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Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501143335

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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Pdf

From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Employment forecasting
ISBN : IND:30000089076727

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Occupational Outlook Handbook by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Author : Simon Rich
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847658159

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What In God's Name by Simon Rich Pdf

From the Sunsets Department and Geyser Regulation to the Department of Miracles, Heaven Inc has the earth covered. Unless someone is away from their desk. And these days, the CEO is kind of disillusioned. God knows he should be keeping an eye on the bad things happening on Earth, but instead he finds himself watching the Church channels on satellite TV. His first priority is the team of angels he's asked to get Lynyrd Skynyrd back together. Downstairs on the office floor, Eliza has been promoted from the Prayers Department to Miracles, and Craig, the only other workaholic in heaven, has to show her around. Eliza is shocked by the casual attitude of many of the angels in her new department. And she's furious when she discovers that God has never looked at, let alone answered, a single prayer. So she storms into God's office and asks Him a question that no one has ever dared to ask before. And it might just be the end of the world.

Author : Sareeta Amrute
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374275

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Encoding Race, Encoding Class by Sareeta Amrute Pdf

In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent time with a core of twenty programmers before, during, and after their shifts. She shows how they occupy a contradictory position, as they are racialized in Germany as temporary and migrant grunt workers, yet their middle-class aspirations reflect efforts to build a new, global, and economically dominant India. The ways they accept and resist the premises and conditions of their work offer new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies. Demonstrating how these coders' cognitive labor realigns and reimagines race and class, Amrute conceptualizes personhood and migration within global capitalism in new ways.

Author : Heather McDonald,Marguerite Mousseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Workers' compensation
ISBN : 0433453508

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Workers' Compensation in British Columbia by Heather McDonald,Marguerite Mousseau Pdf

Author : Eric A. Posner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197507643

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How Antitrust Failed Workers by Eric A. Posner Pdf

A trenchant account of an unacknowledged driver of inequality and wage stagnation in America: the failure of antitrust law to prevent the consolidation of employers, who use their market power to suppress wages. Since the 1970s, Americans have seen inequality skyrocket--and job opportunities stagnate. There are many theories of why this happened, including the decline of organized labor, changes in technology, and the introduction of tax policies that favored the rich. A missing piece of the puzzle is the consolidation of employers, which has resulted in limited competition in labor markets. This should have been addressed by antitrust law, but was not. In How Antitrust Law Failed Workers, Eric Posner documents the failure of antitrust law to address labor market concentration. Only through reforming antitrust law can we shield workers from employers' overwhelming market power. Antitrust law is well-known for its role in combatting mergers, price-fixing arrangements, and other anticompetitive actions in product markets. By opposing these practices, antitrust law enhances competition among firms and keeps prices low for goods and services. Less well-known, antitrust law also applies to anticompetitive conduct by employers in labor markets, which pushes wages below the competitive rate. Yet there have been few labor market cases or enforcement actions, and almost no scholarly commentary on the role of antitrust law in labor markets. This book fills the gap. It explains why antitrust law has failed to address labor market concentration, and how it can be reformed so that it does a better job. Essential reading for anyone interested in fighting economic inequality, How Antitrust Failed Workers also offers a sharp primer on the true nature of the American economyDLone that is increasingly uncompetitive and tilted against workers.

Author : Norman Keith,Adam A. Neave
Publisher : Canada Law Book
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Industrial hygiene
ISBN : 0888044607

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A Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation Compliance in Alberta by Norman Keith,Adam A. Neave Pdf

Author : Jennifer N. Fish
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479881437

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Domestic Workers of the World Unite! by Jennifer N. Fish Pdf

From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement. Domestic workers exist on the margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au pairs, and other care workers are most often ‘off the books,’ working for long hours and low pay. They are not afforded legal protections or benefits such as union membership, health care, vacation days, and retirement plans. Many women who perform these jobs are migrants, and are oftentimes dependent upon their employers for room and board as well as their immigration status, creating an extremely vulnerable category of workers in the growing informal global economy. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, plus interviews with a number of key movement leaders and domestic workers, Jennifer N. Fish presents the compelling stories of the pioneering women who, while struggling to fight for rights in their own countries, mobilized transnationally to enact change. The book takes us to Geneva, where domestic workers organized, negotiated, and successfully received the first-ever granting of international standards for care work protections by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization. This landmark victory not only legitimizes the importance of these household laborers’ demands for respect and recognition, but also signals the need to consider human rights as a central component of workers’ rights. Domestic Workers of the World Unite! chronicles how a group with so few resources could organize and act within the world’s most powerful international structures and give voice to the wider global plight of migrants, women, and informal workers. For anyone with a stake in international human and workers’ rights, this is a critical and inspiring model of civil society organizing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Occupational diseases
ISBN : UOM:39015082036859

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Proceedings of the Interdepartmental Workers' Compensation Task Force Conference on Occupational Diseases and Workers' Compensation, 1976 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ben Tarnoff,Moira Weigel
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374721268

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Voices from the Valley by Ben Tarnoff,Moira Weigel Pdf

From FSGO x Logic: anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, providing a bird's-eye view of the industry In Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.

Author : Amy Bhatt
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295743561

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High-Tech Housewives by Amy Bhatt Pdf

Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational employees face significant migration and visa constraints. In this revealing ethnography, Amy Bhatt shines a spotlight on Indian IT migrants and their struggles to navigate career paths, citizenship, and belonging as they move between South Asia and the United States. Through in-depth interviews, Bhatt explores the complex factors that shape IT transmigration and settlement, looking at Indian cultural norms, kinship obligations, friendship networks, gendered and racialized discrimination in the workplace, and inflexible and unstable visa regimes that create worker vulnerability. In particular, Bhatt highlights women’s experiences as workers and dependent spouses who move as part of temporary worker programs. Many of the women interviewed were professional peers to their husbands in India but found themselves “housewives” stateside, unable to secure employment because of visa restrictions. Through her focus on the unpaid and feminized placemaking and caregiving labor these women provide, Bhatt shows how women’s labor within the household is vital to the functioning of the flexible and transnational system of IT itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government attorneys
ISBN : OSU:32437121901538

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United States Attorneys Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernice Yeung
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620976005

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In a Day’s Work by Bernice Yeung Pdf

"A timely, intensely intimate, and relevant exposé." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Pulitzer Prize finalist's powerful examination of the hidden stories of workers overlooked by #MeToo Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where women have suffered brutal sexual assaults and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this heartrending but ultimately inspiring tale, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against the low-wage workers largely overlooked by #MeToo, and charts their quest for justice. In a Day's Work reveals the underbelly of hidden economies teeming with employers who are in the practice of taking advantage of immigrant women. But it also tells a timely story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge the status quo of violations alongside aggrieved workers—and win.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health and Safety
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Independent contractors
ISBN : UCR:31210014694499

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Oversight Hearings on Health and Safety of Workers at Department of Energy Owned Nuclear Facilities Operated by Private Contractors by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health and Safety Pdf

Author : Karen Prints
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1731423462

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I Hate It When Co Workers ACT Like Supervisors Please ACT Your Wage by Karen Prints Pdf

Funny Co worker blank lined note book will make a great retirement gift or secret santa present 120 Pages High Quality Paper 6