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"Labor Is Not a Commodity!" The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York
ISBN: PB: 9783593506272, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2017
237 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for presen...
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£36,00
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Affective Circuits African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
ISBN: PB: 9780226405155, ISBN: HB: 9780226405018, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a funda...
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£28,00
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Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City
ISBN: PB: 9780226435589, ISBN: HB: 9780226435442, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 3 tables
America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars – both public and private – fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash m...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Social Media – New Masses
ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones
Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...
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£48,00
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Doing Style Youth and Mass Mediation in South India
ISBN: PB: 9780226327853, ISBN: HB: 9780226327716, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 1 table
In "Doing Style", Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call "style" anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Ta...
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£22,50
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£63,00
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Making Trouble Surrealism and the Human Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780996635523, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
95 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge", an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis o...
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Going Public A Guide for Social Scientists
ISBN: PB: 9780226364780, ISBN: HB: 9780226364643, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 1 table
At a time when policy discussions are dominated by "I feel" instead of "I know," it is more important than ever for social scientists to make themselves heard. When those who possess in-depth training and expertise are excluded from public debates ab...
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£43,00
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African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...
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£72,00
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Intersectional Inequality Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty
ISBN: PB: 9780226414409, ISBN: HB: 9780226414379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 46 tables
For over twenty-five years, Charles C. Ragin has developed Qualitative Comparative Analysis and related set-analytic techniques as a means of bridging qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Now, with Peer C. Fiss, Ragin uses these impressi...
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£19,00
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Thinking Through Methods A Social Science Primer
ISBN: PB: 9780226431727, ISBN: HB: 9780226431697, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 2 tables
Sociological research is hard enough already – you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desp...
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