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Chaos On The Shop Floor

de Tom Juravich

32,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Offers a useful ethnography of factory life in the industrial periphery.
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Engineering Culture - Control And Commitment In A High-Tech Corporation

de Gideon Kunda

44,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Presents an ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. This book offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated "corporate culture."
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Work Without End - Abandoning Shorter Hours For The Right To Work

de Benjamin Hunnicutt

38,36€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines the period from 1920 to 1940 during which the shorter hour movement ended and the drive for economic expansion through increased work took over. This book traces the political, and social dialogues that changed the American concept of progress from dreams of leisure in which to pursue the higher things in life to an obsession.
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Reducing Workweeks

de Fred Best

94,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 International competition and variable economic conditions have brought the threat of layoffs to the doorsteps of workers and managers in all sectors of our economy. One response to this problem is Unemployment Insurance-Supported Work Sharing. This book provides a balanced assessment of this policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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Pedal To The Metal - The Work Life Of Truckers

de Lawrence Ouellet

55,58€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An ethnography of trucking culture, this work documents and analyzes truckers' lives and work ethic, exploring the range of identities truckers create for themselves the renegade cowboy, the company man, the voyeur, the lone king of the road. It examines the meaning of work and the motivation for excelling despite long hours on the road.
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Lost Talent

de Sandra Hanson

61,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 "Sandra Hanson demonstrates the progressive loss of women to science--and science to women--through discriminatory actions and policies of key institutions and unequal resources offered to young women and men. Her detailed analyses disclose the complex process by which gender, race and class determine who stays in science--and why." --Mary Frank Fox, School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of TechnologyIn this pathbreaking book, Sandra Hanson asks what compels so many talented young women to leave the professions of science and mathematics? When do they leave and why? Why do equally qualified girls and boys have such different experiences with science education? What are the patterns for women who do stay in school and pursue a scientific career? What difference does family background make? Exactly how significant are differences of race and class?In this research project, Hanson examines several unusually large and subtle, nationally representative, longitudinal data sets. The data include information on a multitude of distinctions by race, class background, school experiences, school resources, to name a few. Hanson examines this information with a particular focus on the differences in achievement within and across the disciplines, varying access to physical resources, and differential activities in both math and science for young women in the education process.The challenge faced by the United States in the next two decades is developing a balanced, qualified, and well-trained workforce for jobs in science and other technical fields. For Hanson it includes equity for women and creating conditions such that young girls who start out doing well in science do not end up with little training and knowledge. The recovery of this "lost talent" is the central concern of this book."Lost Talent compels us to think about the experiences of women in science in an entirely new and comprehensive way--how they differ from men in their activities, achievement, access, and attitudes about science. Particularly refreshing is Hanson''s recognition that women scientists are not a monolithic group. I found her broadened focus on women of various race and ethnic groups more inclusive and informative that previous books on women in science."--Shirley Vining Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Special Populations Group, Educational Testing Service"Lost Talent is a pathbreaking work. It is concerned with the relatively low long term rate of female involvement and achievement in science. Much of the effort to understand the origins of these phenomena has focused on single factors, usually examined at a moment in time, and frequently based on unrepresentative samples and inconsistent measures. Sandra Hanson seeks to remedy many of these deficiencies in this book. Her dynamic, multidimensional approach deepens our insights into the complex patterns and produces new evidence about the trajectories of these women among the various states of science involvement within the education system and their major determinants. It will be required reading for all who seek to better our understanding of this important issue."--Alan Fechter,, President, Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology
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Technology Assessment - A Feminist Perspective

de Janine Morgall

47,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Investigates two areas of technology that affect women's lives: productive (clerical work) and reproductive (health care). Case studies of clerical workers and health care recipients illustrate gender-specify effects of technology, ranging from word processors to treatments for infertility.
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Origins Of Southern Sharecropping

de Edward Royce

118,59€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Highlighting the conflict-ridden nature of the process of social change, this work includes descriptions of the plantation system and gang labor, the freed slaves' dream of forty acres and a mule, the black colonization movement, the Freedman's Bureau, and racial relations after the war.
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Organizing In Hard Times - Labor And Neighborhoods In Hartford

de Louise Simmons

47,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In 1990, Hartford, Connecticut, ranked as the eight poorest city in the country. The harsh economic times felt throughout the city's workplaces and neighborhoods precipitated the formation of grassroots alliances between labor and community organizations. This text offers an insider's view of these coalitions.
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Broken Promise - The Subversion Of U.S. Labor Relations

de James Gross

50,28€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Wagner Act of 1935 (later the Wagner-Taft-Hartley Act of 1947) was intended to democratize vast numbers of American workplaces: the federal government was to encourage worker organization and the substitution of collective bargaining for employers' unilateral determination of vital work-place matters.
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Solidarity And The Politics Of Anti-Politics - Opposition And Reform In Poland Since 1968

de David Ost

47,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Offers an analysis of Solidarity, from its ideological origins in the Polish "new left," through the dramatic revolutionary months of 1980-81, and up-to the union's resurgence in 1988-89, when it sat down with the government to negotiate Poland's future.
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Professions And The State - Expertise And Autonomy In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

de Anthony Jones

101,36€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The first survey of the major professions in the USSR
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Communities In Economic Crisis

de John Gaventa

48,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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.
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Newcomers In Workplace - Immigrants And The Restructing Of The U.S. Economy

de Louise Lamphere

48,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Documents and dramatizes the changing face of the American workplace, transformed in the 1980s by immigrant workers in all sectors. This collection of ethnographies aims to capture the stench of meatpacking plants, the clatter of sewing machines, the sweat of construction sites, and the strain of management-employee relations.
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Mayan Drifter - Chicano Poet In The Lowlands Of America

de Juan Herrera

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 Journeys to the Maya Lowlands of Chiapas on a quest for the author's Indio heritage and a vision of the multicultured identity emerging in America. This book attempts to shed the trappings and privileges of his life in California in order to reduce his distance from the dispersed and shrinking Mayan population.
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The Solicitor General - The Politics Of Law

de Rebecca Mae Salokar

36,04€

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 Shows that politicization of the Justice Department makes the work of the nation's lawyer an integral component of executive policy-making. Focusing on the selection of solicitors general and the political and legal environment, this work analyzes the Supreme Court cases in which the government was a participant from 1959 through 1986.
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Organizing In Hard Times - Labor And Neighborhoods In Hartford

de Louise Simmons

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 In 1990, Hartford, Connecticut, ranked as the eight poorest city in the country. The harsh economic times felt throughout the city's workplaces and neighborhoods precipitated the formation of grassroots alliances between labor and community organizations. This text offers an insider's view of these coalitions.
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Toxic Work - Women Workers At Gte Lenkurt

de Steve Fox

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 In 1971, when General Telephone and Electric relocated its GTE Lenkurt plant to Albuquerque, New Mexico, city fathers were elated. GTE Lenkurt became the largest manufacturing employer in the state. This title uncovers more than 200 GTE workers (95 per cent of them women, 70 per cent of them Hispanic), each of them had an array of health problems.
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Work Without End - Abandoning Shorter Hours For The Right To Work

de Benjamin Hunnicutt

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 Examines the period from 1920 to 1940 during which the shorter hour movement ended and the drive for economic expansion through increased work took over. This book traces the political, and social dialogues that changed the American concept of progress from dreams of leisure in which to pursue the higher things in life to an obsession.
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Issei, Nisei, War Bride - Three Generations Of Japanese American Women In Domestic Service

de Evelyn Glenn

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 Presents a study of Japanese American women employed as domestic workers. This book addresses issues about the nature of labour systems in capitalist economies, the role of immigrant and racial ethnic women in those systems, and the consequences of participation in race and gender stratified systems for minority families and communities.
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Their Day In The Sun

de Ruth Howes

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 The public perception of the making of the atomic bomb is an image of the efforts of a few brilliant male scientists. However, the Manhattan Project also included women in every capacity. This title presents the story through interviews, written records, and photographs of the women who were physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and technicians.
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Identity And Power - Puerto Rican Politics And The Challenge Of Ethnicity

de Jose Cruz

83,69€

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 Argues that fragmentation and instability occur when the differences are ignored and nonethnic strategies are employed. This book focuses on one group of Puerto Ricans and how they mobilized to demand accountability from political leaders in Hartford, Connecticut, to illustrated this point.
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One-Eyed Science - Occupational Health And Women Workers

de Karen Messing

87,55€

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 After decades of research by the author and her colleagues into what women do in positions such as bank teller, secretary, waitress, nurse, factory worker, and poultry processor, the author is astonished to find that for many policymakers, researchers, and activists, the topic of women's occupational health doesn't exist.
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We Cant Eat Prestige

de John Hoerr

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 On the contrary, the women workers of Harvard University created a powerful and unique union - one that emphasizes their own values and priorities as working women and rejects unwanted aspects of traditional unionism. This book explodes the belief that women white-collar workers tend to reject unionization and accept a passive role in workplace.
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