Download or read book Inside Toyland written by Christine L. Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old." So begins sociologist Christine Williams's description of her stint as a low-wage worker at two national toy store chains: one upscale shop and one big box outlet. In this provocative, perceptive, and lively book, studded with rich observations from the shop floor, Williams chronicles her experiences as a cashier, salesperson, and stocker and provides broad-ranging, often startling, insights into the social impact of shopping for toys. Taking a new look at what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall culture. Despite their differences, Williams finds that both toy stores perpetuate social inequality in a variety of ways. She observes that workers are often assigned to different tasks and functions on the basis of gender and race; that racial dynamics between black staff and white customers can play out in complex and intense ways; that unions can't protect workers from harassment from supervisors or demeaning customers even in the upscale toy store. And she discovers how lessons that adults teach to children about shopping can legitimize economic and social hierarchies. In the end, however, Inside Toyland is not an anticonsumer diatribe. Williams discusses specific changes in labor law and in the organization of the retail industry that can better promote social justice.
Download or read book Can You See what I See written by Walter Wick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing new search-and-find adventure from the creative mind of renowned photographer and author Walter Wick. Amazing photographs accompany a search-and-find story by Walter Wick, the creator of award-winning picture books, the author and photographer of the New York Times bestselling Can You See What I See? series, and the photographer of the bestselling I Spy series. CAN YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? TOYLAND EXPRESS, the eighth title in the bestselling search-and-find series, follows the life of a toy train from the workshop to the attic, only to be rescued at a yard sale and brought to life once again in a new home. As readers search for more than 250 hidden objects, they will also notice how the train takes on various transformations along its journey.
Download or read book Choosing a Career in the Toy Industry written by John Giacobello and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about the educational requirements, employment opportunities, and creative potential within the world of toys.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-11-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-11-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Seaside Romance written by Mia Ross and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safe in His Arms Running away from her troubled city life, Lauren Foster never thought she'd find herself in small-town Maine. But Holiday Harbor is everything she's looking for. The townspeople are welcoming, her job at her friend's toy store is going well and, most important, she's safe. Meeting contractor Ben Thomas soon changes all that. With his good looks, easygoing nature and kind heart, he's turning her peaceful new life upside down. She's quickly falling for the local hero, but when her past catches up to her present, is she willing to face her fears for the future she's always dreamed of? Holiday Harbor: Where love is just around the bend
Download or read book The Dragon at the North Pole written by Kate Klimo and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using magic snowshoes, cousins Jesse and Daisy travel to the North Pole to retrieve their pet dragon.
Download or read book The Lost Princess The China Doll Tale An Epic Play written by M. L. Bradley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A King and Queen of Bones will rule in the place of the Hooded until a girl of Human decent arrives to place the Lost Princess back in power and return the Magic and Beauty to all of Toyland by defeating the Hooded...
Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-11 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Welcome to the Dreamhouse written by Lynn Spigel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHistorical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar./div
Download or read book Hobbies written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kathi on the Moon Beam written by Patricia Kirwin Renaud and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1959, the dawn of a new and the most exciting era in the history of the world, but no one knew it yet. Least of all a young couple very much in love with two beautiful baby daughters headed for Italy on a secret mission to protect Europe from our Cold War enemy, that evil empire, the Soviet Union. It was during this time I began all the stories of Kathi on the Moonbeam. The stories remain in the family to this day.
Download or read book Mamma s Angel Child in Toyland written by Marie Christine Sadler and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dragon Keepers 6 The Dragon at the North Pole written by Kate Klimo and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for readers who’ve finished Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series but who aren’t quite ready for Harry Potter, this accessible fantasy series is imaginative and adventure-filled! “Funny and wonderfully written. A tall-tale adventure that will grab readers!” —Mary Pope Osborne, author of the Magic Tree House series In The Dragon at the North Pole, Dragon Keepers Jesse and Daisy wake on Christmas morning to a winter wonderland—it snowed overnight! Knowing that their dragon, Emmy, has never seen snow before, they hurry to the barn only to discover that she’s disappeared. She’s left a note behind: “Gone to help Santa.” Santa?! Can it be true? With the help of two pairs of magic snowshoes, Jesse and Daisy visit the North Pole to find out!
Download or read book Babes in Toyland written by Glen MacDonough and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The orphans Alan and Jane escape from their cruel miserly Uncle Barnabas, when he tries to have them drowned. They are taken in by gypsies, and during the course of their adventures visit Mary Contrary's Garden, the Noah's Ark House, the Tin Railway, and Mean Town. Eventually they return home, where they are taken in by the village's kindly widow.
Download or read book The Sisters Grimm The Inside Story written by Michael Buckley and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diabolical character is out to rewrite the fate of all fairytales in the eighth adventure in the New York Times–bestselling children’s series. Sabrina and Daphne Grimm have studied hundreds of stories as part of their training as fairy-tale detectives. But they’re about to get caught up in the action when they follow the scheming Master into the Book of Everafter. Inside this mysterious tome, copies of the world’s fairytale characters live out their stories over and over again. The Grimms must track down the Master while avoiding the Book’s tyrannical Editor—who is devoted to keeping the stories on track—and his army of story-gobbling revisers. In the Book of Everafter, stories can be rewritten and destinies changed, which is why Sabrina and Daphne must find the Master before he can alter his own fate—and the fate of the whole world. Reissued with new cover art, these anniversary editions of the beloved Sisters Grimm series are the perfect opportunity for old fans to revisit the Grimm family’s adventures and for new readers to discover the magic of the series.
Download or read book Bumper Noddy 2000 written by ANNUAL and published by . This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
