Author: Leah F. Vosko
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773529618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
'Precarious Employment' explores the nature and dynamics of precarious employment in contemporary Canada.
Precarious Employment
Author: Leah F. Vosko
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773529618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
'Precarious Employment' explores the nature and dynamics of precarious employment in contemporary Canada.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773529618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
'Precarious Employment' explores the nature and dynamics of precarious employment in contemporary Canada.
Precarious Dependencies
Author: Lesley Gill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231096478
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This examination of female domestic service concentrates on the mistress-servant relationship across a 50-year period in Bolivia, in order to understand why a dominant class of women hires others to carry out domestic duties. Within this broader context, the author explores female domestic service through oral histories with mistresses and servants, court cases and interviews. She explores how gender and ethnicity are mediated by class position and historical experience, and how changing power relations have both sustained and altered social distinctions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231096478
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This examination of female domestic service concentrates on the mistress-servant relationship across a 50-year period in Bolivia, in order to understand why a dominant class of women hires others to carry out domestic duties. Within this broader context, the author explores female domestic service through oral histories with mistresses and servants, court cases and interviews. She explores how gender and ethnicity are mediated by class position and historical experience, and how changing power relations have both sustained and altered social distinctions.
Precarious Dependencies
Author: Lesley Gill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231096461
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This examination of female domestic service concentrates on the mistress-servant relationship across a 50-year period in Bolivia, in order to understand why a dominant class of women hires others to carry out domestic duties. Within this broader context, the author explores female domestic service through oral histories with mistresses and servants, court cases and interviews. She explores how gender and ethnicity are mediated by class position and historical experience, and how changing power relations have both sustained and altered social distinctions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231096461
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This examination of female domestic service concentrates on the mistress-servant relationship across a 50-year period in Bolivia, in order to understand why a dominant class of women hires others to carry out domestic duties. Within this broader context, the author explores female domestic service through oral histories with mistresses and servants, court cases and interviews. She explores how gender and ethnicity are mediated by class position and historical experience, and how changing power relations have both sustained and altered social distinctions.
An Open Secret
Author: Natalie L. Kimball
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813590736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
An Open Secret traces the history of women's experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia between the early 1950s and 2010. It finds that women's personal reproductive experiences contributed to shaping policies and services in reproductive health care.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813590736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
An Open Secret traces the history of women's experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia between the early 1950s and 2010. It finds that women's personal reproductive experiences contributed to shaping policies and services in reproductive health care.
Comparing Jewish Societies
Author: Todd M. Endelman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Introduces a rigorous comparative dimension to the study of Jewish civilization and culture
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Introduces a rigorous comparative dimension to the study of Jewish civilization and culture
Foreign Assistance Legislation for Fiscal Years 1988-89
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage
Author: Ronda L. Brulotte
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317145984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales. Contributors explore a range of themes, including how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within an ethnic group; how the same food's meanings change within a particular society based on class, gender or taste; and how traditions are 'invented' for the revitalization of a community during periods of cultural pressure. Featuring case studies from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this timely volume also addresses the complex processes of classifying, designating, and valorizing food as 'terroir,' 'slow food,' or as intangible cultural heritage through UNESCO. By effectively analyzing food and foodways through the perspectives of critical heritage studies, this collection productively brings two overlapping but frequently separate theoretical frameworks into conversation.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317145984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales. Contributors explore a range of themes, including how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within an ethnic group; how the same food's meanings change within a particular society based on class, gender or taste; and how traditions are 'invented' for the revitalization of a community during periods of cultural pressure. Featuring case studies from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this timely volume also addresses the complex processes of classifying, designating, and valorizing food as 'terroir,' 'slow food,' or as intangible cultural heritage through UNESCO. By effectively analyzing food and foodways through the perspectives of critical heritage studies, this collection productively brings two overlapping but frequently separate theoretical frameworks into conversation.
After Servitude
Author: Mareike Winchell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520386442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Preface -- Introduction -- Claiming kinship -- Gifting land -- Producing property -- Grounding indigeneity -- Demanding return -- Reviving exchange -- Conclusion : property's afterlives.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520386442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Preface -- Introduction -- Claiming kinship -- Gifting land -- Producing property -- Grounding indigeneity -- Demanding return -- Reviving exchange -- Conclusion : property's afterlives.
Comprehending Drug Use
Author: J. Bryan Page
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813549930
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer create a comprehensive examination of the whole field of drug ethnography-methodology that involves access to the hidden world of drug users, the social spaces they frequent, and the larger structural forces that help construct their worlds. They explore the important intersections of drug ethnography with globalization, criminalization, public health (including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, hepatitis, and other diseases), and gender, and also provide a practical guide of the methods and career paths of ethnographers.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813549930
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer create a comprehensive examination of the whole field of drug ethnography-methodology that involves access to the hidden world of drug users, the social spaces they frequent, and the larger structural forces that help construct their worlds. They explore the important intersections of drug ethnography with globalization, criminalization, public health (including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, hepatitis, and other diseases), and gender, and also provide a practical guide of the methods and career paths of ethnographers.
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Author: Nicole Constable
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716948
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over 90,000 from Indonesia, and thousands more from other parts of South and Southeast Asia serve as maids on two-year contracts in Hong Kong, sending much needed remittances to their families abroad. Nicole Constable tells their story by updating Maid to Order in Hong Kong with a focus on the major changes that have taken place since Hong Kong's reunification with mainland China in 1997, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003. Interweaving her analysis with the women's individual stories, she shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina domestic workers and more-recent Indonesian arrivals.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716948
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over 90,000 from Indonesia, and thousands more from other parts of South and Southeast Asia serve as maids on two-year contracts in Hong Kong, sending much needed remittances to their families abroad. Nicole Constable tells their story by updating Maid to Order in Hong Kong with a focus on the major changes that have taken place since Hong Kong's reunification with mainland China in 1997, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003. Interweaving her analysis with the women's individual stories, she shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina domestic workers and more-recent Indonesian arrivals.