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The precariat : the new dangerous class / by Standing, Guy.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Precarious employment.; Casual labor.; Minimum wage.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Counting hired farmworkers [microform] : some points to consider / by Whitener, Leslie A.(CARDINAL)326012; United States.Department of Agriculture.Economic Research Service.(CARDINAL)144580;
Microfiche.
Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers; Casual labor; Seasonal labor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nomadland [sound recording] : surviving America in the twenty-first century / by Bruder, Jessica,author.(CARDINAL)345950; White, Karen,(Karen Elizabeth)narrator.(CARDINAL)824873;
Read by Karen White.The author chronicles her time embedded in a pool of transient older Americans who have taken to the road in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads, migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers."
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Casual labor; Migrant labor; Older people; Recreational vehicle living; Retirees; Retirement; Van life; Working poor;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century / by Bruder, Jessica,author.(CARDINAL)345950;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273).Foreword -- The squeeze Inn -- The end -- Surviving America -- Escape plan -- Amazon town -- The gathering place -- The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous -- Halen -- Some unbeetable experiences -- The H word -- Homecoming -- Coda: The octopus in the coconut."From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. Accompanying her irrepressible protagonist, Linda May, and others, from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive. Like Linda May, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable "Earthship" home, they have not given up hope."--
Subjects: Older people; Retirees; Retirement; Casual labor; Working poor; Migrant labor; Recreational vehicle living; Van life;
Available copies: 46 / Total copies: 49
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Nomadland [large print] : surviving America in the twenty-first century / by Bruder, Jessica,author.(CARDINAL)345950;
Includes bibliographical references.The squeeze inn -- The end -- Surviving America -- Escape plan -- Amazon town -- The gathering place -- The rubber tramp rendezvous -- Halen -- Some unbeetable experiences -- The H word -- Homecoming -- Coda: the octopus in the coconut -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.From the North Dakota beet fields to California's National Forest campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have discovered a new low-cost labor pool: transient older Americans. With Social security coming up short, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands, forming a growing community of migrant laborers dubbed "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle christened "Van Halen," Bruder hits the road to tell an eye-opening tale of the American economy's dark underbelly. -- Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Large print books.; Older people; Casual labor; Retirees; Retirement; Working poor; Migrant labor; Recreational vehicle living; Van life;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Steal this university : the rise of the corporate university and the academic labor movement / by Johnson, Benjamin Heber.(CARDINAL)433041; Kavanagh, Patrick,1972-(CARDINAL)265590; Mattson, Kevin,1966-(CARDINAL)265589;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.1430L
Subjects: Universities and colleges; College teachers' unions; Education, Higher; Universities and colleges;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Expecting better : how to fight the pregnancy establishment with facts / by Oster, Emily.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Pt. 1: In the beginning : conception. Prep work ; Data-driven conception ; The two-week wait -- Pt. 2: The first trimester. The vices : caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco ; Miscarriage fears ; Beware of deli meats! ; Nausea and my mother-in-law ; Prenatal screening and testing ; The surprising perils of gardening -- Pt. 3: The second trimester. Eating for two? You wish ; Pink and blue ; Working out and resting up ; Drug safety -- Pt. 4: The third trimester. Premature birth (and the dangers of bed rest) ; High-risk pregnancy ; I'm going to be pregnant forever, right? ; Labor induction -- Pt. 5: Labor and delivery. The labor numbers ; To epidural or not to epidural? ; Beyond pain relief ; The aftermath ; Home birth: progressive or regressive? And who cleans the tub?Pregnancy--unquestionably one of the most proƠfound, meaningful experiences of adulthood--can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. We're told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee, but aren't told why. Rules for prenatal testing are hard and fast--and unexplained. Are all of these recommendations right for every mom-to-be? Here, award-winning economist Emily Oster shows that pregnancy rules are often misguided and sometimes flat-out wrong. Pregnant women face an endless stream of decisions, from the casual to the frightening. Expecting Better presents the hard facts and real-world advice you won't get at the doctor's office or in the existing literature. --From publisher description.
Subjects: Pregnancy; Pregnant women; Prenatal care.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 7
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Rise of the robots : technology and the threat of a jobless future / by Ford, Martin(Martin R.)(CARDINAL)594107;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-315) and index.The automation wave -- Is this time different? -- Information technology : an unprecedented force for disruption -- White-collar jobs at risk -- Transforming higher education -- The health care challenge -- Consumers, limits to growth ... and crisis? -- Super-intelligence and the singularity -- Toward a new economic paradigm."In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation?"--Business Book of the Year, 2015.
Subjects: Labor supply; Labor supply; Employment forecasting.; Technological innovations;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Bad jobs and poor decisions : dispatches from the working class / by Helton, J. R.(John R.),author.(CARDINAL)531822;
Prologue: 1989 -- Other people -- Halloween -- Kansas -- Sweetheart of the rodeo -- Finding the cure for cancer -- Epilogue: 1989."The unattainable quest for middle-class stability is hauntingly captured in this biting portrayal of forgotten America Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, JR Helton brings to life an obscured underside ofthe American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s. We first meet Helton as a struggling writer succumbing to the bleak reality of what it means to support himself and a troubled wife. That despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, enduring hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor. Along the way, he introduces us to the real people toiling beneath the saccharine veneer of wealth that was the Reaganyears: the ambitious and the lazy, the potheads and racists, as well as Vietnam vets too shaken to hold a paint brush, dead-beat fathers straining to pay child support, and the casual murderer. Raw and moving, Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions captures a microcosm of tattered America that straddles that dangerous line between ruin and redemption."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Helton, J. R. (John R.); Man-woman relationships; Working class men; Working class;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust / by Hahn-Beer, Edith,1914-2009,author.; Dworkin, Susan.;
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret. In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street. Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust-complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.--inside cover
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Hahn-Beer, Edith, 1914-2009.; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 22
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