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Book SynopsisThis book provides a concise and accessible history of the relationship between the individual and capitalism in the United States. The text is devoted to tracking the historical development of important themes, whilst addressing key episodes in the progress of American capitalism within these, such as the Great Depression and New Deal. The book will introduce students to the key philosophical principles that have been the most influential in the history of free enterprise in the United States as well as exploring the ways in which these ideas have been popularly understood by Americans from the late eighteenth century to the present. Liberalism and Neoliberalism, entrepreneurialism, slavery and racial capitalism, and business and gender are all assessed. The material in this volume is complimented by a set of primary source documents that bring the subject to life. It will be of interest to students of American history, business and labor history.Table of Contents0.Introduction. 1.Philosophies. 2.Systems. 3.Organizations. 4.Mythologies. 5.Collectives. 6.Assessment

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Book SynopsisThe idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that took Florence Aubenas - one of France's most accomplished undercover journalists - on a journey into the worst recession since the Great Depression.Trade Review"Aubenas's story is bleak because it lacks a conviction that things could be different. The story lies in the rubble - literally - of the achievements and failures of organised labour."The Guardian "The Night Cleaner records Aubenas' time among those for whom the job of supermarket cashier is 'prestigious' and a refuse collector is 'well paid' ... While 'l'exception francaise' may still mean something to those in the middle, there is little sign of it in the world documented by Aubenas. Perhaps she has hit on the exception to the exception."London Review of Books "This personal account of the unmaking of the French working class is not only great journalism, it is a true work of literature: beautifully written, intense, unforgettable."Katha Pollitt, The Nation "Follow Florence Aubenas into the armies of the night, among the invisible souls who clean up the mess we make by day, absorb her insights into the great recession and its impact on the most marginal."Beatrix Campbell, author of Wigan Pier Revisited "Too often, the impact of the global recession is reduced to general statistics. But in Florence Aubenas' provocative and passionate book it is captured in exquisite detail, emotion, and human faces. Whether in Cairo, Caen, or Wisconsin, the desperation that accompanies the soul-destroying search for work and economic stability continues to push people to the brink of their patience and dignity. What makes Aubenas' book so brilliant is that this culmination of her undercover investigation does not simply linger on their lack of hope, but also on the depth of their spirit."Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage "A vivid account of the insecurities and indignities of trying to cobble together a living from the part-time, temporary jobs of the West's postindustrial economy. The insufficient hours, abrupt layoffs, and inadequate wages Aubenas describes so clearly will be with us long after the current global recession ends."Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families "Recommended for those wanting to understand more about what it means to be on the bread line."New Times

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Book SynopsisHarry Braverman's years as an industrial worker gave him insight into the labour process and the conviction to reject the reigning wisdoms of academic sociology. Here, he analyzes the division of labour between the design and execution of industrial production.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents urban transition experiences over nearly three decades in Bangalore based on the narratives of the city''s street-based sex workers. Sex workers female, male, and transgender have been omnipresent in Bangalore''s streets for decades. However, despite being blacklisted as ''undesirable'' and hazards to the ''ideal public'', they have their own unique imaginaries and narratives of the city and its mutations. In mapping out their spatial and social ecosystems and experiences with technology, this book redraws, rewrites, and relooks at a city and its transformations from their perspectives. The analysis of their experience is anchored to concepts around neoliberal urbanism, gender, labour informality, and the politics of technology. The authors take an unconventional journey through their spaces, comrades, and battles to announce and affirm their individuality and agency through their empowerment strategies, and through their struggles to reclaim their spaces and asserTable of ContentsList of images; 1. Libidinal City, Outcast Workers; 2. Narrators and Settings; 3. People; 4. Places; 5. Upheaval; 6. Technology; 7. Their city; Appendix; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisPacked with examples, this book offers a clear and engaging overview of ethical issues in business.It begins with a discussion of foundational issues, including the objectivity of ethics, the content of ethical theories, and the debate between capitalism and socialism, making it suitable for the beginning student. It then examines ethical issues in business in three broad areas. The first is the market. Issues explored are what can be sold (the limits of markets) and how it can be sold (ethics in marketing). The second is work. Topics in this area are health and safety, meaningful work, compensation, hiring and firing, privacy, and whistleblowing. The third area is the firm in society. Here readers explore corporate social responsibility, corporate political activity, and the set of ethical challenges that attend international business.Issues are introduced through real-world examples that underscore their importance and make them come alive. Arguments for opposing posTrade Review"Writing with a rare combination of simplicity and depth, Moriarty covers many of the most fascinating and recalcitrant issues in business ethics. Students should read this book not merely for the instruction it provides on business ethics substance, but also because it is a model of business ethics writing. No better business ethics book exists."Alan Strudler, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania"This is a refreshing introduction to business ethics, written in a reader-friendly format. It carves up the usual issues into conceptual clusters and includes well-thought out study-questions"Byron Kaldis, National Technical University of AthensTable of Contents1. Business, Ethics, and Business Ethics 2. Skepticism about Ethics 3. Ethics: Theory and Method b 4. Political and Economic Systems 5. What Can Be Sold? 6. How Can it be Sold? 7. Ethics at Work, Part 1 8. Ethics at Work, Part 2 9. Corporate Social Responsibility 10. Business and Politics 11. Business Ethics Across Borders

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Aylott is an experienced HR specialist and lecturer in the areas of employee relations and employment law. After a career in HR, both in industry and the charitable sector, she taught on CIPD programmes at all levels and lectured on HRM and business degree courses. She is also the author of Employment Law, published by Kogan Page. She is based in Surrey, UK.Trade Review"The easy- to-follow format and up-to-date case studies that illustrate the underpinning theories will be useful to students learning about the topic for the first time as well as to HR practitioners and people managers in the workplace. It is a handy reference guide with tips to build up skills when deciding on both ethical and strategic choices and practical actions to take in a specific context to stay within the existing legal framework." * Linda Holden, Freelance CIPD Tutor and HR Trainer *"For those interested in understanding and learning employee relations, this is an exceptional book with a well-structured critical text, conceptual rigour, engaging case studies, empirical richness, up-to-date examples and thoughtful balance between theory and practice. What else is desired in a complete book? Yet, Elizabeth Aylott offers us more, no less than a brand-new sense of complex employment relations in a simple, concise, and clear way for the 21st century. Positively recommended for an invaluable learning experience." * Dr M Naseer Akhtar, Associate Editor, 'Employee Relations', Senior Lecturer in HRM and People Analytics, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London, UK *"Employee Relations is an easy-to-read, practical and informative guide packed full with case studies and up to date research, making it an invaluable resource for HR students, practitioners and business managers." * Debbie Paddington, HR Business Partner, The Kent Autistic Trust *"The political and economic landscape both at home in the UK and internationally, is built on the shifting sands of unprecedented change, which is actively shaping and changing the world of work and how organisations develop and maintain positive working relationships with the modern-day employee. While employee relations naturally fall under the wider umbrella of HRM, it is a complex area of people management practice which requires practitioners to have a deep understanding of the relationship between employer and employee and how this relationship is intrinsically woven into the fabric of UK employment law and industrial relations. Employee Relations is the essential text for practitioners at all stages of their careers for developing and maintaining a deep understanding of employee in relations in practice." * Nathaniel Andrews, Founder and CEO at Okana Limited *"This is a bookshelf essential that strikes the right balance between theory and practice in relation to the subject of employee relations. The book is not only for HR personnel but also for those in leadership positions aspiring to build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with their team members. As an MD I have found the book to be practical, insightful and engaging - an invaluable resource overall!" * Dianne Ramdeen, Managing Director, Quartic Training *Table of Contents Section - ONE: Fundamentals; Chapter - 01: What is Employee Relations?; Chapter - 02: The importance of Employee Relations; Chapter - 03: Employee Relations and strategy; Section - TWO: In practice; Chapter - 04: Employee Relations in practice; Chapter - 05: Planning and action; Chapter - 06: Measurement; Chapter - 07: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEmma Bridger is an award-winning employee engagement specialist and Director of People Lab, an employee engagement consultancy that works with high-profile clients worldwide. Based in Hastings, UK, she has designed and developed the CIPD range of public and in-house employee engagement courses and is a regular conference speaker. She contributed to the UK Government Review Engaging for Success and is a member of the Engage for Success movement as part of its "guru group". In 2021, she was named as one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers by HR Magazine.Trade Review"Emma Bridger is the go-to expert for employee engagement which makes this book the definitive guide for engaging your employees. This third edition has been updated to include the latest thinking and practice required to make a difference to your people. Employee engagement is more critical now than it has ever been and this book has everything you need; whether you're starting out in the field or you're an established practitioner. Packed full of practical tools and guidance backed up by science, and relatable case-studies, it's a must read for anyone working in employee engagement." * Pete Markey, CMO, Boots *"Emma Bridger's book Employee Engagement is a concise reference for the practical implementation of staff engagement approaches within organizations. Managers, HR staff and academics can use this book to plan how to introduce a thorough staff engagement programme and research how it all works in practice. Employee Engagement design, measurement, implementation and future action planning are all investigated within this comprehensive book and Emma also provides an easily digestible literature overview within the field." * Dr Julian A Edwards, Research Fellow, The Open University (about a previous edition). *"This is essential reading for everyone working in employee engagement and, beyond that, an invaluable source of learning for all individuals working in teams as critical components within organizations striving to deliver better results." * Rob Neil OBE, Director & Founder, Krystal Alliance (about a previous edition) *"Employee Engagement is the must-read book for any manager or HR professional who is concerned about raising and maintaining high levels of engagement. Written in an authoritative yet accessible style by one of the UK's leading experts, the book guides the reader step-by-step through the complex decisions that need to be made in developing and implementing a successful engagement strategy." * Katie Bailey, Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London (about a previous edition) *"Emma Bridger brings a practical and effective approach to the big subjects of employee engagement and organizational culture, which are so vital for any organization's success today. Beneath her warm and friendly style lies considerable expertise, and this book shares the insight she has gained over many years helping organizations like ours to unlock the potential of our people." * Richard Parry, Chief Executive, Canal & River Trust (about a previous edition) *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: What is employee engagement?; Chapter - 02: Does engagement matter?; Chapter - 03: Developing your employee engagement strategy; Chapter - 04: How it works; Chapter - 05: Employee engagement: How do you do it?; Chapter - 06: Employee engagement tools and techniques; Chapter - 07: Planning and action; Chapter - 08: Measuring engagement; Chapter - 09: The future of employee engagement

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Book SynopsisThis landmark book charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor, and the mechanisms that link them. Stewart Lansley examines the ideological rifts that have driven society back to the divisions of the past and asks why rich and poor citizens are still judged by very different standards.Trade Review“A resource that can help us make up our own minds about extremes of wealth and poverty, privilege and want, instead of being encouraged to ‘other’ welfare claimants and kid ourselves we share the interests of the profiteering one per cent. We should arm ourselves with it in all our anti-poverty struggles.” Cost of Living“The key takeaway of this excellent history is that poverty cannot be fought effectively, unless we also tackle the social and economic inequality that creates it.” Labour Hub“Crucially, the book extends our understanding of inequality by showing the clear, dependent relationship, between poverty and wealth creation. The book forces readers to confront, not just the reliance of the rich on the poor to make money, but also the long-standing and stubborn nature of this relationship in Britain”. Brave New Europe ”A vivid description of the fall and rise of poverty and inequality... impressive survey and analysis of 200 years of inequality." Journal of Social Policy “Important....passionate and thoroughly researched.” Political QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Knighthoods for the rich, penalties for the poor Part 1: 1800-1939 1. Hierarchical discipline 2. Britain’s gilded age 3. Public penury and private ostentation 4. A roller-coaster ride Part 2: 1940-59 5. The future belongs to us 6. Britain’s ‘New Deal' 7. Brave new world 8. A shallow consensus Part 3: 1960-79 9. The rediscovery of poverty 10. Poorer under Labour 11. Consolidation or advance? 12. Peak equality Part 4: 1980-96 13. Don’t mention the 'p' word 14. Zapping Labour 15. The dark shadow of the Poor Law 16. The great widening 17. Money worship Part 5: 1997-2010 18. The elephant in the room 19. Still born to rule 20. I'm not Mother Teresa 21. The house of cards 22. The good, the bad and the ugly Part 6: 2011-20 23. Divide and rule: playing politics with poverty 24. A leaner state 25. Burning injustice 26. Growing rich in their sleep 27. The high-inequality, high-poverty cycle Afterword: COVID-19 and 'the polo season'

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Book SynopsisUncomfortably Off reveals that those generally considered to be the most affluent feel anxious about the future and struggle to keep up, or even to stay put., but reducing income inequality will benefit everyone, even those quite near the top.Trade Review“If capitalism isn’t working for the top ten percent, then it's not working at all. This brilliant book tells us why and what we need to do about it” Neal Lawson, CompassTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why bother with the well-off? 1. Not billionaires, but well-off? 2. On the ubiquity and invisibility of the upper-middle class 3. ‘Work is life, that’s it’ 4. Don’t rock the boat: politics and the well-off 5. Business class tickets for a sinking ship 6. Jumping ship, but where to? 7. Barriers to being comfortably off 8. ‘When the facts change, I change my mind’ Conclusion: Accepted truths, social distance and discomfort

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Book SynopsisThe ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide.In an accessible ABC format, the book strikes a unique balance between the practical and the theoretical: the analysis is backed up by lived experience, the arguments are rooted in concrete examples and there are suggestions for constructive action. Roughly half of the entries expose the structural underpinnings of projects and circulation, isolating traits such as opportunism, neoliberalism, inequality, fear and cynicism at the root of the condition of the projectariat. This discussion is paired with a practical account of different modes of action, such as art strikes, productive withdrawals, political struggles and better social time machines. Just as proletarians had nothing to lose but their chains, the projectarians have nothing to miss but their deadlines.Trade Review‘The ABC of the projectariat delivers an essential contribution for examining artistic work in relation to political-theoretically, sociologically and art-theoretically informed perspectives, in order to expose the internal contradictions that have shaped the art world.’Christoph Chwatal, Springerin'The ABC of the projectariat lays out starkly the labor that sustains cultural production, and the daily conundrums, mundane and existential, inherent to navigating the many intersecting art worlds ... The book offers a historicized trajectory of care for labor in all its forms, but also allows projectarians a bit of insurgent optimism, in proposing new ways to reconceive our privileged precarity.'iLiana Fokianaki, Art Agenda'The text feels like a chat with a trusted friend who understands what actually happens rather than what the P.R. wants you to believe. It gives you the real deal, revealing what theory obscures through its need to make pure architectures.'Marc Herbst, transversal texts'Kuba Szreder’s ABC of the projectariat asks searching questions of an international art world that promised to change dramatically at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic... [It] shows the possibility of a different art culture, in a way that’s practical and pragmatic, and far more concrete than certain institutions’ empty rhetoric around (say) COVID-19 or Black Lives Matter.'Juliet Jacques, Tribune'Will we ever go back to “normal” again? Should we, even? Hell no, says Kuba Szreder! But during the current interim period in which Gramsci's monsters dwell old certainties shrivel and evaporate. Old power structures suddenly look brittle while new ones are created and vanish as if in a crazy political particle accelerator. In this kind of mayhem Szreder goes back to the A and O of any philosophical thinking – an alphabetical list – trusting that the mess will sort itself out once articulated aloud. From A for "antifascism" to Y for "you are not alone", this is an essential compendium to recalibrate orientations amid the meteoric impacts of current history.'Hito Steyerl, author of Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War‘A radical dictionary of key terms, Kuba Szreder’s The ABC of the projectariat critically diagnoses what it means to live and work in the precarious art world. Organised alphabetically into incisive, readable elaborations, the book unpacks timely concepts of domination – neoliberalism, NGOisation, co-optation, entrepreneurs of the self, precarity – and with other vital selections – art strike, interdependence, productive withdrawal and instituting the commons – offers a crucial vocabulary for anti-capitalist transformation. For a more egalitarian, democratic and inclusive world, it’s urgent that we learn this language together.’T. J. Demos, author of Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing‘Kuba Szreda’s book is a bracing exposé of the lives and concerns of people who do projects for a living. Yes, it is based on the artist projectariat, but this book will speak to all workers across the world who “run on the fumes” of the recognised economy. This ABC offers critical insight into matters of individual survival, but more importantly it is a primer on strategies for recognising interdependence and living and working otherwise.’ J. K. Gibson-Graham, authors of Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities'The ABC is more than a glossary; it examines the political economies of the global art world, centring on the structural conditions of the projecteriat, its entanglements and interminable uncertainty. Szreder connects the theoretical corpus developed over the last two decades to material reality and lived experience. Looking at everything from the fatigue of hustling to the banality of speed-working and the extractionist practices it leads to, he provides an overview of "the field of contemporary art in the process of its decomposition".'Vasif Kortun, curator and author‘A long-awaited alphabet, spelling out the real conditions of artistic and creative labour in the age of networks and circulation, but also borders, The ABC of the projectariat is a must-read for anyone studying, and possibly living in, the contemporary art field. A curator and critic known for his imaginative and daring propositions, Kuba Szreder has managed to write the most structurally innovative and (perversely) enjoyable book on the formidable subject of the production of the art field as such. The book’s sixty-six entries are sharp, lucid and full of remarkable insights about the life and work of art projectarians – that is, those who create through the ubiquitous project-form. The entries are also incredibly informative, honest and attentive to geopolitics. They combine hands-on experience, theoretical rigour and political situatedness. Insofar as it is almost impossible to think of anyone not working from project to project, and therefore living out as personal burden the social consequences of the global project hegemony (with precarity chief among them), this study is about a way of life as much as about what governs work – our life and our work. Committed to practices of social transformation towards an end of the socio-economic injustice that rules our life and work, The ABC of the projectariat is a unique encounter that will move you – forward.’Angela Dimitrakaki, author of ECONOMY: Art, Production and the Subject in the Twenty-First Century'Kuba Szreder's projectarians are a vanguard part of the precariat. We need a new subversive vocabulary for a new progressive politics, and this book provides much of what is needed.'Guy Standing, author of The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class'This is an urgent and accessible anatomy of the conditions of art-making today. It vividly conveys the crushing impacts of "the cruel economy of contemporary art" on the material and creative lives of artists while mapping a network of imaginative paths out of it.'Josh Cohen, author of Not Working: Why We Have to Stop'From his innovative research with the Free/Slow University of Warsaw to his breakthrough concept of the artistic projectariat, Szreder tenaciously levels our collective attention towards the paradoxes of a cultural economy in crisis, without abandoning hopes for its radical transformation.'Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter and The Artist as Activist'This book is a weapon for anyone who wants to resist the dominant economy of art. Its voice is situated in the semi-periphery of Europe and resonates with the projectariat from all over the world.'Zdenka Badovinac, curator and author -- .Table of ContentsA is for aftermath (COVID-19 as a forced suspension)A is for Anti-fascist Year A is for applicationA is for ArtyzolA is for assemblage or apparatusA is for art strikes (lessons to be taken)A is for art workersB is for belt-tighteningB is for (no) bordersB is for burn-outs (and other pathologies of responsibility)C is for capital (economic, social, and symbolic)C is for captureC is for circulationC is for controlC is for co-opetitionC is for co-optationC is for curatorial mode of production / revolutionC is for cynicism and cliquesD is for dark matterD is for deadlineD is for demonstration of paintingsE is for enthusiasmE is for entrepreneurs of the selfE is for exclusionE is for exodusE is for expanded field (of art)F is for fear F is for Free/Slow (University of Warsaw)F is for footprint (or carbon miles)G is for generosity G is for grant art (NGO-isation)H is for herding catsH is for home (office)I is for independenceI is for instituting the commonsI is for interdependenceK is for (no) kidsL is for labour of loveM is for mutualising (risks and economies)N is for neoliberalismN is for networkerN is for numbers and measuresO is for one percentO is for opportunismP is for patainstitutionsP is for pollinationP is for poor (artists)P is for precarityP is for productive withdrawalsP is for projectP is for projectariatR is for radical pragmatismR is for repurposingS is for seeing everything twice, or the catch 22 of the projectariatS is for semi-peripheriesS is for sprintS is for squabblesS is for strugglesT is for time machinesT is for trawlingT is for turns, or on the vicious cycleT is for twilight or support structures against exclusionV is for visibilityW is for wages (for artwork)W is for winner takes it allY is for you are not alone

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Book SynopsisFor every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect. Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She examines the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the dramatic restructuring of work arrangements, opening the way for new contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around the planet. Labor in the Global Digital Economy is a forceful critique of our dizzying contemporary moment, one that goes beyond notions of mere connectedness or free-flowing information to illuminate the entrenched mechanisms of exploitation and control at the core of capitalism.Trade Review"Ursula Huws is without peer as an analyst of life in contemporary capitalism." - Leo Panitch, York University; editor, Socialist Register

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Book SynopsisThe essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the fieldThe corporate elite have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other through a “jobs vs. the environment” narrative that maximizes profits. But over the last few years, labor unions and climate organizers have been pushing back against this framework and organizing for a real just transition.Featuring contributions from key organizers in climate justice and labor, Power Lines tackles the most pressing questions facing those who are trying to build a movement for economic and environmental justice. The collection provides practical organizing models and strategies as well as inspiration for the possibility of making change on climate.Power Lines moves beyond an analysis of the class politics of climate change or the strategic imperative

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Book SynopsisIn addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the decimation of the coal industry on which their livelihoods and communities depended. Margaret Thatcher's government aimed to smash the most militant section of the British working class. She wanted to usher in a new era of greater management control at work and pave the way for a radical refashioning of society in favour of neo-liberal objectives that three decades later have crippled the world economy. Victory required draconian restrictions on picketing and the development of a militarised national police force that made widespread arrests as part of its criminalisation policy. The attacks on the miners also involved the use of the courts and anti-trade union laws, restrictions on welfare benefits, the secret financing by industrialists of working miners and the involvement of the security services. All of which was supported by a compliant mass media but resisted by the collective courage of miners and mining communities in which the role of Women against Pit Closures in combating poverty and starvation was heroic. Thus inspired by the struggle for jobs and communities an unparalleled movement of support groups right across Britain and in other parts of the world was born and helped bring about a situation where the miners long struggle came close on occasions to winning. At the heart of the conflict was the Yorkshire region, where even at the end in March 1985, 83 per cent of 56,000 miners were still out on strike. The official Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) area photographer in 1984-85 was the late Martin Jenkinson and this book of his photographs - some never previously seen before - serves as a unique social document on the dispute that changed the face of Britain.

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Book SynopsisDefining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful employment.The book includes the perspectives of both people with disabilities and their job coaches, offering first-hand experience of the specific issues faced by those who want to enter the competitive open jobs market. It describes how to provide bespoke support for people with an intellectual disability, physical disability, as well as for autistic people and individuals with mental health conditions. Guidance on functional assessment, task analysis, collaborating with employers and training for new and student job coaches is also included.Trade ReviewThis book offers a unique combination of expertise and personal experiences from a broad range of stakeholders...I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all those interested in the subject area of job coaching. -- From the Foreword by Norman Sterritt DMS, MBA, Progression to Employment Service Manager, Triangle Housing Association and Chair, Northern Ireland Union of Supported EmploymentThis book brings us closer to the world of people with disabilities and the work of job coaches. -- From the Foreword by Blazej Piasek, Warsaw, PolandTable of ContentsForeword by Blazej Piasek. Foreword by Norman Sterrit. Preface. 1. What is a job coach for adults with disabilities? Dr Ewa Matuska, Chair of Management, Pomeranian University, Poland. 2. Having a job coach: An insider perspective. Dr Lyn McKerr, Centre for Behaviour Analysis, Queen's University Belfast, UK, and Caterina Metje, Fachhochschule Münster, Germany 3. Job coaches for adults with mental health conditions. Professor Hanns-Rüdiger Röttgers, Fachhochschule Münster, Germany. 4. Job coaches for adults with physical and sensory disabilities. Trish MacKeogh, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, and Marcia Scherer, Centre for Behaviour Analysis, Queen's University Belfast, UK. 5. Job coaches for adults with intellectual disabilities. Dr Ewa Matuska. 6. Job coaches for adults on the autism spectrum. Dr Lyn McKerr and Professor Karola Dillenburger, Centre for Behaviour Analysis, Queen's University Belfast, UK. 7. On-the-job functional assessments. Angelika Anderson, School of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Waikato, New Zealand. 8. Dealing with crisis and challenging behaviours. Dr Brian Fennell, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA and Professor Karola Dillenburger. 9. Collaborating with employers. Dr Lucie Procházková, Institute for Research in Inclusive Education, Masaryk University, Czechia, and Dr Helena Vadurová, Institute for Research in Inclusive Education, Masaryk University, Czechia. 10. Being a job coach: An insider perspective. Dr Lyn McKerr and Karola Dillenburger. 11. Guidelines for training job coaches. Marea de Bruijn, Beroepsvereniging Jobcoaches Nederland, Netherlands.

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Book SynopsisThe ongoing war in Ukraine, between freedom and totalitarianism, has been brewing since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: the great victory of liberal democracy over communism. In recent decades, authoritarian regimes have proliferated or become emboldened – from Myanmar and North Korea to Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and, of course, China. At the same time, we have seen wildly overpriced stock markets, the emergence of decentralised finance and its associated cryptocurrencies, and the idolization of inordinately expensive things, from watches and customised trainers to rare whiskies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The decoupling of capitalism from democracy, which gathered pace in the 1990s, has fostered an economic system powered by greed alone, able to prosper in brutal dictatorships, unchecked even by the financial crisis of 2007/8. Rampant inequality, fuelled by radically increased money supply, has been the result, with a tiny fraction of the world’s population owning more than the rest put together. This inequality has incited social unrest and contributed to the undermining of faith in the institutions of the democratic state. The citizens of Western democracies have been left to the mercy of unfettered capitalism, becoming data subjects, endlessly surveilled, marshalled and polarised. Today’s extreme capitalism, promoted by Milton Friedman and others, is exemplified by its modern monopolists – Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, whose fortunes have been built on often immoral, if not illegal actions, and whose headline-grabbing antics appear to be motivated more by ego than any genuine desire to do good for humanity. In the 1990s, an understanding of social justice and an appreciation of democracy still survived, but public discourse has grown increasingly polarised and angry. The authors draw a line from the robber barons of the 1990s tech revolution to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, citing the marginalisation of democratic principles which has enabled the rise of authoritarian populists such as Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Jair Bolsonaro and, of course, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. An unanticipated fightback in Ukraine, with support from the EU and the West, has the potential to reclaim the lost spirit of freedom inherent in liberal democracy, but will it be enough?Trade ReviewPraise for The End of Money: ‘A page-turner rich in data and steeped with evidence and insights that flow from a deep understanding of the history of financial markets . . . a must-read before you buy your next – or first – non-fungible token, Chinese banking stock or US government bond’ Professor Adrian Saville, Gordon Institute of Business Science ‘A fascinating and enjoyable read . . . interspersed with illuminating anecdotes from our recent financial history . . . makes it clear that excessive debt and extreme money creation have eroded faith in the global financial system, perhaps best symbolised by the rise of cryptocurrencies’ Michael Jordaan, business Leader and venture capitalist

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Book SynopsisThis provocative collection of essays presents a powerful critique of contemporary discourse that portrays work - paid employment - as a moral imperative, essential for our health and well-being. The contributors describe the mental health impact of modern-day workplaces, with their precarity and constant managerial scrutiny. They throw light on the emerging role of the psychologist and psychotherapist as agents of the state within the welfare system. And they question the deployment of mindfulness and other workplace `wellness' initiatives in the place of more genuine and collective attempts to transform work. The Work Cure is an invitation to imagine a different kind of future, where employment no longer represents the chief source of security and meaning, so integral to our well-being. It is also essential reading for anyone who has doubted whether positivity, self-improvement and `resilience' can really be the answer to work's problems.Trade Review'The idea that work, including the enthusiastic search for work, is integral to mental health has become a key ideological tenet of post-industrial capitalism. By re-introducing critical and political perspectives to this agenda, The Work Cure demonstrates that resistance is possible, and in doing so offers hope of a more emancipatory psychology.'; William Davies, author of The Happiness Industry.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Putting therapy to work, David Frayne; Part 1: Mental management. 1 The black dog - Ivor Southwood; 2 No crying in the breakroom - Nic Murray; 3 Understanding affective labour - Jamie Woodcock; 4 Reproducing anxiety - Dave Berrie and Emily McDonagh; 5 Challenging McMindfulness in the corporate university - Steven Stanley. Part 2: The work cure. 6 The employment dogma - David Frayne; 7 Not in my name, not in my profession's name - Jay Watts; 8 The IAPT assembly line - Paul Atkinson; 9 The social and political origins of wellbeing - Psychologists for Social Change; 10 `We rebel because We misfit' - Arianna Introna and Mirella Casagrande; 11 Unrecovery - Recovery in the Bin.

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Book SynopsisRobin Murray: Selected Writings demonstrates the breadth of Murray's intellectual curiosity and his political commitment to finding new ways of organising the economy and society. A thinker at the heart of left-wing thought and contributor to the seminal 1968 May Day Manifesto, Robin Murray's pioneering work encompasses diverse areas including fair trade, waste management, and, crucially, the regeneration of London via the London Industrial Strategy of radical local authority the GLC in the 1980s. Much of Murray's work has striking contemporary relevance, for example his passion for ecological sustainability, co-operatives and fair trade, and his analysis of the developing 'attention economy' and its impact on a new era of digital platforms. This collection has been curated to showcase the many contexts within which Robin Murray's boundless energy, enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity saw him collaborating. Murray's work exemplifies how cooperation can bring about real social change; this book will appeal to students, policymakers and anyone interested in radical social transformation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Michael Rustin Post Fordism Benetton Britain The state after Henry New directions in municipal socialism Multinational Capitalism Multinationals and social control Fair Trade Raising the bar or directing the flood? Waste and Recycling Creating wealth from waste Cooperatives Taking stock, looking forward Social Economy Danger and opportunity: crisis and the new social economy Platform Economy Interview with Jeremy Gilbert and Andrew Goffey

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Book SynopsisThe Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of globalisation, exposed the fragility of the current growth model, and accelerated the ongoing tech revolution. This book is an in-depth analysis of these weaknesses and fragilities in the context of sustainability. Economist Marco Magnani suggests the possibility of pursuing a more balanced, environmentally and socially sustainable growth while defusing today’s apocalyptic alarmism about climate change, energy and demographic constraints, and the future of work. To make the global economy work for everyone.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Innovation: engine of economic growth (and employment).- Chapter 2: The technological revolution: The rise of machines.- Chapter 3: The technological revolution: professions at risk and new jobs.- Chapter 4: Constraints to economic growth: Sustainability, happiness and other issues.- Chapter 5: New jobs or technological unemployment?.- Chapter 6: Many proposals, few resources: The difficult choices for the future of labour.- Chapter 7: Human beings at the centre as "shareholders" of development.- Chapter 8: Ye were not made to live with the virus: Lessons from the pandemic.

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Book SynopsisIn countries with officially egalitarian property law, women still accumulate less wealth than men. Combining quantitative, ethnographic, and archival research, The Gender of Capital explains how and why women of all classes are economically disadvantaged at crucial junctures in family life such as divorce, inheritance, and succession.Trade ReviewAn important intervention…The authors effortlessly interweave qualitative and quantitative data; they elucidate statistics through engaging prose, and balance this by including personal narratives and interviews with a variety of people. * LSE Review of Books *This book was enjoyable and thought-provoking…It brought together a wealth of different kinds of evidence in a methodologically-rigorous and theoretically-rich exploration of an important topic that deserves more attention. I highly recommend it to all those interested in wealth inequality. -- Karen Rowlingson * British Journal of Sociology *Because the distribution of wealth rather than income plays a dominant role in determining inequality, more attention will need to be paid to the gender distribution of wealth. This book shines a light on this under-researched area. -- Ian Bright * Society of Professional Economics *A fantastic, must-read book. If you want to know why gender inequality in wealth remains enormously high, and even has risen in recent decades, this work should be at the top of your reading list. Bessière and Gollac deftly disentangle the complex processes of estate planning, divorce proceedings, and marital arrangements that have brought us to this point. -- Thomas Piketty, author of A Brief History of EqualityThe Gender of Capital is a rare gem. Illuminating entrenched social and legal practices, Bessière and Gollac expertly demonstrate the grip of gender inequality in shaping the transmission of wealth. Their discoveries deserve a broad audience, and undoubtedly will shape the direction of future research. -- Viviana A. Zelizer, author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the EconomyRichly documented and incisively argued, this book offers new insight into how unequal relations between women and men are reproduced over many generations. For those of us who have been doing feminist work for a long time, it offers welcome confirmation that gender is an important determinant of inequality, both within and across divisions of class. -- Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and SecularismAn important new chapter in the history of wealth inequality. In a fascinating account of legal and family practices surrounding bequests and divorce, Bessière and Gollac reveal the mechanisms through which wealth accumulates mostly in the hands of men. -- Jens Beckert, author of Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist DynamicsAt last, a book that addresses the notable omission of gender from the conversation about wealth inequality. Taking seriously the contributions of 1970s and 1980s socialist feminists, Bessière and Gollac show how the practice of family and inheritance law drives the gender wealth gap. One can only hope that scholars in the United States will pursue future work following this model. -- Cynthia Grant Bowman, author of Living Apart Together: Legal Protections for a New Form of Family

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Fatherly Top Ten Best Parenting Book of the Decade""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Psychologists, sociologists and journalists have spent more than a decade diagnosing and critiquing the habits of ‘helicopter parents’ and their school obsessions. . . . But new research shows that in our unequal era, this kind of parenting is essential. That’s the message of the book Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids, by the economists Matthias Doepke of Northwestern University and Fabrizio Zilibotti of Yale. It’s true that high-octane, hardworking child-rearing has some pointless excesses, and it doesn’t spark joy for parents. But done right, it works for kids, not just in the United States but in rich countries around the world."---Pamela Druckerman, New York Times"An incisive look at parenting and economic inequality."---Carolyn Dever, Public Books"Why do so many seemingly sane people get over-involved with their kids? The answer is not that parents have collectively come unhinged, according to the new book Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids. Rather, parents today are rational economic actors responding to an increasingly unhinged environment."---Jenny Anderson, Quartz"An earnest tilt at a genuinely hard question: To what degree are parental choices informed by economic realities? Reducing his answer to a single line is reductive, but let’s do it anyway. When it comes to raising Americans kids, it’s the economy, stupid."---Patrick A. Coleman, Fatherly.com"As economists Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti reveal in their recent book Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids, today’s American parents are not so crazy after all. For better and worse, their parenting style is perfectly rational."---Kay Hymowitz, Institute for Family Studies"All in all, a highly informative read."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"The book introduces stimulating ideas in an accessible manner."---John Ermisch, Journal of Economic Inequality

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Fatherly Top Ten Best Parenting Book of the Decade""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"

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Book SynopsisBased on in-depth interviews with over 80 precarious workers in Korea, this book introduces the concept of 'melting labour' and provides a real depiction of how workers lose control over their lives and experience precariousness in labour markets.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Melting labour and institutional inconsistency 2. Social protection policies and the South Korean labour market in comparative perspective 3. When insiders are kicked out: layoffs of regular workers in manufacturing 4. Same boat, different destiny: subcontracted workers in the Korean shipbuilding industry 5. Young and old outsourced female workers in call centres and cleaning services 6. Are freelancers really free? The Korean freelance labour market and the precarity of young freelancers 7. The digital precariat: various Korean platform workers and the new work logic 8. Conclusion: Towards universal institutional protection for precarious workers in the era of melting labour

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Book SynopsisPrivate Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains examines the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility on improving labor standards in global supply chains.Sarosh Kuruvilla charts the development and effectiveness of corporate codes of conduct to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in global supply chains. This form of private voluntary regulation, spearheaded by Nike and Reebok, became necessary given the inability of third world countries to enforce their own laws and the absence of a global regulatory system for labor standards. Although private regulation programs have been adopted by other companies in many different industries, we know relatively little regarding the effectiveness of these programs because companies don''t disclose information about their efforts and outcomes in regulating labor conditions in their supply chains.Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains presents data from comTrade ReviewSarosh Kuruvilla provides one of the most comprehensive interrogations yet of private regulation across multiple countries, industries, and regulatory methods in Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains. This book is excellent in that it not only provides a well-explained background of the problem of private regulation in global supply chains but also builds upon previous research to add texture to arguments. * ILR Review *The work of Kuruvilla with his fellow researchers, Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains, is both an excellent introduction and a serious study of the issue. Kuruvilla presents the results of analyses and his arguments in an easy-to-read manner while employing sound, uncompromising methodology. His vast knowledge of the relevant literature has made his arguments even more convincing.I believe this excellent study by Kuruvilla should be read widely. * The Developping Economics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains since the 1990s OVERVIEW: PROBLEMS 1. Behavioral Invisibility: The Reliability of Supplier Data and the Unique Role of Audit Consultants 2. Practice Multiplicity in the Implementation of Private Regulation Programs 3. Causal Complexity: The Varied Determinants of Compliance and Workplace-Level Improvements OVERVIEW: PROGRESS 4. Has Private Regulation Improved Labor Practicesin Global Supply Chains? An Empirical Examination 5. Wages in Global Supply Chains: Where They Stand and Where We Need to Go 6. Freedom of Association and Collective Bargainingin Global Supply Chains OVERVIEW: PROSPECTS 7. Are Changes in Corporate Governance an Answer? 8. Aligning Sourcing and Compliance Insidea Global Corporation 9. From Opacity to Transparency: Pathways to Improvement of Private Regulation 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis collection of ideas and data sources provides alternatives to the trade versus technology debate and assesses the impact of international trade on US wages. It offers an appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the effects of technology and globalization on the labour market.

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Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume exploit the substantial variation in U.S. tax policy during the last two decades to investigate how taxes affect a range of household behaviour, including labour-force participation, saving behaviour, and choice of health insurance plan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Martin Feldstein, James M. Poterba. 1: Labor Supply and the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 Nada Eissa Comment: James J. Heckman 2: The Taxation of Two-Earner Families Martin Feldstein, Daniel R. Feenberg. Comment: Harvey S. Rosen 3: Labor Supply and Welfare Effects of a Shift from Income to Consumption Taxation Gilbert E. Metcalf Comment: Gary Burtless 4: The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses William M. Gentry, Alison P. Hagy. Comment: Brigitte C. Madrian 5: Tax Subsidies to Employer-Provided Health Insurance Jonathan Gruber, James M. Poterba. Comment: David F. Bradford 6: High-Income Families and the Tax Changes of the 1980s: The Anatomy of Behavioral Response Joel Slemrod Comment: Don Fullerton 7: Tax Shelters and Passive Losses after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 Andrew A. Samwick Comment: Roger H. Gordon 8: The Relationship between State and Federal Tax Audits James Alm, Brian Erard, Jonathan S. Feinstein. Comment: James W. Wetzler Contributors Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the relation between employees' preferences for certain types of pension plans and their productivity. This text shows how pensions influence workers' behaviour on the job, and argues that these plans can help firms select and pay their best workers without expending monitoring resources.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Ch. 1: Developments in the Market for Private Pensions Ch. 2: Defined Benefit Plans as Implicit Contracts Ch. 3: Impact of Pensions on Quit Rates Ch. 4: Quits and Retirements in the Federal Government Ch. 5: Pensions and Retirement Patterns Ch. 6: Role of Pensions in Earlier Retirement after 1970 Ch. 7: Toward Explaining the Growth of Defined Contribution Plans Ch. 8: Sorting across Plan Type Ch. 9: Encouraging High Discounters to Quit Ch. 10: Aligning Pay and Productivity: 401k Plans Ch. 11: Reliability as a Hidden Worker Attribute Ch. 12: Tax Considerations and Plan Choice Ch. 13: A Pension Tax Policy for Low Discounters Ch. 14: Incentives, High Discounters, and Social Security Ch. 15: Reforms for the Disability and Medicare Programs Notes Selected References Index

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Book SynopsisExamining linked employer-employee data across countries, this book analyzes labor trends and their institutional background in the United States and eight European countries. It is suitable for economists and those working in industrial organizations.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit and pension policies of the United States and Japan.

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Book SynopsisStarting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military's elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation. Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is the untold story of how Filipino servicepersTrade Review"I greatly enjoyed reading this well-crafted, sophisticated, and deeply moving oral history and enthusiastically endorse its engagement in courses in U.S. history, migration studies, and labor analysis." --Pacific Historical Review"Accessible and sophisticated. Paligutan’s exploration of the recruitment and experiences of Filipino navy men is an excellent illustration of how economic underdevelopment of the Philippines in the interests of US economic and political gain created the first of many pools of cheap Filipino migrant workers. Paligutan has done a fantastic job at weaving in an intersectional analysis of gender, particularly masculinity, throughout the book."--Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age

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Book SynopsisThrough a collection of 13 chapters, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers.What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be set aside by new narratives, new organizations and new methods of production? How can we sit at the decision-making table to combat short-term real estate interests for longer-term social and ethical value? How can we pull architectureits conceptualization, its pedagogy, and its enactmentinto the 21st century without succumbing to its neoliberal paradigm? In addressing these controversial questions, Architecture and Labor brings contemporary discourses on creative labor to architecture, a discipline devoid of labor consciousness.This book addresses how, not just what, architects produce and focuses not on the past but on the present. It is sympathetic to the particularly iTable of ContentsList of Charts Forward: Andrew Ross Introduction Chapter 1 Craft and Design: "Detail: The Subject of the Object" Chapter 2 Architectural Work: "Work" Chapter 3 Technology, BIM and New Work: "BIM and Parametricism" Chapter 4 Architectural Production and Consumption: Architectural Work in the Capitalist ContextChapter 5 Architectural Work: Immaterial LaborChapter 6 Antitrust Laws and Architectural Value: "The Sherman Antitrust Laws and the Profession of Architecture" Chapter 7 Architectural Unionization: "The Missing Unions of Architectural Labor" Chapter 8 Professionalism and the AIA: "Response to AIA Values" with Keefer Dunn and Manuel Shvartzberg Chapter 9 Other Nations’ Professional Architectural Associations: "International Architectural Associations: Comparisons and Concerns" Chapter 10 Architectural Contracts: "Contracts of Relations" Chapter 11 Architectural Cooperativization: "Socializing Architecture Practice: From Small Firms to Cooperative Models of Organization" with Aaron Cayer, Shawhin Roudbari, and Manuel Shvartzberg Chapter 12 Beyond Architecture: "For an Architecture of Radical Democracy" with Manuel Shvartzberg Chapter 13 Coda Afterword: Jane Rendell Index

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Book SynopsisAn earth-shaking reimagining of household debt that opens up a new path to financial security for all Americans. American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that US debt policies have no basis in reality. Weaving together the histories and trends of US debt policy with her own family story, Chrystin Ondersma debunks the myths that have long governed debt policy, like the belief that debt leads to prosperity or the claim that bad debt is the result of bad choices, both of which nest in the overarching myth of a free market unhindered by government interference and accessible to all. In place of these stale narratives, Ondersma offers a compelling, flexible, and reality-based taxonomy rooted in the internationally recognized principle of human dignity. Ondersma's new categories of debtgrounded in abolitionist principlesrevolutionize how policymakers are able to think about debt, whic

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking study of academic job markets over the next quarter century uses rigorous analysis to project substantial excess demand for faculty starting in the 1997-2002 period. Particularly severe imbalances are projected in the humanities and social sciences. Contrary to popular impressions, however, these projected shortages are not cTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Illustrations, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xiii*CHAPTER ONE. Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO. Age Distributions and Exits from Academia, pg. 15*CHAPTER THREE. Population Trends and Enrollment Projections, pg. 30*CHAPTER FOUR. Enrollment by Sector and Field of Study: Trends and Projections, pg. 43*CHAPTER FIVE. Student/Faculty Ratios and Projections of Faculty Positions, pg. 66*CHAPTER SIX. The Supply of New Doctorates, pg. 90*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Changing Balance between Supply and Demand, pg. 118*CHAPTER EIGHT. Adjustment Mechanisms, pg. 144*CHAPTER NINE. Questions of Policy, pg. 172*APPENDIX A. Principal Sources of Data and Definitions of Fields of Study and Sectors, pg. 187*APPENDIX B. Derivation of Exit Probabilities, pg. 193*APPENDIX C. Correcting for Shifts in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions, pg. 204*APPENDIX D. Additional Tables for Chapters Four, Six, and Seven, pg. 206*Publications Cited, pg. 221

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