UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The cigarette papers Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics \| Medicine \| Public Policy \| Law \| United States History Publisher's Description: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes - these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it al . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Policies, plans, & people: foreign aid and health development Author: Justice, Judith Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve. Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Public health law and ethics: a reader Author: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law \| Medicine \| Health Care Publisher's Description: This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection e . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: State capitalism and working-class radicalism in the French aircraft industry Author: Chapman, Herrick Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Technology and Society \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Geography \| Politics Publisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Moral communities: the culture of class relations in the Russian printing industry, 1867-1907 Author: Steinberg, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations an . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt Author: Kuhnke, LaVerne Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will gr . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Public health law: power, duty, restraint Author: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law \| Medicine \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Gostin's timely book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the government's inherent responsibility to advance the population's health and well-being, he develops a rich understanding of the government's fundamental powers . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Promoting human wellness: new frontiers for research, practice, and policy Author: Jamner, Margaret Schneider Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Medicine \| Public Policy \| Anthropology \| Aging \| Education Publisher's Description: This book is a state-of-the-art educational resource on the latest research and public-policy developments in the fields of wellness promotion and disease prevention. Based on award-winning lectures by University of California faculty on nine campuses as part of the Wellness Lectures Program jointly . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The activist's handbook: a primer for the 1990s and beyond Author: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| California and the West \| Urban Studies \| American Studies \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: The Activist's Handbook is a hard-hitting guide to winning social change in the 1990s. Randy Shaw, attorney and longtime activist for urban issues, shows how positive change can still be accomplished despite an increasingly grim political order, if activists employ the strategies set forth in this d . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Power and illness: the failure and future of American health policy Author: Fox, Daniel M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology \| Medicine \| History \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Regulatory choices: a perspective on developments in energy policy Author: Gilbert, Richard J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated. The authors of this volume have gathered together an impressive wealth of material . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Gaining ground: tailoring social programs to American values Author: Lockhart, Charles 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics Publisher's Description: Social policy questions present Americans with a cruel dilemma. Most of us will confront hazards, such as illness or aging, against which private personal resources are an inadequate defense. With this in mind, it becomes clear that conditions of our contemporary society make some kinds of public so . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Deceit and denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollution Author: Markowitz, Gerald E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine \| Health Care \| Public Policy \| United States History Publisher's Description: Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Behind the label: inequality in the Los Angeles apparel industry Author: Bonacich, Edna Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems \| California and the West \| Labor Studies \| Economics and Business \| Urban Studies \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In a study crucial to our understanding of American social inequality, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare st . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Importing diversity: inside Japan's JET Program Author: McConnell, David L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Politics \| Education Publisher's Description: In 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to "internationalize" its society. This ambitious program has grown to be a major government operation, with an annual budget of $400 million (greater than the United States NEA . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making sweatshops: the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry Author: Rosen, Ellen Israel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Anthropology \| Politics \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domest . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth century Author: Milkman, Ruth 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology \| Politics Publisher's Description: This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.S. auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. Milkman's ext . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Framing the bride: globalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan's bridal industry Author: Adrian, Bonnie 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| East Asia Other \| Gender Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consider . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The silk weavers of Kyoto: family and work in a changing traditional industry Author: Hareven, Tamara K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, howe . . . [more] Similar Items