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UNINA9910784403903321 |
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Devine Fiona |
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Titolo |
Class practices : how parents help their children get good jobs / / Fiona Devine [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
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1-107-14411-6 |
1-280-54105-9 |
0-511-21512-6 |
0-511-21691-2 |
0-511-21154-6 |
0-511-31559-7 |
0-511-48877-7 |
0-511-21331-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Employees - Recruiting - Social aspects - Great Britain |
Employees - Recruiting - Social aspects - United States |
Social mobility - Great Britain |
Social mobility - United States |
Parents - Social networks - Great Britain |
Parents - Social networks - United States |
Education - Parent participation - Great Britain |
Education - Parent participation - United States |
Social surveys - Great Britain |
Social surveys - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and indexes. |
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Material help with education and employment -- Financial choices and sacrifices for children -- Aspirations and ambitions for 'good' jobs -- Hopes, happiness and 'fulfilling potential' -- Luck and contacts in the forging of careers -- Networks and friends in school and beyond. |
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This important new book is a comparative study of social mobility |
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based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue in stratification research, namely, the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction. Drawing on interviewee accounts of how parents mobilised economic, cultural and social resources to help them into professional careers, it then considers how the interviewees, as parents, seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement. Middle-class parents may try to secure their children's social position but it is not an easy or straightforward affair. With the decline of the quality of state education and increased job insecurity in the labour market since the 1970s and 1980s, the reproduction of advantage is more difficult than in the affluent decades of the 1950s and 1960s. The implications for public policy, especially public investment in higher education, are considered. |
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UNINA9910811310303321 |
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Autore |
Zembrzycki Stacey |
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According to Baba : a collaborative oral history of sudbury's Ukrainian community / / Stacey Zembrzycki |
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Vancouver, British Columbia : , : UBC Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Collana |
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Shared : Oral and Public History |
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Ukrainians |
Ukrainians - Canada - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Building: Recreating Home and Community -- 2 Solidifying: Organized Ukrainian Life -- 3 Contesting: Confrontational Identities -- 4 Cultivating: Depression-Era Households -- 5 Remembering: Baba's Sudbury -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her baba's stories about Sudbury's small but polarized Ukrainian community and what it was like growing up ethnic during the Depression. According to Baba grew out of those stories, out of a fledgling historian's desire to capture the experiences of her grandparents' generation on paper. Eighty-two interviews conducted by Stacey and her grandmother laid the groundwork for this insightful and personal social history of Sudbury's Ukrainian community. The interviews also brought to light the challenges of doing oral history, particularly as Stacey lost authority to her Baba, wrestled it back, and eventually came to share it. By disclosing the hard work that goes into making communities partners in research, Zembrzycki offers a new paradigm for writing oral history and for studying the politics of memory. |
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