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What Works for Workers? Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers. (2014)
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Luce, S., Luff, J., McCartin, J., & Milkman, R. (Eds.). (2014). What Works for Workers? Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers. Russell Sage Press

The majority of new jobs created in the United States today are low-wage jobs, and a fourth of the labor force earns no more than poverty-level wages. Policymakers and citizens alike agree that declining real wages and constrained spending among such... Read More about What Works for Workers? Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers..

Heaven and earth in Anglo-Saxon England: theology and society in an age of faith (2013)
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Foxhall Forbes, H. (2013). Heaven and earth in Anglo-Saxon England: theology and society in an age of faith. Ashgate Publishing

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious b... Read More about Heaven and earth in Anglo-Saxon England: theology and society in an age of faith.

The memory of the people: custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England (2013)
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Wood, A. (2013). The memory of the people: custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England. Cambridge University Press

Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood’s pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis... Read More about The memory of the people: custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England.

Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy (2013)
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Clifford, R. (2013). Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199679812.001.0001

In the 1990s and 2000s, as Europe experienced a slow transition out of the Cold War, many states began to recraft official readings of the Second World War. The Holocaust, and its meaning in contemporary Europe, played a central role in this transiti... Read More about Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy.