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  • Failing Universities

    How Higher Education Became a Commodity and What We Can Do About It

    by Howard Karger, David Stoesz ...
    Colleges and universities were once places where students came to learn, experts, intellectuals, and others came to teach, and where knowledge was created. Today, America's higher education system is severely compromised by commodification and corporatization, which have transformed higher education into a marketplace. This book examines the effects of these transformations, providing a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Dream Deferred

    How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can be Done

    by Howard Karger, Edward Shils ...
    From its inception in the late nineteenth century, social work has struggled to carry out the complex, sometimes contradictory, functions associated with reducing suffering, enhancing social order, and social reform. Since then, social programs like the implementation of welfare and the expansion of the service economy-which should have augured well for American social work-instead led to a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Shortchanged

    Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy

    by Howard Jacob Karger ...
    " An eye-opening read in the school of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel & Dimed . . . shines a bright light on the economy's darker side." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Drive through a low-income neighborhood and you're likely to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Child Abuse in America

    by Lela B. Costin, Howard Jacob Karger, David Stoesz ...
    Series series Child Welfare: A Series in Child Welfare Practice, Policy, and Research
    Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intenstified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming enormous resources, while thousands of poor children are seriously injured or killed, many while ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

    by Vivek Ramaswamy ...
    In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” ... Read more

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  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

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  • Crushing Debt

    Why Canadians Should Drop Everything and Pay Off Debt

    by David Trahair ...
    As the majority of Canadians are now spending much more than they make, their debt levels are reaching crisis proportions. Excluding mortgage debt, the average Canadian owes over $25,000 in consumer debt, which poses massive risks not only for the individuals carrying that financial load, but for our entire financial system. In Crushing Debt, bestselling author David Trahair (Enough Bull) warns ... Read more

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  • The New Geography of Jobs

    by Enrico Moretti ...
    "A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them—and how policymakers can learn from that." —Barack ObamaWe're used to thinking of the United States in opposing terms: red versus blue, haves versus have-nots. But today there are three Americas. At one extreme are the brain hubs—cities like San Francisco, Boston, and Durham—with workers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organizations and Organizing

    Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

    by W Richard Scott, Gerald F. Davis ...
    This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science, strategy and ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Makers and Takers

    How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street

    by Rana Foroohar ...
    **Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?"A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times**In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held ... Read more

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  • Moral Capitalism

    Why Fairness Won't Make Us Poor

    by Steven Pearlstein ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning economics journalist explains how America's capitalist system is broken and how it can be repaired.With a new introduction by the authorThirty years ago, "greed is good" and "maximizing shareholder value" became the new mantras woven into the fabric of our economy, politics, and business culture. Free market capitalism has lifted more than a billion people from poverty ... Read more

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  • Disciplining the Poor

    Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

    by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Read more

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