Author : Angie Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 042972120X
This book explores the complex identities and connection between clients and prostitutes living in Spain and life beyond prostitution. It reflects on the relationship between the anthropologist and that of his/her subjects and informants.
Author : Tom Nissley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135924570
The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick Douglass, Horatio Alger, and James Weldon Johnson, and the work of silent comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton. Thomas Nissley examines a number of texts, from Reconstruction-era autobiographies to the films of the 30s, to show the sustained market value of status and personal authenticity in the era of contract and free labor.
Author : Jay MacLeod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429975082
This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It, Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the 'Brothers' and the 'Hallway Hangers'. Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic stereotypes. MacLeod's return eight years later, and the resulting 1995 revision, revealed little improvement in the lives of these men as they struggled in the labor market and crime-ridden underground economy. The third edition of this classic ethnography of social reproduction brings the story of inequality and social mobility into today's dialogue. Now fully updated with thirteen new interviews from the original Hallway Hangers and Brothers, as well as new theoretical analysis and comparison to the original conclusions, Ain't No Makin' It remains an admired and invaluable text.
Author : Samuel Cameron
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031181999
This book gives an overview of the key issues related to books and reading within the field of cultural economics and identifies additional lacunae in this area of research. The field of cultural economics is surprisingly short on research on the book market and on the activity of reading compared with other more recently invented media such as films and musical recordings. In addition, books and reading are strongly impacted by the disruptive innovations of digital technology and the use of online distribution platforms that fuel much of the research on the more recently invented cultural media. This book shows that the area of books and reading has had contributions in historically established areas of cultural economics and those currently exciting attention - chiefly with respect to digital disruption. Finally, it explains how books and reading are a fully developed rational addition model rather than something just based on the addition of past behaviour. Previously published in Journal of Cultural Economics Volume 43, issue 4, December 2019
Author : Conrad Riker
Publisher : Conrad Riker
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN :
Have you ever wondered why everything seems to be getting worse? Tired of endless disappointments and declining quality in every aspect of life? This book is your ticket out of the downward spiral. Examine the causes and consequences of societal decline, explore historical patterns, and discover practical solutions to improve your life and the world around you. - Learn about the psychological foundations behind the decline of quality - Discover the role of big tech, social media, and the entertainment industry in accelerating the decline - Understand how your everyday choices contribute to the problem and what you can do to resist - Explore the impact of consumerism, environmental degradation, and political corruption - Discover practical strategies to navigate the world of declining quality If you want to live a better life in a better world, buy this book today. Shit Happens is a no-nonsense guide to understanding and overcoming the decline of quality in modern society. Say goodbye to disappointment and hello to a future of better quality!
Author : Norman Kelley
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781888451689
Given than hip hop music alone has generated more than a billion dollars in sales, the absence of a major black record company is disturbing. Even Motown is now a subsidiary of the Universal Music Group. Nonetheless, little has been written about the economic relationship between African-Americans and the music industry. This anthology dissects contemporary trends in the music industry and explores how blacks have historically interacted with the business as artists, business-people and consumers.
Author : Aditya Magal
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 8184006187
A billionaire stock investor with a dragon-sized ego finds himself in an outrageous pickle when an eccentric entrepreneur approaches him to invest in his company which makes a revolutionary new product–NOTHING. While the billionaire dismisses him with 1 lakh rupees to seek psychiatric help, the entrepreneur instead uses the money to start manufacturing NOTHING, assigning him a stake in the company as a sign of gratefulness. Caught in a precarious situation, the billionaire must now debate the validity of the stake he has unintentionally picked up in the company as it becomes more and more valuable each day with everyone from politicians to filmstars to aam aadmis parading the power of Nothing. Things escalate into a circus when another company sues for what they believe is a blatant patent plagiarism of their original idea. Rambunctious, packed with tons of sarcasm, spoofs, and sketches, How to Become a Billionaire by Selling Nothing looks at the inherent madness of human nature and the ridiculous lengths people go to while doing business.
Author : Santiago Sanchez-Pages
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030801810
Cinema articulates the economic anxieties of each generation of filmmakers and audiences. It has an influence on people’s views on various economic issues and many orders of magnitude larger than that of economics as a discipline. This book offers a sweeping study of the representation of economics in cinema across a wide range of areas and genres, from the conflicts over resources in the lawless Old West to the post-scarcity societies of science fiction futures. This book studies how films have portrayed trade unions, scarcity, money, businesses, innovators, migrant workers, working women, globalization, the stock market, and the automation of work. It aims to be useful to those who are interested in cinema with economic themes and to those who want to learn about economics through cinema.
Author : Ira Brant Sommers
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781560728207
This book examines women's participation in the cocaine/crack economy of New York City. All the women are or were long-term drug dealers, not those who casually dealt drugs. In order to be included in the authors' study, a person had to have sold drugs for at least two years. Many of the respondents were involved in drug distribution for considerably longer periods. Thus, the voices heard here are of those who had substantial drug selling careers. The authors' seek to describe the lives of women drug dealers -- not so much from their point of view, as from the women's own. In the research undertaken, they sought to listen to the women and understand the cultural perspectives through which they created their lives. Thus, the women are represented as responsive subjects and present their world as close as possible to how they saw it. Throughout the book, the women describe their experiences through their own vernacular.
Author : Max Edwin Brunk
Publisher :
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Celery
ISBN :
