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Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory
The classic, firsthand account of two women who assembled B-24 bombers during WWII.In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live with aluminum shavings in their hair, and get along with supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life. And they learned that wearing their factory slacks on the street caused men to treat them in a way for which their "dignified schoolteacher-hood" hadn't prepared them. At times charming, hilarious, and incredibly perceptive, Slacks and Calluses brings into focus an overlooked part of the war effort, one that forever changed the way the women were viewed in America. 30 b/w illustrations..
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The MacGuffin
In The MacGuffin, Elkin narrates with accustomed panache the mysterious events that take place in something under forty hours in the life of Bobby Druff, City Commissioner of Streets, aged fifty-eight, whose ordered world of avenues and roads seems suddenly a rather more complicated maze than he remembers. Events, in fact, conspire against him, and his wife, his son, his new-found lover, even his chauffeur, appear to be in on it. The novel combines a sort of tough-talking, laugh-out-loud humor and that odd, amusing, under-the-breath revenge of the powerless with the twists and killer thrill rides of a plot to rival Hitchcock's..
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Can Penal Keynesianism Replace Military Keynesianism? An Analysis of Society's Newest "Solution" for the Hard to Employ and a Proposal for a More Humane Alternative.: An article from: Social Justice
This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Crime and Social Justice Associates on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 7012 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Can Penal Keynesianism Replace Military Keynesianism? An Analysis of Society's Newest "Solution" for the Hard to Employ and a Proposal for a More Humane Alternative. Author: Marc-Andre Pigeon Publication:Social Justice (Refereed) Date: June 22, 2000 Publisher: Crime and Social Justice Associates Volume: 27 Issue: 2 Page: 148 Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Managing Your City or Town
Managing Your City or Town will help readers understand practical skills and knowledge needed in the daily operation of a municipal government. This text provides a tool for educators with which they could better prepare their students for the problems that will face them as governmental administrators. Contents: Small City Government: An Overview; Your Most Important Jobs; Personnel; Elected Officials; Training; Budget; Privatization; Purchasing; Public Relations; General Government Department; Police Department; Fire Department; Public Safety Department; Communications/Dispatch Section; Drainage; Street Department; Water Department; Sewer Department; Sanitation Department; Public Works Department; Building Department and Code Enforcement; Planning Department; Development Department; Parks and Recreation Department; Maintenance Department; Vehicles, Radios and Organization; General Comments; Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Index..
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Managing Talent Retention: An ROI Approach
Retention is becoming one of the most pressing concerns of employers worldwide. This book provides an overview of talent retention and defines retention and turnover in very specific measures. It explores the full impact of talent departure and most important it offers proven solutions to talent retention. The book clearly shows how to forecast the ROI of talent retention solutions and how to capture the actual ROI after the solution was implemented. This is a practical book providing an ROI approach to HR managers and practitioners..
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Doing IT: Women Working In Information Technology (Women's Issues Publishing Program)
From the boom of the 1990s to the bust of early 2000, women have been applying their skills and knowledge to careers in Information Technology. "Doing I.T." demonstrates that women in the field continue to face barriers preventing them from reaching their full professional potential. Scott-Dixon examines the IT environment's traditional workplace that keeps gender, race, class, ability and pay inequiteis frimly in place. Drawing on personal interviews , she shows that despite barriers, women in IT bring passion, wit, intelligence and creative resourcefulness to the shaping of their career paths..
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Leadership At The Apex: Politicians and Administrators in Western Local Governments
Although the relationship between elected officials and appointed executives has often been viewed as a struggle between master and servant—with disagreements as to which individuals occupy which roles—Poul Erik Mouritzen’s and James Svara’s comparison of city governments in fourteen countries reveals more interdependence and shared influence than conflict over control. Mouritzen and Svara bring local government to the forefront, emphasizing the sophisticated level of city management in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Their findings lead to a revision of the general view concerning the boundaries of public administration. Leadership at the Apex illustrates in practical ways how the democratic control of government and professional administration can coexist without undermining the logic or integrity of each other. .
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