The Nightworkers

Author : Brian Selfon
Publisher : MCD
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374718114

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The Nightworkers by Brian Selfon Pdf

“Electric, surprising, and tightly plotted . . . A compelling writer to watch.” —Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire “A gripping, big-hearted thriller . . . whip-smart and surprisingly funny.” —Harlan Coben The Nightworkers is an electrifying debut crime novel from Brian Selfon about a Brooklyn family of money launderers thrown into chaos when a runner ends up dead and a bag of dirty money goes missing. Shecky Keenan’s family is under fire—or at least it feels that way. Bank accounts have closed unexpectedly, a strange car has been parked near the house at odd hours, and Emil Scott, an enigmatic artist and the family’s new runner, is missing—along with the $250,000 of dirty money he was carrying. Shecky lives in old Brooklyn with his niece Kerasha and nephew Henry, and while his deepest desire is to keep his little makeshift family safe, that doesn’t stop him from taking advantage of their talents. Shecky moves money for an array of unsavory clients, and Henry, volatile and violent but tenderhearted, is his bagman. Kerasha, the famed former child-thief of Bushwick, is still learning the family trade, but her quick mind and quicker fingers are already being put to use. They love one another, but trust is thin when secrets are the family trade. And someone will be coming for that missing money—soon. Inspired by a career that has included corruption cases and wiretaps as an investigative analyst for New York law enforcement, Brian Selfon unspools a tale of crime and consequence through shifting perspectives across the streets, alleys, bodegas, and art studios of Brooklyn. The Nightworkers is an evocative blend of genres: a literary crime thriller with a mystery at the center of its big beating heart: What really happened to Emil Scott, and what can the future possibly hold for a family when crime is what keeps them together?

Author : Julius-Cezar MacQuarie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031361869

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Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London by Julius-Cezar MacQuarie Pdf

This book captures the hidden labour of migrant nightworkers in 24/7 London. It argues that late capitalism normalises nightwork, yet refuses to recognise the associated problems, from lack of decent working conditions to the seizure of the workers’ private time for self-development, family and social life. The book shows how the articulation of nightworkers’ subjectivities and socialities happens at the intersection between migration, precarity and nightwork, and traces how each of these dimensions magnifies the lived experience of the others. It further reveals that any possibilities for cooperation or solidarity in the workplace between migrant nightworkers become fragile and secondary to their survival of the nightshift. It also elucidates the mechanisms that hinder cohesion between vulnerable groups placed temporally and socially on a different par to the mainstream societies. As such, this book is an excellent resource for labour regulators, experts and student researchers in migration, work and gender. The book offers a deeply empathic and engaging portrayal of the production of disciplined and exploitable manual labor in permanent nightshift cities. It cogently unpacks the experiences of embodied precarity through the largely unseen micro-practices of workplaces that entrap migrant laborers. The nightnographic component adds an original dimension to the inquiry. Violetta Zentai, Central European University

Author : Naomi Segal,Daniela Koleva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137429704

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From Literature to Cultural Literacy by Naomi Segal,Daniela Koleva Pdf

Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

Author : Kate Banks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374400002

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The Night Worker by Kate Banks Pdf

One night, Alex's father surprises his son by taking him to see his place of work, an exciting construction site with heavy machinery, rumbling sounds, and more. An ALA Notable Book. Reprint.

Author : Sarah Langan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982144388

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Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan Pdf

Celeste Ng and Liane Moriarty’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this “wickedly funny, unnerving puzzle box of a novel” (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will) about the downward spiral of a Long Island community after a tragedy exposes its residents’ depths of deception. Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world. But menace skulks among this exclusive enclave. When the Wilde family arrive, they trigger their neighbors’ worst fears. Dad Arlo’s a gruff has-been rock star with track marks. Mom Gertie’s got a thick Brooklyn accent, with high heels and tube tops to match. Their weird kids cuss like sailors. They don’t fit with the way Maple Street sees itself. Maple Street’s Queen Bee, Rhea Schroeder—a lonely professor repressing a dark past—initially welcomed Gertie, but relations plummeted during one summer evening, when the new best friends shared too much, too soon. By the time the story opens, the Wildes are outcasts. As tensions mount, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and Rhea’s daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes. Suddenly, it is one mom’s word against the other’s in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood. Riveting and ruthless, Good Neighbors is “a chilling, compulsively readable novel that looks toward the future in order to help us understand how we live now” (Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979-09
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UIUC:30112104136335

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Monthly Labor Review by Anonim Pdf

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Printing, Public
ISBN : LOC:00186597758

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Proposed Wage Increase for GPO Compositors by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing Pdf

Reviews D.C. area private printer protest concerning GPO compositor's wage-increase request.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112204466843

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Joint Committee ... Pdf

Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780886293178

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Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters by Daisy L. Neijmann Pdf

This fascinating study explores a remarkable ethnic-Canadian literature in close textual and contextual terms for the first time. It lays a groundwork for future comparative research in the field of ethnic Canadian studies, and challenges assumptions about cultural identity and human experience of the "new."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Labor supply
ISBN : UCLA:31158010494614

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Special Labor Force Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Janice Neipert Hedges,E. Sekscenski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Labor
ISBN : PURD:32754066152715

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Workers on Late Shifts in a Changing Economy by Janice Neipert Hedges,E. Sekscenski Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Night work
ISBN : WISC:89107800989

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Workers on Late Shifts in a Changing Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Random House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409025412

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The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken Pdf

1832 - a period of English History that never happened. Good King James III is on the throne and the country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. When Sylvia and Bonnie (both orphans) fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they must use all their wits to escape unscathed - for the governess is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1718 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015074884563

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

Author : Michael F. Holick,Ernst G. Jung
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461550518

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Biologic Effects of Light 1998 by Michael F. Holick,Ernst G. Jung Pdf

It is remarkable how much we take for granted the tremendous energy and vitality that the sun provides earth's inhabitants. As we enter the new millennium, it is worthwhile to review how our ancestors perceived the biologic effects of sunlight, and how science and medicine have advanced our knowledge about the biologic effects of light. At the turn of the century, a multitude of investigators explored the use of sunlight and artificial radiation for treating a multitude of diseases. These explorations gave rise to photodynamic therapy, phototherapy, and chemophototherapy. However, enthusiasm for using sunlight and artificial radiation to treat disease was dampened with the birth of pharmacology. It was the goal of the Fifth International Arnold Rikli Symposium on the Biologic Effects of Light, held in Basel, Switzerland, on November 1-3, 1998, to review the history of phototherapy and have some of the world's leading experts on the biologic effects of light provide new perspectives on the positive and negative effects of light. The general topics included a broad range of biologic effects of sunlight, artificial ultraviolet radiation and electromagnetic radiation. Special sessions on radiation and vitamin D and bone health, photoimmunology, biopositive effects of UV radiation, effects of electromagnetic currents and fields, and ocular and non-ocular regulation of circadian rhythms and melatonin, should be of particular interest to readers of Biologic Effects of Light.