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Information technologies have become both a means and an end,
transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing
evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but
relatively little attention has been given to how changing
technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This
volume specifically examines the institutional and social
environment of the workplaces that information technologies have
created.
Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but relatively little attention has been given to how changing technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This volume specifi cally examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have created.
This book breaks new ground on a controversial subject in industrial relations and human resource management -- nonunion forms of employee representation in the workplace. Practiced in many different ways, such as joint committees, employee forums, and plant councils, nonunion methods of employee representation are spreading rapidly as part of employee involvement and participation programs. But these employee groups remain highly controversial and heavily restricted by labor law in the United States because of their potential abuse in union avoidance. The American approach stands in sharp contrast to policies in other countries, such as Canada, Germany and Japan, where nonunion employee representation is largely unrestricted or even encouraged by law. In this volume a distinguished, international set of authors provide an in-depth, balanced analysis and evaluation of this timely and much-debated topic. They give special emphasis to an historical assessment of nonunion employee representation, its practice and performance in modern workplaces, and cross-national differences in law and public policy. Recent proposals for reform of American legal treatment of nonunion employee representation are also carefully considered, and an evaluation and suggested plan of action are put forward.
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute,
shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations.
Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense,
but the jury had little sympathy. Condemned to death on six
separate counts, she was executed by lethal injection in 2002.
This brilliant dissection of American popular culture--in the form of a poetry collection--centers around the "Final Girl," the last girl left alive in the slasher movie "Final Girl traces the history of the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In "Final Girl, Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell the story: what was done to others, what was done to her, what might yet be done to her. Sexy and tart, dark and comic, low-down and high-hearted poems such as "Slash," "Vamp," "Bride of Reanimator," and "The Babysitter," Gottlieb identifies and articulates the desires, fears, traumas--both personal and social--out of which pop culture is made. And then she feeds pop culture back to itself. Though the slasher flick is central, Gottlieb finds resonances in sources as disparate as the early American captivity narrative, queer and feminist film theory, and her own mother's death from cancer. Through such iconic figures as Marilyn Monroe and Patty Hearst, Gottlieb delineates the ways in which we're betrayed by our cultural fantasies about abduction, gender, literature, pleasure, and transgression--and, in so doing, synthesizes the death and life of the Western female.
WHY THINGS BURN is about as hard-hitting a book of poetry as you'll experience this year. In her own inimitable style, Daphne Gottlieb tackles sexuality, lesbianism, rape, modern urban living, and the author's Jewish heritage, with a sometimes kooky but always sophisticated view of life. Honed to perfection in her 'slam' spoken word performances, these 50 poems are by turns witty, shocking, warm and fierce. The book also includes photos of the author on stage.
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