by Walter Rodney (1981)
Esme Rockett, also known as MC Ferocious, rocks her suburban Minnesota Christian high school with more than the hip-hop music she makes with best friends Marcy (DJ SheStorm) and Tess (The ConTessa) when she develops feelings for her co-MC, Rowie (MC Rohini).
Stanley Aronowitz
An innovative blend of first-person experience and original scholarship, Aronowitz traces the historical development of the American working class from post-Civil War times and shows why radical movements have failed to overcome the forces that tend to divde groups of workers from one another. The rise of labor unions is analyzed, as well as their decline as a force for social change. - Duke University Press, describing its 1991 release of this title.
Kenneth M. Straus
Straus argues that the keys for interpreting Stalinism lie in occupational specialization, on the one hand, and community organization, on the other. He focuses on the daily life (byt) of the new Soviet workers in the factory and community, arguing that the most significant new trends saw peasants becoming open hearth steel workers, housewives becoming auto assembly line workers and machine operatives, and youth training en masse rather than in individualized apprenticeships for all types of occupations categories in the vocational schools in the factories, the FZU. Tapping archival material only recently available and a wealth of published sources, Straus presents Soviet social history within a new analytical framework, suggesting that Stalinist forced industrialization and Soviet proletarianization is best understood within a comparative European framework, in which the theories of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber best elucidate both the broad similarities with Western trends and the striking exceptional aspects of the Soviet experience.
Carlos Sánchez Silva
"Archival study builds on the work of William Taylor and others to indicate how Oaxaca fared in the transition from colony to republic. Emphasizes that rebellion was only one form of resistance as indigenous groups sought to keep others from their communities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
João Fragoso e Manolo Florentino
"Explores continuity of skewed income distribution in Brazil by examining consistent reproduction of a colonial economy defined here as the growing enrichment of the mercantile elite and the constant pauperization of the free poor"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.