending scholarly analysis with practical, ready-to-implement strategies, this volume serves as both a theoretical contribution and a hands-on guide for educators. It offers a forward-looking pedagogical roadmap for early-career and mid-career academics seeking to evolve their teaching practice, design AI-resilient assessments, and create inclusive, future-ready classrooms. By bridging research, innovation, and practitioner insight, the book equips educators to engage critically and constructively with AI, ensuring students thrive in a rapidly transforming world.

This book explores IoT-based ecosystems and AI-driven automation in agriculture to provide solutions for intelligent farming systems and precision agriculture techniques. It provides a comprehensive view of emerging technologies' integration and the resultant impact on the farming ecosystem. Real-world case studies and examples
of IoT and AI applications in agriculture are included to show how IoT and AI have revolutionized conventional agriculture. The book also examines the potential and difficulties of deploying IoT and AI in the agricultural business with case studies.

Features:
* Demonstrates how technologies like precision agriculture, smart sensors, and automated systems can be utilized to boost production, reduce waste, and increase sustainability by optimizing resource usage and reducing
environmental impact.
* Explains how small sensors, intelligence drones, or low-power Internet of Things setups for detecting, monitoring, gathering, analyzing, and storing data through cloud platforms are encouraging smart and intelligent agriculture.
* Highlights IoT and AI intervention options for effective assessment of musculoskeletal, ergonomic, and postural analyses.
* Explains usage of AI and IoT in precision farming, agricultural drones and hopping systems, livestock monitoring, temperature monitoring, smart greenhouses, and computer imaging.
* Discusses challenges like data security, rural connectivity issues, infrastructure limitations, and the digital divide in rural areas.

The book is a helpful reference for professionals, scholars, and students interested in digital farming and sustainable agricultural practices. It acts as a guiding tool for practitioners, researchers, educators, and policymakers, encouraging discussions, innovations, and advancements that will shape a sustainable, efficient, and resilient future for agriculture.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

This book reveals how China's celebrated green transition is built on the displacement and demolition of rural communities, landscapes, and livelihoods to make way for new industry and urbanization. Drawing on eighteen months of archival and ethnographic research in Jiangsu province, Jia-Ching Chen traces how state-led planning, land clearance, and ecological construction reorganize life in the name of sustainability-shaping the experiences of resettled villagers navigating fractured kin networks as well as migrant workers hired to dismantle homes. Chen argues that ecological civilization produces not only low-carbon infrastructure but also new forms of inequality, exclusion, and dislocation. Centering the concept of "surplus ecologies," the book offers a critique of statist environmental governance that reveals the recursive violence of green development. Bridging political ecology and urban studies, Ecological Demolition reframes debates on climate governance and environmental justice.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

What happens when the promise of European free movement collides with the realities of neoliberal governance in Brexit Britain?

This timely study examines the experiences of racialised Roma EU citizens in the UK, focusing on Sheffield and Glasgow before and after Brexit. As the largest and most marginalized ethnic minority in Europe, many Roma viewed EU citizenship as a pathway out of persecution and poverty. Yet their encounters with UK politics and policy revealed the limits of a 'multi-level', 'market' citizenship.

Combining political theory with grounded empirical research, this book offers vital ethical and policy insights for scholars, practitioners and decision-makers across Europe.

This book examines the contradictions in the narratives surrounding the post-socialist transition in Eastern Europe. While countries such as Poland and Hungary are hailed as successful transitions to liberal democracies, they are also seen as semi-authoritarian regimes undermining democracy.

The book questions what the transition was truly about, challenging the dominant narrative and highlighting the overlooked aspects of society, such as the agency of people and organizations, the ethical resources upon which society and economy are based, and ideas about who we are as human beings. Focusing on organizations and the world of paid work, it uses Poland as a case study to explore the hidden consequences of the transition and its broader relevance for both Eastern Europe and the West.