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Between conflict and collegiality : Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli workplace
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ISBN: 1501770691 Year: 2023 Publisher: Ithaca, New York : ILR Press,

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Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed work teams in Israel. Asaf Darr documents the tensions that permeate the workplace and reveals when such tensions threaten the cohesion of the work environment. Darr chronicles the grassroots coping strategies employed by both Jewish and Palestinian through field studies conducted with workers in various sectors in Israel, adopting a comparative method that identifies the differences in how ethnonational-religious tensions play out. Between Conflict and Collegiality asks how workers deal with external ethnonational and religious pressures and whether the broader ethnonational conflict is reflected in the career expectations and trajectories of minority group members. Darr examines whether minority group members' use of their own language at work become a point of contestation; how religion is manifested in the workplace; whether co-workers from different ethnonational groups form amicable relations that extend beyond the workplace; and whether positive experiences working in ethnically mixed workplaces have the potential to mitigate conflict in the wider society.


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Bankers and Bolsheviks : International Finance and the Russian Revolution
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ISBN: 069118500X Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age.Shedding critical new light on the decision making of the powerful personalities who acted as the gatekeepers of international finance, Hassan Malik narrates how they channeled foreign capital into Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While economists have long relied on quantitative analysis to grapple with questions relating to the drivers of cross-border capital flows, Malik adopts a historical approach, drawing on banking and government archives in four countries. The book provides rare insights into the thinking of influential figures in world finance as they sought to navigate one of the most challenging and lucrative markets of the first modern age of globalization.Bankers and Bolsheviks reveals how a complex web of factors-from government interventions to competitive dynamics and cultural influences-drove a large inflow of capital during this tumultuous period in world history. This gripping book demonstrates how the realms of finance and politics-of bankers and Bolsheviks-grew increasingly intertwined, and how investing in Russia became a political act with unforeseen repercussions.


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Don't Blame Us : Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
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ISBN: 069117623X 1400852420 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of the population, knowledge professionals in Massachusetts and elsewhere have come to wield tremendous political leverage and power. By probing the possibilities and limitations of these suburban liberals, this rich and nuanced account shows that-far from being an exception to national trends-the suburbs of Massachusetts offer a model for understanding national political realignment and suburban politics in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Suburbs --- Liberalism --- Political aspects --- History --- Democratic Party (U.S.) --- 1972 election. --- American politics. --- Boston busing crisis. --- Cold War suburbs. --- Cold War. --- Democratic Party. --- Equal Rights Amendment. --- METCO. --- Massachusetts Miracle. --- Massachusetts exceptionalism. --- Massachusetts liberal. --- Massachusetts. --- Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity. --- Michael Dukakis. --- New Right. --- Reagan Revolution. --- Route 128 suburbs. --- Route 128. --- The Battle over the Suburbs. --- Vietnam War. --- affirmative action. --- affordable housing. --- antiwar movement. --- civil rights. --- class inequality. --- collective distinctiveness. --- defense spending. --- demographic changes. --- economic inequality. --- economic problems. --- electoral politics. --- environmental degradation. --- environmental inequality. --- environmental protection. --- environmentalism. --- equal opportunity. --- exclusivity. --- fair housing activism. --- fair housing movement. --- feminism. --- grassroots activism. --- high-tech corridor. --- high-tech growth. --- housing problems. --- housing. --- individual distinctiveness. --- interracial cooperation. --- knowledge professionals. --- liberal activism. --- liberal issues. --- liberalism. --- localism. --- meritocratic individualism. --- modern America. --- modern liberalism. --- multiracialism. --- national recession. --- national security. --- open space. --- political culture. --- political ideology. --- political tensions. --- postwar suburbanization. --- racial discrimination. --- racial inequality. --- residential inequality. --- school desegregation. --- school integration. --- second-wave feminism. --- segregation. --- social inequality. --- social justice. --- suburban development. --- suburban feminism. --- suburban liberal activism. --- suburban liberal activists. --- suburban liberalism. --- suburban liberals. --- suburban politics. --- suburbs. --- urbanгuburban cooperation. --- voluntary integration. --- women's equality.

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