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Working in the USA Christine D. Hauber
Book DescriptionFor three years photographer Christine Hauber traveled throughout the United States to explore work life at the turn of the 21st Century. The hundreds of images that resulted, as well as the subjects' own words, reveal a surprising amountof worker pride, optimism and satisfaction. Recorded here are the faces and words of ordinary people, who in their diversity and uniqueness offer a cross-section of the richness of American life. Working in the USA, gives readers a glimpse of who and what Hauber discovered during her documentary labor of love. The diversity on the pages of Working in the USA makes it an important contribution to the country's history. Each photograph is a snapshot in time, a time when job opportunity and freedomof choice are as obvious to workers as the color of the sky. Hauber's randomly selected subjects rarely complained about their occupations. They often expressed a belief that lack of desire and hope spells employment failure, but......
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Republic Of Labor: Russian Printers And Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930 Diane P. Koenker
Book DescriptionThe long decade from the October Revolution to 1930 was the beginning of a great experiment to create a socialist society. Throughout these years, socialist trade unions attempted to transform the Russian worker into a productive and enthusiastic participant in this new order. How did the workers themselves react to these efforts? To what extent were they and their culture transformed into the ideal forms proclaimed in the official ideology? In Republic of Labor, Diane P. Koenker illuminates the lived experience of Russia?s printers, workers who differed from their comrades because of their skill and higher wages, but who shared the same challenges of economic hardship and dangerous conditions. Paying close attention to the links between work, politics, and the everyday, the author focuses on workers? efforts to define their place in socialist society. Gender issues are also emphasized, and here we see the persistence of a masculinist working-class......
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Victorian Fashions CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Book Description Features 379 beautifully rendered fashion illustrations from Godey’s, Harper’s Bazar, and other period magazines: mid- to late-Victorian walking dresses, ball gowns, cloaks, shawls, and capes, as well as hats, shoes, parasols, handbags, and other decorative accessories. A valuable reference for designers, illustrators, and costume historians....
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Staging Politics and Gender : French Women's Drama, 1880-1923 Cecilia Beach
Book Description Cecilia Beach examines the political and feminist plays of French playwrights who have been largely overlooked until now. Beach highlights the importance of theatrical endeavors which women perceived as a powerful way to promote political opinions. The author analyzes the work of Louise Michel, Nelly Roussel, Marie Leneru, Vera Starkoff, and Madeline Pelletier and discusses anarchist theater and forms of social protest theater at the turn of the century....
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Exploring Art : A Global, Thematic Approach (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) Margaret Lazzari
Book Description EXPLORING ART offers a thematic and global approach to teaching art appreciation. It balances Western and non-Western approaches to art, unlike competing books, which concentrate much more on Western art, artists, and historical styles. This global approach acknowledges the diverse backgrounds of today's art students, and explores the similarities that unite culture, as well as difference or distinctions. In doing so, EXPLORING ART ultimately reveals the universality of the human impulseto create art, as well as the persistence of basic themes....
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