Tag: Working

Working the Night Shift Women in India’s Call Center Industry


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English | 2010 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 0804769141 | PDF | 5,6 mb
Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents women, in particular, with new challenges alongside the opportunities. This book explores how beliefs about what constitutes "women’s work" are evolving in response to globalization.

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Handbook for Working with Children and Youth Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts


Free Download Michael Ungar, "Handbook for Working with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts"
English | ISBN: 1412904056 | 2005 | 552 pages | PDF | 43 MB
The Handbook For Working With Children & Youth: Pathways To Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts examines lives lived well despite adversity. Calling upon some of the most progressive thinkers in the field, it presents a groundbreaking collection of original writing on the theories, methods of study, and interventions to promote resilience. Unlike other works that have left largely unquestioned their own culture-bound interpretations of the ways children and youth survive and thrive, this volume explores the multiple paths children follow to health and well-being in diverse national and international settings. It demonstrates the connection between social and political health resources and addresses the more immediate concerns of how those who care for children create the physical, emotional, and spiritual environments in which resilience is nurtured.

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The Working Class in American Literature Essays on Blue Collar Identity


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English | September 21, 2021 | ISBN: 1476673063 | True EPUB | 220 pages | 3.2 MB
Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period through a critical lens which addresses the real problems of approaching class through economics.

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A Working Stiff’s Manifesto Confessions of a Wage Slave


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English | 2002 | pages: 150 | ISBN: 1569472807 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Iain Levison can find work but not fulfillment. The frustration of dead-end, deadhead labor induces a kind of pink-slip payback syndrome as the realization sets in that his college degree will gain him little by way of psychic wages on the job. He is adrift in a workaday world where one human is as good as the next and all are expendable. Meaningless promises abound, "like when they were telling us [at commencement that] we were the future of the world, the bright shining blah blah blah."

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Working with Older People


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English | 2007 | pages: 285 | ISBN: 0415354218 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Working with older people has become an increasingly important part of social work education and practice. Whether studying community care, adult services, human growth and development, or social work processes and interventions, this book will be a vital source of information and help.

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Museums and the Working Class


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English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367465477 | PDF | pages: 257 | 15.7 mb
Museums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies.

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