Paul Willis

How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs

Learning to Labor

This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis – the leading ethnographer and author of Learning to Labour – shows how China has undergone an internal migration not only of masses of workers but also of a mental and ideological kind to new cultural landscapes of meaning, which include worship of the glorified city, devotion to consumerism, and fixation upon the smartphone and the internet. Massive educational expansion has been a precondition for explosive economic growth and technical development, but at the same time the school provides a cultural stage for personal and collective experience. In its closed walls and the inescapability of its ‘scores’, an astonishing drama plays out between the new and the old, with a tapestry of intricate human meanings woven of small tragedies and triumphs, secret promises and felt betrayals, helping to produce not only exam results but cultural orientations and occupational destinies. By exploring the cultural dimension of everyday experience as it is lived out in the school, this book sheds new light on the enormous transformations that have swept through China and created the kind of society that it is today: a society that is obsessed with the future and at the same time structured by and in continuous dialogue with its past.

A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today

Being Modern in China

Michael P. Murphy

Jim Daniels

Orlando Ricardo Menes

Philip Metres

Maryann Corbett

Pat Brisson

Joshua Hren

Kim Bridgford

Daye Phillippo

Sheryl St. Germain

Mike Aquilina

Kathleen Marks

Susan Signe Morrison

Stephen Gibson

Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner

Susan L. Miller

Barbara Crooker

Dean Kostos

Pablo Medina

Gail White

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Lynn Domina

Jeremiah Webster

Ned Balbo

Richard Cole

Jerry Harp

George Klawitter

C. X. Dillhunt

Julie L. Moore

Debra Bruce

James Matthew Wilson

D. S. Martin

Maryanne Hannan

Leonard Kress

Margaret Rozga

Joseph Bathanti

Richard Spilman

Tyler Farrell

Sharif Elmusa

Chelsea Martinez-Casiano

P. S. Dean

Alan Berecka

Tim Bete

Kathleen Bradley

Mary Buchinger

Roxana L. Cazan

Yuan Changming

Erica Charis-Molling

Joanna Currey

Jessica G. de Koninck

Dominic Gideon

Ed Granger

Lois Marie Harrod

Anne M. Higgins

Thomas Holahan

Siham Karami

Elaine Kehoe

Michael Angel Martin

Rhonda Miska

Robin Amelia Morris

Elizabeth Murawski

Stella Nesanovich

Matthew C. Nickel

Barry Peters

Mia Pohlman

Christopher Poore

Dennis Rhodes

Michael D. Riley

Lisa Toth Salinas

Nicholas Samaras

Janna Schledorn

Rita A. Simmonds

Sofia M. Starnes

Sophia Stid

Carole Stone

Maxine Susman

Maria Terrone

Brian Volck

Mark C. Watney

R. Bratten Weiss

Aleisa Zoecklin

Cydnee Devereaux

Jake Oresick

Mary Ladany

Juditha Dowd

Shanna Powlus Wheeler

Mia Schilling Grogan

New poems, translations, interviews, and book reviews in a yearly literary journal for Catholic Poetry.

: a Journal of Catholic Poetry

Presence

Amie Evans

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2015 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival.

Saints + Sinners: New Fiction From The Festival 2015

Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young

Common Culture

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2014 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival.

Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2014

Anne Gregory

Public relations professionals are operating in an increasingly challenging and complex environment. Pressures from outside the organisation include new accountabilities, empowered stakeholders, increased public cynicism and a new communication landscape. Internally, there are increasing demands to demonstrate a strategic contribution, alongside a requirement to coach and counsel senior managers exposed to these environmental pressures. This revised and updated edition provides a framework to enable public relations professionals to clearly articulate and demonstrate their own contribution to organisational effectiveness, while also setting out the specific capabilities public relations leaders must exhibit to operate at the highest levels of the organisation. This edition further develops the pioneering approach to integrating thinking around public relations, leadership, and strategy. It has been updated comprehensively to address contemporary developments and introduce new research and fresh perspectives from the authors. New to this edition are insights from Chief Executives on what they expect from public relations leaders and a comprehensive set of capabilities which scope the demanding role of professionals at the top of their game. Concise and practical, this textbook is suitable for MBA and other postgraduate and executive education qualifications in Public Relations and Corporate Communications – especially for those students who wish to pursue a successful career as a professional public relations specialist, able to operate strategically at the top of successful organisations.

Strategic Public Relations Leadership

Public relations is operating in an increasingly challenging and complex environment. Pressures from outside the organisation include new accountabilities, empowered stakeholders, increased public cynicism and a new communication landscape. Internally, there are increasing demands to demonstrate a return on investment, alongside a requirement to coach and counsel senior managers exposed to these environmental pressures. This context requires public relations professionals to be able to clearly articulate and demonstrate their own contribution to organisational effectiveness. This textbook provides public relations leaders with a framework to do this, as well as a checklist of essential capabilities which they must acquire and exhibit if they are to operate at the highest levels of any organisation. This short textbook is suitable for aspiring practitioners, MBA and other masters qualifications in public relations - especially for those students who wish to pursue a successful career as a professional PR specialist able to operate strategically at the top of successful organisations.

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2017 Saints+Sinners Literary Festival.

Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2017

Tracy Cunningham

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2020 Saints+Sinners Literary Festival, with an introduction by Don Weise. Table of Contents: Made Man by Morgan Rae Hufstader Eating the Chrysanthemum by Rich Barnett Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts by Gania Barlow Big House by Matthew Cherry Forgive Us Our Trespasses by David Holly Because of the Times by EJ Robinson What Covers the House is a Roof by Matthew Haynes Tom of Boalt Hall by Gar McVey-Russell Miss Boots of Gramercy Park by John Kane Jingle-Jangle-Pop by Miah Jeffra Life and the Theater by Michael H. Ward While Trying to Escape by Scott Promfret A Sneeze by K.W. Holland Une Tranche de Vie by Gary Smith Mesopotamia by Lewis DeSimone The Sultan's Palace by Adriadne Blayde

New Fiction from the Festival 2020

Saints+Sinners

Stuart Hall

Doothy Hobson

Andrew Lowe

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79

Culture, Media, Language

Paul Willis

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