Persistent Callings: Seasons of Work and Identity on the Oregon Coast, Joseph E. Taylor

Автор: Kevin M. Levin
Название: Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War`s Most Persistent Myth
ISBN: 1469653265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469653266
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms.

Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.

Автор: Howard Botwinick
Название: Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity under Capitalist Competition
ISBN: 9004269584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004269583
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 176660.00 T
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Описание: Economists generally assume that wage differentials among similar workers will only endure when competition in the capital and/or labor market is restricted. In contrast, Howard Botwinick uses a classical Marxist analysis of real capitalist competition to show that substantial patterns of wage disparity can persist despite high levels of competition. Indeed, the author provocatively argues that competition and technical change often militate against wage equalization. In addition to providing the basis for a more unified analysis of race and gender inequality within labor markets, Botwinick’s work has important implications for contemporary union strategies. Going against mainstream proponents of labor-management cooperation, the author calls for militant union organization that can once again take wages and working conditions out of capitalist competition.This revised edition was originally published under the same title in 1993 by Princeton University Press.

Автор: Schwehn Kaethe, Lagerquist L. DeAne
Название: Claiming Our Callings: Toward a New Understanding of Vocation in the Liberal Arts
ISBN: 0199341052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199341054
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This volume shows how attention to vocation promotes the civic good promised by liberal arts education. The contributors claim their own academic callings and reflect on their practices for fostering students` ability to claim their vocations.

Автор: George Pierre Castile, Gilbert Kushner
Название: Persistent Peoples: Cultural Enclaves in Perspective
ISBN: 081653571X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816535712
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Описание: What constitutes a people? Persistent Peoples draws on enduring groups from around the world to identify and analyze the phenomenon of cultural enclavement. While race, homeland, or language are often considered to be determining factors, the authors of these original articles demonstrate a more basic common denominator: a continuity of common identity in resistance to absorption by a dominant surrounding culture.

Contributors:

William Y. Adams
George Pierre Castile
N. Ross Crumrine
Timothy Dunnigan
Charles J. Erasmus
Frederick J. E. Gorman
Vera M. Green
William B. Griffen
Robert C. Harman
Mark P. Leone
Janet R. Moone
John van Willigen
Willard Walker