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The resilient gardener : food production and self-reliance in uncertain times / by Deppe, Carol.(CARDINAL)372456;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.Gardening and resilience -- The plant-gardener covenant: 33 golden gardening rules -- Gardening in an era of wild weather and climate change -- Diet and food resilience -- Labor and exercise -- Water and watering -- Soil and fertility -- Potatoes -- The laying flock -- Squash and pumpkins -- Beans -- Corn.Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields--resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. Here, Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking greater self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs. This is both a conceptual and a hands-on gardening book, suitable for gardeners at all levels of experience. "Resilience" here is broadly conceived, and encompasses a full range of problems, from personal hard times to regional and global disasters. In the end, though, this is an optimistic as well as a realistic book.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Natural foods.; Organic gardening.; Self-reliant living.; Vegetable gardening.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 16
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Re-enchanting the world : feminism and the politics of the commons / by Federici, Silvia.; Linebaugh, Peter,author of introduction, etc.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-216) and index.On primitive accumulation, globalization, and reproduction -- Introduction to the new enclosures -- The debt crisis, Africa, and the new enclosures -- China: breaking the iron rice bowl -- From commoning to debt: financialization, microcredit, and the changing architecture of capital accumulation -- Beneath the United States, the Commons -- Commons against and beyond Capitalism -- The University: a knowledge common? -- Feminism and the politics of the commons in an era of primitive accumulation -- Women's struggles for land in Africa and the reconstruction of the commons -- Women's struggles for land and the common good in Latin America -- Marxism, feminism, and the commons -- From crisis to commons: reproductive work, affective labor and technology, and the transformation of everyday life -- Re-enchanting the world: technology, the body, and the construction of the commons."Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the "new enclosures" at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both our economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions capital has planted in the body of the world proletariat. Federici is clear that the commons should not be understood as happy islands in a sea of exploitative relations but rather autonomous spaces from which to challenge the existing capitalist organization of life and labor"--
Subjects: Capitalism.; Commons.; Feminism.; Féminisme.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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They didn't see us coming The hidden history of feminism in the nineties / by Levenstein, Lisa,author.; Levenstein, Lisa,author.;
Includes bibliography (pages 201-230)Introduction -- Chapter 1, A Movement Without a Center -- Chapter 2,"We Had Far Less to Teach Than to Learn" -- Chapter 3, The Worldwide Debut of Online Activism -- Chapter 4, How Feminism Went Viral -- Chapter 5, Making a Living From Social Change -- Chapter 6, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights" -- Chapter 7, Tackling Women's Poverty From Global Perspectives -- Chapter 8, Environmental Justice and Labor Activism -- Chapter 9, Heart Communities: SisterSong, SONG, and INCITE! -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index --From the declaration of the "Year of the Woman" to the televising of Anita Hill's testimony, from Bitch magazine to SisterSong's demands for reproductive justice: the 90s saw the birth of some of the most lasting aspects of contemporary feminism. Historian Lisa Levenstein tracks this time of intense and international coalition building, one that centered on the growing influence of lesbians, women of color, and activists from the global South. Their work laid the foundation for the feminist energy seen in today's movements, including the 2017 Women's March and #MeToo campaigns.A revisionist history of the origins of contemporary feminism, They Didn't See Us Coming shows how women on the margins built a movement at the dawn of the Digital Age.
Subjects: Nonfiction .; Feminism; Feminism; Feminism.; Women's movement.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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National pastime : U.S. history through baseball / by Babicz, Martin C.,author.(CARDINAL)788445; Zeiler, Thomas W.,author.(CARDINAL)370065;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Baseball in Tocqueville's America (to 1870) -- The industrialization of leisure (1871 to 1883) -- Color and global barriers (1865 to 1918) -- The American labor movement & the players' league (1884 to 1891) -- Progressivism and the American League (1892 to 1903) -- Normalcy and the Black Sox scandal (1904 to 1922) -- Babe Ruth and the roaring twenties (1920 to 1929) -- Segregation and the Negro leagues (1896 to 1949) -- Baseball and the Great Depression (1929 to 1940) -- Baseball goes to war (1941 to 1945) -- Jackie Robinson and civil rights (1946 to 1987) -- The postwar American century (1945 to 1964) -- Change and revolution (1960 to 1975) -- Baseball in post-industrial America (since 1975) -- A global game (since 1865) -- Epilogue: traditions.Through war, depression, times of tumultuous upheaval and of great prosperity - baseball has reflected America's history and ideals. In this book, historians Martin Babicz and Thomas Zeiler find in baseball a window into America's past and into the values that allow both the sport and nation to endure: hope, tradition, escape, and revolution. I-PageCU Boulder Author.
Subjects: Baseball; Baseball;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hip hop dance : meanings and messages / by Walter, Carla Stalling,1961-(CARDINAL)484541;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.Theorizing hip hop dance -- African diaspora -- Feminist re-view of hip hop dance -- Theorizing hip hop dance consumption -- Furthering globalization and capital formation -- Hip hop dance codification and commoditization -- Epilogue."This book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as a function of identity construction, the book draws on popular cultural images from films, commercials, and dance studios. A bibliography, discography, and filmography are included"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Hip-hop dance.; Hip-hop dance;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South / by Delfino, Susanna,1949-(CARDINAL)308312; Gillespie, Michele.(CARDINAL)279321;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie -- Southern industrialization: myths and realities / Stanley L. Engerman -- Charleston and the British industrial revolution, 1750-1790 / Emma Hart -- Alternatives to dependence: the lower South's antebellum pursuit of sectional development through global interdependence / Brian Schoen -- Industrialization and economic development in the nineteenth-century U.S. South: some interregional and intercontinental comparative perspectives / Shearer Davis Bowman -- The idea of Southern economic backwardness: a comparative view of the United States and Italy / Susanna Delfino -- Markets and manufacturing: industry and agriculture in the antebellum South and Midwest / John Majewski and Viken Tchakerian -- Southern textiles in global context / David L. Carlton and Peter Coclanis -- Beginnings of the global economy: capital mobility and the 1890s U.S. textile industry / Beth English -- Black workers, white immigrants, and the postemancipation problem of labor: the new South in transnational perspective / Erin Elizabeth Clune."Essays analyzing the economic evolution of the American South from the late colonial period to World War I and beyond. Examines the South in respect to long-held assumptions about industrialization and productivity and draws comparisons to the larger Atlantic and world economy"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Industrialization; Industrialization.; Comparative economics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Empire of cotton [sound recording] : a global history / by Beckert, Sven.(CARDINAL)360459; Frangione, James.(CARDINAL)350287;
Read by Jim Frangione. The story of how European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, combining them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas.
Subjects: Slavery; Enslaved persons; Textile workers.; Capitalism; Cotton trade; Cotton plantation workers; Labor; Cotton textile industry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The end of poverty? [videorecording] by Diaz, Philippe.; Portello, Beth.; Sheen, Martin.(CARDINAL)161755; Cinema Libre Studio.; Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.;
Directory of photography, Philippe Diaz ; editor, Tom Von Doom.Narrated by Martin Sheen.Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of social movements. Includes interviews, photo galleries, and more.Not rated.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Poor; Poverty.; Poverty; Poverty;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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"We are all fast-food workers now" : the global uprising against poverty wages / by Orleck, Annelise,author.(CARDINAL)386238;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan, from Baja California to Bangladesh, from Capetown to Cambodia. This is an up close and personal look at globalization and its costs, as seen through the eyes and told whenever possible through the words of low-wage workers themselves: the berry pickers and small farmers, fast food servers, retail cashiers, garment workers, hotel housekeepers, home health care aides, airport workers and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety and a living wage. The result of 140 interviews by award-winning historian Annelise Orleck, and with original photographs by Liz Cooke, this is a powerful look at neo-liberalism and its damages, a story of resistance and rebellion, a reflection on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up"--
Subjects: Interviews.; Working poor; Living wage movement.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Strong supply chains through resilient operations : 5 principles for leaders to win in a volatile world / by Gandhi, Suketu,author.(CARDINAL)888635; Strohmer, Michael F.,author.(CARDINAL)888636; Lakner, Marc,author.(CARDINAL)888637; Hickerson, Tiffany,author.(CARDINAL)888638; He, Sherri,author.(CARDINAL)888639;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Business leaders around the world are undertaking the biggest remaking of operations since World War II. Post-pandemic, every organization is grappling with the consequences of global supply chains that for years were optimized only around lowest cost supplies and labor. That changed with the pandemic, the global labor shortage, war in Ukraine, and other crises. To meet those disruptions--companies must transform their operations. But how? Today's buzz around resilience and reshoring shows that firms are ready to fundamentally change their global value chain configuration and to move away from "lean" tenets that optimize for "cost -- cash -- service" to be more resilient. To succeed now, firms now they must become more flexible, more innovative, more relationship-driven, and more sustainable"--Preface: Building strong supply chains to profit despite disruptions -- Part I: Five principles to transform your operations strategy. Strong operations drive growth and profits by adjusting to an ever-changing world ; Principle 1: Build resilience against supply shocks by empowering your supply base ; Principle 2: Build resilience against demand shocks by using your operations to create customer value ; Principle 3: Create resilient teams by leaning into new ways of working and the benefits of diversity ; Principle 4: Enable resilience through technology by combining human judgment with artificial intelligence ; Principle 5: Ensure long-term resilience by embracing sustainability ; Fit the principles to your situation and strategy -- Part II: From strategy to action: implementing the five principles. Build resilience against supply shocks by working with supplier ecosystems ; Build resilience against demand shocks by operating for the customer ; Create resilient teams by combining expertise into economies of skill ; Combine human and artificial intelligence to build resilience through constant learning ; Ensure long-term resilience by embracing sustainability ; Part III: Outlook -- Using resilience principles to adapt to future scenarios. Potential scenarios of the future economy ; Industry case studies on how the principles can help in future scenarios ; Common themes in all of these transformations ; Some questions to ask yourself about the future of your operations.
Subjects: Business logistics.; Organizational resilience.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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