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This month Bloomsbury Collections features titles from Brookings Institution Press. The Brookings Institution Press® is the renowned publishing arm of the Brookings Institution, a leading think tank in Washington, D.C. Brookings and its scholars are known worldwide as a trusted resource for rigorous research and innovative ideas across fields.
In Digitally Invisible, Nicol Turner Lee, a leading expert on the American digital divide, uses personal stories from individuals around the country to show how the emerging digital underclass is navigating the spiraling online economy, while sharing their joys and hopes for an equitable and just future.
In this chapter, learn about digital redlining and the digital divide as it relates to other systems of oppression such as housing inequities and insecurities.
This book presents research on the prospects for large-scale job creation through the development of ‘industries without smokestacks’ including tourism, agro-processing, horticulture, and services that has revealed a promising path forward. It is the first to document the potential for non-traditional industries to address the formal sector job creation.
This chapter discusses the importance of improving employment opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the world’s youngest region.
The Rise of the Global Middle Class traces the history of the middle class from its origins in Victorian England to present day India. It looks at how this powerful dream captivated generations through history, but its demands have led younger generations to ask if it is all worth it. Can the middle class continue to thrive, or will it falter under the stresses of automation, consumerism, pollution, and political strife?
In 1975, the number of people in the global middle class topped one billion. Two-thirds of them lived in Europe and North America. Read this chapter to learn the story of the first billion people in the middle class and the economic development and growth in these two regions of the world.
For the World’s Profit brings together distinguished corporate, investor, government, academic, and nonprofit perspectives to consider how the pursuit of business profits can better add up to the world's profit.
This chapter provides insight into the intersection of business and sustainable development and context around the role of business in society and how that role continues to evolve.
Techlash connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st-century digital Gilded Age. With the Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised.
According to a 2021 survey, 64 percent of Americans think the government should do more to regulate how internet companies handle privacy issues. Learn about data privacy and the collection and exploitation of personal information in the digital world in this chapter.
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