Making human rights work globally [[electronic resource] /] / Anthony Woodiwiss

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784985203321
• Autore: Woodiwiss Anthony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Portland, Or., : GlassHouse, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-37619-5; 1-283-60468-X; 9786612376191; 9786613917133; 1-135-31124-2; 1-84314-533-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (149 p.)
• Disciplina: 323
• Soggetti: Human rights; Employee rights
• 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. [119]-129) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Making Human Rights Work Globally; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Introduction: Human rights as means; The need for a sociology of human rights; An outline of the argument; 1. Theorising a global social fact; Overcoming the reticence of sociology; Theory and the recognition of social difference; 2. International human rights and the silence concerning social difference; The birth of international human rights discourse; Making human rights enforceable; The juridification of human rights discourse; Conclusion; 3. The plural forms of labour rights and the possibility of translationLiberal democracy, socialism and labour rights; Early industrialisers; Late industrialisers; Conclusion; 4. Making human rights work in familialist societies; Reconciling familialism and human rights; Late industrialisation, familialism and the development of labour rights; Post-colonial industrialisation, familialism and labour rights; Conclusion; 5. Justiciability and the need for cosmopolitan 'core' labour standards; The construction of an Ameri-centric core; The primacy of the ethical dimension; Towards a hybrid core; The need for 'just and favourable conditions at work'Conclusion; 6.Making labour rights justiciable in China; Human rights as an iron rice bowl; Guangdong and the 'open door'; Company law, employment law and the justiciability of labour rights; Justiciability in Guangdong Province; Workplace culture and justiciability; Conclusion; Conclusion:Making work for human rights; Postscript:10 May 2003; Appendix: The interview schedules; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many peoples lives and a central concern of sociology.

Jewish American and Holocaust literature : representation in the postmodern world / / edited by Alan L. Berger and Gloria L. Cronin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971690303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2004
• ISBN: 9780791484449; 0791484440; 9781423740254; 1423740254
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 255 p
• Collana: SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
• Altri autori (Persone): BergerAlan L. <1939->; CroninGloria L. <1947->
• Disciplina: 810.9/8924
• Soggetti: American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Literature and the war; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Postmodernism (Literature) - United States; Jews - United States - Intellectual life; Judaism and literature - United States; Holocaust survivors in literature; Judaism in literature; Jews in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Jewish American and Holocaust Literature -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction ALAN L. BERGER AND GLORIA L. CRONIN -- PART ONE: Holocaust Literature -- 1. Hidden Children: The Literature of Hiding ALAN L. BERGER -- 2. An Eye on a Scrap of the World: Ida Fink's Witnesses ELLEN S. FINE -- 3. Jerzy Kosinski: Did He or Didn't He? HARRY JAMES CARGAS -- 4. By the Light of Darkness: Six Major European Writers Who Experienced the Holocaust HUGH NISSENSON -- 5. Memory and Collective Identity: Narrative Strategies Against Forgetting in Contemporary Literary Responses to the Holocaust GERHARD BACH -- 6. The Rendition of Memory in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" MARIANNE M. FRIEDRICH -- 7. A Speck of Dust Blown by the Wind Across Land and Desert: Images of the Holocaust in Lanzmann, Singer, and Appelfeld GILA SAFRAN NAVEH -- 8. Writing to Break the Frozen Seas Within: The Power of Fiction in the Writings of Norma Rosen and Rebecca Goldstein SUSAN E. NOWAK -- 9. Art and Atrocity in a Post-9/11 World THANE ROSENBAUM -- PART TWO: Jewish American Literature -- 10. Africanity and the Collapse of American Culture in the Novels of Saul Bellow GLORIA L. CRONIN -- 11. The Jewish Journey of Saul Bellow: From Secular Satirist to Spiritual Seeker SARAH BLACHER COHEN -- 12. Philip Roth and Jewish American Literature at the Millennium BONNIE LYONS -- 13. Malamud and Ozick: Kindred "Neshamas" EVELYN AVERY -- 14. Myth and Addiction in Jonathan Rosen's "Eve's Apple" SUZANNE EVERTSEN LUNDQUIST -- 15. Evolving Paradigms of Jewish Women in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction: Through a Male Lens/ Through a Female Lens S. LILLIAN KREMER -- 16. After the Melting Pot: Jewish Women Writers and the Man in the Wrong Clothes MIRIYAM GLAZER -- 17. Restorying Jewish Mothers JANET BURSTEIN -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K.; L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.