As the movement undertook campaigns to increase access to jobs, housing and economic opportunity, civil rights activists targeted the policies and practices that maintained the segregated trades and neighborhoods that were a bedrock of blue-collar culture.
She has also argued that the women's health movement of the 1970s that sought to make available to women knowledge of their bodies and expose those sexist and androcentric practices that maintained an ignorance of their bodies is best understood as not only a political resistance movement but an epistemological resistance movement (Tuana 2006).
Researchers, funders, and community practitioners are interested in practices that maintain and sustain their efforts.
But given the compelling evidence that considerations of fairness matter for wage setting, I would argue that we need to devote more attention to the erosion of the norms, institutions and practices that maintain fairness in the job market.
The impact on species associated with old or moist conditions, especially forage lichens, might be lessened by variable-density thinning and other practices that maintain open- and closed-canopy patchiness and large trees.
Since the nineteen-seventies, a combination of market forces, declining union strength, and ideological changes has led to what the economist Alan Krueger has described as a steady "erosion of the norms, institutions and practices that maintain fairness in the U.S. job market".
We need a tempered radicalism (Meyerson, 2001); a concurrent persistent involvement in our religious organizations and commitment to challenge, shift and change the values and practices that maintain white privilege, undergird patriarchy and halts egalitarian treatment.
Promote best practices that maintain animal health, welfare and livestock productivity.
Firstly, the idea can refer to the conservation of certain landscape types or values and implicitly, the continuation of practices that maintain and organize these landscapes.
In these circumstances, some women indicated that it was best not to even start breastfeeding [ 25, 43], particularly if important postpartum cultural practices that maintain health and energy cannot be adhered to.
The concept can be applied to practices that maintain traditional techniques in rural or pastoral landscapes, but it can also refer to the land qualities of natural landscape remnants, or of new, contemporary landscapes.
