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Caring for America

Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

by Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein ...

In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law ... Read more

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In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law
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Public Workers in Service of America

A Reader

by Eileen Boris, Cathleen D Cahill, William Powell Jones, Amy Zanoni, Jon Shelton, Katherine Turk, Joseph E Slater, Francis Ryan ...

Series series Working Class in American History
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American ... Read more

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From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American
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Global Labor Migration

New Directions

by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Joo-Cheong Tham, Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales0, Jenny Chan1, Penelope Ciancanelli2, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos3, Charlie Fanning4, Judy Fudge5, Jorge L Giovannetti-Torres6, Justin Jackson7, Radhika Natarajan8, Pun Ngai9, Bastiaan Nugteren0, Nicola Piper1, Jessica R Pliley2, Devi Sacchetto3, Helen Sampson4, Yael Schacher5, Matt Withers6 ...

Series series Studies of World Migrations
Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living ... Read more

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Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living
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Engendering Transnational Transgressions

From the Intimate to the Global

Edited by Eileen Boris, Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Barbara Molony ...

Series series Women's and Gender History
Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then ... Read more

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Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then
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Making the Woman Worker

Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019

by Eileen Boris ...

Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations. Before WWII, it focused on enhancing conditions for male industrial workers in Western, often imperial, economies, while restricting the circumstances of women's ... Read more

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Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations. Before WWII, it focused on enhancing conditions for male industrial workers in Western, often imperial, economies, while restricting the circumstances of women's
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Doing Recent History

On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back

by Alan Christy, Alice Yang, David Greenberg, Eileen Boris, Gail Drakes, Jennifer Klein, Jeremy Saucier, Julius Bailey, Laura Brown, Martin Meeker, Nancy Kaiser, Shelley Lee, Willoughby Anderson ...

Series series
Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become ... Read more

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Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become
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Homeworkers in Global Perspective

Invisible No More

Edited by Eileen Boris, Lisa Prugl ...

Homeworkers in Global Perspective documents the lives of homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize. Moving away from well-known, already explored cases, the essays focus on less-known but equally compelling examples organize, and covers the major geographic regions of the world and illustrates the diversity of home-based ... Read more

$45.99 USD

Homeworkers in Global Perspective documents the lives of homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize. Moving away from well-known, already explored cases, the essays focus on less-known but equally compelling examples organize, and covers the major geographic regions of the world and illustrates the diversity of home-based
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Intimate Labors

Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care

Edited by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Eileen Boris ...

What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and ... Read more

$24.59 USD

What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and
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North Carolina Women

Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

by Ann Short Chirhart, Emily Wilson, M. Anna Fariello, Jane Becker, Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Jessica Wilkerson, Rebecca Godwin, Joey Fink, Lauren Winner, Melissa Walker Heidari, Heather Bryson, Eileen Boris, Lu Jones, Sarah C. Thuesen, Amy Hill Hearth, Anna Ragland Hayes ...

Series Book 14 - Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the ... Read more

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By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the
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Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century

by Verity Burgmann ...

Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their ... Read more

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The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their
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Business and Conflict in Fragile States

The Case for Pragmatic Solutions

by Brian Ganson, Achim Wennmann ...

Series series Adelphi series
Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security.International policy responds with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old ways of thinking about conflict and fragility, and an age-old fight ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security.International policy responds with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old ways of thinking about conflict and fragility, and an age-old fight
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Democracy in Chains

The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

by Nancy MacLean ...

**Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Read more

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**Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all
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