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“allison pugh”

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  • The Last Human Job

    Seeing Each Other in an Age of Automation

    by Allison Pugh, Allison Pugh ...
    A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The NationWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Longing and Belonging

    Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture

    by Allison Pugh ...
    Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults continue to spend billions of dollars on children every year. Why do children seem to desire so much, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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    The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a ... Read more

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  • Hood Feminism

    Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 *New York Times-*bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The Atlantic“One of the most important books of the current ... Read more

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  • Going Solo

    The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

    by Eric Klinenberg ...
    With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience.Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even ... Read more

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  • Nice Racism

    How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

    by Dr. Robin DiAngelo ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBuilding on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.**In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also ... Read more

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  • What Works for Women at Work

    Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know

    by Joan C. Williams, Rachel Dempsey, Anne-Marie Slaughter ...
    A mother-daughter legal scholar team "offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women . . . [A]ttention-grabbing revelations" (Debora L. Spar, The New York Times Book Review)What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cited experts on women and ... Read more

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  • Emotional Labor

    The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

    by Rose Hackman ...
    “An urgent look at emotional labor....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possible while the power of care, empathy, and love in action can lead us to the best in our humanity.”― Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair PlayFrom Journalist Rose Hackman, a deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day—and a profound call to ... Read more

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  • Who Cares?

    How to Reshape a Democratic Politics

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
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    The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective.Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit"—that there are simply too many demands on our time to care adequately for children, elderly people, and ourselves—she asks us to ... Read more

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  • The Ring Makes All the Difference

    The Hidden Consequences of Cohabitation and the Strong Benefits of Marriage

    by Glenn T. Stanton ...
    Cohabitation is hands-down the fastest growing family form in the United States and most Western nations. Most of these couples view the arrangement as a step toward marriage, or as a substitute for marriage. But does living together truly give people what they are longing for? Author Glenn Stanton offers a compelling factual case that nearly every area of health and happiness is increased by ... Read more

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  • Rich, Free, and Miserable

    The Failure of Success in America

    by John Brueggemann ...
    Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable-at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface.From a hospital patient reduced to a balance sheet to a parent working ... Read more

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  • The Gender Trap

    Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls

    by Emily W. Kane ...
    A detailed account of how gender is learned and unlearned in the homeFrom the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ground zero for where children learn about gender. Despite recent awareness that girls are not too fragile to play sports and that boys can benefit from learning to cook, we still find ourselves surrounded by limited ... Read more

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