Diamond Stories - Enduring Change on 47th Street

Informationen zum Autor Renée Rose Shield is Clinical Associate Professor of Community Health at Brown University. She is the author of Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home , also from Cornell, and coauthor of Aging in Today's World: Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician . Klappentext Succeeding chapters explore the evolving nature of both the global trade and the New York diamond district. Shield takes a close look at the increasingly complex ethnic makeup of the district, illuminates the rarely documented work done by women, chronicles the resilient system of arbitration, and reveals the ways in which many traders work well into their eighties and nineties. Their long lives of work, cushioned by the trade's social environment, offer hints for successful aging in general. Zusammenfassung Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world—a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of...

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• Authors: Ren E. Rose Shield, Renee Rose Shield, Renée Rose Shield, Renze Rose Shield
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2005
• EAN: 9780801472633
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7263-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Anthropology of Contemporary I; The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues; Anthropology of Contemporary I
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories