Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and by Sheila H. Akabas,Paul A. Kurzman

Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice (Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series)

-- Lawerence S. Root, professor on the university of Social paintings and director of the Institute of work and business family members on the college of Michigan

Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care

Our bodies in insurrection argues that the americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) may well humanize capitalism by means of turning employers into care-givers, growing an ethic of care within the office. not like different feminists, Ruth O'Brien bases her ethics no longer on benevolence, yet fairly on self-preservation. She is determined by Deleuze's and Guttari's interpretation of Spinoza and Foucault's belief of corporeal resistance to teach how a place of work ethic that's neither communitarian nor individualistic might be dependent upon the rallying cry "one for all and all in favour of one.

Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom)

Within the towns of Northeast Brazil the place 50 in line with cent of the inhabitants lives in poverty, young ones play a key function within the neighborhood economy—in their families, in formal jobs, and within the thriving casual zone (washing automobiles, shining sneakers, scavenging for recyclables, and so on. ). Why little ones migrate to town, how they negotiate their lifestyles, and why they remain are only many of the questions addressed during this attention-grabbing examine.

From Alienation to Addiction: Modern American Work in Global Historical Perspective (U.S. History in International Perspective)

Over the last 200 years, paintings stories have replaced vastly, inflicting new concerns reminiscent of heightened boredom and alienation, but additionally new degrees of obsession with paintings. This e-book seems on the glossy alterations in paintings, analyzing international styles but in addition precise beneficial properties of the paintings tradition within the usa.