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Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries

The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

by Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerome Scott ...

Series series Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries offers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Scott and Katz-Fishman share the rich story of the League, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry ... Read more

$28.49 USD

Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries offers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Scott and Katz-Fishman share the rich story of the League, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry
... Read more
A Right to Health

Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil

by Jessica Scott Jerome ...

Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
In 1988, a new health care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally established in Brazil. The system was intended, among other goals, to provide universal access to health care services and to redefine health as a citizen’s right and a duty of the state. A Right to Health explores how these goals have unfolded within an urban peripheral community located ... Read more

$20.89 USD

In 1988, a new health care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally established in Brazil. The system was intended, among other goals, to provide universal access to health care services and to redefine health as a citizen’s right and a duty of the state. A Right to Health explores how these goals have unfolded within an urban peripheral community located
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Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization

The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy

by Marina A. Adler, Cyrus Bina, Chuck Davis, Julia D. Fox, David Gartman, John C. Leggett, Ife Modupe, Robert E. Parker, Harland Prechel, Jerome Scott, Behzad Yaghmaian, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerry Lembcke ...

This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. Many chapters analyze changing dynamics of gender, nationality, and ... Read more

$55.99 USD

This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. Many chapters analyze changing dynamics of gender, nationality, and
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Public Sociologies Reader

by Michael Burawoy, Charles A. Gallagher, Kenneth Gould, Arlette Grabczynska, Keri Iyall-Smith, Núria Homedes, Alberto Moncada, Jill Quadagno, Barbara Risman, Havidán Rodríguez0, Deanna Rohlinger1, Carla N. Russell2, Jerome Scott3, Antonio Ugalde4, Angela J. Hattery5, Jerry Pubantz6, John Allphin Moore Jr.7, Judith Blau8, Gerard Delanty0, Walda Katz-Fishman1, Anthony M. Orum2, Robert Pollin3, William I. Robinson4, Earl Smith5, Jackie Smith6 ...

At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants of American sociology would have applauded the 2004 meetings of the American Sociological ... Read more

$55.09 USD

At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants of American sociology would have applauded the 2004 meetings of the American Sociological
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Globalization and America

Race, Human Rights, and Inequality

by Cynthia Bejarano, David Embrick, Mary Hovsepian, Linda Lopez, Alberto Moncada, Mercedes Rubio, Rogelio Saenz, Jerome Scott, Ruth Thompson-Miller, Amy E. Ansell, Judith R. Blau, Karen M. Douglas, Joe R. Feagin, M Cristina Morales, Douglas A. Parker, Pat Rubio Goldsmith, James M. Thomas, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, David L. Brunsma, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Walda Katz-Fishman, Mary Romero ...

Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States' role in contributing to human rights violations both inside and outside its borders. Essays on ... Read more

$45.99 USD

As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States' role in contributing to human rights violations both inside and outside its borders. Essays on
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Social Movements 2e

by Suzanne Staggenborg ...

Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's,
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When the Clock Broke

Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

by John Ganz ...

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie BestsellerA Barack Obama summer reading pickOne of Publishers Weekly's ten best books of 2024"Terrifi... ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie BestsellerA Barack Obama summer reading pickOne of Publishers Weekly's ten best books of 2024"Terrifi...
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The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

by Ijeoma Oluo ...

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last ... Read more

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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last
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Understanding Development

by Paul Hopper ...

Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

$25.00 USD

Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and
... Read more
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

by Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford ...

“Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American InnocenceAccording to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history—news that slavery is a thing of the past, that we don’t live on stolen land, that ... Read more

$16.99 USD

“Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American InnocenceAccording to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history—news that slavery is a thing of the past, that we don’t live on stolen land, that
... Read more
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

America and the World in the Free Market Era

by Gary Gerstle ...

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces- ... Read more

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The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces-
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Our Own Worst Enemy

The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

by Tom Nichols ...

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to ... Read more

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A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to
... Read more

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