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After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics 1848-1874by Margot C. FinnISBN 0521404967 (0-521-40496-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Societyby Bertell OllmanISBN 052129083X (0-521-29083-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900by K. D. M. SnellISBN 0521245486 (0-521-24548-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movementby Howard KimeldorfISBN 0520218337 (0-520-21833-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Beneath the Miracle: Labor Subordination in the New Asian Industrialismby Frederic C. DeyoISBN 0520082621 (0-520-08262-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Bernstein : The Preconditions of Socialismby Eduard Bernstein, Henry TudorISBN 0521398088 (0-521-39808-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bernstein : The Preconditions of Socialism'Book summary:This is the first complete new translation of Eduard Bernstein's (1850-1932) famous and influential work. It will provide students with an accurate and unabridged edition of the classic defense of democratic socialism and the first significant critique of revolutionary Marxism from within the socialist movement. First published in 1899, at the height of the Revisionist Debate, it argued that capitalism was not heading for the major crisis predicted by Marx, and that socialism could be achieved by piecemeal reform within a democratic constitutional framework. Bernstein's work is the focal point of one of the most important political debates of modern times, and crucial for the light it casts on "the crisis of Communism." [via]
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Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial Indiaby Gyan PrakashISBN 0521362784 (0-521-36278-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim, and Max Weberby Anthony GiddensISBN 0521097851 (0-521-09785-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States With Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Centuryby David MontgomeryISBN 0521420571 (0-521-42057-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Colored White: Transcending the Racial Pastby David R. RoedigerISBN 0520240707 (0-520-24070-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Colored White reasons that, because race is a matter of culture and politics, racial oppression will not be solved by intermarriage or demographic shifts, but rather by political struggles that transform the meaning of race--especially its links to social and economic inequality. This landmark work considers the ways that changes in immigration patterns, the labor force, popular culture, and social movements make it possible--though far from inevitable--that the United States might overcome white supremacy in the twenty-first century. Roediger's clear, lively prose and his extraordinary command of the literature make this one of the most original and generative contributions to the study of race and ethnicity in the United States in many decades.More editions of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past:
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Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Workby Arlie Russell HochschildISBN 0520214889 (0-520-21488-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work'Book summary:Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three New York Times Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions--indeed, American life itself. This book gathers some of Hochschild's most important and most widely read articles in one place, includes new work, and brings several essays to American audiences for the first time. Each chapter reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work. Taken together, they are a compelling, often startling, look at how our everyday lives are shaped by modern capitalism.[via]
These essays, rich with the details of everyday life, explore larger social issues by looking at a series of intimate moments in people's lives. Among them, "Love and Gold" investigates the globalization of love by focusing on care workers who leave their own children and elderly to care for children and the elderly in wealthy countries. In "The Commodity Frontier," Hochschild considers an Internet ad for a "beautiful, smart, hostess, good masseuse--$400/week," and explores our responses to personal services for hire. In "From the Frying Pan into the Fire" she asks if capitalism is a religion. In addition to these recent essays, several of Hochschild's important early essays, such as "Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers," have been revised and updated for this collection.More editions of Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work:
Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948by Zachary LockmanISBN 0520204190 (0-520-20419-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Confessions of a Union Busterby Martin J. Levitt, Terry Conrow, Terry C. ToczynskiISBN 0517583305 (0-517-58330-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Contested Terrainby Richard C. EdwardsISBN 0465014135 (0-465-01413-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century Englandby Patrick JoyceISBN 0521443342 (0-521-44334-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluenceby Katherine S. NewmanISBN 0520218426 (0-520-21842-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Centuryby Ruth MilkmanISBN 0520206789 (0-520-20678-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Lifeby Robin LeidnerISBN 0520085000 (0-520-08500-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Forged Under the Sun: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas/Forjada Bajo El Solby Fran Leeper BussISBN 0472064320 (0-472-06432-0)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipationby Amy Dru StanleyISBN 0521414709 (0-521-41470-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century Franceby Michael SonenscherISBN 0520058275 (0-520-05827-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Laborby Roger Waldinger, Michael I. LichterISBN 0520231627 (0-520-23162-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Immigrant Workers; Their Impact on American Labor Radicalismby Gerald RosenblumISBN 0465032079 (0-465-03207-9)
Hardcover, Basic Books, inc.
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrioby Philippe BourgoisISBN 0521017114 (0-521-01711-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Powerby Shoshana ZuboffISBN 0465032117 (0-465-03211-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in Californiaby Alexander SaxtonISBN 0520029054 (0-520-02905-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 1882-1914by Gershon ShafirISBN 0520204018 (0-520-20401-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982by Gareth Stedman JonesISBN 0521276314 (0-521-27631-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century Englandby Sonya O. RoseISBN 0520074793 (0-520-07479-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Living My Lifeby Emma GoldmanISBN 0486225437 (0-486-22543-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living My Life'Book summary:Volume 2 of the candid, no-holds-barred account by foremost American anarchist Goldman continues with the fascinating story of her life. Includes eye-opening information on the anarchist movement, details on the author's famous contemporaries, their ideas and their worldwide impact. An amazing read, and a must for history and political science buffs.[via] 
London Labour and the London Poorby Henry MayhewISBN 0486219348 (0-486-21934-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London Labour and the London Poor'Book summary:With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist s eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possÂessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. To pass from one to the other, writes one authority, is to cross sides of the same street. [via]
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Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industryby Ellen Israel RosenISBN 0520233379 (0-520-23337-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feelingby Arlie Russell HochschildISBN 0520239334 (0-520-23933-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling'Book summary:In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a "gift exchange" of acts of emotion management. We bow to each other not simply from the waist, but from the heart.But what occurs when emotion work, feeling rules, and the gift of exchange are introduced into the public world of work? In search of the answer, Arlie Hochschild closely examines two groups of public-contact workers: flight attendants and bill collectors. The flight attendant's job is to deliver a service and create further demand for it, to enhance the status of the customer and be "nicer than natural." The bill collector's job is to collect on the service, and if necessary, to deflate the status of the customer by being "nastier than natural." Between these extremes, roughly one-third of American men and one-half of American women hold jobs that call for substantial emotional labor. In many of these jobs, they are trained to accept feeling rules and techniques of emotion management that serve the company's commercial purpose.Just as we have seldom recognized or understood emotional labor, we have not appreciated it cost to those who do it for a living. Like a physical laborer who becomes estranged from what he or she makes, an emotional laborer, such as a flight attendant, can become estranged not only from her own expressions of feeling (her smile is not "her" smile), but also from what she actually feels (her managed friendliness). This estrangement, though a valuable defense against stress, is also an important occupational hazard, because it is through our feelings that we are connected with those around us. [via]
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Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985by G. SeidmanISBN 0520083032 (0-520-08303-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Marx: Later Political Writingsby Karl Marx, Terrell Carver, Raymond Geuss, Quentin SkinnerISBN 0521367395 (0-521-36739-5)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Mollie Maguires and the Detectivesby Allan PinkertonISBN 0486228983 (0-486-22898-3)
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More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwaveby Ruth Schwartz CowanISBN 0465047327 (0-465-04732-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Museum Of Early American Toolsby Eric SloaneISBN 0486425606 (0-486-42560-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Businessby Barry Bluestone, Irving BluestoneISBN 0465049184 (0-465-04918-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The New Industrial Societyby Bernard A. WeisbergerISBN 0471927228 (0-471-92722-8)
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The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in Americaby Lawrence M. MeadISBN 0465050697 (0-465-05069-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Oilby Upton SinclairISBN 0520207270 (0-520-20727-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Origins of American Social Scienceby Dorothy Ross, Lorraine Daston, Quentin Skinner, James TullyISBN 052142836X (0-521-42836-X)
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The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumerby Juliet SchorISBN 0465060560 (0-465-06056-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Now she is back with a critique of our spending. Schor notes that, despite rising wealth and incomes, Americans do not feel any better off. In fact, we tell pollsters we do not have enough money to buy everything we need. And we are almost as likely to say so if we make $85,000 a year as we are if we make $35,000. Schor believes that "keeping up with the Joneses" is no longer enough for today's media-savvy office workers. We set our sights on the lifestyles of those higher up the organizational chart. We seek to emulate characters on TV. For teenagers, "enough" is the idle splendor that hardly exists outside of what MTV un-ironically calls The Real World. Schor offers an original and provocative analysis of why many Americans feel driven and unhappy despite our success. As an alternative, she profiles several "downshifters" who've taken up voluntary simplicity in search of a more satisfying way of life. No policy solutions suggest themselves this time, only a change of heart. --Barry Mitzman [via]
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Participation and Democratic Theoryby C. PatemanISBN 052129004X (0-521-29004-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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A Reverence for Woodby E. SloaneISBN 0486433943 (0-486-43394-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Rights of Manby Thomas PaineISBN 0486408930 (0-486-40893-0)
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Lifeby Richard L. FloridaISBN 0465024777 (0-465-02477-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life'Book summary:Many writers have commented on the massive social changes of the past few decades, but most of them have treated these shifts as something imposed on us, by technology or the marketplace. This is wrong, says Richard Florida: we've chosen to alter our values, work, and lifestyle, and for good economic reasons. Why have we done this?Florida finds the answer in the rise of a new social class. Like other classes, its basis is economic. Just as the feudal aristocracy derived its identity and values from its hereditary control of land and people, and the bourgeoisie derived its identity and values from its role as merchants of goods, the Creative Class derives its identity and values from its role as purveyors of creativity. When we see ourselves as "creative," our self-image affects the choices we make in every area of our lives.Based on a massive body of research, The Rise of the Creative Class chronicles the ongoing sea-change in people's choices and attitudes, and shows not only what's happening but also how it stems from a fundamental economic change. The Creative Class now comprises nearly forty million Americans, or more than 25% of all employed people. The choices these people make have already had a huge economic impact, and in the future they will determine how the workplace is organized, what companies will prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities will thrive or wither.[via]More editions of The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life:
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Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolutionby Peter Matthiessen, Ilan StavansISBN 0520225848 (0-520-22584-8)
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Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Lifeby Samuel BowlesISBN 0465097189 (0-465-09718-9)
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The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Classby Anna ClarkISBN 0520208838 (0-520-20883-8)
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Theories of Value and Distribution since Adam Smith: Ideology and Economic Theoryby Maurice Herbert DobbISBN 0521099366 (0-521-09936-6)
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0486280624 (0-486-28062-4)
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Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Makingby David Hardman, Laura MacchiISBN 0471494577 (0-471-49457-7)
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The book brings three of the important topics of thinking together - reasoning, judgment and decision making ??? and discusses key issues in each area. The studies described range from those that are purely laboratory based to those that involve experts making real world judgments, in areas such as medical and legal decision making and political and economic forecasting.
- International collection of original chapters by leading researchers in the field
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Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class 1848-1914by Patrick JoyceISBN 052137152X (0-521-37152-X)
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trapby Stephanie CoontzISBN 0465090974 (0-465-09097-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap'Book summary:Did you ever wonder about the historical accuracy of those "traditional family values" touted in the heated arguments that insist our cultural ills can be remedied by their return? Of course, myth is rooted in fact, and certain phenomena of the 1950s generated the Ozzie and Harriet icon. The decade proved profamily--the birthrate rose dramatically; social problems that nag--gangs, drugs, violence--weren't even on the horizon. Affluence had become almost a right; the middle class was growing. "In fact," writes Coontz, "the 'traditional' family of the 1950s was a qualitatively new phenomenon. At the end of the 1940s, all the trends characterizing the rest of the twentieth century suddenly reversed themselves." This clear-eyed, bracing, and exhaustively researched study of American families and the nostalgia trap proves--beyond the shadow of a doubt--that Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary.
Gender, too, is always on Coontz's mind. In the third chapter ("My Mother Was a Saint"), she offers an analysis of the contradictions and chasms inherent in the "traditional" division of labor. She reveals, next, how rarely the family exhibited economic and emotional self-reliance, suggesting that the shift from community to nuclear family was not healthy. Coontz combines a clear prose style with bold assertions, backed up by an astonishing fleet of researched, myth-skewing facts. The 88 pages of endnotes dramatize both her commitment to and deep knowledge of the subject. Brilliant, beautifully organized, iconoclastic, and (relentlessly) informative The Way We Never Were breathes fresh air into a too often suffocatingly "hot" and agenda-sullied subject. In the penultimate chapter, for example, a crisp reframing of the myth of black-family collapse leads to a reinterpretation of the "family crisis" in general, putting it in the larger context of social, economic, and political ills.
The book began in response to the urgent questions about the family crisis posed her by nonacademic audiences. Attempting neither to defend "tradition" in the era of family collapse, nor to liberate society from its constraints, Coontz instead cuts through the kind of sentimental, ahistorical thinking that has created unrealistic expectations of the ideal family. "I show how these myths distort the diverse experiences of other groups in America," Coontz writes, "and argue that they don't even describe most white, middle-class families accurately." The bold truth of history after all is that "there is no one family form that has ever protected people from poverty or social disruption, and no traditional arrangement that provides a workable model for how we might organize family relations in the modern world."
Some of America's most precious myths are not only precarious, but down right perverted, and we would be fools to ignore Stephanie Coontz's clarion call. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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What Do Unions Do?by Richard B. Freeman, James L. Medoff, Richard B. FeemanISBN 0465091334 (0-465-09133-4)
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White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Cultureby Neil FoleyISBN 0520207246 (0-520-20724-6)
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White Servitude in Colonial Americaby David GalensonISBN 052127379X (0-521-27379-X)
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White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysisby David W. GalensonISBN 052123686X (0-521-23686-X)
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Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolutionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486299740 (0-486-29974-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolution'Book summary:When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality.[via]
Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly all-male canon of American economic and social thought. She stresses the connection between work and home and between public and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women's entry into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a win-win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would no longer be deprived of women's particular abilities, and men would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and express the emotional sustenance of family life.
The thorough and stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides substantial information about Gilman's life, personality, and background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and social thought.More editions of Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolution:
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Women at Work: 153 Photographs by Lewis Hineby Lewis W Hine, Jonathan L. Doherty, INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT GISBN 0486241548 (0-486-24154-8)
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Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848by William Hamilton SewellISBN 0521299519 (0-521-29951-9)
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Workers Control in Americaby David MontgomeryISBN 0521280060 (0-521-28006-0)
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Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, And Labor Strugglesby David MontgomeryISBN 0521225809 (0-521-22580-9)
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Working People of Californiaby Daniel CornfordISBN 0520088654 (0-520-08865-4)
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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbsby David R. RoedigerISBN 0465070744 (0-465-07074-4)
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Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in Textile City, 1914-1960by Gary GerstleISBN 0521424615 (0-521-42461-5)
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