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  • This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occ... This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the clean/dirty divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways... more
  • This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occ... This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the clean/dirty divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways... more
  • This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occ... This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the clean/dirty divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways... more
  • This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living ... This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe opening the way to a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how... more
  • This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debate... This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three... more
  • This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occ... This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the clean/dirty divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways... more
  • Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an ov... Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in super-diverse London exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic Oriental category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in... more
  • Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary socia... Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary social life this book examines the current patterning of identities based on class and community gender and generation race faith and ethnicity and derived from popular culture... more
  • This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race... This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people identify and experience their mixed status the complex nature of such identities and the rise of... more
  • This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous people... This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia Canada New Zealand and the United States. The book argues that a new relational imaginary can revolutionize... more
  • This book examines experiences and implications of against-the-grain school ch... This book examines experiences and implications of against-the-grain school choices where white middle class families choose ordinary and low performing secondary schools for their children. It offers a unique view of identity formation taking in... more
  • How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevi... How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threats insecurities and closure? How did people weather the storms and how do they face the future now?... more
  • Sexuality and sexual identity have been relatively marginalized areas in both ... Sexuality and sexual identity have been relatively marginalized areas in both social work education and practice. However changes in policy and legislation in the UK and other countries over the past decade have brought discussions of sexuality into... more
  • Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation s Immi... Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation s Immigration and Inclusion programme this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the... more
  • This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living ... This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe opening the way to a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how... more
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