Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Reform in the Civil ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Proposed Reclassification Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Reform in the Civil ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Sorting Things Out
Author: Geoffrey C. BowkerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262522950
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification—the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.
Reclassification of Certain Positions in the Postal Field Service, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Position Classification ... 90-1, on H.R. 7 and Related Bills to Reclassify Certain Positions in the Postal Field Service, April 27; May 2, 9, 10, 11, 16, and 17, 1967
Author: United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Managing White Supremacy
Author: J. Douglas SmithPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century.
Employment Relationship Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Author: United States. Employment Standards Administration. Wage and Hour DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Reclassification of Salaries, Joint Hearings Before the Committees on Civil Service ..., May 17 to June 16, 1921 With Index
Author: United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on civil servicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Document Drafting Handbook
Author: Gladys Q. RameyPublisher:
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Higher Education Opportunity Act
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Tell the Court I Love My Wife
Author: Peter WallensteinPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466892617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of how individual states had the power to regulate one of the most private aspects of life: marriage.
Reclassification of Salaries
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Civil ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description