Sociology: work and labour Books
Palgrave Macmillan Raising Class Consciousness
Book SynopsisChapter 1: “Raising Class Consciousness,” Gino Canella.- Chapter 1: “Raising Class Consciousness,” Gino Canella.- Chapter 3: “1960s Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements and Using Newsletters to Organize,” Todd Wolfson and Chris Robé.- Chapter 4: “Making the News and The Wapping Dispute,” Sam Kemp and Amil Mohanan.- Chapter 5: “Union-Owned Newspapers and Trade Union Power,” Torsten Geelan.- Chapter 6: “Platforming Media Work,” Tai Neilson.- Chapter 7: “Digital Communicative Media Unionism,” Errol Salamon.- Chapter 8: “Workplace Bulletins and Digital Technology,” Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock.- Chapter 9: “The Protest Paradigm, Labor News, and Geopolitics,” Jinao Li, Carl Zhou, Linyi Gao, Yingqi Huang and Yan Zhang.- Chapter 10: “Education, Unions, and Digital Disruption,” Holger Pötzsch.- Chapter 11: “A Digital Strike? Social Media Organizing in the 2018 Teachers’ Revolt,” Eric Blanc.- Chapter 12: “At Uber: Conditions, Opportunities and Obstacles in Building Worker Solidarity,” Dragana Mrvos.- Chapter 13: “Digital Labor-Sphere: Delivery Workers Resistance in Turkey,” Mehmet Kayin, Ilker Kafali and Ugur Baloglu.
£107.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Ideas, Interests and the Development of the
Book SynopsisWhat are the grand dynamics that drive the history of economies? The laws of supply & demand, most economists would argue. For the history of European banking, this book offers an alternative explanation: Rather than market forces, the coincidence and coalitions of charismatic ideas and powerful interests is what shaped banking in Europe! In “Ideas, Interests and the Development of the European Banking Systems”, Florian Brugger traced decisive moments in the history of the European Banking Sector: from the time of the Italian City-States to the post World War I period, he shows how coalitions of ideas and interests built the tracks along which the European Banking Sector developed. Inspired by Max Weber he argues that economic organizations and institutions, like the Banking Sector, are embedded into three fundamental orders: the economic, the cultural and the political order. Enforced and institutionalized by vested interests, ideas of the cultural order legitimate and empower interests of the economic and political order. What is more, decisive moments were frequently characterized by coalitions of ideas and interests between parties that in normal times had nothing in common or were even confronting each other in a hostile way. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Ideas, interests, institutions and banking revolutions.- Italian financial capitalism: The birth of modern banking.- Absolutism, mercantilism and banking revolutions.- The development of the European banking sector as we know it.- Conclusion.
£61.74
Springer VS Fragmente der arbeitsweltlichen Identität
£56.99
Springer VS Arbeitszufriedenheit im Zeitverlauf
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Springer VS Transformationen der Arbeit
£58.49
Tectum Verlag Im Schlepptau Nach Amerika: Anleitung Zum
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£18.00
V&R unipress GmbH Analysing Discourse, Analysing Poland: The Case
Book SynopsisA pre-election interview with an influential politician from the perspective of a dozen discourse scholars
£35.99
V & R Unipress GmbH Leadership and Management
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£31.50
Iudicium Verlag Japan 2024
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£999.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore Risky Expertise in Chinese Financialisation:
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the subjectivities of stock market investors to explore tensions within the Chinese state’s engagement in contemporary financial capitalism. It adopts a genealogical method to investigate how the production of foreign-trained financial experts (haigui) and informal experts (sanhu) points to paradoxes in China’s efforts to cultivate financial expertise. Chinese financialisation relates to the state’s project of financialising human capital in reaction to a contractualised labour market and the vanishing welfare state. Through ethnographic inquiry, Dal Maso shows the Chinese stock markets are crucial to the new redistributive regime where wage labour risks losing its primacy. Here, one can observe how the relationship between money and wages in China is being reworked and witness the development of a new economic order in which the state’s legitimacy becomes increasingly dependent on its capacity to jiushi–to rescue the market in times of crisis.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. The Chinese Genealogy of Financial Expertise.- 3. Fostering Chinese Talents Abroad: The Paradox of the Returnees (Haigui).- 4. Circuit of Expertise.- 5. Shanghai: The Returning City.- 6. The Financialisation Rush.- 7. The Precarious Ecology of Chinese Financial Expertise.
£40.49
Oxford University Press Producing Modernity in Mexico
Book SynopsisRace, ethnicity and gender played an important role in the complex relationship between export agriculture, labour and state power in Chiapas during the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1914). This case study of tropical plantation development and a major regional study of modern Mexico analyses the politics of state-building and the history of land tenure and rural labour in the state of Chiapas in the period leading up to the outbreak of Revolution in 1910.The book also contributes to the growing history of indigenous peoples in Latin America, examining the changing relationship between Indian groups and non-Indian governments and economic interests in Chiapas during the nineteenth century. In so doing, it addresses questions of tradition, modernity, national state-building, globalisation and the development of capitalism in Latin America. The book argues that colonial caste identities and relations were no impediments to modernisation. Instead, they were modified by liberalism, reinterTable of ContentsPART I: THE COLONIAL PERIOD AND THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE; PART 2: POLITICS, RACE AND STATE BUILDING, 1876-1914; PART 3: LABOUR, EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AND LANDED POWER, 1876-1914
£80.75
The University of Chicago Press Flawed SystemFlawed Self
Book SynopsisToday 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. The author delves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation.Trade Review"In Job-Search Games, Ofer Sharone develops a cogent, timely, and compelling account of why American employees blame themselves for their failure to secure employment and why their Israeli counterparts engage in system blame instead. Sharone moves the discussion well beyond global generalizations about the role of culture to make an important contribution to the literature of joblessness." (Steven Vallas, author of Work: A Critique)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press By the Sweat of the Brow Literature and Labor in
Book SynopsisThe growth of industrialism, the rise of professionalism and the decline of slavery led to debates in 19th-century America about the concept of work. This book examines the literary view of this debate, arguing that many writers felt an affinity between the mental labour of writing and manual work.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Onions Are My Husband Survival and Accumulation
Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa. Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape shifting market dynamics.
£40.85
The University of Chicago Press The Decline of Organized Labor in the United
Book SynopsisMichael Goldfield challenges standard explanations for union decline, arguing that the major causes are to be found in the changing relations between classes. Goldfield combines innovative use of National Labor Relations Board certification election data, which serve as an accurate measure of new union growth in the private sector, with a sophisticated analysis of the standard explanations of union decline. By understanding the decline of U.S. labor unions, he maintains, it is possible to begin to understand the conditions necessary for their future rebirth and resurgence.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Fast Easy and In Cash Artisan Hardship and Hope
Book SynopsisArtisan has recently become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving realities of the artisan economy, however, never left the global south, and anthropologists have worried over the fate of these craftspeople as global capitalism has again remade their cultural and economic territory. Yet artisans are proving to be surprisingly vital players in contemporary capitalism, as they interlock innovation and tradition to create effective new forms of entrepreneurship. Based on seven years of extensive research in Colombia and Ecuador, veteran ethnographers Jason Antrosio and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld's Fast, Easy, and In Cash explores how small-scale production and global capitalism are not directly opposed, but are rather essential partners in economic development. Antrosio and Colloredo-Mansfeld demonstrate h
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Models of Management Work Authority and
Book SynopsisThis work explores differing historical patterns in the adoption of the three major models of organizational management: scientific management; human relations; and structural analysis. The author takes a fresh look at how managers have used these models in four countries during the 20th century.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgments 1: The Comparative Study of Organizational Paradigms 2: The United States: Economic Transformations, Labor Problems, and Organizational Innovations 3: Germany: Modernism, Traditionalism, and Bureaucracy 4: Spain: Eclecticism, Human Relations, and Managerial Authoritarianism in a Less-Developed Country 5: Great Britain: Industrial Retardation, Religious-Humanist Ideals, and the Rise of Social Science 6: Comparing Patterns of Adoption 7: A Historical and Comparative Perspective on Homo Hierarchicus Appendix A: Content Analysis of Journal Articles Appendix B: Comparative Statistics Appendix C: The Adoption of Scientific Management and Human Relations Techniques in the United States Appendix D: A Systematic Comparison of Conditions and Outcomes of Adoption Bibliography Index
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Serfdom and Social Control in Russia Petrovskoe a
Book SynopsisThis book includes an excellent analysis of the material and demographic foundations of patriarchal society, which will force historians to reevaluate the profitability of the estate economy and the standard of living among Russian serfs....This is an important book which should be read by anyone interested in peasant studies and servile systems of production.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Housekeeping by Design
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University of Chicago Press Free Labor
Book SynopsisThe fact that WEP workers are denied the legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. This book focuses on changes in the language and organization of the political coalitions on both sides of the debate.Trade Review"Brimming with novel analyses and methodological strategies, Free Labor presents both a compelling analysis of the rise of workfare as a neoliberal policy project and a finegrained examination of the travails and partial successes of anti-WEP coalitions." - Marc Steinberg, author of Fighting Words"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Free Labor Workfare and the Contested Language
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary analysis that draws from interviews, official documents, and media reports to pursue different directions in the study of the cultural and cognitive aspects of political activism. This work aims to instigate a dialogue among students of culture, labor and social movements, welfare policy, and urban political economy.Trade Review"Brimming with novel analyses and methodological strategies, Free Labor presents both a compelling analysis of the rise of workfare as a neoliberal policy project and a fine-grained examination of the travails and partial successes of anti-WEP coalitions." - Marc Steinberg, author of Fighting Words"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Marked
Book SynopsisNearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work. This book offers a glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market.Trade Review"Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job.... Both informative and convincing." - Library Journal "Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose - and one of the most useful sociological studies in years." - Michael Eric Dyson "How do you tell when a democracy is dead? When concentration camps spring up and everyone shivers in fear? Or is it when concentration camps spring up and no one shivers in fear because everyone knows they're not for 'people like us.'... Devah Pager uses a simple technique to show how mass incarceration has undone the small amount of racial progress achieved in the 1960s and '70s." - Nation"
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press Marked
Book SynopsisNearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work. This book offers a glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market.Trade Review"Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job.... Both informative and convincing." - Library Journal "Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose - and one of the most useful sociological studies in years." - Michael Eric Dyson "How do you tell when a democracy is dead? When concentration camps spring up and everyone shivers in fear? Or is it when concentration camps spring up and no one shivers in fear because everyone knows they're not for 'people like us.'... Devah Pager uses a simple technique to show how mass incarceration has undone the small amount of racial progress achieved in the 1960s and '70s." - Nation"
£18.58
The University of Chicago Press What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
Book SynopsisExplores the world of American Black professional women in a society that denied them full professional status. Shaw shows how, in spite of this, African-American families, communities and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative and social responsibility of girls.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press The Work and the Gift
Book SynopsisUltimately, Shershow joins other contemporary thinkers in envisioning a community of unworking, grounded neither in ideals of production and progress, nor in an ethic of liberal generosity, but simply in our fundamental being-in-common.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Accidental Equalizer
Book SynopsisA startling discoverythat job market success after college is largely randomforces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream. As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college degree is viewed by many as America's great equalizer. And it's true: wealthier, more connected, and seemingly better-qualified students earn exactly the same pay as their less privileged peers. Yet, the reasons why may have little to do with bootstraps or self-improvementit might just be dumb luck. That's what sociologist Jessi Streib proposes in The Accidental Equalizer, a conclusion she reaches after interviewing dozens of hiring agents and job-seeking graduates. Streib finds that luck shapes the hiring process from start to finish in a way that limits class privilege in the job market. Employers hide information about how to get ahead and force students to guess which jobs pay the most and how best to obtain them. Without clear routes to success, graduates from all class backgrounds Trade Review"Based on hundreds of interviews with business school graduates and the employers that subsequently hired them, Streib’s book ultimately argues that college is not, in itself, the great equalizer; the impossible-to-navigate job market is." * Inside Higher Education *“[Streib] examines an important segment of the labor market that gets relatively little attention: entry-level positions for midtier jobs . . . Far too much energy and ink are spent on who gets the most elite jobs, who goes to the most elite schools and how terribly unfair the whole process is. Little of that conversation describes the reality for most Americans. The role of the good-but-not-elite college affects far more people and gives us much more insight into the state of economic mobility than Ivy League statistics.” * Wall Street Journal *“One of the biggest myths out there is that the job market, unlike other spheres of life, rewards merit. But it largely rewards luck. Most employers in large mid-tier markets are not seeking excellence. They just want reliable people who can do the job. And that is, in many ways, a good thing, argues sociologist Jessi Streib.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“That working-class students from state universities do just as well in the job market as better-off students is a remarkable outcome. Even more surprising is that the equalization is actually driven by hiring practices that are so opaque that the graduates are basically flipping coins trying to get hired. Streib’s findings are enormously important for the 80% of all college students who attend those universities and the rocky start it gives their career.” -- Peter Cappelli, author of 'Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make'“Do children born into rich families always make more money than their less privileged counterparts? No! Streib shows that the market for college graduates is a booming-buzzing confusion of idiosyncratic standards, misinformation, and rushed decision-making—all of which undermine the iron law that ‘class matters.’ A striking demonstration that illicit advantage can be countered, provided that one’s willing to infuse the market with lots of noise, luck, and chaos.” -- David B. Grusky, coeditor of 'Inequality in the 21st Century: A Reader'“We now know that a college education can limit inequalities related to class origin, but very few scholars have tried to explain why. Streib’s engaging, provocative account seeks to answer this question. Rare is the book that challenges well-established beliefs shared by academics and policymakers. This one delivers.” -- Jake Rosenfeld, author of 'You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy'Table of ContentsOne: Introducing the Luckocracy Part I: Forming the Luckocracy Two: Hidden Information on Jobs and Pay Three: Hidden Information on Class-Neutral Hiring Criteria Part II: Playing the Game Four: Preparing for the Luckocracy Five: Searching for Jobs Part III: The Consequences and Continuation of the Luckocracy Six: The Consequences of the Luckocracy Seven: The Luckocracy, Redux Eight: Should We Keep America’s Best Equalizing System? Acknowledgments Appendix A: Theoretical Contribution Appendix B: Data and Methods Appendix C: Interview Guides and Questionnaires Notes References Index
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior
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McGill-Queen's University Press Harvesting Labour
Book SynopsisA growing share of Canada’s agricultural workforce is composed of temporary foreign workers from the Global South who work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections, but it was not always like this. Dunsworth shows how the restructuring of capitalist agriculture transformed the Ontario tobacco sector and Canada’s farm labour force.Trade Review“This book provides an impressive and detailed historical examination of labour developments in the tobacco sector in Norfolk County, Ontario, from the early 1900s to the present. Clearly argued and written with flair, Harvesting Labour is an outstanding example of how to set Canadian history within transnational contexts. Salient among its many strengths is the way this study sheds light on current debates about the situations faced by those in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.” Ruth Frager, McMaster University“Harvesting Labour is a significant and timely contribution to the historiography of modern North American and transnational labor. Future Canadian, European, American, and Caribbean labor historians will use this work as a key piece of their own studies, and the work will also be enjoyed by a general audience as it is captivating and exceptionally readable. It is highly recommended for anyone interested in agricultural and labor history, as well as Canadian history in general.” H-Environment
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Being Neighbours
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Catharine Wilson renders visible the social bonds of neighbouring and the complexity of rural life. Her in-depth examination allows a greater understanding of the inherent tensions in these work arrangements and the neighbourhoods that sustained them, dismantling some of the romantic glow of rural culture in a ‘simpler time.’ One of the most important works on rural culture in many years.” Joe Anderson, Mount Royal University and author of Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America"This very welcome and richly exampled book provides a vivid and thought-provoking account of the life of ‘bees’ –moments of co-operative labour – on the farms of southern Ontario from the mid nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century." Family & Community History“This deeply researched and well-documented book skillfully reflects on rural farm life and the concept of a neighborhood. Wilson’s expertise is evident as she maintains a connection to the individual people within the network even as she examines the larger context of cooperative work, rural life, and neighborhood. …[T]hough the diaries used are specific to rural Ontario, the themes, struggles, and successes postulated by Wilson will resonate with readers across North America interested in historical rural culture. This is a great read for those interested in cooperative work, rural life, and the concept of neighborhoods.” H-Net Reviews“[Being Neighbours] explores bees’ economic and social significance, ground rules and aberrations, moral and technological dimensions. It skillfully situates the story within broader literature on rural order, dispute resolution and cooperative labour. Engaging writing and plentiful photographs add to the appeal of this groundbreaking Work.” Champlain Society Floyd S. Chalmers Award jury
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Conscripted to Care Women on the Frontlines of
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations – including healthcare workers, educators, and parents – Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.Trade Review“With a thoughtful and intersectional application of feminist political economic theory, Conscripted to Care identifies multiple structures that shifted the responsibility for care onto the women who worked during the COVID-19 response, and informs more equitable pandemic response, recovery, and preparedness. This timely and meaningful analysis of the crisis leaves no excuse for ignoring the unequal effects of the pandemic.” Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge
£89.10
Columbia University Press From Peasant to Farmer A Revolutionary Strategy
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Columbia University Press We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us
Book SynopsisIn this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.Trade ReviewMore than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery. Technology and CultureTable of ContentsThe Miners' History; Belief and Behaviour in Family Life; Community Integration and Worker Solidarity; The Natural and the Supernatural Order; Conditions of Work in the Mine; Wages, Prices, and the Accumulation of Capital in Mining; Labour Conflict and Unionization; Community and Class Consciousness.
£28.80
Columbia University Press The Capitalist Unconscious
Book SynopsisThe unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.Trade ReviewA stunningly original and significant contribution to a field that seems mired in a Cold War long passed. Not only does Hyun Ok Park seek to untie the knotted problem of the two Koreas, but she also persuasively provides an exemplary guide to how best unveil the interacting entanglements of history and the contemporary moment. -- Harry Harootunian, Columbia University One of the most provocative works on North Korea to emerge in years, Hyun Ok Park's The Capitalist Unconscious offers a fresh look at the past twenty years of political and socioeconomic changes in Northeast Asia. Her focus is on labor moving across borders-how it moves, generates wealth, and transforms every place it travels. The two Koreas, we learn, might not be so divided after all. -- Andre Schmid, University of Toronto Combining broad theoretical insights into Korea's rapidly changing political economy with vivid ethnographic details of migrant workers' experiences, Hyun Ok Park's The Capitalist Unconscious challenges us to reimagine the region's present, as well as its future. It will provoke lively debates about the construction of 'transnational Korea' in the twenty-first century. -- Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provocative and engaging. Korean Quarterly A deeply moving, warm personal tale. Korea.net A much-needed examination of North Korea and its relationship to South Korea, China, and global capitalism writ large. -- Patrick Chung Journal of American-East Asian Relations Park's book fundamentally challenges existing understandings of Korean unification and will surely redefine debates about the meaning of a transnational Korea. American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Crisis 1. The Capitalist Unconscious: The Korea Question 2. The Aesthetics of Democratic Politics: Labor, Violence, and Repetition Part II: Reparation 3. Reparation: On Colonial Returnee 4. Socialist Reparation: On Living Labor 5. Chinese Revolution in Repetition: The Minority Question Part III: Peace and Human Rights 6. Korean Unification as Capitalist Hegemony 7. North Korean Revolution in Repetition: Crisis and Value 8. Spectacle of T'albuk: Freedom and Free Labor Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£91.52
Columbia University Press An Empire of Touch Womens Political Labor and the
Book SynopsisPoulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women’s political labor in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.Trade ReviewA brilliant provocation in the debate about female political subjectivity in the Global South, An Empire of Touch is an important and timely book. Going beyond the typical focus on women’s empowerment and independence, it demonstrates how women in East Bengal through their symbolic and material labor produce the terms of their own political self-conception. Saha’s deft and sophisticated readings of the material particulars of women’s labor reveal a relational politics of the self that expands what and who count as political. -- Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an EmpireSaha has given us a thought-provoking, incisive, elegant, and necessary work wherein she recasts and regenerates postcolonial criticism. This book is well written, beautifully researched, creative, and politically vital. -- Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, SovereigntySaha proposes that the diaphanous nature first of muslin and then of other fabrics constitutes neither a simple product with exchange value nor an ephemeral or affective form of labor we have come to associate with certain kinds of women’s work. Forms of touch are woven into the fabric of colonial and postcolonial exchange. And they carry a spectral quality. Rather like the visor effect in Derrida’s reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx, fabric casts a shadow on abstracted beings moving through history teleologically, and weaves a different affect. -- Ranjana Khanna, author of Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the PresentA must-read for students of Bengal, historical and contemporary. Given the diversity of themes, the book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, of political movements, literature and language, social and economic history, colonialism and imperialism, labor and artisanal production, and development and gender studies. * H-Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Reading the Body Politic1. Virgin SuicidesPart II: The Fetish of Nationalism2. The Fetish Touch3. Oceanic FeelingsPart III: International Basket Case4. Archive Asylum5. Machine MadeEpilogueGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press An Empire of Touch Womens Political Labor and the
Book SynopsisPoulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women's political labor in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.Trade ReviewA brilliant provocation in the debate about female political subjectivity in the Global South, An Empire of Touch is an important and timely book. Going beyond the typical focus on women’s empowerment and independence, it demonstrates how women in East Bengal through their symbolic and material labor produce the terms of their own political self-conception. Saha’s deft and sophisticated readings of the material particulars of women’s labor reveal a relational politics of the self that expands what and who count as political. -- Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an EmpireSaha has given us a thought-provoking, incisive, elegant, and necessary work wherein she recasts and regenerates postcolonial criticism. This book is well written, beautifully researched, creative, and politically vital. -- Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, SovereigntySaha proposes that the diaphanous nature first of muslin and then of other fabrics constitutes neither a simple product with exchange value nor an ephemeral or affective form of labor we have come to associate with certain kinds of women’s work. Forms of touch are woven into the fabric of colonial and postcolonial exchange. And they carry a spectral quality. Rather like the visor effect in Derrida’s reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx, fabric casts a shadow on abstracted beings moving through history teleologically, and weaves a different affect. -- Ranjana Khanna, author of Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the PresentA must-read for students of Bengal, historical and contemporary. Given the diversity of themes, the book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, of political movements, literature and language, social and economic history, colonialism and imperialism, labor and artisanal production, and development and gender studies. * H-Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Reading the Body Politic1. Virgin SuicidesPart II: The Fetish of Nationalism2. The Fetish Touch3. Oceanic FeelingsPart III: International Basket Case4. Archive Asylum5. Machine MadeEpilogueGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.00
University of Illinois Press Frontiers of Labor
Book SynopsisAlike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other’s trade union and political cultures.Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, MaTrade Review"Two of the leading comparative labour historians in Australia and the U.S., Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist, have joined forces to produce an outstanding edited collection comparing key aspects of Australian and American labour history. . . . Their volume is a fine example of the enormous benefits and promises that such a combined approach brings to labour history." --Moving the Social"The essays in this volume make a splendid contribution to the important fields of US and Australian labor history."--Neville Kirk, author of Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present"Historians cannot do experiments with history, but we can do the functional equivalent by way of comparative history. This excellent collection compares Australian and US workplace experiences. We expect the differences; these sophisticated labor historians also attend to the surprising extent of 'commonalities,' which seem to have grown over time." --Melanie Nolan, editor of Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand"This terrific collection, edited by two of the leading scholars of Australian and US labor history, respectively, contributes significantly to our understanding of labor and working-class conflicts in these two countries." --Labor"This collection is a must for comparative historians. Rather than having a collection of national case studies, this collection goes the extra mile and shows how useful and critical such transnational history is." --Pacific Historical Review"This collection of sixteen comparative essays, plus an introduction and a conclusion, marks a significant step in the advancement of labor history on both sides of the Pacific Ocean." --The Journal of American History
£87.55
University of Illinois Press Women at Work in TwentyFirstCentury European
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By zooming out to include multiple countries and contexts and by zooming in on individual films about women workers, Mennel makes a strong case that European cinema has something important to say about gender and the economy." --Feminist German Studies"Women at Work offers us a rich archive of cinematic depictions of female labor . . . It is to the credit of Mennel's sweeping cinematic analysis of the present that we now have a better understanding of not only the work women do across the continent but also the variety of new images European cinema has been offering us." --German Studies Review"Highly recommended." --Choice"A beautiful balance between plot analysis and aesthetic evaluation to show how cinematic forms and subjects work together to root women's labor in gendered and economic contexts." --MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture "This book makes an important intervention into both feminist film theory and scholarship on European cinema. Mennel provides a kaleidoscopic overview of the landscape of European filmmaking today, and a key achievement of her study is its truly transnational, comparative framework, which generatively juxtaposes films from a wide range of European countries without losing sight of their cultural specificity."--Hester Baer, author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language"A book steeped in cinematic analysis of style and form that is relevant far beyond the field of cinema and European studies. Innovative and unique in the way it brings a very timely topical focus to a large body of contemporary European cinema."--Maria Stehle, author of Ghetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Filmscapes, and Soundscapes
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Frontiers of Labor
Book SynopsisAlike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other’s trade union and political cultures.Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, MaTrade Review"Two of the leading comparative labour historians in Australia and the U.S., Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist, have joined forces to produce an outstanding edited collection comparing key aspects of Australian and American labour history. . . . Their volume is a fine example of the enormous benefits and promises that such a combined approach brings to labour history." --Moving the Social"The essays in this volume make a splendid contribution to the important fields of US and Australian labor history."--Neville Kirk, author of Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present"Historians cannot do experiments with history, but we can do the functional equivalent by way of comparative history. This excellent collection compares Australian and US workplace experiences. We expect the differences; these sophisticated labor historians also attend to the surprising extent of 'commonalities,' which seem to have grown over time." --Melanie Nolan, editor of Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand"This terrific collection, edited by two of the leading scholars of Australian and US labor history, respectively, contributes significantly to our understanding of labor and working-class conflicts in these two countries." --Labor"This collection is a must for comparative historians. Rather than having a collection of national case studies, this collection goes the extra mile and shows how useful and critical such transnational history is." --Pacific Historical Review"This collection of sixteen comparative essays, plus an introduction and a conclusion, marks a significant step in the advancement of labor history on both sides of the Pacific Ocean." --The Journal of American History
£22.49
University of Illinois Press Women at Work in TwentyFirstCentury European
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By zooming out to include multiple countries and contexts and by zooming in on individual films about women workers, Mennel makes a strong case that European cinema has something important to say about gender and the economy." --Feminist German Studies"Women at Work offers us a rich archive of cinematic depictions of female labor . . . It is to the credit of Mennel's sweeping cinematic analysis of the present that we now have a better understanding of not only the work women do across the continent but also the variety of new images European cinema has been offering us." --German Studies Review"Highly recommended." --Choice"A beautiful balance between plot analysis and aesthetic evaluation to show how cinematic forms and subjects work together to root women's labor in gendered and economic contexts." --MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture "This book makes an important intervention into both feminist film theory and scholarship on European cinema. Mennel provides a kaleidoscopic overview of the landscape of European filmmaking today, and a key achievement of her study is its truly transnational, comparative framework, which generatively juxtaposes films from a wide range of European countries without losing sight of their cultural specificity."--Hester Baer, author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language"A book steeped in cinematic analysis of style and form that is relevant far beyond the field of cinema and European studies. Innovative and unique in the way it brings a very timely topical focus to a large body of contemporary European cinema."--Maria Stehle, author of Ghetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Filmscapes, and Soundscapes
£19.79
University of Notre Dame Press Working
Book SynopsisThis text proposes different ways of thinking about work. It explores many of the ways in which human beings have thought about the place of work in life - its meanings, its limits, and its relation to other obligations, to the life cycle, to play and to rest.Trade Review"… a tool-chest for anyone who wishes to think through the relation between God's calling and our daily tasks." —Vocation, 2005“Working is a treasure of 75 selections from sources as diverse as Aristotle, Xenophon, and the Bible, to Longfellow, Marx, Michael Novak and Josef Pieper. Meilaender deserves our gratitude for bringing together such a workman-like short library of poetry, fiction, and thoughtfulness. Anyone who works or thinks about work will find something here to nourish his soul.” —Pro Ecclesia“[A] fascinating, instructive and entertaining anthology on the subject. It is a worthy resource for all congregational libraries.” —Church and Synagogue Libraries“...shining gems of reflection and narrative. It is both a thoughtful and accessible compilation.” —Religious Studies Review“This volume provides a fine resource for serious reflection—in the context of our Western moral heritage—on how the working life might become a more integral part of the good life.” —Religion and Liberty“This anthology as a whole will promote important reflections on the ‘ethical’ meaning of work and is highly recommended for undergraduate, theological, and public libraries. A very valuable resource for undergraduate courses in ethics.” —Choice Magazine“Meilaender is a writer of elegance and power; a thinker of subtlety and grace. He reminds us of the compelling and continuing force of Scriptural and theological understandings of work. Most importantly, in a time when work dominates so much of our lives—or busyness does, at any rate—he asks us, through his commentary and selections, to ponder the meaning and role of work in our lives and to assess work within a wider framework of God’s creation and purpose for us.” —Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, and author of Augustine and the Limits of Politics“Who could have put together a quilt of passages as diverse and imaginatively patterned as the selections Gilbert Meilaender has chosen—from Marx to Mark Twain—for this anthology on working? W. H. Auden perhaps. Meilaender has also favored us with a wise and elegantly written introduction to a volume that should enrich personal reflection and stimulate classroom and public discussion.” —William F. May, Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics, Southern Methodist University
£15.19
University of Washington Press Tea and Solidarity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear, heartfelt prose, methodological imaginativeness, and careful attention to intersecting axes of power and distinction, this book not only makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods." * New Books in Anthropology (NBN) *"This vivid ethnography lifts the veil on a community that has been marginalised and invisibilized but whose labor and contributions are central to make sense of SL’s global recognition as a leading tea exporter that has contributed greatly to the country’s economic growth and history as a post-colonial state in SA. " * Lekh *"Tea and Solidarity reinvigorates conversations in feminist political economy and presents an exciting and inspiring example of the richness of the anthropologyof work today." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Tea and Solidarity is an excellent read and provokes an engagement with such issues as positionality, situated knowledge, ethical responsibilities as researchers, and more importantly the transformative potential of transnational rights-based interventions. By focusing on ‘how gender, work and value making shape Hill-Country Tamil Women’s lives’, Jegathesan shifts the terms of feminist engagement to stand in solidarity with them." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[A]n insightful, rich ethnography, which stands as an original contribution to the plantation as an object of anthropological inquiry." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
£110.48
University of Washington Press Tea and Solidarity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear, heartfelt prose, methodological imaginativeness, and careful attention to intersecting axes of power and distinction, this book not only makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods." * New Books in Anthropology (NBN) *"This vivid ethnography lifts the veil on a community that has been marginalised and invisibilized but whose labor and contributions are central to make sense of SL’s global recognition as a leading tea exporter that has contributed greatly to the country’s economic growth and history as a post-colonial state in SA. " * Lekh *"Tea and Solidarity reinvigorates conversations in feminist political economy and presents an exciting and inspiring example of the richness of the anthropologyof work today." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Tea and Solidarity is an excellent read and provokes an engagement with such issues as positionality, situated knowledge, ethical responsibilities as researchers, and more importantly the transformative potential of transnational rights-based interventions. By focusing on ‘how gender, work and value making shape Hill-Country Tamil Women’s lives’, Jegathesan shifts the terms of feminist engagement to stand in solidarity with them." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[A]n insightful, rich ethnography, which stands as an original contribution to the plantation as an object of anthropological inquiry." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
£29.66
University of Washington Press Surviving the Sanctuary City
Book SynopsisOn the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcementOver the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary City follows them through the institutional spaces of asylum offices, law firms, and human rights agencies to document the labor of seeking asylum. As an interpreter and a volunteer at a grassroots community center, anthropologist Tina Shrestha has witnessed how migrants must perform a particular kind of suffering that is legible to immigration judges and asylum officers. She demonstrates the lived contradictions asylum seekers face while producing their suffering testimonials and traces their attempts to overcome these contradictions through the Nepali notions of kaagaz banaune (making paper) and dukkha (suffering). Surviving the Sanctuary City asks what everyday survival amoTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Locating Nepali New Yorkers Chapter 2. Language of Suffering, Language for Survival Chapter 3. The Logic of “Claimant Credibility” Chapter 4. Testimonial Coconstruction in the Asylum Backstage Chapter 5. The Production of Claimant-Workers Chapter 6. The Paradox of Visibility and Collective Censorship Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Surviving the Sanctuary City
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Locating Nepali New Yorkers Chapter 2. Language of Suffering, Language for Survival Chapter 3. The Logic of “Claimant Credibility” Chapter 4. Testimonial Coconstruction in the Asylum Backstage Chapter 5. The Production of Claimant-Workers Chapter 6. The Paradox of Visibility and Collective Censorship Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index
£29.66
Yale University Press Sexual Harassment of Working Women
Book SynopsisA practicing attorney views the sexual harassment of working women as a pervasive social problem and presents a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex.
£30.00
WW Norton & Co The Missing Middle Working Families and the
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at how America's social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes.
£16.15
John Wiley & Sons Inc Age and Structural Lag
Book SynopsisIn society at large, lives have been drastically altered over this century--as a consequence of increased longevity, advances in science and education, the gender revolution, improvements in public health, and other historical trends and events--but numerous inflexible social structures, roles, and norms have lagged behind. There is a mismatch or imbalance between the transformation of the aging process from birth to death and the role opportunities or places in the social structure that could foster and reward people at the various stages of their lives. While the twentieth century has experienced a revolution in human development and aging, there has been no comparable revolution in the role structures of society to keep pace with the changes in the ways people grow up and grow old. The lag involves not only institutional and organizational arrangements, but also the many aspects of culture that, in addition to being internalized by people, are built into role expectations and societTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: THE DILEMMA OF STRUCTURAL LAG. Structural Lag: Past and Future (M. Riley & J. Riley). Opportunities, Aspirations, and Goodness of Fit (R. Kahn). DIRECTIONS OF CHANGE. Social Structure and Age-Based Careers (J. Henretta). Work and Retirement: A Comparative Perspective (M. Kohli). Family Change and Historical Change: An Uneasy Relationship (T.Hareven). Old Age and Age Integration: An Anthropological Perspective (J.Keith). CURRENT INTERVENTIONS: OLDER WORKERS. Realizing the Potential: Some Examples (W. McNaught). Changing Policy Signals (R. Burkhauser & J. Quinn). Endnote: The Reach of an Idea (A. Foner). Indexes.
£217.76
John Wiley & Sons Inc Flexible Work Arrangments Managing the WorkFamily
Book SynopsisA practical guide for human resource managers, this book discusses the important role that flexible work arrangements (FWA) can play in the prevention and moderation of employee stress. The book also provides a blueprint for the organizational planning of such arrangements.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors vii Foreword ix Preface xiii Series Preface xv 1 Defining and Making the Case for Flexible Work Arrangements 1 2 How Flexible Work Arrangements Can Address Personal and Organizational Needs 27 3 The Cycle of Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Flexible Work Arrangements 59 4 The Effects of Flexible Work Arrangements 93 5 Sage Experience from Experience: On Management Training and Implementation Process 133 6 Toolkit: Assessing Needs and Effects 155 References 177 Index 183
£61.75
