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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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Temporary / by Leichter, Hilary,author.(CARDINAL)831531;
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Single women; Temporary employment; Precarious employment;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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After the gig : how the sharing economy got hijacked and how to win it back / by Schor, Juliet,author.(CARDINAL)307604;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the problem of work -- From the cyber-culture to "we are the Uber of x" -- Earning on the platforms -- Shared, but unequal -- "The shared economy is a Lie" -- Swapping with snobs -- Coops and commons, and democratic sharing."When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work-giving earners flexibility, autonomy, and a decent income. It was touted as a cure for social isolation and rampant ecological degradation. But this novel form of gig work soon sprouted a dark side: exploited Uber drivers, neighborhoods ruined by Airbnb, racial discrimination, and rising carbon emissions. Several of the most prominent platforms are now faced with existential crises as they prioritize growth over fairness and long-term viability. Nevertheless, the basic model-a peer-to-peer structure augmented by digital tech-holds the potential to meet its original promises. Based on nearly a decade of pioneering research, After the Gig dives into what went wrong along the way to this contemporary reimagining of labor. The book examines multiple types of data from thirteen cases to identify the unique features and potential of sharing platforms that prior research has failed to identify. Juliet B. Schor presents a compelling case that we can engineer a reboot: through regulatory reforms and cooperative platforms owned and controlled by users, an equitable and actual sharing economy is still possible"--
Subjects: Precarious employment; Self-employed; Cooperation.; Sharing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Side hustle safety net : how vulnerable workers survive precarious times / by Ravenelle, Alexandrea J.,1980-author.(CARDINAL)879771;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Officially unemployed" or "forgotten jobless?" -- The side hustle safety net -- Good jobs, bad jobs, scam jobs -- Making more and moving on up -- Strategies of survival -- Stuck in place -- It's a beautiful life -- Learning from covid -- Appendix : research methodology."This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners-gig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborers-do when the economy suddenly collapses. In Side Hustle Safety Net, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle builds on interviews with nearly two hundred gig-based and precarious workers, conducted during the height of the pandemic, to uncover the unique challenges they faced in unprecedented times. This book tells the stories of the "officially Unemployed" and the "forgotten jobless"-a digital-era demographic that turned to side hustles-and reveals how they fared. CARES Act assistance allowed some to change careers, start businesses, and perhaps transform their lives. However, gig workers and those involved in "polyemployment" found themselves at the mercy of outdated unemployment systems, vulnerable to scams, and attempting dubious survival strategies. Ultimately, Side Hustle Safety Net argues that the rise of the gig economy, partnered with underemployment and economic instability, has increased worker precarity with disastrous consequences"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Precarious employment; Gig economy; Underemployment; COVID-19 (Disease); Independent contractors;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The great inflation and its aftermath : the transformation of America's economy, politics, and society / by Samuelson, Robert J.(CARDINAL)209962;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The lost history -- The "full employment" obsession -- The money connection -- A compact of conviction -- Capitalism restored -- Precarious prosperity -- The future of affluence.
Subjects: Inflation (Finance);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The body in Griffith Park / by Kincheloe, Jennifer,1966-author.(CARDINAL)411424;
"Los Angeles, 1908. Ex-heiress, Anna Blanc, is precariously employed by the Los Angeles Police Department, reforming delinquent children and minding lady jailbirds. Badly. What she really wants is to trap criminals and be alone with the delicious Detective Joe Singer—both pursuits that could get her fired. If she loses her income, she’ll be on the street. While hunting truants in Griffith Park, Anna and Joe discover the body of a young John Doe. With Anna’s job on the line, Joe warns her away, but Anna can't resist. She's on the case. Meanwhile, Anna begins getting strange floral arrangements from an unknown admirer. Following the proverbial petals leads her to another crime--one close to home. Suddenly pitted against Joe, Anna must examine her loyalties and solve the crimes, even if it means losing the man she loves. Inspired by true events."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women detectives; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kids these days : human capital and the making of millennials / by Harris, Malcolm,author.(CARDINAL)603321;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.Danny Dunn and the homework machine -- Go to college -- Work (sucks) -- The Feds -- Everybody is a star -- Behavior modification -- Conclusion -- Final word."A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America. Millennials have been called lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature, but when you push aside the stereotypes, what actually unites this generation? The short answer: They've been had. Millennials are the hardest working and most educated generation in American history. They have poured unprecedented amounts of time and money into preparing themselves for the twenty-first-century workforce. Yet they are poorer, more medicated, more precariously employed, and have less of a social safety net than their parents or grandparents. Kids These Days asks why, and answers with a radical, brilliant, data-driven analysis of the economic and cultural forces that have shaped Millennial lives. Examining broad trends like runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarceration, social media, and more, Harris shows us a generation conditioned from birth to treat their lives and their efforts-their very selves and futures-as human capital to be invested. But what happens when children raised as investments grow up? Why are young people paying such a high price to train themselves for a system that exploits them? How can Millennials change or transcend what's been made of them? Gripping, mercilessly argued, deeply informed, and moving fluidly between critical theory, political policy, and pop culture, Kids These Days will wake you up, make you angry, and change how you see your place in the world. This is essential reading-not only for Millennials, but for anyone ready to take a hard look at how we got here and where we're headed if we don't change course fast"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Generation Y; Young adults; Generation Y; Young adults; Entitlement attitudes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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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: 44 / Total copies: 49
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Though I am an inept villainess : tale of the butterfly-rat body swap in the maiden court. by Nakamura, Satsuki,author.(CARDINAL)868827; Yukikana(Illustrator),artist.(CARDINAL)868847; McGarry, Mercedes,1994-letterer.; Muldoon, Molly,1987-adapter.(CARDINAL)357028; Ngo, Margaret,translator.; Ohitsuji, Ei,artist.(CARDINAL)868848;
"Dance like a butterfly, fight like a ... rat. After a rocky start, Reirin and Leelee have no time to lose before they must compose themselves for the Ghost Festival at the Maiden Court. There, Reirin must tread a tight line between the villainess role she's been cast and employing a diplomatic tit-for-tat of her own: confronting Kin Maiden Seika and her menacing court lady Gayou's plots. Keigetsu, meanwhile, is pushed to wits' end by her new body's precarious health-the risk of her plot's discovery rises!"--Page 4 of cover.Teen (13+).
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Novels.; Attempted murder; Body swapping; Graphic novels; Magic; Princes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Queer career : sexuality and work in modern America / by Canaday, Margot,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Gay labor. "The homosexual does cope fairly successfully with the straight world" : defining gay labor at midcentury ; "The ones who had nothing to lose" : days and nights in the queer work world -- Law and liberation. "I have brought the very government to its knees" : the campaign to end the ban on federal employment ; "Trouble" followed "revolutionary action" : lesbian and gay liberation and work -- Civil rights in a neoliberal age. "Discrimination engendered an epidemic all of its own" : the AIDS crisis on the job ; Making the "business case" : gay rights inside the post-Fordist corporation."Historians have noted that gay identity is central to the history of capitalism, but because of an assumption that workplaces were "straight spaces" in which queer people passed, historians of sexuality have had almost nothing to say about work, instead directing their attention to the street and to the bar. This book presents employment and the accompanying fear of job loss as one of the most salient features of queer life for most of the twentieth century, and looks at the political and legal developments of gay labor in the workplace, alongside the histories of women's, minorities', and immigrants' labor. Starting midcentury with the Lavender Scare-the federal government's massive purge of gay people from the Civil Service-the book traces how workplaces opened to gay workers, albeit unevenly, over the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a number of archival sources and interviews, this is a history of the workplace that shows larger structural change while also giving voice to many underrepresented individuals. Throughout, Margot Canaday emphasizes the concept of precariousness, a commonly deployed category within labor studies to designate that expanding category of workers in industrial societies who are detached from permanent, standardized, secure, and protected employment. While women and racial minorities also share this longer history of precarious work, the LGBT experience was a particularly powerful precedent for the changing character of economic life at the end of the 20th century. Despite that, the book shows that workplaces were surprisingly responsive to demands from gay employees for protection and benefits. Canaday shows that business was out ahead of both the government and labor unions in offering antidiscrimination protection and domestic partner benefits to gay workers. The final part of the book traces how gay rights came to be the most marketized/privatized civil rights social movement and how we should consider the gay experience in the workplace not as marginal or atypical but as central and predictive for all workers"--"A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of state aggression, vulnerable to employer exploitation, Margot Canaday positions employment and fear of job loss as central to gay life in postwar America.Rather than finding that many midcentury employers tried to root out gay employees, Canaday sees an early version of "don't ask/don't tell": in all kinds of work, as long as queer workers were discreet, they were valued for the lower wages they could be paid, their contingency, their perceived lack of familial ties, and the ease with which they could be pulled in and pushed out of the labor market. Across the socioeconomic spectrum, they were harbingers of post-Fordist employment regimes we now associate with precarity. While progress was not linear, by century's end some gay workers rejected their former discretion, and some employers eventually offered them protection unattained through law. Pushed by activists at the corporate grassroots, business emerged at the forefront of employment rights for sexual minorities. It did so, at least in part, in response to the way that queer workers aligned with, and even prefigured, the labor system of late capitalism.Queer Career shows how LGBT history helps us understand the recent history of capitalism and labor and rewrites our understanding of the queer past"--
Subjects: Sexual minorities; Sexual minorities; Sexual minorities; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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