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  • Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France

    To Be like Everyone Else

    Edited by Olivier Masclet, Thomas Amossé, Lise Bernard, Marie Cartier, Marie-Hélène Lechien, Olivier Schwartz, Yasmine Siblot ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subaltern jobs.Presenting a score of household portraits – urban, suburban, and rural – the authors examine what it means to ‘get by’ in France today, considering the material and symbolic resources that these households can muster, and the practices that ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

    by Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. ... Read more

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  • The New Parisienne

    The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

    by Lindsey Tramuta, Joann Pai ...
    "Tramuta sweeps away the tired clichés of the Parisian woman with her vivid profiles of the dynamic and creative 'femmes' now powering the French capital." —Eleanor Beardsley, NPR Paris correspondentThe New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white, lithe, ever fashionable—Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Au Contraire!

    Figuring Out the French

    by Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron ...
    "I find Au Contraire! delightfully validating - a great piece of work." - Nancy Bragard, Franco-American interculturalist, trainer and coachThe French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it, exactly, that makes the French so . . . French?Written for anyone interacting with the French-tourists, businesspeople ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Social Structures of the Economy

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Why Work?

    Economics and Work for People and Planet

    by Peter Merry ...
    We humans are born to be full of life, expressing all different parts of ourselves through creativity while building a vibrant world together. The current world of work deadens this human potential by only valuing that which adds to abstract economic indicators and deprives us of the time and space to contribute in ways that are meaningful and empowering. Why Work? shows us how we can change our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The New Spirit of Capitalism

    by Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalismIn this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that beginning in the mid-1970s, capitalism ... Read more

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  • Ending Poverty

    A Basic Income for all Canadians

    by Francois Blais ...
    As Canada's social safety net continues to be eroded and the gap between rich and poor in our society continues to grow, it becomes increasingly urgent to confront the problems of poverty in fresh and creative ways.Political scientist François Blais offers a bold new proposal to assist the poorest and most disadvantaged in our society: a guaranteed basic income, or allowance, to be paid to every ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership

    To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner

    by Lyse Langlois ...
    Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains that an enhanced awareness of the process of ethical decision making in difficult situations ... Read more

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  • French Management

    Elitism in Action

    by Jean-Louis Barsoux, Peter Lawrence ...
    This fascinating book is an account of management in the contemporary French business world. The formal nature of work relations and the rituals of French business life are analyzed and set against the role of senior executives, and the book looks at the corporate culture of four leading, but very different companies* Michelin* L'Air Liquide* L'Oreal* Carrefour.Also included is an examination of ... Read more

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  • The Feel of the City

    Experiences of Urban Transformation

    by Nicolas Kenny ...
    At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Fatal Isolation

    The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

    by Richard C. Keller ...
    In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck in August 2003, leaving 15,000 dead. They died alone in Paris and its suburbs, and were then buried at public ... Read more

    $27.39 USD