Harry Targ
Biographic Data
| ID | 128154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Targ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry |
| FAMILY NAME | Targ |
| SIGNATURE | TARG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social and Solidarity Economy in Cuba
The Crisis of Higher Education
Social Science at the Crossroads
The Crisis of Higher Education in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization
This article explores some of the literature on the political economy of higher education. It suggests growing contradictions between the need for available funds and competition for students, research dollars, and new educational “products,” such as online education. It refers to that literature that raises contradictions between the global “market” for students and tuition fees. And it also raises issues of the quality of education, particularl…
Peace Profile
The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative. —Paul Robeson (1937). ...there are no heroes in this story...no villains...only peo
Globalization and the Cuban Revolution
Product Review
Bush Bashing vs. Class Struggle
From Living Wages to Family Wages
This paper analyzes the rhetoric and policy goals of the living wage movement. While the rhetoric focuses on workers in the context of their families, the wage levels demanded by activists and mandated by laws are almost never adequate to support families with children, especially single-parent families. We contend the problem is a fundamental, conceptual one: focusing only on setting a single hourly wage obscures the diverse needs of poor famili…
Camus and the New Left
Globalization and the North American Worker
Blackshirts and Reds
The media war against Nicaragua
“Hostility” describes U.S. policy toward the Nicaraguan government virtually from the time the new revolutionary junta came to power in July 1979 until February 1990, when the Nicaraguan people voted the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) out of power. They were elections largely shaped by the U.S. war against that regime. The U.S. sponsored a counterrevolutionary army (the “Contras”) whose terror campaigns devastated the Nicaraguan …
Competing Theories of International Relations
From Living Wages to Family Wages
This paper analyzes the rhetoric and policy goals of the living wage movement. While the rhetoric focuses on workers in the context of their families, the wage levels demanded by activists and mandated by laws are almost never adequate to support families with children, especially single-parent families. We contend the problem is a fundamental, conceptual one: focusing only on setting a single hourly wage obscures the diverse needs of poor famili…
The Crisis of Higher Education
Globalization and the North American Worker
Competing Theories of International Relations
The media war against Nicaragua
“Hostility” describes U.S. policy toward the Nicaraguan government virtually from the time the new revolutionary junta came to power in July 1979 until February 1990, when the Nicaraguan people voted the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) out of power. They were elections largely shaped by the U.S. war against that regime. The U.S. sponsored a counterrevolutionary army (the “Contras”) whose terror campaigns devastated the Nicaraguan …
Blackshirts and Reds
Camus and the New Left
Globalization and the North American Worker
Product Review
Bush Bashing vs. Class Struggle
From Living Wages to Family Wages
This paper analyzes the rhetoric and policy goals of the living wage movement. While the rhetoric focuses on workers in the context of their families, the wage levels demanded by activists and mandated by laws are almost never adequate to support families with children, especially single-parent families. We contend the problem is a fundamental, conceptual one: focusing only on setting a single hourly wage obscures the diverse needs of poor famili…
Globalization and the Cuban Revolution
Peace Profile
The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative. —Paul Robeson (1937). ...there are no heroes in this story...no villains...only peo
The Crisis of Higher Education in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization
This article explores some of the literature on the political economy of higher education. It suggests growing contradictions between the need for available funds and competition for students, research dollars, and new educational “products,” such as online education. It refers to that literature that raises contradictions between the global “market” for students and tuition fees. And it also raises issues of the quality of education, particularl…
Social Science at the Crossroads
The Crisis of Higher Education
Social and Solidarity Economy in Cuba
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Globalization (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)