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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781440865152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (414 pages)
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    Keywords: Minderheit ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; USA ; Electronic books
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520968097
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (161 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Einkaufswagen ; Lebensmittelproduktion ; Verbraucherverhalten ; USA
    Abstract: Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.
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    Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781119549680
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (195 Seiten)
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Unternehmenskultur ; USA ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Lanham : Lexington Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781498517812
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
    DDC: 305.868073
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    Keywords: Bracero Program ; Mexikaner ; Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer ; USA
    Abstract: As the first and largest guestworker program, the U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program (1942-1964) codified the unequal relations of labor migration between the two nations. This book interrogates the articulations of race and class in the making of the Bracero Program by introducing new syntheses of sociological theories and methods to center the experiences and recollections of former Braceros and their families.
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    Walnut Creek : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781598746686
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (244 pages)
    Series Statement: Heritage, Tourism & Community v.4
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Tourismus ; Gedenkstätte ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Elfter September ; USA
    Abstract: Memorial sites, sites of âdark tourism,â are vernacular spaces that are continuously negotiated, constructed, and reconstructed into meaningful places. Using the locale of the 9/11 tragedy, Joy Sather-Wagstaff  explores the  constructive role played by tourists in understanding social, political, and emotional impacts of a violent event that has ramifications far beyond the local population. Through in-depth interviews, photographs, graffiti, even souvenirs, she compares the 9/11 memorial with other hurtful sitesâthe Oklahoma City National Memorial, Vietnam Veteranâs Memorial, and othersâto show how tourists construct and disperse knowledge through performative activities, which make painful places salient and meaningful both individually and collectively.
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    Palo Alto : Stanford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780804798730
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    DDC: 338.476413020973
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    Keywords: Lebensmittelproduktion ; Biologischer Pflanzenbau ; Alternativbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: Drawing on extensive interviews and archival sources, Growing Markets, Cultivating Change tells a new story about the organic foods sector. Michael A. Haedicke shows how the development of this market was spurred on by attempts to reconcile diverging goals of expansion and social transformation.
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781479840595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (347 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alter ; Heranwachsender ; Altern ; Soziale Norm ; Bürgerrecht ; Kultur ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Ithaca : Cornell University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781501702952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (267 pages)
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Ethnische Identität ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    New York : Russell Sage Foundation | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781610448444
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    DDC: 306.85/08623
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2015 ; Arbeiterklasse ; Familie ; Soziale Situation ; Familienstruktur ; USA
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    New York : Basic Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780465029952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 483 Seiten)
    Edition: 10th Anniversary Edition
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Kreativität ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Technischer Fortschritt ; USA
    Abstract: The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities.
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    Berlin : Duncker & Humblot | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783428519156
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (489 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Schriften zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte - Band 82 v.82
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    Keywords: Sozialer Wandel ; Lebenslauf ; Einkommensentwicklung ; Generationenvertrag ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Hauptbeschreibung Die Generation hat alle Aussichten, im 21. Jahrhundert die zentrale Kategorie der Verteilung von Einkommen, Vermögen und Status zu werden, nachdem im 19. Jahrhundert die Klasse und im späten 20. Jahrhundert das Geschlecht die Verteilungsdebatten beherrschten. Die Auseinandersetzung um die Verteilungsgerechtigkeit zwischen den Generationen begann mit besorgten Fragen nach der Zukunft der Alterssicherung. Sie hat sich inzwischen aber auf alle Lebensalter ausgeweitet. Die intergenerative Verteilung wird als Generationenvertrag bezeichnet. Das Ziel des Generationenvertrages ist die Stabilisierung des Lebenseinkommens. Die mittlere Generation sorgt mit ihrer Erwerbs- und Familientätigkeit für die Jugend, die noch nicht für sich selbst sorgen kann, und für die ältere Generation, die der Unterstützung bedarf. Der Verfasser zeigt drei historische Modelle des Generationenvertrages, den traditionellen, den bürgerlichen und den modernen Generationenvertrag.   Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhaltsübersicht: Erstes Kapitel: Eine neue Dimension der Einkommensverteilung: Handlungskompetenz im Lebenslauf - Verteilungsmodelle - Die Gestaltung des Lebenseinkommens - Zweites Kapitel: Abschied von der alten Welt: Komplementäre Lebenswege - Jugend - Beruf - Familie - Alter - Drittes Kapitel: Die Konstituierung des bürgerlichen Generationenvertrages: Der doppelte Standardlebenslauf - Jugend - Beruf - Die bürgerlich Familie - Alter - Viertes Kapitel: Reform und Krise: Stabilisierung und Destabilisierung des Lebenslaufs - Jugend - Beruf - Die Familie zwischen Reform und Repression - Alter - Fünftes Kapitel: Der bürgerliche Generationenvertrag im Sozialstaat: Die Spätzeit des bürgerlichen Generationenvertrages - Jugend - Beruf - Familie - Alter - Sechstes Kapitel: Ein Umweg: Der asymmetrische Standardlebenslauf - Jugend - Beruf - Familie - Alter - Siebtes Kapitel:...
    Abstract: Der Generationenvertrag in der postindustriellen Gesellschaft: Ein neuer Generationenvertrag - Jugend - Beruf - Der Wandel der Familie - Alter - Die intergenerative Einkommensverteilung - Achtes Kapitel: Der Generationenvertrag im vereinten Deutschland: Vielfalt der Lebensform - Jugend - Beruf - Familie - Alter - Die intergenerative Einkommensverteilung - Epilog: Erfahrungen und Perspektiven: Verteilungsgerechtigkeit - Demographischer Wandel - Wirtschaftliches Wachstum - Markt, Solidarität und Staat - Quellen und Literatur - Archive - Gedruckte Quellen - Darstellungen - Sachwortverzeichnis   Rezension "[.] Aus der Fülle der Anregungen und Einsichten, die man aus der Lektüre dieses bemerkenswerten Bandes gewinnen kann, können hier nur einige wenige hervorgehoben werden. Für mich besonders eindrucksvoll gelungen erscheint der Nachweis einer sozialen Konstruktion des sogenannten 'Normalarbeitsverhältnisses', das die Arbeitsmarktpolitik bis in die Gegenwart so nachdrücklich und, wie ich meine, verhängnisvoll prägt. Erst nach Überwindung der 'alten Welt' konnte Lohnarbeit zur vorherrschenden Form der Erwerbstätigkeit werden. Zunächst prägten noch prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse und instabile Beschäftigungsformen das Bild. Doch im Laufe der Entwicklung, insbesondere wegen des außerordentlich starken Wirtschaftswachstums und einer entsprechenden Wohlstandssteigerung des industriekapitalistischen Systems, gelang es mehr und mehr, auch die Erwerbsbiografien der Lohnarbeiter zu stabilisieren. Zum Leitbild einer Erwerbstätigkeit wurde nunmehr die vollständige (männliche) Erwerbsbiographie, das sogenannte 'Normalarbeitsverhältnis'. Zwar blieben Risikobiografien für zahlreiche Arbeiter auch weiterhin Realität, doch wurden sie in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung, insbesondere in den 'goldenen' 1960er und 1970er Jahren an den Rand gedrängt. Mittlerweile sind wir
    Abstract: hingegen, nicht zuletzt wegen der Arbeitsmarktkrise am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts, mit der 'Erosion des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses' und der Rückkehr prekärer Arbeitsverhältnisse massiv konfrontiert. Dies ist aber offenbar noch nicht hinlänglich in das Bewußtsein der Betroffenen und der Öffentlichkeit gedrungen, was naturgemäß auch die aktuellen Bezüge der vorliegenden Arbeit unterstreicht. Diese knappen Hinweise vermögen das Verdienst der Studie längst nicht erschöpfend zu würdigen. Eine besondere Kennerschaft des Autors wird z. B. bei der Diskussion verschiedener sozialpolitischer Maßnahmen deutlich, bei der er zum Teil auf archivalische Quellen zurückgreifen kann. Ansonsten schöpft er aus der umfangreichen und komplexen Literatur zu den angesprochenen Themen. Kurzum: ein lesenswertes Buch, das viele Anregungen zu geben vermag und dessen menschenfreundliche Prosa zudem die schwierige Lektüre gelegentlich zu einem Vergnügen werden läßt." Toni Pierenkemper, in: Historische Zeitschrift, 2007, Band 284.
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    München : Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783960912866
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (102 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1967-1971 ; Film ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Kulturindustrie ; Kritische Theorie ; USA
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    Albany : State University of New York Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781438432687
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (282 pages)
    Series Statement: SUNY Series in Gender Theory
    DDC: 305.48/896073
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    Keywords: Feministische Philosophie ; Schwarze ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807888889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (417 pages)
    DDC: 306.30973/09034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1865-1920 ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Sozialer Wandel ; Weltbürgertum ; USA
    Abstract: Shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women, Hoganson makes it clear that globalization did not just happen beyond America’s shores, as a result of American military might and industrial power, but that it happened at home, thanks to imports, immigrants, geographical knowledge, and consumer preferences.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520942462
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 973.0046872
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2005 ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Mexikaner ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Houston, Tex. ; Mexiko
    Abstract: Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400829743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
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    Keywords: Kapitalismus ; Soziale Bewegung ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: Great individuals are assumed to cause the success of radical innovations--thus Henry Ford is depicted as the one who established the automobile industry in America. Hayagreeva Rao tells a different story, one that will change the way you think about markets forever. He explains how "market rebels"--activists who defy authority and convention--are the real force behind the success or failure of radical innovations. Rao shows how automobile enthusiasts were the ones who established the new automobile industry by staging highly publicized reliability races and lobbying governments to enact licensing laws. Ford exploited the popularity of the car by using new mass-production technologies. Rao argues that market rebels also establish new niches and new cultural styles. If it were not for craft brewers who crusaded against "industrial beer" and proliferated brewpubs, there would be no specialty beers in America. But for nouvelle cuisine activists who broke the stranglehold of Escoffier's classical cuisine in France, there would have been little hybridization and experimentation in modern cooking. Market rebels also thwart radical innovation. Rao demonstrates how consumer activists have faced down chain stores and big box retailers, and how anti-biotechnology activists in Germany penetrated pharmaceutical firms and delayed the commercialization of patents. Read Market Rebels to learn how activists succeed when they construct "hot causes" that arouse intense emotions, and exploit "cool mobilization"--unconventional techniques that engage audiences in collective action. You will realize how the hands that move markets are the joined hands of market rebels. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226903347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
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    Keywords: Alter ; Lebensbedingungen ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The original essays and commentary in this volume-the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program-address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. The contributors examine social security reform, including an analysis of the Japanese system; present the startling finding that the vast majority of people choose the wrong accumulation strategies for their pension plans; explore the continuing consequences of the decline in support of parents by children in the postwar period; investigate the relation between nursing home stays and the source of payment for the care; and offer initial findings on the implications of differences between developed and developing countries for understanding aging issues and determining appropriate directions for research.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226903262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
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    Abstract: This companion volume to The Economics of Aging (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226066226
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
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    Keywords: Kommunikation ; Informationstheorie ; Philosophie ; Information ; Sozialer Wandel ; Jahrtausendwende
    Abstract: Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information. "[Borgmann] has offered a stunningly clear definition of information in Holding On to Reality. . . . He leaves room for little argument, unless one wants to pose the now vogue objection: I guess it depends on what you mean by nothing."-Paul Bennett, Wired "A superb anecdotal analysis of information for a hype-addled age."-New Scientist "This insightful and poetic reflection on the changing nature of information is a wonderful antidote to much of the current hype about the 'information revolution.' Borgmann reminds us that whatever the reality of our time, we need 'a balance of signs and things' in our lives."-Margaret Wertheim, LA Weekly.
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    London : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781848605572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
    Series Statement: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politische Ökonomie ; Postkolonialismus ; Sozialer Wandel ; Moderne ; Theorie
    Abstract: "An outstanding contribution to our understanding of postcolonial theory and its engagement with significant changes within the contemporary world. Couze Venn forces us to rethink the very parameters of the post-colonial and suggests a new political economy for post-modern times. This critical engagement opens up the possibility to reimagine the world from its current narrow European strictures to a world full of alternative possibilities and modernities... This is a timely and ground breaking book that contributes to a much needed reconceptualisation of the postcolony".  - Professor Pal Ahluwalia, Goldsmiths, University of London What is postcolonial studies? What are its achievements, strengths and weaknesses? This ground breaking book offers an essential guide to one of the most important issues of our time, with special emphasis on neo-liberalism within world poverty and the 'third world'. It clarifies: The territory of postcolonial studies How identity and postcolonialism relate The ties between postcolonialism and modernity New perspectives in the light of recent geo-political events Potential future developments in the subject.
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    Berkerley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520939196
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (311 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Frau ; Berufstätigkeit ; USA
    Abstract: A social transformation of profound proportions has been unfolding over the second half of the twentieth century as women have turned from household work to wages as the key source of their livelihood. This timely study, a broad comparative analysis of African American women's and white women's changing relationships to home and work over the past forty years, at last provides a wide-ranging overview of how this shift is influencing the shape of families and the American economy. Susan Thistle brings together diverse issues and statistics--the plight of single mothers; the time crunch faced by many parents; the problem of housework; patterns of work, employment and marriage; and much more--in a rich and engaging analysis that draws from history, economics, political science, sociology, government documents, and census data to put gender at the center of the social and economic changes of the past decades. With its broad historical and theoretical sweep, clear charts and tables, and accessible writing, From Marriage to the Market will be an essential resource for understanding the tumultuous changes currently transforming American society.
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    New York : Columbia University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780231510981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (89 pages)
    Series Statement: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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    Keywords: Transplantation ; Ethik ; Körperbild ; Wertwandel ; USA
    Abstract: The human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, they have also irrevocably altered perceptions of the cultural values assigned to the body. In Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies, Lesley A. Sharp probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair. She also considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and controversy. A compelling scientific investigation and social critique, Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies explores the pervasive, and at times pernicious, practices shaping American biomedicine in the twenty-first century.
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    Armonk : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781317460640
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (416 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1976-2000 ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Ländlicher Raum ; China
    Abstract: This book reports the findings of two field studies conducted between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China. The authors describe the process of rural urbanization and its related economic, social, and political changes by focusing mainly on the zhen (town), in addition to administrative offices and companies involved in the local economy, and village committees. The authors show that the social changes resulting from China's economic reforms are occurring mainly from below, and that this process is also resulting in a weakening of the economic and political dominance of the central government. Other changes discussed in this study include the development of new ownership structures and the increasing dominance of the private sector; a shift in the functions of administrative offices as the bureaucracy becomes increasingly business oriented; the rise of a new local elite; a rebirth of traditional social structures (clans, local associations); and the emergence of new interest groups and institutions to represent their needs.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203168295
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (348 pages)
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    Series Statement: Economics as Social Theory
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    Keywords: Kosten ; Familie ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Kind ; Lateinamerika ; Nordwesteuropa ; USA
    Abstract: Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction: * Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare. * Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on their own, with little or no assistance from fathers. * The growth of state spending is often blamed on malfunctioning markets, or runaway bureaucracies. But a large percentage of social spending provides substitutes for income transfers that once took place within families. Who Pays for the Kids? explains how this paradoxical situation has arisen. The costs of social reproduction are largely paid by women: men have remained extremely reluctant to pay their share of the costs of raising the next generation. Traditional theories - neo-classical, Marxist and Feminist - can only provide an incomplete account of this, and this book offers an alternative analysis, based on individual choices but within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, age, sex, nation, race and class.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203499719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.809073
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Philosophie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511210679
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    DDC: 305.89607300922
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Intellektueller ; Philosophie ; Politisches Denken ; Konfliktlösung ; USA ; Biographie
    Abstract: Essays that focus on the complexity of the thought of five major African-American intellectuals.
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    London : Pluto Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781849644990
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 pages)
    DDC: 306.4/0973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945- ; Weiße ; Schriftsteller ; Literaturproduktion ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; USA
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814744598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Cultural Front
    DDC: 305.809/073
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    Keywords: Weiße ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Nationalcharakter ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA
    Abstract: What comes after white becomes a minority in the United States.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203204245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (227 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.4201
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    Keywords: Frauenemanzipation ; Ich-Identität ; Feminismus ; Identität ; USA
    Abstract: What does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosophy, particularly the anglo-analytic tradition, needs to tackle the issues of the self, identity, autonomy and self creation. Although identity has been a central concern of feminist thought it has in the main been excluded from philosophical analysis. Feminisms and the Self is both a critique and a construction of feminist philosophy. After the powerful challenges that postmodernism and poststructuralism posed to liberation movements like feminism, Griffiths book is an original and timely contribution to current debate surrounding the notion of identity and subjectivity.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203439357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.5/53
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    Keywords: Modernisierung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftliche Elite ; Wissenschaftler
    Abstract: This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also warns of the greed and corruption of their elites, aking whether corruption rather than ideology caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and if Anglo-American capitalism is likely to go the same way.
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781847790156
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    DDC: 306.36
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Arbeit ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: Bringing fresh insights to the contemporary globalization debate, this text reveals the social and political contests that give "global" its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalization as it is expressed in the restructuring of work. Louise Amoore rejects conventional explanations of globalization as a process that automatically leads to transformations in working lives, or as a project that is strategically designed to bring about lean and flexible forms of production, and advances an understanding of the social practices that constitute global change. Through case studies that span from the labour flexibility debates in Britain and Germany to the strategies and tactics of corporations and workers, the author examines how globalization is interpreted and experienced in everyday life and argues that contestation has become a central feature of the practices that enable or confound global restructuring.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780198020899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
    DDC: 305.4209730904
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    Keywords: Arbeitswelt ; Gleichberechtigung ; Wirtschaftliche Betätigung ; USA
    Abstract: This volume pierces the skin of arguments and legislation to grasp the preconceptions that have shaped the experience of women: a "gendered imagination" that has defined what men and women alike think of as fair and desirable. The role of the breadwinner is investigated as a prime example.
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    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781452267029
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
    DDC: 305.260973
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    Keywords: Altenpolitik ; Alter ; USA
    Abstract: This groundbreaking book provides comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field in the US and internationally. The body of work presented in this volume, in developing this critical perspective, aims to contribute to the understanding of old age and aging in the context of problems and issues of the larger social order in the world's most advanced capitalist nation, the U.S.A.. Since Estes' first writing on the political economy of aging in 1979, there has been growing recognition and incorporation of her critical perspective as one of the major paradigms in the field of aging.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816691173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (274 pages)
    DDC: 306.308996073
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Jugend ; Verbraucherverhalten ; USA
    Abstract: What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the consumer lives of poor and working-class black children, Elizabeth Chin enters the world of children living in hardship in order to understand the ways they learn to manage living poor in a wealthy society.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400822096
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (198 pages)
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Weiße ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassismus ; Schwarze ; Ethnische Identität ; USA
    Abstract: In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; together they provide a compelling response to our nation's most vexing problem. Appiah begins by establishing the problematic nature of the idea of race. He draws on the scholarly consensus that "race" has no legitimate biological basis, exploring the history of its invention as a social category and showing how the concept has been used to explain differences among groups of people by mistakenly attributing various "essences" to them. Appiah argues that, while people of color may still need to gather together, in the face of racism, under the banner of race, they need also to balance carefully the calls of race against the many other dimensions of individual identity; and he suggests, finally, what this might mean for our political life. Gutmann examines alternative political responses to racial injustice. She argues that American politics cannot be fair to all citizens by being color blind because American society is not color blind. Fairness, not color blindness, is a fundamental principle of justice. Whether policies should be color-conscious, class conscious, or both in particular situations, depends on an open-minded assessment of their fairness. Exploring timely issues of university admissions, corporate hiring, and political representation, Gutmann develops a moral perspective that supports a commitment to constitutional democracy. Appiah and...
    Abstract: Gutmann write candidly and carefully, presenting many-faceted interpretations of a host of controversial issues. Rather than supplying simple answers to complex questions, they offer to citizens of every color principled starting points for the ongoing national discussions about race.
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    Wiesbaden : VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften GmbH | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783322973481
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (376 pages)
    Series Statement: Berichte der Kommission Für Die Erforschung des Sozialen und Politischen Wandels in Den Neuen Bundesländern E. V. : (KSPW) Ser. v.4
    DDC: 305.23109431
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    Keywords: Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialisation ; Berufslaufbahn ; Bildungswesen ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
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    Montreal : MQUP | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780773563230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
    Series Statement: Comparative Charting of Social Change v.4
    DDC: 944.083
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-1990 ; Sozialer Wandel ; Trend ; Frankreich
    Abstract: Over the three decades from 1960 to 1990, French society underwent a spectacular transformation due to the baby boom, which was particularly broad-based and prolonged in France and caused the population to climb by a full one-third. At the same time, the French economy expanded and the pace of modernization picked up, with the result that the wealth of the French quadrupled in a single generation. The turning point between the reconstruction and development period and the period of profound social change appears to have been 1965. The baby boom was over by then, and the production system was shifting in orientation. No longer dominated by the growth of basic industries, production was now starting to focus on consumer goods and services.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816683543
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages)
    DDC: 302.230973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Werbung ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Massenkultur ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen offer a telling examination of the rise of mass-produced imagery in the United States, tracing the pivotal role that such images played in the genesis and development of the American imagination. Beginning with the rise of the machine and the emergence of consumerism as a common way of life, the authors lay a strong foundation for an understanding of the twentieth-century American media culture. Spanning a wide range of fascinating subjects-movies, fashion, tabloid journalism-Ewen and Ewen offer forceful insights into the mechanisms that link alluring images and popular imagination to the entrenched structures of power. Channels of Desire seeks to broaden our understanding of the social history behind the apparent immortality of a consumer society-its universe of commodities, its priorities and social forms, and the modern consumer ethic that stresses images over substance, desire over satisfaction, and the individual over society.
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    Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783110857757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (393 pages)
    Series Statement: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] v.102
    DDC: 306.01
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    Keywords: Kulturelle Identität ; Stadtentwicklung ; Semiotik ; USA ; Südasien
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780198020806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages)
    DDC: 306.30973
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    Keywords: Management ; Täuschung ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Verbraucher ; USA
    Abstract: How pervasive is deception in the American marketplace? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg not only reveals the extent to which fraud is practiced on the American consumer, but offers a penetrating analysis of its causes and social consequences. Among the evidence Blumberg examines are 600 accounts by workers in such businesses as restaurants, gas stations, and drug stores of the fraudulent practices of their employers. Here are eye-opening accounts of gas station owners selling regular gas as high test, auto mechanics who spray-paint old parts and sell them as new, pharmacists who sell generic drugs at brand-name prices, and more. Blumberg suggests that dishonesty is all but built into the American marketplace, and that its social effects include the loss of trust and community.
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