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Central Florida, a land of pleasure for most of its visitors, has also for many years harbored a subculture of often exploited migrant workers. For these people, life was an ordeal to be withstood. Into this grim world the writes of this book ventured, key participants in an experiment mounted by their organization, HRI, Human Resources Institute, under sponsorship of The Coco-Cola Company, which had taken over the orange groves where the migrant...
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General study of China with particular reference to the economy thereof, resulting from a short visit undertaken in september 1972 - covers historical and political aspects, the impact of the revolution for cultural change, employment, agricultural production, industrial production, education, health services, public finance, living conditions, etc. Illustrations and references.
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Compilation of conference papers on the historical development and sociological aspects of urbanization in the 19th century - examines the dimensions of mobility and stability of urban area social structures, changing rate of residential and labour mobility, social status, population turnover, living conditions in the social structure, political leadership, etc. Conference held in new haven 1968 November.
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Personal account of living conditions and politics in China - recounts the experiences of a foreign journalist from 1980 to 1983, describing his impressions of, and the attitudes of the Chinese towards political leadership, political opposition, the Communist political party, the bureaucracy, social change, esp. The Cultural Revolution, social stratification, restrictions to freedom, incl. Religious freedom and freedom of speech, and the problems...
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Kolchin compares the world of masters and the world of slaves in U.S. and Russian nonfree labor systems. He theorizes that while southern states in the U.S. existed as slaveowner's communities, the rural Russian communal landcape was severely influenced by the bargaining power of peasant bondsmen.
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"A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. Mr. Osofsky sets his chronicle against the background of pre-Harlem black life in New York City and in the context of the radical changes in race relations in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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Monograph comprising a social and cultural anthropologycal field study of seven ijebu yoruba urban area migrant families in ibadan, Nigeria - outlines research method, covers historical aspects of yoruba culture, and details case studies incl. Economic conditions, family living conditions, role of women, social class, leisure, etc., stressing value systems and attitudes to internal migration and social change. Bibliography pp. 202 to 208, maps, photographs...
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Examines the gendered nature of social reproduction (i.e. household chores, child care and biological reproduction) and export production in the foreign-owned assembly plants in Nogales and Ciadad Madero at the border with the United States. Studies the intersection of class and gender dynamics in the radical transformation of Mexican industrial strategy, from a State-led import substitution emphasis to a neoliberal export-orientation based on transnational...
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