The Labor of Words
Author | : Christopher Pierce Wilson |
Publisher | : Athens : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Pierce Wilson |
Publisher | : Athens : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Diana Garc’a |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780816520435 |
"I write what I eat and smell,"says Diana Garc’a, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language. In this, Garc’a's first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and sorrows. Bold, political, and familial, Garc’a's poems gift the reader with a sense of earth, struggle, and prideÑeach line filled with the sounds of agrarian music, from mariachi melodies to repatriation revolts. Embodied with such spirit, her poems rise with the convictions of power and equality
Author | : John Krinsky |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226453677 |
One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s proudest accomplishments is his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers. The fact that WEP workers are denied the legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. For antipoverty activists, legal advocates, unions, and other critics of the program this double standard begs a troubling question: are workfare participants workers or welfare recipients? At times the fight over workfare unfolded as an argument over who had the authority to define these terms, and in Free Labor, John Krinsky focuses on changes in the language and organization of the political coalitions on either side of the debate. Krinsky’s broadly interdisciplinary analysis draws from interviews, official documents, and media reports to pursue new directions in the study of the cultural and cognitive aspects of political activism. Free Labor will instigate a lively dialogue among students of culture, labor and social movements, welfare policy, and urban political economy.
Author | : Seth Kahn |
Publisher | : CSU Open Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : College teachers, Part-time |
ISBN | : 9781607327653 |
"Composition scholars and activists have long documented the exploitative conditions of adjunct faculty. While documentation matters, continued data-collecting too often precludes movement towards equitable treatment. This collection highlights actions and describes efforts that have led toward improved adjunct working conditions in English departments"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Paul E. Willis |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780231053570 |
Claims the rebellion of poor and working class children against school authority prepares them for working class jobs.
Author | : Bingham, Scott |
Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2024-02-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9231006525 |
Author | : Douglas R. Holmes |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2013-12-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022608776X |
Markets are artifacts of language—so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have been engaging in communicative experiments that predate the financial crisis and continue to be refined amid its unfolding turmoil—experiments that do not merely describe the economy, but actually create its distinctive features. Holmes examines the New York District Branch of the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, and the Bank of England, among others, and shows how officials there have created a new monetary regime that relies on collaboration with the public to achieve the ends of monetary policy. Central bankers, Holmes argues, have shifted the conceptual anchor of monetary affairs away from standards such as gold or fixed exchange rates and toward an evolving relationship with the public, one rooted in sentiments and expectations. Going behind closed doors to reveal the intellectual world of central banks,Economy of Words offers provocative new insights into the way our economic circumstances are conceptualized and ultimately managed.
Author | : Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1066 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Augustus Story |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Phonetic alphabet |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Heike Geissler |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-12-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1635900360 |
How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center. No longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a stopgap measure, quickly becomes a descent into humiliation, and Geissler soon begins to internalize the dynamics and nature of the post-capitalist labor market and precarious work. Driven to work at Amazon by financial necessity rather than journalistic ambition, Heike Geissler has nonetheless written the first and only literary account of corporate flex-time employment that offers “freedom” to workers who have become an expendable resource. Shifting between the first and the second person, Seasonal Associate is a nuanced expose of the psychic damage that is an essential working condition with mega-corporations. Geissler has written a twenty-first-century account of how the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt.