After The Factory

Author : Hiroko Oyamada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228862

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The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada Pdf

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work—days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a while—it could be weeks or years—the three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here? With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vivid—and sometimes surreal—portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.

Author : Beth Macy
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316231565

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Factory Man by Beth Macy Pdf

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.

Author : Guy Delisle
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770466708

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Factory Summers by Guy Delisle Pdf

For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle’s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job through his father’s connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy’s dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices, working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren’t close, and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad’s aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school–only to be told on the first day, “There are no jobs in animation.” Eager to pursue a job he enjoys, Guy throws caution to the wind. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall

Author : James Bamford
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307279392

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The Shadow Factory by James Bamford Pdf

James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public. The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed a chance to thwart the 9/11 hijackers and details how this mistake has led to a heightening of domestic surveillance. In disturbing detail, Bamford describes exactly how every American’s data is being mined and what is being done with it. Any reader who thinks America’s liberties are being protected by Congress will be shocked and appalled at what is revealed here.

Author : Great Britain,Thomas Tapping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Factory laws and legislation
ISBN : OXFORD:N11300366

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The Factory Acts by Great Britain,Thomas Tapping Pdf

Author : Thomas TAPPING
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017653969

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The Factory Acts ... 42 G.3.c.73; 3 & 4 W.4.c.103; 4 & 5 W.4.c.1; 7 & 8 V.c.15; 9 & 10 V.c.40; 10 & 11 V.c.29; 13 & 14 V.c.54; 16 & 17 V.c.104; with ... Notes and a Full Reference to Cases by Thomas TAPPING Pdf

Author : Farah Stockman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781984801159

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American Made by Farah Stockman Pdf

What happens when Americans lose their jobs? In American Made, an illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Farah Stockman gives an up-close look at the profound role work plays in our sense of identity and belonging, as she follows three workers whose lives unravel when the factory they have dedicated so much to closes down. “With humor, breathtaking honesty, and a historian’s satellite view, American Made illuminates the fault lines ripping America apart.”—Beth Macy, author of Factory Man and Dopesick Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to chairman of efficiency, one of the most coveted posts on the factory floor, and dreamed of starting his own barbecue business one day. John, a white machine operator, came from a multigenerational union family and clashed with a work environment that was increasingly hostile to organized labor. The Rexnord factory had served as one of the economic engines for the surrounding community. When it closed, hundreds of people lost their jobs. What had life been like for Shannon, Wally, and John, before the plant shut down? And what became of them after the jobs moved to Mexico and Texas? American Made is the story of a community struggling to reinvent itself. It is also a story about race, class, and American values, and how jobs serve as a bedrock of people’s lives and drive powerful social justice movements. This revealing book shines a light on a crucial political moment, when joblessness and anxiety about the future of work have made themselves heard at a national level. Most of all, American Made is a story about people: who we consider to be one of us and how the dignity of work lies at the heart of who we are.

Author : Nick C. Hutchinson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781480971202

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Factory of Lies by Nick C. Hutchinson Pdf

Factory of Lies by Nick C. Hutchinson Follow Nick as he moves on to manufacturing where he has gained twenty some years of experience as an hourly associate, working a variety of positions for two different employers in the manufacturing setting. This has given him the insight into the methods used by management to control their businesses. He shares common themes across various segments of the business community through his practical experience and knowledge by studying business methods. He has also studied class action lawsuits brought against employers who ignore the welfare of their employees by putting profits first and people last; the migration of companies moving overseas to escape regulations they find cumbersome to follow; and litigation for their outdated methods leading to health issues for their employees. The middleclass of this country has been held hostage by stagnant wages and soaring healthcare combined with heavy taxes to support the non-working class of enabled Americans who have no motivation to work. The American dream is no longer available to the average man or woman of this once great nation. See for yourself if any of the examples described in this book ring true from your own experience. What would you do, if you faced a similar situation?

Author : Henry Carne OATS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017653988

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The Factory Acts, Including the Bleach and Dyeworks Act, the Lace Factories Act, and the Print Works Acts; with Explanatory Notes, Embracing All the Cases Decided Upon the Above Acts; with Two Appendices, Etc by Henry Carne OATS Pdf

Author : Cynan Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 1414007094

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After the Factory by Cynan Jones Pdf

Author : Iain Banks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476750248

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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Pdf

The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.

Author : James R. Simmons, Jr
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460403419

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Factory Lives by James R. Simmons, Jr Pdf

Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others.

Author : Heinke Röbken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783322811806

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Inside the “Knowledge Factory” by Heinke Röbken Pdf

Heinke Röbken analyses how American, German and Swedish universities - and particularly business schools - deal with the various expectations they are confronted with. On the basis of neo-institutional theory she argues that a form of "institutional schizophrenia" can help institutions to comply with external demands without compromising the pursuit of academic reputation which is essential for their inner stability.

Author : Dmitry Foshin,Tonya Chernyshova,Dmitry Anoshin,Xenia Ireton
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781803241821

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Azure Data Factory Cookbook by Dmitry Foshin,Tonya Chernyshova,Dmitry Anoshin,Xenia Ireton Pdf

Data Engineers guide to solve real-world problems encountered while building and transforming data pipelines using Azure's data integration tool Key Features Solve real-world data problems and create data-driven workflows with ease using Azure Data Factory Build an ADF pipeline that operates on pre-built ML model and Azure AI Get up and running with Fabric Data Explorer and extend ADF with Logic Apps and Azure functions Book DescriptionThis new edition of the Azure Data Factory book, fully updated to reflect ADS V2, will help you get up and running by showing you how to create and execute your first job in ADF. There are updated and new recipes throughout the book based on developments happening in Azure Synapse, Deployment with Azure DevOps, and Azure Purview. The current edition also runs you through Fabric Data Factory, Data Explorer, and some industry-grade best practices with specific chapters on each. You’ll learn how to branch and chain activities, create custom activities, and schedule pipelines, as well as discover the benefits of cloud data warehousing, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage. With practical recipes, you’ll learn how to actively engage with analytical tools from Azure Data Services and leverage your on-premises infrastructure with cloud-native tools to get relevant business insights. You'll familiarize yourself with the common errors that you may encounter while working with ADF and find out the solutions to them. You’ll also understand error messages and resolve problems in connectors and data flows with the debugging capabilities of ADF. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use ADF with its latest advancements as the main ETL and orchestration tool for your data warehouse projects.What you will learn Build and Manage data pipelines with ease using the latest version of ADF Configure, load data, and operate data flows with Azure Synapse Get up and running with Fabric Data Factory Working with Azure Data Factory and Azure Purview Create big data pipelines using Databricks and Delta tables Integrate ADF with commonly used Azure services such as Azure ML, Azure Logic Apps, and Azure Functions Learn industry-grade best practices for using Azure Data Factory Who this book is for This book is for ETL developers, data warehouse and ETL architects, software professionals, and anyone else who wants to learn about the common and not-so-common challenges faced while developing traditional and hybrid ETL solutions using Microsoft's Azure Data Factory. You’ll also find this book useful if you are looking for recipes to improve or enhance your existing ETL pipelines. Basic knowledge of data warehousing is a prerequisite.

Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399011938

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Factory Girls by Paul Chrystal Pdf

Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century. Without women there would have been no pre-industrial cottage industries, without women the Industrial Revolution would not have been nearly as industrial and nowhere near as revolutionary. Many women, and children, were obliged to take up work in the mills and factories – long hours, dangerous, often toxic conditions, monotony, bullying, abuse and miserly pay were the usual hallmarks of a day’s work - before they headed homeward to their other job: keeping home and family together. This long overdue and much needed book also covers the social reformers, the role of feminism and activism and the various Factory Acts and trade unionism. We examine how women and children suffered chronic occupational diseases and disabling industrial injuries - life changing and life shortening – and often a one way ticket to the workhouse. The book concludes with a survey of the art, literature and the music which formed the soundtrack for the factory girl and the climbing boys.