Waste and Want

Waste and Want
Author: Susan Strasser
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1466872284

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life--throwing things out--and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture--the trash it produces--and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change--the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale. Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.

Research Anthology on Approaches to Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Research Anthology on Approaches to Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1391
Release: 2022-12-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1668475944

Social entrepreneurship has grown in popularity in recent decades as a way to use business models and innovation to address social and environmental issues. While these ventures are helpful to many, emerging opportunities and challenges in the field still need to be explored. It is essential to remain knowledgeable on the emerging research within the field of social entrepreneurship so that we may better implement entrepreneurial solutions to social issues. The Research Anthology on Approaches to Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship presents a comprehensive collection of the recent research into the developments, challenges, and opportunities of social and sustainable entrepreneurship in the modern era. Covering topics such as ecotourism, leadership styles, and poverty alleviation, this major reference work is an indispensable resource for business leaders and executives, entrepreneurs, government officials, community leaders, students and educators of higher education, economists, sociologists, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

AKASHVANI

AKASHVANI
Author: All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi
Publisher: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1982-05-02
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 02 MAY, 1982 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 52 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XLVII, No. 18 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 14-50 ARTICLE: 1. Ramana Way to Self Knowledge 2. Appropriate Technology For Rural Development 3. National Integration Through Music 4. Just A Minute Please 5. Civil Servant: Social Commitments 6. Book Review 7. Asiad : A Real Big Reward AUTHOR: 1. A. R. Natarajan 2. C. N. S. Nair 3. Sudha Venkataraman 4. Prof. Somnath Vakhlu 5. Duvvuri Subbarao 6. Vivek Bhattacharya 7. M. S. Bedi KEYWORDS : 1.Special advantage 2.Right choice, alternative sources of energy 3. Emotional effect, religious nature 4. A significant role, advantage of camouflage 5. A self imposed duty, above political alignments 6. Dissension Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.

Quality of Life Improvement: Smart Approaches for the Working and Aging Populations

Quality of Life Improvement: Smart Approaches for the Working and Aging Populations
Author: Sabina Baraković
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2024-03-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 2832546536

Quality of life (QoL) is a broad concept that has many definitions and meanings depending on the context under consideration. It can be perceived as the overall enjoyment of life, and a multidimensional concept which emphasizes the self-perceptions of an individual’s current state of mind, which is affected in a complex way by the person’s physical health, psychological state, personal beliefs, social relationships, and their relationship to salient features of their environment. On the other hand, demographic data suggests an increased need for workers worldwide and a rapid aging trend in the active workforce as well as in general. This trend of workforce deficit and population aging will be even more prominent in the future. Therefore, in order to have and sustain a healthy, motivated, and productive workforce, but also healthy, independent, and active elderly adults, one must improve their QoL, and vice versa. Improving QoL will improve general public health, and in turn create communities who can contribute in diverse and positive ways to both promote and sustain health for future generations.

Service-Learning and Social Justice

Service-Learning and Social Justice
Author: Susan Benigni Cipolle
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010-03-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607095203

Service-Learning and Social Justice provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice. Cipolle describes practical strategies for classroom teachers along with the theoretical framework so readers can deftly move beyond the book to a meaningful program for their schools. Writing in a conversational style, the author explains service-learning's unlimited potential in terms of student empowerment and academic achievement and as tool in developing a student's a lifetime commitment to service and social justice. This book's contribution to new knowledge and practice is three-fold as it promotes (a) understanding of how individuals become committed to social justice, (b) identification of how one's orientation to service-learning and social justice changes as one develops a more critical consciousness, and (c) practical strategies that teachers can use to support and guide students as they become more critically aware. Practitioners will improve their service-learning programs and have a framework for preparing students for their experiences, as well as ideas for reflection activities. Educators will gain a better understanding of the psychology and sociology of developing a commitment to service for social justice.

Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718

Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718
Author: John Wareing
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198788908

The first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, who paid for their transportation and keep, and continued to work unpaid for years on their arrival. Often these people were deceived and coerced, despite half-hearted government efforts to curtail the activities of what was, after all, a useful crime for the English state.

Investigating Family, Food, and Housing Themes in Social Studies

Investigating Family, Food, and Housing Themes in Social Studies
Author: Cynthia Williams Resor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2017-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1475832036

Investigating Family, Food, and Housing Themes in Social Studies asks students to critically examine their own culture by contrasting it with the daily lives of average people in the past. What people ate, where people lived, and the functions of families are examined and contrasted to subjective, cultural ideals prescribing what families, food, and housing ought to have been. The relationship between housing, food, and family and social class, status, and gender are emphasized. Each chapter includes essential questions to focus student inquiry; historical overviews focused on changes in family, food, and housing from the pre-industrial era, through its transformation during the Industrial Revolution and into the twentieth century; learning activities; and primary source documents and images. This unique approach to teaching history and social studies supports thematic instruction, culturally responsive teaching, place-based education, and literacy in the elementary, middle, or secondary classrooms.