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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.

"Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places. This completely revised 5th edition organizes community resources into 8 interrelated forms of capital, creating an innovative framework for maximizing social, economic, and environmental benefits."--

Ecological Democracy offers an original, thought-provoking, and engaging treatment of why and how democracy should be re-imagined in reaction to today's ecological crisis. The book explains that one need to re-imagine both the view on nature and democratic ideals within the same framework in the Anthropocene, the present geological epoch of human-made instability in the Earth system and its planetary boundaries. This book proposes unique and challenging readings of green political theory and its development of ecological democracy in the last four decades. The book is the first to offer a systematic and detailed interpretation of the role of critical theory vis-à-vis green political theory through an update regarding current non-anthropocentric critical theorists and how they may contribute to the further development of ecological democracy. Ecological Democracy builds further on deep ecology, ecophenomenology, and animism by articulating an ecocentric view on nature which defends an intrinsic moral value of all existence as well as formulating the democratic principle of all ecologically affected parties.

This book provides a sophisticated, convincing, and accessible argument for how to re-imagine ecological democracy as ecocentrism in practice: ecological love. To love ecologically means caring for and encountering all existence on the Earth and in the cosmos. This book is multi-disciplinary and will be of great value to researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students from many disciplines.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived

Introduction -- Raising Kids in An Always Connected World -- Your Kid's Digital World: What Are They Doing On There? -- Assessing Your Own Digital Literacy -- Becoming a Tech-Positive Parent -- Empathy Is the App -- Balancing Family Life in the Age of Constant Connection -- Friendship and Dating in the Digital Age -- School Life in the Digital Age -- Growing Up in Public -- Conclusion -- Digital Citizenship for the Next Generation.

First published in 1953, The Refugee in the Post-War World presents a comprehensive survey on the global refugee situation after the Second World War. Chapter I and II of Part I attempt a definition of what is meant by a refugee and states the problems to which the refugees give rise for the receiving countries and the international community; chapter III contains a brief account of the work of the international bodies concerned with refugees from the First World War onwards; and chapter IV tells the story of the various ethnic and national groups of refugees after the Second World War. The other parts give an analysis of the refugees' situation in the different countries. The latter are classified in two ways: according to their place on the map and to their capacity to absorb refugees. Each chapter describing the refugee position in a particular country is divided further into three sections: an introduction intended to afford a bird's eye view of the general refugee problem in that country; a second section setting forth the main legislative provisions applicable to aliens and, more specially to refugees; and the third which gives an account of the refugees' economic and social conditions. This is an important historical reference work for scholars and researchers of refugee studies, international relations, political studies, and immigration studies.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I Romanian Diplomacy and the Union of 1918 -- Chapter II Romania and the Organization of European Peace (1918-1938) -- Chapter III Romania on the Eve and at the Outbreak of World War II -- Chapter IV Romanian-Soviet Relations (1918-1939) -- Chapter V The Evacuation of Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina (June 1940) -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Footnotes.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1. Our Moral World -- 2. Design Problems -- 3. Conceptual Space for Creative Solutions -- 4. Ethics in Engineering -- 5. Rules of Skill -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2: Analyzing Accidents -- 1. What Can Go Wrong -- Chapter 3: Error-Provocative Designs -- 1. Artifacts Can Cause Accidents -- 2. Stove Tops: How to Confuse a Cook -- 3. The Ethics of Confusing a Cook -- 4. Simplifying the Problem -- 5. What Is Natural -- 6. Examples of Error-Provocative Designs -- 7. Ethics and Design -- 8. Summary -- Chapter 4: Airliner Crashes -- 1. The Colombia Crash -- 2. Operator Error? -- 3. Predictable Problems -- 4. Guarding Against Error -- 5. Boeing's Failures -- 6. Instability in the MAX -- 7. Engineering Stability -- 8. The Pilots -- Chapter 5: Moral Responsibility: Intent Is Not Necessary -- 1. Intent Is Not Always Necessary -- 2. Moral Responsibility Because of Intent -- 3. Moral Responsibility Without Intent -- 4. Those Software Engineers -- Chapter 6: Permitting, Encouraging, and Provoking Errors -- 1. The Argument So Far -- 2. An Evil Genius of an Engineer -- 3. So What Difference Does It Make? -- 4. What Counts as a Design Problem? -- Chapter 7: Harms and Design Solutions -- 1. Unprovoked Harms -- 2. Missed Signals and Other Harms -- 3. The Artifact: Sustainability, Recycling, and Remanufacturing -- 4. Other Harms -- 5. What Counts as a Design Solution? -- 6. Value-Laden Choices -- Chapter 8: Role Morality -- 1. The Roles We Have -- 2. On Becoming a Professional -- 3. Knowledge That -- 4. Knowledge How -- 5. Potential Moral Relations -- Chapter 9: Forms of Life -- 1. Thinking like an Engineer.

Originally published in 1974 and with a new introduction for the 1981 edition, this book is a clear and vivid history of the role of organized labour in the politics of Nigeria. It covers the period from the first General Strike of 1945 to the civil war and reintegration of the country.

1. Humour as a Resource: Psychological, Cultural and Social Perspectives -- Part I Intersections of Humour and Technology in Human Interaction -- 2. Investigating the Internal Cohesion of Meme Cycles: How Many (Sub)cycles Can Be Generated by a Memetic Drift? -- 3. Should Technology Be More Fun(ny)? Leveraging Humor to Improve User Acceptance and Enjoyment of Social Robots and Virtual Agents -- Part II Humour as a Social and Cultural Construct: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Implications -- 4. Humour in People with Handicaps: A Systematic Review -- 5. Predicting Self-Esteem Using Humor Styles: A Cross-Cultural Study -- 6. The Use of Humour to Deal with Uncomfortable Moments in Interaction: A Cross-Cultural Approach -- 7. Humour as a Strategy to Talk About and Challenge Dominant Discourses of Social Integration: A Case Study of Adolescent German Turkish Descendants in Germany -- 8. The Position of Humour in Social Crisis: When and What Does Turkish Society Laugh at? -- 9. Humour as Cultural Capital in Transitions -- 10. Nigerian Cultural Concept of Humour and Its Creative Use as a Coping Strategy -- 11. Interrogating the Phenomenon of Suffering and Smiling by Nigerians: A Mixed Methods Study -- Part III Humour in Geopolitical and Cultural Landscapes: Tensions and Transgressions -- 12. Ukrainian Humor in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian War. Cognitive and Stylistic Features -- 13. Humor as a Defense Mechanism: Dismantling Holocaust Symbols and Icons in Israeli Culture -- 14. Geopolitics of Humor and Development in Nepal and Afghanistan -- 15. Humour and Politics: Linguistic Features of Humour Construction -- 16. White Laughter, Black Pain? On the Comic and Parodic Enactment of Racial-Colonial Stereotypes -- Part IV Workplace Humour: Strategies, Outcomes, and Adaptation in Modern Work Environments -- 17. Risky Business: Humour, Hierarchy, and Harmony in New Zealand and South Korean Workplaces -- 18. Resilience as a Mediator Between Workplace Humour and Well-being at Work, a Positive Psychology Perspective -- 19. Humour as a Coping Strategy of Employees in Remote Workspaces and Social Media Communication During the Covid-19 -- Part V Humour Across the Lifespan: Interpersonal and Developmental Perspectives -- 20. Humour as a Resource for Children -- 21. Humour in Romantic Relationships -- 22. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Humor Appreciation and Function Across the Lifespan -- 23. 'West of Hollywood': Humor as Reparation in the Life and Work of Walter Becker -- Part VI Educational Frameworks of Humor: Innovations and Applications in Teaching and Learning -- 24. The Role of Humour Competency Training in English Language Teaching -- 25. Humour in Adult Education -- 26. Humour in Mathematics Teaching: A Study in Portugal and Spain -- Part VII Healing and Well-Being Through Humour: Psychological Insights and Applications -- 27. The Positive Effect of Humour and Amateur Dubbing on Hospitalised Adolescents -- 28. The Covid-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity for Positive Psychology to Promote a Wider-Ranging Definition of Humour and Laughter -- 29. On the Relationships Between Humour, Stress and Flow Experience: Introducing the Humour-Flow Model -- 30. Working with Humour in Psychotherapy.