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UNINA9910464294603321 |
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Williams Christine L. <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Inside toyland [[electronic resource] ] : working, shopping, and social inequality / / Christine L. Williams |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2006 |
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1-282-77203-1 |
9786612772030 |
0-520-93949-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Toy industry - United States - Employees |
Clerks (Retail trade) - United States |
Discrimination in employment - United States |
Consumers - United States |
Equality - United States |
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 (p. 225-235) and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. A SOCIOLOGIST INSIDE TOY STORES -- 2. HISTORY OF TOY SHOPPING IN AMERICA -- 3. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TOY STORES -- 4. INEQUALITY ON THE SHOPPING FLOOR -- 5. KIDS IN TOYLAND -- 6. TOYS AND CITIZENSHIP -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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"I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old." So begins sociologist Christine Williams's description of her stint as a low-wage worker at two national toy store chains: one upscale shop and one big box outlet. In this provocative, perceptive, and lively book, studded with rich observations from the shop floor, Williams chronicles her experiences as a cashier, salesperson, and stocker and provides broad-ranging, often startling, insights into the social impact of shopping for toys. Taking a new look at what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall |
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culture. Despite their differences, Williams finds that both toy stores perpetuate social inequality in a variety of ways. She observes that workers are often assigned to different tasks and functions on the basis of gender and race; that racial dynamics between black staff and white customers can play out in complex and intense ways; that unions can't protect workers from harassment from supervisors or demeaning customers even in the upscale toy store. And she discovers how lessons that adults teach to children about shopping can legitimize economic and social hierarchies. In the end, however, Inside Toyland is not an anti-consumer diatribe. Williams discusses specific changes in labor law and in the organization of the retail industry that can better promote social justice. |
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UNINA9910318336603321 |
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Autore |
Waerzeggers Caroline |
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Xerxes and Babylonia : the cuneiform evidence / / edited by Caroline Waerzeggers and Maarja Seire |
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Leuven, : Peeters, 2018 |
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Leuven ; ; Paris ; ; Bristol, Connecticut : , : Peeters, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations |
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Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; ; 227 |
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Cuneiform inscriptions |
History |
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Babylonia History Sources |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Debating Xerxes' Rule in Babylonia / Caroline Waerzeggers -- Towards a Framework for Interpreting Social and Economic Change in Babylonia During the Long 6th Century BCE / Reinhard Pirngruber -- Before Xerxes: The Role of the Governor of |
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Babylonia in the Administration of Justice Under the First Achaemenids / Małgorzata Sandowicz -- Xerxes: The Case of Sippar and the Ebabbar Temple / Michael Jursa -- Uruk: The Fate of the Eanna Archive, the Gimil-Nanāya B Archive, and Their Archaeological Evidence / Karlheinz Kessler -- The Network of Resistance: Archives and Political Action in Babylonia Before 484 BCE / Caroline Waerzeggers -- Babylonian Scholarship and the Calendar During the Reign of Xerxes / Mathieu Ossendrijver -- The Esangila Temple During the Late Achaemenid Period and the Impact of Xerxes' Reprisals on the Northern Babylonian Temple Households / Johannes Hackl -- Uruk Before and After Xerxes: The Onomastic and Institutional Rise of the God Anu / Paul-Alain Beaulieu. |
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In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes' response to this challenge. This volume continues and expands this debate. It collects nine essays on the cuneiform text corpus dated to the period before, during and after the revolts. This material enables the authors to evaluate the nature of Xerxes' policies in the sphere of society, science, religion, law, administration and economy against the long-term history of the region. The contributions are by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Johannes Hackl, Michael Jursa, Karlheinz Kessler, Mathieu Ossendrijver, Reinhard Pirngruber, Malgorzata Sandowicz and Caroline Waerzeggers. |
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