The Labor Of Luck

Author : Jeff Sallaz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520259492

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"A rich and compelling comparative study of a rapidly growing and little-studied global industry. Sallaz offers an extremely clever and provocative account that is sure to stimulate a lot of debate among scholars."—Ruth Milkman, University of California, Los Angeles and author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement "A tremendous tour de force. It is astonishing in its scope, ranging effortlessly from the minutiae of shop floor life to the heights of comparative national political and economic history, from breezily personal (and often amusing) to a brilliant reconstruction of social theory."—Steven Henry Lopez, Ohio State University and author of Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement

Author : Jeff Sallaz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520944657

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The Labor of Luck by Jeff Sallaz Pdf

In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J. Sallaz goes behind the scenes of the global casino industry to investigate the radically different worlds of work and leisure he found in identically designed casinos in the United States and South Africa. Seamlessly weaving political and economic history with his own personal experience, Sallaz provides a riveting account of two years spent working among both countries' casino dealers, pit bosses, and politicians. While the popular imagination sees the Nevada casino as a hedonistic world of consumption, The Labor of Luck shows that the "Vegas experience" is made possible only through a variety of systems regulating labor, capital, and consumers, and that because of these complex dynamics, the Vegas casino cannot be seamlessly picked up and replicated elsewhere. Sallaz's fresh and path-breaking approach reveals how neo-liberal versus post-colonial forms of governance produce divergent worlds at the tables, and how politics, profits, and pleasure have come together to shape everyday life in the new economy.

Author : David A. Snow,Leon Anderson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520079892

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Down on Their Luck by David A. Snow,Leon Anderson Pdf

David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours of interviews, participant observation, and random tracking of homeless people through social service agencies in Austin, Texas. Snow and Anderson reveal who the homeless are, how they live, and why they have ended up on the streets. Debunking current stereotypes of the homeless. Down on Their Luck sketches a portrait of men and women who are highly adaptive, resourceful, and pragmatic. Their survival is a tale of human resilience and determination, not one of frailty and disability.

Author : Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745665160

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Labor, Economy, and Society by Jeffrey J. Sallaz Pdf

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engage in labor as a basic commodity. This can be a source of dynamism, as when innovative firms raise wages to attract the best and brightest. But it can also be a source of misery, as when one’s skills are suddenly rendered obsolete by forces beyond one’s control. Jeffrey J. Sallaz asks us to rethink our basic assumptions about work. Drawing on cutting-edge theories within economic sociology and through the use of contemporary examples, he conceptualizes labor as embedded exchange. This draws attention to issues that all too frequently are overlooked in our public discourse and private imaginations: how various forms of work are classified and valued; how markets for labor operate in practice; and how people can challenge the central fiction that their work is simply a commodity to be bought and sold. This readable and engaging book is suitable for both graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It will be of interest to economic sociologists, scholars of labor, and all of those who find themselves working for a living.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1524 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : OSU:32435029014578

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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117903778

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Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor Or Management Field by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field Pdf

Author : John Gaines Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Homiletical illustrations
ISBN : UIUC:30112068903464

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The Gem Cyclopædia of Illustrations by John Gaines Vaughan Pdf

Author : Michael Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429964350

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The Time Of The Gypsies by Michael Stewart Pdf

HIS IS A STUDY OF HOW some of the most marginal and exploited people that exist can imagine themselves to be princes of the world.During the past two hundred years the Gypsies of Eastern Europe have faced near enslavement by land owners, the physical and moral onslaught of the Nazi holocaust, the fundamental challenge to their central values from the Communist state, and the violent discrimination and dislocation caused by the return to capitalism. One would have thought that the challenge would be too great, that they would have suffered cultural

Author : Kate Ward
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 9781647121389

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Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck by Kate Ward Pdf

"In this book, Kate Ward addresses the issue of inequality from the perspective of Christian virtue ethics. Her unique contribution is to argue that moral luck, our individual life circumstances, affects one's ability to pursue virtue. She argues that economic status functions as moral luck and impedes the ability of both the wealthy and the impoverished to pursue virtues such as prudence, justice, and temperance. The book presents social science evidence that inequality reduces empathy for others' suffering, and increases violence, fear, and the desire to punish others. For the wealthy, inequality creates "hyperagency" - abundant freedom, power, and choice beyond that enjoyed by other members of society. For the poor, scarcity of time, money, and other important goods can also impair their ability to pursue virtue. Having established the theological harm caused by inequality, Ward then makes the argument that both individual Christians and Christian communities have obligations to address the impact of inequality. As individuals, Christians should pursue what Ward calls encounter, conversion, and contentment. Encounter means genuinely reaching out to the less fortunate and spending enough time to get to know individuals as human beings. For Ward, conversion means informing oneself about the realities of poverty and inequality. Contentment means being satisfied with one's position and not striving for more material wealth. Christian communities, in Ward's view, have obligations to pursue political action, tithing, and aid, and to foster encounters in parishes and educational settings"--

Author : Horace Lorenzo Hastings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600079080

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Two Hundred Gathered Gems of Song and Story by Horace Lorenzo Hastings Pdf

Author : William A. Darity, Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401129381

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Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets by William A. Darity, Jr. Pdf

William Darity, Jr. In 1984 the Kluwer series in Modern Economic Thought, under the editorial direction of Warren Samuels, brought out a book under my editorship entitled Labor Economics: Modern Views. It consisted of a series of essays and commentaries that sought, in a critical fashion, to assess the state of the art in the field of labor economics with respect to several themes. These included methodology versus practice, the analysis of discrimination by gender and race, the phenomenon of persistent racial differences in un employment exposure, occupational safety and health regulation, dual versus segmented labor markets, and the remnants of the Phillips curve trade-off between unemployment and inflation. Nearly a decade later I was approached by Warren Samuels and Kluwer about editing a new book that would again address where things stand in labor economics. In proceeding with the development of this current book I was a struck by the extent to which the research thrust that was apparent in the early 1980s remains intact as we move toward the 21st century. The vast majority of scholarship in the labor subfield is dominated by the methodological orientation of applied neoclassical microeconomics, supplemented by incursions from the themes that occupy the so-called "pure theorists," particularly of the game theoretic variety.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3NK8

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The Myrtle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Railroads
ISBN : CORNELL:31924062267855

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Firemen's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : UOM:39015013730653

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Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : MINN:31951002070371K

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2,000 Jokes and Jests by Anonim Pdf