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"Set in the Midwest, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist tells the stories of everyday, blue-collar workers with dark humor and a gritty, experimental style, revealing the absurdity of the daily grind and its crushing reality" --

Blue collar workers --- Working class --- Laborers --- Manual workers --- Employees --- Middle West

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Jeff Torlina challenges the conventional wisdom about the attitudes of blue-collar men toward their work. Torlina highlights the voices of pipe fitters, welders, carpenters, painters, locomotive assemblers, and factory workers to reveal the complexities—and advantages—of working-class life. This book is a penetrating critique of many commonly held assumptions, and a compelling case for a new understanding of our social class system.

Blue collar workers. --- Working class. --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working class --- Working classes --- Laborers --- Manual workers --- Employment --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employees

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Michele Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men - the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society. Morality is at the centre of these workers' worlds. They find their identity and self-worth in their ability to discipline themselves and conduct responsible but caring lives. These moral standards function as an alternative to economic definitions of success, offering them a way to maintain dignity in an out-of-reach American dreamland. But these standards also enable them to draw class boundaries toward the poor and, to a lesser extent, the upper half. Workers also draw rigid racial boundaries, with white workers placing emphasis on the "disciplined self" and blacks on the "caring self". Whites thereby often construe blacks as morally inferior because they are lazy, while blacks depict whites as domineering, uncaring and overly disciplined. This book also opens up a wider perspective by examining American workers in comparison with French workers, who take the poor as "part of us" and are far less critical of blacks than they are of upper-middle-class people and immigrants. By singling out different "moral offenders" in the two societies, workers reveal contrasting definitions of "cultural membership" that help us understand and challenge the forms of inequality found in both societies.

Blue collar workers --- Men --- Work ethic --- Working class --- Employment --- #SBIB:316.334.2A340 --- 316.343.63 --- 316.343.63 Arbeidersstand. Proletariaat. Landarbeiders --(sociale stratificatie) --- Arbeidersstand. Proletariaat. Landarbeiders --(sociale stratificatie) --- Arbeidssociologie: ongelijkheden op de arbeidsmarkt: algemeen --- Ethic, Work --- Ethics --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Laborers --- Manual workers --- Employees --- Social stratification --- Social problems

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Much of public opinion research over the past several decades suggests that the American voters are woefully uninformed about politics and thus unable to fulfill their democratic obligations. Arguing that this perception is faulty, Vincent Hutchings shows that, under the right political conditions, voters are surprisingly well informed on the issues that they care about and use their knowledge to hold politicians accountable. Though Hutchings is not the first political scientist to contend that the American public is more politically engaged than it is often given credit for, previous scholarship--which has typically examined individual and environmental factors in isolation--has produced only limited evidence of an attentive electorate. Analyzing broad survey data as well as the content of numerous Senate and gubernatorial campaigns involving such issues as race, labor, abortion, and defense, Hutchings demonstrates that voters are politically engaged when politicians and the media discuss the issues that the voters perceive as important. Hutchings finds that the media--while far from ideal--do provide the populace with information regarding the responsiveness of elected representatives and that groups of voters do monitor this information when "their" issues receive attention. Thus, while the electorate may be generally uninformed about and uninterested in public policy, a complex interaction of individual motivation, group identification, and political circumstance leads citizens concerned about particular issues to obtain knowledge about their political leaders and use that information at the ballot box.

Democracy --- Political participation --- Public opinion --- Public opinion. --- Atlanta Journal. --- Charlotte Observer. --- Chicago Tribune. --- Dewine, Mike. --- Edwards-McNabb, Sybil. --- Erbring, Lutz. --- Feinstein, Dianne. --- Fenno, Richard. --- Gaudet, Helen. --- Glenn, John. --- Gulf War. --- Harvard Law Review. --- Hatfield, Mark. --- Heflin, Howard. --- Hollings, Ernest. --- Jewish Americans. --- Kassebaum, Nancy. --- Kingdon, John W. --- Lowery, Joseph. --- Millner, Guy. --- National Organization of Women. --- Politics in America. --- Republicans. --- Vietnam War. --- abortion. --- ballot access. --- blue-collar workers. --- core values. --- defense issues. --- foreign policy. --- group interests. --- international trade agreements. --- issue importance. --- issue publics. --- issue voting. --- key votes. --- labor issues. --- latent public opinion. --- media. --- motivation. --- newspapers. --- partisanship. --- party identification. --- priming. --- projection effect. --- religion. --- routine votes. --- salience. --- self-interest. --- term limits. --- union membership. --- women.

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This Special Issue includes contributions about occupants’ sustainable living in buildings and communities, highlighting issues surrounding the sustainable development of our environments and lives by emphasizing smart and green design perspectives. This Special Issue specifically focuses on research and case studies that develop promising methods for the sustainable development of our environment and identify factors critical to the application of a sustainable paradigm for quality of life from a user-oriented perspective. After a rigorous review of the submissions by experts, fourteen articles concerning sustainable living and development are published in this Special Issue, written by authors sharing their expertise and approaches to the concept and application of sustainability in their fields. The fourteen contributions to this special issue can be categorized into four groups, depending on the issues that they address. All the proposed methods, models, and applications in these studies contribute to the current understanding of the adoption of the sustainability paradigm and are likely to inspire further research addressing the challenges of constructing sustainable buildings and communities resulting in a sustainable life for all of society.

sustainability --- regionalism --- climate --- unit plan --- apartment --- Singapore --- Korea --- sustainable architecture --- space syntax --- partitioning theory --- total depth --- intelligibility --- movement economies --- architecture --- building performance simulation --- performance-based design --- agent-based model --- Gaussian process --- electroencephalography --- virtual reality --- monument architecture --- stress --- data visualization --- deep learning --- smart building --- interactive experience --- “five senses” interaction --- people-oriented --- embedding --- recommender system --- collaborative filtering --- housing preference --- housing decision --- human behavior simulation --- virtual users --- social sustainability --- performance analysis --- evaluation method --- architectural design education --- eye tracking --- virtual environment --- street robbery --- CPTED --- crime prevention --- fixation count --- people with physical disabilities --- job retention --- path analysis --- perceived workplace safety --- workplace disability facilities --- work satisfaction --- social housing --- social economy actors --- Seoul --- South Korea --- sustainable development --- sustainable design --- energy efficiency --- public rental housing --- building simulation --- elderly --- biophilia --- biophilic experience --- smart home --- smart-home service --- service framework --- water distribution --- water war --- conflict --- ownership --- divided Cyprus --- blue-collar workers --- intervention study --- health promotion --- cardiovascular disease --- n/a --- "five senses" interaction