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International Migration Research - Constructions, Omissions and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity (Paperback): Ewa Morawska International Migration Research - Constructions, Omissions and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity (Paperback)
Ewa Morawska; Edited by Michael Bommes
R1,685 Discovery Miles 16 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The centrality of international migration as a process articulating major transformations of contemporary societies offers an opportunity to make it the shared component of the theoretical and research agendas of the social science disciplines. In this volume a multidisciplinary team of authors presents a stocktaking account of current research on international migration in order to lay the ground for such an interdisciplinary collaboration. The first part of the book scrutinizes the theoretical concepts and interpretative frameworks that inform migration research and their impact on empirical studies in selected disciplines. The next two sections examine the epistemological premises underlying migration research in different fields of the social sciences and the challenges of 'informed translations' between these approaches. The final section considers the interdependency between the academic study of migration and the social and political contexts in which it is embedded. The book invites researchers to address the challenges raised by the empowerment of migration research, offering ways of communicating across different specializations and guiding readers towards a meaningful interdisciplinarity.

International Migration Research - Constructions, Omissions and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity (Hardcover, New Ed): Ewa... International Migration Research - Constructions, Omissions and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Ewa Morawska; Edited by Michael Bommes
R4,490 Discovery Miles 44 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The centrality of international migration as a process articulating major transformations of contemporary societies offers an opportunity to make it the shared component of the theoretical and research agendas of the social science disciplines. In this volume a multidisciplinary team of authors presents a stocktaking account of current research on international migration in order to lay the ground for such an interdisciplinary collaboration. The first part of the book scrutinizes the theoretical concepts and interpretative frameworks that inform migration research and their impact on empirical studies in selected disciplines. The next two sections examine the epistemological premises underlying migration research in different fields of the social sciences and the challenges of 'informed translations' between these approaches. The final section considers the interdependency between the academic study of migration and the social and political contexts in which it is embedded. The book invites researchers to address the challenges raised by the empowerment of migration research, offering ways of communicating across different specializations and guiding readers towards a meaningful interdisciplinarity.

For Bread with Butter - The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1940 (Paperback, Revised):... For Bread with Butter - The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1940 (Paperback, Revised)
Ewa Morawska
R1,169 Discovery Miles 11 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Fifty years ago, enactment of the Wagner National Labor Relations Act gave American organized labour what it has regarded ever since as one of its greatest assets: a legislative guarantee of the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. Yet although the Wagner Act’s guarantees remain substantially unaltered, organized labour in America today is in deep decline. Addressing this apparent paradox, Christopher Tomlins offers here a critical examination of the impact of the National Labor Relations Act on American unions. By studying the intentions and goals of policy makers in the context of the development of labour law from the late nineteenth century, and by looking carefully at the course of labour history since the act’s passage, Dr Tomlins shows how public policy has been shaped to confine labour’s role in the American economy, and that many of the unions’ problems stem from the laws which purport to protect them.

For Bread with Butter - The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1940 (Hardcover): Ewa... For Bread with Butter - The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1940 (Hardcover)
Ewa Morawska
R3,713 Discovery Miles 37 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Fifty years ago, enactment of the Wagner National Labor Relations Act gave American organized labour what it has regarded ever since as one of its greatest assets: a legislative guarantee of the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. Yet although the Wagner Act’s guarantees remain substantially unaltered, organized labour in America today is in deep decline. Addressing this apparent paradox, Christopher Tomlins offers here a critical examination of the impact of the National Labor Relations Act on American unions. By studying the intentions and goals of policy makers in the context of the development of labour law from the late nineteenth century, and by looking carefully at the course of labour history since the act’s passage, Dr Tomlins shows how public policy has been shaped to confine labour’s role in the American economy, and that many of the unions’ problems stem from the laws which purport to protect them.

Insecure Prosperity - Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 (Paperback, Revised): Ewa Morawska Insecure Prosperity - Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 (Paperback, Revised)
Ewa Morawska
R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants did settle in major cities, another fifth created small-town communities like the one described here by Ewa Morawska. Rather than climbing up the mainstream education and occupational success ladder, the Jewish Johnstowners created in the local economy a tightly knit ethnic entrepreneurial niche and pursued within it their main life goals: achieving a satisfactory standard of living against the recurrent slumps in local mills and coal mines and enjoying the company of their fellow congregants. Rather than secularizing and diversifying their communal life, as did Jewish immigrants to larger cities, they devoted their energies to creating and maintaining an inclusive, multipurpose religious congregation.

Morawska begins with an extensive examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came, tracing features of culture and social relations that they brought with them to America. After detailing the process by which migration from Eastern Europe occurred, Morawska takes up the social organization of Johnstown, the place of Jews in that social order, the transformation of Jewish social life in the city, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. The resulting work will appeal simultaneously to students of American history, of American social life, of immigration, and of Jewish experience, as well as to the general reader interested in any of these topics.

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