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Book When Strikes Make Sense   And Why

Download or read book When Strikes Make Sense And Why written by Samuel Cohn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists have not helped the working class make strategic deci sions. Unionists need to know how to carry on industrial conflict so as to provide concrete economic benefits for their members. Should unions strike or not strike? Should losses be avoided at all costs, or can unions afford to take chances? Does economism gut the class power of workers or provide a pragmatic strategy for increasing workers' wage gains? We can say with great confidence that workers should join unions; there is now an exhaustive and compelling literature demonstrating that union membership provides a wide variety of economic benefits. We can say that corporatist class compromises lower income but increase job security and overall employment. Beyond that, however, we cannot say much. In particular, we can do little to advise particular unions in partic ular fixed institutional and political environments how they should han dle the microtactics of individual confrontations. The United Farm Work ers do not need a speech about the miracle of the Swedish industrial relations system. They need to know whether they should strike or not strike, and how their tactics should change if rival Teamsters come into the field. Unfortunately, medical research often has to start with rabbits be fore it proceeds to humans, and so it is with research in industrial conflict. The realistic prospects of doing a large sample analysis of con temporary American wage settlements that simultaneously estimates the effects of union tactics and economic factors are poor.

Book Making Taste Public

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  • Author : Carole Counihan
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-12-13
  • ISBN : 1350052701
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Making Taste Public written by Carole Counihan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape - and are shaped by - the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and flavour principles embedded in cuisine, editors Carole Counihan and Susanne Højlund ask how these differences are generated. The editors have compiled 14 chapters to show how specific influences become a part of our sensorial apparatus and identity through shared experiences of making, eating, and talking about food. Using case studies from Asia, Europe and America, the book presents a theory of how taste is made public through everyday practices. The authors are exploring how place, production methods and cooking techniques create tastes. They discuss the criteria determining good and bad tastes, and how tastes and memories evolve over time. Subjects such as how values can be embedded in taste, and the role of taste education in food movements, homes, and schools are explored. The different chapters examine definitions and mobilizations of taste in different institutions, public places, and regions around the world to reveal ethnographic understandings of how people learn, experience, and share taste. With contributions spanning the Solomon Islands, Denmark, Japan, Canada, France, the USA, and Italy, Making Taste Public is a fascinating account of how our sense of taste is continuously shaped and re-shaped in relation to social and cultural context, societal and environmental premises. The book will interest anyone studying anthropology, sociology, food studies, sensory studies and human geography.

Book The New International Encyclop  dia

Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New French Wine

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  • Author : Jon Bonné
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2023-03-28
  • ISBN : 1607749246
  • Pages : 865 pages

Download or read book The New French Wine written by Jon Bonné and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first definitive guide to contemporary French wines and producers, from a two-time James Beard Award winner This comprehensive and authoritative resource takes readers on a tour through every wine region of France, featuring some 800 producers and more than 7,000 wines, plus evocative photography and maps, as well as the incisive narrative and compelling storytelling that has earned Jon Bonné accolades and legions of fans in the wine world. Built upon eight years of research, The New French Wine is a one-of-a-kind exploration of the world’s most popular wine region. First, examine the land through a thoroughly reported narrative overview of each region—the soil and geography, the distinctive traditions and contemporary changes. Then turn to a comprehensive reference guide to the producers and their wines, similarly detailed by region. From Burgundy to Bordeaux and everywhere in between, this is sure to be the resource on modern French wine for decades to come.

Book Scribner s Magazine

Download or read book Scribner s Magazine written by Edward Livermore Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marxism and the French Left

Download or read book Marxism and the French Left written by Tony Judt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in New York by Oxford University Press, 1986.

Book The People s Armies

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  • Author : Richard Cobb
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300027281
  • Pages : 790 pages

Download or read book The People s Armies written by Richard Cobb and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'People's Armies' of eighteenth-century France were an instrument of the Reign of Terror. Civilian rather than military armies, they were created to obtain food and military equipment from the reluctant and frequently anti-revolutionary rural populace in order to supply the towns and the soldiers fighting on the frontiers. Composed of urban, highly politicized 'sans-culottes', they interacted with rural villages in a way that reflected the age-old conflict between town and country. This classic book by the famed historian Richard Cobb describes the clash between the swaggering, insubordinate 'sans-culottes' and the crafty villagers and in so doing, provides important insighyts into aspects of the social and administrative history of the French Revolution. 'The People's Armies' was first published in France in 1961 and has now been translated into English by Marianne Elliott. This book was Cobb's first major work and is still generally regarded as his most important contribution to French history.It illustrates all those characteristics that have come to be seen as typical of Cobb's distinctive historical style: the concern with local colour and variation, the vignettes that evoke in vivid detail all the hues of daily life at the time of the French Revolution, and, most of all, the sound basis of detailed and wide-ranging research.The book has had a profound influence on the study of the French Revolution and is still unsurpassed as a history of an important institution of the period of Revolutionary government in France. Richard Cobb was professor of modern European history at Oxford University.

Book New International Encyclopedia

Download or read book New International Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New International Encyclop    dia

Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New International Encyclopaedia

Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abbreviations Dictionary

Download or read book Abbreviations Dictionary written by Dean A. Stahl and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 1549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2001: Abbreviations, nicknames, jargon, and other short forms save time, space, and effort - provided they are understood. Thousands of new and potentially confusing terms become part of the international vocabulary each year, while our communications are relayed to one another with increasing speed. PDAs link to PCs. The Net has grown into data central, shopping mall, and grocery store all rolled into one. E-mail is faster than snail mail, cell phones are faster yet - and it is all done 24/7. Longtime and widespread use of certain abbreviations, such as R.S.V.P., has made them better understood standing alone than spelled out. Certainly we are more comfortable saying DNA than deoxyribonucleic acid - but how many people today really remember what the initials stand for? The Abbreviations Dictionary, Tenth Edition gives you this and other information from Airlines of the World to the Zodiacal Signs.

Book Outcast Europe

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  • Author : Sharif Gemie
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2012-01-19
  • ISBN : 1441102442
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Outcast Europe written by Sharif Gemie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original perspective on the experience of refugees and relief workers.

Book Scribner s Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Scribner s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The French Second Empire

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  • Author : Roger Price
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-11-15
  • ISBN : 1139430971
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book The French Second Empire written by Roger Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a most thoroughly researched book on Napoleon III's Second Empire. It makes a vital contribution to the quarter-century of French history following the 1848 revolution, which saw major developments in the 'modernization' of the French state and in its relationships with its citizens.

Book A Gazetteer of the World  Hensburrow Lurin

Download or read book A Gazetteer of the World Hensburrow Lurin written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: