Class Acts

Class Acts

Author: Rachel Sherman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13: 0520247817

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"Sherman's insightful ethnography sheds light on the interactional dimension of symbolic boundaries and class relations as they are lived by luxury hotel clients and the workers who serve them. We learn how both groups perform class through emotion work and deepen our understanding of the role played by "niceness" in constituting equality and reversing hierarchies. As such, Class Acts is a signal contribution to a growing literature on the place of the self concept in class boundaries. It will gain a significant place in a body of work that broadens our understanding of class by moving beyond structural determinants and taking into consideration the performative, emotional, cognitive, and expressive dimensions of inequality."--Michele Lamont, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration "Eye-opening, amusing, and appalling, Rachel Sherman's Class Acts explains how class inequality is normalized in the refined atmosphere of luxury hotels. This beautifully observed and engagingly written ethnography describes what kinds of deference and personal recognition money can buy. Moreover, it shows how workers who provide luxury service avoid seeing themselves as subordinate and how those whose whims are catered to are made comfortable with their privilege. Class Acts is a sobering and timely account of the legitimation of extreme inequality in a culture that prizes egalitarianism."--Robin Leidner, University of Pennsylvania "Rachel Sherman provides a penetrating and engrossing study of workers and guests in luxury hotels. Do workers resent the guests? Do guests disdain the workers? Sherman argues neither is true-and explains why."--Julia Wrigley, author of Other People's Children


Class Acts

Class Acts

Author: Gary Forlini

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780979642449

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Strategies and tactics for engaging students in active, focused, productive learning.


Class Act

Class Act

Author: Jerry Craft

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0062885529

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New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. This time, it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school. Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.” His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted? To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids. He wants to pretend like everything is fine, but it's hard not to withdraw, and even their mutual friend Jordan doesn't know how to keep the group together. As the pressures mount, will Drew find a way to bridge the divide so he and his friends can truly accept each other? And most important, will he finally be able to accept himself? New Kid, the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal, is now joined by Jerry Craft's powerful Class Act.


Class Acts

Class Acts

Author: Mary Mitchell

Publisher: M. Evans

Published: 2005-05-04

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1461710456

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Here's the complete guide to handling sticky situations, embarrassing questions, rude encounters, and faux pas with grace and style.


Class Acts

Class Acts

Author: Stan J. Beiner

Publisher: Behrman House, Inc

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780867050288

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Class acts includes 30 plays, cantatas, and skits about Jewish ideas, life cycles, holidays and issues. the plays May be read or performed by students in supplementary and day schools, youth groups and camps.


Class Acts

Class Acts

Author: Oladipo Agboluaje

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-06-29

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1849439222

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The Wish Collector by Oladipo Agbolauje A magical epic whirling from a playground in Britain to a village in Sierra Leone The Acme Thunderer by Lin Coghlan A funny, moving family drama of pigeons and siblings, set amid the Blitz. Of the Terrifying Events on the Hamelin Estate by Philip Osment A high-spirited contemporary satire bringing the Pied Piper legend up-to-date. Three 30 minute plays by leading playwrights for children to act, commissioned by the Unicorn, one of the world’s foremost companies creating theatre with young people. Premiered as end of year performances by primary classes, the scripts are ideal school productions or for younger youth theatre groups. They are designed to be directed by teachers or youth leaders with no previous drama training. The book includes advice and ideas to support preparation, rehearsal and production.


Class Acts

Class Acts

Author: E. Paul Durrenberger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1317262328

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American labor leaders are constantly developing new programs to revive the union movement. What happens when these plans collide with the daily lives of front-line union staff and members? This book examines the often conflicting interests of key players in the trenches of a national effort to bring back the American labor movement. Brutally honest, funny, never dull, this anthropological ethnography shows the daily struggles of union members today to bring about positive change and hold together their urban labor union in an era of globalization, outsourcing, and deindustrialization. A union activist and an anthropologist (the authors) pair up to offer insideoutside views of labor unions and of how anthropological fieldwork is done. Explaining, coaching, and warning Paul of hazards, Suzan, the communications director for the Local, provides inside views and details of day-to-day interactions. Paul, the anthropologist, provides outside analytical views that related Suzan's experiences and his own observations to the wider view anthropology offers through ethnography, holism, and comparativism. The result is a story of one dynamic union local, one anthropological study, and the lit fuse that connects them until the end.


Class Actions

Class Actions

Author: Thomas A. Dickerson

Publisher: Law Journal Press

Published: 2024-01-28

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9781588520456

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Class Actions thoroughly takes you through identifying a class action; determining ex parte class certification; conducting pre-certification discovery; selecting a class representative, and more.


Intimate Class Acts

Intimate Class Acts

Author: Maryam Mirza

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0199089698

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The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic Hindu and Rose, a working-class Englishwoman, transgresses racial and class lines while also reinforcing patriarchal hierarchies. These relationships in Ice-Candy-Man, The Inheritance of Loss and Rich Like Us reveal striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan. In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Among others, Mirza examines well-known novels such as Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron and works that have hitherto drawn limited critical attention, such as Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence and Brinda Charry’s The Hottest Day of the Year.


You Haven't Hit Your Peak Yet!

You Haven't Hit Your Peak Yet!

Author: Harvey Mackay

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1119658608

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Advice from one of America's most respected and well-connected business leadership gurus If you haven't reached your peak, you're not alone. But still, you're doing something right. Sound strange? Well, any businessperson worth their salt knows it takes determination to reach the finish line. The business world is constantly changing so it’s essential to learn, adapt, and grow. In all-new pieces of wisdom, common sense, and advice, Harvey Mackay shares his decades of business leadership acumen to show you how to stay relevant, fluid, and on the path for success. Find out how adversity can be your best friend Use humility in your successes to make good business partners Stop riding a dead horse Discover how recognition does wonders Told with the sort of straight-shooting humor that only Harvey Mackay can deliver, You Haven't Hit Your Peak Yet is your personal road map for the route that can take you to the top.