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Book SynopsisAs we experience yet another deep economic recession, people throughout the world are feeling the symptoms of capitalist crisis, from unemployment to bankruptcy to deficits to cutbacks and so on. With this timely book, Murray E.G. Smith invites readers to a reconsideration of the themes pertinent to an understanding of capitalist economic crises and to discussion of the ways to overcome them.The text is broad-ranging, integrating eleven studies that consider the theory of labour-value from historical, philosophical, and economic perspectives. Smith incorporates a thorough review of the controversy that has raged around Marx’s theory of labour-value, reporting the key arguments of orthodox Marxists, neo-Ricardians, neo-orthodox Marxists, and fundamentalists Marxists. He concludes that the Marxian theory of labour-value remains a logically coherent and theoretically sound basis for understanding capitalism’s historical-structural crises. Also included is a reconsi

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Book SynopsisWar X is an explosive introduction to the discussion of modern warfare and a timely consideration of industrial warfare. It is also a deliberation on the startling world of new weapon development, and the indescribable future of war that beckons.Trade ReviewTim Blackmore's War X is a groundbreaking, mind-altering book: an expose of runaway government and corporate militarism, and the dehumanising effect of military technology. With stunning clarity, energy, intelligence, technological mastery, human understanding, and expositional elegance, what Blackmore describes is not the future; it is the present - and the vision is both hypnotic and chilling. War X should be required reading for every citizen whose country participates in the global culture of militarism and twenty-first-century weapons development. I just can't say how much my own eyes were opened and my own mind was blown by this book.' Philip D. Beidler, Department of English, University of AlabamaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why X 1. Crawling Flesh: The Infant Comes to Battle 2. Breathing Metal: Armour Suited for War 3. Heavy Tread: On Track for Battle 4. Rotor Hearts: The Helicopter as War's Pacemaker 5. Dead Slow: Loitering in Battlespace 6. Wastage: War after War

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Book SynopsisA classic study by a leading theorist of revolution, Revolutionary Change has gone through eleven printings since its appearance in 1966 and been translated into German, French, and Korean. This carefully revised edition not only brings the original analysis up to date but adds two entirely new chapters: one on terrorism, the most celebrated form of political violence throughout the 1970s, and one on theories of revolution from Brinton to the present day.Trade Review"A penetrating, illuminating, and gratifyingly concise attempt to bring some order out of chaos... This is one of the handful of books published each year that should be read by every person concerned with man's social and political behavior... The book is as much indebted to current thought in anthropology, economics, sociology, and social psychology as to that in political science and its reliance upon the insights of classical political philosophers such as Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau is also profound and explicitly stated. It is in his ability to combine meaningfully a large number of divergent theories and philosophies and to direct them toward the explanation of a particular phenomenon that Johnson is especially successful." -Charles F. MacCormack ,Journal of International Affairs "Of the definitions [of revolution] available, the most useful appears to be the one adopted by Chalmers Johnson... Johnson's formulation seems reasonably exact and appropriate to all or most varieties of revolution, whatever their differences in aim, scale, or social character." -Perez Zagorin ,Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

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Book SynopsisLooking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream, combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative research and the explanatory power of social action theory.Trade Review"Goldthorpe, one of Great Britain's most eminent sociologists, finds sociology in a troubling state of disarray. Research and theory proceed in ignorance of each other, and the mantra of "pluralism" undermines the prospect of consensus on the discipline's fundamental purpose and approach. In this expanded, two-volume edition of his manifesto, he proposes a solution to this lamentable state of affairs: make a particular style of research the chief paradigm... The book is useful, erudite, and occasionally provocative." -- Contemporary Sociology"When the most distinguished empirical social researcher in Britain takes on the problem of the relation between theory and research, places the issues in their larger historical setting (based on wide and accurate reading in the historical literature), and also states the issue in current technical terms, and does so with both panache and bite, we get a book that is well worth reading." -- American Journal of Sociology"Goldthorpe's project has all the scope and reach of the post-war functionalist program of Parsons and Merton, but it is likely to be more successful precisely because it allows a substantial role for empirical scholarship and can contain and encompass the ongoing quantitative revolution. . . . The publication of On Sociology will come to be seen as a turning-point in the history of the discipline." -- European Sociological Review"John Goldthorpe has given us a fine book. . . . I cannot think of a better introduction for any aspiring sociologist to the delicate art of synthesizing theory and empirics. . . . Each of Goldthorpe's chapters hammers home the virtues of finding an intellectual rapprochement between statistical modelling, based on large data-sets, structures of social action and interaction, and theory." -- British Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContents @toc4:Preface xxx @toc2:chapter one Introduction 1 @toc1:PART ONE @toc2:chapter two The Uses of History in Sociology: Reflections on Some Recent Tendencies 000 chapter three Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology 000 chapter four Sociological Ethnography Today: Problems and Prospects 000 chapter five Globalisation and Social Class 000 @toc1:PART TWO @toc2:chapter six The Quantitative Analysis of Large-Scale Data Sets and Rational Action Theory: For a Sociological Alliance 000 chapter seven Rational Action Theory for Sociology 000 chapter eight Rational Action Theory in Sociology: Misconceptions and Real Problems 000 chapter nine Causation, Statistics and Sociology 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisExplores the emergence of a credit card market in post-Soviet Russia during the formative period from 1988 to 2007. This book demonstrates how networks that combine individuals and organizations help to build markets for mass consumption. It chronicles both the creation of a credit card market and the making of a mass consumer.Trade Review"The book makes an important contribution to literature on globalization and the impact of the market economy. Her analysis of consumers, banks and credit agencies is made even more significant in light of the way in which unmanageable debt appears so closely linked to the current global economic collapse." -- Michael P. Sacks * International Review of Modern Sociology *"Alya Guseva proves herself as a serious scholar matching intellectual depth with careful detail. Analysis of market creation and institutional emergence demands the fieldwork and creativity that few like Guseva displays. Into the Red will make a significant contribution to institutional change and market creation in general, in emerging markets, and, especially, in postcommunist countries." -- Gerald McDermott, Wharton School * University of Pennsylvania *"Alya Guseva's excellent book Into the Red represents the first full-length scholarly analysis of postcommunist credit card markets. Drawing on unique and extensive field research in Russia, Guseva convincingly demonstrates why the Russian credit card market has evolved so differently from that of the United States and other capitalist economies. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of contemporary postcommunist financial systems." -- Juliet Johnson * McGill University *"This timely and stimulating book sheds light on the organizational and social origins of credit, not just in Russia but around the world. Anyone with an interest in how credit economies work will want to read Into the Red." -- Bruce G. Carruthers * Northwestern University *"Guseva's masterful account of the emergence of the Russian credit card market is as illuminating as it is provocative, and it will surely be a must-read for those who have an interest in how the dynamics and institutions of credit interact in a capitalist economy." -- Simone Polillo * University of Virginia *"Guseva's excellent study of the credit card market in Russia reaffirms the argument against the free market approach to changes taking place in Russia. Markets are not established as a result of announcements, but rather as a process requiring the co-development of necessary institutions, Guseva reminds the reader. ... The clear, persuasive writing style entails some prior knowledge of economic sociology." -- CHOICE"Guseva's clear and accessible account of the Russian experience, based on both written sources and semi-structured interviews that she conducted in Moscow between 1998 and 2005, should hold great appeal. Other readers will likely enjoy the book for the historical perspective and organizational insights it provides into the financial instrument whose use is so widespread—and whose function so central—in economies like that of the U.S. that its existence is simply taken for granted." -- Bennet A. Zelner"If you think that globalization rapidly and inexorably converts people everywhere into eager consumers and that the availability of ready credit automatically drags consumers into crippling debt, read Alya Guseva's absorbing study of Russian credit card markets for quite a different view. In Guseva's rich, thoughtful study, it turns out that making risky markets requires serious social engineering to bring lenders, borrowers, and merchants into reliable relations of trust. Here a close analysis of a complicated economic process yield insights into social change." -- Viviana A. Zelizer * Princeton University, author of The Purchase of Intimacy *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables and Figures iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction 1 1. The Architecture of Credit Card Markets 000 2. Market Building in the Transitional Context 000 3. Setting the Stage: Consumer Credit and Banking Before and During the Transition 000 4. Inner Circles: Card Issuing at the Dawn of the Market 000 5. The Stick But No Carrot: Disseminating Cards Through Employers 000 6. The Carrot, at Last: Will Consumer Lending Lead the Way for Russia's Credit Card Market? 000 7. The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: The Struggle to Institutionalize Interbank Information Sharing and Create Credit Bureaus 000 8. Russian Credit Card Market Through the Lens of Continuity and Change 000 @toc4:Appendix: Data and Methodology 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisCommunity at Risk examines civic response to the federal government's plans to build biodefense labs at three universities following the Anthrax attacks in 2001. Thomas D. Beamish's account affirms the importance of local political dynamics in shaping public perceptions of risk and its management.Trade Review"In contrast to conventional micro- and macro-level accounts of how risk is perceived and managed, Beamish's analysis of each case reveals the pivotal role played by meso-level contexts and political dynamics. Community at Risk provides a new framework for understanding risk disputes and their prevalence in American civic life." -- Paul T. Vogel * Midwest Book Review *"Community at Risk shows how civic politics matter and shape what is locally considered to be acceptable. Beamish does a masterful job of interpreting his interviews and of providing insights into how communities confront risky plans, programs, and developments. This is an important book." -- Lee Clarke * Rutgers University and author of Acceptable Risk?, Mission Improbable, and Worst Cases *"By studying three community responses to a federal biodefense plan, Beamish gets beyond the limitations of a single methodological approach. The genius of this study is on full display throughout the volume as he skillfully takes the reader into diverse local domains. This book sheds light on the fact that public concerns about risk are far more heterogeneous than we've previously thought, while revealing how 'soft power' motivates and constrains citizens in highly consequential ways." -- David Naguib Pellow * University of Minnesota, author of Resisting Global Toxics and co-author of The Slums of Aspen *"Beamish breaks new ground in his comparative study, moving beyond individual risk perception and static group membership and structures, to community-level analysis. His rich understanding of civic domains, discourse, relations, and virtues will help us analyze future health and environmental hazards. Community at Risk blends environmental sociology, cultural sociology, and sociology of risk in a thoughtful and fruitful way." -- Phil Brown * Northeastern University *"Communities at Risk is a very well-researched and persuasive book. It fills a niche in the study of risk management that is underexplored, and provides a nuanced accounting of how and why communities view and respond to university proposals to build NBL facilities." -- Kymberly MacNeal * H-War, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe Introduction develops the context within which the federal government's biodefense plans emerged and on which they were justified, including 9/11, the anthrax attacks, and the successive menace presented by West Nile virus, SARS, and avian influenza and most recently Ebola. After discussing the context and moral panic that ensued over terrorism, which were used to justify the new federal biodefense agenda, the Introduction then turns to local manifestations of those plans and responses to them–the community cases whose civic responses are comparatively explored in Community at Risk. The Introduction then develops key terms and concepts that are relied on to investigate and understand the community cases as well as the research strategy deployed to gather relevant data, analyze it, and draw conclusions. The Introduction ends with a brief summary of how the book is organized by chapter. 1Conceptual Footings of Risk and Governance chapter abstractChapter 1 explains the theoretical backdrop and analytical framework that organize the book's analysis. The chapter begins by outlining contemporary conditions in risk society where societal relations among civil society, government, and industry have been transformed in the twenty-first-century United States. In this context, risk and its management at the individual, local, and national levels have become the predominant concerns and bases for "risk dispute." Chapter 1 also describes how previous scholarship has theorized risk management and risk perception, as well as civic and community engagement and risk dispute. The chapter ends with how Community at Risk contributes to this and related areas of research. 2Risk Communication, Local Civics, and Discourse chapter abstractChapter 2 sets up the analysis pursued in subsequent chapters. It does so through a focus on the "risk communication" strategies deployed by local universities that sought to secure funding and support for their bids for an NBL. It was in those strategies that the local civic dialogue began in each civic and community context. It is in part the great similarity in risk communication strategies, coupled with variable local response, that makes comparing them so informative. Chapter 2 provides an important justification for the book's comparative argument: that variation at the community level was mostly a function of local civic dynamics, not distinctive university risk communication strategies. In the context of established civics and discourse, even an issue like biodefense, while "new," was locally understood via events, experiences, and beliefs that were a priori to it, requiring an analysis of such civic dimensions to apprehend and explain local response. 3Davis, California: Home Rule Civics and Biodefense chapter abstractChapter 3 empirically examines the risk dispute that erupted in Davis, California, and how the community's style of home rule civics and discourse shaped local deliberations regarding the University of California–Davis's (UCD) biodefense plans. The chapter develops the role that Davis's civic and political history has played in generating a field of political relations and set of value claims that heavily influenced civic dynamics in town. The chapter specifically focuses on the political-cultural resources mobilized to justify local opposition in the risk dispute surrounding UCD's biodefense ambitions, while also addressing the counterclaims of those who supported the university and its plans. Chapter 3 demonstrates that the claims levied in the risk dispute emerged from a specific civic and political legacy; they were not new, although they targeted a new technology and risk management plan. 4Roxbury, Massachusetts: Direct Action Civics and Biodefense chapter abstractChapter 4 relates response in Roxbury, Massachusetts—a section of Boston where a group formed in opposition to Boston University's bid to host an NBL. Civic partisans there invoked a direct action style of civics and discourse reflective of local civic history, ongoing civic relations, and resonant civic virtues. In this context, the NBL was regarded as an environmental injustice insofar as its placement in Roxbury reflected the political disenfranchisement of neighborhood residents based on their race and class positions. Risk acceptability and dispute therefore echoed social and political history in which de facto segregation, municipal neglect, and ongoing marginalization of the neighborhood's minority residents left them suspicious of both "white" trustee institutions and those from outside their neighborhood. Chapter 3 demonstrates that in Roxbury claims making emerged from a specific civic and political legacy where claims were not new even if the proposed NBL was. 5Galveston, Texas: Managed Civics and Biodefense chapter abstractChapter 5 empirically assesses civic response in Galveston where a managed civics and discourse predominated, wherein the civically engaged mostly downplayed the risks posed by federal biodefense plans and a local NBL and, instead, emphasized its possible contributions to their island's and the nation's—even the world's—"progress." Residents expressed little of the skepticism shared in the other cases and mostly faith in the power of humankind, with the aid of enlightened leadership, scientific knowledge, technology, and economy to progressively improve and reshape their island community for the better. As with the other cases, Galveston's civically engaged relied on claims and justifications that emerged from a specific civic and political history. That legacy and the civic relations, conventions, and virtues associated with that history helped ease locals toward accepting and eventually embracing biodefense plans and an NBL as an asset to both them and their collective future on the island. Conclusion: The Civic Politics of Risk chapter abstractThe Conclusion provides a synoptic comparative account of the book's findings, arguments, and conclusions. The focus is what an analysis of local civics politics lends to an understanding of risk disputes. Importantly, the Conclusion, in focusing on the civic politics of risk, shows that common political rhetoric(s) such as claims to democracy, due process, progress, and justice can mean very different things in different civic contexts that hold considerable consequence for understanding what is and is not an acceptable risk. The same terms can mean very different things given social, historical, and material legacies and the civics and discourse that locally predominate. The Conclusion also reiterates the contribution that Community at Risk makes to an impressive stock of knowledge concerning risk management, perception, and dispute, as well as civic politics, organization, and community studies. The Conclusion's intervention is, however, equal parts new findings and synthesis.

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Book SynopsisThe world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a groundbreaking analysis of how these power shifts have played out in one of the most important theaters of global governance: the World Trade Organization. Hopewell argues that the collapse of the Doha Round negotiations in 2008 signals a crisis in the American-led project of neoliberal globalization. Historically, the U.S. has pressured other countries to open their markets while maintaining its own protectionist policies. Over the course of the Doha negotiations, however, China, India, and Brazil challenged America's hypocrisy. They did so not because they rejected the multilateral trading system, but because they embraced neoliberal rhetoric and sought to lay claim to its benefits. By demanding that all members of the WTO live up to the principles of free trade, these developing states causTrade ReviewHopewell offers a novel account of international negotiations at a time when the U.S. is no longer able to force other countries into compliance. Her explanation of how BRIC nations are using 'the master's tools' to disrupt the world order makes for a fascinating read." -- Nitsan Chorev * Brown University and author of Remaking U.S. Trade Policy *"Hopewell's book provides much rich detail on the efforts of Brazil, India, and China to challenge the unbalanced nature of WTO rules and to liberalize foreign markets for their growing exports. The analysis provides an important perspective on shifting power in trade politics and the paralysis of the Doha Round." -- Eric Helleiner * University of Waterloo *"In this intriguing study, Kristen Hopewell uncovers a central paradox in the World Trade Organization. Brazil, India, and China exposed market liberalization as a pretense even as they embraced it, disabling an unequal trade regime from within. This is a well-researched and wonderfully nuanced lens through which to view geopolitical power dynamics in a multi-centric age." -- Philip McMichael * Cornell University *"Hopewell's analysis is invaluable to understanding one of global neoliberalism's key institutions. Her lucid dissection of interstate politics within the WTO shows how China, India, and Brazil have learned to use arguments for free trade to pursue their own interests, just as the U.S. and Europe have always done, resulting in a deadlock that has left the WTO floundering." -- Peter Evans, University of California * Berkeley *"In her book, Hopewell provides a deep analysis of how power shifts in the world economic order have played out in the World Trade Organization, which for her is one of the most important theaters of global governance....Hopewell's book is an interesting contribution to consider the importance that power dynamics have in this globalized era and how alliances could change the direction of international organizations." -- Nicolás Albertoni * Global Policy *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThis chapter explores the immense changes that are currently reshaping the global political economy, with the rise of new powers, such as China, India and Brazil, challenging the dominance of the US and other advanced-industrialized states in the global economy and its governance. It introduces and situates the key questions at the core of the book: What agendas are the emerging powers pursuing? How is their rise affecting the governing institutions created under US hegemony and the American-led project of neoliberal globalization? It explains why the WTO is a critical case to shed light on these questions and understand the causes, nature and implications of contemporary power shifts. It sets out the book's central argument: the rise of new powers has precipitated a crisis at the WTO, a core institution of the neoliberal global economic order, signalling a moment of disjuncture in the institutional project of neoliberal globalization. 2Liberalism and the Contradictions of American Hegemony chapter abstractThis chapter explores the tensions in the US-led global economic order. It argues that, while multilateralism and free markets served as its core pillars, both were in practice highly asymmetrical. The US created and used multilateral institutions as a means to exercise its authority over the international system and promote its own national political, economic and security interests abroad. In the economic realm, the US hegemon deployed the discourse and policies of free markets – propagated through multilateral institutions – to compel other countries to open their markets to its goods and capital, while nonetheless maintaining substantial protections in its own. This exercise of American power, however, contained the seeds of its own undoing: the expansion of global markets gave rise to new economic competitors and involved the creation of institutions and discourses that could eventually be used against the hegemon. 3Power, Multilateralism, and Neoliberalism at the WTO chapter abstractThis chapter examines the WTO as a central institution in the American-led project of neoliberal globalization. It provides an overview of the history and evolution of the multilateral trading system. The chapter highlights the tensions within the liberal principles of multilateralism and free trade that lie at the center of the GATT/WTO. It shows how the superior economic and political resources of the US and to a lesser extent other Northern states have enabled them to dominate the institution and design and structure the rules of international trade to serve their economic and strategic interests. It also looks at the historically disadvantaged position of developing countries within the multilateral trading system and the particularly onerous costs exacted from them in the previous Uruguay Round. 4Power Shift chapter abstractThis chapter examines power shifts at the WTO, challenging the assumption that the emergence of new powers is a function of their growing economic might. While China's rise has been closely tied to its economic weight, it shows that Brazil and India used their activist and entrepreneurial leadership of developing country coalitions to propel themselves to power. Despite their relatively small economies and limited roles in world trade, Brazil and India assumed a more aggressive and activist position in WTO negotiations than China and played a greater role in shaping the agenda of the Doha Round. Later, China did come to exercise significant influence as the negotiations neared a potential conclusion, but in a reactive veto capacity, unlike the proactive agenda-setting of Brazil and India. It also shows that even China, though a follower rather than a leader, has sought the benefits and protections afforded by developing world alliances. 5Brazil: New Drivers of Liberalization chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on Brazil's objectives and behavior at the WTO, which have been driven by the rise of its highly competitive agro-export sector. It shows that far from rejecting the discourse and tools of global neoliberalism, Brazil has become arguably the most active and aggressive proponent of trade liberalization in the current Doha Round. Brazil has advanced the interests of its agribusiness sector by portraying them as a universal interest of the Global South and strategically mobilizing a discourse of development and social justice and the politics of the North-South divide. The influence of Brazil and its agribusiness sector is critical to explaining the direction that developing country "activism" has taken in the current round, with an intense focus on liberalizing agriculture markets through the removal of subsidies, rather than advocating policies that would mark a more radical departure from the WTO's traditional neoliberal trade paradigm. 6China: A Delicate Dance chapter abstractThis chapter examines China's position at the WTO to highlight the constraints on the emerging powers. China has a major interest in reducing trade barriers and further opening markets to its exports but has been cautious in pursuing its offensive trade interests in the Doha Round. For China, the massive expansion of its industrial capacity and exports are perceived by states around the world as a threat; aggressively seeking to expand its market access through the Doha Round would risk provoking a backlash that could ultimately jeopardize its exports and economic growth. In addition, a further constraint operating on China and the other emerging powers stems from the need to maintain their developing world alliances. Thus, although they have indeed gained power and exercise considerable influence at the WTO, the new powers are not unconstrained in their ability to pursue their offensive trade interests. 7India: Balancing Complex Trade Interests chapter abstractThis chapter examines India's agenda at the WTO. It challenges the widespread characterization of India as an irresponsible power, intent on derailing WTO liberalization. It shows that India's process of domestic reform and liberalization, coupled with the development of a world-leading services export industry with substantial interests in liberalizing foreign markets, has fundamentally altered its orientation towards the multilateral trading system. Far from an opponent of global trade liberalization, India has major export interests that it has sought to advance through the Doha Round, although its offensive interests are also balanced by important defensive concerns in agriculture. India's negotiating position at the WTO has therefore combined efforts to promote liberalization in its areas of export interest and to secure protections in sensitive sectors where it is vulnerable to liberalization. Contrary to the claims of its critics, far from being unusual, such behavior closely resembles that of the traditional powers. 8Conclusion: A Rupture in the Neoliberal Project chapter abstractThis chapter argues that emerging powers have imperilled the neoliberal project at the WTO – ironically, not by rejecting its goals and principles but embracing them. Rising challengers usurped the dominant norms, discourses and institutional tools of the WTO, which had once been instruments of US hegemony, and used them to destabilize the existing hierarchy. Yet their challenge to American dominance has had profound and unpredictable consequences: when the weapons of the powerful became appropriated by formerly subordinate states, the system itself broke down. A situation of more equitable power relations among states has caused the Doha Round to collapse and thus cut short the American-led neoliberal project at the WTO. The current crisis at the WTO is a crisis of the liberalism underpinning the international economic order created under US hegemony, unleashed by power shifts that exacerbated the contradictions contained within its foundational myths of multilateralism and free trade.

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Book SynopsisThis work provides educational leaders at all levels with a conceptual framework for leadership defined as reciprocal, purposeful learning in community. It includes a comprehensive approach to issues of equity, diversity, and multiculturalism.Trade ReviewThe Constructivist Leader has taken up where John Dewey left off. - Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Visiting Professor at Stanford.

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Book SynopsisEleanor Roosevelt was a beloved figure among poor children, who between 1933 and 1941 wrote her thousands of letters describing their problems and requesting her help. Nearly 200 of these documents are presented here, showing how it was to be needy and young during the Depression in the USA.

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Book SynopsisSynthesizing an enormous amount of secondary source material, this book is a stunning achievement... This book would make an ideal classroom text and should be read by anyone interested in the history of childhood.-ChoiceTrade Review"An absorbing course text for undergraduates, an invitation to research for graduate students, and a welcome reference tool for scholars. In seven engaging chapters, Joseph E. Illick provides a brisk and much-needed overview of the rich literature on the history of childhood in America. . . . A major achievement." * Journal of American History *"A bold book. . . . An important contribution." * American Historical Review *"Synthesizing an enormous amount of secondary source material, this book is a stunning achievement. . . . This book would make an ideal classroom text and should be read by anyone interested in the history of childhood." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface PART I. EARLY AMERICA Chapter 1. American Indian Childhood Chapter 2. European American Childhood Chapter 3. African American Childhood PART II. INDUSTRIAL AMERICA Chapter 4. Urban Middle-Class Childhood Chapter 5. Urban Working-Class Childhood PART III. MODERN AMERICA Chapter 6. Suburban Childhood Chapter 7. Inner-City and Rural Childhoods Epilogue A Note on Sources Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers readers a brilliant and thought-provoking symposium on historical aspects of childhood, of conceptions and arrangements of childhood, and of the study of child development itself.-American Journal of PsychologyTrade Review"This volume offers readers a brilliant and thought-provoking symposium on historical aspects of childhood, of conceptions and arrangements of childhood, and of the study of child development itself." * American Journal of Psychology *Table of Contents1. Imaging Childhood —Willem Koops 2. The Child in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance —Barbara A. Hanawalt 3. Early Modern Childhood in the Dutch Context —Els Kloek 4. Patterns of Childrearing in America —Karin Calvert 5. The Birth of the Virtual Child: A Victorian Progeny —John R. Gillis 6. Historical Perspectives on Twentieth-Century American Childhood —Peter Stearns 7. The History of Children and Youth in Japan —Hideo Kojima 8. Childhood, Formal Education, and Ideology in China, Then and Now —Michael Nylan 9. On Infantilization and Participation: Pedagogical Lessons from the Century of the Child —Micha de Winter 10. The Nephew of an Experimentalist: Ambivalences in Developmental Thinking —Gerrit Breeuwsma 11. Developmental Psychology in a World of Designed Institutions —Sheldon H. White Epilogue: The Millennium of Childhood That Stretches Before Us Michael Zuckerman

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Book SynopsisOne evening in 1980, a group of white friends, drinking at the Duke of Edinburgh pub on East Ham High Street, made a monstrous five-pound wager. The first person to kill a Paki would win the bet. Ali Akhtar Baig, a young Pakistani student who lived in the east London borough of Newham, was their chosen victim. Baig''s murder was but one incident in a wave of antiblack racial attacks that were commonplace during the crisis of race relations in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. Ali Akhtar Baig''s death also catalyzed the formation of a grassroots antiracist organization, Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) that worked to transform the racist victimization of African, African Caribbean and South Asian communities into campaigns for racial justice and social change.In addition to providing a 24-hour hotline and casework services, NMP activists worked to mitigate the scourge of racial injustice that included daily racial harassment, hate crimes and antiblack police violence. Since the adTrade Review"The book operates on many levels—it’s a history of the Newham Monitoring Project, it’s a theory of cultural anthropology, it’s an indictment of the British state’s maintenance of institutional racism, and it’s a call to '[show] up and…forge solidarities that do not as yet exist'...Ambikaipaker’s writing is compelling, his theoretical grounding is thorough, his empathy is apparent, and the fieldwork underpinning it is considerable and consequential." * Lateral *"Mohan Ambikaipaker has written an important book that foregrounds the experience of the black community in Britain fighting for racial justice, while caught between the racist violence of white British society and institutional discrimination. Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain makes it impossible to explain away such experiences as individual or episodic. It provides a rich theory to shine a light on the roots of racism that are in permanent contradiction with the stated aims of British liberal governance. Finally, it provides a new angle on the strategy of political blackness employed by Newham Monitoring Project in anti-racist campaigns that is generative of potential ways that solidarity between different black British communities can be forged in the future." * LSE Review of Books *"Mohan Ambikaipaker's book is a perceptive, moving, and captivating ethnography of an antiracist organization that monitors police abuse in London, an astute analysis of the ways in which the War on Terror proceeds from distinctly racialized assumptions and presumptions, and a profound rumination on the contradictions that make racial identities both fixed and fugitive, both foregrounded and furtive. Its imagination, insight, and eloquence make Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain a most memorable and meaningful book." * George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place *"Mohan Ambikaipaker's important and fascinating ethnography presents a nuanced account of the complexities of racial formation and discrimination in Britain, shedding light on perspectives rarely found either in the mainstream press or in scholarly works. The book provides powerful insights into racialized politics in twenty-first-century Britain." * Kathleen D. Hall, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPrelude. The parable of "Paki Ali" Introduction Chapter 1. "There Is Nothing Nice to See Here, Sir. You Go to Central London." The Colonial-Racial Zone of East London Chapter 2. "They Do Not Look like People Who Would Do This." Amina's Struggles Against Everyday Political Whiteness Chapter 3. "Would They Do This to Tony Blair's Daughter?" Gillian's Struggle Against Intersectional Racial Violence Chapter 4. "We Are Terrified of You!" British Muslim Women and Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism Chapter 5. "The War on Terror Has Become a War on Us" The Forest Gate Anti-Terror Raid and Counter-Terror Citizenship Chapter 6. "If Political Blackness Is So Damn Difficult, Why Do You Keep It?" Cilius's Passage to Postwar on Terror Political Blackness Conclusion. Endings and Beginnings Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe second of a three-volume set comprising papers by current or former membe of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, a research organization (established in London in 1946) concerned with relating the psychological an social sciences to the needs and concerns of society. The contributions, lTable of Contentsv. 1. The socio-psychological perspective -- v. 2. The socio-technical perspective-- v. 3. The socio-ecological perspective.

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Book SynopsisWorld War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the Tavistock Group, since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. At the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, they developed a pioneering mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes The Social Engagement of Social Science. Previous volumes presented two of three interdependent perspectives: the socio-psychological (Volume I, 1990) and the socio-technical (Volume II, 1993). The latest volume, on the socio-ecological perspective, completes the set.The socio-ecological perspective is concerned with the coevolution of systems and their environments. It considers the broader environment which shapes not only the task environments of socio-technical organizations but the institutional and cultural enviro

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Rural Social Movements in Latin America include academic researchers as well as social movement leaders who are seeking to effect change in their countries and communities. As a group they are at the forefront of some of the most critical environmental, social, and political issues of the day.Trade ReviewA remarkable collection. The chapters provide extremely useful information on a range of social movements generally not well covered in academic work - and the coverage is provided by people who are either activists within the movements themselves or long-time supporters." - Wendy Wolford, University of North Carolina""An original, unique, and excellent collection. The book has great theoretical value and political relevance."" - Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Saint Mary's University (Halifax)

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Book SynopsisTaking a new look at divorce in America, Catherine Reissman shows how divorce is socially shared, and how it takes crucially different forms for women and men. Drawing on interviews with adults who are divorcing, she treats their accounts as texts to be interpreted, as templates for understanding contemporary beliefs about personal relationships.

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Trade Review"An important contribution to the study of mental illness, gender roles, and family interaction. . . . An insightful and well-written book demonstrating the pervasive consequences of gender roles for the deepest levels of mind and emotion." * American Journal of Sociology * "Opens a window onto the lives of the mentally ill and their families." * Women's Review of Books *"Warren's analysis is painstaking and illuminating, and there is plenty of material here to interest those concerned with issues of gender and mental illness." * Times Higher Education Supplement *"The women make the author's major points in riveting fashion, speaking eloquently of enforced dependency and subjugation, the helplessness of rigid and constantly reinforced gender-role boundaries, and outright manipulation by their husbands." * Contemporary Psychology *"Can marriage make women go crazy? Carol Warren addresses this question by emphasizing the connections between gender-sterotypical behavior and the institutionalization of married women in the 1950s, using interviews collected . . . during 1957-61. . . . An interesting sociological reworking of the original pychologically oriented interpretation of the interviews." * Oral History Review *

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Dilemma of Pregnancy Policy2. Woman's Place The Domestic Code Equal Rights and Special Treatment The Facts of Common Knowledge A Class by Herself After Muller3. Mothers at Work Maternity Benefits Motherhood as a Social Function Motherhood as a Private Responsibility A Two-Tier Policy4. Feminism and Equality True Equality and Real Protection Sex, Race, and the Equality Framework The Pregnancy Policy Puzzle A New Solution5. Difference in Court Pregnancy Discrimination and the Supreme Court Pregnancy Disability Legislation Controversy in the Feminist Legal Community Feminist Friends of the Court The Justices Speak6. Questioning Equality Knots and Entanglements Is Pregnancy So Different?7. The Equality Framework Extended The Pregnancy Discrimination Act and Women Workers Familiy and Medical Leave Legislation8. Difference as Strategy So Great a Change Strategizing for Justice Female-Specific Policy and Twentieth-Century Politics9. Beyond Equality versus Difference A Radical Edge The Critique of Equality Toward a Politics of Diversity10. Different but Not Unequal Motherhood and Policy Differential Consideration Notes Index

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Book SynopsisGood editorial writing has the potential to start a war or avoid one. Is it any wonder event the most experienced journalists find opinion writing important and fascinating? In this fully updated and revised second edition of Writing Opinion for Impact, author Conrad Fink provides the guidance for translating the basics into opinion writing that is reasoned, forceful, responsible, engaging and readable. New to this edition is a stand-alone chapter on Commentary for Cyberspace and Broadcast, with an expanded discussion of writing for online publications, including a discussion of Slate, other Internet services, and blogs. Also new to this edition is the inclusion of full-length editorials complete with the author's commentaries that elaborate on teaching points from the chapters. These editorial reprints and author commentaries include: editorials from leading newspaper and magazine publications; a political commentary column; a humor column; a sports column; a film revieTable of ContentsIntroduction ix Acknowledgements xii Part One: Setting the Scene 1 1 The Responsibilities of Opinion Writers 3 2 Identifying Issues for Comment 23 3 Reporting and Researching Your Opinions 43 Part Two: Writing to win readers 63 4 Writing Newspaper Editorials 65 5 Writing Magazine Editorials 99 Part Three: Writing Personal Columns 123 6 Commentary that Hits Hard 125 7 Amusing, Entertaining or Making ‘em Cry 159 8 The Fun and Business of Sports 187 Part Four: Arts Reviews and Criticism 219 9 You and Arts Commentary 221 Part Five: Extra Dimensions in Commentary and Opinion 253 10 Specialty Columns and Comment 255 11 Commentary for Cyberspace and Broadcast 281 12 On Campus Today: How it’s Done 299 Part Six: You and the Law: Write Defensively 321 13 Avoiding Legal Traps for Opinion Writers 323 Name Index 343 Subject Index 353

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Book SynopsisExamining issues such as the limits of legal change and the capacity of law to act as a revolutionary agent, this book offers an introduction to the relationship between law and society.

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Book SynopsisGaining remarkable access to a community that has largely been ignored by researchers, Anaraki chronicles the lives of current and former substance users in Iran in prisons, treatment centres, and NGOs. In each setting, individuals are criminalized, medicalized, and marginalized as the system attempts to ‘normalize’ them.

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Book SynopsisTreating the everyday as central to the study of regional and international politics, this book reconstructs the last two decades of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, leading up to the 2011 events that sanctioned its fall. It provides a unique and vivid look into the political dynamics that characterized the everyday lives of Libyans.

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Book SynopsisTreating the everyday as central to the study of regional and international politics, this book reconstructs the last two decades of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, leading up to the 2011 events that sanctioned its fall. It provides a unique and vivid look into the political dynamics that characterized the everyday lives of Libyans.

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Book SynopsisVroom and Yetton select a critical aspect of leadership style-the extent to which the leader encourages the participation of his subordinates in decision-making.Trade ReviewA solid contribution to the better understanding of leadership and decision making. The authors present a taxonomy of leadership styles, a set of situational variables, and a set of rules to produce a normative model that fits leadership style to the situation. . . . The model is clearly useful in research and in training that aims at making managers more aware of their behavior in decision making"". - Industrial and Labor Relations Review""This book will make an important impact because it documents the need for problem-specific situational variables to be included in either a normative or behavioral theory of decision making, and then responds to the need. . . . A fine book and an important contribution"". - Contemporary Psychology

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Book SynopsisâœContrary to common claims about the absence of individualism in early China and its supposed reification in âthe West,â both the Western and Chinese traditions have historically been characterized by diverse and constantly evolving attitudes toward the individual. This book serves as an important corrective to monolithic or essentializing accounts of early Chinese thought, and the narrative concerning the evolution of the concept of the individual in early China is an interesting and novel one. It will appeal widely to people working on early Chinese thought and comparative religion more broadly.â âEdward Slingerland, University of British Columbia. âœThere is a great deal of resistance to the very applicability of the concept of individualism in early China. In this impressively ambitious project, Erica Brindley succeeds in deploying the concept to the understanding of early Chinese thought. In exploring the emergence of and response to distinctively Chinese forms of individuals, sh

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Book SynopsisAttempts to assess the role played by Darwinian ideas in the writings of English-speaking social theorists.Trade Review"The most systematic and comprehensive effort yet made to assess the role played by Darwinian ideas in the writings of English-speaking social theorists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." --Isis "In seeking to set the record straight, Bannister cuts through the amalgam with an intellectual shredder, exposing the illogic and incompatibility involved in fusing Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species with Herbert Spencer's Social Statics... Bannister's familiarity with relevant texts and their reception by contemporary social theorists, scholars, and critics on both sides of the Atlantic is impressive." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History "A fine contribution to Anglo-American intellectual history." --Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Idea of Social Darwinism 1. The Scientific Background 2. Hushing Up Death 3. Philanthropic Energy and Philosophic Calm 4. Amending the Faith 5. William Graham Sumner 6. The Survival of the Fittest Is Our Doctrine 7. Neo-Darwinism and the Crisis of the 1890s 8. A Pigeon Fanciers' Polity 9. The Scaffolding of Progress 10. The Nietzsche Vogue 11. Beyond the Battle: The Literary Naturalists 12. Imperialism and the Warriar Critique Epilogue: From Histrionics to History Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn unprecedented interdisciplinary effort suggests that there is a systematic theory behind why humans eat what they eat.Trade Review"Many topics of interest to health professionals, such as vegetarianism, dietary fibers, lactose intolerance, favism, cannibalism and changes in nutritional status wrought by the decline of hunter-gathering and the rise of horticulture. Many sections will appeal to the general reader." --Journal of Applied Nutrition "Exceptionally well-edited. High quality individual papers are of comparable scope and are uniformly well referenced and detailed in presentation of supporting data Introductory and concluding chapters as well as section overviews create an integrated whole." --Choice "Compelling...complete and...recommended." --Science Books & Films "Should be of value to all nutrition educators who have an interest in the social, cultural, and international aspects of foods and nutrition." --Journal of Nutrition EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Theoretical Overview 1. An Overview of Trends in Dietary Variation from Hunter-Gatherer to Modern Capitalist Societies - Eric B. Ross 2. Foodways: Historical Overview and Theoretical Prolegomenon - Marvin Harris Part II: Bioevolutionary Antecedents and Constraints 3. Primate Diets and Gut Morphology: Implications for Hominid Evolution - Katharine Milton 4. Omnivorous Primate Diets and Human Overconsumption of Meat - William J. Hamilton III 5. Fava Bean Consumption: A Case for the Co-Evolution of Genes and Culture - Solomon H. Katz Part III: Nutritional and Biopsychological Constraints 6. Problems and Pitfalls in the Assessment of Human Nutritional Status - P.L. Pellett 7. Psychobiological Perspectives on Food Preferences and Avoidances - Paul Rozin 8. The Preference for Animal Protein and Fat: A Cross-Cultural Survey - H. Leon Abrams, Jr. 9. Biocultural Consequences of Animals Versus Plants as Sources of Fats, Proteins, and Other Nutrients - Leslie Sue Lieberman Part IV: Pre-State Foodways: Past and Present 10. The Significance of Long-Term Changes in Human Diet and Food Economy - Mark N. Cohen 11. Life in the "Garden of Eden": Causes and Consequences of the Adoption of Marine Diets by Human Societies - David R. Yesner 12. The Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Diets: Stalking an Optimal Foraging Model - Bruce Winterhalder 13. How Much Food Do Foragers Need? - Kristen Hawkes 14. Aboriginal Subsistence in a Tropical Rain Forest Environment: Food Procurement, Cannibalism, and Population Regulation in Northeastern Australia - David R. Harris 15. Ecological and Structural Influences on the Proportions of Wild Foods in the Diets of Two Machiguenga Communities - Allen Johnson and Michael Baksh 16. Limiting Factors in Amazonian Ecology - Kenneth R. Good Part V: The Political Economy and the Political Ecology of Contemporary Foodways 17. Loaves and Fishes in Bangladesh - Shirley Lindenbaum 18. Animal Protein Consumption and the Sacred Cow Complex in India - K.N. Nair 19. The Effects of Colonialism and Neocolonialism on the Gastronomic Patterns of the Third World - Richard W. Franke 20. Stability and Change in Highland Andean Dietary Patterns - Benjamin S. Orlove 21. Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico - Gretel H. Pelto 22. From Costa Rican Pasture to North American Hamburger - Marc Edelman Part VI: Discussion and Conclusions 23. The Evolution of Human Subsistence - Anna Roosevelt 24. Biocultural Aspects of Food Choice - George Armelagos Afterword About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisWhat happens to youthful idealism as people leave their youth behind? ...Where do young revolutionaries go when the revolution doesn't happen? This book demonstrates that the students of the sixties generation outgrew their political ideals and channeled their energies into building lucrative careers and accumulating material goods.Trade Review"'The Big Chill' told only half the story of where Sixties activists ended up. Whalen and Flacks... honestly chronicle the other half."—Abbie Hoffman"Whalen and Flacks are true Sixties sociologists—hip white knights who ride out to slay the ideal-crushing dragon of ‘The Big Chill.’ In all, a heart-on-the-sleeve, hopeful study that should appeal to social psychologists and Sixties sympathizers."—Kirkus Reviews"In the first systematic study of the sequels to New Left radicalism, Whalen and Flacks bring alive the real choices of real activists. This is a lucid and enlightening book, full of stimulating ideas about continuities and fragilities in American radicalism."—Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage

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Book SynopsisOffers an examination of what life under a sentence of death is like for condemned inmates and their families, how and why various professionals assist them in their struggle for life, and what these personal experiences with capital punishment tell us about the wisdom of this penal policy.Trade Review"These essays...show us the human and inhuman realities of capital punishment through the eyes of the condemned and those who work with them. By focusing on those awaiting death, they present the awful truth behind the statistics in concrete, personal terms."—William J. Bowers, author of Legal Homicide"This work stands with the best of what’s been written. It represents the best of those who have seen the worst."—Colman McCarthy, The Washington Post Book WorldTable of ContentsForeword Henry Schwarzschild 1. Introduction and Overview Michael L. Radelet 2. The Fraternity of Death Michael A. Kroll 3. Facing the Death Penalty Watt Espy 4. Juveniles' Attitudes Toward Their Impending Executions Victor L. Streib 5. Burning at the Wire: The Execution of John Evans Russell F. Canan 6. Another Attorney for Life Michael Mello 7. Representing the Death Row Inmate: The Ethics of Advocacy, Collateral Style Laurin A. Wollan, Jr. 8. Ministering to the Condemned: A Case Study Joseph B. Ingle 9. Coping with Death: Families of the Terminally Ill, Homicide Victims, and Condemned Prisoners Margaret Vandiver 10. Rituals of Death: Capital Punishment and Human Sacrifice Elizabeth D. Purdum and J. Anthony Paredes 11. The Death Penalty and Anthropology Colin M. Turnbull 12. Working the Dead Jonathan R. Sorensen and James W. Marquart 13. How to Argue About the Death Penalty Hugo Adam Bedau 14. The Pains of Life Joseph M. Giarratano 15. The Isolation of Death Row C. Michael Lambrix 16. An Inhumane Way of Death Willie Jasper Darden, Jr.

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Book SynopsisA controversial interpretation of women's dramatic inroads into several male occupationsTrade Review"Even in the wake of feminism's ebullient 'second wave,' women routinely and almost universally get a raw deal in the labor market, with women of color getting the rawest deal of all. In Job Queues, Gender Queues, Barbara Reskin and Patricia Roos illustrate this with exemplary clarity."—Felicia Kombluh, Voice Literary SupplementTable of Contents PrefacePart I: Explaining the Changing Sex Composition of Occupations 1. Occupational Sex Segregation: Persistence and Change 2. Queuing and Changing Occupational Composition 3. Consequences of Desegregation: Occupational Integration and Economic Equity?Part II: Case Studies of Occupation Change 4. Culture, Commerce and Gender: The Feminization of Book Editing – Barbara F. Reskin 5. Industrial and Occupational Change in Pharmacy: Prescription for Feminization – Polly A. Phipps 6. Keepers of the Corporate Image: Women in Public Relations – Katharine M. Donato 7. High Finance, Small Change: Women's Increased Representation in Bank Management – Chloe E. Bud 8. Programming for Change? The Growing Demand for Women Systems Analysts – Katharine M. Donato 9. Women's Gains in Insurance Sales: Increased Supply, Uncertain Demand – Barbara J. Thomas 10. A Woman's Place is Selling Homes: Occupational Change and the Feminization of Real Estate Sales – Barbara J. Thomas and Barbara F. Reskin 11. Occupational Resegregation among Insurance Adjusters and Examiners – Polly A. Phipps 12. Women Behind Bars: The Feminization of Bartending – Linda A. Detman 13. Baking and Baking Off: Deskilling and the Changing Sex Makeup of Bakers – Thomas Steiger and Barbara F. Reskin 14. Hot-Metal to Electronic Composition: Gender, Technology, and Social Change – Patricia A. RoosPart III: Conclusion Summary, Implications, and Prospects Appendix: Guidelines Used for Occupation Case Studies References Name Index Subject Index About the Authors

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