Blue Collar Mentality

Author : Tom Barbour
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781615664221

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Blue Collar Mentality by Tom Barbour Pdf

When the Boise State University football team rushed onto the field to take on the University of Oklahoma Sooners in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, the Broncos were in a position to begin a new tradition, or be party to an old one. That day was the culmination of a meteoric rise for a school essentially still making the transition to Division I football. From its humble beginnings as Boise Junior College to its status as a perennial top 25 team, author Tom Barbour follows the Broncos as they ascend to national prominence in his book, Blue Collar Mentality. Through meticulous research and individual interviews, Tom discovers what makes up a football program relying on a Blue Collar Mentality, rather than blue chip players to find itself, year after year, in the hunt for a top 10 ranking and a major bowl berth.

Author : David Halle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226229362

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America's Working Man by David Halle Pdf

“An unusually deep and wide-ranging study” by a sociologist who spent years listening to and living among workers at a New Jersey chemical plant (Journal of American Studies). Over a period of six years during the late 1970s, at factory and warehouse, at the tavern across the road, in their homes and union meetings, on fishing trips and social outings, David Halle talked and listened to workers of an automated chemical plant in New Jersey’s industrial heartland—white, male, and mostly Catholic. He has emerged with an unusually comprehensive and convincingly realistic picture of blue-collar life in America during this era. Throughout the book, Halle illustrates his analysis with excerpts of workers’ views on everything from strikes, class consciousness, politics, job security, and toxic chemicals to marriage, betting on horses, God, home-ownership, drinking, adultery, the Super Bowl, and life after death. Halle challenges the stereotypes of the blue-collar mentality and provides a detailed, in-depth portrait of one community of workers at a time when it was relatively affluent and secure. “Absorbing reading.”—Business Week

Author : Dufty
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004476219

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Sociology of the Blue-Collar Worker by Dufty Pdf

Author : Norman Francis Dufty
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Industrial sociology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Sociology of the Blue-collar Worker by Norman Francis Dufty Pdf

Author : Alfred Lubrano
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118039724

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Limbo by Alfred Lubrano Pdf

In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with personal experience and interviews with other professionals living in limbo. For millions of Americans, these stories will serve as familiar reminders of the struggles of achieving the American Dream.

Author : G.E.S. Boley Jr.
Publisher : RBN Publishing, LLC
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How To Use Your Credit Rating To Put You On The Path To Debt Freedom by G.E.S. Boley Jr. Pdf

In the endless world of books on diet planning and supplement needs ... … there is one straight-forward book which gives you honest information and debunks myths. “The Only Supplements You Need to Truly Help Achieve Your Fitness & Health Goals” cuts out all the fluff and gives you straight forward information on what dietary supplements are, how each one affects your body, and the best essentials you can take without complicating your life and your fitness. So, what’s the REAL story on Supplements? - There is one Antioxidant which is continually promoted to improve brain function, yet the claims are false - Find out which one really does! - Probiotics are important for overall health and wellness – by knowing their importance and how they work you can easily Make It Happen. - Find out which Vitamin you get daily yet has detrimental effects on your circulatory system if you get too much. - Minerals can help boost the immunity system and keep your liver healthy … or do they? Find out which ones do, and which ones don’t. Inside The Only Supplements You Need to Truly Help Achieve Your Fitness & Health Goals, you’ll find the answers to all your questions, plus the supplements which can’t be mixed with other essential nutrients (they cancel out each other’s benefits), how prescription drugs mix (some herbals can intensify your medication, making unknown diet planning a game of chance), and the risk of taking too much (when your system is harmed instead of helped) and the facts behind steroids. Get all your answers, plus all the best nutrition advice from G.E.S Boley, Jr. MBA Certified International Instructor (ITF) and Certified Fitness Trainer / Sports Nutritionist. Ready to simplify your nutrition and feel your best? Click the "Buy Now" button and get started!

Author : Chris Zook,James Allen
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633691179

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The Founder's Mentality by Chris Zook,James Allen Pdf

A Washington Post Bestseller Three Principles for Managing—and Avoiding—the Problems of Growth Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company’s Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external—increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What’s more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further—and can actively lead to decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen’s research is that managing these choke points requires a “founder’s mentality”—behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder—to restore speed, focus, and connection to customers: • An insurgent’s clear mission and purpose • An unambiguous owner mindset • A relentless obsession with the front line Based on the authors’ decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, The Founder’s Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds—not just start-ups—and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader—not only a founder—can instill and leverage a founder’s mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.

Author : Euan Hague
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252099038

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Neoliberal Chicago by Euan Hague Pdf

The neoliberal philosophy of fiscal austerity aligned with reduced regulation has transformed Chicago. As pursued by mayor Rahm Emanuel and his predecessor Richard M. Daley, neoliberalism led officials to privatize everything from parking meters to schools, gut regulations and social services, and promote gentrification wherever possible. The essayists in Neoliberal Chicago explore an essential question: how does neoliberalism work on the ground in today's Chicago? Contextual chapters explore race relations, physical development, and why Chicago embraced neoliberalism. Other contributors delve into aspects of the neoliberal vision, neoliberalism's impact on three iconic city spaces, and how events like the 2008 foreclosure crisis and the bid to attract the Olympic Games reveal the workings of neoliberalism. Contributors: Stephen Alexander, Larry Bennett, Michael Bennett, Carrie Breitbach, Sean Dinces, Kenneth Fidel, Roberta Garner, Euan Hague, Black Hawk Hancock, Christopher Lamberti, Michael J. Lorr, Martha Martinez, Brendan McQuade, Alex G. Papadopoulos, Rajiv Shah, Costas Spirou, Carolina Sternberg, and Yue Zhang.

Author : Birger Fredriksen,Jee-Peng Tan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780821373729

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An African Exploration of the East Asian Education Experience by Birger Fredriksen,Jee-Peng Tan Pdf

This book aims to promote a better understanding of the education policy choices and implementation modalities that have enabled many East Asian countries over the last 30-40 years to move from education and economic conditions similar to those of many Sub-Saharan Africa countries to attain the level of development they enjoy today.

Author : David Halle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226313662

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America's Working Man by David Halle Pdf

Over a period of six years, at factory and warehouse, at the tavern across the road, in their homes and union meetings, on fishing trips and social outings, David Halle talked and listened to workers of an automated chemical plant in New Jersey's industrial heartland. He has emerged with an unusually comprehensive and convincingly realistic picture of blue-collar life in America. Throughout the book, Halle illustrates his analysis with excerpts of workers' views on everything from strikes, class consciousness, politics, job security, and toxic chemicals to marriage, betting on horses, God, home-ownership, drinking, adultery, the Super Bowl, and life after death. Halle challenges the stereotypes of the blue-collar mentality and argues that to understand American class consciousness we must shift our focus from the "working class" to be the "working man."

Author : James W. Barron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134896493

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Humor and Psyche by James W. Barron Pdf

Humor, a topic that engaged Sigmund Freud both early and late in his career, is richly intertwined with character, with creativity, and with the theory and practice of psychoanalytic therapy. Yet, until very recently, analysts ignored Freud's lead and relegated humor to the periphery of their concerns. Humor and Psyche not only remedies previous neglect of the role of humor in the psychoanalytic situation but opens to a broad and balanced consideration of the role of humor in psychological life. Section I provides historical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of humor. Contributors review Freudian and post-Freudian theories of humor, address the inseparability of humor and play, adumbrate a postmodernist perspective on humor, and focus on the unique cognitive and affective properties of humor. In Section II contributors turn to the relationship of humor to various aspects of the therapeutic process, including the relationship of humor to transference interpretation, the enlivening effects of humor on the therapeutic process, and the multiple meanings of humorous exchanges between therapists and patients. Section III concludes the volume with three fascinating essays on the relationship of humor to character and creativity. They focus, respectively, on the role of humor in the 25-year correspondence of Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, on the interweaving of D. W. Winnicott's comic spirit and theoretical innovations, and on the relationship between humor and creativity in the music of the American composer Charles Ives. Taken together, the contributors reestablish the importance of humor as a topic of psychotherapeutic relevance more than 70 years after Freud's final essay on the topic. Delightfully readable from beginning to end, Humor and Psyche edifies as it entertains.

Author : Kathryn Marie Dudley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226169103

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The End of the Line by Kathryn Marie Dudley Pdf

This volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that town. Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and other members of the community it dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown. This volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that company town. Since the early days of the 20th century, Kenosha had forged its identity and politics around the interests of the auto industry. When nearly 6000 workers lost their jobs in the shutdown, the community faced not only a serious economic crisis but also a profound moral one. In this study, Dudley describes the painful, often confusing process of change that residents of Kenosha, like the increasing number of Americans who are caught in the crossfire of de-industrialization, were forced to undergo. Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and Kenosha's community leaders, high-school counsellors and a rising class of upwardly mobile professionals, Dudley dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown.

Author : Andrei Markovits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317230755

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The Politics of West German Trade Unions by Andrei Markovits Pdf

First published in 1986, this book assesses the politics of the West German trade unions in the context of their larger role as major actors in the polity. By focusing on the historical realities of the labour movement both before and after 1945, the study explains the extent to which organized labour solidified and challenged the dominant structures of politics and authority. It examines the metalworkers’ union, the construction workers’ union, the printers’ union and the chemical workers’ union and shows how the industrial reality of each organisation helped shape its political outlook and strategic thinking. This book will be of particular interest to students of trade unions, industrial relations and political economy in West Germany.

Author : Franz Oswald
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : German literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106016206762

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The Political Psychology of the White Collar Worker in Martin Walser's Novels by Franz Oswald Pdf

This study evaluates the reception of Martin Walser's novels by critics and reviewers between 1957 and 1978 in West Germany, East Germany, Britain and the USA. It demonstrates the connection between the aesthetic responses and the political positions of the critics. The novel Jenseits der Liebe is identified as both a turning point in Walser's development and as a case of inconsistent reception by critics. Walser's treatment of the political psychology of the salaried employee with its deep loyalty conflicts disturbed the critics more profoundly than the identity problems of his earlier and later heroes.

Author : John Feinstein
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780525564751

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The Back Roads to March by John Feinstein Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Feinstein returns to his first love--college basketball--with a fascinating and compelling journey through a landscape of unsung, unpublicized and often unknown heroes of Division-1 college hoops. John Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories--the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits. To tell this story, Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who dream, not of winning the NCAA tournament, but of making it past their first or second round games. Every once in a while, one of these coaches or players is plucked from obscurity to lead a major team or to play professionally, cementing their status in these fiercely passionate fan bases as a legend. These are the gifted players who aren't handled with kid gloves--they're hardworking, gritty teammates who practice and party with everyone else. With his trademark humor and invaluable connections, John Feinstein reveals the big time programs you've never heard of, the bracket busters you didn't expect to cheer for, and the coaches who inspire them to take their teams to the next level.