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Offers a study of the role of Puerto Rican women workers in the evolution of a transnational labor force in the twentieth century. This book examines Puerto Rican women workers, both in Puerto Rico and on the US mainland. It contains a range of information - historical, ethnographic, and statistical.

Depicting a stage of Salvadoran history that began in 1979, this book offers analysis of the transformation of El Salvador during the 1980's under the impact of revolution and counterinsurgency. It traces the historical roots of the Salvadoran insurgency.

Whether temp life is a preferred choice or grudgingly accepted as the last option when 'real' or permanent work is unavailable, all temps must confront issues of gender, identity, and self-esteem. This book examines these issues, documenting the concerns and interpretations of temp workers about their own work lives.

Law reform struggles have always been a part of the grassroots lesbian and gay agenda. This work examines the politics of these engagements, of lesbians, gay men, and the law in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It combines fresh conceptual insights with a concern for the practicalities of political engagements.

Most history books paint Philadelphia as a place of revolutionary greatness, but there exists a forgotten, alternative history of the City of Brotherly Love. For example, did you know that when Ben Franklin was Deputy Postmaster General for the American colonies, he ignored rival printers' requests for mailing priveleges.

Uncovers the innovations in writing that accompanied the market society - the penny newspapers' grandiose boastings, the poetic catalogues of Walt Whitman, the sentimental realism of charity workers, the sensationalism of slum visitors, and the complex urban encounters of Herman Melville's fiction.

As new jails fill up almost as soon as they open, conflict continues to grow among public officials, who, in turn, create policies that do little more than avoid blame and temporarily control the crisis. This book proposes that we can understand this crisis by tracing the interdependence of the jail system with local agencies of criminal justice.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is one of the nation's oldest and most influential voices for equality in education, the professions, and public life. Tracing the history of the AAUW, this title provides a perspective on the meaning of feminism for women in mainstream liberal organizations.

Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. This collection reflects on their lives, which represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history.

Presents a comprehensive account of how the Ninth Amendment could be, and has been, used to secure and preserve individual rights. This work explores the Ninth Amendment's original meaning and function, and the intention of its authors to prevent the creation of implied powers in the federal government.

Given the evolutionary and developmental processes that form a human being, can we believe that people can make rational and autonomous choices about their lives? The author examines the naturalistic meaning that can be assigned to moral agency, choice, and responsibility, in order to assert the conjunction between ethics and metaphysics.

Pulling together evidence about the aims of public education, the changing legal status of children, and the values underlying freedom of expression, this title debates the relationship between constitutional litigation and the dual pursuits of academic excellence and classroom order.

Proposes a different strategy for producing decent, affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizations. This book analyzes the limitations of both profit-oriented developers and public agencies as the primary vehicles for developing low- and middle-income housing.

Monterey Park, California, was dubbed by the media as the "First Suburban Chinatown." This book reports on how pervasive anti-Asian sentiment fueled a series of initiatives intended to strengthen "community control. It also explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organizing tools and weapons.

Presents personal and professional accounts of methods of conception for those coping with infertility.

Tells the story of a city fighting for survival. This work includes interviews with numerous Detroit activists and observers, depicting people from various walks of life who share a common commitment to the rejuvenation of their home. Their stories highlight the contributions of working class and minorities, the struggles of women, and more.

A reinterpretation of New Deal liberalism and industrial relations, this work reveals that Democrats helped create and then undermine the modern labor movement. It traces the auto industry's development from a virtual dictatorship in the 1920s to pluralist democracy in the 1930s and 1940s.

Father Paul M Washington rose to local and nation prominence as an unflagging supporter of civil and women's rights. His story offers an insight into the struggles for justice and dignity in the latter half of the twentieth century.

In 1990, Hartford, Connecticut, ranked as the eight poorest city in the country. The harsh economic times felt throughout the city's workplaces and neighborhoods precipitated the formation of grassroots alliances between labor and community organizations. This text offers an insider's view of these coalitions.

An examination of the dilemmas of integrating America's suburbs. This work documents the desirability, feasibility, and legality of implementing housing diversity policies in the suburbs. It compares Cleveland's suburbs to suburbs around the country that have both failed and succeeded in reducing housing discrimination.

Between 1870 and 1942, successive generations of Asians and Asian Americans predominantly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino formed the predominant body of workers in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. This study traces the shifts in the ethnic and gender composition of the cannery labor market from its origins through it decline.

Examines the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Ida B Wells, W E B Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Jesse Jackson to show how black leaders have employed American jeremiad to create a variant that is specifically Afro-American.

Countering the Dickensian stereotypes, this work portrays how three private orphanages in Baltimore responded to the need of poor, single parents for boarding schools for their children. This work contains portraits that are accompanied by institutional records, letters from the children, and published autobiographies.

Talks about steps towards understanding "street people" in Santa Barbara - and everywhere.

In 1988, Marianne Paget published the "Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work" in which she argued that error is an intrinsic feature in medicine an experimental and uncertain activity. This work presents a collection of her personal and professional writings on the phenomenon of error in medicine.

Develops a systematic comparison of the 'old' and 'new' world orders that links foreign and domestic affairs. By examining the issues that are central to any realignment of American politics, this title offers an account of the possibilities and obstacles for progressive change over the 1990s.

Recounts the adventures of 15 psychologists who encountered research situations that were especially interesting, problematic, or required some creative form of resolution. This book provides an insight into the psychological research process in such basic areas as development, biopsychology, sensation and perception, learning, memory, and more.

How do female municipal leaders influence policymaking in American cities? Can gender determine who gets a say in local politics or what programs cities fund? These are some of the questions raised and answered in Mirya Holman's provocative Women in Politics in the American City.   This book provides the first comprehensive evaluation of the influence of gender on the behavior of mayors and city council members in the United States. Holman considers the effects of gender in local, urban politics and analyzes how a leader's gender does-and does not-influence policy preferences, processes, behavior, and outcomes.   Holman effectively uses original survey data to evaluate policy attitudes, combined with observations of city council meetings and interviews with leaders and community members. In doing so, she demonstrates the importance of considering the gender of leaders in local office.  Women in Politics in the American City emphasizes that the involvement of women in local politics does matter and that it has significant consequences for urban policy as well as state and local democracy.

Weaves together the diverse voices of kids and working artists with play scholarship.

Explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently.