Estructuras Sindicales En LA Argentina Y Brasil (Coleccion Cuadernos Simon Rodriguez)

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Moving Up or Moving on: Who Advances in the Low-Wage Labor Market?
Fredrick Andersson , Harry J. Holzer , and Julia I. Lane
Manufacturer: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
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America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market

ASIN: 0871540568

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For over a decade, policy makers have emphasized work as the best means to escape poverty. However, millions of working Americans still fall below the poverty line. Though many of these "working poor" remain mired in poverty for long periods, some eventually climb their way up the earnings ladder. These success stories show that the low wage labor market is not necessarily a dead end, but little research to date has focused on how these upwardly mobile workers get ahead. In "Moving Up or Moving On," Fredrik Andersson, Harry Holzer, and Julia Lane examine the characteristics of both employees and employers that lead to positive outcomes for workers.

Using new Census data, "Moving Up or Moving On" follows a group of low earners over a nine-year period to analyze the behaviors and characteristics of individuals and employers that lead workers to successful career outcomes. The authors find that, in general, workers who "moved on" to different employers fared better than those who tried to "move up" within the same firm. While changing employers meant losing valuable job tenure and spending more time out of work than those who stayed put, workers who left their jobs in search of better opportunity elsewhere ended up with significantly higher earnings in the long term - in large part because they were able to find employers that paid better wages and offered more possibilities for promotion. Yet moving on to better jobs is difficult for many of the working poor because they lack access to good-paying firms. Andersson, Holzer, and Lane demonstrate that low-wage workers tend to live far from good paying employers, making an improved transportation infrastructure a vital component of any public policy to improve job prospects for the poor. Labor market intermediaries can also help improve access to good employers. The authors find that one such intermediary, temporary help agencies, improved long-term outcomes for low-wage earners by giving them exposure to better-paying firms and therefore the opportunity to obtain better jobs. Taken together, these findings suggest that public policy can best serve the working poor by expanding their access to good employers, assisting them with job training and placement, and helping them to prepare for careers that combine both mobility and job retention strategies.

"Moving Up or Moving On" offers a compelling argument about how low-wage workers can achieve upward mobility, and how public policy can facilitate the process. Clearly written and based on an abundance of new data, this book provides concrete, practical answers to the large questions surrounding the low-wage labor market.

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This study analyzes the evolution of permanent sovereignty from a political claim to a principle of international law, and examines its significance for such controversial issues as peoples' rights, nationalization, and environmental politics. Dr. Schrijver argues that corollary rights available through permanent sovereignty must be seen alongside the corollary obligations they also entail. He thus identifies new directions sovereignty over natural resources has taken in an increasingly interdependent world.

Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties

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Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties
Nico Schrijver
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUZOCM

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The Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists: Second Edition, 2 Volume Set examines the lives and careers of noteworthy scientists and thinkers through the ages, illuminating the progress of science and its impact on society in general. From Aristotle and the beginnings of objective observations, to twentieth century giants, Freud and Hawking, this extensive in-depth reference explores the men and women who have shaped our ideas and the world in which we live today. Extensively revised and updated, this second edition comprises two substantial illustrated volumes that contain over 2,000 biographical entries and over half a million words. It looks and reads like a "Who's Who" of the world of scientific thought, providing an in-depth listing of prominent historical as well as modern figures of science and medicine. The main biographical entries are arranged alphabetically and summarize the individual's life and contribution to science. The volumes also include a chronology of the history of science from 590 BC to the present, a subject index, and a bibliography of key publications in the history of scientific thought. For anyone researching the world of scientific personalities and ideas, this unique reference work will be indispensable.

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Second Edition - 2 Volume Set
Sarah Mitchell
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUKEGS

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Strangely enough, this exploration of one of the most private of writing endeavors is likely to send readers off in a zillion different directions. Thomas Mallon's survey of diarists throughout the ages introduces us to the most personal writings of more than 100 diarists, including Samuel Pepys, Leonardo da Vinci, Virginia Woolf, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Mallon divides the diarists into seven categories--chroniclers, travelers, pilgrims, creators, apologists, confessors, and prisoners--that he uses as a basis for his inquiries into the nature of these apparently private writings. (From the start Mallon admits that "I still don't believe that one can write to oneself for many words more than get used in a note tacked to the refrigerator saying 'Buy bread.' ") Glimpsing the many, vastly different lives that have been thrown together on these pages is fascinating in and of itself, but Mallon's thoughts about the whys and wherefores of diary-keeping are what make his dense prose so worth reading.

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Very interesting!.......2007-08-01

I decided to buy this book because it was listed in a bibliography in one of my Wicca books. It's not my usual cup of tea, and it sat around awhile before I picked it up. Once I started, I couldn't stop. It was so interesting to get to have peeks into people's private lives. It really helped me to decide what I want to express in my own diary, and what I want to do with them when I die.

For all those interested in the Diary form .......2004-12-13

I agree with the Amazon reviewer above who suggests that this book would have been much better in ' encyclopediac' rather than narrative form. There are too just too many diarists mentioned and the discussion of them goes from one to the other too rapidly. Mallon breaks his diarists into seven categories, chroniclers, travelers, pilgrims, creators, apologists, confessors, prisoners.
The old rule seemed to apply here, and the less I knew about the diarist the more Mallon 's work seemed significant. But for those whose work I do somehow know , and I think here of the example of Kafka , Mallon's treatment seemed to me hasty, and slight. This suggests that another problem of doing the work the way Mallon did is distinguishing well enough between diarists of greater and lesser significance.
This book is highly recommended for all those who take interest in the Diary form, for I know of nothing else like it.

informative.......2003-02-18

As a diarist, I enjoyed this book very much. It has a large amount of information about many, many diarists, and different genres of diaries. The author effectively conveys his enthusiasm for the topic, and it made me want to read many of the diaries in the book. (I found out that we only read the boring part of Pepys diary in high school English, and that there are all sorts of racy parts!)

As interesting as this book is, there was a little too much breadth at times and not enough depth. So many diarists were discussed in each chapter that I felt I would have to take notes to remember the ones I was interested in. Also, the transitions between diaries are rather awkward; I think this book would have been better in an encyclopedic rather than narrative format.

I think that this book is an excellent reference for anyone interested in the history of diaries.

The Book That Made Me a Diarist.......2000-02-17

I read this book over thirteen years ago, and I was hooked on diaries ever since. After reading in Mallon's book about some of the most interesting diarists, I found other diaries to read-one about a man's search for an institution for his retarded son, one by a woman facing major surgery and hospitalization (Walking Through the Fire), and a few others. He also inspired me to start my own diary, which I kept for over twelve years, seldom missing a day. This last year or so, I have fallen off but still add to my diary now and then. This is an activity I was hardly aware of, but when diary keeping is presented in such an interesting way, one sees it in a whole new way. I think of it as "the word made flesh." Mr. Mallon's book has added more to my life than practically any other I have ever read.

You will be charmed . . ........1999-02-27

I finally got around to reading a yellowed Penquin edition of A Book of One's Own and am pleased to see that Hungry Mind is keeping this alive and available for everyone else who has yet to enjoy it. Essentially, it is a pageant of diarists and their words, with Mallon standing to the side, offering an often witty, always insightful commentary. It is a literate, sensitive dialogue. As a sometime diarist, I fought for awhile with his notion that everyone writes with an audience in mind, that our most private writings are not unselfconscious, that we intend to be found out. But I did not go reading this to locate my own opinions. It is delightful, and with the bibliography neatly situated in the back, it reads silkily, without the interruption of footnotes.

A Book of One's Own People and Their Diaries

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A Book of One's Own People and Their Diaries
Thomas Mallon
Manufacturer: Ticknor and Fields
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H3BK9U

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A BOOK OF ONE'S OWN: People and Their Diaries
THOMAS MALLON
Manufacturer: Ticknor & Fields
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MGI4DC

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A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries
Thomas Mallon
Manufacturer: Ticknor & Fields
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Book of Ones Own People & Their Diaries
Thomas Mallon
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A sober examination of the historical role of the white working class and its place in the US imperialist system. With suggestions for the possibilities of developing this class into a revolutionary class as part of a broad social movement. Includes commentary from Settlers author J Sakai. Gilbert was a member of both SDS, and the Weather Underground.

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The author makes no apology for his presentation of a gruesome picture of man's inhumanity. The record, stark and terrible as it truly is, should drive home to all thinking persons the need for every effort being made to eliminate all forms of cruelty. The grim account of torture in our own time should make it clear to ever reader the danger and possibility of an outbreak at any time or place. Illustrated.

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Not worth the money.......2004-04-13

For north of $100, this book is not worth it! I bought it as a gift, expecting something special, and I got a hardback which is quite ordinary in its appearance. Buy the older paperback version - this hardback version and its price is a joke.

The History of Torture Throughout the Ages

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The History of Torture Throughout the Ages
George Ryley Scott
Manufacturer: Torchstream Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HX7KSK

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The History of Torture Throughout the Ages
George Ryley Scott
Manufacturer: Torchstream Books
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Binding: Hardcover
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The History of Torture Throughout the Ages
George Ryley Scott
Manufacturer: Torchstream Books
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THE HISTORY OF TORTURE THROUGHOUT THE AGES.

Manufacturer: Touchstream
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HIOMCM

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Stimulating, unique book explores the possibilities of mathematical drawing through compass constructions and computer graphics. Over 100 full-page drawings demonstrate possibilities: five-point egg, golden ratio, 17-gon, plughole vortex, blancmange curve, pentasnow, turtle geometry, many more. Exercises (with answers). "A wealth of intriguing and lovely ideas." — Information Technology & Learning.

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nice pictures: you learn to lay eggs.......2007-01-27

Promises more than it delivers.
The pictures are nice,
but the code that the book provides
and the explanations aren't enough to justify buying the book.
A very primitive beginners book.
Computers have moved on and left this book behind.

Computer Art in basic.......2001-03-07

This book has many interesting examples in it of symmetry and computation. I have been able to use it as a source of material in my computer classes. Students love the visual stimulation, as well as the computational structures.

More complete code examples (particularly for the 3D part) would have been helpful.

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Mathographics
Robert Dixon
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MC1NXO

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In this work of interdisciplinary scholarship, Stephen A. Germic reveals how America's first parks, both urban and "wilderness," were created and organized to mitigate the most threatening social and economic crises in the nineteenth century outside of the Civil War. Germic analyzes the intentionally disguised relationship between the constructed "nature" of Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone and the expanding but crisis-prone capitalist state. "American Green" demonstrates how the fundamental function of these parks was economic and political--in the service of maintaining a consensus regarding national identity. The organization and control of "natural" space, Germic argues, is inseparable from its function as a capitalist instrument. This instrumentalism served not only to define, constitute, and segregate social groups, but also to promote racial and ethnic identifications above those based on class interest. Providing a fresh insight into United States labor, cultural and environmental history, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of American parks and the complex meaning of American public space.

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National Parks in Crisis
Connally Eugenia H
Manufacturer: Natl Parks & Conservation Assn
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National Parks in Crisis
Eugenia H Connally
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National Parks in Crisis: Debating the Issues (Issues in Focus)

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National Parks in Crisis: Debating the Issues (Issues in Focus)
Wendy Hart Beckman
Manufacturer: Enslow Publishers
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China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development.: An article from: Pacific Affairs

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China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development.: An article from: Pacific Affairs
Jacob Park
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on September 22, 1995. The length of the article is 599 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development.
Author: Jacob Park
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: v68 Issue: n3 Page: p424(2)

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The administration's response to the spotted owl crisis: Joint oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee ... held in Washington, DC, March 24, 1992

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The administration's response to the spotted owl crisis: Joint oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee ... held in Washington, DC, March 24, 1992
United States
Manufacturer: For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office
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Global environmental crisis: Oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, ... held in Washington, DC, January 25, 1990

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Global environmental crisis: Oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, ... held in Washington, DC, January 25, 1990
United States
Manufacturer: For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office
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The Yellowstone Lake crisis : confronting a lake trout invasion : a report to the director of the National Park Service

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The Yellowstone Lake crisis : confronting a lake trout invasion : a report to the director of the National Park Service

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The Yellowstone Lake crisis : confronting a lake trout invasion : a report to the director of the National Park Service (SuDoc I 29.2:2002018536)

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The Yellowstone Lake crisis : confronting a lake trout invasion : a report to the director of the National Park Service (SuDoc I 29.2:2002018536)
U.S. Dept of Interior
Manufacturer: Yellowstone Center for Resources, National Park Service
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