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Crack in America

Tác giả: Reinarman, Craig

This book provides the most comprehensive, penetrating, and original analysis of the crack problem to date. It reviews the social pharmacology of crack and offers rich ethnographic case studies of crack binging, addiction, and sales. It explores crack's different impacts on whites, blacks, the ...

Women and men at work

Tác giả: Barbara F Reskin, Irene Padavic

Provide an especially useful and critical summary of economic theories of gender differences in workplace rewards, such as earnings and authority, as well as an insightful discussion of the interpenetration of family and work life.

Measurement of intergenerational relations

Tác giả: David J Mangen, Vern L Bengtson, Pierre H Landry

The authors report results of a research programme focusing on intergenerational solidarity within families, based on an unusual three generation study. Theoretical, conceptual and measurement issues are also presented focusing on six dimensions of family interaction.

Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States

Tác giả: Herbert R Barringer, Robert W Gardner, Michael J Levin

Contents: Immigration, size and growth, nativity, and citizenship; The demography of Asian Americans: Fertility, mortality, and age and sex composition; The geography of Asian Americans: Residence and migration; Family and households; Educational attainment; Employment and occupations.

Losing work, moving on : international perspectives on worker displacement

Tác giả: Peter Joseph Kuhn

Contents: Summary and synthesis; Displaced workers in the United States and the Netherlands; Worker displacement in Japan and Canada; They get knocked down do they get up again; Worker displacement in France and Germany;Employment protection and the consequences for displaced workers.