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La vida y la muerte en los tiempos de la revolución
by José Luis Trueba LaraEn esta obra, José Luis Trueba nos sumerge en el acontecer diario del pueblo durante la Revolución Mexicana. De José Luis Trueba, autor de La ciudad sin nombre. Este libro recupera al pueblo revolucionario que vio su vida transformarse desde finales del Porfiriato hasta el momento en que el presidente Ávila Camacho anunció que la Revolución había concluido. La Revolución Mexicana no fue vista por el pueblo como una gesta heroica. En aquellos años la gente vivió dos distintos momentos que transformaron su vida: una guerra donde el horror, la violencia, la locura, el saqueo y los crímenes se transformaron en hechos cotidianos; y un periodo de paz armada durante el cual la religión política de los caudillos se enfrentó a la antigua fe y trastocó la existencia de los mexicanos. Este libro recupera -gracias a las memorias, epistolarios e información periodística de aquella época- al pueblo revolucionario, a la bola,que vio su vida transformarse desde las postrimerías del Porfiriato hasta que el presidente Ávila Camacho anunció el termino de la Revolución. En sus páginas aparece un retrato fiel de lo cotidiano, del diario acontecer de esos días: el cine y el teatro; las maneras de amar y pecar; las distintas sexualidades; lo que ocurría en las carpas y los burlesques; las bodas y las infidelidades; el surgimiento del racismo; los cambios en los hogares, en la vida de los niños, los jóvenes y los adultos, provocados por una revolución con minúscula.
La vida y la muerte en los tiempos de la revolución
by José Luis Trueba LaraEn esta obra, José Luis Trueba nos sumerge en el acontecer diario del pueblo durante la Revolución Mexicana. De José Luis Trueba, autor de La ciudad sin nombre. Este libro recupera al pueblo revolucionario que vio su vida transformarse desde finales del Porfiriato hasta el momento en que el presidente Ávila Camacho anunció que la Revolución había concluido. La Revolución Mexicana no fue vista por el pueblo como una gesta heroica. En aquellos años la gente vivió dos distintos momentos que transformaron su vida: una guerra donde el horror, la violencia, la locura, el saqueo y los crímenes se transformaron en hechos cotidianos; y un periodo de paz armada durante el cual la religión política de los caudillos se enfrentó a la antigua fe y trastocó la existencia de los mexicanos. Este libro recupera -gracias a las memorias, epistolarios e información periodística de aquella época- al pueblo revolucionario, a la bola,que vio su vida transformarse desde las postrimerías del Porfiriato hasta que el presidente Ávila Camacho anunció el termino de la Revolución. En sus páginas aparece un retrato fiel de lo cotidiano, del diario acontecer de esos días: el cine y el teatro; las maneras de amar y pecar; las distintas sexualidades; lo que ocurría en las carpas y los burlesques; las bodas y las infidelidades; el surgimiento del racismo; los cambios en los hogares, en la vida de los niños, los jóvenes y los adultos, provocados por una revolución con minúscula.
La voluntad de no saber: Lo que sí se conocía sobre Maciel en los archivos secretos del Vaticano desde 19
by José Barba Alberto Athié Fernando M. GonzálezPublicado en el contexto de la visita de Benedicto XVI a México, este libro revela el archivo de documentos secretos del Vaticano sobre el caso Maciel, demostrando con ello que, desde hace más de 60 años, las máximas autoridades de la Iglesia católica conocían la conducta criminal del fundador de los Legionarios Descubra los documentos sobre Maciel que El vaticano había mantenido en secreto hasta hoy . "Lamentablemente llegamos con mucha lentitud y atraso a estas cuestiones. De alguna manera estaban ocultas y sólo desde el año 2000 contamos con asideros concretos al respecto" aseguró Benedicto XVI al periodista alemán Peter Seewald en 2010. En contraste, este libro representa un paso decisivo para evidenciar que el papa no habla con la verdad al referirse al "caso Maciel". Joseph Ratzinger presidió la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe durante veinticuatro años. Por la naturaleza de su cargo, debió conocer los expedientes, publicados aquí por primera vez, donde se registraban la drogadicción y la pederastia del fundador de la Legión de Cristo. Desde la década de 1940 existía información suficiente para que las autoridades eclesiásticas procedieran contra Maciel. Sin embargo, el sacerdote michoacano obtuvo la protección y el silencio cómplice de la curia romana durante más de medio siglo. A la luz de esas consideraciones, la presente obra pone de relieve la aguda crisis del catolicismo originada por la pederastia clerical y cuestiona duramente la acelerada beatificación de Juan Pablo II, quien alguna vez llegó a calificar al líder de los Legionarios como una "guía eficaz de la juventud". Que el lector juzgue por sí mismo.
La voz ignorada (Colección Endebate #Volumen)
by Nuria VarelaLa historia de Ana Orantes, el caso que cambió para siempre la percepción de la violencia de género en España. El 4 de diciembre de 1997 Ana Orantes, una mujer humilde de un pueblo granadino, denunció en un programa de Canal Sur los cuarenta años de maltrato que había padecido a manos de su marido. Dos semanas más tarde, el 17 de diciembre, moría asesinada a manos de él. Ese asesinato marcó un antes y un después en la lucha contra la violencia de género en España. Este libro pretende ser un homenaje.
La vuelta al mundo en 15 mujeres: Historias de mujeres que me han cambiado la mirada
by Verónica ZumalacárreguiLa periodista y presentadora de televisión Verónica Zumalacárregui nos presenta en este libro-reportaje quince historias de mujeres que, como ella misma dice, le han cambiado la mirada y aportan distintas opiniones y perspectivas de temas y retos sociales a los que nos enfrentamos. Un poliédrico y rico retrato de nuestros desafíos y nuestros logros. HISTORIAS DE MUJERES QUE ME HAN CAMBIADO LA MIRADA «En mis viajes a lo largo y ancho del planeta he conocido a mujeres con valores, culturas y vidas muy distintas a la mía. En lugar de convertir nuestras diferencias en una barrera, he querido ponerme en su piel para intentar ver el mundo desde sus ojos. Me han hecho cuestionarme mis ideas, para cambiarlas, reafirmarlas o, simplemente, enriquecerlas. Pero, sobre todo, me han ayudado a liberarme de prejuicios, demostrándome que no hay una sola fórmula para ser feliz, sino muchas y muy diversas, y que aquellas que podemos elegir la nuestra somos realmente afortunadas».
La última legión
by Valerio Massimo ManfrediAnno Domini 476. El Imperio romano está llegando a su fin. Dividido en dos partes y devastado por las invasiones de los bárbaros, son ya pocos los territorios donde se mantiene el dominio de aquel Estado que gobernó el mundo durante tantos siglos. Rómulo Augusto, con trece años, es el emperador de Occidente tras haber sobrevivido a la aniquilación de su familia. El general germánico Wulfila lo hace prisionero y lo lleva a la isla de Capri junto con su preceptor Ambrosino. Sin embargo, no todos se han rendido a las fuerzas bárbaras: un grupo de valientes soldados leales a Roma le rescatan e inician un viaje a través de toda Europa, huyendo de sus enemigos, hasta llegar a los confines del imperio, al territorio de los druidas, Britania, donde encontrarán un destino inesperado.
Lab Manual And Workbook For Physical Anthropology
by Diane L. FranceNow in full color, Diane France's lab manual balances the study of human osteology, forensic anthropology, anthropometry, primates, human evolution, and genetics with a new chapter on growth & development, more material on disease and more on the anomalies of the human skeleton caused by disease and mechanical stress. Redundant and complex exercises have been pulled and the art program has been greatly enhanced with color images that include scales and orientation information. Exercises now contain thumbnail images of the related images for easy reference. In addition to providing hands-on lab assignments that help students apply physical anthropology perspectives and techniques to real situations, the Lab Manual provides a wealth of solid information and photographs that support the identification and observation problems that help make the concepts of physical anthropology easier to understand. This edition has been thoroughly reviewed, error-checked, revised and updated for complete accuracy and more balanced coverage of topic material.
Lab Manual And Workbook For Physical Anthropology
by Diane L. FranceMaster the concepts of physical anthropology with LAB MANUAL AND WORKBOOK FOR PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY! With hands-on lab assignments that help you apply physical anthropology perspectives and techniques to real situations, this lab manual walks you through difficult topics such as genetics and the human genome, primate morphology and behavior, human osteology, evolution, and forensic anthropology. Many photographs, marginal definitions, key terms, helpful hints, exercises, and an extensive index emphasize important topics and make studying easy.
Labeling Theory: Empirical Tests (Advances in Criminological Theory #18)
by David P. Farrington and Joseph MurrayLabeling theory has been an extremely important and influential development in criminology, but its recent advances have been largely neglected. This volume aims to reinvigorate labeling theory by presenting a comprehensive range of its modern applications. In the first section, Ross Matsueda chronicles the early history of the theory. Fred Markowitz then reviews labeling theory research as applied to mental illness. Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson discuss the relationship between labeling theory and correctional rehabilitation. The second section, which is focused on previous tests of labeling theory, begins with a review of prior empirical tests by Kelle Barrick. Anthony Petrosino and his colleagues then summarize their meta-analysis of the impact of the juvenile system processing on delinquency. Lawrence Sherman then discusses experiments on criminal sanctions. The final segment on empirical tests of labeling theory begins with a chapter by Marvin Krohn and his colleagues on the effects of official intervention on later offending. The long-term effects of incarceration are then investigated by Joseph Murray and his colleagues. Finally, Steven Raphael reviews the effects of conviction and incarceration on future employment. This landmark book presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge about labeling theory, and illustrates the importance of this theory for policy and practice. It is the latest volume in Transaction's acclaimed Advances in Criminological Theory series.
Labels: Making Independent Music (Criminal Practice Ser.)
by Ian Woodward Dominik BartmanskiThe music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fact that digitalization made record sales barely profitable. How can those outsiders not only survive, but thrive within mass music markets? What makes them meaningful, and to whom? Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward show how labels act as taste-makers and scene-markers that not only curate music, but project cultural values which challenge the mainstream capitalist music industry. Focusing mostly on labels that entered independent electronic music after 2000, the authors reconstruct their aesthetics and ethics. The book draws on multiple interviews with labels such as Ostgut Ton in Berlin, Argot in Chicago, 100% Silk in Los Angeles, Ninja Tune in London, and Goma Gringa in Sao Paulo. Written by the authors of Vinyl, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the contemporary recording industry, independent music, material culture, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.
Labor Allocation And Rural Development: Migration In Four Javanese Villages
by Philip GuestBy integrating migration research in a comprehensive framework of labour allocation at household and village levels, this study shows how migration factors are crucial in understanding the transformations of rural communities in developing countries. Data collected in 4 villages within a wet rice-growing area of Central Java, Indonesia, are used to examine why some villages and households contribute a greater share of migrants than others. The decision to migrate is located within the constraints and opportunities of local labour markets, and migration is treated as one among many alternatives for allocating the labour of household members. The type of labour allocation choices made is lined to the demographic structure of households, the social position of the household, and the employment opportunities available within the community. These factors are then related to processes of rural development.
Labor And Legality: An Ethnography Of A Mexican Immigrant Network (Case Studies In Contemporary Anthropology Series)
by Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz<P>Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work as busboys at a Chicago-area restaurant. <P>Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz introduces readers to the Lions, ten friends from Mexico committed to improving their fortunes and the lives of their families. <P>Set in and around "Il Vino," a restaurant that could stand in for many places that employ undocumented workers, Labor and Legality reveals the faces behind the war being waged over "illegal aliens" in America. <P>Gomberg-Muñoz focuses on how undocumented workers develop a wide range of social strategies to cultivate financial security, nurture emotional well-being, and promote their dignity and self-esteem. <P>She also reviews the political and historical circumstances of undocumented migration, with an emphasis on post-1970 socioeconomic and political conditions in the United States and Mexico.
Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil: Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America (Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America)
by Scott B. Martin João Paulo Veiga Katiuscia Moreno GalheraThis book explores how and why the labor practices of the world’s largest employer, supermarket giant Walmart, were contested by unions and government regulators as it expanded to Latin America starting in the 1990s. With an in-depth case study of Brazil, and a comparative chapter examining Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, this book analyzes the problematic encounter between diffusion of home-office anti-labor practices and evolving national institutional contexts that are quite varied and in some cases enable considerable resistance by unions and/or regulators. Walmart’s “repressive familial” and “anti-union” model is found to generate costs and conflicts that contributed to its unprofitability and ultimate exit from Brazil in 2018. This experience, contrasted with country situations where Walmart’s overall competitive and labor and human resource practices “fit” better with national markets and institutions, underlines the brittle, problematic nature of diffusionist corporate models lacking adaptive capacity to significant cross-national variations across host countries.
Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy
by Noelle J. MoléPsychological harassment at work, or "mobbing," has become a significant public policy issue in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Mobbing has given rise to specialized counseling clinics, a new field of professional expertise, and new labor laws. For Noelle J. Molé, mobbing is a manifestation of Italy's rapid transition from a highly protectionist to a market-oriented labor regime and a neoliberal state. She analyzes the classification of mobbing as a work-related illness, the deployment of preventive public health programs, the relation of mobbing to gendered work practices, and workers' use of the concept of mobbing to make legal and medical claims, with implications for state policy, labor contracts, and political movements. For many Italian workers, mobbing embodies the social and psychological effects of an economy and a state in transition.
Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience (Working Class in American History)
by Peter Rachleff Gunther Peck James R. Barrett Tera W. Hunter Shelton Stromquist Bruce Laurie Reeve Huston Cecelia Bucki Kathryn J Oberdeck Kimberley L. Phillips Ileen A DeVaultIs class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by former students of preeminent labor figure and historian David Montgomery, the works advance the argument that class remains indispensable to the study of working Americans and their place in the broad drama of our shared national history.
Labor Market Institutions in China
by Xinxin MaThis book examines labor market policy and institutional reforms and their impact on outcomes in the Chinese labor market, utilizing both institutional and empirical study perspectives. It furnishes readers with academic evidence essential for comprehending the transformation of labor policies and institutions within the Chinese context—an emerging market economy housing one of the largest workforces globally. The main content of this book is divided into two parts: (i) Social institutions and labor market policies, encompassing topics such as trade unions and union wage premiums, minimum wage regulations and wage distributions, labor contracts, employment security and the high education expansion policy. (ii) Wage and employment institutions in the workplace, including areas such as seniority wages, mandatory retirement systems, the wage-experience profile, the dual labor market phenomenon, discrimination against women and minority ethnic workers, work hours, work-family conflict, job satisfaction, and the influences of Communist Party of China membership on managerial promotions. This book presents academic evidence on these issues, grounded in institutional transition background, economic theories, and empirical studies. It draws upon various Chinese nationwide representative survey datasets. This book is highly recommended for readers interested in institutional transitions, seeking up-to-date and in-depth empirical studies on the associations between labor policies/institutions and labor market outcomes. It particularly appeals to those with an interest in the Chinese economy, labor policymakers, scholars with a background in econometric analysis, and managers in companies.
Labor Market Institutions in Europe: A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Performance
by Gunther SchmidThe outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the Social Science Research Center Berlin, these seven contributions were originally presented at a conference in December 1992 before a group of experts i
Labor Market Segmentation and its Implications: Inequality, Deprivation, and Entitlement (Routledge Library Editions: Women and Business #3)
by Dahlia MooreOccupational sex segregation is one of the most universal and salient characteristics of labor markets. It indicates the different probabilities of members of both genders to take up particular occupations, and traditionally places women at a great disadvantage. This book, first published in 1992, focuses on a comparative analysis of sex-segregated occupational categories and attempts to systematically examine their implications. Since very little is known about Israeli working women, and given the cultural differences between Israel and other, more studied industrialised nations, this book focuses on the Israeli labor market. Through the utilization of several theoretical approaches, combining economic, sociological, and social-psychological perspectives, the book analyses empirical findings concerning labor market perceptions, attitudes and behaviors.
Labor Markets, Migration, and Mobility: Essays in Honor of Jacques Poot (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives #45)
by William Cochrane Michael P. Cameron Omoniyi AlimiThis volume is devoted to three key themes central to studies in regional science: the sub-national labor market, migration, and mobility, and their analysis. The book brings together essays that cover a wide range of topics including the development of uncertainty in national and subnational population projections; the impacts of widening and deepening human capital; the relationship between migration, neighborhood change, and area-based urban policy; the facilitating role played by outmigration and remittances in economic transition; and the contrasting importance of quality of life and quality of business for domestic and international migrants. All of the contributions here are by leading figures in their fields and employ state-of-the art methodologies. Given the variety of topics and themes covered this book, it will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in both regional science and related disciplines such as demography, population economics, and public policy.
Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession
by Martin Kahanec Klaus F. ZimmermannThis volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU. More specifically, its main purpose is to enlighten the growing and yet rather uninformed debate about the role of post-enlargement migration for economic adjustment in the crisis-stricken labor markets of the Eurozone and the EU as a whole. The book addresses the political economy aspects of post-enlargement migration, including its broader political contexts, redistributive impacts, but also nationalization of the enlargement agenda. It also covers the experience of receiving and sending countries with post-enlargement migration and its role during the current crisis. Renowned experts in the field study, whether and how post-enlargement mobility has enabled the EU to absorb asymmetric economic shocks, how it has affected the European welfare systems, and whether it has contributed to the sustainability of the Eurozone. The authors also evaluate brain circulation as a sought-after vehicle of improved allocative efficiency of EU labor markets and propose a policy agenda for mobility in an enlarged EU.
Labor Pains: New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
by Christin Marie TaylorFrom the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the literary Left and the working class, Christin Marie Taylor considers how black radicalism influenced southern fiction about black workers, offering a new view of work and labor.At the height of the New Deal era and its legacies, Taylor examines how southern literature of the Popular Front not only addressed the familiar stakes of race and labor but also called upon an imagined black folk to explore questions of feeling and desire. By poring over tropes of black workers across genres of southern literature in the works of George Wylie Henderson, William Attaway, Eudora Welty, and Sarah Elizabeth Wright, Taylor reveals the broad reach of black radicalism into experiments with portraying human feelings.These writers grounded interrelationships and stoked emotions to present the social issues of their times in deeply human terms. Taylor emphasizes the multidimensional use of the sensual and the sexual, which many protest writers of the period, such as Richard Wright, avoided. She suggests Henderson and company used feeling to touch readers while also questioning and reimagining the political contexts and apparent victories of their times. Taylor shows how these fictions adopted the aesthetics and politics of feeling as a response to New Deal–era policy reforms, both in their successes and their failures. In effect, these writers, some who are not considered a part of an African American protest tradition, illuminated an alternative form of protest through poignant paradigms.
Labor Rights and Multinational Production
by Layna MosleyLabor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. But other types of international production, particularly subcontracting, can engender competitive races to the bottom in labor rights. To test these claims, Mosley presents newly generated measures of collective labor rights, covering a wide range of low- and middle-income nations for the 1985–2002 period. Labor Rights and Multinational Production suggests that the consequences of economic openness for developing countries are highly dependent on foreign firms' modes of entry and, more generally, on the precise way in which each developing country engages the global economy. The book contributes to academic literature in comparative and international political economy, and to public policy debates regarding the effects of globalization.
Labor Struggle in the Post Office: From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining (Labor And Human Resources)
by John Walsh Garth L. MangumUsing data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future.
Labor Transfer in Emerging Economies
by Xiaochun LiBased on new phenomena appearing in many emerging economies, this book presents a theoretical study on the economic influences of labor transfer from several aspects. In recent years, thanks to the continuous progress of social forms as well as science and technology, there are a large number of new developing trends in emerging nations. Taking China as an example, several economic issues have sprung up with the huge scale of labor transfer, such as development of modern agriculture, environmental protection, privatization of mixed enterprises, training of human capital, and migrant workers' remittances to their hometowns. However, the existing researches on labor transfer pay little attention to them. In order to bridge the gap, this book combines new economic data with basic theories of labor migration, and discusses economic influences of labor transfer in four angles: human capital, migrants' remittances, environmental protection, and development of modern agriculture. Each part is composed of two or three analytical elements. Our conclusions not only enrich existing theoretical researches, but also provide theoretical support for related national economic policies.
Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, Migration
by David Smith Gilbert G. Gonzalez Linda Trinh Võ Raul A. Fernandez Vivian PriceThe essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.