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Fronesis 1. Demokratisk ekonomi
Svenska, 2015
157 kr
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I Fronesis nr 1 lyfts grundläggande maktfrågor. Fokus sätts på ekonomins ständiga konfliktdimension. I stället för att se ekonomins demokratisering som en historisk nödvändighet, diskuterar vi den som en möjlighet att utmana maktförhållanden som alltför ofta tas för givna. Men det handlar inte bara om maktförhållanden inom den ekonomiska sfären, utan även om vad som konstituerar ekonomin som avskild sfär med egen logik. Det politiska handlar lika mycket om maktkamp inom en viss sfär som en kamp om denna sfärs gränser mot samhällets övriga liv. Innehåll i Fronesis nr 1 (202 sidor): Olle Sahlström: Praktiskt förnuft Svante Skoglund: I stället för cynism och uppgivenhet Magnus Wennerhag: Varför demokratisk ekonomi? Jan Lindhagen: Vid källan smakar vattnet bäst eller Varför går vi medströms? Anders Kalat: Tänkande utan grund Ernesto Laclau och Chantal Mouffe: Socialdemokratin: Från stagnation till ”plantänkande” Gunnar Hansson: Gillesocialismen och Cole G. D. H. Cole: Gilletankens uppkomst Gunnar Hansson: SAP och Wigforss Utdrag ur protokoll från SAP:s kongress 1920: Industriell demokrati Gunnar Hansson: Wigforss och industriell demokrati Klas Gustavsson: Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci: Amerikanism och Fordism Rudolf Meidner: Några kommentarer till ”Det sociala ägandet av kapital” Richard Minns: Det sociala ägandet av kapital Cecilia von Otter: Inte bara en fråga om klass Aleksandra Ålund: Etniska ungdomar och den sociala krisen - Om utbildning, arbete och identitet Alice Kessler-Harris: Genusidentitet: Rätten till arbete och idén om ett ekonomiskt medborgarskap
E-bok
Engelska, 2001239 kr
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In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States'' most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or "gendered imagination" shaped seemingly neutral social legislation to limit the freedom and equality of women. Law and custom generally sought to protect women from exploitation, and sometimes from employment itself; but at the same time, they assigned the most important benefits to wage work. Most policy makers (even female ones) assumed from the beginning that women would not be breadwinners. Kessler-Harris shows how ideas about what was fair for men as well as women influenced old age and unemployment insurance, fair labor standards, Federal income tax policy, and the new discussion of women''s rights that emerged after World War II. Only in the 1960s and 1970s did the gendered imagination begin to alter--yet the process is far from complete.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
284 kr
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First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2001239 kr
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In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States'' most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or "gendered imagination" shaped seemingly neutral social legislation to limit the freedom and equality of women. Law and custom generally sought to protect women from exploitation, and sometimes from employment itself; but at the same time, they assigned the most important benefits to wage work. Most policy makers (even female ones) assumed from the beginning that women would not be breadwinners. Kessler-Harris shows how ideas about what was fair for men as well as women influenced old age and unemployment insurance, fair labor standards, Federal income tax policy, and the new discussion of women''s rights that emerged after World War II. Only in the 1960s and 1970s did the gendered imagination begin to alter--yet the process is far from complete.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2003166 kr
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First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "e;women's work"e; into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 253 kr
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After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights, democratic participation, and welfare capitalism. But in a new age of global inequality, welfare-state retrenchment, and economic austerity, can capitalism and democracy still coexist? In this book, leading historians and social scientists rethink the history of social democracy and the welfare state in the United States and Europe in light of the global transformations of the economic order. Separately and together, they ask how changes in the distribution of wealth reshape the meaning of citizenship in a post-welfare-state era. They explore how the harsh effects of austerity and inequality influence democratic participation.In individual essays as well as interviews with Ira Katznelson and Frances Fox Piven, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic explore the fortunes of the welfare state. They discuss distinct national and international settings, speaking to both local particularities and transnational and transatlantic exchanges. Covering a range of topics-the lives of migrant workers, gender and the family in the design of welfare policies, the fate of the European Union, and the prospects of social movements-Democracy and the Welfare State is essential reading on what remains of twentieth-century social democracy amid the onslaught of neoliberalism and right-wing populism and where this legacy may yet lead us.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
340 kr
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After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights, democratic participation, and welfare capitalism. But in a new age of global inequality, welfare-state retrenchment, and economic austerity, can capitalism and democracy still coexist? In this book, leading historians and social scientists rethink the history of social democracy and the welfare state in the United States and Europe in light of the global transformations of the economic order. Separately and together, they ask how changes in the distribution of wealth reshape the meaning of citizenship in a post-welfare-state era. They explore how the harsh effects of austerity and inequality influence democratic participation.In individual essays as well as interviews with Ira Katznelson and Frances Fox Piven, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic explore the fortunes of the welfare state. They discuss distinct national and international settings, speaking to both local particularities and transnational and transatlantic exchanges. Covering a range of topics-the lives of migrant workers, gender and the family in the design of welfare policies, the fate of the European Union, and the prospects of social movements-Democracy and the Welfare State is essential reading on what remains of twentieth-century social democracy amid the onslaught of neoliberalism and right-wing populism and where this legacy may yet lead us.
E-bok
Engelska, 2018284 kr
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A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues ranging from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions in the new information society.
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
349 kr
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Enacted in almost every industrial country a century ago, protective legislation directed toward women provoked bitter controversy, pitting men against women, women against women, and elected officials against political parties. Strong conflicts arose over what constituted 'protection.' Does this kind of legislation help preserve women's capacities to mother, or is it intended to preserve men's jobs? Does protective legislation help achieve workplace equality? Does it give the state the right to intrude into private family life and, if so, how far? In this international collection, thirteen historians explore the origin and array of protective labor legislation directed at women. The authors analyze ideologies, attitudes, and effects of legislation across women's classes, among employers and workers' organizations, and in both bourgeois and socialist feminist groups. Their essays raise profoundly disturbing questions and provide startling insights as to why the debates that originated more than a hundred years ago are still unresolved.The contributors are from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
303 kr
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This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today’s leading historians of gender and labor in the United States. The seventeen essays are divided into four sections, narrating the evolution and refinement of Alice Kessler-Harris's central project: showing gender’s fundamental importance in the shaping of United States history and working class culture. The first section considers women and organized labor while the second pushes this analysis toward a gendered labor history as the essays consider the gendering of male as well as female workers and how gender operates with and within the social category of class. Subsequent sections broaden this framework to examine U.S. social policy as a whole, the question of economic citizenship, and wage labor from a global perspective. While each essay represents an important intervention in American historiography in itself, the collection taken as a whole shows Kessler-Harris continuing to push the field of American history to greater levels of inclusion and analysis.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
218 kr
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A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues ranging from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions in the new information society.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1988
1 204 kr
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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the twentieth century. Each of the thirty-four essays, contributed by some of today's most distinguished writers, speaks to the work of a particular twentieth-century woman writer, and each constitutes a contribution to the scholarly debate. Questions are raised as to the appropriate posture a critic should adopt, and whether a critic of women's writing should deal with the work as the product of a woman's hand, dwelling on the sensibilities of the female consciousness, or assume that the proper point of departure remains the artistic and aesthetic norms that have emerged from generations of male-defined practice.
E-bok
Engelska, 2000398 kr
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This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women’s history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, ''intrudes into regions of the American historical narrative from which women have been excluded or in which gender relations were not thought to play a part.'' The book is dedicated to pioneering women’s historian Gerda Lerner, whose work inspired so many of the contributors, and it includes a bibliography of her works.The contributors include:Linda K. Kerber on women and the obligations of citizenshipKathryn Kish Sklar on two political cultures in the Progressive EraLinda Gordon on women, maternalism, and welfare in the twentieth centuryAlice Kessler-Harris on the Social Security Amendments of 1939Nancy F. Cott on marriage and the public order in the late nineteenth centuryNell Irvin Painter on ''soul murder'' as a legacy of slaveryJudith Walzer Leavitt on Typhoid Mary and early twentieth-century public healthEstelle B. Freedman on women’s institutions and the career of Miriam Van WatersWilliam H. Chafe on how the personal translates into the political in the careers of Eleanor Roosevelt and Allard LowensteinJane Sherron De Hart on women, politics, and power in the contemporary United StatesBarbara Sicherman on reading Little WomenJoyce Antler on the Emma Lazarus Federation’s efforts to promulgate women’s historyAmy Swerdlow on Left-feminist peace politics in the cold warRuth Rosen on the origins of contemporary American feminism among daughters of the fiftiesDarlene Clark Hine on the making of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
380 kr
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In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together, these topics illuminate the many ways in which gendered social meaning has been produced, transmitted, and challenged.
E-bok
Engelska, 2014371 kr
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In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women''s wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women''s roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together, these topics illuminate the many ways in which gendered social meaning has been produced, transmitted, and challenged.
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PDF, Engelska, 2014371 kr
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In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women''s wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women''s roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together, these topics illuminate the many ways in which gendered social meaning has been produced, transmitted, and challenged.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1989
358 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 1993
445 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2012159 kr
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Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including ''and'' and ''the.''" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice
Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time.
Kessler-Harris renders Hellman''s feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women''s movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory.
Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man''s world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC. A Difficut Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history. This will be one of the most reviewed, and most acclaimed, books of 2012.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2000398 kr
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This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women’s history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, ''intrudes into regions of the American historical narrative from which women have been excluded or in which gender relations were not thought to play a part.'' The book is dedicated to pioneering women’s historian Gerda Lerner, whose work inspired so many of the contributors, and it includes a bibliography of her works.The contributors include:Linda K. Kerber on women and the obligations of citizenshipKathryn Kish Sklar on two political cultures in the Progressive EraLinda Gordon on women, maternalism, and welfare in the twentieth centuryAlice Kessler-Harris on the Social Security Amendments of 1939Nancy F. Cott on marriage and the public order in the late nineteenth centuryNell Irvin Painter on ''soul murder'' as a legacy of slaveryJudith Walzer Leavitt on Typhoid Mary and early twentieth-century public healthEstelle B. Freedman on women’s institutions and the career of Miriam Van WatersWilliam H. Chafe on how the personal translates into the political in the careers of Eleanor Roosevelt and Allard LowensteinJane Sherron De Hart on women, politics, and power in the contemporary United StatesBarbara Sicherman on reading Little WomenJoyce Antler on the Emma Lazarus Federation’s efforts to promulgate women’s historyAmy Swerdlow on Left-feminist peace politics in the cold warRuth Rosen on the origins of contemporary American feminism among daughters of the fiftiesDarlene Clark Hine on the making of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia