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Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable. Protect a bacterium from predators, and provide it with adequate food and space to grow, and it would continue living--and reproducing asexually--forever. But a paramecium (a slightly more advanced single-cell organism), under the same ideal conditions, would stop dividing after about 200 generations--and die. Death, for paramecia and their offspring, is inevitable. Unless they have sex ... In Sex and the Origins of Death, William Clark ranges far and wide over fascinating terrain. Whether describing a 62-year-old man having a ma.
This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work. Beginning with a study of the "woman question", or what women were supposed to be, the book traces the three curriculum areas from prescription, through lively discussions of policy to the actual programs and student responses to the programs. The author tells the story of education for work from several different perspectives and draws on a vast array of sources to paint this broad canvas of vocational education for young women at the turn of the twentieth century.
2030. En France, une terrible crise économique ravage le pays. Il n'y a plus de travail, à peine de quoi manger. Comme la plupart des habitants avant eux, Iza, Erwan et leurs parents empilent quelques affaires dans leur voiture et partent. Léon, lui, quitte seul la ferme où il a grandi. Dès qu'il sera arrivé, il enverra de l'argent à sa famille. Il a promis. Les voilà sur la route, loin de la vie qu'ils ont toujours connue. On dit que là-bas, 4 000 kilomètres plus au nord, un avenir meilleur les attend. Dans un monde où avancer devient un combat de chaque instant, une question les taraude : est-ce que là-bas, tout ira bien ?
The Necessity of Organization describes Mary Kenney O'Sullivan's struggle to improve labor conditions through trade unionism. Appointed the first woman organizer for the American Federation of Labor in 1892, she went on to be a co-founder of the Women's Trade Union League, formed in 1903 as a cross-class alliance of women workers and their middle- and upper-class allies. The possibilities and limits of trade unionism for women, given the class and gender constraints of the period, are the focus of this book.