Making a Living, Francis, Elizabeth

Автор: Glickman Lawrence B.
Название: A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
ISBN: 0801486149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801486142
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.Nineteenth-century workers hoped to become self-employed artisans, rather than permanent "wage slaves." After the Civil War, however, unions redefined working-class identity in consumerist terms, and demanded a wage that would reward workers commensurate with their needs as consumers. This consumerist turn in labor ideology also led workers to struggle for shorter hours and union labels.First articulated in the 1870s, the demand for a living wage was voiced increasingly by labor leaders and reformers at the turn of the century. Glickman explores the racial, ethnic, and gender implications, as white male workers defined themselves in contrast to African Americans, women, Asians, and recent European immigrants. He shows how a historical perspective on the concept of a living wage can inform our understanding of current controversies.

Автор: Fuchs, Doris A.,
Название: Consumption corridors
ISBN: 036774872X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367748722
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book explores how to enhance peoples` chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, environmental and sustainability studies, but also community activists and the general public.

Автор: Can M. Aybek; Johannes Huinink; Raya Muttarak
Название: Spatial Mobility, Migration, and Living Arrangements
ISBN: 3319345761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319345765
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various types of spatial mobility - be it international or national- on partnership, family and work life.

Автор: Yi Zeng; Kenneth C. Land; Danan Gu; Zhenglian Wang
Название: Household and Living Arrangement Projections
ISBN: 9402404961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402404968
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country. The ProFamy method uses demographic rates as inputs to project detailed distributions of household types and sizes, living arrangements of all household members, and population by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and urban/rural residence at national, sub-national, or small area levels. It can also project elderly care needs and costs, pension deficits, and household consumption. The ProFamy method presented herein has substantial merits compared to the traditional headship rate method, which is not linked to demographic rates and projects limited household types without other household members than "heads". The book consists of four parts. The first part presents the methodology, data, estimation issues, and empirical assessments. The next parts present applications in the United States (part two) and China (part three), concerning demographic, social, economic, and business research; policy analysis, including forecasting future trends of household type/size, elderly living arrangements, disability, and home-based care costs, and household consumption including housing and vehicles. The fourth part includes a user’s guide for the ProFamy software to project households, living arrangements, and home-based consumptions. This book offers an invaluable toolkit for researchers, analysts and students in academic, public and private businesses, whose work is related to levels and rates of change in households, population and consumption patterns.

Автор: Lisa Adkins; Maryanne Dever
Название: The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
ISBN: 1137495537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137495532
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions.

Автор: Can M. Aybek; Johannes Huinink; Raya Muttarak
Название: Spatial Mobility, Migration, and Living Arrangements
ISBN: 3319100203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319100203
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various types of spatial mobility - be it international or national- on partnership, family and work life.

Автор: J?rn H. Kruhl; Rameshwar Adhikari; Uwe E. Dorka
Название: Living Under the Threat of Earthquakes
ISBN: 3319680439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319680439
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book addresses earthquakes, with a special focus on the Ghorka earthquake, which struck parts of central Nepal in April 2015.

Автор: James, Sara (la Trobe University, Australia)
Название: Making a living, making a life
ISBN: 1472484657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472484659
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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In a world in which individuals will undergo multiple career changes, is it possible any longer to conceive of a job as a meaningful vocation? Against the background of fragmentation and rationalisation of work, this book explores the significance and meaning of work in contemporary life, raising the question of whether people continue to feel motivated to dedicate their lives to their work, or must now look to other areas of life for meaning. Based on rich, in-depth interviews conducted with workers of different ages and across a broad range of occupations in the major city of Melbourne, Making a Living, Making a Life reveals that work continues to be a source of pride, passion and purpose, the author shedding light on the ways in which cultural narratives collective feelings and structural factors influence people's feelings about work. An engaging and empirically grounded examination of the meaning and centrality of work to people's lives in today's 'liquid' modern world, this book will appeal to sociologists with interests in cultural sociology, social theory, ethics, the sociology of work and questions of identity.

Автор: Bloch Alice
Название: Living on the Margins
ISBN: 1447319370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447319375
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or `irregular`) migrants living in London, and their employers. It offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses.

Автор: Dinero Steven C.
Название: Living on Thin Ice: The Gwich`in Natives of Alaska
ISBN: 1785331612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785331619
Издательство: Berghahn
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The Gwich’in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century. In the late 20th century, new transportation and communication technologies introduced radically new value systems; while some of these changes may be seen as socially beneficial, others suggest a weakening of what was once a strong and vibrant Native community. Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of the developments that have occurred in the community over the past several decades.

Автор: Agren Maria
Название: Making a Living, Making a Difference
ISBN: 0190240628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190240622
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Making a Living, Making a Difference offers an eye-opening perspective on what men and women in early modern European society did all day. Based on an innovative method and a large data collection of everyday activities, the authors show the ways in which gender and work were linked in early modern society by revealing household, unpaid, and hidden, as well as paid labor.

Автор: Heltberg Rasmus, Hossain Naomi, Reva Anna
Название: Living Through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor
ISBN: 0821389408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821389409
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank. As such, this is not a book about the causes of the crisis or how to prevent future crises. Instead, this book is about how people lived through the severe economic turmoil of recent years, how they were affected, and what they did to cope, presenting the compelling perspectives of affected communities in developing and transition countries on shocks and coping, vulnerability and resilience. The book brings together qualitative crisis monitoring conducted during 2008-2011 in communities in sixteen countries, including eight country case studies that illustrate how people in specific localities were impacted by global shocks, what coping strategies they applied, and which sources of support proved helpful. The studies in this book reveal striking similarities in people’s coping responses across otherwise different countries. They also reveal widespread concern over high and volatile food prices, suggesting that the still ongoing global food crisis needs far more attention from policymakers. As the most comprehensive qualitative research on crisis impacts and coping carried out in developing countries, the book also highlights the capacity for participatory research to pick up impacts and responses that other approaches may miss and contributing to the knowledge of how to qualitatively assess shocks, vulnerability, and resilience. This book will serve as an indispensable source of reference for future crisis monitoring efforts. Written in accessible language, this book will help specialists and non-specialists alike understand how large economic crises impact people and communities and what is the role of public policy in protecting against risk.