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UNINA9910463600003321 |
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Coleman Joseph <1963-> |
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Unfinished work : the struggle to build an aging American workforce / / Joseph Coleman |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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0-19-997451-9 |
0-19-997450-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Older people - Employment - United States |
Older people - Employment |
Population aging - United States |
Population aging |
Manpower planning - United States |
Manpower planning |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: -- Tsuneko Hariki and the Rich World's Coming of Age -- CHAPTER 2: -- Embracing the Silver Workforce -- CHAPTER 3: -- The Fisherwoman of Akron -- CHAPTER 4 -- Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out) -- CHAPTER 5 -- The Swedish Way -- CHAPTER 6 -- The Hammer Men -- CHAPTER 7 -- The Old Continent Gets Older -- CHAPTER 8 -- Proteans in Paradise -- EPILOGUE -- Galapagos: Islands of the Old. |
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"The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century--globalization, technology, and unprecedented wealth mixed with jarring economic instability--are pushing the day of retirement later and later in life. The era of the aging worker is here. From the rice paddies of Japan to the heart of the American rust-belt, veteran international correspondent Joseph Coleman takes readers inside the lives of aging workers, exploring the factories, offices, and fields where they toil and the |
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societies in which they live, giving the reader a front-row seat to the global older worker revolution. Profiles of individuals bring to life Coleman's exploration of how the United States--along with many countries around the world--deal with the rise of aging workforces. Throughout these stories, the author gives advice on how societies can best benefit from and assist their increasingly older population. Readers will come to know: --Michel Wattree, a retired French trucker who has found a second life as an elementary school bus driver and still nurses dreams of driving America's storied Route 66. --The aging crew of Japan's Yamashita Kogyosho, where for half a century they have crafted the world's fastest trains with their bare hands and hammers, exemplifies Japan's adaptive employment strategies that have helped the country deal with one of the oldest demographic compositions in the world. --Rita Hall, an unemployed hospital worker from Akron, Ohio, who hopes that a job training program will save her from spending the rest of her golden years in poverty-a fear shared by many who will far outlive their retirement savings. Amidst the stories of how these works are working hard to adapt, Unfinished Work probes the struggles of companies either unable or unwilling to accommodate the aging of their workforces and the quandaries of governments and policymakers eager to control pension pay-outs to retiring boomers, yet unsure how to keep them on the job. What emerges is a compassionate but clear-eyed portrait of a world in the midst of a slow-motion aging revolution that will have vast consequences for present and coming generations"-- |
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UNINA9910816544603321 |
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KulturConfusão : on German-Brazilian interculturalities / / editors, Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer, Christopher Larkosh |
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Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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3-11-040822-8 |
3-11-040844-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies, , 1861-8030 ; ; Volume 19 |
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Intercultural communication - Germany |
Intercultural communication - Brazil |
Germany Relations Brazil |
Brazil Relations Germany |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Front matter -- Table of Contents -- KulturConfusão: On German-Brazilian Hybridities and Intercultural Hermeneutics / Finger, Anke / Kathöfer, Gabi / Larkosh, Christopher -- Indigenous Projections -- Germans and Indians in Brazil: The Transatlantic Construction of Ethnic Identity in the Discourse of Indian Protection / Ritz-Deutch, Ute -- "Paradise with Black Angels": Brazil in Eighteenth-Century Germany / Clara, Fernando -- Devouring Culture: Cannibalism, National Identity, and Nineteenth-Century German Emigration to Brazil / Kathöfer, Gabi -- Cultural Entanglements and Ethnographic Refractions: Theodor Koch-Grünberg in Brazil / Beebee, Thomas O. -- Everyday Cultures and Media -- German-Brazilian Cultural Exchange in the Times of the Dictatorship: The Cultural Magazine Intercâmbio / Musser, Ricarda -- From Documentation to Dialogue: On Bringing Brazilian Popular Music and Jazz to West Germany / Hurley, Andrew W. -- Conceptual Metaphors: A Culture-Specific Construction of Meaning Using the "Life Is War" Metaphor in Brazilian and German Rap Lyrics / Schröder, Ulrike -- Transnational Film History? Um Cinema Teuto-Brasileiro / |
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Fuhrmann, Wolfgang -- Literary Fusions and Interstitial Spaces -- Tropical Subjectivity and the European Tradition of Bildung: Macunaíma, a Hero Without a Character, by Mário de Andrade / Nitschack, Horst -- "Everywhere Paradise Is Lost": The Brazilian National Myth in the Works of Refugees of Nazism / Eckl, Marlen -- Submarine: Germany Resurfacing in the Contemporary Brazilian Novel / Larkosh, Christopher -- "Exiled from the World": German Expressionism, Brazilian Modernism, and the Interstitial Primitivism of Lasar Segall / Wolfe, Edith -- Between São Paulo and Stuttgart: Multilingualism, Translation, and Interculturality in Haroldo de Campos's and Vilém Flusser's Work / Guldin, Rainer -- Contributors -- Index |
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The analyses of German and Brazilian cultures found in this book offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities and literary and cultural studies. This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day, especially how authors, artists and other intellectuals address the development of society, intervene in the construction and transformation of cultural identities, and observe the introduction of differing cultural elements in and beyond the limits of the nation. The contributors represent various academic disciplines, including German Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Art History and the social sciences. Their essays cover a wide range of works and media, and the issues they address are relevant not only for each of the scholarly disciplines involved, but also in discussions of current cultural practices in connection to all forms of media. The collection thus serves as a model for further intercultural research, since it calls into question the very terms through which we understand the relationships between cultures, as well as their products, practices, and perspectives. |
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