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Indian work : language and livelihood in Native American history
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ISBN: 0674033493 0674054741 9780674054745 9780674033498 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

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Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history.


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Poor man's fortune : white working-class conservatism in American metal mining, 1850–1950
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ISBN: 1469656310 1469656280 1469656299 9798890858085 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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"White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, 'Poor Man's Fortune' tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal"--

Corporate tribalism : white men/white women and cultural diversity at work
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ISBN: 9780226449579 0226449572 9786612239694 1282239694 0226449599 9780226449593 9781282239692 6612239697 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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The 2008 elections shattered historical precedents and pushed race and gender back to the forefront of our national consciousness. The wide range of reactions to the efforts of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin dramatically reflected ongoing conflicts over diversity in our society, especially in the venue where people are most likely to encounter them: work. As more and more people who aren't white men enter corporate America, we urgently need to learn how to avoid clashes over these issues and how to resolve them when they do occur.Thomas Kochman and Jean Mavr

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