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Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In Streetwise for Book Smarts, Celina Su examines the efforts of parents and students who sought to improve the quality of education in their local schools by working with grassroots organizations and taking matters into their own hands.
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War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked in the United States, delineating the mechanisms of political development and revealing the ways in which the United States, too, once was a "developing nation."
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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous cultures.
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Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status...
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"Brown" in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the...
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Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture-which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean-and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island...
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Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In Streetwise for Book Smarts, Celina Su examines the efforts of parents and students who sought to improve the quality of education in their local schools by working with grassroots organizations and taking matters into their own hands.
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Hired Hands or Human Resources?: Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In a companion volume to Managing the Human Factor, also from Cornell, Bruce E. Kaufman shows how American firms transitioned from the traditional "hired hand" model of human resource management (HRM) to the modern "human resources" version popular...
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A Shameful Business: The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
This book encourages a bold new vision for workers, whether organized or not, that would signify a radical rethinking of social values and the concept of workplace rights and justice in the courtroom, the boardroom, and on the shop floor.
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Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture-which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean-and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island...
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Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916 (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
Haydu compares the very different employer attitudes and experiences that guided labor-capital relations in two American cities: Cincinnati and San Francisco.
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Melting-Pot Modernism (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
"An intelligent and beautifully written examination of the 'melting pot' as taken up in the work of four modernist writers: Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein."-Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria
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