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This text outlines Avishai Margalit's social philosophy, based on the foundation that a decent or civilized society is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate each other. This allows people to live together with dignity.
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Monographic collection of case studies and essays on experiments in cooperatives and collective human settlements in the USA during the 1960s and 1970s - discusses free health services and educational institutions, food cooperatives, urban area communes, etc. As well as issues relating to equal opportunity, participatory organizations and alternative social services. References.
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As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing poor pay, bad working conditions, and few prospects to advance to better jobs. Fine takes a comprehensive look at the rising phenomenon of worker centers, fast-growing institutions that improve the lives of immigrant workers through service advocacy and organizing.-from publisher information....
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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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The author "argues that welfare capitalism did not expire during the Depression, as traditionally thought. Rather, it adapted to the challenges of the 1930s and became a powerful, though overlooked, factor in the history of the welfare state, the labor movement, and the corporation."--Jacket.
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