Hard times are no stranger to the people of Appalachia and the South. This book presents a collection of essays by people who are involved in the efforts to challenge economic injustice in these regions and to empower the residents to build democratic alternatives.
Hard times are no stranger to the people of Appalachia and the South. This book presents a collection of essays by people who are involved in the effo...
Using twenty-nine interviews with women involved in eight local sanctuary sites, this work explores the workings of the sanctuary movement; the reasons for their commitment to this illegal activity; the relationship between their activism, liberation theology and feminism; and the tensions among the women and between women and men in the movement.
Using twenty-nine interviews with women involved in eight local sanctuary sites, this work explores the workings of the sanctuary movement; the reason...
Unlike autonomous professionals in Western industrialized democracies, professionals in a socialist, bureaucratic setting operate as employees of the state. The change in environment has important Implications not only for the practice of professions but also for the concept of professionalism itself. This collection of nine essays is the first to survey the major professions In the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The contributors investigate the implications of professional experience in a socialist economy as well as relating changes in professional organization and power to reform...
Unlike autonomous professionals in Western industrialized democracies, professionals in a socialist, bureaucratic setting operate as employees of ...
Douglas Biklen closely examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people who have been labeled disabled might become full participants in the other areas of society as well. He focuses on the contradictions between what some families have achieved, what they want for their children, and what society and its social policies allow. He demonstrates how the principles of inclusion that govern the lives of these families can be extended to education, community life, and other social...
Douglas Biklen closely examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order ...
Examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people who have been labeled disabled might become full participants in the other areas of society as well.
Examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people wh...
