The World S Work

Author : David Jordhus-Lier,Anders Underthun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317751762

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A Hospitable World? by David Jordhus-Lier,Anders Underthun Pdf

The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets, accommodating and entertaining tourists and business travelers from around the world. This book explores the organisation of work, worker identities and worker strategies in hotel workplaces, as they are located in heterogeneous labour markets being changed by processes of globalisation. It uses an explicitly geographical approach to understand how different groups of workers experience and respond to challenges in the hospitality industry, and is based on recent theoretical debates and empirical research on hotel workplaces in cities as different as Oslo, Goa, London, Las Vegas and Toronto. A multi-scalar analysis is taken where concrete worker bodies and their physical, emotional and embodied labour are seen in relation to, among other aspects: the regulation of national and regional labour markets, city governments with global city ambitions, and global corporate actors and labour migration patterns. The book sheds light on the hotel workplace as a hierarchical and fragmented social space as well as addressing questions on worker mobility, the fragmentation of work, scales of organisation and how workers can help shape the regulation of their industry. This timely volume brings together contributions from international academics and is valuable reading for all those interested in hospitality, tourism, human geography and globalisation.

Author : Mark S. McLeod-Harrison
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773576483

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Make/Believing the World(s) by Mark S. McLeod-Harrison Pdf

A vigorous defence of a radical ontological pluralism that requires theism and is consistent with traditional Christianity.

Author : Ilana Gershon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801456411

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A World of Work by Ilana Gershon Pdf

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a street magician in Paris? A fish farmer in Norway? A costume designer in Bollywood? This playful and accessible look at different types of work around the world delivers a wealth of information and advice about a wide array of jobs and professions. The value of this book is twofold: For young people or middle-aged people who are undecided about their career paths and feel constrained in their choices, A World of Work offers an expansive vision. For ethnographers, this book offers an excellent example of using the practical details of everyday life to shed light on larger structural issues. Each chapter in this collection of ethnographic fiction could be considered a job manual. Yet not any typical job manual—to do justice to the ways details about jobs are conveyed in culturally specific ways, the authors adopt a range of voices and perspectives. One chapter is written as though it was a letter from an older sister counseling her brother on how to be a doctor in Malawi. Another is framed as a eulogy for a well-loved village magistrate in Papua New Guinea who may have been killed by sorcery. Beneath the novelty of the examples are some serious messages that Ilana Gershon highlights in her introduction. These ethnographies reveal the connection between work and culture, the impact of societal values on the conditions of employment. Readers will be surprised at how much they can learn about an entire culture by being given the chance to understand just one occupation.

Author : Beth English,Mary E. Frederickson,Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351713474

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Global Women's Work by Beth English,Mary E. Frederickson,Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama Pdf

This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women’s labor force participation and workplace activism. The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women’s agency within the context of changing economic options; and women’s negotiations and renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Labor
ISBN : MINN:31951P00793258U

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World of Work by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Hitchcock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319453996

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Labor in Culture, Or, Worker of the World(s) by Peter Hitchcock Pdf

This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural theory and practice this book examines why this might be so. If globalization unites workers via production and capital flows, it often writes over traditional or progressive forms of unity. Worlds of work have expanded in the last half century, yet labor has receded within cultural discourse. By considering critical and historical concepts in the workers’ inquiry, the subject, and value, and provocative projects in cultural representation itself, this study expands our lexicon of labor to understand more fully what “workers of the world” means under globalization. As such the book offers broad appeal to students and teachers of Global and Cultural Studies and will interest all those who take seriously how the worker is articulated at a global scale.

Author : Tim Sanders
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385528276

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Saving the World at Work by Tim Sanders Pdf

Even the actions of a single person can help to change the world. How? Through simple acts of leadership and compassion. Open up this book, and discover the true stories of people whose actions have caused a chain reaction at work and in their communities. Among them: A manager who gives an employee some supportive praise, and as a result literally saves his life (page 231). A small group of bank tellers who spearhead a movement to raise millions of dollars for breast cancer, making it the biggest fundraiser in North America, and enhancing their company’s reputation (page 213). A sales manager who gets a copy of a groundbreaking book that leads to a transformation of the company’s operations. As a result, hundreds of millions of pounds of carpet waste avoid the landfill, and the company sparks a revolution in its industry (page 12). A “responsibility revolution” is shaking up corporate America. In this provocative and insightful book, bestselling author Tim Sanders reveals why companies must to go beyond making a profit and start making a difference. Every one of us, regardless of title or position, can inspire our companies to change the way they do business, helping them to become a positive force for enriching people, communities, and the environment. When this happens, not only do we help save the world, we help save our companies from becoming irrelevant. We also become part of what Sanders calls the Responsibility Revolution. Companies that don’t participate in this revolution risk becoming obsolete. Today customers, employees, and investors are demanding that companies focus on their social responsibilities—not just their bottom lines. Sixty-five percent of American consumers say they would change to brands associated with a good cause if price and quality were equal; 66 percent of recent college graduates will not work for companies with poor social values. And more than sixty million people are willing to pay a premium for socially and environmentally responsible products. In SAVING THE WORLD AT WORK, Tim Sanders offers concrete suggestions on how all of us can help our companies join the Responsibility Revolution. Drawing on extensive interviews with hundreds of employees and CEOs, and illuminated by countless stories of people who are making a difference in the workplace and in the world, Sanders offers practical advice every individual and company can use to make the world a better place--now and in the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015051610437

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The World Book Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Author : Roman Krznaric,The School of Life
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780230766112

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How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric,The School of Life Pdf

The desire for fulfilling work is one of the great aspirations of our age and this inspirational book reveals how one might make it a reality. It explores the competing claims we face for money and status while doing something meaningful and in tune with our talents. Drawing on wisdom about work that is to be found in sociology, psychology, history and philosophy, Roman Krznaric sets out a practical and innovative guide to negotiating the labyrinth of choices, overcoming the fear of change, and finding a career that makes you thrive. One in the new series of books from The School of Life, launched May 2012: How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric How to Worry Less About Money by John Armstrong How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton

Author : Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel,Ghellab, Youcef,de Bustillo Llorente , Rafael M.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800888050

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The New World of Work by Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel,Ghellab, Youcef,de Bustillo Llorente , Rafael M. Pdf

Actors in the world of work are facing an increasing number of challenges, including automatization and digitalization, new types of jobs and more diverse forms of employment. This timely book examines employer and worker responses, challenges and opportunities for social dialogue, and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022442081

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A Dictionary of the English Language ... Abstracted from the folio edition of the author ... Fourteenth edition, corrected, etc by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Kevin Maney,Steve Hamm,Jeffrey O'Brien
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780132755139

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Making the World Work Better by Kevin Maney,Steve Hamm,Jeffrey O'Brien Pdf

Thomas J Watson Sr’s motto for IBM was THINK, and for more than a century, that one little word worked overtime. In Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company, journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey M. O’Brien mark the Centennial of IBM’s founding by examining how IBM has distinctly contributed to the evolution of technology and the modern corporation over the past 100 years. The authors offer a fresh analysis through interviews of many key figures, chronicling the Nobel Prize-winning work of the company’s research laboratories and uncovering rich archival material, including hundreds of vintage photographs and drawings. The book recounts the company’s missteps, as well as its successes. It captures moments of high drama – from the bet-the-business gamble on the legendary System/360 in the 1960s to the turnaround from the company’s near-death experience in the early 1990s. The authors have shaped a narrative of discoveries, struggles, individual insights and lasting impact on technology, business and society. Taken together, their essays reveal a distinctive mindset and organizational culture, animated by a deeply held commitment to the hard work of progress. IBM engineers and scientists invented many of the building blocks of modern information technology, including the memory chip, the disk drive, the scanning tunneling microscope (essential to nanotechnology) and even new fields of mathematics. IBM brought the punch-card tabulator, the mainframe and the personal computer into the mainstream of business and modern life. IBM was the first large American company to pay all employees salaries rather than hourly wages, an early champion of hiring women and minorities and a pioneer of new approaches to doing business--with its model of the globally integrated enterprise. And it has had a lasting impact on the course of society from enabling the US Social Security System, to the space program, to airline reservations, modern banking and retail, to many of the ways our world today works. The lessons for all businesses – indeed, all institutions – are powerful: To survive and succeed over a long period, you have to anticipate change and to be willing and able to continually transform. But while change happens, progress is deliberate. IBM – deliberately led by a pioneering culture and grounded in a set of core ideas – came into being, grew, thrived, nearly died, transformed itself... and is now charting a new path forward for its second century toward a perhaps surprising future on a planetary scale.

Author : Christine L. Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520915220

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Still a Man's World by Christine L. Williams Pdf

Men who do "women's work" have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity. In this eye-opening study, Christine Williams provides a wholly new look at men who work in predominantly female jobs. Having conducted extensive interviews in four cities, Williams uncovers how men in four occupations—nursing, elementary school teaching, librarianship, and social work—think about themselves and experience their work. Contrary to popular imagery, men in traditionally female occupations do not define themselves differently from men in more traditional occupations. Williams finds that most embrace conventional, masculine values. Her findings about how these men fare in their jobs are also counterintuitive. Rather than being surpassed by the larger number of women around them, these men experience the "glass escalator effect," rising in disproportionate numbers to administrative jobs at the top of their professions. Williams finds that a complex interplay between gendered expectations embedded in organizations, and the socially determined ideas workers bring to their jobs, contribute to mens' advantages in these occupations. Using a feminist psychoanalytic perspective, Williams calls for more men not only to cross over to women's occupations, but also to develop alternative masculinities that find common ground with traditionally female norms of cooperation and caring. Until the workplace is sexually integrated and masculine and feminine norms equally valued, it will unfortunately remain "still a man's world."

Author : Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0374292787

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The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0] by Thomas L. Friedman Pdf

Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.

Author : Simcha Fishbane,Calvin Goldscheider,Jack N. Lightstone
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030535711

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Exploring Mishnah's World(s) by Simcha Fishbane,Calvin Goldscheider,Jack N. Lightstone Pdf

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of the historical and literary-historical issues that impinge upon the use of Mishnah for any scholarly purposes beyond philological study, including social scientific approaches to the materials. Based on the framework, each chapter undertakes, with appropriate methodological caveats, an avenue of inquiry open to the social scientist that brings to bear social scientific questions and modes of inquiry to Mishnaic evidence.