Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980
ISBN: 9780822325734 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Race on the Line" is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green--a former Bell System employee and current labor historian--presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the break-up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984. Green shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerized one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the...
"Race on the Line" is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green--a former Bell ...
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176,78 zł |
A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
ISBN: 9780822326748 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An innovative ethnography of the production, circulation, and consumption of tea, centered on the lives of the mostly women workers who produce it.
An innovative ethnography of the production, circulation, and consumption of tea, centered on the lives of the mostly women workers who produce it.
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141,83 zł |
A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
ISBN: 9780822326793 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, low wages, and coercive labor practices enforced by the patronage system.
Allowing personal, scholarly, and artistic voices to... In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examinati...
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542,20 zł |
Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927
ISBN: 9780822327936 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek, Smith uses a host of documents journalistic accounts of strikes, memoirs by former activists, police records to argue that a nationalist movement fueled by the effects of foreign imperialism had a far greater hold on working-class identity than did class...
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late n...
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143,97 zł |
Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973
ISBN: 9780822329077 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between men s and women s participation in Chile s Agrarian Reform movement and considers how conflicts over gender and sexuality shape the contours of working-class struggles and national politics.
Tinsman restores women to a scholarly narrative that has been almost exclusively about men,... Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile s la...
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521,93 zł |
Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973
ISBN: 9780822329220 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between men s and women s participation in Chile s Agrarian Reform movement and considers how conflicts over gender and sexuality shape the contours of working-class struggles and national politics.
Tinsman restores women to a scholarly narrative that has been almost exclusively about men,... Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile s la...
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136,76 zł |
Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
ISBN: 9780822342106 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lauded contribution to historical sociology, "Class and the Color Line" is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the American South during the 1880s and the 1890s. The Knights of Labor and the Populists were the largest and most influential movements of their day, as well as the first to undertake large-scale organizing in the former Confederate states, where they attempted to recruit African Americans as fellow workers and voters.
While scholars have long debated whether the Knights and the Populists were genuine in their efforts to cross the color line, Joseph... A lauded contribution to historical sociology, "Class and the Color Line" is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the Amer...
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490,73 zł |
Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader
ISBN: 9780822941392 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A biography of pan-Africanist and international labour leader, Maida Springer. It documents and analyzes the role played by Springer in international affairs, particularly in the formation of the AFL-CIO's African policy during the Cold War and African independence movements.
A biography of pan-Africanist and international labour leader, Maida Springer. It documents and analyzes the role played by Springer in international ...
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170,43 zł |
Conversations With Maida Springer: A Personal History Of Labor, Race, and International Relations
ISBN: 9780822942313 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Panama in 1910, Maida Springer grew up in Harlem. While still a young girl she learned firsthand of the bleak employment options available to African American females of her time. After one employer closed his garment shop and ran off with the workers wages in the midst of the Depression, Springer joined Local 22 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. This proved to be the first step in a remarkable advancement through the ranks of labor leadership positions that were typically dominated by white men. Ultimately, Springer became one of the AFL-CIO s most important... Born in Panama in 1910, Maida Springer grew up in Harlem. While still a young girl she learned firsthand of the bleak employment options available ... |
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197,62 zł |
Harry, Tom, and Father Rice: Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War
ISBN: 9780822942658 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Hoerr tells the story of three men his uncle, Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice whose lives became intertwined during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy Era. The story helps illuminate one of the more repressive periods in American history, when thousands of Americans guilty only of enlisting in leftist causes were caught up in dragnets cast by overzealous Communist hunters on behalf of the House Un-American Activities Committee and other bodies. Much has been written about well-known cultural figures (the Hollywood Ten), and... John Hoerr tells the story of three men his uncle, Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice whose lives be... |
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170,43 zł |
Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader
ISBN: 9780822958512 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maida Springer was an active participant in shaping a history that involved powerful movements for social, political and economic equality and justice for workers women, and African Americans. "Maida Springer" is the first full-length biography to document and analyze the central role played by Springer in international affairs, particularly in the formation of AFL-CIO s African policy during the Cold War and African independence movements.
Richards explores the ways in which pan-Africanism, racism, sexism and anti-Communism affected Springer s political development, her labor activism,... Maida Springer was an active participant in shaping a history that involved powerful movements for social, political and economic equality and justice...
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129,21 zł |
Harry, Tom, and Father Rice: Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War
ISBN: 9780822959663 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Hoerr tells the story of three men his uncle, Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice whose lives became intertwined during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy Era. The story helps illuminate one of the more repressive periods in American history, when thousands of Americans guilty only of enlisting in leftist causes were caught up in dragnets cast by overzealous Communist hunters on behalf of the House Un-American Activities Committee and other bodies. Much has been written about well-known cultural figures (the Hollywood Ten), and... John Hoerr tells the story of three men his uncle, Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice whose lives be... |
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207,76 zł |
An Open Courtroom: Cameras in New York Courts New York State Committee to Review Audio-Visual Coverage of Court Proceedings
ISBN: 9780823218097 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On June 30, 1997, the experiment, initiated in 1987, that gave trial judges discretion to allow televised and still-camera coverage of civil and criminal trial court proceedings in New York State came to an end. After two years of investigation, a 12-member, state-appointed committee has issued its findings and recommendations on the question of cameras in New York courts. Their results are contained in An Open Courtroom. This book offers: an introduction, executive summary; overview of the committee's work; a summary of the current law; overview of camera laws in other states and in federal...
On June 30, 1997, the experiment, initiated in 1987, that gave trial judges discretion to allow televised and still-camera coverage of civil and crimi...
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279,14 zł |
An Open Courtroom: Cameras in New York Courts New York State Committee to Review Audio-Visual Coverage of Court Proceedings
ISBN: 9780823218103 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On June 30, 1997, the experiment, initiated in 1987, that gave trial judges discretion to allow televised and still-camera coverage of civil and criminal trial court proceedings in New York State came to an end. After two years of investigation, a 12-member, state-appointed committee has issued its findings and recommendations on the question of cameras in New York courts. Their results are contained in An Open Courtroom. This book offers: an introduction, executive summary; overview of the committee's work; a summary of the current law; overview of camera laws in other states and in federal...
On June 30, 1997, the experiment, initiated in 1987, that gave trial judges discretion to allow televised and still-camera coverage of civil and crimi...
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199,91 zł |
The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in the American Cold War
ISBN: 9780826320285 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This impassioned history tells a story of censorship and politics during the early Cold War. The author recounts the 1950 Empire Zinc Strike in Bayard, New Mexico, the making of the extraordinary motion picture Salt of the Earth by Local 890 of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, and the film's suppression by Hollywood, federal and state governments, and organized labor. This disturbing episode reflects the intense fear that gripped America during the Cold War and reveals the unsavory side of the rapprochement between organized labor and big business in the 1950s.... This impassioned history tells a story of censorship and politics during the early Cold War. The author recounts the 1950 Empire Zinc Strike in Bay... |
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186,36 zł |
Labor Mobility and Population in Agriculture
ISBN: 9780837175843 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the report of a conference called in 1960 to analyze the problem of labor supply in, and its transfer from, the agricultural industry.
This is the report of a conference called in 1960 to analyze the problem of labor supply in, and its transfer from, the agricultural industry.
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397,10 zł |
Working from the Margins
ISBN: 9780875463421 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virginia E. Schein shatters the stereotype of mothers on welfare. The women she interviewed in cities, towns, and rural areas talked to her about their deep commitment to the children they are raising in poverty, about the abuse they have endured, about their eagerness for meaningful work, and about their inventiveness in stretching scarce dollars. In a policy debate increasingly dominated by shrill, punitive voices, Schein argues that the experiences and the collective wisdom of these women cannot be ignored.
Virginia E. Schein shatters the stereotype of mothers on welfare. The women she interviewed in cities, towns, and rural areas talked to her about thei...
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177,36 zł |
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto
ISBN: 9780879754464 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an international audience. The world was to learn a new political vocabulary peppered with "socialism," "capitalism," "the working class," "the bourgeoisie," "labor theory of value," "alienation," "economic determinism," "dialectical materialism," and "historical materialism." Marx's economic analysis of history has been a powerful legacy, the effects of...
Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl ...
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60,08 zł |
The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?
ISBN: 9781401309381 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really "have to" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood fail to consider the surprising benefits of work and the unexpected toll of giving it up. It's time, she says, to get the message across--combining work and family really is the best choice for most women, and it's eminently doable. Bennetts and millions of other working women provide ample proof...
Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really "have to" work, it's better for the...
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107,32 zł |
Fathers and Mothers: Dilemmas of the Work-Life Balance: A Comparative Study in Four European Countries
ISBN: 9781402018480 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the risk of sounding frivolous, there is a good case to be made for the argument that women constitute the revolutionary force behind contemporary social and economic transformation. It is in large part the changing role of women that explains the new household structure, our altered demographic behaviour, the growth of the service economy and, as a consequence, the new dilemmas that the advanced societies face. Most European countries have failed to adapt adequately to the novel challenges and the result is an increasingly serious disequilibrium. Women explicitly desire economic...
At the risk of sounding frivolous, there is a good case to be made for the argument that women constitute the revolutionary force behind contemporary ...
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389,98 zł |