Bound For Work

Author : Zachary Kagan Guthrie
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813941554

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Bound for Work by Zachary Kagan Guthrie Pdf

Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at the multitude of forms and locales of migrant labor that individuals—under more or less coercive circumstances—engaged in over the course of their lives. Tracing Mozambican workers as they moved between different types of labor across Mozambique, Rhodesia, and South Africa, Zachary Kagan Guthrie places the multiple venues of labor in a single historical frame, expanding the regional historiography beyond the long shadow cast by the apartheid state while simultaneously exploring the continuities and fractures between South Africa, southern Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Kagan Guthrie’s holistic approach to migrant labor yields several important conclusions. First, he highlights the importance of workers’ choices, explaining not just why people moved but why they moved in the ways they did: how they calculated the benefits of one destination over another, and how they decided when circumstances made it necessary to move again. Second, his attention to mobility gives a much clearer view of the mechanisms of power available to colonial authorities, as well as the limits to their effectiveness. Finally, Kagan Guthrie suggests a new explanation for the divergent trajectories of southern and sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of World War II.

Author : Paolo Gaibazzi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387800

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Bush Bound by Paolo Gaibazzi Pdf

Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.

Author : Laurel Bossen,Hill Gates
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503601079

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Bound Feet, Young Hands by Laurel Bossen,Hill Gates Pdf

Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands. Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom.

Author : Michael Useem,Jerry Useem,Paul Asel
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400051960

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Upward Bound by Michael Useem,Jerry Useem,Paul Asel Pdf

Your team has faltered at a critical moment. A key member says he can’t continue, requiring you to make a snap decision: Do you write him off? Or do you risk the whole venture by trying to get him back on his feet? It could be a scenario straight from the business world. Yet this one occurred high on the slopes of the world’s deadliest mountain, K2, where lives, not just livelihoods, depended on the leader’s choice. Decisions don’t get much starker. That’s why mountains—though seemingly a world apart from business—hold unique and surprising insights for managers and entrepreneurs at any altitude. More than just symbols of our upward strivings, they are high-altitude management laboratories: testing grounds where risk, fear, opportunity, and ambition collide in the most unforgiving of settings. Upward Bound brings together a remarkable team of nine writers equally at home among the high peaks and in the corridors of corporate power, including Good to Great author Jim Collins, legendary climber and outdoor clothing entrepreneur Royal Robbins, and Stacy Allison, the first American woman to summit Mount Everest. Their riveting, often harrowing accounts, reveal • Why rock climbers’ distinction between failure (giving up before reaching the edge of your abilities) and what they call “fallure” (committing 100 percent and using up all your energy and reserves) can help companies transcend their vertical limits • What happens when a leader abdicates responsibility in the Death Zone of Mount Everest—and how a similar vacuum at sea level can corrupt corporate purpose • How large climbing expeditions use exquisite organization and “pyramids of people” to place just two climbers on top, making heroes of some from the sacrifice of all • What “ridge-walking” between deadly avalanches and the lure of Mount McKinley’s summit taught a venture capitalist about nurturing risky high-tech start-ups • How a simple insight—using “proximate goals”—propelled a faltering climber up El Capitan in a seemingly undoable solo ascent, a ten-day lesson that would later jump-start a business • Why more accessible peaks like Mount Sinai can exert a pull every bit as powerful as Mount Everest • How to think like a guide While most people will never find themselves in the thin air of the world’s highest places, Upward Bound brings those places down to earth for anyone seeking the path to his or her own summit. Whether it’s up the career ladder or toward a creative peak, Upward Bound addresses the fundamental question of why we climb, while capturing the power of mountains to instruct as well as inspire.

Author : Alyssa Brandon
Publisher : Swoon Reads
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250101716

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Bound to You by Alyssa Brandon Pdf

A stubborn teen faces off with her brooding, indifferent (but super hot) soulmate in this unique and sexy take on a classic paranormal romance story. She's met her mate . . . and he's met his match. Megan Ross has been waiting her whole life for her mate to come and sweep her off her feet. But the wolf she meets on the beach is NOT the sweet gentle boy she's been dreaming of. Instead, he's a warrior, one whose suffering has led him to lock his heart away in a prison as cold and hard as a diamond, who fights to resist the bond and their deep attraction. Far from home, with a soulmate who is still a stranger, Megan learns that the path to true love isn't quite as straight and easy as she thought . . . Alyssa Brandon’s debut novel Bound to You is guaranteed to make readers swoon, sigh, and maybe even cry before it's over. Praise for Bound to You from the Swoon Reads community: “To put it simply I was hooked.” —Cinda Edana, reader on SwoonReads.com “It is so totally swoonworthy. ” —E.E. Annavas, reader on SwoonReads.com “This book had me laughing, crying, and swooning a lot!” —Ronda Rigdon, reader on SwoonReads.com

Author : Eric Allina
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813932729

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Slavery by Any Other Name by Eric Allina Pdf

Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization"--Law to practice: "certain excesses of severity"--The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below -- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages -- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder" -- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor -- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will" -- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition" -- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.

Author : Emily Matchar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781451665444

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Homeward Bound by Emily Matchar Pdf

An investigation into the societal impact of intelligent, high-achieving women who are honing traditional homemaking skills traces emerging trends in sophisticated crafting, cooking and farming that are reshaping the roles of women.

Author : Gerald E. Frug,David J. Barron
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801460081

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City Bound by Gerald E. Frug,David J. Barron Pdf

Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on a study of the differing legal structures of Boston, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle, City Bound explores how state law determines what cities can and cannot do to raise revenue, control land use, and improve city schools. Frug and Barron show that state law can make it much easier for cities to pursue a global-city or a tourist-city agenda than to respond to the needs of middle-class residents or to pursue regional alliances. But they also explain that state law is often so outdated, and so rooted in an unjustified distrust of local decision making, that the legal process makes it hard for successful cities to develop and implement any coherent vision of their future. Their book calls not for local autonomy but for a new structure of state-local relations that would enable cities to take the lead in charting the future course of urban development. It should be of interest to everyone who cares about the future of American cities, whether political scientists, planners, architects, lawyers, or simply citizens.

Author : Kelley Fanto Deetz
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813174747

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Bound to the Fire by Kelley Fanto Deetz Pdf

For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images were sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represented the untold stories of enslaved men and women who had a significant impact on the nation's culinary and hospitality traditions, even as they were forced to prepare food for their oppressors. Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering and often fetid conditions of plantation house kitchens. These highly skilled cooks drew upon knowledge and ingredients brought with them from their African homelands to create complex, labor-intensive dishes. However, their white owners overwhelmingly received the credit for their creations. Deetz restores these forgotten figures to their rightful place in American and Southern history by uncovering their rich and intricate stories and celebrating their living legacy with the recipes that they created and passed down to future generations.

Author : Woody Guthrie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440672781

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Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie Pdf

First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. Behind him Woody Guthrie left a remarkable autobiography that vividly brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die. “Even readers who never heard Woody or his songs will understand the current esteem in which he’s held after reading just a few pages… Always shockingly immediate and real, as if Woody were telling it out loud… A book to make novelists and sociologists jealous.” —The Nation

Author : Thea Harrison
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101514399

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Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison Pdf

THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ELDER RACES SERIES! Half-human and half-wyr, Pia Giovanni spent her life keeping a low profile among the wyrkind and avoiding the continuing conflict between them and their Dark Fae enemies. But after being blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Pia finds herself targeted by one of the most powerful—and passionate—of the Elder races. As the most feared and respected of the wyrkind, Dragos Cuelebre cannot believe someone had the audacity to steal from him, much less succeed. And when he catches the thief, Dragos spares her life, claiming her as his own to further explore the desire they’ve ignited in each other. Pia knows she must repay Dragos for her trespass, but refuses to become his slave—although she cannot deny wanting him, body and soul...

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : UCAL:$C156563

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Application Information and Program Manual: Talent Search, Upward Bound, Special Services by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Saurabh Srivastava
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789386073518

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The Illusionary World by Saurabh Srivastava Pdf

What is the Illusionary world, Mystery World and Practical world? From this book, readers will understand why their lives have become so messed up, and how they can live and do their work without hurting their own emotions and others’ emotions. This will help them in their everyday lives, and in every relationship. They will also be able to differentiate between Illusion, Mystery and Practical world and how they can live better in all of them. To explain this, I have chosen “Adam and Eve” as they were the first human beings of the world. This book will be helpful to everyone, regardless of religion, caste, age or gender • This book also explains how the world began, how it became like the present and what the reasons behind it are, how you can change your world, and live a better life in the present world in all aspects. • Buddhas love us with overflowing love. Do you know why we killed them? • There is no other option now, to save every individual without following the Buddha’s suggestions. • Meditation is the only way to live happily, there is no other way.

Author : Minister Gertrude Mapara
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503560079

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Heaven-Bound – Succeed Book Collections - (Sbc) 7 by Minister Gertrude Mapara Pdf

BOOK POINTERS: 1. A reflection of the prophetic words given over the years by the humble servant of the Lord Apostle/Prophet Andrew Wutawunashe. 2. The reality of focus on real everlasting heavenly issues covered. 3. Emphasis on, no more turning back reinforced. 4. Ultimately haven-bound revelations un-leashed. READERS BENEFITS: 1. Insight in-depth into the word of God towards the heaven-bound perspective. 2. Correction of miss-conceptions and empowering to have total trust in King Jesus. 3. Discernment of spirit and contentment attained in Jehovah. 4. Joyfulness, excitement, faith and a greater glory as well as expectation in serving the Lord.

Author : Lawrence Richard Rodgers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0252066057

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Canaan Bound by Lawrence Richard Rodgers Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration. He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the historical situation of black America, and to African-American literature as a whole. In reading migration novels in relation to African-American literary texts such as slave narratives, folk tales, and urban fiction, Rodgers affirms the southern folk roots of African-American culture and argues for a need to stem the erosion of southern memory.