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Making the Woman Worker

Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019

de Eileen Boris ...

Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations. Before WWII, it focused on enhancing conditions for male industrial workers in Western, often imperial, economies, while restricting the circumstances of women's ... Leer más

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Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations. Before WWII, it focused on enhancing conditions for male industrial workers in Western, often imperial, economies, while restricting the circumstances of women's
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Caring for America

Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

de Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein ...

In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law ... Leer más

$33.99 USD

In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law
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Public Workers in Service of America

A Reader

de Eileen Boris, Cathleen D Cahill, William Powell Jones, Amy Zanoni, Jon Shelton, Katherine Turk, Joseph E Slater, Francis Ryan ...

Series series Working Class in American History
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American ... Leer más

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From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American
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Global Labor Migration

New Directions

de Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Joo-Cheong Tham, Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales0, Jenny Chan1, Penelope Ciancanelli2, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos3, Charlie Fanning4, Judy Fudge5, Jorge L Giovannetti-Torres6, Justin Jackson7, Radhika Natarajan8, Pun Ngai9, Bastiaan Nugteren0, Nicola Piper1, Jessica R Pliley2, Devi Sacchetto3, Helen Sampson4, Yael Schacher5, Matt Withers6 ...

Series series Studies of World Migrations
Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living ... Leer más

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Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living
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North Carolina Women

Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

de Ann Short Chirhart, Emily Wilson, M. Anna Fariello, Jane Becker, Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Jessica Wilkerson, Rebecca Godwin, Joey Fink, Lauren Winner, Melissa Walker Heidari, Heather Bryson, Eileen Boris, Lu Jones, Sarah C. Thuesen, Amy Hill Hearth, Anna Ragland Hayes ...

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By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the ... Leer más

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By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the
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Doing Recent History

On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back

de Alan Christy, Alice Yang, David Greenberg, Eileen Boris, Gail Drakes, Jennifer Klein, Jeremy Saucier, Julius Bailey, Laura Brown, Martin Meeker, Nancy Kaiser, Shelley Lee, Willoughby Anderson ...

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Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become ... Leer más

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Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become
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Intimate Labors

Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care

Edición de Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Eileen Boris ...

What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and ... Leer más

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What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and
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WORLDBUILDING

Gaming and Art in the Digital Age

de Office Ben Ganz, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anna Anthropy, Kat Benedict, Kathrin Beßen, Giampaolo Bianconi, Dr. Daniel Birnbaum, Irene Bretscher, micha cardenas, troizel carr, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Raphaëlle Cormier, Barbara Cueto, Mehdi Derfoufi, Travis Diehl, Rebecca Edwards, Marion Eisele, Jacob Fabricius, Mary Flanagan, Richard Grayson, Tamara Hart, Kathrin Jentjens, Katarina Klang, Katarina Kloppe, Jasmin Klumpp, Adèle Koechlin, Nóra Kovács, Aude Launay, Malte Lin-Kröger, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Toke Lykkeberg, Aodhan Madden, Boris Magrini, Maitreyi Maheshwari, Tabea Marschall, Llaura McGee, Aïcha Mehrez, Anika Meier, Darla Migan, Michelle Nicol, Christiane Paul, Anna-Alexandra Pfau, Ada Rook, Tina Rivers Ryan, Elisa Schaar, Stephan Schwingeler, Agnieszka Skolimowska, Zoé Stillpass, Ben Vickers, Elena Vogman, Iaroslav Volovod, Kay Watson, Peter Watts, Dr. Joni Zhu ...

WORLDBUILDING: Videospiele und Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Gaming und zeitbasierter Medienkunst. Es ist die erste generationenübergreifende Ausstellung dieser Größenordnung, die einen Überblick vermittelt, wie sich zeitgenössische Künstler*innen weltweit Ästhetiken und Technologien aus dem Videospielbereich für ihre Praxis aneignen.Das Projekt präsentiert ... Leer más

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WORLDBUILDING: Videospiele und Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Gaming und zeitbasierter Medienkunst. Es ist die erste generationenübergreifende Ausstellung dieser Größenordnung, die einen Überblick vermittelt, wie sich zeitgenössische Künstler*innen weltweit Ästhetiken und Technologien aus dem Videospielbereich für ihre Praxis aneignen.Das Projekt präsentiert
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WORLDBUILDING

Gaming and Art in the Digital Age

de Office Ben Ganz, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anna Anthropy, Kat Benedict, Kathrin Beßen, Giampaolo Bianconi, Dr. Daniel Birnbaum, Irene Bretscher, micha cardenas, troizel carr, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Raphaëlle Cormier, Barbara Cueto, Mehdi Derfoufi, Travis Diehl, Rebecca Edwards, Marion Eisele, Jacob Fabricius, Mary Flanagan, Richard Grayson, Tamara Hart, Kathrin Jentjens, Katarina Klang, Katarina Kloppe, Jasmin Klumpp, Adèle Koechlin, Nóra Kovács, Aude Launay, Malte Lin-Kröger, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Toke Lykkeberg, Aodhan Madden, Boris Magrini, Maitreyi Maheshwari, Tabea Marschall, Llaura McGee, Aïcha Mehrez, Anika Meier, Darla Migan, Michelle Nicol, Christiane Paul, Anna-Alexandra Pfau, Ada Rook, Tina Rivers Ryan, Elisa Schaar, Stephan Schwingeler, Agnieszka Skolimowska, Zoé Stillpass, Ben Vickers, Elena Vogman, Iaroslav Volovod, Kay Watson, Peter Watts, Dr. Joni Zhu ...

WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art. It is the first transgenerational show of this scope to survey how contemporary artists world-wide are appropriating the aesthetics and technology of gaming as their form of expression. Commissioned by the Julia Stoschek Foundation and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition ... Leer más

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WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art. It is the first transgenerational show of this scope to survey how contemporary artists world-wide are appropriating the aesthetics and technology of gaming as their form of expression. Commissioned by the Julia Stoschek Foundation and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition
... Leer más
Engendering Transnational Transgressions

From the Intimate to the Global

Edición de Eileen Boris, Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Barbara Molony ...

Series series Women's and Gender History
Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then ... Leer más

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Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then
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Homeworkers in Global Perspective

Invisible No More

Edición de Eileen Boris, Lisa Prugl ...

Homeworkers in Global Perspective documents the lives of homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize. Moving away from well-known, already explored cases, the essays focus on less-known but equally compelling examples organize, and covers the major geographic regions of the world and illustrates the diversity of home-based ... Leer más

$45.99 USD

Homeworkers in Global Perspective documents the lives of homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize. Moving away from well-known, already explored cases, the essays focus on less-known but equally compelling examples organize, and covers the major geographic regions of the world and illustrates the diversity of home-based
... Leer más
Ambient Intelligence

12th European Conference, AmI 2015, Athens, Greece, November 11-13, 2015, Proceedings

Edición de Boris De Ruyter, Achilles Kameas, Periklis Chatzimisios, Irene Mavrommati ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2015, held in Athens, Greece, in November 2015.The 21 revised full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Over the past 20 years, the vision of Ambient Intelligence has gradually materialized into a plethora of technologies and ... Leer más

$49.49 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2015, held in Athens, Greece, in November 2015.The 21 revised full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Over the past 20 years, the vision of Ambient Intelligence has gradually materialized into a plethora of technologies and
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