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Organizing The Movement: The Roots and Growth of ACORN

Gary Delgado
1986

Gary Delgado- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is the single largest community organization in the United States. It has organized welfare recipients, homeowners, and farmers battling to save their lands and, like other community groups, it has combined work on the most local of neighborhood issues—redlining, street safety, and garbage collection—with larger fights concerning issues such as civil rights, utility rates, property taxes, and even national politics. It has 50,000 members, branches in more than twenty states, and is still growing....

In the Business of Child Care Employer: Initiatives and Working Women

Judith G. Auerbach
1998
Judith G. Auerbach- The focus of this short, well-written, and interesting book is employer support for child-care provision in the US. Topics include the need for and history of child care outside the home, the different types of support offered by employers (with examples), and the pros and cons for providing that support. An argument against expecting government assistance is presented. For Auerbach, a sociologist, an important consequence of the development of...

Small Property Versus Big Government: Social Origins of the Poverty Tax Revolt

Clarence Lo
1990

Clarence Lo's investigation of California's Proposition 13 and other tax reduction bills is both a tribute and a warning to people who get "mad as hell" and try to do something about being pushed around by government. Homeowners in California, faced with impossible property tax bills in the 1970s, got mad and pushed back, starting an avalanche that swept tax limitation measures into state after state. What we learn is that, although the property tax was slashed, two-thirds of the benefits went to business owners rather than homeowners.

How did a...

Risky Business Genetic Testing and Exclusionary Practices in the Hazardous Workplace

Elaine Draper
1991

Elaine Draper- At a time when more corporate employers are using genetic information as a cornerstone of their hiring practices, when workers find their chromosomes considered alongside their resumes, the ramifications of genetic testing demand further examination. Risky Business analyzes health screening in the workplace - three major types of testing are examined: genetic screening in which job applicants and employees are tested for inherited traits that may predispose them to the disease:genetic monitoring that aims to detect genetic damage among current...

The Black Elite: Facing the Color Line in the Twilight of the Twentieth Century

Lois Benjamin
1991

Lois Benjamin- Using in-depth interviews of high achieving African Americans who came of age prior to or before the Civil Rights movement and those who grew up in the post-Civil Rights era, this book documents that race still matters in the twenty-first century. The work details the lived experiences of African Americans and how they grapple daily with what W. E. Du Bois called the double consciousness, living within and between two worlds. A new chapter details how the post-Civil Rights generation interprets and navigates the racial terrain differently than the...

Longitudinal Studies of Children at Psychological Risk: Cross-National Perspectives

Judith G. Auerbach
1992

Charles W. Greenbaum (Author), Judith G. Auerbach (Author)

The Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics

Dana Y. Takagi
1993

by Dana Y Takagi- “An excellent book. Takagi takes a very complex and sensitive subject—racial politics—and shows, through a careful analysis . . . that changes in the discourse about Asian American admissions have facilitated a 'retreat from race' in the area of affirmative action. . . . This book will appeal to an audience significantly wider than a typical academic one.”— David Karen, Bryn Mawr College

Charges by Asian Americans that the top...

The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences

Joan H. Fujimura
2016

Edited by Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura- This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right—and, in some cases, the wrong—tools for the job. The articles...

Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Factory and Family

Patricia Zavella
1993

BY LOUISE LAMPHERE, PATRICIA ZAVELLA AND FELIPE GONZALES WITH PETER B. EVANS-

The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States, and working women were at the center of these changes. Sunbelt Working Motherscompares the experiences of Mexican–American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in Albuquerque and illuminates the ways in which individual women manage the competing demands of two roles. Authors Lamphere, Zavella, Gonzales, and Evans show how these mothers-without the...

Building with Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies

Beatriz M. Pesquera
1993

by Adela de la Torre (Editor), Beatriz M. Pesquera (Editor)- This is the first interdisciplinary collection of articles addressing the unique history of Chicana women. From a diverse range of perspectives, a new generation of Chicana scholars here chronicles the previously undocumented rich tapestry of Chicanas'...