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Book Community and Progress in Kant s Moral Philosophy

Download or read book Community and Progress in Kant s Moral Philosophy written by Kate A. Moran and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text draws on a wide range of Immanuel Kant's writings, including his texts on moral and political philosophy and his lectures on ethics, pedagogy, and anthropology. Though the book is grounded in an analysis of Kant's writing, it also puts forward the novel claim that Kant's theory is centrally concerned with the relationships we have in our day-to-day lives.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1242 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poverty and Progress

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  • Author : Stephan THERNSTROM
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674044312
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Poverty and Progress written by Stephan THERNSTROM and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embedded in the consciousness of Americans throughout much of the country's history has been the American Dream: that every citizen, no matter how humble his beginnings, is free to climb to the top of the social and economic ladder. Poverty and Progress assesses the claims of the American Dream against the actual structure of economic and social opportunities in a typical nineteenth century industrial community--Newburyport, Massachusetts. Here is local history. With the aid of newspapers, census reports, and local tax, school, and savings bank records Stephan Thernstrom constructs a detailed and vivid portrait of working class life in Newburyport from 1850 to 1880, the critical years in which this old New England town was transformed into a booming industrial city. To determine how many self-made men there really were in the community, he traces the career patterns of hundreds of obscure laborers and their sons over this thirty year period, exploring in depth the differing mobility patterns of native-born and Irish immigrant workmen. Out of this analysis emerges the conclusion that opportunities for occupational mobility were distinctly limited. Common laborers and their sons were rarely able to attain middle class status, although many rose from unskilled to semiskilled or skilled occupations. But another kind of mobility was widespread. Men who remained in lowly laboring jobs were often strikingly successful in accumulating savings and purchasing homes and a plot of land. As a result, the working class was more easily integrated into the community; a new basis for social stability was produced which offset the disruptive influences that accompanied the first shock of urbanization and industrialization. Since Newburyport underwent changes common to other American cities, Thernstrom argues, his findings help to illuminate the social history of nineteenth century America and provide a new point of departure for gauging mobility trends in our society today. Correlating the Newburyport evidence with comparable studies of twentieth century cities, he refutes the popular belief that it is now more difficult to rise from the bottom of the social ladder than it was in the idyllic past. The "blocked mobility" theory was proposed by Lloyd Warner in his famous "Yankee City" studies of Newburyport; Thernstrom provides a thorough critique of the "Yankee City" volumes and of the ahistorical style of social research which they embody.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1322 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poverty Program Information

Download or read book Poverty Program Information written by United States. Office of Economic Opportunity and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Divided City

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  • Author : Alan Mallach
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2018-06-12
  • ISBN : 1610917812
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book The Divided City written by Alan Mallach and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.

Book Politics and Policy

Download or read book Politics and Policy written by James Sundquist and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sundquist clearly and engagingly traces the development of many programs in what would become Johnson's Great Society as they developed over three presidential administrations. Education reform, poverty, the environment, social services and more are shown rising from America's post-war boom but taking years, and often much effort, to come into being. This history is more complete than even many individual accounts of given programs as it examines presidential influence, public opinion, changes in Congress, the rise and fall of interest groups, and how each can lead or be led by the others.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2552 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 2552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Demolition Means Progress

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  • Author : Andrew R. Highsmith
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-12-30
  • ISBN : 022641955X
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Demolition Means Progress written by Andrew R. Highsmith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Domestic Commerce Series

Download or read book Domestic Commerce Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land Banks and Land Banking

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  • Author : Frank S. Alexander
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-16
  • ISBN : 9780692405123
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Land Banks and Land Banking written by Frank S. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regional Economic Development Legislation of 1969

Download or read book Regional Economic Development Legislation of 1969 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 91-5. Considers S. 1072 and related S. 1090, to extend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 and Title V of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 authorizing Federal funds for Regional Development Commissions.

Book Regional Economic Development Legislation of 1969  Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Development     Serial No  91 5

Download or read book Regional Economic Development Legislation of 1969 Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Development Serial No 91 5 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: