Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism (Pfannebecker Mareile)(Pevná vazba)

Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism (Pfannebecker Mareile)(Pevná vazba)

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and an eclectic

Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Praznik Katja)(Pevná vazba)

The Sorrows of Work (The School of Life)(Pevná vazba)

Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us also end up at points confused, discouraged and beaten by our work.The temptation is to blame ourselves narrowly - and to feel privately ashamed and guilty. However, as this book lucidly explains, there are a range

Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Child Danielle)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer considered

Compassionate Leadership: 16 Simple Ways to Engage and Inspire Your Team at Work (Axtell Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Learn how to be a good boss and become the leader everyone wants to work for.People want to work for someone they respect, someone who is on their side. And when employees feel seen, heard, and valued by their supervisors, employee engagement improves, productivity increases, and the entire

Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism (Berg Heather)(Paperback)

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork

Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (Gold David)(Pevná vazba)

Women at Work presents the field of rhetorical studies with fifteen chapters that center on gender, rhetoric, and work in the US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist scholars explore women's labor evangelism in the textile industry, the rhetorical constructions of leadership within

Fully Automated Luxury Communism (Bastani Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream remains

Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: 'Working the Ground' in Scotland (Howard Penny McCall)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to,

The Dignity of Labour: Image, Work and Identity in the Roman World (Ferris Iain)(Pevná vazba)

Numerous incidental illustrations of agricultural workers occur on Roman artworks, while the names and trades of many individual working people, artisans, and professionals are known from inscriptions and funerary monuments in Rome and from across the empire. The most extraordinary individual

Postmodern Social Work: Reflective Practice and Education (Moffatt Ken)(Pevná vazba)

Ken Moffatt turns to postmodern philosophy's grappling with late capitalism and the omnipresence of technology in order to develop a new approach to reflective social work practice and critical pedagogy. He attempts to reconcile postmodern thinkers with the realities of teaching social work to

Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (Cohen Julie E.)(Pevná vazba)

A work of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the ways that law and technology interact. Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as

Academic Scientists at Work (Boss Jeremy)(Paperback)

Academic Scientists at Work guides the scientist on the journey from the end of a postdoctoral career to the point of promotion to Associate Professor.This book focuses on the three aspects of promotion in an academic setting: Scholarship, Teaching, and Service. Valuable advice is provided on the

The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work: Neoliberal Desires and Labour Arbitrage in Post-Socialist Romania (Miszczyński Milosz)(Paperback)

A thoughtful analysis of the developing interplay between post-socialist European communities and Western neoliberal

Work: The Last 1,000 Years (Komlosy Andrea)(Pevná vazba)

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout historySay the word 'work,' and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people--whether in colonies, developing countries, or the

London Labour and the London Poor (Mayhew Henry)(Paperback)

An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, literature, and sociology, London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles for a local newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the

Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

You're Hired! Find Work at 50+ - A Positive Approach to Securing the Job You Want (Taylor Denise)(Paperback / softback)

Helping you define your work needs and secure the job you want, Find Work at 50+ guides you through all the modern job-hunting techniques and teaches you how to play to your strengths as an older worker. Topics include 21st-century CVs, using social media, dealing with stereotypes and staying

Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education: Neoliberal Policies of Funding and Management (Gupta Suman)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other

Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction (Ferguson Susan)(Paperback)

'A masterful analysis of three centuries of feminist deliberations on work, carefully tracing how the fault lines of social-reproduction theory emerged.'--Historical Materialism Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair

Unbias: Addressing Unconscious Bias at Work (Gordon Stacey A.)(Pevná vazba)

Let the CEO of Rework Work help you understand diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts to actively remove bias from the workplace Dismantling unhealthy workplaces involves much more than talking about it, and more than charts, graphs, and statistics--it requires action. Although it's

Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work (Schwartz Jeff)(Pevná vazba)

If you only read one book on the future of work, Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work should be that book. The future of work swept in sooner than expected, accelerated by Covid-19, creating an urgent need for new maps, new mindsets, new strategies--

Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (McGowan Todd)(Pevná vazba)

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders--but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the

Oceans Explored: Oceans at Work (Martin Claudia)(Pevná vazba)

Investigate the oceans of the world and how we interact with