Author: Thomas Geoghegan
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595587896
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy, especially the German version. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses? Social democracy doesn’t sound too bad. Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? reveals where you might have been happier—or at least had time off to be unhappy properly. It explains why Americans should pay attention to Germany, where ordinary people can work three hundred to four hundred hours a year less than we do and still have one of the most competitive economies in the world.

Author: Mark Maier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317457544
Size: 23.74 MB
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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This book introduces students to the collection, uses, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. It would suit all social science introductory statistics and research methods courses. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the economy, wealth, income, poverty, labor, business statistics, and public opinion polling, with a concluding chapter devoted to the common problem of ambiguity. Each chapter includes multiple case studies illustrating the controversies, overview of data sources including web sites, chapter summary and a set of case study questions designed to stimulate further thought.

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
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Author: Elbridge Streeter Brooks
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Size: 73.12 MB
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Category : Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Author: Jane Rule
Publisher: Tallahassee, Fla. : Naiad Press
ISBN: 9780930044565
Size: 38.49 MB
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Category : Lesbianism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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In the most traditional of romantic settings, on board a ship that travels the Inland Passage, two women discover new possibilities . . . These and many other soul-deep, gentle tales explore the conventional and unconventional relationships in all our lives.

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Author: Thomas Geoghegan
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595588655
Size: 28.22 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Is labor’s day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In this new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revived—but different—labor movement is now more relevant than ever in our increasingly unequal society. The inequality reshaping the country goes beyond money and income: the workplace is more authoritarian than ever, and we have even less of a say over our conditions at work. He tells us stories, sometimes humorous but more often chilling, about problems working people like his own clients—cabdrivers, cashiers, even Chicago public school teachers—now face in our largely union-free economy. He then explains why a new kind of labor movement (and not just more higher education) will be crucial for saving what is left of the middle class; pushing Keynes’s original, sometimes forgotten ideas for getting the rich to invest and reduce our balance of trade; and promoting John Dewey’s "democratic way of life"—one that would start in the schools and continue in our places of work. A "public policy" book that is compulsively readable, Only One Thing Can Save Us is vintage Geoghegan, blending acerbic and witty commentary with unparalleled insight into the real dynamics (and human experience) of working in America today.

Author: William Shakespeare
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Size: 77.10 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
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Author: William Shakespeare
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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