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Title: Cities, gender, and diversity: new ways to address marginality in gender-conscious planning.
Author: Michaela Zonta
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Marginal Employment
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This volume will provide students and researchers alike with a solid grounding both in traditional aspects of marginality and in the increasing important topics of part-time and contingent work. The reader will have the opportunity to learn more about the growing range and diversity of marginal employment in the contemporary economy, the hardships and unique challenges of marginal employment, and the new and creative matches between people and jobs that are currently being explored outside traditional full-time employment relationships.
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The classic reference “Encyclopedia of Sociology,” winner of the 1993 Dartmouth Medal, has been updated to reflect many changes in society and in the field of sociology in recent years. Articles covering core issues such as race, poverty, violence, economics, pregnancy and abortion have been updated and expanded, and completely new articles have been written on topics such as the Internet, privacy and epidemiology.
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Title: Ordinarily different. (Marginal).(new research on millionaires)(Brief Article)
Author: Gary S. Vasilash
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This book represents ten years of data collection and analysis on the topic of women managers, using an evolving feminist framework which urges that we consider the dimensions of race, class, and gender simultaneously. The author examines the interplay of class issues (worker participation) with gender issues (women managers), pulling together literatures that are usually seen as separate. The interplay of race is also discussed. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Moving Back to the Future; PART I: A First Look at Difference; Chapter Two: The Missing Feminine; Chapter Three: Are Women Different?; Chapter Four: The Problem of Difference: Remnants and Transformations; Chapter Five: The Female as Problematic; PART II: Gender and Intertwined Oppressions; Chapter Six: A Focus on Work; Chapter Seven: The Intertwining of Capitalism and Patriarchy: Is Capitalism Particularly Cruel to Women?; Chapter Eight: The Link with Race; PART III: Gender in Broader Context; Chapter Nine: Leadership in Native American Context: Foregrounding Cultural Background; Chapter Ten: The New Workplace; Chapter Eleven: How Change Happens; Chapter Twelve: Implications for Society; Appendix: Methodology, Chronology, Supplemental Findings from Studies; Bibliography; Index.
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Common sense - well presented..........2005-06-09
It's quite refreshing to read a project management book which takes the real world and makes sense of it so accurately as this one does - and extends and converts it into a business stratagem - with some good old fashioned common sense thown it. This easy to understand book is obviously the result of one who has walked-the-walk and not just talked-the-talk - and I would recommend it to anyone who is an experienced project manager who now wishes to extend those principles to business process review, growth and consultation. It is also quite refreshing to read a book from a UK perspective - as most of the best PM books are from the US - and this in itself gives another useful angle on the global status which PM now enjoys. In short: tight, neat and impressive.
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Title: Gold mining or gold digging? The selling of Narnia.(Walking Through the Wardrobe: A Devotional Quest Into the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)(Aslan's Call: Finding Our Way Into Narnia)(A Family Guide to Narnia: Biblical Truths in C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia)(The Way Into Narnia: A Reader's Guide)(Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles)(Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)(Book review)
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