Tag: Agencies

September 18, 2024

State Arts Agencies 1965-2003 Whose Interests to Serve

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Free Download RAND Corporation F. Lowell, "State Arts Agencies 1965-2003: Whose Interests to Serve"
English | 2004 | pages: 60 | ISBN: 0833035622 | PDF | 0,6 mb
Numerous U.S. state and jurisdictional governments cut their arts budgets in 2003 and 2004. The author argues that the reason for these cuts is not just a onetime fiscal crisis, but the political weakness of state arts agencies that has arisen because of a growing mismatch between their roles and structures and the cultural and political realities they face. A shift in the arts agencies’ focus and funding may be a solution, but it cannot take place until important conceptual and practical issues are resolved.

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September 12, 2024

Employers, Agencies and Immigration Paying for Care

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Free Download Anna Triandafyllidou, "Employers, Agencies and Immigration: Paying for Care "
English | ISBN: 1472433211 | 2014 | 260 pages | EPUB | 1333 KB
Exploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the role of the employer and his or her agents in securing the balance between work, family and welfare needs, as well as investigating both who the employers are and the nature of their relationships with migrant workers. With attention to the dynamics of inequality, as class, ethnicity and gender become intertwined in a location that is at once home and workplace, this volume is organised into sections that deal with the subjectivities of employers and their relationships with their employees in the home; the re-organisation of welfare and care arrangements at state level; and the wider area of migrant domestic and care work, with the transformation of the au pair scheme. Bringing together the latest empirical work from across Europe, Employers, Agencies and Immigration will appeal to social scientists with interests in migration, ethnic and class relations, immigrant labour and domestic work and the sociology of the family.

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January 7, 2024

The Rise of Tyranny How Federal Agencies Abuse Power and Pose Risks to Your Life and Liberty [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Rise of Tyranny: How Federal Agencies Abuse Power and Pose Risks to Your Life and Liberty (Audiobook)
English | October 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08KWR4V7V | M4B@64 kbps | 3h 49m | 104 MB
Author: Jonathan W. Emord | Narrator: Todd Eflin
Since the 1930s the Congress has delegated legislative, executive, and judicial powers to over 200 independent regulatory commissions. Those agencies enact over 90 percent of all federal law. They are ruled by individuals who are unelected and largely unaccountable to the Courts and Congress. Repeatedly they pursue their own self-interest at the expense of life and health.
Often the agencies become captives of the industry they regulate, as in the case of the FDA (captive to the pharmaceutical industry) because it is in the economic self interest of those who run the agency to obtain lucrative post government employment form the key industries regulated. The result is widespread corruption, biased and perverse enforcement of the law, and anti-competitive regulation.

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January 5, 2024

Arab Islamic Voices, Agencies, and Abilities Disability Portrayals in Muslim World Literature and Culture

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Free Download Saloua Ali Ben Zahra, "Arab Islamic Voices, Agencies, and Abilities: Disability Portrayals in Muslim World Literature and Culture"
English | ISBN: 1498569579 | 2017 | 164 pages | EPUB | 552 KB
This book explores portrayals and predicaments of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture including Francophone Moroccan and Algerian fiction, Egyptian Middle Eastern film, as well as Tunisian song and television. In line with theorists Aijaz Ahmad and Ato Quayson’s objection to reading Third World literature as "national allegory," The author argues that rather than being metaphors or allegories, disabled characters represent persons with disabilities in their culture and act as a mirror upon their changing societies. Contemporary Maghrebians and Muslims with disabilities find themselves at an intersection of conflicting and competing cultures, their native Islamic culture and Westernizing lifestyles. In the rush to import everything Western, despite humanitarian Islamic teachings regarding the disabled, are often abandoned. In situations of fundamentalist menace, the disabled, who tend to be the most vulnerable and abused fraction of Arab/Muslim society, suffer the worst, especially women.

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