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In How the Other Half Lives, New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor. Riis originally documented all his studies with photographs. However, since the half-tone technique of photo reproduction had not been perfected, the original edition included mainly reductions in sketch-form of Riis' photographs. These could not begin to capture what Riis' sensitive camera caught on film. The anguish and the apathy, the toughness and the humiliation of the anonymous faces is all but obliterated in the sketches. This Dover edition includes fully 100 photographs, many famous, and many less familiar, from the Riis collection of the City Museum, and their inclusion here creates a closer conformity to Riis' intentions than did the original edition. Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed the shameful conditions of life with which he was all too familiar. Today, he is best remembered as a compassionate and effective reformer and as a pioneer photo-journalist.
Poor --- -Tenement houses --- -Kunst --- Fotografie --- Armoede --- Tenements (Apartment houses) --- Apartment houses --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Economic conditions --- Tenement houses --- CDL --- 77.071 RIIS --- Kunst
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This book, edited by Jacob A. Frenkel, Michael P. Dooley, and Peter Wickham, presents a sample of the work of the IMF and that of world-renowned scholars on the analytical issues surrounding the explosion of countries with debt-servicing difficulties and describes debt initiatives and debt-reduction techniques that hold the best promise for finding a lasting solution to the problems of debtor countries.
Debts, External --- Debt relief --- International finance --- Developing countries --- 339.727.2 <1-772> --- -Debts, External --- -dette publique --- dettes internationales --- pays en voie de developpement --- AA / International- internationaal --- LDC / Developping Countries - Pays En Développement --- 333.633 --- 338.340 --- 382.256 --- 336.311.2 --- 339.115 --- 336.314 --- 338.341.1 --- 382.254 --- 333.605 --- 336.312.3 --- -Debt relief --- -336.3435091724 --- Debt renegotiation --- Debt rescheduling --- Debt restructuring --- Relief, Debt --- Renegotiation, Debt --- Rescheduling, Debt --- Restructuring, Debt --- Debts, Foreign --- Debts, International --- External debts --- Foreign debts --- International debts --- 339.727.2 <1-772> Internationale kapitaalbeweging. Buitenlandse leningen. Buitenlandse kredieten. Internationale kapitaalbeweging. Buitenlandse investeringen. Kapitaalinvoer. Kapitaaluitvoer. Kapitaalvlucht--Onontwikkelde, onderontwikkelde gebieden --- Internationale kapitaalbeweging. Buitenlandse leningen. Buitenlandse kredieten. Internationale kapitaalbeweging. Buitenlandse investeringen. Kapitaalinvoer. Kapitaaluitvoer. Kapitaalvlucht--Onontwikkelde, onderontwikkelde gebieden --- openbare schuld --- internationale schulden --- ontwikkelingslanden --- Aandelen. --- Algemene ontwikkeling in de Derde Wereld. --- Buitenlandse hulp (betalingsbalans). --- Buitenlandse leningen van de overheid. --- Buitenlandse schuld. Debt Equity Swap in LDC. --- Conversie van leningen van de overheid. --- Financiële hulp aan de Derde Wereld. --- Internationale kredieten. --- Nieuwe financiële instrumenten. --- Solvabiliteit, kredietwaardigheid van de landen. Risicolanden. --- Law and legislation --- Dettes extérieures --- Dettes --- 336.3435091724 --- dette publique --- Nieuwe financiële instrumenten --- Aandelen --- Buitenlandse leningen van de overheid --- Solvabiliteit, kredietwaardigheid van de landen. Risicolanden --- Conversie van leningen van de overheid --- Algemene ontwikkeling in de Derde Wereld --- Financiële hulp aan de Derde Wereld --- Buitenlandse schuld. Debt Equity Swap in LDC --- Internationale kredieten --- Buitenlandse hulp (betalingsbalans) --- Debts, External - Developing countries --- Debt relief - Developing countries --- Banks and Banking --- Exports and Imports --- Financial Risk Management --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Industries: Financial Services --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General --- Finance --- International economics --- Banking --- Monetary economics --- Investment & securities --- Macroeconomics --- Debt reduction --- Debt conversion --- Debt service --- Asset and liability management --- External debt --- Loans --- Financial institutions --- Banks and banking --- Credit --- Bonds --- United States
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"A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States-Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw working class survivors instead turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the United States and Canada were linked by experts, workers, and money. In Disaster Citizenship, Jacob A.C. Remes draws on histories of the Salem and Halifax events to explore the institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding extraordinary emergency powers challenged these grassroots practices to impose progressive 'solutions' on what they wrongly imagined to be a fractured social landscape. Innovative and engaging, Disaster Citizenship excavates the forgotten networks of solidarity and obligation in an earlier time while simultaneously suggesting new frameworks in the emerging field of critical disaster studies"--
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Solidarity --- Working class --- Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917. --- Fires --- Disaster relief --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Cooperation --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Explosions --- Buildings --- Conflagrations --- Fire losses --- Accidents --- Disasters --- Fire --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Emergency management --- Human services --- History --- Social aspects --- Employment --- Fires and fire prevention --- Halifax (N.S.) --- Salem (Mass.) --- Witch City (Mass.) --- City of Witches (Mass.) --- City of Salem (Mass.) --- Halifax, N.S. --- הליפקס (N.S.) --- Halifaḳs (N.S.) --- Halifax Regional Municipality (N.S.) --- Social conditions
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Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the “American” and “international” aspects of early American Communism. This book examines the development of the Communist Party in its first decade, from 1919 to 1929. Using the archives of the Communist International, this book, in contrast to previous studies, argues that the International played an important role in the early part of this decade in forcing the party to “Americanise”. Special attention is given to the attempts by the Comintern to orient American Communists on the role of black oppression, and to see the struggle for black liberation and the fight for socialism as inextricably linked. The later sections of the book provide the most detailed account now available of how the Comintern, reflecting the Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, intervened in the American party to ensure the Stalinisation of American Communism.
Communism --- History --- Communist International --- Communist Party of the United States of America --- Workers (Communist) Party of America --- Communist Party of America --- Communist Political Association --- Progressive Labor Movement (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) --- CPUSA --- Communist Party of the United States --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ SShA --- Mei-kuo kung chʻan tang --- Communist Party, U.S.A. --- Amerikan Komünist Partisi --- American Communist Party --- Partido Comunista de los Estados Unidos --- KP der USA --- K.P. der U.S.A. --- Kommunistische Partei der USA --- Kommunistische Partei der U.S.A. --- Ḳomunisṭishe parṭey der Fareynigṭe Shṭaṭn --- Communist Party USA --- קאמוניסטישער פארטיי פון די פאראייניקטע שטאטן --- קומוניסטישער פארטיי, פערייניקטע שטאטן --- Yhdysvaltain Kommunistipuolue --- Communist Information Bureau --- Kyōsan Intānashonaru --- Kyōsan Shugi Intānashonaru --- Bolshevik International --- International Communist Congress --- Red International --- Third Communist International --- Third International --- Tretiĭ Internat︠s︡ional --- International (Third) --- Kommunisticheskiĭ Internat︠s︡ional --- Kommunistische Internationale --- Internazionale comunista --- Коминтерн --- Komintern --- Comintern --- Troisième Internationale --- Dritte Internationale --- Komunistická internacionála --- Třetí Internacionála --- Internacional Comunista --- 3-ĭ Internat︠s︡ional --- Internationale communiste --- I.C. (Communist International) --- IC (Communist International) --- Kommunistiska internationalen --- Terza Internazionale --- Kominterun --- Комунистический интернационал --- Komunisticheskiĭ internat︠s︡ional --- Daisan Intānashonaru --- Konmintan --- Kung chʻan kuo chi --- Kokusai Kyōsantō --- Komintān --- Mosukō Intānashonaru --- Tretja Internacionala --- Komuminterun --- Kommunista Internacionálé --- Communistische Internationale --- Kūmintrun --- كومنترن --- אינטרנצינל הקומוניסטי --- コミンテルン --- 共產國際 --- Tercera Internacional
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Under Bolshevik and Nazi rule, nearly one-third of all Soviet Mennonites - including more than half of all adult men - perished, while a large number were exiled to the east and the north by the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Others fled westward on long treks, seeking refuge in Germany during the Second World War. However, at war's end, the majority of the USSR refugees living in Germany were sent to the Soviet Gulag, where many died. Paths of Thorns is the story of Jacob Abramovich Neufeld (1895-1960), a prominent Soviet Mennonite leader and writer, as well as one of these Mennonites sent to the Gulag. Consisting of three parts - a Gulag memoir, a memoir-history, and a long letter from Neufeld to his wife - this volume mirrors the life and suffering of Neufeld's generation of Soviet Mennonites. In the words of editor and translator Harvey L. Dyck, "Neufeld's writings elevate a simple story of terror and survival into a remarkable chronicle and analysis of the cataclysm that swept away his small but significant ethno-religious community."
Mennonites --- Persecution --- Communism --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Immigrants --- Anabaptists --- Baptists --- Christian sects --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Christians --- Religious persecution --- Atrocities --- Persecutions --- Neufeld, Jacob A., --- Soviet Union --- Virgil (Ont.) --- History
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"This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers struggle in the United States, captured the nations imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression"--
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The psychoanalytic approach to religion has changed radically during the course of the twentieth century. In both clinical and theoretical work in psychoanalysis, developments have taken place that frequently are not noted by persons who assume that all that can be said has been said by Freud. The study of religious phenomena, persons, events and traditions has always been a substantial part of applied psychoanalysis and here also major developments have taken place. It is no exaggeration to state that the scientific study of religion has been revolutionized by the integration of psychological perspectives, including the field of psychoanalysis. This volume differs from other recent publications on the topic of psychoanalysis and religion in drawing upon the entire field of psychoanalytic involvement with religion. It is interdisciplinary in approach and unlike other books on the topic brings together an exceptional combination of theoretical, empirical and clinical studies. No other book provides integrated examples of all three types of work.
Gnosticism -- Psychology. --- Psychoanalysis and religion. --- Religion. --- Religion --- Social Sciences --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Psychology --- Psychology and religion. --- Philosophy. --- Religion and psychology --- Modern philosophy. --- Religious Studies. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Philosophy, modern. --- Modern philosophy --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology
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This book takes a bold stand: all psychology should be culturally sensitive psychology, especially when studying religious phenomena. It explains that culture is not simply to be conceived of as a variable that possibly influences behavior. Rather, it stresses that cultural patterns of acting, thinking and experiencing are created, adopted and promulgated by a number of individuals jointly. As human subjectivity is different in different cultures, cultural psychology is not interested in comparatively investigating how experiences and behavior, attitudes and social relationships present themselves within different cultural conditions. By consequence, cultural psychology does not start from Western psychological constructs, testing for their presence in other cultures, but from human acts and activities in specific cultures, analyzing them in a hermeneutical way. Like cultural psychology, psychology of religion currently enjoys more and more interest and rapid growth. But the two fields have remained rather unconnected in the recent past. Psychological research on religion has been pursued from a number of perspectives, among which a cultural psychological one has not yet become prominent. As religions, however conceptualized, are cultural entities of major importance, cultural psychology seems a natural ally to research on religion. Containing a number of studies, both theoretical and empirical, this volume takes a step towards a rapprochement of cultural psychology and psychology of religion. Having received several international awards and distinctions, Jacob A. Belzen is one of Europe’s best-known psychologists of religion. As he has obtained doctorates in social science, history, philosophy and sciences of religion, his numerous publications are characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach. He is a full professor at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). He worked on this book while he was a visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (UK).
Ethnopsychology. --- Psychology, Religious. --- Psychology, Religious --- Ethnopsychology --- Social Sciences --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Psychology --- Religion - General --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology of religion --- Religions --- Religious psychology --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology. --- Religion. --- Psychology, general. --- Religious Studies, general. --- National characteristics --- Psychology and religion --- Philosophy (General). --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Theology --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health
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Developmental risk refers to conditions, characteristics, experiences, or situations with potentially deleterious effects that lead to outcomes later in life that do not meet societal expectations. While risk is typically framed as the statistical probability of a problematic outcome in relation to the general population, the converse notion of well-being is considered in relation to the level of functioning at a given developmental stage. The contributors to this volume provide insight into developmental well-being by examining the ways that culture and context affect outcomes associated with various types of risk, such as those related to oppression, academic performance, family background, life history, physical health, and psychiatric conditions. Even though certain outcomes may seem inevitable in cases involving harmful environments, diseases, and disorders, they are virtually all influenced by complex interactions among individuals, their families, communities, and societies.
Developmental psychology. --- Well-being. --- Developmental psychology --- Well-being --- Welfare (Personal well-being) --- Wellbeing --- Quality of life --- Happiness --- Health --- Wealth --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Psychology --- Life cycle, Human --- Social aspects.
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Food industry and trade. --- Food --- Food preparation industry --- Food processing --- Food processing industry --- Food technology --- Food trade --- Agricultural processing industries --- Processed foods --- Processing
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