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Author : Curt Gerling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Smugtown U.S.A. written by Curt Gerling and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. David Finks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Crisis in Smugtown written by P. David Finks and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Elvins
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821415492
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Sales & Celebrations written by Sarah Elvins and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the two world wars, the retail world experienced tremendous changes. New forms of competition, expanded networks of communication and transportation, and the proliferation of manufactured goods posed challenges to department store and small shopkeeper alike. In western New York, and in Buffalo and Rochester in particular, retailers were a crucial part of urban life, acting as cultural brokers and civic leaders. They were also cultivators of area pride. Even as they adopted the latest merchandising techniques or stocked the newest items, merchants emphasized their local roots and their ability to put a local spin on national trends and innovations. Regional identity became a powerful selling tool not only during the prosperity of the 1920s but also through the economic crisis of the Great Depression. Sales and Celebrations explains how local traditions and institutions affected the evolution of American consumer culture. It expands our understanding of American consumerism, demonstrating that local particularities and loyalties could often coexist with, and occasionally challenge, the spread of mass consumption. In her award-winning study, Professor Sarah Elvins provides new insight into the relationship between America's largest metropolises and its smaller centers. Retailers in Buffalo and Rochester did not simply imitate the practices of their counterparts in Manhattan and Chicago; they highlighted their unique ability to serve the wants and needs of their particular markets. By drawing attention to this persistent power of the local, Sales and Celebrations illuminates a neglected aspect of the story of American culture in the interwar period.
Author : Robert J. Haggerty
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412819480
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Child Health and the Community written by Robert J. Haggerty and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This update of a 1975 case study of the service and research program of the University of Rochester's department of pediatrics picks up 20 years later, examining demographic, economic, and health system changes in the community, utilization patterns and evaluating old and new programs.
Author : Brian Caterino
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031106067
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty written by Brian Caterino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI). Poverty has once again become a major issue in American cities, and nowhere more so than Rochester, which has one of the highest rates of poverty in the nation. RMAPI was established to reduce poverty, yet in the five years since its formation the poverty rate is essentially unchanged. Analyzing the reasons behind its failure, this book argues that the very nature of the organizational framework is part of the problem, and that RMAPI’s project is caught up with contradictory imperatives of neo-liberal welfare reforms. More than just a study of local interest, the book uses Rochester as a case study to illuminate the limits of the neo-liberal approach to poverty. It will appeal to all those interested in political science, urban politics, community studies, welfare policy and public administration.
Author : Benjamin C. Waterhouse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393868222
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Download or read book One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America written by Benjamin C. Waterhouse and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From side-hustlers to start-ups, freelancers to small business owners, Americans have a special affinity for people who make it on their own. But the dream has a dark side. “One day I’ll work for myself.” Perhaps you’ve heard some version of that phrase from friends, colleagues, family members—perhaps you’ve said it yourself. If so, you’re not alone. The spirit of entrepreneurship runs deep in American culture and history, in the films we watch and the books we read, in our political rhetoric, and in the music piping through our speakers. What makes the dream of self-employment so alluring, so pervasive in today’s world? Benjamin C. Waterhouse offers a provocative argument: the modern cult of the hustle is a direct consequence of economic failures—bad jobs, stagnant wages, and inequality—since the 1970s. With original research, Waterhouse traces a new narrative history of business in America, populated with vivid characters—from the activists, academics, and work-from-home gurus who hailed business ownership as our economic salvation to the upstarts who took the plunge. We meet, among others, a consultant who quits his job and launches a wildly popular beer company, a department store saleswoman who founds a plus-size bra business on the Internet, and an Indian immigrant in Texas who flees the corporate world to open a motel. Some flourish; some squeak by. Some fail. As Waterhouse shows, the go-it-alone movement that began in the 1970s laid the political and cultural groundwork for today’s gig economy and its ethos: everyone should be their own boss. While some people find success in that world, countless others are left bouncing from gig to gig—exploited, underpaid, or conned by get-rich-quick scams. And our politics doesn’t know how to respond. Accessible, fast-paced, and eye-opening, One Day I’ll Work for Myself offers a fresh, insightful cultural history of the U.S. economy from the perspective of the people within it, asking urgent questions about why we’re clinging to old strategies for progress—and at what cost.
Author : Aaron Schutz
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 082652043X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book People Power written by Aaron Schutz and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "prophet of power to the people," someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American." People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United States: --Fred Ross, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the Community Service Organization and National Farm Workers Association --Nicholas von Hoffman and the Woodlawn Organization --Tom Gaudette and the Northwest Community Organization --Ed Chambers, Richard Harmon, and the Industrial Areas Foundation --Shel Trapp, Gale Cincotta, and National People's Action --Heather Booth, Midwest Academy, and Citizen Action --Wade Rathke and ACORN Weaving classic texts with interviews and their own context-setting commentaries, the editors of People Power provide the first comprehensive history of Alinsky-based organizing in the tumultuous period from 1955 to 1980, when the key organizing groups in the United States took form. Many of these selections--previously available only on untranscribed audiotapes or in difficult-to-read mimeograph or Xerox formats--appear in print here for the first time.
Author : Rick Wartzman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586489151
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The End of Loyalty written by Rick Wartzman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola -- he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed. But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways. Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in current interestA best business book of the year in economics, Strategy+Business
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : dann j Broyld
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807177687
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Borderland Blacks written by dann j Broyld and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progressive stance on social issues including abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and temperance. Moreover, these urban centers were home to sizable free Black communities as well as an array of individuals engaged in the abolitionist movement, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Anthony Burns, and Hiram Wilson. dann j. Broyld’s Borderland Blacks explores the status and struggles of transient Blacks within this dynamic zone, where the cultures and interests of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the African Diaspora overlapped. Blacks in the two cities shared newspapers, annual celebrations, religious organizations, and kinship and friendship ties. Too often, historians have focused on the one-way flow of fugitives on the Underground Railroad from America to Canada when in fact the situation on the ground was far more fluid, involving two-way movement and social collaborations. Black residents possessed transnational identities and strategically positioned themselves near the American-Canadian border where immigration and interaction occurred. Borderland Blacks reveals that physical separation via formalized national barriers did not sever concepts of psychological memory or restrict social ties. Broyld investigates how the times and terms of emancipation affected Blacks on each side of the border, including their use of political agency to pit the United States and British Canada against one another for the best possible outcomes.
Author : Frank Cost
Publisher : RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781933360034
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The New Medium of Print written by Frank Cost and published by RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print is so familiar that it remains invisible to the average person. Frank Cost, associate dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology and co-director of the RIT Printing Industry Center, has often wished for a small, fun-to-read book to give to people who were thinking about the world of print for the first time. Most of the available introductory books concentrate heavily on the technology, but say little about how people actually use print, let alone why. The New Medium of Print is a new kind of book: it provides an introduction to the underlying systems for the creation and distribution of print, as well as an exploration of its many and varied contemporary uses. This book is the first in the Printing Industry Center Series: a co-publication of RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press and RIT Printing Industry Center.
Author : Marv Rubinstein
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595440193
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Womanizer written by Marv Rubinstein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randy Rosen is a confirmed womanizer and proud of it. In his mind, females are more fun, subtle, imaginative, and braver than men. Truth be known, he would rather explore women's liminal and subliminal messages than sit in a smoky bar with a bunch of guys. Randy has not always been this way. He was once a shy honor student whose torrid teenage affair ended in catastrophic betrayal. Changed forever by his experience, Randy moves from college to build a successful, international business that allows him to travel worldwide and enjoy the biggest perk of all: meeting women as diverse as their countries. For many years, Randy pursues love and lust in some of the globe's most exciting cities: London, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok, and even Tel Aviv. But as his body begins to age, Randy is left to wonder whether he can keep up the chase. From sexual antics in exotic bedrooms and boudoirs to the intimacy and trust of deep relationships, Womanizer is a rollicking tale of one man's adventures as he pursues--and is pursued by--women throughout the world.
Author : Christopher Berry-Dee
Publisher : Ulysses Press
ISBN 13 : 1569756198
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal written by Christopher Berry-Dee and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2007-07-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides statements and quotes from a number of convicted serial killers in an effort to understand the homicidal mind.
Author : Ruth Franklin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631492128
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life written by Ruth Franklin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) Winner • Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical) Winner • Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, TIME, Boston Globe, NYLON, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist In this “thoughtful and persuasive” biography, award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin establishes Shirley Jackson as a “serious and accomplished literary artist” (Charles McGrath, New York Times Book Review). Instantly heralded for its “masterful” and “thrilling” portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House. In this “remarkable act of reclamation” (Neil Gaiman), Ruth Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” (New York Times Book Review) and demonstrates how her unique contribution to the canon “so uncannily channeled women’s nightmares and contradictions that it is ‘nothing less than the secret history of American women of her era’ ” (Washington Post). Franklin investigates the “interplay between the life, the work, and the times with real skill and insight, making this fine book a real contribution not only to biography, but to mid-20th-century women’s history” (Chicago Tribune). “Wisely rescu[ing] Shirley Jackson from any semblance of obscurity” (Lena Dunham), Franklin’s invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius.
Author : Charles E. Curran
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013636
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Loyal Dissent written by Charles E. Curran and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyal Dissent is the candid and inspiring story of a Catholic priest and theologian who, despite being stripped of his right to teach as a Catholic theologian by the Vatican, remains committed to the Catholic Church. Over a nearly fifty-year career, Charles E. Curran has distinguished himself as the most well-known and the most controversial Catholic moral theologian in the United States. On occasion, he has disagreed with official church teachings on subjects such as contraception, homosexuality, divorce, abortion, moral norms, and the role played by the hierarchical teaching office in moral matters. Throughout, however, Curran has remained a committed Catholic, a priest working for the reform of a pilgrim church. His positions, he insists, are always in accord with the best understanding of Catholic theology and always dedicated to the good of the church. In 1986, years of clashes with church authorities finally culminated in a decision by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by then-Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, that Curran was neither suitable nor eligible to be a professor of Catholic theology. As a result of that Vatican condemnation, he was fired from his teaching position at Catholic University of America and, since then, no Catholic university has been willing to hire him. Yet Curran continues to defend the possibility of legitimate dissent from those teachings of the Catholic faith—not core or central to it—that are outside the realm of infallibility. In word and deed, he has worked in support of more academic freedom in Catholic higher education and for a structural change in the church that would increase the role of the Catholic community—from local churches and parishes to all the baptized people of God. In this poignant and passionate memoir, Curran recounts his remarkable story from his early years as a compliant, pre-Vatican II Catholic through decades of teaching and writing and a transformation that has brought him today to be recognized as a leader of progressive Catholicism throughout the world.
Author : Christopher Berry-Dee
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635768543
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Talking with Serial Killers: A Chilling Study of the World's Most Evil People written by Christopher Berry-Dee and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Talks to Serial Killers World-renowned investigative criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of infamous serial killers throughout the world, entering their prison cells to discuss their horrific crimes and alarming lack of remorse. With over twenty-five years and hundreds of hours of audio and video interviews, he collects ten chilling true crime stories from the murderers themselves, describing some of the worst crimes known. Within these pages, hear from the most notorious murderers such as American serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan, who murdered two women in the early 1970s, and Mary Bundy “The Sunset Slayer” who was convicted of killing several young prostitutes and runaways in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Berry-Dee not only shares their stories in their words but also describes how to investigate their criminal minds. It's time to step into the visitation room, turn on your inquisitive mind, and delve into Talking with Serial Killers, the beginning of Berry-Dee's bestselling true crime series.
Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 081668488X
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book George Cukor written by Patrick McGilligan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the highest-paid studio contract directors of his time, George Cukor was nominated five times for an Academy Award as Best Director. In publicity and mystique he was dubbed the “women’s director” for guiding the most sensitive leading ladies to immortal performances, including Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Garland, and—in ten films, among them The Philadelphia Story and Adam’s Rib—his lifelong friend and collaborator Katharine Hepburn. But behind the “women’s director” label lurked the open secret that set Cukor apart from a generally macho fraternity of directors: he was a homosexual, a rarity among the top echelon. Patrick McGilligan’s biography reveals how Cukor persevered within a system fraught with bigotry while becoming one of Hollywood’s consummate filmmakers.
