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An analysis of the effects of gender and race on salary for the regular-scale faculty: Report

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Carol A Chetkovich

University of California at Berkeley, Office of the Faculty Assistant on the Status of Women, 1991

"I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals."
Frank Cassidy lives on the fringes of society in a succession of demeaning jobs, a wife with an ex-husband on death row in Georgia, an angst-riddled stepson waiting for his father to be executed and an innocent pre-schooler, obsessed with his toy dinosaurs. Frank's edge-of-desperation lifestyle can be traced back to his childhood, his father and mother killed in a fire that erupted on the family ...

Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service
Carol Chetkovich

Rutgers University Press, 1997

From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
Carol Chetkovich, Frances Kunreuther

ILR Press, 2007

"Grassroots social-change organizations are a critical resource for progressive movement- building in the United States. They provide political education and sites for constituent engagement, and they are beginning to create networks across issues and/or communities; they promote home-grown leadership among groups that have been disadvantaged; they contribute to a shared understanding of the problems of inequality and injustice; and they offer a ...