1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451477703321

Autore

Huber Sonya <1971->

Titolo

Opa Nobody [[electronic resource] /] / Sonya Huber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-21350-0

9786611213503

0-8032-1623-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

American lives

Disciplina

929/.10943

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Germany Genealogy

Germany History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-358).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acronyms of Political Parties; 1. The Intuition of History; 2. Sweet Heinrich; 3. We Are All Germans Now; 4. Make It New; 5. The Promise of Power; 6. A Lash of the Whip; 7. Unions; 8. The Führer's Peace; 9. The Cataclysm; 10. My Mother Remembers Roses; Buschmann Family Tree; Political and Family Chronology; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

It had come to this: breastfeeding her screaming three-month-old while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying to her husband so she could attend yet another activist meeting, and otherwise actively self-destructing. Then Sonya Huber turned to her long-dead grandfather, the family "nobody," for help.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789752903321

Autore

Mastracci Sharon H. <1968->

Titolo

Emotional labor and crisis response : working on the razor's edge / / Sharon H. Mastracci, Mary E. Guy, Meredith A. Newman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Armonk, N.Y., : M.E. Sharpe, 2012

Armonk, N.Y. : , : M.E. Sharpe, , 2012

ISBN

1-315-70486-2

1-317-47213-6

1-283-26896-5

9786613268969

0-7656-2520-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 173 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

363.34068/1

Soggetti

Public service employment - United States - Psychological aspects

Crisis management - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Emotional labor as public good and the state as harbor of refuge -- A blind spot in public administration theory--but not in practice -- Human capital issues -- Communicating competence and cultivating trust -- Who gets the blame? Who gets the credit? Government responsiveness and accountability -- Of the people : legitimacy, representativeness, and the difference that gender makes -- Professional standards and discretion in crisis response -- Reflections on the why, how, and what of emotional labor.

Sommario/riassunto

The authors of the award-winning Emotional Labor now investigate how that book's concepts are actually applied in public service delivery, focusing on crisis responders who work in the most emotionally demanding situations. Emotional Labor and Crisis Response goes inside the stressful world of suicide, rape, and domestic hotline workers, EMTs, triage nurses, and agency/department spokespersons who are the initial faces of the organization and who deal with the public immediately following crises. The authors explore how these public servants interpret unwritten ""feeling rules,"" and how they