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NetSlaves: True Tales of Working the Web
Bill Lessard , and Steve Baldwin Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0071364803 |
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Authors Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin neatly summarize the operating principle behind NetSlaves: "People are nuts, no matter what profession they're in, but people forced to work like dogs with the carrot stick of stock options and 'untold' wealth dangling under their noses are especially nuts."If all you know about the Internet business is what you've read in the financial press, then NetSlaves provides a cold slap of reality. For every headline-making company like Yahoo! or Amazon.com, there are hundreds or perhaps even thousands more like the ones Net vets Lessard and Baldwin have worked for. These are the startups that never finish up, companies that hire hundreds of programmers and Web-site designers and techies of all stripes, then merge or downsize or go out of business before anyone can cash in. The authors take the reader on an anthropological expedition through what they call the New Media Caste System. At the bottom rung are the "garbagemen," the guys who have to get the server up and running when it crashes, who have to rush to help the digital morons who can't figure out how to open their e-mail. At the top, of course, are the "robber barons," the guys who really do get mind-blowing wealth and profiles in Wired magazine. For each level, the authors tell an instructive, cautionary tale of life in the new economy.
Although Lessard and Baldwin clearly set out to create revenge journalism, enjoyed by all those who've lived on pizza and Mountain Dew for months on end only to end up with pink slips, those outside the tech universe should enjoy it, too. Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but it's easy to warm up to NetSlaves. --Lou Schuler
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A Library Journal Best Business Book for 1999 and featured in The New York Times and USA Today, the cult classic NetSlaves is now in paperback. Referring to the NetSlaves website on which this book was based, Cybercritic Ty Burr called it A bitterly funny reminder that the multimedia industry is not populated by future Masters of the Universe but by the same psychotics, power trippers, and cubicle people as any other business.... In capturing their voices, this book creates a savage commentary on a cultural phenomenon that has remained hidden for too long. Featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Weekly, San Diego Union-Tribune, Computer World, NPR, CBS-Radio's The Online Shopping Report, abcnews.com, TalkCity, The Industry Standard, Silicon Valleyreporter.com The authors have appeared on the Leher News Hour and in Crain's NY BusinessCustomer Reviews:
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Working With Elder Abuse: A TRAINING MANUAL FOR HOME CARE, RESIDENTIAL & DAY CARE STAFF
JACKI PRITCHARD Manufacturer: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 185302418X |
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Rampant Elder Abuse and Fraud Colored By Law: Guardianship!.......2004-09-29
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The Malinois
Jan Kaldenbach Manufacturer: Detselig Enterprises ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1550591517 |
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This breed is becoming increasingly popular for police and guard dogs. Kaldenbach covers the breed's characteristics, choosing a puppy or adult dog, early training, and Royal Dutch Police Dog Association (KNPV) training and testing.Customer Reviews:
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A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression : A History of the American Worker 1933-1941
Irving Bernstein Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin (T) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0395331161 |
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Building Sustainable Peace: Conflict, Conciliation and Civil Society in Northern Ghana (Oxfam Working Papers Series)
Ada van der Linde , and Rachel Naylor Manufacturer: Oxfam Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0855984236 |
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Intense fighting in the Northern Region of Ghana in 1994 and 1995 led to the loss of 15,000 lives and the displacement of 200,000 people. A formal peace treaty, negotiated by the government, ended the fighting but did not address the underlying causes of the conflict, which was a complex mix of economic, political, and ethnic factors.An informal consortium of NGOs, initially involved in delivering humanitarian aid, set up a parallel peace process, seeking to build up trust through a series of peace-education workshops and the creation of a multi-ethnic Youth and Development Association. The success of the process was symbolized by the signing of the Kumasi Peace Accord in 1996.This report, commissioned by the Northern Ghana Inter-NGO Consortium, demonstrates how a network of NGOs, sharing skills and building up local capacities, can play an invaluable role in promoting a sustainable peace after conflict.
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Caring for the Elderly at Home: A Policy Perspective on Consumer Experiences With Publicly Funded Home Care Programs in New York City (Css Working Papers)
Francis G. Caro , and Arthur E. Blank Manufacturer: Community Service Society Ny ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0881560529 |
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Getting back to work: black male unemployment is here to stay--unless we reconstruct jobs policy for the real economy.(How to Keep New York Working): An article from: City Limits
David Jason Fischer Manufacturer: City Limits Community Information Service, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009GH9YA Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from City Limits, published by City Limits Community Information Service, Inc. on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1360 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Good Practice In Working With Victims Of Violence (GOOD PRACTICE SERIES)
Hazel, Ed. Kemshall Manufacturer: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1853027685 |
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Good Practice In Working With Violence (GOOD PRACTICE SERIES)
Hazel, Ed. Kemshall Manufacturer: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1853026417 |
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The Lane Committee on the Working of the Abortion Act. Comments by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children as Submitted to the Secretary of State for the Social Services.
Viscount et al Barrington Manufacturer: Society for the Protection of Unborn Children 1974. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000L6IIAW |
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Pocket Guide to Electrical Equipment and Terminology
R. R. Lee Manufacturer: Gulf Professional Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0884153053 |
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This handy guide helps readers quickly identify key electrical equipment.
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Gender and Home-Based Employment:
Manufacturer: Auburn House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0865692718 |
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Gender often influences the type of occupation that individuals choose, as well as the way they work and the outcomes of that work. Home-based employment is no different. The proximity of these workers to their families' living activities provides an unique opportunity to study the effects of work-at-home on family interaction and the role that gender plays in this traditionally female-dominated situation. The chapters provide a range of gender considerations from the perspectives of the workers and the workers' families, with emphasis on either the workers, the family, or the work/business. The first chapter provides an overview of the subjects being covered and defines several of the concepts used. The range of viewpoints is extensive: Chapter 2 considers home-based employment from a global perspective, while Chapter 8 narrows the focus to one particular location and type of home-based worker. Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 7 examine in various ways the data from a 9-state study, basing their analyses in theoretical and conceptual frameworks related to gender. Chapter 6 explores the dilemma of parents who have to hire child care in order to complete their home-based work. Also included are recommendations for public policy considerations.
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The Global Construction of Gender
Elisabeth Prügl Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0231115601 |
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Gender constructions do not stop at state boundaries.
Global understandings of masculinity and femininity can emerge out of the matrix of international politics. Proposing an innovative conception of global politics by de-emphasizing state actors and instead analyzing competing transnational discourses, The Global Construction of Gender focuses specifically on people who work at home for pay. Prügl explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s in order to trace changing conceptions of gender over the course of this century.
As Prügl relates, home-based workers, both urban and rural, engage in a broad array of activities: they "sew garments, embroider, make lace, roll cigarettes, weave carpets, peel shrimp, prepare food, polish plastic, process insurance claims, edit manuscripts, and assemble artificial flowers, umbrellas, and jewelry." These (mostly female) workers are widely recognized as underpaid and exploited. In investigating their plight, Prügl describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities, including that of the working mother as a social problem, the wage-earning worker as a male breadwinner, the crafts-producing woman as the symbol of Third World nationhood, the woman micro-entrepreneur as the heroine of structural adjustment, and the new androgynous home-based consultant/freelancer/teleworker as the exemplary worker of a flexibly organized global economy.
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Homeworking Women: Gender, Racism and Class at Work
Annie Phizacklea , and Carol Wolkowitz Manufacturer: Sage Publications Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0803988737 |
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"This book challenges existing research, such as it is, and provides new empirical evidence on the gendered and racialised nature of homeworking. Moreover, it is distinctive in that it also offers an agenda for action to improve the appalling conditions that many homeworkers were found to be experiencing. Homeworking Women is committed research at its best: scientifically sound but with clear policy implications drawn out." --Teresa Rees in Housing Studies, Vol 11 Homeworking Women provides an up-to-date overview of all types of home-based work. The authors argue that homeworking replicates wider divisions in the labor force and that its potential for improving women's employment opportunities is therefore limited. Drawing on original research, they outline the advantages and disadvantages, the pay and conditions, and family situations for contemporary women homeworkers. Gender, racism, and ethnicity are shown to be key factors in constructing the homeworking labor force. The authors acknowledge the shared position that homeworkers occupy as women, as well as the clear differences experienced by clerical, manufacturing, and professional homeworkers, and question whether new technology in itself can be the way forward to a better paid, less onerous form of homeworking.
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Living Rooms As Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory System in Taiwan
Ping-Chun Hsiung Manufacturer: Temple University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1566393892 |
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In Taiwan, small-scale subcontracting factories of thirty employees or less make items for export, like the wooden jewelry boxes that Ping-Chun Hsiung made when she worked in six such factories. These factories are found in rice fields and urban areas, front yards and living rooms, mostly employing married women in line with the government slogan that promotes work in the home"Living Rooms as Factories."Hsiung studies the experiences of the married women who work in this satellite system of factories, and how their work and family lives have contributed to Taiwan's 9.1 percent GNP growth over the last three decades, the "economic miracle." This vivid portrayal of the dual lives of these women as wives, mothers, daughters-in-law and as manufacturing workers also provides sophisticated analyses of the links between class and gender stratification, family dynamics, state policy, and global restructuring within the process of industrialization.
Hsiung uses ethnographic data to illustrate how, in this system of intersecting capitalist logic and patriarchal practices, some Taiwanese women experience upward mobility by marrying into the owners' family, while others remain home and wage workers. Although women in both groups acknowledge gender inequality, this commonality does not bridge divergent class affiliations. Along with a detailed account of the oppressive labor practices, this book reveals how workers employ clandestine tactics to defy the owners' claims on their labor.
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Waged Work at Home: The Social Organization of Industrial Outwork in Hong Kong
Dale Lu , and Tai-Lok Lui Manufacturer: Avebury ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1856286444 |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS, VOLUME 23: DR. STRANGE: REPRINTING STRANGE TALES NOS. 110-111, 114-141. Illustrated by Steve Ditko
Stan. Lee Manufacturer: Marvel Enterprises, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N7ENMG |
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