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Precarious claims: the promise and failure of workplace protections in the Un…
Precarious Claims tells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global economy has fueled vast concentrations of wealth that have driven a demand for cheap and flexible labor. Workplace violations such as wage theft, unsafe work environments, and discrimination are widespread in low-wage industries such as restaurants, retail, hospitali…
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- 9780520288782
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- 190 p.; 23 cm.
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- 344.7301 GLE p
Reconsidering constitutional formation II decisive constitutional normativity…
This second volume of ReConFort, published open access, addresses the decisive role of constitutional normativity, and focuses on discourses concerning the legal role of constitutional norms. Taken together with ReConFort I (National Sovereignty), it calls for an innovative reassessment of constitutional history drawing on key categories to convey the legal nature of the constitution itself (na…
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- 9783319730370
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- xii, 419p. : ill.
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- 340.1 REC r
Culture wars and enduring American dilemmas
The idea of a culture war, or wars, has existed in America since the 1960s---an underlying ideological schism in our country that is responsible for the polarizing debates on everything from the separation of church and state, to abortion, to gay marriage, to affirmative action. Irene Taviss Thomson explores this notion by analyzing hundreds of articles addressing hot-button issues over two dec…
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- 9780472070886
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- 270 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Contemporary political and social issues
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- 303.60973 THO c
The future of election administration : cases and conversations
As the American election administration landscape changes as a result of major court cases, national and state legislation, changes in professionalism, and the evolution of equipment and security, so must the work of on-the-ground practitioners change. This Open Access title presents a series of case studies designed to highlight practical responses to these changes from the national, state, an…
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- 9783030185411
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- xxiv, 266p. : ill.
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- 324.630973 FUT f
Laying the foundation: digital humanities in academic libraries
Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library’s role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate e…
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- 9781557537393
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- xiv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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- Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences
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- 027.70973 WHI l
Understanding contemporary Islamic crises in the Middle East : the issues ben…
Over the past decade the Middle East has undergone huge geopolitical shifts, including widespread war and violence, the collapse of numerous regimes, a changing American role, a restored Russian presence, and the emergence of ISIS. In this book Graham Fuller addresses the character of these shifts and how they will shape the future of this tumultuous region as well as the role of major outside …
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- 9789087282677
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- 65p. : ill.
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- 340.09 FUL u
Drones and support for the use of force
Drones and Support for the Use of Force utilizes experimental research to analyze the effects of combat drones on Americans’ support for the use of force. The authors develop expectations drawn from social science theory and then assess these conjectures using a series of survey experiments. Their findings—that drones have had important but nuanced effects on support for the use of forceâ…
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- 9780472901173
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- 244p. : ill.
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- 358.414 WAL d
#Identity : hashtagging race, gender, sexuality, and nation
"Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented perspectives, and form community. It has also spread hashtags that have been used to bully and …
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- 9780472074150
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- xi, 365p. : ill.
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- 302.30285 HAS h
State of empowerment : low-income families and the new welfare state
On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four low-income families enroll a child in an after-school program. Beyond sharpening students’ math and readin…
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- 9780472131648
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- vii, 170p. : ill.
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- 371.04 BAR s
Skate life : re-imagining white masculinity
Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding's portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media te…
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- 9780472070800
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- xi, 225p. : ill.
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- 796.22 YOC s
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