Cornell university press jun 1999 (24 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For retired steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, the label 'working class' fits comfortably. Questioning the widely held view that laborers in postwar America have adopted middle-class values, Robert Bruno shows that in this community a blue-collar identity has provided a positive focus for many residents.The son of a Youngstown steelworker, Bruno returned to his hometown seeking to understand the formation of his own working-class consciousness and the place of labor in the larger capitalist society. Drawing on interviews with dozens of former steelworkers and on research in local archives, Bruno explores the culture of the community, including such subjects as relations among co-workers, class antagonism, and attitudes toward authority. He describes how, because workers are often neighbors, the workplace takes on a feeling of neighborhood. He also demonstrates that to understand class consciousness one must look beyond the workplace, in this instance from Youngstown's front porches to its bowling alleys and voting booths. Written with a deeply personal approach, Steelworker Alley is a richly detailed look at workers which reveals the continuing strength of class relationships in America.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on theories of power and the creation of subjects, Cruikshank argues that individuals in a democracy are made into serf-governing citizens through the small. scale and everyday practices of voluntary associations, reform movements, and social service programs. She argues that our empowerment is a measure of our subjection rather than of our autonomy from power. Through a close examination of several contemporary American 'technologies of citizenship' -- from welfare rights struggles to philanthropic self-help schemes to the organized promotion of self-esteem awareness -- she demonstrates how social mobilization reshapes the political in ways largely unrecognized in democratic theory. Although the impact of a given reform movement may be minor, the techniques it develops for creating citizens far extend the reach of governmental authority.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - B. Netanyahu, one of the world's foremost medievalists, has made a lifelong project of studying the historical evolution of Marranism and seeking to ascertain the genesis of the Spanish Inquisition. In this seminal work, which opened an ongoing debate on the nature of conversion and belief in late medieval Spain, Netanyahu analyzes evidence on the Marranos contained in the Hebrew sources.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lorraine begins by distinguishing between 'conceptual' and 'corporeal' considerations of subjectivity and by reviewing recent interdisciplinary efforts to theorize the body. She then turns to Irigaray and Deleuze, finding in the former's notion of the 'feminine other' and in the latter's unique conceptions of nomadic thinking, inspiration for a model designed to overcome mind/body dualisms. Her analysis of Irigaray and Deleuze suggests a conception of humanity which amounts to a visceral philosophy - a way of thinking that is receptive to the fluxes of dynamic life forces.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Jeffrey S. Ravel depicts the scene in the parterre where the male spectators occupied themselves shoving one another, drinking, urinating and confronting the actors with critiques of the performance. He traces the futile efforts of the Bourbon Court - and later its Enlightened opponents - to control parterre behaviour by both persuasion and force. Ravel describes how the parterre came to represent a larger, more politicized notion of the public, one that exposed the inability of the government to accommodate the demands of French citizens.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The contributing authors focus on the insights that analyses of race and racism can make to philosophy - not just to ethics and political philosophy but also to the more abstract debates of metaphysics, philosophy of mind and epistemology. Contemporary philosophy, the authors argue, continues to evade racism and, as a result, often helps to promote it. At the same time, anti-racist theorists in many disciplines regularly draw on crucial notions of objectivity, rationality, agency, individualism and truth without adequate knowledge of philosophical analyses of these very concepts. The text seeks to demonstrate the impossibility of talking thoughtfully about race without recourse to philosophy.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The importance of customer service is widely emphasized in business today. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the organization and dynamics of front-line work. The volume is based on a five-year study of over a thousand employees and eight leading companies in the United States, Australia, and Japan.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What causes war How can military conflicts best be prevented In this book, Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of interstate war.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For each case, Steinberg closely examines the labour process, industrial organization, social life, community politics, discursive struggles and collective actions. By describing how workers shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in their daily lives, he shows how discourses of contention were products of struggle and how they framed possibilities for collective action. Embracing work in literary theory, sociocultural psychology and cultural studies, the book claims a middle ground between postmodern and materialist analyses.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks central topics in political theory, including the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.