State (polity)

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Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States.

Abstract: Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture

Abstract: List of plates List of maps Preface and acknowledgements Preface to the revised edition List of abbreviations The sources Introduction 1. The background: state and society before Heraclius 2. The East Roman world c. 610-717: the politics of survival 3. Some relations and the economy: the cities and the land 4. Social relations and the economy: rural society 5. The state and its apparatus: fiscal administration 6. The state and its apparatus: military administration 7. Society, state and law 8. The imperial church and the politics of authority 9. Religion and belief 10. Forms of social and cultural organisation: infrastructures and hierarchies 11. Forms of representation: language, literature and the icon Conclusions: the transformation of a culture Addendum: further observations on the question of the late ancient city Bibliography Index.

Women's Organisations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority

Abstract: The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her work reveals how women's political organizations both shaped, and were shaped by the broader democratic movement. Alternately asserting their political independence and giving precedence to the democratic movement as a whole, women activists proved flexible and remarkably successful in influencing policy. At the same time, their feminism was profoundly shaped by the context of democratic and nationalist ideologies. In reading the last twenty-five years of South African history through a feminist framework, Hassim offers fresh insights into the interactions between civil society, political parties, and the state. Hassim boldly confronts sensitive issues such as the tensions between autonomy and political dependency in feminists' engagement with the African National Congress (ANC) and other democratic movements, and black-white relations within women's organizations. She offers a historically informed discussion of the challenges facing feminist activists during a time of nationalist struggle and democratization.

The modern state

Abstract: Introduction 1. Modern States 2. Placing the State in Modernity 3. States and Societies 4. State and Economy 5. States and Citizens 6.States and the International Order 7. States of the Twenty-First century 8. Conclusion

Cinema and Nation

Abstract: Introduction 1. The Sociology of Nationalism 2. The Concept of National Cinema 3. Film Policy, Nationalism, and the State 4. The Production of National Images 5. The Reception of National Images