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Literary and historical fiction at its absolute finest, Kári’s Saga by mystery writer Robert Jansson is intuitive, learned and extraordinary Crafted with delicately precise prose, this penetrating and insightful narrative immerses the reader in the austere and vengeful world of Viking Iceland. Set in the year 1000, when pagans and Christians struggled for dominance, family obligations and raw ambitions fuel a heated feud left unresolved by the flawed legal system of the day. Jansson explores how an individual, however strong, cannot stand alone against such adversity. Love and loyalty match deceit and betrayal along a path strewn with misdeeds and lawlessness in a place where men weigh their conscience by the bloodlust of others. Never a dull moment, the author commands the reader to consider lofty ideals against a treacherous landscape of wickedness and transgression. What honor, love and happiness lay ahead for a man whose world is fraught by so much jealousy and malice?.
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After all the gains of the civil rights and women's movements, why are African Americans and women still faring poorly when it comes to wages, employment levels, and the distribution of jobs? Unlevel Playing Fields tackles this critical question by presenting two contrasting economic theories--neoclassical and political economy and showing how each theory explains discrimination and inequality in the labor market.

The second edition of this engaging volume has been revised and updated, and now includes more than 50 years of employment trends and data..
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Ever since there has been a professional game, baseball fans have enjoyed debating comparisons of one player to another—both contemporaries and players across various eras in the sport’s history. The Baseball Same Game adds to those debates.

However, rather than focus on the traditional “Who’s better?” arguments (such as “Mantle or Mays?” or “Ruth or Aaron?”) The Baseball Same Game takes on the particular cases of “Which players were the same?”

Unique baseball metrics—apart from those common and conventional baseball statistics that one would typically see on the back of a player’s bubble gum card—are used to analyze career performance. And, The Baseball Same Game gives consideration to relativity when comparing statistics of baseball players from different eras in the game.

Which baseball all-time greats were the same in terms of their relative performance? Who are the recently retired players that match-up to the stars of baseballÂ’s past? What players not in the Baseball Hall of Fame measure up to those already in the Hall? The Baseball Same Game provides these answers and more.

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Do employers pay less for predominantly female jobs than for predominantly male jobs that involve different tasks but are "comparnble" in their demands of skill, training, effort, responsibility, and working conditions? Are anti-discrimination policy and wage systems based on "comparable worth" a reasonable idea?

This overview of the controversial issue of comparable worth integrates perspectives from sociology, economics, industrial psychology, law, philosophy, and interdisciplinary feminist theory. After providing a detailed description of the situation of women in employment today, the volume considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between sexes. The book also contains chapters on how job evaluation can be used and misused, the legal status of comparable worth in federal courts, the stance of different feminist philosophies on normative issues of comparable worth, and contemporary policy debates on pay equity..
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"Are you (or a woman you love) being cheated out of 33 percent of your earnings? If you're a woman, over your working lifetime you will lose between $700,000 and $2 million -- simply because of your sex. Is that fair? No. Can it be stopped? Absolutely. The wage gap is a steady drain on the daily lives of women and our families. Rarely do we step back and add up what's missing -- better medical treatment, child care, housing, food, or retirement savings that women could have afforded if they were paid as well as men. Getting Even exposes the discrepancy between what women and men make -- and how it affects us all. It reveals that the wage gap is not going away on its own. And it explains how to close the wage gap -- and, finally, get women even. In this intelligently argued and startling book, Evelyn Murphy, Ph.D., humanizes the numbers through real-life stories and a wealth of data that has never before been examined. She shows how the wage gap pinches the daily lives of families throughout the country, at every economic level and in every industry. And she explains why, even though women have more opportunities than their mothers did, the wage gap persists: The American workplace still harbors an astonishing amount of discrimination, including blatant as well as complex hidden barriers, unspoken assumptions, unexamined attitudes, and habitual ways of behaving. But Murphy also brings good news: The wage gap can be closed. Having served as an economist, politician, public official, and corporate officer, she has a 360-degree view of the problem -- and of the solution. In a book that will explode into public debate, Murphy issues the indictment, rouses us to action -- and tells us exactly how to get even. ".
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Doing Comparable Worth is the first empirical study of the actual process of attempting to translate into reality the idea of equal pay for work of equal value. This political ethnography documents a large project undertaken by the state of Oregon to evaluate 35,000 jobs of state employees, identify gender-based pay inequities, and remedy these inequities. The book details both the technical and political processes, showing how the technical was always political, how management manipulated and unions resisted wage redistribution, and how initial defeat was turned into partial victory for pay equity by labor union women and women's movement activists.

As a member of the legislative task force that was responsible for implementing the legislation requiring a pay equity study in Oregon, Joan Acker gives an insider's view of how job evaluation, job classification, and the formulation of an equity plan were carried out. She reveals many of the political and technical problems in doing comparable worth that are not evident to outsiders. She also places comparable worth within a feminist theoretical perspective..
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