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Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism

Lean in Action

By: Eeva Jokinen,Helena Hirvonen,Laura Mankki,Timo Aho,Iiris Lehto

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Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism

Lean in Action

By: Eeva Jokinen,Helena Hirvonen,Laura Mankki,Timo Aho,Iiris Lehto

This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments of health and social care services. During Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects, skills, and materialities come together in manifold, complex ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and observation, and with empirical and theoretical rigour, the book provides an answer to the question of what happens to care work when processes become ‘Leaned’. As in many other fields, the predominantly female health and social care sectors suffer from devaluation in terms of wages and working conditions. The book explores how Lean management is ultimately lived in this gendered context of work and labour. Moreover, the book situates Lean and related management doctrines in the current mutation of capitalism – that is, biocapitalism – in which bios, life itself, becomes the core of value production. The book adds to the corpus of work, organisation, and management studies on Lean that have rarely focused on gender, affect, or sociomateriality. It provides scholars in Social Science, Management, and Gender Studies with a fresh outlook and a cross-disciplinary take on Lean management.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000983889

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Government and Codeswitching

Explaining American Finnish

By: Helena Halmari

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Government and Codeswitching

Explaining American Finnish

By: Helena Halmari

Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in their spontaneous conversations is sought for in the Universal Grammar -based principle of government as realized in case-assignment and agreement relations. A bulk of the Finnish-English intrasentential data get their explanation on the structural, hierarchical level, but this level of syntax is found to be interestingly intertwined with sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and discourse levels, which all contribute to variation in codeswitching patterns. The proposed principle of government is seen as one important explanation in typologically certain kinds of language pairs such as Finnish and English; however, this principle is not treated as a monolithic constraint, but rather as the leading tendency which is occasionally overridden by other than syntactic forces. The volume is intended as a complement — not as a contradiction — to earlier explanations of codeswitching phenomena. Its main message is: while all linguistic levels contribute to the construction of bilingual speech, the importance of syntax can not be ignored.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027282757

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9789027282750

Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

By: Egil Bakka,Theresa Jill Buckland,Helena Saarikoski ,Anne von Bibra Wharton

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Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

By: Egil Bakka,Theresa Jill Buckland,Helena Saarikoski ,Anne von Bibra Wharton

From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of often newly discovered primary sources, the essays afford many opportunities to compare sociocultural and political reactions to the arrival and practice of popular rotating couple dances, such as the Waltz and the Polka. Leading contributors provide a transnational and affective lens onto strikingly diverse topics, ranging from the evolution of romantic couple dances in Croatia, and Strauss’s visits to Hamburg and Altona in the 1830s, to dance as a tool of cultural preservation and expression in twentieth-century Finland. Waltzing Through Europe creates openings for fresh collaborations in dance historiography and cultural history across fields and genres. It is essential reading for researchers of dance in central and northern Europe, while also appealing to the general reader who wants to learn more about the vibrant histories of these familiar dance forms.

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Open Book Publishers

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1783747358

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9781783747351

Lifelong Religion as Habitus

Religious Practice among Displaced Karelian Orthodox Women in Finland

By: Helena Kupari

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Lifelong Religion as Habitus

Religious Practice among Displaced Karelian Orthodox Women in Finland

By: Helena Kupari

In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of Finnish, evacuee Karelian Orthodox women through an innovative reading and application of Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory. After the Second World War, Finland ceded most of its Karelian territories to the Soviet Union. Over 400,000 Finns, including two thirds of the Finnish Orthodox Christians, lost their homes. This book traces the ways in which the religion of Orthodox women was affected by their displacement and their experiences as members of the Orthodox minority in post-war and contemporary Finland. It contributes to theoretical discussions on lived religion by producing an account of lifelong minority religion as habitus, or an embodied and practical “sense of religion”.

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206

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BRILL

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900432674X

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9789004326743

Finnish

By: Helena Sulkala,Merja Karjalainen

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Finnish

By: Helena Sulkala,Merja Karjalainen

Explores many interesting details of Finnish syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon, providing the linguist, for the first time in English, the opportunity for cross-language comparisons and detailed linguistic analysis.

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Psychology Press

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0415026431

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9780415026437

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism

Lean in Action

By: Eeva Jokinen,Helena Hirvonen,Laura Mankki,Timo Aho,Iiris Lehto

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Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism

Lean in Action

By: Eeva Jokinen,Helena Hirvonen,Laura Mankki,Timo Aho,Iiris Lehto

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Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism

Government and Codeswitching

Government and Codeswitching

Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

Lifelong Religion as Habitus

Lifelong Religion as Habitus

Finnish

Finnish

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism

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