Work and Unseen Chronic Illness: Silent Voices (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

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In an increasingly ageing society, medicine, hygiene and nutrition have reduced the impact of acute and life-threatening illnesses. However, whilst we are living longer, the chance of developing or contracting a chronic illness is increasing.
There are a growing number of working adults affected by chronic health conditions that may be largely invisible to those around them. In this book, the author explores the 'silent' problem of unseen illness at work.
The author employs qualitative research methods to challenge the idea that if you look well, you must be well. While demonstrating the effectiveness of this controversial methodology, she uses it to expose the voices of a group of marginalized workplace actors who have hitherto remained unheard. Stories from people with cancer, multiple sclerosis, endometriosis and other illnesses are interspersed with the author's reflections about life and work with illness that others cannot see. These stories reflect a passage of trauma and marginalization, but also foreground themes of survival.

Work and Unseen Chronic Illness: Silent Voices (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies) Review

This book is very well written. Get it from a library if price is an issue. Reading it, I experienced sympathy, empathy, and a desire for justice. Note that the first few chapters are methodological, which was very interesting to me, but might not be useful to everyone.

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Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia's Four New Tigers: A Comparative Perspective

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As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes:

• a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference
• comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations
• comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle
• China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism.

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Those of us familiar with Professor Levine's previous books have come to expect deep insight coupled with clarity of writing and perspective. He has done it again with flying colors. This book focuses on a region of the world where dynamic economies go hand in hand with backward labor relations compared with western societies. The author assembles his vast and awesome knowledge to spotlight the problems facing these countries. Only an insider with such deep background knowledge of the region, with particular expertise on China, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, could speak so authoritatively. Prof. Levine does it with enviable excellence. This should be required reading for many, from economists and labor officials to politicians and policymakers. Bravo for presenting such a colossal study in such a lucid manner.

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Working the Sahel (Global Environmental Change Series)

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This book looks at how people in the semi-arid conditions of the Sahel cope with their harsh environment. It draws on four years of field research with farmers in the Sahelian region and builds on work with these communities over several decades. Reporting on studies of four village communities, it shows how people work to achieve sustainable livelihoods and emphasises that there can be development without disaster.

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Mortimore, a British geographer with 28 years of residence in northern Nigeria and several books to his name, is an adept and rigorous practitioner of local-level cultural ecology. Bill Adams began his career examining the fate of Northern Nigeria's large irrigation schemes, and has since written extensively on conservation and sustainability questions. Working the Sahel emerged from a five year British-funded investigation into patterns of agricultural intensification and labor use in four sub-locations located on a transect of varying population density between Kano and the Nigeria-Niger border. This book subsumes some of Mortimore's long term datasets and archival material, permitting longitudinal evaluations. Working the Sahel is a tightly focused research monograph. The key question it poses is how individual skills are exercised in "strategic and tactical" ways by households in Northern Nigeria, and how resource endowments are managed under varying population densities. The starting point is that constraints on farming activities can be distilled into four categories; rainfall, bioproductivity of plants and soil, labor, and the availability of capital. Labor constraints in Nigeria and elsewhere have been generally been relaxed as population densities rise, permitting some combination of intensification of agricultural production in-situ, economic diversification out of agriculture, and circular migration. Adaptation - a term much critiqued by anthropologists - is used quite sensibly here to describe the reflexive, longer term restructuring of Sahelian rural systems in the response to these four constraints. Both flexibility and adaptability are demanded of Sahelian farmers. The core of the book concerns the day to day management of labor. In the four villages, high frequency time-budget observations by local researchers took place over four years, initially with the men, women and children of around 45 households. The study found that some labor inefficiencies are inevitable in dryland farming systems. Short cropping seasons in the drier villages concentrate labor demand; but since crop growth is dependent on rainfall, drought years can actually provoke labor surpluses. To maintain flexibility, therefore, labor is matched to resource endowments, and by switching between livelihood activities. Women and children make significant contributions to agricultural labor, that are greater in the drier and more extensive farming systems where Islamic seclusion is more relaxed. A picture emerges of biodiversity maintained by cultivation practices, and only localized episodes of degradation, largely driven by precipitation fluctuations. In their view, "Nothing could be further from the scenario of reckless resource degradation which has been put about by some academics and development agencies" (p193). The book also argues farmers have already developed pathways to "indigenous intensification" (p97) in the drylands, where denied access to fertilizer.Adaptive responses in the four villages include significant non-farm activities, since as Mortimore and Adams are at pains to stress, risk is spread through diversification. Impelled by economic factors, such as the instabilities generated by Nigeria's commodity booms and busts, and the recognition that animals offer investment opportunities, a pattern has emerged of "the more crops produced, the more livestock kept" (p132), in mixed farming systems. Private accumulation through petty trading in rural periodic markets is just part of a widely developed trading system, and markets also provide a wide range of social functions. Long distance migration, described much too briefly in the book, articulates with broader economic opportunity in regional hinterlands, and nationally. The authors personalize some of these labor tradeoffs and decision-making processes by profiling six farmers, by means of activity charts and brief personal histories. These profiles highlight how and when households deploy their labor. The book concludes by stressing that agricultural development initiatives in the Sahel fail when they are reductionist, and ignore diversity and variability. There is a dig here at farming systems research, which has underpinned agronomic development programs in the Sahel, for its focus on efficiency criteria. Dryland farmers are not profit or efficiency maximizers, since "..'efficiency' would leave no room for flexible maneuver" (p192). The message for future development interventions is a simple one; big schemes won't work, and "the most impressive stories of development are those where a need for multiple choices, to suit a range of smallholder families, has been met, implicitly or explicitly, in the type of interventions and opportunities affecting rural households." (p191).Politics receives too little discussion in the book, and is missing from the conceptual model used: it is only discussed as a starting point for the analysis of local farmer responses. Social and political conflict is downplayed, and not much is said about struggle and open resistance - and why such struggles (often gendered, or to do with resource access issues) might be necessary.
Nonetheless the insistence on rigorous comparative fieldwork in Working the Sahel is salutary. The authors remind us that smallholder agriculture is potentially productive, and environmentally benign, in parts of the world where the presence of globalized agricultural knowledge, pervasive development discourses, and far-reaching commodity markets is still fragmentary. To do this, the authors afford equal analytical weight to natural environments and to human activities. The book shows the real contribution that committed geographers can make to African agrarian and development studies. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment Comment

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Worlds Made Flesh (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

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This book focuses on the use of the past in two senses. First, it looks at the way in which medieval texts from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries discussed the past: how they presented history, what kinds of historical narratives they employed, and what anxieties gathered around the practice of historiography. Second, this study examines twentieth-century interactions with this textual past, and the problems that have arisen for critics trying to negotiate this radically different textual culture. Lauryn Mayer examines chronicle histories that have been largely ignored by scholars, bringing these neglected texts into dialogue with contemporaneous canonical works such as Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, the Morte Darthur, Beowulf, and The Battle of Maldon.

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This is a remarkable achievement. Whoever is interested in Medieval studies will have to take Lauryn Mayer's work into serious consideration for at least three reasons:
- We find here a very careful analysis of the Metrical and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - texts which, for the most part, have remained largely (and unjustly) ignored.
- Lauryn Mayer demonstrates the relevance of the Chronicles to the reading of more canonical works (Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon) and offers enlightening interpretations of these works.
- Finaly, and more importantly, Lauryn Mayer chalenges the "authorial" assumption of many modern readers and offers a brilliant theoretical model to account for the medieval collaborative production of manuscripts.
Worlds Made Flesh is a fascinating book that brings the medieval manuscript culture to life. It deserves to become a landmark for future medieval studies.

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Worlds of Work: Building an International Sociology of Work (Plenum Studies in Work and Industry)

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The advent of transnational economic production and market integration compels sociologists of work to look beyond traditional national boundaries and build an international sociology of work in order to effectively address the human, scientific, and practical challenges posed by global economic transnationalism. The purpose of this volume is to promote transnational dialogue about the sociology of work and help build a truly international discipline in this field.

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"....Cornfield and Hodson have managed to assemble a varied and interesting collection of national accounts that prove fascinating in their own right. However, the editors add value by heroically drawing out some of the similarities and differences in institutional contexts and in research themes and approaches, and the extent to which globalizatin is changing work organization...."

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Zambia Then and Now (Kegan Paul Africa Library)

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Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place both colonial rulers and their African successors in the context of history and the circumstances of their time, viewing their achievements and failures critically but not unsympathetically and comparing colonial society with that of the independent African country that Northern Rhodesia has become. Colonialism is viewed at the day to day level of the administration of a rural district by four officers and a handful of African district messengers, who worked together without even a telephone to assist them. With a wealth of detail that can only come from experience, Grant� s work makes an important contribution to the understanding of a time, place, period and practices that are only now being considered in a balanced way.

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I spent a few hours reading this book last night. The first half of the book was pretty cool, obviously well edited over time as the author remembered the details over time. It contained lots of interesting stories about life in Africa.

It's really bizarre to me that the British (in this case the author it Scottish) would go to a university and ask for volunteers for new graduates to go live in Africa. Why would the local African people accept inexperienced young white people (with no training in law) to act as their court system? The author was sort of like a judge when he got to the place - he would try to determine who was telling the truth and then sentence the wrongdoers to prison or lashings or make them pay a fine. This is so weird to me. Not only that, but he had servants. This British colonial mumbo jumbo blows my mind.

The second half of the book is totally different from the first. Over 40 years later, the author (and his new 2nd wife, an amateur painter) returned to Zambia. This part of the book is hastily thrown together - just a copy of journal entries including what they ate for every meal and what the wife was up to, and how much things cost. I think if Mr. Grant had more time he would have filtered these irrelevant details out to make it match the first half of the book.

In my area, this book costs over $100. Just get it from your library instead of buying it.

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