Workers in Hard Times Kathrynn A. Adams This is the first comprehensive

This is the first comprehensive and objective biography of Kimball since 1888

developing a reading culture

or of Heinrich Schliemann's quest to prove the authenticity of Homer's Iliad by searching for ancient Troy in Turkey

the survivor of incest herself as she attempts to understand the links of meaning in her mind between her incest experience and her subsequent eating disorder

Workers in Hard Times Kathrynn A. Adams This is the first comprehensiveSeeking to historicize today's ''Great Recession,"" this volume of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern day capitalist marketplace. Contributors argue that factors such as race, sex, and state intervention have mediated both the effect of economic depressions on workers' lives and