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Law clerks --- United States. --- History
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"In the 1930s, the rural South was in the throes of the Great Depression. Farm life was monotonous and hard, but a timid yet curious teenager thought it worth recording. Aileen Kilgore Henderson kept a chronicle of her family's daily struggles in Tuscaloosa County alongside events in the wider world she gleaned from shortwave radio and the occasional newspaper. She wrote about Howard Hughes's round-the-world flight, her dreams of sitting on the patio of Shepheard's Hotel to watch Lawrence of Arabia ride in from the desert, and her horror at the rise to power in Germany of a bizarre politician named Adolf Hitler. Henderson longed to join the vast world beyond the farm, but feared leaving the refuge of her family and beloved animals. Yet, with her father's encouragement, she did leave, becoming a clerk in the Kress dime store in downtown Tuscaloosa. Despite long workdays and a lengthy bus commute, she continued to record her observations and experiences in her diary, for every day at the dime store was interesting and exciting for an observant young woman who found herself considering new ideas and different points of view. Drawing on her diary entries from the 1930s and early 1940s, Henderson recollects a time of sweeping change for Tuscaloosa and the South. The World through the Dime Store Door is a personal and engaging account of a Southern town and its environs in transition told through the eyes of a poor young woman with only a high school education but gifted with a lively mind and an openness to life."--
Clerks (Retail trade) --- Young women --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, --- Childhood and youth. --- Tuscaloosa (Ala.) --- United States --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- Women --- Young adults --- Girls --- Clerks (Salesmen) --- Retail clerks --- Sales clerks --- Stores, Retail --- Clerks --- Retail trade --- Sales personnel --- Employees --- Henderson, Aileen, --- Kilgore, Aileen, --- University (Ala.) --- Tuskaloosa (Ala.)
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Clerks --- Fiction. --- J5933 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose by individual authors (1868- )
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Law clerks have been a permanent fixture in the halls of the United States Supreme Court from its founding, but the relationship between clerks and their justices has generally been cloaked in secrecy. While the role of the justice is both public and formal, particularly in terms of the decisions a justice makes and the power that he or she can wield in the American political system, the clerk has historically operated behind closed doors. Do clerks make actual decisions that they impart to justices, or are they only research assistants that carry out the instructions of the decision makers-th
Judicial process --- Law clerks --- Clerks, Law --- Clerkship (Law) --- Judges' clerks --- Courts --- Lawyers --- History. --- Officials and employees --- United States. --- Supreme Court (U.S.) --- Chief Justice of the United States --- Supreme Court of the United States --- 美國. --- beginnings. --- behind-the-scenes. --- clerk. --- evolved. --- life. --- look. --- nineteenth-century. --- rare. --- since.
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"I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old." So begins sociologist Christine Williams's description of her stint as a low-wage worker at two national toy store chains: one upscale shop and one big box outlet. In this provocative, perceptive, and lively book, studded with rich observations from the shop floor, Williams chronicles her experiences as a cashier, salesperson, and stocker and provides broad-ranging, often startling, insights into the social impact of shopping for toys. Taking a new look at what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall culture. Despite their differences, Williams finds that both toy stores perpetuate social inequality in a variety of ways. She observes that workers are often assigned to different tasks and functions on the basis of gender and race; that racial dynamics between black staff and white customers can play out in complex and intense ways; that unions can't protect workers from harassment from supervisors or demeaning customers even in the upscale toy store. And she discovers how lessons that adults teach to children about shopping can legitimize economic and social hierarchies. In the end, however, Inside Toyland is not an anti-consumer diatribe. Williams discusses specific changes in labor law and in the organization of the retail industry that can better promote social justice.
Clerks (Retail trade) --- Consumers --- Discrimination in employment --- Equality --- Toy industry --- Employees. --- Jouets --- Commis vendeurs (Commerce de détail) --- Discrimination dans l'emploi --- Consommateurs --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Industrie --- Personnel --- Clerks (Salesmen) --- Retail clerks --- Sales clerks --- Stores, Retail --- Clerks --- Retail trade --- Sales personnel --- Leisure industry --- Employees --- E-books --- american economics. --- behavioral studies. --- box outlet stores. --- class issues. --- consumer behavior. --- consumer culture. --- gender issues. --- labor laws. --- low wage jobs. --- national chain stores. --- nonfiction. --- race issues. --- racial dynamics. --- retail industry. --- retail work. --- shopping mall culture. --- shopping politics. --- social hierarchies. --- social impacts. --- social inequality. --- social justice. --- social sciences. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- toy shopping. --- toy stores. --- union members. --- upscale shops.
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"To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment"-- "In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolutionand jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous.
To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Workerexamines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women's movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married and unmarried. Office workers also developed a critique of gender inequality and sexual exploitation both within and outside the workplace. From Angel to Office Workeris a major contribution to modern Mexican history as historians begin to ask new questions about the relationships between labor, politics, and the cultural and public spheres."--
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico. --- Middle class women --- Women clerks --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Clerks --- History --- Employment --- E-books --- History of Mexico --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949
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Clerks --- Professional employees --- Social classes --- Employés de bureau --- Professionnels salariés --- Classes sociales --- History --- Histoire --- Employés de bureau --- Professionnels salariés --- White collar workers --- Germany --- Sociology --- EMPLOYES --- ALLEMAGNE --- HISTOIRE --- CONDITIONS SOCIALES --- 19E-20E SIECLES
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Clerks --- -White collar workers --- -Employees --- Clerical employees --- Clerical personnel --- Commercial employees --- Employees, Clerical --- Office employees --- Office workers --- White collar workers --- Labor unions --- -History --- Theses --- History. --- -Labor unions --- -Clerical employees --- Employees --- Labor unions&delete& --- History
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"This book is the outcome of intensive study of selected banks in Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the United States. As part of a larger project on industrial relations and human resource management practices, researchers in each country explored the changing industry context and competitive strategies in relation to a number of employment relations practices, such as skill formation and development, work organization, staffing arrangements, job security, compensation, and industrial relations. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the main research findings. The country chapters present detailed analyses of the findings, and the conclusion assesses the role of markets technology, and institutions in employment relations and discusses the interpretive frameworks that help make sense of their change and variation across countries."--Jacket.
Bank management. --- Banks and banking --- Bank employees. --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Finance --- Financial institutions --- Money --- Bank clerks --- Service industries workers --- Management --- Personnel management. --- Labor productivity. --- Employees
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Clerical occupations. --- Managing your boss. --- Clerical occupations --- Managing your boss --- Marketing & Sales --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Boss management --- Managing up --- Managing your supervisor --- Industrial sociology --- Psychology, Industrial --- Supervisors --- Clerks --- Occupations --- Vocational guidance
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