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Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930
ISBN: 9780822327325 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers. Challenging earlier interpretations of women s economic role in Chile s industrial growth, which took at face value census figures showing a dramatic decline in women s industrial work after 1907, Hutchison shows how the spread of industrial...
In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the gr...
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476,07 |
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Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930
ISBN: 9780822327424 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers. Challenging earlier interpretations of women s economic role in Chile s industrial growth, which took at face value census figures showing a dramatic decline in women s industrial work after 1907, Hutchison shows how the spread of industrial...
In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the gr...
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155,45 |
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Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America
ISBN: 9780822334361 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shiao shows how two local foundation offices produce different diversity policies and funding profiles in Cleveland and San Francisco three decades after the Civil Rights movement.
Shiao shows how two local foundation offices produce different diversity policies and funding profiles in Cleveland and San Francisco three decades af...
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476,07 |
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Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America
ISBN: 9780822334477 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Diversity" has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In "Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity," Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout American society in the post-civil rights era. By creating and institutionalizing diversity policies, these private organizations have quietly transformed the practice of affirmative action. Shiao describes how, from the 1960s through the 1990s, philanthropies responded to immigration, the...
"Diversity" has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In "Identifying Talent, Institutiona...
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135,98 |
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Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization
ISBN: 9780822336693 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labor migrate abroad, these workers remain Indian citizens, living and working in India. A. Aneesh calls this phenomenon "virtual migration," and in this groundbreaking study he examines the emerging "transnational virtual space" where labor and vast quantities of code and data cross national boundaries, but the workers themselves do not. Through an...
Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, an...
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116,54 |
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Homestead Strike 1892
ISBN: 9780822953104 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1893 Arthur Burgoyne, one of Pittsburgh s most skilled and sensitive journalists, published "Homestead," a complete history of the 1892 Homestead strike and the ensuing conflict between the Carnegie Steel Company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Accurate, readable, and judiciously balanced in assigning blame, this work gives crucial insight into a turbulent period in Pittsburgh s history."
In 1893 Arthur Burgoyne, one of Pittsburgh s most skilled and sensitive journalists, published "Homestead," a complete history of the 1892 Homestead s...
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114,03 |
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Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
ISBN: 9780822954262 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners. The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the... The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, inv... |
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91,22 |
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The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel
ISBN: 9780822954668 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the events of the lockout and their significance in the broad context of America's Guilded Age. Utilizing extensive archival material, much of it heretofore unknown, he reconstructs the social, intellectual, and political climate of the burgeoning post-Civil War steel industry.
Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the eve...
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148,24 |
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Crisis in Bethlehem
ISBN: 9780822958116 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize winner John Strohmeyer's account of the collapse of Bethlehem Steel. As editor of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Globe-Times from 1956 to 1984, Strohmeyer followed the steel industry from the height of its power through its decline. He evaluates the self-indulgence of both the unions and industry management and movingly describes the human agony caused by the failure of steel. His account is reinforced by over one hundred interviews with steelworkers, union leaders, steel executives, and industry analysts. First issued in 1986, the book is more significant than ever. In...
Pulitzer Prize winner John Strohmeyer's account of the collapse of Bethlehem Steel. As editor of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Globe-Times from ...
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218,36 |
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Spoiled Silk: The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike
ISBN: 9780823221332 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a new life in America's first industrial city, Paterson NJ, nourishing a vision of their adopted country that was never to be. Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their follow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the midst of the turbulence that surrounded them. Their efforts contributed in the long run to improved working conditions in American mills, but their dream of a socialist America was never to be realized. It was in...
Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a new life in America's first i...
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344,90 |
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Spoiled Silk: The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike
ISBN: 9780823221349 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a new life in America's first industrial city, Paterson NJ, nourishing a vision of their adopted country that was never to be. Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their follow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the midst of the turbulence that surrounded them. Their efforts contributed in the long run to improved working conditions in American mills, but their dream of a socialist America was never to be realized. It was in...
Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a new life in America's first i...
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150,59 |
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Women and Work: A Handbook
ISBN: 9780824076474 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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631,52 |
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Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920
ISBN: 9780824809560 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,76 |
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Reshaping the North American Automobile Industry: Restructuring, Corporatism and Union Democracy in Mexico
ISBN: 9780826453181 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restucturing in the automobile industry in North and Central America. The focus is on the automobile industry in Mexico, which, because of its size and importance, is viewed as a strategic sector of the Mexican economy and was the focal point of talks between the US, Canada and Mexico during negotiations on NAFTA. Focusing on the period from 1980, John P. Tuman examines the changes implemented by firms to promote export production, he explores reasons for the variation in labour responses to restructuring, and...
This work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restucturing in the automobile industry in North and Central Americ...
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874,41 |
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Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study
ISBN: 9780826454379 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination has been the recent history of unions in the USA. American models of renewal have inspired Australia, New Zealand and the UK, while Canada has undergone a cautious examination of the US model with an...
This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New...
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349,71 |
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Paternalism in the Japanese Economy: Anthropological Studies of Oyabun-Kobun Patterns
ISBN: 9780837164243 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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357,95 |
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Wage Behavior in the Postwar Period: An Empirical Analysis, by William G. Bowen
ISBN: 9780837170138 / Angielski / Twarda / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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281,24 |
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Labor's Grass Roots: A Study of the Local Union
ISBN: 9780837170640 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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230,11 |
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The Impact of Strikes: Their Social and Economic Costs
ISBN: 9780837170664 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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357,95 |
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Wives and Mothers in Victorian Industry
ISBN: 9780837170787 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Margaret Hewitt discusses the growth of the factory system in England as it affected the home and family life of married women employed in mills and factories.
Margaret Hewitt discusses the growth of the factory system in England as it affected the home and family life of married women employed in mills an... |
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357,95 |