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| 1. |  | Title: Between marriage and the market: intimate politics and survival in Cairo  Author: Hoodfar, Homa Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Homa Hoodfar's richly detailed ethnography provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of Arab Muslim families. Focusing on the impact of economic liberalization policies from 1983 to 1993, she shows the crucial role of the household in survival strategies among low-income Egyptians. Hoodfar, an Ira . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Factory daughters: gender, household dynamics, and rural industrialization in Java Author: Wolf, Diane L Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Southeast Asia | Anthropology Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Revolutionizing the family: politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1968 Author: Diamant, Neil Jeffrey 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Politics | China | Sociology | Asian History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this compreh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Paying the price of freedom: family and labor among Lima's slaves, 1800-1854 Author: Hünefeldt, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records - including the testimony of the slaves themselv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Sociology | Labor Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Re-drawing boundaries: work, households, and gender in China Author: Entwisle, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History Publisher's Description: Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform. The contributors are respected sch . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Battling for American labor: wobblies, craft workers, and the making of the union movement Author: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | History | United States History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank-and-file workers and the character of their unions. Battling for American Labor answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Chinese families in the post-Mao era Author: Davis, Deborah 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | China Publisher's Description: How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologist . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Family and frontier in colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 Author: Metcalf, Alida C 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement in a vast and perilous continent. In her revealing community history, Metcalf tells how these settlers pursued family strategies that adapted European custom to the American environment. Turning to recor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The family on trial in revolutionary France Author: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European Studies | French Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The children of NAFTA: labor wars on the U.S./Mexico border Author: Bacon, David 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Labor Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Politics | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book investigates the impact of the North American Fr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Perfectly Japanese: making families in an era of upheaval Author: White, Merry I 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Social Science | Japan | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | Gender Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years - the Meiji era and postwar period - to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: In one's own shadow: an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China Author: Liu, Xin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | China Publisher's Description: China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The middling sort: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 Author: Hunt, Margaret R 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | Social Science Publisher's Description: To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | Title: Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 Author: Frank, Stephen 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | European History | Law | Criminology Publisher's Description: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953 Author: Glosser, Susan L 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | 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 |