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  • Women Assemble

    Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-War Britain

    by Miriam Glucksmann ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work
    Why did working-class women become the central labour force on assembly lines in the new consumer goods’ industries of the inter-war period? What was the long-term significance of this for the pattern of women’s work, both in paid employment and in the home?Originally published in 1990, Women Assemble fills a major gap in the history of women and work, and develops a theory of women’s class ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space

    by Miriam Glucksmann ...
    Cottons and Casuals explores the connections between women's work in different spheres since the 1930s: paid employment, at home, and in the community. Women's own testimony and an array of other source materials are used to develop new ways of looking at their changing patterns of living and working.The book examines changes in the organisation and commodification of domestic production and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Women on the Line

    by Miriam Glucksmann aka Ruth Cavendish ...
    Women on the Line is a pioneering ethnographic classic of the world of work in a British motor components factory. Miriam Glucksmann (aka Ruth Cavendish), a well-known contributor to the study of gender, work and employment, is for the first time revealed as the author, along with the identity of the company, product and factory.Recording the experience of migrant women from Ireland, the Caribbean ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought

    A Comparison of the Theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser

    by Miriam Glucksmann ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    The primary concern of this book is to investigate whether or not structuralism constitutes a distinctive framework in the social sciences. The author focuses on two major structuralist thinkers, Louis Althusser and Claude Lévi-Strauss. She analyses and compares the structure of their theory, and places them within the context of their respective disciplines. Dr Glucksmann began working on this ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Household Recycling and Consumption Work

    Social and Moral Economies

    by Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be revised. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Thinking about Media and Communications

    by Shaun Moores ...
    Series series Comedia
    From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.Shaun Moores draws on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and expertly connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Pragmatic Turn

    by Richard J. Bernstein ...
    In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that were prominent in the classical American pragmatists: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey and George H Mead. Pragmatism begins with a thoroughgoing critique of the Cartesianism that dominated so ... Read more

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  • Changing Family Values

    Difference, Diversity and the Decline of Male Order

    Edited by Gill Jagger, Caroline Wright ...
    Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Pragmatism

    An Introduction

    by Michael Bacon ...
    Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This wide-ranging and accessible study explores the work of the classical pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, as well as more recent philosophers including Richard Rorty, Richard J. ... Read more

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  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    by Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

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    How Pupils Cope With Schools

    by Peter Woods ...
    This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe pupil cultures, and to consider the meanings of activities. ... Read more

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  • Zizek

    A Reader's Guide

    by Kelsey Wood ...
    A comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought, including all of his published works to date.Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the futureIdentifies the major currents in Zizek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in ... Read more

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