Class acts [[electronic resource] ] : service and inequality in luxury hotels / / Rachel Sherman |
Autore | Sherman Rachel <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina | 647.94068 |
Soggetto topico |
Hospitality industry - Customer services - United States
Hotels - United States - Management Luxuries - Social aspects - United States Social classes - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
behind the scenes bellperson class differences concierge consumer society cultural studies demographic study economic inequality ethnographers ethnographic research hotel jobs hotel managers hotel staff hotel workers housekeepers luxury consumption luxury hotels luxury service nonfiction study nonfiction service industry social inequality social relationships united states urban hotels wealthy guests workplace |
ISBN |
0-520-93960-3
1-281-75250-9 9786611752507 1-4337-0002-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Luxury Service And The New Economy -- 1. "Better Than Your Mother": The Luxury Product -- 2. Managing Autonomy -- 3. Games, Control, And Skill -- 4. Recasting Hierarchy -- 5. Reciprocity, Relationship, And Revenge -- 6. Producing Entitlement -- Conclusion: Class, Culture, And The Service Theater -- Appendix A: Methods -- Appendix B: Hotel Organization -- Appendix C: Jobs, Wages, And Nonmanagerial Workers In Each Hotel: 2000-2001 -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784413003321 |
Sherman Rachel <1970-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disuguaglianza economica nelle società preindustriali : cause ed effetti = Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies : causes and effects / / edited by Giampiero Nigro |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Florence : , : Firenze University Press, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (488 p.) |
Collana | Datini Studies in Economic History |
Soggetto topico |
Income distribution - Europe - History
Wealth - Europe - History Economic development - Europe - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
wealth distribution
economic inequality european history economic history pre-industrial economic history income distribution |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies : causes and effect / Giampiero Nigro |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910424627203321 |
Florence : , : Firenze University Press, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Falling Behind : How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class / / Robert Frank |
Autore | Frank Robert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/50973 |
Collana | Wildavsky Forum Series |
Soggetto topico |
Consumption (Economics) -- United States
Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States Income distribution -- United States Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
american class system
american middle class american prosperity arms race class consumer behavior costs of inequality debt demographic studies economic data economic inequality economic lives economy expenditure cascades falling behind happiness income inequality income middle class families middle class money and power money power and wealth public policy record levels of debt social expectations sociology spending money spending power wall street wealth inequality wildavsky forum series |
ISBN | 0-520-95743-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Preface to the 2007 Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent Changes in Income and Wealth Inequality -- 3. Inequality, Happiness, and Health -- 4. Envy or Context? -- 5. The Rising Cost of Adequate -- 6. Why Do We Care about Rank? -- 7. What Types of Consumption Are Most Sensitive to Context? -- 8. How Can Middle-Class Families Afford to Keep Up? -- 9. Smart for One, Dumb for All -- 10. Looking Ahead -- 11. Lessons for Public Policy -- 12. Reflections -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779838003321 |
Frank Robert | ||
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Falling Behind : How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class / / Robert Frank |
Autore | Frank Robert |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/50973 |
Collana | Wildavsky Forum Series |
Soggetto topico |
Consumption (Economics) -- United States
Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States Income distribution -- United States Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
american class system
american middle class american prosperity arms race class consumer behavior costs of inequality debt demographic studies economic data economic inequality economic lives economy expenditure cascades falling behind happiness income inequality income middle class families middle class money and power money power and wealth public policy record levels of debt social expectations sociology spending money spending power wall street wealth inequality wildavsky forum series |
ISBN | 0-520-95743-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Preface to the 2007 Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent Changes in Income and Wealth Inequality -- 3. Inequality, Happiness, and Health -- 4. Envy or Context? -- 5. The Rising Cost of Adequate -- 6. Why Do We Care about Rank? -- 7. What Types of Consumption Are Most Sensitive to Context? -- 8. How Can Middle-Class Families Afford to Keep Up? -- 9. Smart for One, Dumb for All -- 10. Looking Ahead -- 11. Lessons for Public Policy -- 12. Reflections -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812721003321 |
Frank Robert | ||
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The great forgetting : The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State / / Jack Lawrence Luzkow |
Autore | Luzkow Jack Lawrence <1941-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
Disciplina | 320.1/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Socialism
Public welfare Equality Economic policy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Adam Smith
Alexis De Tocqueville Anglo-America Beatrice Webb European social democracies European social model Grand Narrative Great Depression John Stuart Mill Matthew Arnold Milton Friedman economic inequality free market globalization social model unemployment rates welfare state |
ISBN | 0-7190-9845-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Where are we today? And how happy are we now that we are here? -- 2. Social equality: why it matters -- 3. The way we used to be and could be again -- 4. How we fell into the memory hole and got to where we are today -- 5. Social democracy forgets its identity: what really ended in 1989? -- 6. Rethinking the state -- 7. Rethinking the past: reimagining the future -- 8. Europe versus America: a summing up. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798744703321 |
Luzkow Jack Lawrence <1941-> | ||
Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The great forgetting : The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State / / Jack Lawrence Luzkow |
Autore | Luzkow Jack Lawrence <1941-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
Disciplina | 320.1/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Socialism
Public welfare Equality Economic policy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Adam Smith
Alexis De Tocqueville Anglo-America Beatrice Webb European social democracies European social model Grand Narrative Great Depression John Stuart Mill Matthew Arnold Milton Friedman economic inequality free market globalization social model unemployment rates welfare state |
ISBN | 0-7190-9845-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Where are we today? And how happy are we now that we are here? -- 2. Social equality: why it matters -- 3. The way we used to be and could be again -- 4. How we fell into the memory hole and got to where we are today -- 5. Social democracy forgets its identity: what really ended in 1989? -- 6. Rethinking the state -- 7. Rethinking the past: reimagining the future -- 8. Europe versus America: a summing up. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810834103321 |
Luzkow Jack Lawrence <1941-> | ||
Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Growing Apart: Religious Reflection on the Rise of Economic Inequality |
Autore | Kenneth Himes (Ed.) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (192 p.) |
Soggetto non controllato |
inequality
living wage economic inequality earned income tax credit |
ISBN | 3-03842-578-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Growing Apart |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910346667703321 |
Kenneth Himes (Ed.) | ||
MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Justice-based ethics : Challenging South African perspectives |
Autore | Jones Chris |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durbanville, : AOSIS, 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (332 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics & moral philosophy
Religious ethics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Calvanism
church Christology Christianity economic ethics economic inequality enlightenment globalisation |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Justice-based ethics |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910563073203321 |
Jones Chris | ||
Durbanville, : AOSIS, 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nighttime Lights as a Proxy for Economic Performance of Regions |
Autore | Rybnikova Nataliya |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (196 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Research & information: general |
Soggetto non controllato |
population reorganization
population density spatiotemporal patterns DMSP-OLS NPP-VIIRS Chongqing education inequality nighttime light urbanization sustainable development human development urban hotspot delineation Zipf's law intra-urban scaling street nodes VIIRS imagery kernel density estimation Luojia 1-01 satellite spatial resolution searching radius threshold urban built-up area attention-augmented CNN nightlight fine-grained GDP estimation daytime satellite imagery arbitrary area representation Luojia 1-01 MNUACI urban area urban remote sensing VIIRS DMSP GDP nighttime lights cross-sectional time-series economic statistics functional urban areas (FUAs) boundaries multiple regression modelling artificial light-at-night (ALAN) optimal threshold shadow economy Iran sanctions JCPOA economic inequality nighttime light emissions spatial measurement |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910566458703321 |
Rybnikova Nataliya | ||
Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A portrait of America [[electronic resource] ] : the demographic perspective / / John Iceland |
Autore | Iceland John <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.60973 |
Collana | Sociology in the 21st Century |
Soggetto topico |
Families - United States
Equality - United States Immigrants - United States - Social conditions Race discrimination - United States Poverty - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century american culture
american family american studies changing population contemporary challenges democracy discrimination diversity economic inequality economic well being ethnic inequality family gender inequality health disparities health historical demographic growth historical history immigration inequality internal migration political poverty racial inequality racial tensions residential segregation sociology in the twenty-first century series sociology united states of america |
ISBN |
1-78539-098-8
0-520-95910-8 |
Classificazione | SOC006000SOC002010POL000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. American Demographic Growth -- 2. The American Family -- 3. Gender Inequality -- 4. Economic Well-Being -- 5. Immigration and Growing Diversity -- 6. Racial and Ethnic Inequality -- 7. Migration and Residential Segregation -- 8. Health and Mortality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786603203321 |
Iceland John <1970-> | ||
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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