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Book SynopsisJosef Pieper’s readers become accustomed to the clarity of thought and expression in his writing—in combination with the impression he gives of being profoundly in touch with fundamentals. His conceptual clarity emerges from his awareness of basic human experience. This book began life in 1933 as a small book produced in a sociological research institute and was encumbered, not surprisingly, with unwieldy academic jargon. It took on a new life as a result of a challenging statement by Max Frisch, who, in 1976, stated that establishing peace in the world required the transformation of society into a community. Amazed by the naivety of Frisch’s claim, Pieper set about defining three types of social interaction and describing how they function. 1. The community is an intimate grouping based on mutual affirmation of its members what they share in common. The family is an example. 2. Society is the sphere we enter on leaving the intimate circle in which we live. Here, tact, etiquette and contract come into play for the protection of one another’s privacy. 3. Organization is the sphere dominated by usefulness of the individual. Pieper is particularly concerned about the cog in the wheel mentality of certain political regimes. The book is a characteristic example of the philosopher’s concern with political reality.

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Book SynopsisIn this original and collaborative creation, John Brown-Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how does one build a movement that can account for race, class and gender, and yet still operate across all of these lines? How can communities sustain themselves in truly social ways? And perhaps most important, how can we take the importance of community into account without forgoing the important distinctions that we all ascribe to ourselves as individuals?Borrowing from the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois federation, Brown-Childs offers a way of thinking about communities as coalitions, ones that account for differences in the very act of coming together. Using the Iroquois as an example of transcommunality in action, he also offers specific outcomes that many people desire racial justice and peace are two examples as points of focus around which many disparate groups may organize, without ever subsuming questions of identity as an expense of organizing. In addition to Brown-Childs' own exegesis, twelve scholars and thinkers from all walks of life offer their own responses to his thinking, enriching the book as an illustration and example of transcommunality.In an age of fractured identities and a world that is moving toward a global community, "Transcommunality" offers a persuasive way of imagining the world where community and individual identity may not only coexist, but also depend upon the other to the benefit of both. John Brown Childs is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is author of two previous books, including "Leadership, Conflict, and Cooperation in Afro-American Social Thought" (Temple).Trade Review"This is a bold and provocative book. It is visionary, and he has clearly articulated that vision of how groups, communities and nations might engage each other, holding on to their differences and yet respecting those of others. Childs does a fine job of laying out the sketches of such a set of relationships. His prose is elegant and contains strong hope and optimism."-Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology, New York University, and Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley "Both the content and the form of Transcommunality inspire hope-for activist practice and social analysis that can enable diverse communities to protect their particularities while sharing vision and strategy for social justice."-Richard Flacks, Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara "[Brown-Childs] uses his skills as a sociologist, his gift for storytelling, and the lesses he has gained...to inspire readers to apply his ideas to their own work...[it] is complex. It is a way of thinking and perceiving; it is a process and a way of interacting."-Multicultural ReviewTable of ContentsFirst Words1. Introduction2. Red Clay, Blue Hills: In Honor of My Ancestors3. Emplacements of Affiliation4. Learning from the Haudenosaunee5. Elements of Transcommunality6. Roots of CooperationAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesCommentaries:A Quipu String of Commentaries: Some Reflections - John Brown ChildsTranscommunality: Beyond Tolerance, for Understanding - Guillermo Delgado-P.Places and Transcommunality: A Comment on John Brown Childs's Idea of the Transcommunal - Arif DirlikLanguage of Space: The Territorial Roots of the Indigenous Community in Relation to Transcommunality - Stefano VareseTranscommunality in a Global World - Renate HolubTranscommunality as a Foundation for Globalization from Below - Jeremy BrecherOn Transcommunality and Models of Community - Hayden WhitePragmatic Solidarity and Transcommunality - Andrea SmithInclusive Difference: Transcommunality and the Hope for a Just World - David Welchman GegeoTranscommunality: Politics, Culture, and Practice - Herman GrayOne Love: Transcommunality among the Hip Hop Generation - Sofia QuinteroTranscommunal Practice in Northern Ireland - John D. BrewerTranscommunality as Spiritual Practice - Bettina ApthekerAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDistinguishes between work for money (productive labour) and work for pleasure or to release the creative spirit (living labour), and reveals a new layer of potency to the sociology and philosophy of labourTrade Review"My sense is that Gulli's work will renew once again the Marxist tradition. It is a very philosophical approach to Marx that is nonetheless centred on the concept of labour and its power of social transformation." Michael Hardt, Duke University "This is an important book for three interrelated reasons: It reminds us of why Marx still matters. It probes for what might be the promise for humanity...and it highlights the centrality of labour to human freedom, creativity, and happiness." Labour/Le Travail "The introductory chapter...features numerous cogent statements...Gulli offers a Marxist critique of political economy, and there is much value in studying the idea of productive and unproductive labor from a Marxist standpoint. In fact, I believe it is the best way to understand modern capitalism and class exploitation...In Labor of Fire, Marx is made very intriguing...Gulli's thesis that labor is a sovereign, self-determining quality unattached to the marketplace is a message that labor education students would benefit from hearing." Labor Studies Journal

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Book SynopsisDistinguishes between work for money (productive labour) and work for pleasure or to release the creative spirit (living labour), and reveals a new layer of potency to the sociology and philosophy of labourTrade Review"My sense is that Gulli's work will renew once again the Marxist tradition. It is a very philosophical approach to Marx that is nonetheless centred on the concept of labour and its power of social transformation." Michael Hardt, Duke University "This is an important book for three interrelated reasons: It reminds us of why Marx still matters. It probes for what might be the promise for humanity...and it highlights the centrality of labour to human freedom, creativity, and happiness." Labour/Le Travail "The introductory chapter...features numerous cogent statements...Gulli offers a Marxist critique of political economy, and there is much value in studying the idea of productive and unproductive labor from a Marxist standpoint. In fact, I believe it is the best way to understand modern capitalism and class exploitation...In Labor of Fire, Marx is made very intriguing...Gulli's thesis that labor is a sovereign, self-determining quality unattached to the marketplace is a message that labor education students would benefit from hearing." Labor Studies Journal

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Book SynopsisThe Uncertainties of Knowledge extends Immanuel Wallerstein's decade-long work of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intellectual thought. He argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This is wrong, he suggests. Instead, Wallerstein offers a new conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.Trade Review"Immanuel Wallerstein is both a redoubtable world historian and visionary prophet. Such a combination is unusual...[and] makes him a commanding figure, whose rhetorical address, radical ideas, and remarkable erudition challenge ordinary, established patterns of professional discourse."—William H. McNeill, Diplomatic History"Wallerstein draws on his historical erudition and formidable theoretical powers to cast light on the ongoing transformation of our society. Even more impressive, he dares to think about the future."—Frances Fox Piven"Wallerstein is always readable, often persuasive, and occasionally profound."—Michael Mann, The British Journal of Sociology"The volume is consistently well written, historically grounded in its own right, and, when taken as a whole, the essays provide new understanding of the thinking that underlies Wallerstein's world-systems analysis."—Choice"Immanuel Wallerstein tells a fairly clear story in this book."—The American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Uncertainties of TimePart I. The Structures of Knowledge1. For Science, Against Scientism: The Dilemmas of Contemporary Knowledge Production2. Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century3. The End of Certainties in the Social Sciences4. Braudel and Interscience: A Preacher to Empty Pews?5. Time and Duration: The Unexcluded Middle, or Reflections on Braudel and Prigogine6. The Itinerary of World-Systems Analysis, or How to Resist Becoming a TheoryPart II. Dilemmas of the Disciplines7. History in Search of Science8. Writing History9. Global Culture(s): Salvation, Menace, or Myth?10. From Sociology to Historical Social Science: Prospects and Obstacles11. Anthropology, Sociology, and Other Dubious DisciplinesAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the latter part of the nineteenth century, the citizens of Great Britain faced a formidable challenge: coal resources seemed destined to run out and commentators were unable to foresee a viable alternative fuel. To address the crisis, military strategists were urged to seize control of coal in foreign lands, and companies were encouraged to increase domestic production of the resource. In Global Energy Shifts, Bruce Podobnik draws intriguing parallels between the \u0022coal panics\u0022 that once swept through Britain and the \u0022oil panics\u0022 that grip the world today. His concise history of global energy use contextualizes the coal and oil scares, demonstrating how the convergence of specific geopolitical, commercial, and social conditions can generate rapid and far-reaching transformations in the energy foundations of our world. Ultimately, Podobnik informs readers on how a \u0022crisis\u0022 of one fuel system is quickly averted with the introduction of another, and describes opportunities for shifting our problematic, oil-based system toward a renewable energy system.Trade Review"Energy transitions are inherently complex and long-drawn affairs, extending over generations. That is why any serious appraisal of future options and changes should be informed by the history of past shifts, concerns and accomplishments: Podobnik's book is a wide-ranging and well-written contribution to this critical understanding."-Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba "Global Energy Shifts aims to recover the role of geopolitical rivalry, corporate competition, and social movements in shaping patterns of energy production and consumption via a grand historical survey. Podobnik is successful at de-naturalizing these transitions: they are shown to the negotiated/contested outcomes of interactions between states, capital and society as opposed to emerging from any 'inherent' properties of coal or oil. This is a significant contribution, and one made all the more forceful by the innovative use of diverse data sources."-Gavin Bridge, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Global Energy Shifts in World Historical Perspective2. The Rise of Coal3. Conflict in Coal and the Emergence of New Energy Systems4. The First Period of Crisis5. The Rise of Oil, Natural Gas, and Nuclear Power6. The Second Period of Crisis7. Toward a Sustainable Energy SystemAppendix A: Sources and Methods Used to Compile Energy DataAppendix B: Glossary of Petroleum Company NamesAppendix C: Sources of Strike Data in Energy IndustriesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the worldTrade Review"[A] poignant expose of the environmental, public health and labor rights abuses of an industry that has come to symbolize progress and prosperity in the public eye. This broad anthology identifies the dark underbelly of the electronics revolution and seeks to ignite discussions between labor, environmentalist and human rights activists about how to address industry misconduct...a well-rounded understanding of challenges and struggles in the global electronics industry." Multinational Monitor "This is an excellent book. It is rare to see environment and labor issues brought together in a seamless fashion. This is an important contribution to the discussion of globalization and its effects--and to the understanding of the grassroots movements that have emerged in response."--Charles Levenstein, University of Massachusetts, Lowell "Challenging the Chip is ... an important work in chronicling the evolution of grassroots activism, corporate denial, and eventually, in some cases, corporate responsibility in the electronics industry." SEJournal "The editors have assembled an impressive collection of articles from leading academics and activists...Challenging the Chip judiciously uses photos, tables, charts, and diagrams with detailed explanations. In addition, the book is well documented with useful appendices." Multicultural Review "With twenty-five chapters, much of the value of this volume lies in the encyclopedic overview it provides of conditions in electronics manufacturing around the world...There are fascinating details strewn throughout the book...There is a valuable list of web resources and relevant organizations...The editors provide useful introductions to the volume and each section...but the strength of the book lies in the richness and variety of the empirical material rather than in any overarching explanations or insights. This book is an important intervention in significant public debate." Contemporary Sociology July 2007 "This sweeping, ambitious, highly substantive panorama of environmental outrages perpetrated by the electronics industry and its handmaiden governments and inspectorates is nothing if not concrete, literal, rich, and entirely convincing...Challenging the Chip is a valuable resource document, a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the substance of environmental changemaking in the 21st century." Environmental Politics August 2007 "Challenging the Chip is the story of those who valiantly fight to make the production of microchips a humane process and the products of chips safe for the environment... each of the essays provides valuable insight into one or more aspects of the chip industry... Challenging the Chip will be part of an effort to place the struggles of electronics workers front and center in the fight for social justice... It is certainly a must-read for any labor activist concerned with organizing the cutting edge of worldwide production: global electronics." Labor Studies Journal "Challenging the Chip is certainly the most comprehensive review of the social, health and environmental consequences of the electronics industry to date and provides a critical platform for developing new theoretical and empirical research on the political economy and ecology of the industry. The plethora of topics explored also highlights the multiplicity of disciplines that can contribute to debates about the chip industry, including the social sciences, public health, and environmental sciences. A most impressive feature of the book is the way in which it developed out of a collaborative partnership of intellectuals and activists with a shared vision of sustainability and justice. Overall, the book will be of interest to students of social science, environmental science, science and technology studies, political ecology, and anybody using a computer to read this book review." Electronic Green JournalTable of ContentsForeword: Technology Happens by Jim Hightower Introduction 1. The Quest for Sustainability and Justice in a High-Tech World - Ted G. Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David N. Pellow Part I. Global Electronics 2. The Changing Map of Global Electronics: Networks of Mass Production in the New Economy - Boy Luthje; 3. Occupational Health in the Semiconductor Industry - Joseph LaDou; 4. Double Jeopardy: Gender and Migration in Electronics Manufacturing - Anibel Ferus-Comelo; 5. "Made in China": Electronics Workers in the World's Fastest Growing Economy - Apo Leong and Sanjiv Pandita; 6. Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry - Tira Foran and David A. Sonnenfeld; 7. Electronic Workers in India - Sanjiv Pandita; 8. Out of the Shadows and into the Gloom? Worker and Community Health in and around Central and Eastern Europe's Semiconductor Plants - Andrew Watterson Part II. Environmental Justice And Labor Rights 9. From Grassroots to Global: SVTC's Milestones in Building a Movement for Corporate Accountability and Sustainability in the High-Tech Industry - Leslie Byster and Ted G. Smith; 10. The Struggle of Occupational Health in Silicon Valley - Amanda Hawes with David N. Pellow; 11. Immigrant Workers in Two Eras: Struggles and Successes in Silicon Valley - David N. Pellow and Glenna Matthews; 12. Worker Health at National Semiconductor, Greenock: Freedom to Kill? (Scotland) - James McCourt; 13. Community-Based Organizing for Labor Rights, Health and the Environment: Television Manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. Border - Connie Garcia and Amelia Simpson; 14. Labor Rights and Occupational Health in Jalisco's Electronic Industry (Mexico) - Raquel E. Partida Rocha; 15. Breaking the Silicon Silence: Giving Voice to Health and Environmental Impacts within Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park - Shenglin Chang, Hua-mei Chiu, and Wenling Tu; 16. Human Lives Valued Less than Dirt: Former RCA Workers Contaminated by Pollution Fighting Worldwide for Justice (Taiwan) - Yu-ling Ku; 17. Unionizing Electronics: The Need for New Strategies - Robert Steiert Part III. E-Waste & Extended Producer Responsibility 18. The Electronics Production Lifecycle. From Toxics to Sustainability: Getting Off the Toxic Treadmill - Leslie Byster and Ted G. Smith; 19. High-Tech Pollution in Japan: Growing Problems, Alternative Solutions - Fumikazu Yoshida; 20. High-Tech's Dirty Little Secret: Economics and Ethics of the Electronic Waste Trade - Jim Puckett; 21. High-tech Heaps, Forsaken Lives: E-waste in Delhi (India) - Ravi Agarwal and Kishore Wankhade; 22. Importing Extended Producer Responsibility for Electronic Equipment into the United States - Chad Raphael and Ted G. Smith; 23. International Environmental Agreements and the Information Technology Industry - Ken Geiser and Joel Tickner; 24. Design Change in Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation in Sweden and Japan - Naoko Tojo; 25. ToxicDude.com: the Dell Market Campaign (USA) - David Wood and Robin Schneider

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Book SynopsisExamines the obstacles to economic mobility for low- and increasingly middle-income familiesTrade Review"This book is highly recommended, and its in-depth treatment of the historical and social context of concentrated poverty and policy alternatives would make it particularly useful in a graduate seminar...The editors have done a remarkable job of putting together a volume in which each chapter seems to build on the examples and policy recommendations of the others. Rather than being an assortment of articles on a theme, the chapters together create a 'collective wisdom' of community economic development." -Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of Contents1: Are Jobs Enough for Economic Mobility?; 2: From the Old to the New Economic Mobility; 3: The Parents: Their Backgrounds, Lives and Locations; 4: The Children: Their Lives and Worlds; 5: Workforce Development: Systems and Networks; 6: Yesterday's Firms and Today's Families: Connects and Disconnects with Michelle Belliveau; 7: Children's Schools, Parents' Work and Policy: Alignment and Misalignment; 8: Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward an Agenda for Family Economic Mobility

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Book SynopsisRevolutionary Passage is a cultural, social, and political history of Russia during its critical period of transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Marc Garcelon traces the history of perestroika and the rise of Vladimir Putin, arguing that the pressure Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms put on the Soviet system gave birth to movements for democratic change. He also shows that the very political arrangements that prompted the fall of Communism also killed hopes for subsequent reform. At the turning point of this political revolution stood Democratic Russia, or DemRossiia, the principal organization of the Russian democratic movement that helped to dismantle the Soviet system and force the Soviet leadership to change course. However, as post-Soviet Russia committed itself to globalization and U.S.-style economic reforms, the country directed itself away from the Democratic reforms called for by organizations like DemRossiia, and such groups collapsed. Revolutionary Passage provides a close examination of the DemRossiia. Garcelon deftly illuminates the rise and decline of this organization, and how the processes of revolutionary change impacted both Russia and the world.Trade Review"Garcelon's extensive examination of DemRossiia during the critical 'interregnum' period is novel. His writing is clear and crisp, and his rigorous conceptualization and judicious interpretations, along with his rich fieldwork experience and interview data, are admirable."-Michael Urban, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz "Revolutionary Passage is an outstanding account of the whole epoch starting with Gorbachev's reforms through the years of Boris Yeltsin until Putin's accession to power by late 1999. The book is excellent, a tour-de-force, and lucidly presented. Garcelon makes an important contribution to the understanding of the role the educated middle class, intellectuals, and experts played during Gorbachev's reforms, and how they were abandoned by Yeltsin. Revolutionary Passage offers a fine-tuned presentation of social structure of the late Soviet Union and the early years of post-Soviet Russia."-Ivan Szelenyi, William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Professor of Political Science, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsList of Acronyms and Russian TermsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Passages1. The Specialist Rebellion in Moscow and the Genesis of a Revolutionary Situation2. The Rise of Democratic Russia3. Democrats on the Offensive4. August 1991 and the Decline of Russia's Democratic Movement5. InterregnumAppendix: English Translation of Russian Questionnaire Used in the Survey in Chapter OneNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRevolutionary Passage is a cultural, social, and political history of Russia during its critical period of transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Marc Garcelon traces the history of perestroika and the rise of Vladimir Putin, arguing that the pressure Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms put on the Soviet system gave birth to movements for democratic change. He also shows that the very political arrangements that prompted the fall of Communism also killed hopes for subsequent reform. At the turning point of this political revolution stood Democratic Russia, or DemRossiia, the principal organization of the Russian democratic movement that helped to dismantle the Soviet system and force the Soviet leadership to change course. However, as post-Soviet Russia committed itself to globalization and U.S.-style economic reforms, the country directed itself away from the Democratic reforms called for by organizations like DemRossiia, and such groups collapsed. Revolutionary Passage provides a close examination of the DemRossiia. Garcelon deftly illuminates the rise and decline of this organization, and how the processes of revolutionary change impacted both Russia and the world.Trade Review"Garcelon's extensive examination of DemRossiia during the critical 'interregnum' period is novel. His writing is clear and crisp, and his rigorous conceptualization and judicious interpretations, along with his rich fieldwork experience and interview data, are admirable."-Michael Urban, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz "Revolutionary Passage is an outstanding account of the whole epoch starting with Gorbachev's reforms through the years of Boris Yeltsin until Putin's accession to power by late 1999. The book is excellent, a tour-de-force, and lucidly presented. Garcelon makes an important contribution to the understanding of the role the educated middle class, intellectuals, and experts played during Gorbachev's reforms, and how they were abandoned by Yeltsin. Revolutionary Passage offers a fine-tuned presentation of social structure of the late Soviet Union and the early years of post-Soviet Russia."-Ivan Szelenyi, William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Professor of Political Science, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsList of Acronyms and Russian TermsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Passages1. The Specialist Rebellion in Moscow and the Genesis of a Revolutionary Situation2. The Rise of Democratic Russia3. Democrats on the Offensive4. August 1991 and the Decline of Russia's Democratic Movement5. InterregnumAppendix: English Translation of Russian Questionnaire Used in the Survey in Chapter OneNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThere is little doubt among scientists and the general public that homelessness, mental illness, and addiction are inter-related. In Of Others Inside, Darin Weinberg examines how these inter-relations have taken form in the United States. He links the establishment of these connections to the movement of mental health and addiction treatment from redemptive processes to punitive ones and back again, and explores the connection between social welfare, rehabilitation, and the criminal justice system. Seeking to offer a new sociological understanding of the relationship between social exclusion and mental disability, Of Others Inside considers the general social conditions of homelessness, poverty, and social marginality in the U.S. Weinberg also explores questions about American perceptions of these conditions, and examines in great detail the social reality of mental disability and drug addiction without reducing people's suffering to simple notions of biological fate or social disorder.Trade Review"Of Others Inside is brilliant and fascinating. The author has done a commendable job charting a middle ground between the equally unsatisfying positions that mental illness and addictions are things-in-themselves or arbitrary social constructions."-Spencer Cahill, University of South Florida "Well written and unique in its empirical scope, Of Others Inside is a groundbreaking analysis of the relationship between social exclusion and mental disorder in America... [A] major contribution to debates about the relationship between community solidarity and mental health."-Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri "Based on scrupulously careful historical analysis and penetrating ethnography, Weinberg liberates us from the idea that insanity and addiction are either human constructions or independent realities. He illuminates how they are equally social products and causal factors in shaping expected paths toward wellness. Although focused on the marginalized ill, this work provides a more general model for getting beyond radically objectivist or subjectivist explanations that stifle progress in the human sciences. This will be the book's most enduring contribution."-David A. Karp, author of Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness and The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental IllnessTable of ContentsForeword - Bryan S. TurnerAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Beyond Objectivism and Subjectivism in the Sociology of Mental HealthPart I. A History of Insanities and Addictions Among Marginalized Americans2. Setting the Stage3. Addictions and Insanities: Two Fields and Their PhenomenaPart II. A Tale of Two Programs4. Canyon House5. Twilights6. ConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAssembles new writings from experts who examine the Latino impact on New EnglandTrade Review"These 14 newly commissioned articles...offer a fine multifaceted view of the rapidly expanding Latino communities in New England. Articles overlap enough to provide continuity without undue repetition. Happily, they are all of good quality, and some...are outstanding... [T]his is a model composite view of Latino immigration...Highly recommended." Choice "Revealing the long history of Latinos in New England is simultaneously an important scholarly and political move...The articles in this anthology make a timely intervention by debunking the persistent myths and misunderstandings of Latin American immigrants and Latinos...Each of these essays provides a compelling examination into the various ways that Latina/o communities have contributed economic, cultural, social, and political vitality to a region." Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies "All of the contributors offer rich work on New England's Latinos and great possibilities for comparative scholarship...This edited collection proves that it is a prime region for examining the spectrum of Latino experiences across the U.S." The Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of Contents1 Latinos in New England: An Introduction - Andres Torres; Chapter 2 Latino New England: An Emerging Demographic and Economic Portrait - Enrico A. Marcelli and Phillip J. Granberry; 3 Immigration Status, Employment, and Eligibility for Public Benefits among Latin American Immigrants in Massachusetts - Miren Uriarte, Phillip J. Granberry and Megan Halloran; 4 Latino Shelter Poverty in Massachusetts - Michael E. Stone; 5 Mofongo Meets Mangu: The Dominicanization of Latino Waterbury - Ruth Glasser; 6 Growing into Power in Rhode Island - Miren Uriarte; 7 Quiet Crisis: A Community History of Latinos in Cambridge, Massachusetts - Deborah Pacini Hernandez; 8 Latinos in New Hampshire: Enclaves, Diasporas, and an Emerging Middle Class - Yoel Camayd-Freixas, Gerald Karush, and Nelly Lejter; 9 Brazilians in Massachusetts: Migration, Identity and Work - C. Eduardo Siqueira and Cileine de Lourenco; 10 Latino Catholics in New England - Hosffman Ospino; 11 Descriptive Representation, Political Alienation and Political Trust: The Case of Latinos in Connecticut - Adrian D. Pantoja; 12 Latino Politics in Connecticut: Between Political Representation and Policy Responsiveness - Jose E. Cruz; 13 Immigrant Incorporation among Dominicans in Providence, Rhode Island: An Inter-generational Perspective - Jose Itzigsohn; 14 Politics, Ethnicity and Bilingual Education in Massachusetts: The Case of Referendum Question 2 - Jorge Capetillo-Ponce and Robert Kramer; 15 The Evolving State of Latino Politics in New England - Amilcar Antonio Barreto

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Book SynopsisA revealing investigation of changing identity in a globalizing worldTrade Review"Another Arabesque is excellent and exciting. It is full of valuable and new materials on Arabs and Arabs in Brazil. It is well documented in the area of theory and innovative in its approach. Karam brings to the study an exciting approach, well-written and full of ethnographic insight." Barbara Aswad, Wayne State University "Both theoretically sophisticated and firmly grounded in meticulous ethnographic research, it will be of interest to Brazilianists and those interested in cultural manifestations of neo-liberal economic policy and doctrine." Joshua Roth, Mount Holyoke College "Another Arabesque is a valuable and interesting exploration of the evolution of Brazil's successful Middle Eastern community in a variety of contexts...The book provides an intriguing insight into the formerly concealed extent to which Arab culture has influenced this Latin American powerhouse." The Latin Review of Books "Karam describes in detail how Arab identity has intensified under liberalization...This exhaustive ethnography approaches Arab Brazilian lives as an interconnected whole, examining not only business but also politics, marriage and interpersonal relationships, leisure and tourism." NACLA "Karam's concise, well-wrought account of the intensification of Syrian-Lebanese (i.e., Arab) identity is a significant contribution to a burgeoning literature on ethnicity in Brazil...Drawing on an impressive range of materials, including historical documents, newspaper reports, ethnographic vignettes, interviews, and soap operas, he provides a rich account of the trajectory of a Brazilian ethnic category. While the book offers intriguing sketches rather than in-depth explorations of individuals, it compensates by thinking big, historically, and geographically." The Luso-Brazilian Review "By approaching his investigation from an anthropological perspective, Karam contributes to understanding the Syrian-Lebanese phenomenon through time in Brazil...The book contributes to the study of the relationship between ethnic identity and nation construction by asking questions that go beyond the explanations derived from colonial logic...the book provides an ethnographic perspective that proposes new forms of observation and data collection that are very relevant to social studies. As such, it will stand as one of the most useful in the field." Latin American Politics and Society "This is an engaging and theoretically provocative ethnography that focuses on an ethnic community that has not received much attention from anthropologists studying Brazil... Another Arabesque [makes] an important contribution to understanding ethnicity, nationalism, and globalization in Brazil and elsewhere." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean AnthropologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Privilege Part I: Imagining Political-Economy 1: Pariahs to Partners in the Export Nation; 2: Eth(n)ics and Transparent State Reform Part II: Remodeling the Nationalist Order 3: Turcos in the Market Model of Racial Democracy; 4: Mixing Christians, Cloning Muslims Part III: Marketing Ethnic Culture 5: Ethnic Re-Appropriation in the Country Club Circuit; 6: Air Turbulence in Homeland Tourism Conclusion: In Secure Futures: Arabness, Neoliberalism, and Brazil

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Book SynopsisEngineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated \u0022corporate culture.\u0022 Kunda uses detailed descriptions of everyday interactions and rituals in which the culture is brought to life, excerpts from in-depth interviews and a wide variety of corporate texts to vividly portray managerial attempts to design and impose the culture and the ways in which it is experienced by members of the organization. The company's management, Kunda reveals, uses a variety of methods to promulgate what it claims is a non-authoritarian, informal, and flexible work environment that enhances and rewards individual commitment, initiative, and creativity while promoting personal growth. The author demonstrates, however, that these pervasive efforts mask an elaborate and subtle form of normative control in which the members' minds and hearts become the target of corporate influence. Kunda carefully dissects the impact this form of control has on employees' work behavior and on their sense of self. In the conclusion written especially for this edition, Kunda reviews the company's fortunes in the years that followed publication of the first edition, reevaluates the arguments in the book, and explores the relevance of corporate culture and its management today.Trade Review"Overall, this is one of the finest ethnographies of an organization culture I have read."-Administrative Science Quarterly "This book remains the classic attempt to come to terms with the reality of work in the new economy, as it emerges to replace the alienation of mass production. Kunda recognizes, even celebrates, the autonomy and engagement of work which has grown up around IT. But he also identifies the ways management quite deliberately limits and controls that autonomy and exploits engagement. And he underscores the price which the new work place exacts from the workers excluded from the realm of autonomy, from those who become overcommitted to it, and from those who, often inadvertently, overstep its boundaries."-Michael Joseph Piore, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments to the revised edition Acknowledgments Preface to the Revised Edition Chapter One: Culture and Organization Chapter Two: The Setting Chapter Three: Ideology: Tech Culture Codified Chapter Four: Presentational Rituals: Talking Ideology Chapter Five: Self and Organization: In the Shadow of the Golden Bull Chapter Six: Conclusion Chapter Seven: Epilogue Appendix: Methods -- A Confessional of Sorts Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExposing the forces behind the decline of the rave scene in Philadelphia and elsewhereTrade Review"Anderson clearly has a passion for the subject matter and a keen focus on the 'decline' of rave culture which is to be commended. There is a need for in-depth considerations of post-rave club cultures as embedded in global, national, local and virtual spaces. The thoroughness of Anderson's empirical work, and her engagement with the data is useful and gives voice to young (and not so young!) people and culture."—Karenza Moore, Lancaster UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Corporate Raves, Weeklies, Underground Parties, and More: Defining the Rave– Club Culture Continuum 3. Loyalists, Spillovers, and Other Party People: Personal and Collective Identities in the Post-rave Era 4. From 1990s Massives to Raves’ Death?: Forces of Cultural Change 5. “Players and Their Tracks”: Types of Cultural Work in the EDM Scene 6. EDM as a Vibrant Global Scene 7. Twenty- First- Century Scenes, Sounds, and Selves Appendix: Methods Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCombining architectural history, cultural history and travelogue, this book by Williams is an exploration of how progressive twentieth-century sexual attitudes influenced modern architecture.

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Book SynopsisStuart McHardy is a writer, storyteller and lecturer. He was Director of the Scots Language Resource Centre from 1993 to 1998 and is a founder member and past president of the Pictish Arts Society. Also an experienced broadcaster and professional musician, he lives in Edinburgh.

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