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Ordinary Poverty - A Little Food And Cold Storage

de William Difazio

41,01€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers.
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Labor'S Time - Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The

de Jonathan Cutler

41,01€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hour's movement. This work examines the political context in which the shorter hour's movement emerged within Local 600 in the 1940s, then chronicles the attempts by Walter Reuther, the head of the UAW, to suppress it.
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Labor Of Fire - The Ontology Of Labor Between Economy And Culture

de Bruno Gulli

43,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Offers a re-examination of the concept of labour. This title examines, through the work of other social and philosophical critics of labour, how productive labour has been institutionalised and how the nature of labour can be liberated from a purely productive definition.
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Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace - And Industrial Democracy In Progressive

de Richard Greenwald

44,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Challenges our notion of the connections between labour, business, and the state.
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Financialization Of Daily Life

de Randy Martin

39,68€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Takes us through the various aspects of our 'financialization'. This title examines how the shift in economic life arose not only from changes in culture, but also from new policy priorities that emphasize controlling inflation over promoting growth.
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Labor'S War At Home - The Cio In World War Ii

de Nelson Lichtenstein

41,01€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy.
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Financialization Of Daily Life

de Randy Martin

31,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Takes us through the various aspects of our 'financialization'. This title examines how the shift in economic life arose not only from changes in culture, but also from new policy priorities that emphasize controlling inflation over promoting growth.
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Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism - Slovaks And Other New Immigrants In The Interwar Era

de June Granatir Alexander

60,51€

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 Presents the history of inter-war America from the perspective of fresh Slovak and Eastern European immigrant communities. This book adds complexity and nuance to entrenched notions of conflicts between tradition-bound immigrants and their American-born children.
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Las Hermanas - Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism In The U.S. Catholic Church

de Lara Medina

46,35€

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 Examines the early development and continuing influence of Las Hermanas, a feminist organization established in 1971 to counter the patriarchy and Eurocentrism of the US Catholic Church. This title showcases the role played by Las Hermanas in the articulation of a spiritually and politically grounded Latina/Chicana identity.
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Consumed In The City - Observing Tuberculosis At Century'S End

de Paul Draus

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 Shows how tuberculosis epidemic and urban life collide. This book offers a persuasive case for thinking about and treating tuberculosis as an inseparable component of the scourges of poverty, homelessness, AIDS, and drug abuse.
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Labor'S Time - Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The

de Jonathan Cutler

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 The movement for a shorter work week that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized labor in the post-New Deal era. This work examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hours movement.
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Labor'S War At Home - The Cio In World War Ii

de Nelson Lichtenstein

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy. This book is about how World War II changed the face of labor in the US.
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The Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace - And Industrial Democracy In Progressive

de Richard Greenwald

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Challenges our notion of the connections between labour, business, and the state.
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Labor Of Fire - The Ontology Of Labor Between Economy And Culture

de Bruno Gulli

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Offers a re-examination of the concept of labour. This title examines, through the work of other social and philosophical critics of labour, how productive labour has been institutionalised and how the nature of labour can be liberated from a purely productive definition.
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Labor'S Story In The United States

de Philip Nicholson

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 Giving an overview of labor in the United States, this work examines the questions, villains, heroes, and issues of work in America. It considers American labor history from the perspective of institutions and people: the rise of unions, the struggles over slavery, wages, and child labor, and public and private responses to union organizing.
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The Phillies Encyclopedia

de Frank Bilovsky e Rich Westcott

42,49€

portes grátis

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 Recalls various highs and the lows of one of America's storied baseball teams to oldtimers and a generation of fans alike. This title is intended for those wanting to know various facts about baseball's oldest continuous one-city and one-name team.
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Ordinary Poverty - A Little Food And Cold Storage

de William Difazio

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This book takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers.
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Financialization Of Daily Life

de Randy Martin

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Business news, once reserved to specialized papers or sections of the larger news of the day, came to the forefront in cable television and in cultural images of how ordinary people, through the internet and other avenues could master their financial life. This book looks at how this transformation occurred.
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Rule Of Racialization - Class, Identity, Governance

de Steve Martinot

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 Presents the history of the way class formed in the US. This work offers a look at the invention of whiteness and how the inextricable links between race and class were formed in the seventeenth century and consolidated by custom, social relations, and eventually naturalized by the structures that organize our lives and our work.
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Understanding Mainland Puerto Rican Pov

de Susan Baker

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 Provides an understanding of the impoverishment of Puerto Ricans living on the mainland.
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U.S. Army War College - Military Education In A Democracy

de Judith Hicks Stiehm

68,24€

portes grátis

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 Helps readers learn about the faculty, staff, administration, and curriculum of the US Army War College. Established in 1901, the school's mission has evolved from teaching the skills of war to training officers to negotiate both the complex world of modern strategy and the civilian bureaucracy in Washington.
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Philadelphia Area Weather Book

de Jon Nese

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 Written by two of the Philadelphia area's respected meteorologists, this book answers questions about this region's weather and climate, from the Poconos and Philadelphia to southern New Jersey and the Shore to Delaware. It also offers the history of the region's pivotal role in the development of weather science that goes back to colonial times.
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New Jack Jocks - Rebels, Race, And The American Athlete

de Larry Platt

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 Takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love, this title shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand and alter race relations, gender, and how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals.
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Specular City - The Transformation Of Culture, Consumption

de Laura Podalsky

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 Presenting an account of one of the cultural centers of Latin America, this title tells the history of Buenos Aires during the interregnum after Juan Peron's fall from power and before his restoration. It reveals the prominent place of Buenos Aires in the massive changes that Latin America underwent for a modern definition of itself.
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