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Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies
Remediating Sound studies the phenomena of remixing, mashup and
recomposition: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to
characterise much of YouTube's audiovisual content. Through
collaborative composition, collage and cover songs to reaction
videos and political activism , users from diverse backgrounds have
embraced the democratised space of YouTube to open up new and
innovative forms of sonic creativity and push the boundaries of
audiovisual possibilities. Observing the reciprocal flow of
influence that runs between various online platforms, 12 chapters
position YouTube as a central hub for the exploration of digital
sound, music and the moving image. With special focus on aspects of
networked creativity that remain overlooked in contemporary
scholarship, including library music, memetic media, artificial
intelligence, the sonic arts and music fandom, this volume offers
interdisciplinary insight into contemporary audiovisual culture.
The American Dream of reaching success through sheer sweat and
determination rings false for countless members of today's working
class. This volume shows that many of the difficulties facing
modern laborers have deep roots in the history of worker
exploitation in the South. Contributors make the case that the
problems that have long beset southern labor, including the legacy
of slavery, low wages, lack of collective bargaining rights, and
repression of organized unions, have become the problems of workers
across the United States. Spanning nearly all of U.S. history, from
the eighteenth century to the present, the essays in this
collection range from West Virginia to Florida to Texas. They
examine such topics as vagrancy laws in the Early Republic, inmate
labor at state penitentiaries, mine workers and union membership,
pesticide exposure among farmworkers, labor activism during the
civil rights movement, and foreign-owned auto factories in the
rural South. They distinguish between different struggles
experienced by women and men, as well as by African American,
Latino, and white workers. The broad chronological sweep and
comprehensive nature of Reconsidering Southern Labor History set
this volume apart from any other collection on the topic in the
past forty years. Presenting the latest trends in the study of the
working-class South by a new generation of scholars, this volume is
a surprising revelation of the historical forces behind the labor
inequalities inherent today.
The growth of internet access and the entry of smartphones into
everyday life has provided a revolutionary way for consumers to
interact with businesses throughout the tourist industry. As a
result, numerous companies are utilizing techniques and concepts
designed to communicate directly with potential clientele all over
the world. Digital Marketing Strategies for Tourism, Hospitality,
and Airline Industries provides innovative insights into how
digital marketing can influence the consumer relationship at every
stage of the tourism process and features emerging tools and
techniques to establish better connections with consumers. The
content within this publication examines topics such as branding
strategies, social media, and influencer marketing for maximum
content exposure. This information is designed for marketing
managers, executives, event planners, tour developers, hotel
managers, airline managers, program directors, advertisers,
restaurateurs, students, business professionals, and researchers.
Food Rebellions! takes a deep look at the world food crisis and its
impact on the global South and underserved communities in the
industrial North. Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel unpack the
planet's environmentally and economically vulnerable food systems
to reveal the root causes of the crisis. They shows us how the
steady erosion of local and national control over their food
systems has made nations dependent on a volatile global market and
subject to the short-term interests of a handful of transnational
agri-food monopolies. Food Rebellions! is a powerful handbook for
those seeking to understand the causes and potential solutions to
the current food crisis now affecting nearly half of the world's
people. Why are food riots occurring around the world in a time of
record harvests? What are the real impacts of agrofuels and
genetically engineered crops? Food Rebellions! suggests that to
solve the food crisis, we must change the global food system-from
the bottom up and from the top down. The book frames the current
food crisis as unique opportunity to develop productive local food
systems that are engines for sustainable economic development.
Hunger and poverty, the authors insist, can be eliminated by
democratising food systems and respecting people's right to safe,
nutritious and culturally appropriate food and to food-producing
resources-in short, by advancing food sovereignty.
The third and final volume of Kevin Morgan's widely acclaimed
series Bolshevism and the British Left centres around the figure of
Alf Purcell (1872-1935), who between the wars was one of the
leading personalities in the British and international labour
movement. A long-term member of the TUC General Council, Purcell
became chairman of the general strike committee in 1926 - and this
could have been his hour of glory. But when it was called off
ignominiously he experienced the obloquy of defeat. Purcell was
most famous as one of TUC 'lefts' of the 1920s. But he was also
Labour MP for both the Forest of Dean and Coventry, as well as
being the founder of a working guild in the spirit of guild
socialism, the controversial president of the International
Federation of Trade Unions and the man who moved the formation of
the British communist party. A sometime syndicalist and associate
of Tom Mann, his experiences in the militant Furnishing Trades gave
rise to the uncompromising trade-union internationalism which
features so centrally in these chapters. But with the squeezing of
his syndicalist approach, as the labour movement polarised into
Labour and communist currents, Purcell died a politically broken
figure. Morgan also deploys the life of Purcell as a biographical
lens, a way of exploring wider controversies - among them the rival
modernities of Bolshevism and Americanism; the reactions to
Bolshevism of anarchists like Emma Goldman (who called Purcell
'that damn fake'); and the roots of political tourism to the USSR
in the British labour delegations in which Purcell featured so
prominently. The volume also includes a major challenge to existing
interpretations of the general strike, which it compellingly
presents, not as the last fling of the syndicalists, but as a first
and disastrously ill-conceived imposition of social-democratic
centralism by Ernest Bevin.
The aviation industry has undergone a significant change since the
21st century as technological developments accelerated its
development. Due to this, there is a need for modern research on
the current situation, future expectations, and possible change
scenarios in the aviation industry. Challenges and Opportunities
for Aviation Stakeholders in a Post-Pandemic World focuses on
contemporary studies addressing the effects of economic crises,
pandemics, digitalization, and war environments on the aviation
industry and draws attention to the aviation industry's current
situation and future expectations, focusing on its stakeholders and
various industry trends. Covering key topics such as technology,
sustainability, digitalization, and aviation management, this
reference work is ideal for industry professionals, policymakers,
researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors,
and students.
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