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A Worker's Economist

John R. Commons and His Legacy from Progressivism to the War on Poverty

By: John Dennis Chasse

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A Worker's Economist

John R. Commons and His Legacy from Progressivism to the War on Poverty

By: John Dennis Chasse

John R. Commons is one of the few reformers of the past century whose major works are still actively read, whose ideas are still debated, and whose principles are still applied to the analysis of contemporary problems. His life spanned the years of America’s “Great Transformation,” from a nation of shopkeepers, farmers, and small towns to one of giant corporations, landless laborers, and crowded cities. He became involved in almost every aspect of America’s response to the damaging side effects of that transformation. A Worker’s Economist begins with John Commons’ childhood and education and continues through his life as a scholar, teacher, administrator, and reformer. Commons’ list of accomplishments are great in number and overall effect. He worked on the staff of the first government commission to investigate the economic and social consequences of corporate mergers. He served as a public representative on the commission that investigated industrial violence and workplace relations. He was a participant observer in America’s largest and most historic mineworkers’ strike. He wrote and administered the nation’s first constitutional worker compensation law. He developed principles of social reform and public administration that his students carried into the design and administration of the Social Security system as well as Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. John Dennis Chasse reviews Commons’ major works, describes the people with whom he worked, and follows the fortunes of the unions that were intrinsic to his vision of “collective democracy.” As a final testament to Commons’ importance, Chasse considers his legacy as it endures in the work of his students and beyond.

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Routledge

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1351606271

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Accident Prone

A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age

By: John Burnham

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Accident Prone

A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age

By: John Burnham

Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines—death by automobiles or dismemberment by factory machinery, for example—developed the idea of accident proneness: the tendency of a particular person to have more accidents than most people. In tracing this concept from its birth to its disappearance at the end of the twentieth century, Accident Prone offers a unique history of technology focused not on innovations but on their unintended consequences. Here, John C. Burnham shows that as the machine era progressed, the physical and economic impact of accidents coevolved with the rise of the insurance industry and trends in twentieth-century psychology. After World War I, psychologists determined that some people are more accident prone than others. This designation signaled a shift in social strategy toward minimizing accidents by diverting particular people away from dangerous environments. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, the idea of accident proneness gradually declined, and engineers developed new technologies to protect all people, thereby introducing a hidden, but radical, egalitarianism. Lying at the intersection of the history of technology, the history of medicine and psychology, and environmental history, Accident Prone is an ambitious intellectual analysis of the birth, growth, and decline of an idea that will interest anyone who wishes to understand how Western societies have grappled with the human costs of modern life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226081192

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9780226081199

Institutional Economics. Vol. I

Its Place in Political Economy

By: John Rogers Commons

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Institutional Economics. Vol. I

Its Place in Political Economy

By: John Rogers Commons

Commons opened Institutional Economics by declaring: "My point of view is based on my participation in collective activities, from which I here derive a theory of the part played by collective action in control of individual action." This sentence well summarizes the three key elements of this book--its theoretical intent, the importance Commons gave to his own experience in institutional reform in shaping these ideas, and the focus on the concept of the institution as a collective constraint on individual action.

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688

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Transaction Publishers

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1412826322

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9781412826327

Venice Reconsidered

The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

By: John Jeffries Martin,Dennis Romano

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Venice Reconsidered

The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

By: John Jeffries Martin,Dennis Romano

This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is “likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography” (The Historical Journal). Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice’s politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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0801876443

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9780801876448

The Early Horn

A Practical Guide

By: John Humphries

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The Early Horn

A Practical Guide

By: John Humphries

A guide to eighteenth and nineteenth century performance practice on the horn.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521635594

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9780521635592

Habitations et Milieu de Vie

L'évolution du logement au Canada, 1945 à 1986

By: John Miron

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Habitations et Milieu de Vie

L'évolution du logement au Canada, 1945 à 1986

By: John Miron

Les collaborateurs identifient certains critères importants pour l'évaluation de la situation actuelle et future dans le domaine du logement, précisent les questions et priorités de la recherche en matière de logement et signalent certaines questions de politique qui se dessinent. Les articles sont répartis en six sections: facteurs économiques, démographiques et institutionnels sous-jacents à la demande de logements au cours de la période de l'après-guerre; principaux aspects de l'offre de logements, et notamment financement, technologie et réglementation; croissance du parc immobilier et modifications de la qualité des logements; équilibre entre l'offre et la demande compte tenu de ce qui est suffisant, convenable et abordable; évolution de l'environnement des lieux habités; leçons, défis et questions pour l'avenir. L'ouvrage contient également certains résumés utiles des mesures prises entre 1945 et 1986 en matière de politiques de logement. Document de référence essentiel sur le logement urbain et le développement des villes au cours de la période d'après-guerre au Canada, Habitations et milieu de vie sera apprécié des universitaires, des planificateurs, des professionnels et des étudiants qui s'intéressent aux questions de logement.

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512

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773583513

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9780773583511

Crocodiles

An Action Plan for Their Conservation

By: John B. Thorbjarnarson,Harry Messel,F. Wayne King,James Perran Ross

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Crocodiles

An Action Plan for Their Conservation

By: John B. Thorbjarnarson,Harry Messel,F. Wayne King,James Perran Ross

This Action Plan describes the conservation status of 23 species of the order Crocodylia found worldwide. The plan is arranged in three principal sections: an Introductory overview, Country accounts, and Species accounts. Each Country account describes the status of wild populations, and current management programmes. The Species accounts summarise the conservation status, principle threats, and existing management programmes and then describe the ecology and natural history of the species and set out recommended priority conservation projects.

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148

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IUCN

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2831700604

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9782831700601

Body and Mind

Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance

By: John McClelland

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Body and Mind

Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance

By: John McClelland

Describes and analyzes the varieties of sport, games and physical education practiced in Western Europe between 450-1650 AD in their historical and cultural context.

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206

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Routledge

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1135773246

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9781135773243

Mastering the Management Buckets

20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-Profit

By: John Pearson

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Mastering the Management Buckets

20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-Profit

By: John Pearson

In the most practical, humorous and fast-moving chapters you’ve ever read on business and non-profit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission. “When you don’t know what you don’t know,” says John Pearson (with 30 years of CEO experience), “the Law of Unintended Consequences will derail you every time.” Based on Pearson’s 48-hour Management Buckets Workshop Experience, Mastering the Management Buckets offers detailed implementation tools, including 99 practical takeaways that a leader could implement immediately, plus nine management breakthrough strategies. Learn how The People Bucket, The Donor Bucket, The Hoopla Bucket, The Customer Bucket and others can make or break your organization. For managers and leaders to use on their own, in weekly staff meetings, mentoring young leaders and managers and a host of other ways.

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Gospel Light Publications

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0830745947

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9780830745944

Screen World 1993

Comprehensive Pictoral and Statistical Record of the 1992 Movie Season

By: John Willis

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Screen World 1993

Comprehensive Pictoral and Statistical Record of the 1992 Movie Season

By: John Willis

(Screen World). John Willis' Screen World has become the definitive reference for any film library. Each volume includes every significant U.S. and international film released during that year as well as complete filmographies, capsule plot summaries, cast and characters, credits, production company, month released, rating, and running time. You'll also find biographical entries a prices reference for over 2,000 living stars, including real name, school, place and date of birth. A comprehensive index makes this the finest film publication that any film lover could own.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557831750

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The Art of Medieval Hunting

The Hound and the Hawk

By: John G. Cummins

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The Art of Medieval Hunting

The Hound and the Hawk

By: John G. Cummins

The gentlemen of medieval and Renaissance Europe had three all-consuming passions: warfare, courtly love, and hunting with a hawk or hound -- and the philosophy behind the last of the trio really encompasses them all. Hunting, the sport of kings, served as training for battle, a rite of manhood, and a powerful ritualistic pastime. In vivid and engrossing detail, here are all the appropriate methods for hunting deer, boar, wolves, foxes, bears, otters, birds, hares . . . even unicorns! A dazzling diversity of sources (poems, ballads, letters, court directives, royal accounts, gamekeepers' handbooks, psalters) illustrate how hunting and hawking appear throughout medieval art and literature as metaphors and motifs for everything from romance to combat.

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Booksales

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0785815929

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9780785815921

Screen World, 1988

By: John Willis

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Screen World, 1988

By: John Willis

This authoritative guide to the 1987 movie season offers complete listings of the credits for every film along with speical biographical notes on selected individuals. More than 1,000 black-and-white photographs.

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Crown

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0517569639

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9780517569634

Book's by John Dennis Chasse

A Worker's Economist

A Worker's Economist

Accident Prone

Accident Prone

Institutional Economics. Vol. I

Institutional Economics. Vol. I

Venice Reconsidered

Venice Reconsidered

The Early Horn

The Early Horn

Habitations et Milieu de Vie

Habitations et Milieu de Vie

Crocodiles

Crocodiles

Body and Mind

Body and Mind

Mastering the Management Buckets

Mastering the Management Buckets

Screen World 1993

Screen World 1993

The Art of Medieval Hunting

The Art of Medieval Hunting

Screen World, 1988

Screen World, 1988

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