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Same Struggle, Different Difference: ADA Accomodations as Antidiscrimination
(2004-12-01)[Excerpt] The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was heralded as an "emancipation proclamation" for people with disabilities, one that would achieve their equality primarily through its reasonable accommodation requirements. ... -
Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] So how do we make sense of high-tech production as it emerges in developing countries like the Philippines? What explains the changes and wide variation in how work is organized? What can these changes tell us ... -
Schools Of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement
(2006-05-01)In this new political history of the labor movement, Clayton Sinyai examines the relationship between labor activism and the American democratic tradition. Sinyai shows how America’s working people and union leaders debated ... -
Scope of Practice for Rehabilitation Counseling
(2007-07-11)[Excerpt] The Scope of Practice Statement identifies knowledge and skills required for the provision of effective rehabilitation counseling services to persons with physical, mental, developmental, cognitive, and emotional ... -
Selling Hope and College: Merits, Markets, and Recruitment in an Unranked School
(2017-04-25)[Excerpt] It has long been assumed that college admission should be a simple matter of sorting students according to merit, with the best heading off to the Ivy League and highly ranked liberal arts colleges and the rest ... -
Selling Technology: The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information Economy
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] This book describes and explains the changing nature of sales through the daily experiences of salespeople, engineers, managers, and purchasing agents who construct markets for emergent technologies through their ... -
Seychelles Country Profile
(2004-03-01)[From Introduction] The country study for Seychelles is part of the ILO project 'Employment of People with Disabilities – the Impact of Legislation', funded by the Government of Ireland, which aims to enhance the capacity ... -
She Was One Of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
(2010-01-01){Excerpt} For Eleanor Roosevelt, helping people achieve better lives by taking individual responsibility and then acting collectively to remedy problems was a cornerstone of democracy, in good and bad economic times, during ... -
Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power
(2017-06-15)[Excerpt] Consuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions ... -
Sickness and Disability Schemes in the Netherlands
(2007-11-01)[Excerpt] Like other Western European countries, the Netherlands has adapted and reformed its social security system since the 1980s. As international competition intensifies, a significant share of industrial production ... -
Situación Actual del Empleo con Apoyo en España
(1998-01-01)The article presents a study on the quantitative status of Supported Employment in Spain. It has been developed by the Institute for Community Integration (INICO) of the University of Salamanca in collaboration with Spanish ... -
Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History
(2005-01-01)Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper; through treacherous fights over ... -
Skills development through Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR): A good practice guide
(2007-01-01)Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) is a multi-sectoral approach tomeeting the health, education, vocational skills and livelihood needsof children, youth and adults with disabilities, primarily in developingcountries. ... -
Social Connectedness and Health: A Literature Review
(2006-07-21)This literature review forms part of the first stage of the Social Connectedness Project. Its aim is: - To undertake a review of the literature focusing on the link between social isolation and well-being in potential ... -
Social Protection in MENA
(2005-09-01)An overview of economic and social risks and reforms in the social protection system in the MENA region. -
Social Relationships, Loneliness & Wellbeing in Autism: Brief Overview of Research Findings
(2017-11-01)Rates of comorbid symptomology in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are significantly higher than in people with many other neurodevelopmental or psychiatric diagnoses. Depression (lifetime rate may be over ... -
Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
(2014-01-01)Having made the case for an ethnographic study of how workers hear and use music, I now turn to connect the topic to bigger questions within industrial sociology, musicology, and cultural studies—questions regarding the ... -
South Africa: Employment Equity Bill n° 60
(1998-05-01)
