2007, ISBN: 9781403994578

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Hardcover. VG-/VG- ex-library copy with ink stamp on ffep, call number label and barcode sticker on dust jacket. previous owner's name on … More...

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Hardcover. VG-/VG- ex-library copy with ink stamp on ffep, call number label and barcode sticker on dust jacket. previous owner's name on ffep, light corner and edge wear to book and dust jacket.. Blue cloth boards with silver spine lettering. Blue and illustrated glossy dust jacket with white lettering. x, 190 pp. BW illustrations. "Discrimination by Design is a fascinating account of the complex social processes and power struggles involved in building and controlling space. Leslie Kanes Weisman offers a new framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of gender and race as well as class. She traces the social and architectural histories of the skyscraper, maternity hospital, department store, shopping mall, nuclear family dream house, and public housing high rise. Her vivid prose is based on exhaustive research and documents how each setting, along with public parks and streets, embodies and transmits the privileges and penalties of social caste. In presenting feminist themes from a spatial perspective, Weisman raises many new and important questions. When do women feel unsafe in cities, and why? Why do so many homeless people prefer to sleep on the streets rather than in city-run shelters? Why does the current housing crisis pose a greater threat to women than to men? How would dwellings, communities, and public buildings look if they were designed to foster relationships of equality and environmental wholeness? And how can we begin to imagine such a radically different landscape? In exploring the answers, the author introduces us to the people, policies, architectural innovations, and ideologies working today to shape a future in which all people matter. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Discrimination by Design is an invaluable and pioneering contribution to our understanding of the issues of our time--health care for the elderly and people with AIDS, homelessness, racial justice, changing conditions of work and family life, affordable housing, militarism, energy conservation, and the preservation of the environment. This thoroughly readable book provides practical guidance to policymakers, architects, planners, and housing activists. It should be read by all who are interested in understanding how the built environment shapes the experiences of their daily lives and the cultural assumptions in which they are immersed." -Jacket., University of Illinois Press, 1992, 2.75, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. New. 320 Pages. NEW. Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives brings together an international team of scholars engaged in research on globalization, gender, flexibility and work transformation (GLOW). Comparisons between the UK, US, Germany and Japan reveal the ways in which gender transforms conventional understandings of the knowledge-based economy. Drawing on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism, this collection rethinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment. Rich case studies examine new temporalities, new contractualities and new spatialities of employment forms (part-time, temporary and self-employment), new industries (new media), and new organizations (call centres) in comparative perspective. These comparisons revise previous understandings and result in a more accurate mapping of societies, but also provide a better framework for explaining the similarities and differences in the gendering of new employment forms and knowledge-based work within and between countries. Book Description: Gendering the Knowledge Economy demonstrates the ways in which gender transforms the understanding of the knowledge-based economy, addressing the nature of knowledge and what constitutes the newness of current employment forms. It rethinks the processes of both de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both the deregulation and re-regulation of employment. A comparative analysis of the US, UK, Germany and Japan underpins the rethinking of the varieties of capitalism and the comparative analysis of gender relations. : Review: '...the book is meticulously detailed, providing empirically grounded analysis, and will appeal to a specialist audience of researchers and policy makers with a particular interest in gender, work/employment, economics and social policy.' - Carrie Purcell, Sociological Research Online : Book Description: Bringing together an international network of prominent feminist scholars, this book combines theoretical discussions and original empirical material to investigate the future of work Size: 14 x 2.2 x 21.6 cm. 340 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Miscellaneous; Hardbacks; ISBN: 1403994579. ISBN/EAN: 9781403994578. Inventory No: X118-1455. This item is potentially heavy when packed and may require more postage than the rates shown. 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Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism. The volume re-thinks the processes of de-… More...

Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism. The volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment. Books > Social Sciences Hard cover, Springer Shop<

2006, ISBN: 9781403994578

Comparative Perspectives, Buch, Hardcover, 2007 ed. [PU: Palgrave Macmillan], Palgrave Macmillan, 2006