The Gulag Archipelago Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

The Gulag Archipelago Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author)
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Human Rights

Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author

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• Published on: 2007-08-07
• Released on: 2007-08-07
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 7.87" h x 5.51" w x .91" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

A Letter to the Right

A Letter to the Right
William Ferrell III (Author)

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Human Rights

This book is an honest depiction of what it's like to be black in America, from my personal experiences over the years. My ups and downs, working in Corporate America, Affirmative Action, the workplace, how you are perceived through the eyes of folk of other races, the stares of folk you don't know personally but how you seem to be perceived, the innate feeling of inferiority or not being good enough and the struggle to overcome those obstacles when you know that you are. The "Force" that seems to work against black folk regardless to education, wealth, status or the like and the condition to always feel as a second class citizen everyday of your life. Trying to understand freedom, while nothing seems to be free. Still, I don't have a prejudice bone in my body because at the end of the day, my parents of blessed memory saw fit to not teach me to be that way. Thank God for their wisdom.

• Rank: #267149 in Books
• Published on: 2013-07-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Juan Williams (Author)
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Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis—caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents, and falling to the bottom in twenty-first-century global economic competition.

In Enough, Juan Williams issues a lucid, impassioned clarion call to do the right thing now, before we travel so far off the glorious path set by generations of civil rights heroes that there can be no more reaching back to offer a hand and rescue those being left behind.

Inspired by Bill Cosby’s now famous speech at the NAACP gala celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown decision integrating schools, Williams makes the case that while there is still racism, it is way past time for black Americans to open their eyes to the “culture of failure” that exists within their community. He raises the banner of proud black traditional values—self-help, strong families, and belief in God—that sustained black people through generations of oppression and flowered in the exhilarating promise of the modern civil rights movement. Williams asks what happened to keeping our eyes on the prize by proving the case for equality with black excellence and achievement.

He takes particular aim at prominent black leaders—from Al Sharpton to Jesse Jackson to Marion Barry. Williams exposes the call for reparations as an act of futility, a detour into self-pity; he condemns the “Stop Snitching” campaign as nothing more than a surrender to criminals; and he decries the glorification of materialism, misogyny, and murder as a corruption of a rich black culture, a tragic turn into pornographic excess that is hurting young black minds, especially among the poor.

Reinforcing his incisive observations with solid research and alarming statistical data, Williams offers a concrete plan for overcoming the obstacles that now stand in the way of African Americans’ full participation in the nation’s freedom and prosperity. Certain to be widely discussed and vehemently debated, Enough is a bold, perceptive, solution-based look at African American life, culture, and politics today.


From the Hardcover edition.

• Rank: #9427 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-07-24
• Released on: 2007-07-24
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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
Don Cheadle (Author), John Prendergast (Author)
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Human Rights

An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' help

While Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell termed the atrocities being committed there "genocide" -- and yet two years later things have only gotten worse. 3.5 million Sudanese are going hungry, 2.5 million have been displaced by violence, and 400,000 have died in Darfur to date.

Both shocked and energized by this ongoing tragedy, Cheadle teamed up with leading activist John Prendergast to focus the world's attention. Not on Our Watch, their empowering book, offers six strategies readers themselves can implement: Raise Awareness, Raise Funds, Write a Letter, Call for Divestment, Start an Organization, and Lobby the Government. Each of these small actions can make a huge difference in the fate of a nation, and a people -- not only in Darfur, but in other crisis zones such as Somalia, Congo, and northern Uganda.

• Rank: #3149 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Released on: 2007-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.11" h x 5.75" w x .75" l, .66 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

Spies, Lies and the War on Terror

Spies, Lies and the War on Terror
Jonathan Bloch Paul Todd (Author), Patrick Fitzgerald (Author)

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Human Rights

The advent of the War on Terror has seen intelligence agencies emerge out of the shadows to become major political players. 'Rendition', untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention without trial are now fast becoming the norm. Spies, Lies and the War on Terror traces the transformation of intelligence from a tool for law enforcement to a means of avoiding the law - both national and international. The new culture of victimhood in the US and among partners in the 'coalition of the willing' has crushed domestic liberties and formed a global network of extra-legal licence. State and corporate interests are increasingly fused in the new business of privatising fear. Todd & Bloch argue that the bureaucracy and narrow political goals surrounding intelligence actually have the potential to increase the terrorist threat. This lively and shocking account is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the new power of intelligence.

• Rank: #133646 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-07-04
• Released on: 2013-07-04
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The Tuskegee Airmen and Beyond: The Road to Equality

The Tuskegee Airmen and Beyond: The Road to Equality
David G. Styles (Author)

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This book begins its story almost four hundred years ago, when the first twenty African slaves were landed in Virginia. It then traces the African American quest for freedom and liberty, through participation in military conflict, from the days of the Revolutionary War to the 21st Century. It follows the struggle for liberty from slavery, when, in the Civil War, some 200,000 African American slaves and free men fought on both sides in return for the promise of freedom for all. A few achieved this, but the abolition of slavery did not give them equality. The Spanish-American War came next, followed twenty years later by the “Great War”, where over five hundred African American soldiers were awarded the Croix de Guerre, France’s highest award for valor, yet only one was awarded the Medal of Honor by the United States – seventy-three years after his death on the battlefield.

World War II brought the first all-black-crewed fighter squadron, the 99th, followed by the 332nd Fighter Group, the most highly decorated group of men in their theaters of war. These men were the catalyst of political change to bring desegregation to the Armed Forces, by means of President Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981, which preceded the Civil Rights Act by twenty years. Since President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Act into law, there have been great, but faltering, steps forward. African Americans have finally risen to the top in their chosen careers – four-star generals, astronauts and ultimately an African American President. This book is that story.

• Rank: #148438 in Books
• Published on: 2013-07-01
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Confronting Injustice and Oppression: Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers (Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series)

Confronting Injustice and Oppression: Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers (Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series)
David G. Gil (Author, Introduction)
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Human Rights

More urgent than ever, David G. Gil's guiding text gives social workers the knowledge and confidence they need to change unjust realities. Clarifying the meaning, sources, and dynamics of injustice, exploitation, and oppression and certifying the place of the social worker in combating these conditions, Gil promotes social-change strategies rooted in the nonviolent philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.. He shares suggestions for transition policies intended to alleviate poverty, unemployment, and discrimination and examines modes of radical social work practice compatible with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and President Roosevelt's proposed "Economic Bill of Rights." For this updated edition, Gil considers the factors driving two crucial developments since his volume's initial publication: the Middle East's Arab Spring and the U.S. Occupy Wall Street movement.

• Rank: #329194 in Books
• Published on: 2013-07-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .57 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Mas Desiguales (Cuadernos) (Spanish Edition)

Mas Desiguales (Cuadernos) (Spanish Edition)
Ignacio Escolar (Author), Olga Rodriguez (Author), Javier Gallego (Author), Carlos Elordi (Author), Joan Subirats (Author), Marilin Gonzalo (Author), Inigo Saenz de Ugarte (Author), Andres Gil (Author), Juan Luis Sanchez (Author), Isaac Rosa (Author)

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Human Rights

Los ricos cada día son más ricos y el resto, cada vez más pobre. La crisis económica ha disparado las desigualdades y los privilegios de ese 1% más poderoso que domina al mundo.

Una selección de más de 25 firmas de eldiario.es y de autores invitados para tratar este tema de una forma reposada: Ignacio Escolar, Olga Rodríguez, Isaac Rosa, Joan Subirats, Rosa María Artal, Ignacio Urquizu, Lucía Lijtmaer, José Saturnino Martínez, Marilín Gonzalo, Manuel Saco, José María Calleja, June Fernández, Javier Gallego, Manel Fontdevila, Ruth Toledano, Bernardo Vergara, Suso de Toro, Carlos Elordi, Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte, Juan Luis Sánchez, Ana Requena, Belén Carreño y Andrés Gil, entre otros.

Hay entrevistas reposadas a Ada Colau, portavoz de la PAH, y Boti G. Rodrigo, portavoz de la Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales (FELGTB).

• Rank: #115202 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-07-02
• Released on: 2013-07-02
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
T. J. Parsell (Author)
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When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would “own” him. Forced to remain silent about his rape by a convict code among inmates (one in which informers are murdered), Parsell’s experience that first night haunted him throughout the rest of his sentence.

In an effort to silence the guilt and pain of its victims, the issue of prisoner rape is a story that has not been told. For the first time Parsell, one of America’s leading spokespeople for prison reform, shares the story of his coming of age behind bars. He gives voice to countless others who have been exposed to an incarceration system that turns a blind eye to the abuse of the prisoners in its charge. Since life behind bars is so often exploited by television and movie re-enactments, the real story has yet to be told. Fish is the first breakout story to do that.

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• Published on: 2006-11-02
• Released on: 2006-11-02
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Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations
Daniel A. Bell (Editor), Jean-Marc Coicaud (Editor)

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Human Rights

This book is the product of a multiyear dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) sponsored by the United Nations University, Tokyo, and the City University of Hong Kong. It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful Northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding organization mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions from both theorists and practitioners of human rights.

• Rank: #596043 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Women's Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (Critical Human Rights)

Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Women's Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (Critical Human Rights)
Elissa Helms (Author)

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Human Rights

The 1992–95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina following the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia became notorious for “ethnic cleansing” and mass rapes targeting the Bosniac (Bosnian Muslim) population. Postwar social and political processes have continued to be dominated by competing nationalisms representing Bosniacs, Serbs, and Croats, as well as those supporting a multiethnic Bosnian state, in which narratives of victimhood take center stage, often in gendered form. Elissa Helms shows that in the aftermath of the war, initiatives by and for Bosnian women perpetuated and complicated dominant images of women as victims and peacemakers in a conflict and political system led by men. In a sober corrective to such accounts, she offers a critical look at the politics of women’s activism and gendered nationalism in a postwar and postsocialist society.            Drawing on ethnographic research spanning fifteen years, Innocence and Victimhood demonstrates how women’s activists and NGOs responded to, challenged, and often reinforced essentialist images in affirmative ways, utilizing the moral purity associated with the position of victimhood to bolster social claims, shape political visions, pursue foreign funding, and wage campaigns for postwar justice. Deeply sensitive to the suffering at the heart of Bosnian women’s (and men’s) wartime experiences, this book also reveals the limitations to strategies that emphasize innocence and victimhood.

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• Published on: 2013-12-15
• Original language: English
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• 320 pages

Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid

Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Jessica Alexander (Author)

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Human Rights

Jessica Alexander arrived in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide as an idealistic intern, eager to contribute to the work of the international humanitarian aid community. But the world that she encountered in the field was dramatically different than anything she could have imagined. It was messy, chaotic, and difficult—but she was hooked.
    In this honest and irreverent memoir, she introduces readers to the realities of life as an aid worker. We watch as she manages a 24,000-person camp in Darfur, collects evidence for the Charles Taylor trial in Sierra Leone, and contributes to the massive aid effort to clean up a shattered Haiti. But we also see the alcohol-fueled parties and fleeting romances, the burnouts and self-doubt, and the struggle to do good in places that have long endured suffering.
    Tracing her personal journey from wide-eyed and naïve newcomer to hardened cynic—and, ultimately, to hopeful but critical realist, Alexander transports readers to some of the most troubled locations around the world and shows us not only the seemingly impossible challenges, but also the moments of resilience and recovery.

• Rank: #220584 in Books
• Published on: 2013-10-15
• Released on: 2013-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Man's Dominion: The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women's Rights (Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics)

Man's Dominion: The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women's Rights (Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics)
Sheila Jeffreys (Author)

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Human Rights

In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy.

Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this book examines common anti-women attitudes such as ‘male-headship’, impurity of women, the need to control women’s bodies, and their modern manifestations in multicultural Western states. It points to the incorporation of religious law into legal systems, faith schools, and campaigns led by Christian and Islamic organisations against women’s rights at the U.N., and explains how religious rights threaten to subvert women’s rights. Including highly-topical chapters on the burka and the covering of women, and polygamy, this text questions the ideology of multiculturalism which shields religion from criticism by demanding respect for culture and faith, whilst ignoring the harm that women suffer from religion.

Man’s Dominion is an incisive and polemic text that will be of interest to students of gender studies, religion, and politics.

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• Published on: 2013-06-17
• Released on: 2013-06-17
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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice)

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice)
Daniel Fischlin (Author), Ajay Heble (Author), George Lipsitz (Author)

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The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, immediate, expressive, ephemeral, and even accidental, while rights refer to formal standards of acceptable human conduct, rules that are permanent, impersonal, universal, abstract, and inflexible. Yet the authors not only suggest that improvisation and rights can be connected; they insist that they must be connected.

Improvisation is the creation and development of new, unexpected, and productive cocreative relations among people. It cultivates the capacity to discern elements of possibility, potential, hope, and promise where none are readily apparent. Improvisers work with the tools they have in the arenas that are open to them. Proceeding without a written score or script, they collaborate to envision and enact something new, to enrich their experience in the world by acting on it and changing it. By analyzing the dynamics of particular artistic improvisations, mostly by contemporary American jazz musicians, the authors reveal improvisation as a viable and urgently needed model for social change. In the process, they rethink politics, music, and the connections between them.

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• Published on: 2013-06-14
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 328 pages

Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules

Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules
Philippe Sands (Author)

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Human Rights

International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider's view of the global justice process. "Lawless World" is his acclaimed account of the origins, development and crucial importance of international law, covering human rights, war, torture and the environment. Revealing how US and UK governments have undermined the key agreements that they helped to put in place, his book has helped change the political agenda. Now, in this fully revised and updated edition, Sands analyses the most recent threats to the global justice system, including the war on Libya. In a new chapter on remaking the world legal order, he analyses the challenges that lie ahead in the future, and powerfully makes the case for preserving global rules.

• Rank: #213504 in Books
• Published on: 2014-01-30
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.10 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Peter Godwin (Author)
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In 2008, memoirist and journalist Peter Godwin secretly returned to his native Zimbabwe after its notoriously tyrannical leader, Robert Mugabe, lost an election. The decision was severely risky--foreign journalists had been banned to prevent the world from seeing a corrupt leader's refusal to cede power. Zimbabweans have named this period, simply, The Fear.

Godwin bears witness to the torture bases, the burning villages, the opposition leaders in hiding, the last white farmers, and the churchmen and diplomats putting their own lives on the line to stop the carnage. Told with a brilliant eye for detail, THE FEAR is a stunning personal account of a people laid waste by a despot and, armed with nothing but a desire to be free, their astonishing courage and resilience.

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• Published on: 2011-10-12
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• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Oscar Lopez Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance

Oscar Lopez Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance
Osacar Lopez Rivera (Author), Luis Nieves Falcon (Editor), Matt Meyer (Introduction), Rev. Nozomi Ikuta (Introduction), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Foreword)
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The life story of Puerto Rican freedom fighter and leader Oscar López Rivera, outlined in this book, is one of courage, valor, and sacrifice. In 1981, Oscar was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for which he is still imprisoned, making him the longest-held political prisoner in the world. This is the story of his fight for the political independence of Puerto Rico based on letters between him and the renowned lawyer, sociologist, educator, and activist Luis Nieves Falcón. Also included is Oscar’s art, including photography and paintings created in his many years behind bars. Readers will explore his early life as a Latino child growing up in the small towns of Puerto Rico, following him as an adolescent as he and his family move to the big cities of the United States. After serving in Vietnam and earning a Bronze Star, Oscar returned home and worked to improve the quality of life for his people by becoming a community activist, which led to his underground life as a Puerto Rican Nationalist and his subsequent arrest. With a vivid assessment of the ongoing colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, the book helps to illustrate the sad tale of largely unreported human rights abuses for political prisoners in the United States, but it is also a story of hope and his ongoing struggle for freedom for his people and himself—a hope that there is beauty and strength in resistance.

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• Published on: 2013-02-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x 5.51" w x .59" l, .40 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)

No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Cindy Hahamovitch (Author)

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Human Rights

From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers and those who feared rising numbers of immigrants. Unlike immigrants, guestworkers couldn't settle, bring their families, or become citizens, and they had few rights. Indeed, instead of creating a manageable form of migration, guestworker programs created an especially vulnerable class of labor.

Based on a vast array of sources from U.S., Jamaican, and English archives, as well as interviews, No Man's Land tells the history of the American "H2" program, the world's second oldest guestworker program. Since World War II, the H2 program has brought hundreds of thousands of mostly Jamaican men to the United States to do some of the nation's dirtiest and most dangerous farmwork for some of its biggest and most powerful agricultural corporations, companies that had the power to import and deport workers from abroad. Jamaican guestworkers occupied a no man's land between nations, protected neither by their home government nor by the United States. The workers complained, went on strike, and sued their employers in class action lawsuits, but their protests had little impact because they could be repatriated and replaced in a matter of hours.

No Man's Land puts Jamaican guestworkers' experiences in the context of the global history of this fast-growing and perilous form of labor migration.

• Rank: #141032 in Books
• Published on: 2013-11-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

LA TRAMA DE MADRID (Spanish Edition)

LA TRAMA DE MADRID (Spanish Edition)
JUAN B. YOFRE (Author)

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Human Rights

"No necesito el bastón para tener poder", dijo Juan Domingo Perón poco antes de retornar a la Argentina, en 1973, cuando Héctor J. Cámpora, angustiado, intentó darle su banda presidencial. Era de noche, y Francisco Franco ofrecía una cena de gala en el Palacio de Oriente madrileño. Cámpora, con todos sus distintivos honoríficos, quiso convencer al ex presidente de que su presencia era más que oportuna. Perón se negó con arrogancia. Estaba irritado. "No me queda otra solución que volver allá y poner las cosas en orden", confesaba en la intimidad. Este episodio es el paradigma de todas las acciones que, desde su exilio, llevó a cabo Perón para reconquistar el poder. Un país por largo tiempo en llamas, dividido en dos ejes: Buenos Aires y Puerta de Hierro. Como uno de los mejores estrategas y políticos que ha tenido la Argentina, Perón siempre supo que el poder no puede quedar sin dueño. Y que debe ser resguardado en un único sitio. Por eso, desde Madrid, comienza a urdir una trama. La trama de Madrid. Los documentos secretos sobre el retorno de Perón a la Argentina cuenta la historia de cómo llega a la presidencia de la Nación para reconciliar a los argentinos. Comenzando desde su vínculo con Jorge Daniel Paladino #el hombre que lo ayudó a instalarse definitivamente entre y sobre todos los políticos vernáculos# hasta el "golpe blanco" contra Cámpora, Juan B. Yofre plasma, como en un coro polifónico, todas las desinteligencias e intrigas que caracterizaron este período: la muerte de Vandor, el asesinato de Aramburu, la institución de la "Cámara del terror", la fuga del penal de Rawson, la conducta del presidente chileno Salvador Allende, los diálogos con Balbín, los dobles agentes, la entrega a Perón de los restos de Evita. A los documentos inéditos, testimonios y archivos personales que nunca antes fueron develados, hay que añadir el rigor de las deducciones que realiza el autor, que nuevamente apuesta a comprender la complejidad del pasado para repensar los problemas de nuestro presente.

• Rank: #108260 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-07-01
• Released on: 2013-06-26
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Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street

Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street
John Nichols (Author)
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Human Rights

The protest movement that captivated the nation and paved the path for Occupy Wall Street. More than 100,000 public employees, teachers, students, and their allies descended on the capital in Madison, Wisconsin after Governor Scott Walker announced his plan to eliminate the right of public sector employees to unionize. The struggle (and the Democratic caucus’ escape to Indiana in order to prevent a quorum from being reached) elicited extensive national media coverage and debateAas well as enormous grassroots support for protestors. Uprising provides an anatomy of the event and its implications for the political future of the nation. As state legislatures across the US (in Ohio and New Hampshire, to name a few) take up union busting measures, Nichols shows how the Wisconsin case is a blueprint for progressives around America who’ve had enough. He also explores how Wisconsin protesters organized and inspired the Occupy Wall Street movement.

• Rank: #515297 in Books
• Published on: 2012-02-14
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages