Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; with a new preface |
Autore | Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.4/816404608968079494 |
Soggetto topico |
Hispanic American women - Employment - California - Los Angeles
Nannies - California - Los Angeles Upper class women - California - Los Angeles Women foreign workers - California - Los Angeles Women household employees - California - Los Angeles Women immigrants - California - Los Angeles - Economic conditions Working class women - California - Los Angeles |
Soggetto non controllato |
american immigration
capitalism central american women communism higher education human rights immigrant domestic workers immigration industrial issues labor policies labor latinx studies los angeles mexican american mexican feminism migrant workers migration new preface union policy university textbook |
ISBN | 0-520-93386-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface to the 2007 Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- ; pt. 1. The job today -- ; 1. New World domestic order -- ; 2. Maid in L.A. -- ; pt. 2. Finding hard work isn't easy -- ; 3. It's not what you know -- ; 4. Formalizing the informal : domestic employment agencies -- ; 5. Blowups and other unhappy endings -- ; pt. 3. Inside the job -- ; 6. Tell men what to do, but don't tell me how -- ; 7. Go away but stay close enough -- ; 8. Cleaning up a dirty business -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790539903321 |
Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette
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Down in New Orleans [[electronic resource] ] : reflections from a drowned city / / Billy Sothern ; photographs by Nikki Page |
Autore | Sothern Billy <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 976.3/35064 |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricanes - Louisiana - New Orleans Disaster victims - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Government policy - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
apocalypse
class war climate change disenfranchisement environmental activism flooding iranian latin americans latino latinx levy break louisiana mardi gras middle eastern author natural disaster natural disasters new orleans post apocalyptic scenario post-katrina race and racism southern cities trailer park university textbook |
ISBN |
1-282-76228-1
9786612762284 0-520-93384-2 1-4356-0200-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. A Man Leaves Home -- Chapter 2. A Stranger Comes to Town -- Chapter 3. "This Blues Is Just Too Big" -- Chapter 4. A Dollar Short -- Chapter 5. Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short -- Chapter 6. Not in My Backyard -- Chapter 7. Left to Die -- Chapter 8. Bring the War Home -- Chapter 9. The Dry Run of the Apocalypse -- Chapter 10. History Repeats Itself -- Chapter 11. Going Home -- Chapter 12. Oxford Town -- Chapter 13. I Do Believe I've Had Enough -- Chapter 14. Everyday Reminders -- Chapter 15. Second Line -- Chapter 16. Gideon's Blues -- Chapter 17. Live from the Circle Bar -- Chapter 18. Corporate Limits -- Chapter 19. Fat Tuesday -- Chapter 20. Hard Lot -- Chapter 21. La Nueva Orleans -- Chapter 22. Yours in Struggle -- Chapter 23. In the Parish -- Chapter 24. Not Resigned -- Chapter 25. Epitaph -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778116803321 |
Sothern Billy <1977->
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I've got the light of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / / Charles M. Payne ; with a new preface |
Autore | Payne Charles M |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (577 p.) |
Disciplina | 323.1196/0730762 |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi - History - 20th century
Civil rights movements - Mississippi - History - 20th century African American civil rights workers - Mississippi - History - 20th century Civil rights workers - Mississippi - History - 20th century African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi - Greenwood - History - 20th century Civil rights movements - Mississippi - Greenwood - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american studies
against the odds american south biographical black activism black rights civil rights history civil rights democracy discussion books emancipation generational higher education history human rights movement literature overcoming obstacles political race and prejudice racism school setting university textbook uplifting stories we shall overcome |
ISBN |
1-280-09458-3
9786613520418 0-520-93388-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface To The 2007 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Setting The Stage -- Two. Testing The Limits: Black Activism In Postwar Mississippi -- Three. Give Light And The People Will Find A Way: The Roots Of An Organizing Tradition -- Four. Moving On Mississippi -- Five. Greenwood: Building On The Past -- Six. If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The Redefinition Of Leadership -- Seven. They Kept The Story Before Me: Families And Traditions -- Eight. Slow And Respectful Work: Organizers And Organizing -- Nine. A Woman's War -- Ten. Transitions -- Eleven. Carrying On: The Politics Of Empowerment -- Twelve. From Sncc To Slick: The Demoralization Of The Movement -- Thirteen. Mrs. Hamer Is No Longer Relevant: The Loss Of The Organizing Tradition -- Fourteen. The Rough Draft Of History -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction Of History -- Notes -- Interviews -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779080503321 |
Payne Charles M
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Specialization, speciation, and radiation [[electronic resource] ] : the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects / / edited by Kelley Jean Tilmon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina | 595.7138 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TilmonKelley Jean |
Soggetto topico |
Phytophagous insects - Evolution
Phytophagous insects - Behavior Insect-plant relationships |
Soggetto non controllato |
adaptation
bees coevolution diversification ecological speciation entomology evolution evolutionary biology evolutionary ecology fruit and vegetables herbivores higher education textbooks host plant parapatric phenotype plasticity plant specialization pollinators polyphagy preference and performance relationships university textbook |
ISBN |
1-282-35927-4
9786612359279 0-520-93382-6 |
Classificazione | WQ 3074 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Chemical mediation of host-plant specialization : the papilionid paradigm / May R. Berenbaum and Paul P. Feeny -- Evolution of preference and performance relationships / Timothy P. Craig and Joanne K. Itami -- Evolutionary ecology of polyphagy / Michael S. Singer -- Phenotypic plasticity / Kailen A. Mooney and Anurag A. Agrawal -- Selection and genetic architecture of plant resistance / Mary Ellen Czesak, Robert S. Fritz, and Cris Hochwender -- Introgression and parapatric speciation in a hybrid zone / J. Mark Scriber, Gabe J. Ording, and Rodrigo J. Mercader -- Host shifts, the evolution of communication, and speciation in the Enchenopa binotata species complex of treehoppers / Reginald B. Cocroft, Rafael L. Rodríguez, and Randy E. Hunt -- Host fruit-odor discrimination and sympatric host-race formation / Jeffrey L. Feder and Andrew A. Forbes -- Comparative analyses of ecological speciation / Daniel J. Funk and Patrik Nosil -- Sympatric speciation : norm or exception? / Douglas J. Futuyma --
Host-plant use, diversification, and coevolution : insights from remote Oceanic islands / George K. Roderick and Diana M. Percy -- Selection by pollinators and herbivores on attraction and defense / Lynn S. Adler -- Adaptive radiation : phylogenetic constraints and ecological consequences / Peter W. Price -- Sequential radiation through host-race formation : herbivore diversity leads to diversity in natural enemies / Warren G. Abrahamson and Catherine P. Blair -- The oscillation hypothesis of host-plant range and speciation / Niklas Janz and Sören Nylin -- Coevolution, cryptic speciation, and the persistence of interactions / John N. Thompson -- Cophylogeny of figs, pollinators, gallers, and parasitoids / Summer I. Silvieus, Wendy L. Clement, and George D. Weiblen -- The phylogenetic dimension of insect-plant interactions : a review of recent evidence / Isaac S. Winkler and Charles Mitter -- Evolution of insect resistance to transgenic plants / Bruce E. Tabashnik and Yves Carrière -- Exotic plants and enemy resistance / John L. Maron and Montserrat Vilà -- Life-history evolution in native and introduced populations / Robert F. Denno ... [et al.] -- Rapid natural and anthropogenic diet evolution : three examples from checkerspot butterflies / Michael C. Singer ... [et al.] -- Conservation of coevolved insect herbivores and plants / Carol L. Boggs and Paul R. Ehrlich. |
Altri titoli varianti | Evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778559703321 |
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