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Sisterhood and Solidarity : Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984
Sisterhood and Solidarity was one of the first volumes, and remains one of the few, to call attention to the importance of workers’ education for women. The ten original essays, written by some of the best known labor and working-class history scholars of the time, analyze an educational experiment in which industrial, clerical, and service workers participated with educators, feminists, and …
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Open Data in Developing Economies : Toward Building an Evidence Base on What …
Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data’s role and value in low- and middle-income countries, and more generally about its possible contributions to economic and social…
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The governance of female drug users : Women's experiences of drug policy
This book is about the ways in which the governance of illicit drug use shapes female users’ lives. It examines how women drug users’ subjectivities, and hence their experiences, are shaped and regulated by drug policies. The construction of female users’ subjectivities in policy discourse and the impact the characteristics ascribed to them has on these women’s expe…
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Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare. Tan traces this history from the textile-factory power shortages of the late Qing, through the struggle over China's electrical industries during its civil war, to the 1937 Japane…
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Deals and Development
International financial crises have plagued the world in recent decades, including the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the East Asian crisis of the late twentieth century, and the global financial crisis of 2007-09. One of the basic problems faced during these crises is the lack of adequate preventive mechanisms, as well as insufficient instruments to finance countries in crisis and to…
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Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform
This collection examines not only the enormous diversity of imeanings and forms of worker participation in the contemporary period but also its global character. The chapters cover Western and Eastern Europe, the United States and Japan, China, and the Third World. Each of them is informed in some way by the conviction that worker participation is an eminently political phenomenon— that it is…
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Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850
The study of the history of working-class life in America underwent a major transformation in the 1970s. Moving beyond labor history’s earlier institutional paradigm, with its focus on union structures and leaders, the New Labor History expanded its reach into new territories of working-class culture and community, to the point that the field today is generally referred to as Labor and Workin…
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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader
Selected from the pages of Radical America, these articles are a rare combination of labor and social history and contemporary studies of labor movement politics and workplace struggles.
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Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam : a Rising Dr…
Many developing countries—Viet Nam included—continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive forms of agriculture and modern industrial and service sectors. Broad structural transformation and wid…
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The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing : The Feminization of Clerical Labor i…
Samuel Cohn’s critical study of two Victorian British firms represents a radically new examination of women’s work. By contrasting the Post Office, which was the first employer to use female clerks instead of males, and the Great Western Railway, one of the last employers to make this change, Cohn identifies the organizational and economic limits to female employment. The Process of Occupat…
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