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What is work? Insights from the evolution of state foster care
Full text linkThis article focuses on state foster care as a case study in the (re)configuration and negotiation of boundaries between work and non-work. Foster care can be seen as occupying a liminal position between the domains of ‘work’ and ‘family’, requiring management of the tensions presumed to exist between competing value systems. Through a review of research and policy developments, the relevant boundary issues are contextualized and explored, drawing examples from areas such as remuneration, taxation and benefits, employment status, work-life balance and the labour process. It is argued that while foster care shares the hybridity and ensuing tensions of care work more generally, the spatial and temporal integration of work and family and the high level of state regulation give them a particular intensity. In turn, this offers great potential for the study of work/non-work boundaries. Possible research avenues are set ou
Interview with Anne Russell
No full textInterview with Anne Russell, playwright and author of several books on local history, including Wilmington: A Pictoral History
Foster Cass : fond memories [videorecording]
No full textFoster Cass talks about fond memories he has of the time he spent at Upper Iowa University. Foster remembers a choir trip he took in 1939 when he drove himself and 5 others in his father's old car at the request of the choir director, Russell Harris. Foster remembers how he and his friends would entertain each other while driving ahead of the bus. Foster notes, however, that his story of driving on a choir trip was rather rare, as usually UIU students had to hitchhike to get anywhere outside of Fayette. Foster also talks about how far the University has come in the expansion of its facilities, or what was termed “needs” during the 1930s.Russell Gingrich Harris was the choir director in 1939Parker Fox Hall, Upper Iowa University-Fayette Campus[Title], Upper Iowa University Digital Archives, [Reference URL]. See 'About' page for more information
Arthur J. Russell Correspondence
Full text linkEntries include brief biographical information corrected in pencil, letters of introduction to Russell and his sister concerning the Maine Author Collection, a handwritten reply from Emma M. Russell, typed correspondence between Dunnack and Russell concerning books that should have been purchased right away at secondhand stores, a Maine Library Bulletin envelope with a small photographic portrait of young Russell and a full-length photograph, a page typed with a misspelling by the Maine State Library presented with a photograph of the home of Russell\u27s birth in Hallowell, Maine, and a lengthy typed biography on Minneapolis Journal stationery
Author Mary Doria Russell talks about her most recent work "The Sparrow"
No full textAuthor and "recovering academic" Mary Doria Russell talks about her most recent work "The Sparrow", which is about humanity's first contact with another intelligent species and the unexpected consequences. Sponsored by Michigan State University Libraries, Computing and Technology. Part of the MSU Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care
Full text linkNearly 20% of young prison inmates spent part of their youth in foster care - the placement of abused or neglected children with substitute families. Little is known whether foster care placement reduces or increases the likelihood of criminal behavior. This paper uses the placement frequency of child protection investigators as an instrument to identify causal effects of foster care placement on adult arrest, conviction, and imprisonment rates. A unique dataset that links child abuse investigation data to criminal justice data in Illinois allows a comparison of adult crime outcomes across individuals who were investigated for abuse or neglect as children. Families are effectively randomized to child protection investigators through a rotational assignment process, and child characteristics are similar across investigators. Nevertheless, investigator placement frequencies are predictive of subsequent foster care placement, and the results suggest that school-aged children who are on the margin of placement have lower adult arrest rates when they remain at home.
Letter from H. L. Russell to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from H. L. Russell to Carl Hayden regarding fines in the park
Seasons of life: The biological rhythms that enable living things to thrive and survive
No full textJust as daily events are timed by living creatures through circadian rhythms, so seasonal events are timed through an internal calendar that signals birds to return to nesting grounds, salmon to spawn, plants to flower, squirrels to hibernate, kelp to stop growing. In this fascinating book, Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman draw on remarkable recent scientific advances to explain how seasonal change affects organisms, and how plants and animals over countless generations have evolved exquisite sensitivities and adaptations to the seasons. The authors also highlight the impact of seasonal change on human health and well-being. They conclude with a discussion of the dangers posed when climate changes disrupt the seasonal rhythms on which so much life depends. © 2009 by Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman
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