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What Work Means
What Work Means goes beyond
the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work
as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of
Americans as mere workaholics, Claudia Strauss presents a more
nuanced perspective. While some live to work, others prefer a
diligent 9-to-5 work ethic that is conscientious but preserves time
for other interests. Her participants often enjoyed their jobs
without making work the focus of their life. These findings
challenge laborist views of waged work as central to a good life as
well as post-work theories that treat work solely as exploitative
and soul-crushing.
Drawing upon the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from
a wide range of occupations, from day laborers to corporate
managers, both immigrant and native-born, Strauss explores how
diverse Americans think about the place of work in a good life,
gendered meanings of breadwinning, accepting financial support from
family, friends, and the state, and what the ever-elusive American
dream means to them. By considering how post-Fordist unemployment
experiences diverge from joblessness earlier, What Work
Means paves the way for a historically and culturally informed
discussion of work meanings in a future of teleworking, greater
automation, and increasing nonstandard employment.
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Language Brokers
In a nation lacking a comprehensive social safety net, people often scramble to find private solutions to structural problems. While existing scholarship primarily focuses on how adults, particularly mothers, navigate systematic gaps in social support, Language Brokers shifts our attention to bilingual children securing crucial resources for their families. Drawing upon interviews with working-class Mexican and Korean American language brokers, as well as healthcare providers, and months of participant observation in a Southern California police station, Hyeyoung Kwon reveals how children of immigrants translate more than simple verbal exchanges.
Living at the intersection of multiple forms of inequality, these youth creatively use their in-between status to resolve structural problems to ensure their families' basic citizenship rights are upheld in interactions with teachers, social workers, landlords, doctors, and police officers. In an era of widespread racialized nativism, Language Brokers provides a critical examination of American culture, laying bare the contradictions between the ideals of equality and the exclusion of immigrants. Kwon underscores that dichotomous and racialized understandings of \"deserving\" and \"undeserving\" immigrants—which are embedded in everyday interactions and institutional practices—inform the routine ways in which immigrant youth attempt to cultivate belonging for their families.
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History of the Islamic Centre of Southern California 1950-1977
This book documents the history of the Muslim community in the United States, and particularly in California, and the foundation and evolution of the Southern California Islamic Center. The associated digital archive was built in an ongoing project with the University of California, Los Angeles. This substantial work of social history analyses the Islamic Center's work from 1953 to 1977 as it tries to establish itself within the mosaic of Southern Californian society. The work of the Islamic Centre has hardly been documented in the literature, and the social history of the wider Muslim Community in the USA is arguably under-researched. This is a unique and important contribution, of interest to historians, social scientists and students of race and religion in America.
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Postborder City
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Michael Dear is Professor of Geography and Director of the Southern California Studies Center at USC.
Gustavo LeClerc is partner and founding member of ADOBE LA (Artists, Architects and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles) since 1992.
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Ticktock : a novel
Tommy Phan, a Vietnamese-American detective novelist, finds a strange doll on his doorstep which \"evolves from a terrifying and vicious minikin into a hulking and formidable opponent bent on killing him.\"
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The USC Trojans Football Encyclopedia
It is an encyclopedic work on the USC football programme with sections dedicated to each season from 1888 through 2012, biographies of all-time USC great players, all-time roster, biographies of every head coach, other integral items that relate to the football programme and to awards and honors received by the players and coaches through the years.
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