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Waiting for robots : the hired hands of automation / by Casilli, Antonio A.,1972-author.; Brown, Saskia,translator.; Roberts, Sarah T.(Professor of information studies),writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-290) and index.Introduction -- What automation?. Will humans replace robots? ; What's in a digital platform? -- Three types of digital labor. On-demand digital labor ; Microwork ; Social media labor -- The horizons of digital labor. Work outside work ; How do we classify digital labor? ; Subjectivity at work, globalization, and automation -- Conclusion. What is to be done?"Artificial Intelligence fuels both panic and enthusiasm. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. Users complain when these technologies don't obey; we worry about their influence on our choices and our livelihoods; and we yearn for their convenience. We see ourselves reflected in them, and we treat them as something entirely new. However unwillingly, when we overestimate the performance of these tools, we fail to recognize how our fellow humans contribute to their efficiency. In this bracing and powerful book, sociologist and award-winning author Antonio Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how AI continues to exploit human labor, including yours. He connects the diverse activities of today's tech laborers: platform laborers, like Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts; remote workers, performing atomized tasks like data entry on Amazon Mechanical Turk; and you, as you evaluate text or images to show you're not a robot, react to Facebook posts, or approve ChatGPT output. Using diverse examples, Casilli reveals that most "automation" still requires human labor, showing both tomorrow's threats and today's consequences for failing to recognize and compensate human workers"--
Subjects: Labor supply; Labor supply; Automation; Information society.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Why unions matter / by Yates, Michael D.,1946-(CARDINAL)180581;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-175) and index.Why unions? -- How unions form -- Union structures and democracy -- Collective bargaining -- Unions and politics: local, national, global -- Unions, racism, and sexism -- The tasks ahead.
Subjects: Labor unions;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The path to the greater, freer, truer world : southern civil rights and anticolonialism, 1937-1955 / by Swindall, Lindsey R.,1977-author.(CARDINAL)501482;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Origins -- The world at war -- The Cold War descends -- Cold War consequences: the Council on African Affairs in decline, 1950-1955 -- Epilogue.Swindall closely examines the work of two organizations, the Southern Negro Youth Congress (1937-1949) and the Council on African Affairs (1937-1955), which employed a global, Pan-African perspective and were part of the mid-twentieth century efforts to address race and labor issues from a leftist view.
Subjects: Council on African Affairs.; Southern Negro Youth Congress.; African Americans; African American youth; Youth movements; Nationalism; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Slavery today / by Bales, Kevin.(CARDINAL)357918; Cornell, Becky.(CARDINAL)558664;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1180L
Subjects: Slavery.; Slave labor.; Human trafficking.; Forced labor.; Slave trade.; Poor; Esclavage.; Esclaves;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Human rights in focus : human trafficking / by Currie-McGhee, Leanne,1971-author.(CARDINAL)462478;
Grade 9 to 12.Includes bibliographical references and index.Understanding human trafficking -- Sex trafficking -- Forced labor -- Victim's consequences -- Fighting human trafficking.Globally, millions of people live in modern day slavery. Men, women, and children across the world are subject to forced labor and sexual exploitation at the hands of human traffickers. The challenges human trafficking victims face, the efforts to eradicate this crime, and how to assist victims are discussedAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Human trafficking;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Hazard communication awareness program in English and Spanish. by North Carolina.Department of Labor.(CARDINAL)149593;
Subjects: Hazardous substances; Hazardous substances; Communication in industrial safety.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Empire of cotton : a global history / by Beckert, Sven,author.(CARDINAL)360459;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The rise of a global commodity -- Building war capitalism -- The wages of war capitalism -- Capturing labor, conquering land -- Slavery takes command -- Industrial capitalism takes wing -- Mobilizing industrial labor -- Making cotton global -- A war reverberates around the world -- Global reconstruction -- Destructions -- The new cotton imperialism -- The return of the global South -- The weave and the weft : an epilogue.Bancroft Prize, 2015.Pulitzer Prize Finalist, History, 2015
Subjects: Cotton textile industry; Cotton trade; Cotton plantation workers; Slavery; Enslaved persons.; Textile workers.; Capitalism; Labor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Economics 101 : the essential guide to how the economy works / by Schwartz, Elaine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Trade-offs and margins -- Economic systems -- The market systm -- Businesses -- Labor -- Fiscal policy -- Monetary policy -- Keeping track -- The financial system -- Globalization -- Development economics -- Economic growth and externalities -- Glossary -- Suggested reading, podcasts, and videos."This highly visual full-colour hardback contains everything you can learn about the fundamentals of economics, made accessible and engaging by economics expert Elaine Schwartz. Packed with flow diagrams, infographics, pull-out features and handy timelines, this book makes learning the subject easier than ever. It covers the whole breadth of the subject at degree level, covering market equilibrium, economic policy, comparative development and more. It also includes profiles of prominent economists, including Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and Einor Ostrom, and the contributions they have made to economic theory. By the time you finish this book, you will be able to answer questions such as: How do supply and demand work?; What is monetary policy?; Is GDP the best measure of success?; What are the costs and benefits of globalization? This hardback guide is perfect for both students and those wishing to know how economics has played its part in constructing the world in which we live"--
Subjects: Economics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Disposable people : new slavery in the global economy / by Bales, Kevin.(CARDINAL)357918;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Poor; Prostitution.; Slave labor.; Slavery.; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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No turning back : the history of feminism and the future of women / by Freedman, Estelle B.,1947-(CARDINAL)515435;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-370, 380-416) and index.Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women's movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed, as the author, a Stanford University professor, argues in this book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. She examines the historical forces that have fueled the feminist movement over the past two hundred years, and explores how women today are looking to feminism for new approaches to issues of work, family, sexuality, and creativity. Drawing from examples from a variety of countries and cultures, from the past and the present, this narrative informs on the role women play in the world, and defines one of the most social movements of all tme. -- From back cover.The historical case for feminism -- Before Feminism Gender and power. -- The Historical Emergence of Feminisms. Women's rights, women's work, and women's sphere -- Race and the politics of identity in U.S. feminism -- The global stage and the politics of location. -- The Politics of work and Family. Never done: women's domestic labor -- Industrialization, wage labor, and the economic gender gap -- Workers and mothers: feminist social policies. -- The Politics of Health and Sexuality. Medicine, markets, and the female body -- Reproduction: the politics of choice -- Sexualities, identities, and self-determination -- Gender and violence. -- Feminist Visions and Strategies. New words and images: women's creativity as feminist practice -- No turning back: women and politics.
Subjects: Feminism; Women; Feminism.; Women's movement.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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