Social classes Books
University of Wisconsin Press Letters Kinship and Social Mobility in Nigeria
Book SynopsisLetter writing was a dominant form of communication for Western-educated elites in colonial Africa, especially in Nigeria. Through textual analysis and broad contextualization, Vaughan reconstructs dominant storylines, including kinship, social mobility, Western education, and elite consolidation in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria.Trade ReviewReading this was a joy. It is precisely the kind of book that will command attention not only among Africanists but in adjunct and cross-fertilizing disciplines and cultural contexts where tensions and contestations around kinship, filiation, and familism—moral and otherwise—persevere, giving modernist claims of isolated individuality a run for their affective money." - Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria"By synthesizing a vast number of letters, Olufemi Vaughan reconstructs the trajectory of a class of Nigerians who were part of the colonial bureaucracy and sociopolitical system but were conscious of their filial responsibility not to allow the ties that bound them to break. . . . Innovative in its content and easily relatable for anyone interested in the development of modern literacy in Africa." - Toyin Falola, author of A Mouth Sweeter thanSalt: An African MemoirTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by Adesoji Adelaja Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Brothers’ Letters 2. The Matriarchs’ Letters 3. Ibadan CMS Men: Kinship and Yoruba Civic Public 4. The Gladys Aduke Vaughan Files 5. From Freetown with Love Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£56.95
Yale University Press The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
Book SynopsisA study of the changing fortunes and status of the stately homes of England over the past two centuries. It seeks to merge social, cultural, artistic and political perspectives and reveal much about the relationship of the nation to its past and to its traditional ruling elite.
£38.00
Yale University Press The English Aristocracy 10701272
Book SynopsisWilliam the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. This book examines the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I.
£40.38
John Wiley & Sons Inc Limbo
Book SynopsisAward-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano takes an incisive look at the estimated 65 million Americans who straddle the line between the middle-class communities in which they grew up and the upper-class corporate world they inhabit from nine to five.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Bricklayer’s Son: The Birth and Clash of Values. 2. Crawling Out of the Black Hole: The Pain of Transition. 3. The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts. 4. Culture Conflicts: First Encounters with the Upper Classes. 5. Going Home: An Identity Changed Forever. 6. Office Politics: The Blue-Collar Way. 7. Class, Love and Progeny: The Ultimate Battle. 8. Duality: The Never-Ending Struggle with Identity. Conclusion. Endnotes. Source Notes. Acknowledgments. Index.
£17.10
LUP - University of Michigan Press How the Workers Became Muslims Immigration
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] remarkable study on the ways racism has taken in Western Europe, in particular in relations between Muslim immigrants and Western European states. Yilmaz has made a first-rate intervention on the discussion concerning national, popular, and ethnic identities in the contemporary world. His contribution to contemporary scholarship is outstanding.”—Ernesto Laclau, author of On Populist Reason“Yilmaz’s important book charts the rise of culture as the dominant framework through which we now understand the politics of migration in Europe. He gives a theoretically sophisticated account of the production of the ‘Muslim immigrant,’ the rise of right-wing populism, and the way ‘progressive’ values—including those of feminism and gay rights—have come to serve racist and exclusionary ends.”—Ben Pitcher, University of Westminster“Guided by an original reformulation of hegemony theory that highlights the transformative effects of media-driven moral panics, this book offers a deep dive into contemporary anti-immigration discourse in Europe. With great insight, Yilmaz unveils the relations of power undergirding the seemingly benign ‘common sense’ definitions of the immigration ‘problem.’”—Rodney Benson, author of Shaping Immigration News“In this beautifully written and brilliantly argued book, Ferruh Yilmaz shows how moral panics and political mobilizations against Muslim ‘difference’ function in western nations to obscure pervasive oppressions of race and class. Drawing deftly on advanced currents in studies of communication and cultural studies, How the Workers Became Muslims demonstrates the dynamism of discourse as a social force. Yilmaz reveals how the prevailing categories and classifications that are deployed in political discourse deliberately direct attention toward conflicts over cultural norms and values in order to deflect attention away from material and political conflicts over resources and rights. This book shows how anti-Muslim mobilizations are not merely manifestations of cultural racism and Islamophobia, but rather key tools for the perpetuation of class dominance and the occlusion of class conflicts.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Dr. Yilmaz’s book is a highly original and sophisticated study of public discourse on immigration in Denmark. The argument he puts forward here is significant for its understanding of the social and political changes in Europe in the last two decades. Yilmaz’s work sheds important new light on the politics of immigration and is particularly effective in showing how immigration politics has restructured the basic ways in which social and political interests are conceived in Europe. Beyond the issue of immigration, Yilmaz makes important interventions in theoretical and methodological discussions about political discourse and ‘ideological hegemony.’ This important book will make a real impact and will be widely read, both as a statement about contemporary European politics and as a statement about how to study discourse and political power.”—Daniel C. Hallin, University of California–San Diego
£27.50
The University of Michigan Press The HalfLife of Deindustrialization
Book SynopsisExamines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communitiesTrade ReviewAn important and timely contribution to studies of working-class culture in this period of economic and social transformation."" - Nick Coles, University of Pittsburgh""Linkon’s compelling study opens up a new set of texts and new critical problematics—the aftermath of downsizing, the impact of neoliberalism on everyday life, the politics of memory—with great verve and insight."" - Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press The HalfLife of Deindustrialization
Book SynopsisThrough analysis of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, film, and drama, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization shows why people and communities cannot simply ""get over"" the losses of economic restructuring. The past provides inspiration and strength for working-class people, even as the contrast between past and present highlights what has been lost in the service economy.Trade ReviewAn important and timely contribution to studies of working-class culture in this period of economic and social transformation."" - Nick Coles, University of Pittsburgh""Linkon’s compelling study opens up a new set of texts and new critical problematics—the aftermath of downsizing, the impact of neoliberalism on everyday life, the politics of memory—with great verve and insight."" - Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College
£64.95
The University of Michigan Press The Harvest of American Racism
Book SynopsisIn 1967, in response to demonstrations in cities across the US, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders was formed. The Commission employed social scientists to research the root causes of the disturbances. This first publication of the committee’s report reveals that many of the issues it describes are still with us.Trade ReviewIn the summer of 1967 the Kerner Commission hired a team of social scientists to explain the cause of the riots that had engulfed dozens of American cities. Their report, The Harvest Of American Racism, was so controversial that the commission staff ordered it destroyed. Now, Robert Shellow and his team have published Harvest, along with insightful and revealing essays that provide appropriate context and perspective. This is an important book that is as relevant today as it was five decades ago."" - Steven M. Gillon, University of Oklahoma""This seminal study from the 1960s provides a hard-hitting and insightful look at the roots of racial discrimination in the U.S. Jettisoned by the Kerner Commission for something less radical, this eye-opening analysis still speaks volumes in our current age."" - Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University; CNN Political Analyst, Co-Host, Politics and Polls""In 1968 the Kerner Commission concluded that cities across the nation had been erupting because blacks were frustrated with the slow pace of racial and economic equality. It turns out that the Commission had been presented with a far more radical analysis of those urban uprisings, in an extraordinary report called The Harvest of American Racism. This report was not only ignored, but actively suppressed. Now black rage is once again rocking our nation's major cities, and it is past time that we take a close look at what policymakers dismissed 50 years ago. As the Harvest report made clear, those who took to the streets in 1968 weren't merely frustrated and filled with despair. They were politically engaged, they believed that racial oppression's root causes must be addressed rather than its surface expressions, and they would never stop erupting until change really happened. The Harvest of American Racism is a must-read, as relevant today as it was 50 years ago."" - Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
£52.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Clothed in Meaning Literature Labor and Cotton
Book SynopsisCloth and clothing provide potent tropes for physical and intellectual forms of self-expression. Drawing on sources ranging from fugitive slave narratives, mill workers' magazines to fiction, poetry, and autobiographies, this book examines the part played by mill workers and formerly enslaved people in this revolution of literary self-expression.
£64.95
University of California Press The Middling Sort Commerce Gender and the Family
Book SynopsisTo be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age.
£45.05
University of California Press Mexicos Mandarins
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite - their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often overlooked role mentoring plays in their rise to the top. This book traces the careers of approximately four hundred of the country's notable politicians, military officers, clergy, intellectuals, and capitalists.Trade Review"Mexico's Mandarins represents scholarship of superior quality and is virtually unique in the level of information on which it draws. No other scholar could have written this book and no other scholar will ever be able to reproduce it. I suspect that it will become the definitive work on Mexican elites in the twentieth century."-Kathleen Bruhn, author of Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic DevelopmentTable of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments I. Power Elites, Mentoring, and Networking Chapter 1. Mexican Power Elites: Do They Exist? Chapter 2. Mentoring Mexico's Power Elite Chapter 3. Networking within Power Elite Circles Chapter 4. Networking across Power Elite Circles II. How Power Elites Are Formed Chapter 5. Origins of Socialization: Sources among the Power Elite Chapter 6. Socialization through Education the Mexican Way Chapter 7. Globalizing Mexico's Power Elite: The Role of Education Abroad Chapter 8. Socializing Mexico's Power Elite: Educational Experiences Abroad III. Power Elites, Networking, and Decision Making Chapter 9. Decision Making, Networking, and Organizations Chapter 10. Power Elite Prototypes in the Twentieth Century: The Old and the New Chapter 11. Power Elites in the Twenty-First Century: Consequences of New Leadership Bibliographic Essay Index
£22.50
University of California Press Rednecks Queers and Country Music
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars of American music, gender and sexuality, class, and pop culture, this book looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music.Trade Review"This is one of the most intellectually stimulating books I have read in a long time." -- Benita Wolters-Fredlund Notes Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music is an intellectual tour de force that offers a nuanced exploration of the ways that white middle-class attitudes toward country music and white working-class modes of discourse have led to the marginalization of the white working class in political and cultural discourse. -- Travis Stimeling Journal of the Society for American Music "Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music" is a far-ranging, multi-layered analysis, full of provocative insights, packaged in crisp, engaging prose" -- John Hayes Agricultural History "Hubbs uses country music to uncover longstanding alliances between white working class and queer subcultures. Such alliances have been obscured by stereotypes of low-status whites, or "rednecks," as uniformly bigoted and homophobic, and of "middle America" as homogenous and provincial. Hubbs trenchantly critiques middle-class disavowals of working class culture (exemplified by the phrase "I'll listen to anything but country"), and meticulously analyzes songs by the Foo Fighters, Gretchen Wilson, David Allen Coe, and others. Hubbs writes that "To hear country on its own terms, we must seek out the particular values and devalued culture of the working class." IASPM-US (2015 Woody Guthrie Award, Honorable Mention)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRO PART I. Rednecks and Country Music 1. Anything but Country 2. Sounding the Working-Class Subject PART II. Rednecks, Country Music, and the Queer 3. Gender Deviance and Class Rebellion in "Redneck Woman" 4. "Fuck Aneta Briant" and the Queer Politics of Being Political OUTRO Notes References Subject Index Song Index
£42.50
University of California Press Rednecks Queers and Country Music
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars of American music, gender and sexuality, class, and pop culture, this book looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music.Trade Review"This is one of the most intellectually stimulating books I have read in a long time." -- Benita Wolters-Fredlund Notes Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music is an intellectual tour de force that offers a nuanced exploration of the ways that white middle-class attitudes toward country music and white working-class modes of discourse have led to the marginalization of the white working class in political and cultural discourse. -- Travis Stimeling Journal of the Society for American Music "Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music" is a far-ranging, multi-layered analysis, full of provocative insights, packaged in crisp, engaging prose" -- John Hayes Agricultural History "Hubbs uses country music to uncover longstanding alliances between white working class and queer subcultures. Such alliances have been obscured by stereotypes of low-status whites, or "rednecks," as uniformly bigoted and homophobic, and of "middle America" as homogenous and provincial. Hubbs trenchantly critiques middle-class disavowals of working class culture (exemplified by the phrase "I'll listen to anything but country"), and meticulously analyzes songs by the Foo Fighters, Gretchen Wilson, David Allen Coe, and others. Hubbs writes that "To hear country on its own terms, we must seek out the particular values and devalued culture of the working class." IASPM-US (2015 Woody Guthrie Award, Honorable Mention)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRO PART I. Rednecks and Country Music 1. Anything but Country 2. Sounding the Working-Class Subject PART II. Rednecks, Country Music, and the Queer 3. Gender Deviance and Class Rebellion in "Redneck Woman" 4. "Fuck Aneta Briant" and the Queer Politics of Being Political OUTRO Notes References Subject Index Song Index
£27.00
University of California Press The Gender Effect
Book SynopsisHow and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in the United States and Brazil, this book focuses on how the philanthropic, social responsibility, and business practices of various corporations use a logic of development that positions girls and women as instruments of poverty alleviation and new frontiers for capitalist accumulation. Using the Girl Effect, the philanthropic brand of Nike, Inc., as a central case study, the book examines how these corporations seek to address the problems of gendered poverty and inequality, yet do so using an instrumental logic that shifts the burden of development onto girls and women without transforming the structural conditions that produce poverty. These practices, in turn, enable corporations to expand theiTrade Review“A sobering and thought-provoking examination of something many of us have taken for granted: the unquestioned benefit and feminist appeal of the Girl Effect model.” * Philanthropy News Digest *"The book is especially interesting for researchers involved in ethnography, feminism, corporate policy making, charitable giving, and the role of capitalism in enhancing and hurting worker conditions." * CHOICE *"Every now and then, a book comes along that has the potential to widen the compass and shift the terms of debate in a research field in a decisive manner. Kathryn Moeller’s The Gender Effect is precisely such a book for the field of global development studies, and especially for critical research on the politics of gender, poverty, and development. . . . the book should be widely read and vigorously discussed as a source of crucial insights into how philanthrocapitalism works to disarm radical political projects, and what can and must be done to avoid this." * Community Development Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Corporatized Development 1. The Girl Effect as Apparatus 2. The Historical Rise of the Girl Effect 3. The Spectacle of Empowering Girls and Women 4. Searching for Third World Potential 5. Proving the Girl Effect 6. Negotiating Corporatized Development Conclusion: Accelerating and Freeing the Girl Effect Sources to Timeline of Nike, Inc. and Nike Foundation History and Public Response Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press To Be Cared For
Book SynopsisOffers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits (untouchables) in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, the author challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity.Trade Review"A major contibution to the anthropology of Christianity but also to the wider anthropology of religion as well as gender, class, and postcolonialism." Anthropology Review DatabaseTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Terminological Notes Introduction 1 • Outsiders 2 • Caste, Care, and the Human 3 • Sharing, Caring, and Supernatural Attack 4 • Religion, Conversion, and the National Frame 5 • The Logic of Slum Religion 6 • Pastoral Power and the Miracles of Christ 7 • Salvation, Knowledge, and Suffering Conclusion Appendix: Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Forcible Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2002 Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press South Bronx Battles Stories of Resistance
Book SynopsisCommunity activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members. Facing burned-out neighborhoods of the 1970s, the community fought back. McLaughlin illustrates the spirit of the community in creating a vibrant, diverse culture and its decades-long commitment to develop nonprofit housing and social-services, and to advocate for better education, health care, and a healthier environment. For the South Bronx to remain a safe haven for poor families, maintaining affordable housing is the centralbut most challengingtask. South Bronx Battlesis the comeback story of a community that was once in crisis but now serves as a beacon for other cities to rebuild, while keeping their neighborhoods affordable.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword South Bronx Timeline Map of South Bronx 1. The South Bronx: An Introduction 2. How the South Bronx Became the Poorest Congressional District 3. Why the South Bronx Burned 4. People Fight Back: 1960s and 1970s 5. Progress, but Plagues Descend on the South Bronx: 1980s 6. Not Yet Paradise, but We’ve Come a Long Way: 1990s 7. Many Faces of Success: 2000–2018 8. “The Bronx Was the Last Place”: Reflections on Displacement and Gentrification 9. Lessons Learned EpilogueAcknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary Notes Interviews Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Social Movements
Book SynopsisSocial Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead to political and social transformation. This fully class-tested book is the first to be organized along the lines of the major subfields of social movement scholarshipframing, movement emergence, recruitment, and outcomesto provide comprehensive coverage in a single core text. Features include:use of real data collected in the U.S. and around the worldthe emphasis on student learning outcomescase studies that bring social movements to lifeexamples of cultural repertoires used by movements (flyers, pamphlets, event data on activist websites, illustrations by activist musicians) to mobilize a grouptopics such as immigrant rights, transnational movement for climate justice, Women's Marches, Fight for $15, Occupy Wall Street, Gun Violence, Black Lives Matter, and the mobilization of popular movements in the global South on issues of authoritarian rule and neoliberalism With this book, students deepen their understanding of movement dynamics, methods of investigation, and dominant theoretical perspectives, all while being challenged to consider their own place in relation to social movements.Trade Review"Easy to read, this extensive review of social movements will benefit new scholars to the field as well as seasoned scholars interested in the organization of more recent movements." * American Ethnologist *"The book is well written and should be accessible to most readers new to the social movements field; Almeida is adept at explaining the sometimes confusing jargon that pervades the academic literature on movements." * Social Forces *"This book is a welcome addition to the academic resources available in social work education, specifically community-based social work." * Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare *"For scholars of social movements in Latin America, this is a refreshing and valuable new textbook." * Latin American Politics and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Action 2. How to Study Social Movements: Classification and Methods 3. Theories of Social Movement Mobilization 4. Social Movement Emergence: Interests, Resource Infrastructures, and Identities 5. The Framing Process 6. Individual Recruitment and Participation 7. Movement Outcomes 8. Pushing the Limits: Social Movements in the Global South Conclusion: Mounting Crises and the Pathway Forward Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press Gender in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book's strength is its in-depth analysis of the contemporary US" * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction “Gender as an Institution“ by Shannon N. Davis, Sarah Winslow, and David J. Maume PART I: CHANGING AND UNCHANGING INSTITUTIONS 2. The Family “There’s No Such Thing as Having It All: Gender, Work, and Care in an Age of Insecurity” by Kathleen Gerson 3. Higher Education “Community Colleges as a Pathway for Low-Income Women to Enter the Engineering Technology Workforce” by Chrystal A. S. Smith 4. The Workplace “ ‘Separating the Women from the Girls’: Black Professional Men’s Perceptions of Women Colleagues” by Adia Harvey Wingfield 5. Religion “True Love Had Better Wait, or Else! Anxious Masculinity and the Gendered Politics of the Evangelical Purity Movement” by Sierra A. Schnable 6. The Military “Gender, Residential Segregation, and Military Enlistment Patterns” by Allison Suppan Helmuth and Amy Kate Bailey 7. Sport “Conference Realignment and Its Impact on Women Student-Athletes” by Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery Review Questions for Part I: Changing and Unchanging Institutions PART II: GENDER POLITICS AND POLICIES 8. Corporate Boards and International Policies “Gender Parity on Corporate Boards: A Path to Women’s Equality?” by Martha Burk and Heidi Hartmann 9. Corporate Boards and US Policies “Hispanic Inclusion at the Highest Level of Corporate America: Progress or Not?” by Lisette M. Garcia and Eric Lopez 10. Work-Family Integration “Work-Life Balance and the Relationship between Women in State Legislatures and Workers’ Schedule Control” by Beth A. Rubin, Sabrina Speights, Jianhua Ge, Tonya K. Frevert, and Charles J. Brody 11. Health “Black, Women, or Black Women: An Intersectionality Approach to Health Inequalities” by Jielu Lin and Susan W. Hinze 12. Immigration “Interactions between Gender and Immigration in Wage Inequality among STEM Workers, 1980–2010” by Erin M. Stephens, Joshua D. Tuttle, and James C. Witte 13. Sexuality “Queer Eye on the Gay Rodeo” by D’Lane R. Compton Review Questions for Part II: Gender Politics and Policies PART III: CONCLUSION 14. Policies for Progress “Unstalling the Revolution: Policies toward Gender Equality“ by Sarah Winslow, Shannon N. Davis, and David J. Maume Review Questions for Part III: Conclusion References List of Contributors Index
£27.00
University of California Press Dispossessed How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the predacious bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history. Stout reveals the failure of Wall Street banks' mortgage assistance programsbacked by over $300 billion of federal fundsto deliver on the promise of relief. Unlike the programs of the Great Depression, in which the government took on the toxic mortgage debt of Americans, corporate lenders and loan servicers ultimately denied over 70 percent of homeowner applications. In the voices of bank employees and homeowners, Stout unveils how call center representatives felt about denying appeals and shares the fears of families living on the brink of eviction. Stout discloses the impacts of rising inequality on homeownersfrom whites who felt their middle-class life unraveling to communities of color who experienced a more precipitous and dire decline. Trapped in a Kafkaesque maze of mortgage assistance, borrowers began to view debt refusal as a moral response to lenders, as seemingly mundane bureaucratic dramas came to redefine the meaning of debt and dispossession.Trade Review"Building on existing research about the Great Recession, [Stout] offers intimate interviews with a dozen families who lost their homes in the Sacramento Valley. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction. Once Sold, Twice Taken: A Life Undone 1. Dream It, Own It: Genealogies of Speculation and Dispossession in the ValleyLandscapes 2. Put Out: Bank Seizure at the Poverty Line 3. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Relocating the Middle ClassDocuments 4. Can’t Work the System: The Troubled Sympathies of Corporate Bureaucrats 5. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Shifting Moral Economies of Debt RefusalDrawings Conclusion. You Can’t Go Home Again Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press The Other Side of Assimilation
Book SynopsisThe immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans-those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations? The Other Side of Assimilation shows that assimilation is not a one-way street. Jimenez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation in response to profound immigration-driven ethnic, racial, political, economic, and cultural shifts. Drawing on interviews with a race and class spectrum of established Americans in three different Silicon Valley cities, The Other Side of Assimilation illuminates how established Americans make sense of their experiences in immigrant-rich environments, in work, school, public interactions, romantic life, and leisure activities. With lucid prose, Jimenez reveals how immigration not only changes the American cityscape but also reshapes the United States by altering the outlooks and identities of its most established citizens.Trade Review"Tomás Jiménez is one of the most nuanced, thoughtful scholars of immigration-driven diversity and cultural change I’ve come across." * National Review *"Jimenez’s book is an example of practical politics . . . [and] is accessible to a diverse set of students, including undergraduates and graduate students. Social scientists, (im)migration, and race and ethnicity scholars will find it useful, given immigration’s prominence in our current political system." * IMR: International Migration Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The (Not-So-Strange) Strangers in Their Midst 2. Salsa and Ketchup—Cultural Exposure and Adoption 3. Spotlight on White, Fade to Black 4. Living with Difference and Similarity 5. Living Locally, Thinking Nationally Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
£22.50
University of California Press Life on the Other Border
Book SynopsisIn her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont's dairy industry, Mares powerfully illuminates the complex and resilient ways workers sustain themselves and their families while also serving as the backbone of the state's agricultural economy. In doing so, Life on the Other Borderexposes how broader movements for food justice and labor rights play out in the agricultural sector, and powerfully points to the misaligned agriculture and immigration policies impacting our food system today. Trade Review"Mares’s book contributes enormously to the fields of critical ethnography, borderland studies, and immigration studies, and would be an excellent addition to any classroom or public discussion of labor rights and food justice." * Gastronomica *"[Mares] successfully conveys the importance and value that agricultural laborers bring to our food system, and how their identities are often erased from the consumer experience further down the value chain." * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *"The most significant contribution of the book is its artful balance of structural vulnerability and agency. . . . This is not just another tale of im/migrant worker woe—rather, we see how farmworker-led activism, and university-community partner- ships, can make progress toward food justice, even in the oppressive context of the 'other' borderlands." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionBordering Visible Bodies A Distinctive Rural Place? Farmworker Injustice Grows in Every Field Harvesting a Different Product: What Makes Dairy Work Unique It’s Not Just about the Numbers Migrating through the Chapters to Come 1 • Vulnerability and Visibility in the Northern BorderlandsBorder Violence and Vulnerability “There’s No Mexicans in Vermont!” There Are Indeed Mexicans in Vermont EncerradoThe Trump Effect 2 • More than Money: Extending the Meanings and Methodologies of Farmworker Food SecurityLiving with Food Insecurity on Both Sides of the Border Feeding the Nation but Not Being Fed Measuring the Immeasurable? Assessing Dairy Worker Food Insecurity with the (Quantitative) Tools at Hand Telling the Stories of Food Insecurity When Numbers Fall Short Food Insecurity Crosses All Borders 3 • Cultivating Food Sovereignty Where There Are Few ChoicesGrowing a Project from Seed Immigrant Gardens as Fertile Ground for Food Sovereignty They Tried to Bury Us—They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds Challenging Cultural Borders through Experiential Learning 4 • They Are Out, They Are Looking: Providing Goods and Services under SurveillanceWIC: From Door-to-Door Delivery to EBT Doing a Lot with Very Little in the Field of Public Health Trunks Full of Banana Leaves and Phone Cards: The Individuals Serving the Farmworker Community 5 • Resilience and Resistance in the Movement for Just Food and WorkNavigating the Roles of Researcher and Activist A Timeline of Accomplishments—and Setbacks Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights! (Something Other than) Reform or Revolution? ConclusionThe Promise and Complications of Doing Ethnography at Home The Politics of Visibility in the Borderlands The Everyday Meanings of Food Sovereignty The Transformative Potential of Worker-Led Food Movements Some Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Farmworkers Appendix 2: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Service Providers Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Life on the Other Border
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mares’s book contributes enormously to the fields of critical ethnography, borderland studies, and immigration studies, and would be an excellent addition to any classroom or public discussion of labor rights and food justice." * Gastronomica *"[Mares] successfully conveys the importance and value that agricultural laborers bring to our food system, and how their identities are often erased from the consumer experience further down the value chain." * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *"The most significant contribution of the book is its artful balance of structural vulnerability and agency. . . . This is not just another tale of im/migrant worker woe—rather, we see how farmworker-led activism, and university-community partner- ships, can make progress toward food justice, even in the oppressive context of the 'other' borderlands." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionBordering Visible Bodies A Distinctive Rural Place? Farmworker Injustice Grows in Every Field Harvesting a Different Product: What Makes Dairy Work Unique It’s Not Just about the Numbers Migrating through the Chapters to Come 1 • Vulnerability and Visibility in the Northern BorderlandsBorder Violence and Vulnerability “There’s No Mexicans in Vermont!” There Are Indeed Mexicans in Vermont EncerradoThe Trump Effect 2 • More than Money: Extending the Meanings and Methodologies of Farmworker Food SecurityLiving with Food Insecurity on Both Sides of the Border Feeding the Nation but Not Being Fed Measuring the Immeasurable? Assessing Dairy Worker Food Insecurity with the (Quantitative) Tools at Hand Telling the Stories of Food Insecurity When Numbers Fall Short Food Insecurity Crosses All Borders 3 • Cultivating Food Sovereignty Where There Are Few ChoicesGrowing a Project from Seed Immigrant Gardens as Fertile Ground for Food Sovereignty They Tried to Bury Us—They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds Challenging Cultural Borders through Experiential Learning 4 • They Are Out, They Are Looking: Providing Goods and Services under SurveillanceWIC: From Door-to-Door Delivery to EBT Doing a Lot with Very Little in the Field of Public Health Trunks Full of Banana Leaves and Phone Cards: The Individuals Serving the Farmworker Community 5 • Resilience and Resistance in the Movement for Just Food and WorkNavigating the Roles of Researcher and Activist A Timeline of Accomplishments—and Setbacks Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights! (Something Other than) Reform or Revolution? ConclusionThe Promise and Complications of Doing Ethnography at Home The Politics of Visibility in the Borderlands The Everyday Meanings of Food Sovereignty The Transformative Potential of Worker-Led Food Movements Some Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Farmworkers Appendix 2: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Service Providers Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is advocacy journalism of the most persuasive kind — impassioned but never shrill or argumentative, solidly grounded in facts patiently marshaled to make the case. . . . Hochschild builds his evidence with the skill and rigor of a master bricklayer. . . . Repeatedly, in his hands, the past becomes vividly rendered prologue to the present.” * San Francisco Chronicle *“Hochschild is adept at both journalistic and historical reporting, with the theme of humanity’s capacity for darkness woven throughout. A necessary look at a past that feels uncomfortably familiar. One is left to wonder how future essayists in Hochschild’s circle will view the world we currently inhabit." * Library Journal *“In these essays about places around the globe, Hochschild's graceful, informative, straightforward writing always finds the telling detail as well as the people of courage in the most horrifying of situations. Focusing on some of the direst eras of recent history, these potent essays nevertheless find reason for hope in the idealism of individuals.” * Kirkus Reviews *“A perfect complement to his earlier books, it could just as well serve as a stand-alone introduction to his work. . . . Hochschild’s characteristic blend of compassion, nuanced judgement, diligent research and literary craftsmanship is evident throughout. He is also expert at finding the telling and memorable nugget.” * Peace News *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction The Surveillance State 1 • Lessons from a Dark Time 2 • Students as Spies 3 • Hoover’s Secret Empire 4 • The Father of American Surveillance 5 • Prison Madness Africa 6 • The Listening House 7 • All That Glitters 8 • A Showman in the Rainforest 9 • Heart of Darkness: Fiction or Reportage? 10 • On the Campaign Trail with Nelson Mandela India 11 • India’s American Imports 12 • Palm Trees and Paradoxes 13 • The Brick Master 14 • The Impossible City Europe 15 • Our Night with Its Stars Askew 16 • Shortstops in Siberia 17 • A Homage to Homage 18 • On Which Continent Was the Holocaust Born? 19 • Sunday School History America 20 • Pilot on the Great River: Mark Twain’s Nonfiction 21 • A Literary Engineer 22 • A Nation of Guns The Continent of Words 23 • You Never Know What’s Going to Happen Yesterday 24 • Practicing History without a License 25 • On the Road Again 26 • Books and Our Souls Acknowledgments Article Sources Photo Credits
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University of California Press Prisons of Debt
Book SynopsisA profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt. In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lynne Haney travels into state institutions across the country to document the experiences of the millions of fathers cycling through the criminal justice and child support systems. Prisons of Debt shows how these systems work together to create complex entanglementsrather than piling up in men's lives, these entanglements form feedback loops of disadvantage. The prisonchild support pipeline flows in both directions, deepening parents' debt and criminal justice involvement. Through moving accounts of men struggling to be fathers from behind prison walls and under the weight of support debt, Prisons of Debt exposes how the criminalization of child support undermines the most essential of familial relationships. Haney argues that these state systems can end up producing exactly the kind of parent they fear and loathe: bitter, unreliable, andTrade Review"Haney shows how state bureaucracies seem to conspire against historically marginalized individuals, leaving indebted fathers beholden to the state and distanced from their children. She illustrates how systems of social exclusion and punishment operate by sharing the haunting stories of men who face the daunting task of navigating debt and a lack of gainful employment while under close surveillance by police. . . . This book uncovers structural inequalities and offers potential solutions. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"A fantastic ethnography. . . .Lynne Haney has navigated readers through the institutional bureaucracy that leaves these fathers’ lives in shambles and bleeds into their lived experiences far beyond their incarcerations. Her intention to give voice to these fathers and center their experiences is remarkably done." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Drawing on years of research in the New York, Florida, and California family court and prison systems, Haney weaves these men’s stories into a disturbing portrait of the U.S. child support enforcement regime as a modern form of debtors’ prison. The result is by far the most comprehensive and illuminating account of the interplay between child support enforcement and incarceration in the contemporary United States." * Boston Review *"Lynne Haney provides the first large-scale and rigorous accounting of the mutually reinforcing linkages between the criminal legal system and the child support system. This book is a thoughtful and careful accounting of how these two institutions influence one another to create compounding disadvantages for the vulnerable men who become entangled in these systems." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: From Deadbeat to Dead Broke Part I Accumulation 1. Making Men Pay 2. The Debt of Imprisonment Part II Enforcement 3. Punishing Parents, Creating Criminals 4. The Imprisonment of Debt Part III Indebted Fatherhood 5. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead Broke 6. Cyclical Parenting Conclusion: Reforming Debt, Reimagining Fatherhood Appendix: About the Research Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Mothering While Black
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University of California Press Hustle and Gig
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is at its best and most useful when detailing—often in workers own words—the litany of injustices, indignities, and unsafe conditions visited upon the people working for these services. Such issues are not surprising and speak directly to why the Labor Department’s directive is so problematic. Nevertheless, the sheer volume of workplace injuries, unreachable employers, legally tenuous situations like drug delivery and credit card scams, denied benefits, endemic sexual harassment, low wages, and constant stress about whether one will get hired enough on a day-to-day level is striking." * New Labor Forum *"Hustle and Gig is a timely and important addition to the nascent but rapidly expanding literature of this new economic movement. It vividly bring to life the realities that many gig workers face today as they move forward to the past. The reality that many face challenges not unlike their peers from over a century ago—piecemeal work, low wages, and lacking basic protections. Hustle and Gig would be of particular interest to scholars studying non-standard work arrangements and employment relations, but also to scholars with a general interest in work and occupations or labor history." * Social Forces *"Ravenelle’s account of the state of gig work in Hustle and Gig is a great starting point: both the breadth of sectors covered and the depth of the ethnographic material are fantastic and add important detail to the techlash movement that is so often empirically weak." * LSE Review of Books *"Hustle and Gig is a refreshing and important statement about the structural changes evident in contemporary capitalism. The book is written with style and verve, yet is accessible and even ideal for assignment in classes on work, organizations, and social inequality. It is perhaps the most thoughtful and provocative depiction of the structural changes impinging on work as the sharing economy gains force. It deserves a wide audience." * Sociological Forum *"Hustle and Gig is a timely contribution to conversations about the kinds of working conditions that we, as a society, are—and are not—building for the future. . . .[it] reminds readers that decent jobs are not something that exist a priori. They must be made." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Strugglers, Strivers, and Success Stories 2. What Is the Sharing Economy? 3. Forward to the Past and the Early Industrial Age 4. Workplace Troubles 5. Sharing Is Caring 6. All in a Day’s (Dirty) Work 7. Living the Dream? 8. Conclusion Appendix 1. Demographic Survey Appendix 2. Interview Matrix Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Social Question in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness:first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the giant evils while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question has made a comeback.The Social Questionin the Twenty-First Century maps out the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified Social Question as a labor issue above all. The volume includes discussions from every corner of the globe, focusing on American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. The effects of capitalis
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University of California Press White Collar and Financial Crimes A Casebook of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Overall, Noble’s case-based text should provide students with an accessible, interesting, and well-structured entrée into thinking about white-collar and financial crimes, and the complex legal processes that surround them. Her writing avoids specialized jargon, remains admirably objective, and is suitable for undergraduates in a range of social science disciplines, but especially criminal justice, criminology, sociology, legal studies or forensic studies. Her text fills a gap in bridging related disciplines that should more often speak to each other through thoughtful pedagogy." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • Embezzlement 2 • Mortgage Fraud 3 • Ponzi Schemes 4 • Health Care Fraud 5 • Cybercrime 6 • Corporate Criminal Liability 7 • Money Laundering 8 • Environmental Crimes 9 • Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 10 • Insider Trading 11 • Academic Fraud 12 • False Advertising Index
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University of California Press WhiteCollar and Financial Crimes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Overall, Noble’s case-based text should provide students with an accessible, interesting, and well-structured entrée into thinking about white-collar and financial crimes, and the complex legal processes that surround them. Her writing avoids specialized jargon, remains admirably objective, and is suitable for undergraduates in a range of social science disciplines, but especially criminal justice, criminology, sociology, legal studies or forensic studies. Her text fills a gap in bridging related disciplines that should more often speak to each other through thoughtful pedagogy." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • Embezzlement 2 • Mortgage Fraud 3 • Ponzi Schemes 4 • Health Care Fraud 5 • Cybercrime 6 • Corporate Criminal Liability 7 • Money Laundering 8 • Environmental Crimes 9 • Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 10 • Insider Trading 11 • Academic Fraud 12 • False Advertising Index
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University of California Press The Rise of the Paris Red Belt
Book SynopsisFrom 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Tyler Stovall explores the nature of working-class life and politicization as he skillfully documents how this unique region and political culture came into being. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt reveals that the very process of urban development in metropolitan Paris and the suburbs provided the most important opportunities for the local establishment of Communist influence. The rapid increase in Paris' suburban population during the early twentieth century outstripped the development of the local urban infrastructure. Consequently, many of these suburbs, often represented to their new residents as charming country villages, soon degenerated into suburban slums. Stovall argues that Communists forged a powerful political block by mobilizing the disillusionment and by improving some of the worst aspects of suburban life. As a social history of twentieth-century France, The Rise of the Paris Red Belt calls into question traditional assumptions about the history of both French Communism and the French working-class. It suggests that those interested in working-class politics should consider the significance of residential and consumer issues as well as those relating to the workplace. It also suggests that urban history and urban development should not be considered autonomous phenomena, but rather expressions of class relations. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt brings to life a world whose citizens, though often overlooked, are nonetheless the history of modern France. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
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University of California Press The Trouble with Passion How Searching for
Book SynopsisProbing the ominous side of career advice to follow your passion, this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. Follow your passion is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. Passion-seeking seems like a promising path for avoiding the potential drudgery of a life of paid work, but this passion principleseductive as it isdoes not universally translate. The Trouble with Passion reveals the significant downside of the passion principle: the concept helps culturally legitimize and reproduce an exploited, overworked white-collar labor force and broadly serves to reinforce class, race, and gender segregation and inequality. Grounding her investigation in the paradoxical tensions between capitalism's demand for ideal workers and our cultural expectations for self-expression, sociologist Erin A. Cech draws on interviews that follow students from college into the workforce, surveys of US workers, and experimental data to explain why the passion principle is such an attractive, if deceptive, career decision-making mantra, particularly for the college educated. Passion-seeking presumes middle-class safety nets and springboards and penalizes first-generation and working-class young adults who seek passion without them. The ripple effects of this mantra undermine the promise of college as a tool for social and economic mobility. The passion principle also feeds into a culture of overwork, encouraging white-collar workers to tolerate precarious employment and gladly sacrifice time, money, and leisure for work they are passionate about. And potential employers covet, but won't compensate, passion among job applicants. This book asks, What does it take to center passion in career decisions? Who gets ahead and who gets left behind by passion-seeking? The Trouble with Passion calls for citizens, educators, college administrators, and industry leaders to reconsider how we think about good jobs and, by extension, good lives.Trade Review"As the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many people to contemplate the meaning of their work and life, this book offers particularly relevant insights for those wanting a career change to consider how they should make career decisions and the role work should play in their life. The Trouble with Passion should also be revelatory to people who potentially shape others’ career decisions, such as educators and career counselors; those who can influence the career outcomes of people in the labor market, such as hiring managers and organization leaders; and policymakers who have the power to rectify the structural factors producing the dark side of the passion principle in the first place. I would also recommend this book to social science scholars interested in careers, passion, the meaning of work, segregation, and inequality in general." * Administrative Science Quarterly *"If you’re looking for a book that can offer you new insights into career choices while making you think critically about librarianship, passion, and labor, this is a recommended read." * College & Research Libraries *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. What Is the Passion Principle? 2. Why Is the Passion Principle Compelling? 3. The Privilege of Passion? Passion-Seeking and Socioeconomic Inequality among Career Aspirants 4. The Passion Principle as Prescriptive and Explanatory Narrative? How the Passion Principle Choicewashes Workforce Inequalities 5. Exploiting Passion? The Demand Side of the Passion Principle Conclusion Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Supplemental Analysis of 2020 College Student Survey Appendix C: Supporting Data Notes References Index
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University of California Press Dividing Paradise Rural Inequality and the
Book SynopsisCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Late-stage capitalism is trying to remake rural America in its own image, and the resistance is telling. Small-town economies that have traditionally been based on logging, mining, farming, and ranching now increasingly rely on tourism, second-home ownership, and retirement migration. In Dividing Paradise, Jennifer Sherman tells the story of Paradise Valley, Washington, a rural community where amenity-driven economic growth has resulted in a new social landscape of inequality and privilege, with deep fault lines between old-timers and newcomers. In this complicated cultural reality, class blindness allows privileged newcomers to ignore or justify their impact on these towns, papering over the sentiments of anger, loss, and disempowerment of longtime locals. Based on in-depth interviews with individuals on both sides of the divide, this bookexplores the causes and repercussions of the stark inequity that has become commonplace across the United States. It exposes the mechanisms by which inequality flourishes and by which Americans have come to believe that disparity is acceptable and deserved. Sherman, who is known for her work on rural America, presents here a powerful case study of the ever-growing tensions between those who can and those who cannot achieve their visions of the American dream. Trade Review"This quite readable book is not laden with academic jargon or theory, making it excellent for students and scholars of rural sociology. It also makes a significant contribution to the broader American studies literature." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPrologue: Discovering Paradise Acknowledgments 1. Rural Deindustrialization, Decline, and Rebirth 2. Changing Times in Paradise 3. Living the Dream: Newcomers Making It Work in Paradise 4. Trouble in Paradise: Old-timers' Struggles to Survive 5. "Certain Circles": The Deepening Divide 6. Paradise Lost: Making Sense of Community Change and the Elusive American Dream 7. Crossing the Divide and Reclaiming the Dream Epilogue: The Rural Dream in the Pandemic's Wake Appendix A. Methods, Sample, and Local Demographic Information Appendix B. The Newcomer/Old-timer Distinction Notes References Index
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University of California Press Dividing Paradise
Book SynopsisCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Late-stage capitalism is trying to remake rural America in its own image, and the resistance is telling. Small-town economies that have traditionally been based on logging, mining, farming, and ranching now increasingly rely on tourism, second-home ownership, and retirement migration. In Dividing Paradise, Jennifer Sherman tells the story of Paradise Valley, Washington, a rural community where amenity-driven economic growth has resulted in a new social landscape of inequality and privilege, with deep fault lines between old-timers and newcomers. In this complicated cultural reality, class blindness allows privileged newcomers to ignore or justify their impact on these towns, papering over the sentiments of anger, loss, and disempowerment of longtime locals. Based on in-depth interviews with individuals on both sides of the divide, this bookexplores the causes and repTrade Review"This quite readable book is not laden with academic jargon or theory, making it excellent for students and scholars of rural sociology. It also makes a significant contribution to the broader American studies literature." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPrologue: Discovering Paradise Acknowledgments 1. Rural Deindustrialization, Decline, and Rebirth 2. Changing Times in Paradise 3. Living the Dream: Newcomers Making It Work in Paradise 4. Trouble in Paradise: Old-timers' Struggles to Survive 5. "Certain Circles": The Deepening Divide 6. Paradise Lost: Making Sense of Community Change and the Elusive American Dream 7. Crossing the Divide and Reclaiming the Dream Epilogue: The Rural Dream in the Pandemic's Wake Appendix A. Methods, Sample, and Local Demographic Information Appendix B. The Newcomer/Old-timer Distinction Notes References Index
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University of California Press Feeding the Crisis Care and Abandonment in Americas Food Safety Net 71 California Studies in Food and Culture
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University of California Press Uberland
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A timely, accessible analysis of a Silicon Valley innovator that disrupted an industry.” * GeekWire *“This jargon-free and intriguing exposé offers food for thought for anyone interested in worker protections or societal changes driven by technology.” * Publishers Weekly *"Functions as an examination of both how Uber’s algorithms are changing the way companies operate and exert control over their workers and how those workers are experiencing these changes.” * Slate *"A timely look at the tensions between technology and the future of employment, and how ambitious startups might be changing the way we see and value work.” * Mother Jones *“If you care about the future of work, read Uberland by Alex Rosenblat.” -- Theodore Kinni, Strategy + Business“Rosenblat’s book is a combination of sociological analysis, excerpts from Uber-driver online forums, communications with Uber executives and employees, and an avalanche of in-person interviews with drivers from all over the United States and Canada. Her analysis isn’t a polemic; it is balanced and measured.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“A fine work of technology ethnography. . . As someone who believes that technology is a positive force for driving change, I’ll admit to being deeply disturbed by reading Uberland." * Inside Higher Education *"The most important recent book written about Uber is undoubtedly Alex Rosenblat’s Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, which unflinchingly exposes how Uber takes ruthless advantage of its drivers.” * Medium/The Startup *"Uberland will be of interest for anyone who cares about the future of work, the realities of working in the ‘gig’ economy and the consequences of decoupling work from existing employment relations systems." * Journal of Industrial Relations *"The book paints a complicated picture of the uneven realities of the gig economy set against the glossy sales pitch of Uber as the future of work." * Allegra Lab *"Uberland is a timely book as technology increasingly intensifies in our daily lives. It reads like book‐length investigative journalism, refreshingly jargon‐free. It stays truthful to the stories that drivers tell and is readable and engaging. It is suitable for undergraduate classes in sociology of work; science, technology, and society; and consumption." * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Using an App to Go to Work—Uber as a Symbol of the New Economy 1. Driving as Glamorous Labor: How Uber Uses the Myths of the Sharing Economy 2. Motivations to Drive: How Uber’s System Rewards Full-Time and Recreational Drivers Differently 3. The Technology Pitch: How Uber Creates Entrepreneurship for the Masses 4. The Shady Middleman: How Uber Manages Money 5. Behind the Curtain: How Uber Manages Drivers with Algorithms 6. In the Big Leagues: How Uber Plays Ball Conclusion: The New Age of Uber—How Technology Consumption Rewrote the Rules of Work Appendix 1. Methodology: How I Studied Uber Appendix 2. Ridehailing beyond Uber: Meet Lyft, the Younger Twin Notes Index
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University of California Press After the Gig
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Eye-opening as it deconstructs the promises, and downfalls, of the sharing economy." * Foreword Reviews *“Punctures the hype surrounding the ‘sharing economy’ in this lucid and deeply researched study. . . . Schor backs her claims with detailed evidence, and identifies specific, actionable reforms. This incisive account makes a perplexing subject easier to grasp.” * Publishers Weekly *“The author, a nimble writer, concludes that ‘social technology’ has to match technology itself, the foremost need being ‘learning how to share.’ The gig economy is a failure, Schor sharply chronicles—but not one that can’t be redeemed by ‘cooperation and helping.’” * Kirkus Reviews *“Schor’s case studies skillfully represent the full spectrum of optimism and disenchantment—those previously bullish on being their own boss, who have since been dragged into despair. . . . The takeaway from this book is that a complete reimagining of city governance is required if the sharing economy is ever going to work for the people.” * Financial Times *"Using an engaging writing style that is accessible to a non-academic audience and to those unfamiliar with the topic, the author brings the reader on a journey along the evolution of the sharing economy, from its roots in the California counterculture through its affirmation in the global capitalist system, to a possible alternative future." * IRL *"Juliet Schor’s After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back tells this story with much flair and nuance, based on her team’s groundbreaking and extensive research." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note: This Book Has Been Coproduced Introduction: The Problem of Work 1 From the Counterculture to “We Are the Uber of X” 2 Earning on the Platforms 3 Shared, but Unequal 4 “The Shared Economy Is a Lie” 5 Swapping with Snobs 6 Co-ops, Commons, and Democratic Sharing Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Africanization of the Labor Market
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University of California Press Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
Book SynopsisIn this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozenessaysand pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic,from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. With the skills of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance, and dared to dream of a better and more just world.Trade Review"This is advocacy journalism of the most persuasive kind — impassioned but never shrill or argumentative, solidly grounded in facts patiently marshaled to make the case. . . . Hochschild builds his evidence with the skill and rigor of a master bricklayer. . . . Repeatedly, in his hands, the past becomes vividly rendered prologue to the present.” * San Francisco Chronicle *“Hochschild is adept at both journalistic and historical reporting, with the theme of humanity’s capacity for darkness woven throughout. A necessary look at a past that feels uncomfortably familiar. One is left to wonder how future essayists in Hochschild’s circle will view the world we currently inhabit." * Library Journal *“In these essays about places around the globe, Hochschild's graceful, informative, straightforward writing always finds the telling detail as well as the people of courage in the most horrifying of situations. Focusing on some of the direst eras of recent history, these potent essays nevertheless find reason for hope in the idealism of individuals.” * Kirkus Reviews *“A perfect complement to his earlier books, it could just as well serve as a stand-alone introduction to his work. . . . Hochschild’s characteristic blend of compassion, nuanced judgement, diligent research and literary craftsmanship is evident throughout. He is also expert at finding the telling and memorable nugget.” * Peace News *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction The Surveillance State 1 • Lessons from a Dark Time 2 • Students as Spies 3 • Hoover’s Secret Empire 4 • The Father of American Surveillance 5 • Prison Madness Africa 6 • The Listening House 7 • All That Glitters 8 • A Showman in the Rainforest 9 • Heart of Darkness: Fiction or Reportage? 10 • On the Campaign Trail with Nelson Mandela India 11 • India’s American Imports 12 • Palm Trees and Paradoxes 13 • The Brick Master 14 • The Impossible City Europe 15 • Our Night with Its Stars Askew 16 • Shortstops in Siberia 17 • A Homage to Homage 18 • On Which Continent Was the Holocaust Born? 19 • Sunday School History America 20 • Pilot on the Great River: Mark Twain’s Nonfiction 21 • A Literary Engineer 22 • A Nation of Guns The Continent of Words 23 • You Never Know What’s Going to Happen Yesterday 24 • Practicing History without a License 25 • On the Road Again 26 • Books and Our Souls Acknowledgments Article Sources Photo Credits
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University of California Press Generation Priced Out Who Gets to Live in the New
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Written in a lucid and engaging style, the book draws on extensive first-hand experience of tenant organising, activism, and policy-writing as well as interviews with a real who’s-who of housing activists in several high-cost US cities not only to make the case for urban policy to take housing affordability seriously, but also to outline concrete steps to get there." * Intergenerational Justice Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Battling Displacement in the New San Francisco 2 • A Hollywood Ending for Los Angeles Housing Woes? 3 • Keeping Austin Diverse 4 • Can Building Housing Lower Rents? Seattle and Denver Say Yes 5 • Will San Francisco Open Its Golden Gates to the Working and Middle Class? 6 • Millennials Battle Boomers Over Housing 7 • Get Off My Lawn! How Neighborhood Groups Stop Housing 8 • New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco’s Mission District: The Fight to Preserve Racial Diversity Conclusion: Ten Steps to Preserve Cities’ Economic and Racial Diversity Notes Index
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University of California Press Class Awareness in the United States
Book SynopsisAre social classes meaningful to Americans? The question has attracted popular and scholarly debate since the founding of the Republic. The Jackmans offer a new perspective on the debate by analyzing popular conceptions of social class. Mary and Robert Jackman assert that the meaning and reality of class cannot be evaluated without attention to its place in public awareness, and they draw on national survey to examine the willingness of Americans to identify with one of five social classes, ranging from the poor to the upper class. What meanings do people attache to these classes? Do classes have emotional significance? Why do some think of themselvs as working class, while other consider themselves middle class? Do blacks and whites, women and men process class cues in the same way? How do people's social environments influence their class awareness? What are the social and political implications of class?The evidence in this book indicates that class is an important part of American social life. Classes form a graded series of status groups that are assembled from configurations of socioeconomic criteria. They are not rigidly bounded, but these groups reflet emotionally significant social communities that command affiliation. Although American electoral politics has failed to provide more than limited expression of class issues, this important work makes clear tha at the grassroots leve, there is a pervasive awareness of social class.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
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University of California Press Agricultural Change and Peasant Choice in a Thai
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University of California Press Academic Apartheid
Trade Review"This book deserves a place on the reading lists and bookshelves of many readers. It is accessible for multiple audiences as the storytelling hooks the reader while also offering opportunities to reconsider several harmful policies and practices. . . If we hope to create a schooling system that is truly designed to serve all of its students - not just those who reflect the dominant white culture or fit into a specific frame - all of these actors must gain an understanding of how schools as institutions perpetuate racism and criminalization." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Drake has contributed a set of unique insights into global dynamics with hyperlocal implications. He does so with a depth and richness through which we come to know and inhabit this world." * Social Service Review *"Anyone who cares about equity in education should read this well-researched and well-written book to understand the causes and consequences of academic apartheid." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Segregated Schools and Disadvantaged Students in an Affluent Neighborhood 1. “If You’re Not in AP Classes, Then Who Are You?” 2. The Symbolic Criminalization of Failure 3. The Segregation of Teaching and Learning 4. The Institutionalization of Ethnic Capital 5. “We’ve Failed These Kids” Missed Opportunities and Signs of Hope Conclusion Methodological Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Potholes in the Road Transition Problems for
Book SynopsisEducation has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college.With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging.Table of ContentsContents Lists of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction 1 • The Politics of Educational Management 2 • The Interface of Family and School 3 • School Organization and Its Challenges 4 • The Impact of Cultural and Social Capital 5 • Social Tracking In the Educational Process Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Social History of the Laboring Classes
Book Synopsisaeo Takes a sweeping account of labor history from a social perspective from colonial times to the present, chronologically arranged. aeo Addresses black, white, native American, male, female, adult and child labor into a single volume.Trade Review"Jacqueline Jones is one of the nation's finest historians of race, class and culture and any project she turns her hand to is must reading for all those who claim to participate in the intellectual life of our times." Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia "The explosion of scholarship in the field of labor history over the past twenty years has defied synthesis - until now. Jacqueline Jones has moved the diverse experiences of America's multicultural working class to the front and center of the national historical narrative. No other book so effectively brings the voices and struggles of working people together as does A Social History of the Laboring Classes." Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University " Recent research in labor and working-class history that is staggering in scope. Recommended for all levels of college reader." D. Lindstrom, University of Wisconsin, Madison "A lively text grounded solidly in the latest research." Labour History ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. 'Strangers' and Other Workers in the Seventeenth-Century Colonies. 2. 'Be Sure to Come Free': Workers in the Eighteenth Century. 3. Crosscurrents of Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South. 4. The Northern Laboring Classes at Odds With One Another, Before and During the Civil War. 5. Ideologies of Race in a Modernizing Economy: The Cases of African-American and Chinese Workers. 6. The Laboring Chattering Classes in Turn-of-the-Century America. 7. The Rise of the State in Depression and War: The American Workforce, 1916-1945. 8. American Workers and the New World Order in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Index.
£40.80
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Natural Hierarchies
Book SynopsisThis original and provocative text provides an approach to understanding the emergence and development of social rank through race and caste. The struggles we face in race and ethnic relations today are explored through anthropological, historical and sociological lenses to understand the roots of social hierarchy drawing on examples from the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and mainland America.Trade Review"Natural Hierarchies is an insightful study of the complex ways in which race and social relations are grounded in specific historical and cultural contexts. Through its rare combination of clearly argued theoretical analyses and empirical research it forces all of us working on these questions to rethink our research agendas and key concepts." John Solomos, South Bank University "This wide-ranging book considers political ideologies, European colonialism, and classical and contemporary social theory, especially that of Marx and Levi-Strauss." S. D. Borchert, Lake Erie College. "an interesting work." Contemporary Sociology "Smaje's book is a major contribution to the area. It is ambitious, erudite, and insightful." Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. Part I: Race, Caste, and Hierarchy. 1. Race and Caste as Natural Hierarchies. 2. Race. 3. Caste. 4. Hierarchy. 5. History and Ambivalence: a Place in the Sociological Debate. Part II: Theoretical Constructions. 6. Introduction. 7. Essentialism and Anti-essentialism. 8. Structure. 9. Culture, Practice, and Symbol. 10. History. 11. Conclusion. Part III: Economic and Political Formations. 12. Introduction. 13. European capitalism, Indian Capitalism?. 14. Political formations. 15. Europe. 16. India. 17. Nations and Citizenries. Part IV: Race, Slavery, and Colonialism. . 18. Introduction. 19. Slavery. 20. Race and colonial society. 21. Race and Political Thought in Early Modern Europe. Part V: Race, Caste and the Person. . 22. Introduction. 23. Race, Caste and Kinship. 24. Caste, kinship, and Gender in India. 25. Race, Kinship, and Gender in the Caribbean. Part VI: Race, Caste and the Nation. . 26. Introduction. 27. Race and the Creolization in the Caribbean. 28. Euro-creole. 29. Afro-creole. 30. Caudillismo. 31. Caste, communalism, and the Nation in Contemporary India. Part VII: Hierarchy and Politics. . 32. Hierarchy and a Sociology of Politics. 33. Hierarchy and a Politics of Sociology. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Scholars and Rebels
Book SynopsisScholars and Rebels must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century.Trade Review"The enjoyments of this book are its many elaborate periods, wonderful put-downs and instantly memorable apercus: practically every paragraph ends with a punch-line." Reviews "This volume invites comparison to Robert Tracy's recent The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities." Choice "is ambitious in its scope, and it offers an original and compelling exploration of the networks that formed the 'outsized village' that was nineteenth-century Dublin". History of EducationTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Colonial Intellectuals. 2. Portrait of a Clerisy. 3. Savants and Society. 4. The Dismal Science. 5. Young Irelanders and Others. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Scholars and Rebels
Book SynopsisScholars and Rebels must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century.Trade Review"The enjoyments of this book are its many elaborate periods, wonderful put-downs and instantly memorable apercus: practically every paragraph ends with a punch-line." Reviews "This volume invites comparison to Robert Tracy's recent The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities." Choice "is ambitious in its scope, and it offers an original and compelling exploration of the networks that formed the 'outsized village' that was nineteenth-century Dublin". History of EducationTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Colonial Intellectuals. 2. Portrait of a Clerisy. 3. Savants and Society. 4. The Dismal Science. 5. Young Irelanders and Others. Index.
£30.35
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Chinese City
Book SynopsisUrbanization and urban development are the focus of this account which introduces readers to the changes now taking place in Chinese cities. Its approach links the visible changes in urban life to changes in the larger political economy of China.Trade Review"A valuable and timely addition to the expanding Chinese city studies." Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington "During the past two decades urban China has undergone a remarkable transformation as the old system of central planning has given way to domestic and international market forces. A once-distinctive model of urbanism is being replaced by something entirely new. Logan and his collaborators provide a highly disciplined, coherent, state of the art examination of these changes through detailed studies of migration, housing reform, community change and other vital topics." Andrew Walder, Stanford University "This book is a timely and valuable contribution to our understanding of changing China and the urban developmental process." Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Part I: Introduction to the New Chinese City:. 1. Three Challenges for the Chinese City: Globalization, Migration and Market Reform: John R Logan (University of Albany). 2. The Present Situation and Prospective Development of the Shanghai Urban Community: Duo Wu (East China Normal University) and Taibin Li (Shanghai Young Administrative Cadres College). 3. The Development of the Chinese Metropolis in the Period of Transition: Xiaopei Yan (Zhongshan University), Li Jia (Zhongshan University), Jianping Li (Zhongshan University) and Jizhuan Weng (Zhongshan University). Part II: Globalization and Urban Development:. 4. The Prospect of International Cities in China: Yixing Zhou (Peking University). 5. An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Emerging Strategies for (Inter-) Urban Competition in Hong Kong: Ngai-Ling Sum (University of Lancaster). 6. The Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Urban Region: An Emerging Transnational Mode of Regulation or Just Muddling Through?: Alan Smart (University of Calgary). 7. The State, Capital, and Urban Restructuring in Post-Reform Shanghai: Zhengji Fu (King's College London). 8. The Transformation of Suzhou: The Case of the Collaboration between the China and Singapore Governments and Transnational Corporations (1992-1999): Alexius Pereira (National University of Singapore). Part III: Market Reform and the New Processes fo Urban Development:. 9. Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in Urban China: Min Zhou (University of California at Los Angeles) and John R Logan (University of Albany). 10. Real Estate Development and the Transformation of Urban Space in Chinese Transitional Economy: With Special Reference to Shanghai: Fulong Wu (University of Southampton). 11. Social Research and the Localization of Chinese Urban Planning Practice: Some Ideas from Quanzhou, Fujian: Daniel B Abramson (University of British Colombia), Michael Leaf (University of British Colombia) and Tan Ying (formerly Tsinghua University). Part IV: Urban Impacts of Migration:. 12. Migrant Enclaves in Chinese Large Cities: Fan Jie (Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking Normal University) and Wolfgang Taubmann (University of Bremen). 13. Social Polarization and Segregation in Beijing: Chaolin Gu (Nanjing University) and Haiyong Liu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 14. Temporary Migrants in Shanghai: Housing and Settlement Patterns: Weiping Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University). Part V: Urbanization of the Countryside:. 15. Return Migrant Entrepreneurs and Economic Diversification in Two Counties in South Jiangxi, China: Rachel Murphy (University of Cambridge). 16. Region-Based Urbanization in Post-Reform China: Spatial Restructuring in the Pearl River Delta: George C S Lin (The University of Hong Kong). Bibliography. Index.
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