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| 81. |  | Title: Money and the modern mind: George Simmel's Philosophy of money Author: Poggi, Gianfranco Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Social Science | Philosophy | Economics and Business | Social Theory | European Studies Publisher's Description: A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money , published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be reade . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 82. |  | Title: Reorganizing the Rust Belt: an inside study of the American labor movement Author: Lopez, Steven Henry 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Labor Studies | Public Policy | Anthropology | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: This gripping insider's look at the contemporary American trade union movement shows that reports of organized labor's death are premature. In this eloquent and erudite narrative, Steven Henry Lopez demonstrates how, despite a hostile legal environment and the punitive anti-unionism of U.S. employer . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 83. |  | Title: Toil and toxics: workplace struggles and political strategies for occupational health  Author: Robinson, James C. (James Claude) 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Labor Studies | Sociology | Public Policy | Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 84. |  | Title: Life without disease: the pursuit of medical utopia Author: Schwartz, William B 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Economics and Business | History and Philosophy of Science | Public Policy Publisher's Description: The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 85. |  | Title: To have and have not: southeast Asian raw materials and the origins of the Pacific War Author: Marshall, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Public Policy | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business | Politics Publisher's Description: Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities - rubber, oil, and tin - that drew t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 86. |  | Title: Technology and scholarly communication Author: Ekman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Media Studies | Technology and Society | Library Science | Reference | Economics and Business | Electronic Media Publisher's Description: Electronic publishing has been gaining ground in recent years and is now a recognized part of the digital world. In the most comprehensive assessment of electronic publishing to date, thirty-one scholars, librarians, and publishers focus specifically on scholarly publishing. They analyze a number of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 87. |  | Title: Industrial cowboys: Miller & Lux and the transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 Author: Igler, David 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies | California and the West | Agriculture | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 88. |  | Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs Author: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Public Policy | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 89. |  | Title: What justice? whose justice?: fighting for fairness in Latin America Author: Eckstein, Susan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Conservation | Latin American Studies | Politics | Postcolonial Studies | Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: The new millennium began with the triumph of democracy and markets. But for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices? Blending macro-level global and national analysis with in-depth grassroots detail, the contributors highlight roots of injustices, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 90. |  | Title: Rule of experts: Egypt, techno-politics, modernity Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | Economics and Business | Middle Eastern History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 91. |  | Title: Working families: the transformation of the American home Author: Hertz, Rosanna Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Politics Publisher's Description: The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift - the rise of dual-income families - this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the Uni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 92. |  | 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 |
| 93. |  | Title: Fast food, fast talk: service work and the routinization of everyday life Author: Leidner, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Economics and Business | Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Food and Cooking Publisher's Description: Attending Hamburger University, Robin Leidner observes how McDonald's trains the managers of its fast-food restaurants to standardize every aspect of service and product. Learning how to sell life insurance at a large midwestern firm, she is coached on exactly what to say, how to stand, when to make . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 94. |  | Title: Tracing the veins: of copper, culture, and community from Butte to Chuquicamata Author: Finn, Janet L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | American Studies | California and the West | Economics and Business | Environmental Studies | Latino Studies Publisher's Description: This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel proces . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 95. |  | Title: Tobacco war: inside the California battles Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Public Policy | Politics | Social Problems | Economics and Business | Medicine | Environmental Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton . . . [more] Similar Items |