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This book explores a paradox in the contemporary work-life debate where dual-earner mothers decisions to limit or withdraw from the workforce to spend time with children yields understanding from the American public, while poor women who would otherwise limit work and rely on welfare are seen as shirking their responsibility to their children.

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This book explores a paradox in the contemporary work-life debate where dual-earner mothers decisions to limit or withdraw from the workforce to spend time with children yields understanding from the American public, while poor women who would otherwise limit work and rely on welfare are seen as shirking their responsibility to their children.

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This book explores different ways that the male body has been represented by, constructed in, and experienced through digital media during the age of austerity. It uses three case studies to do this: the celebrity male nude leak; the rise of young men sharing images of their muscular bodies on social networking sites; and the rise of chemsex.

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Looks at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. This work explores the barriers of stigma in relation to political participation, and demonstrates how stigma can be effectively challenged and redirected.

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This work is a longitudinal study of a large sex work industry - and Thailand, the most prominent nation in the rapidly growing sex tourism industry. It examines considerations of health, behaviour, economics, morality, religion, and worker safety.

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This work is a longitudinal study of a large sex work industry - and Thailand, the most prominent nation in the rapidly growing sex tourism industry. It examines considerations of health, behaviour, economics, morality, religion, and worker safety.

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In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities of the idealized working class by perpetuating the image of rebellious, irreverent, and authentic musicians.

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In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities of the idealized working class by perpetuating the image of rebellious, irreverent, and authentic musicians.

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This multi-disciplinary collection of essays provides a thorough analysis of working life in the film and television industries. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is the first truly global introduction to the production of film and television.

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In Working Sex , a proud community of sex workers speak out on race, class, gender, labour, and sexuality, and dish on what it really means to work in the sex industry today

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Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage.

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A handbook for faculty and administrators.

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Applying a theoretical framework, this work explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes.

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This text is a collection of papers from the international scientific programme "The Culture Shock - The Workers' Movement and the Integration of Europe" of the European Centre for Workers' questions, co-ordinated by the Higher Institute of Labour Studies and funded by the European Commission.

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This study of working class tourism examines the evolution of the English holiday over two centuries, charting workers forms of travel from 'tramping' and the 'artisan's grand tour' to day tripping and package holidays abroad. -- .

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Examines some of the most important performance in Britain and Northern Ireland from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. In a timely new critical approach, it considers contemporary British theatre in relation to national and supranational identities, concepts such as globalistion and diaspora, New Labour, devolution and European unification.

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From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. -- .

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Throughout the 1980s, the issue of substance abuse testing became increasingly important to employers. The first addresses the intricacies of substance abuse and testing, presenting six chapters that survey substance abuse in the workplace; The second section covers the issue of AIDS and AIDS testing through four chapters: AIDS in the workplace;

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World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it.

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This is the first comprehensive, worldwide bibliography of racism. The work concludes with an author index and a subject index.

Due to the many ways racism manifests itself, this bibliography will be of great value to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines from economics and education to sociology and history.

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This book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of white genocide; so-called Satanist murders; township urban legends; and white suburban anxieties.

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This book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of white genocide; so-called Satanist murders; township urban legends; and white suburban anxieties.