Download or read book Idle Hands and Empty Hearts written by Neala Schleuning and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-10-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking new book, Neala Schleuning searches for the meaning of work in our society. Compellingly written, Idle Hands and Empty Hearts studies the politics and economics, as well as the philosophy and art, of work. Schleuning seeks to find out what work is, what it used to be, why we work, and what is wrong with work today. She places ideas about work in their history and culture and offers new ideas about what work should be, and what role it should play in our lives. Schleuning distills all of the central questions having to do with work in our time: why do human beings work; what can we learn about work from history; what is the impact of technology on work; how does work affect our political lives; do women have a different perspective on work; and finally, what is Good Work and how do we create a future in which good work can be realized? Anyone who ever wondered about the role of work in his or her life will find Idle Hands and Empty Hearts a source of stimulating ideas.
Download or read book The Problem with Work written by Kathi Weeks and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.
Download or read book The Hungry Cowboy written by Karla A. Erickson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a Tex-Mex restaurant in a Minneapolis suburb, customers send Christmas and Hanukkah cards to the restaurant, bring in home-baked treats for the staff, and attend the annual employee party. One customer even posts in the entryway a sign commemorating the life of his dog. Diners and servers alike use the Hungry Cowboy as a place to gather, celebrate, relax, and even mourn. Moments such as these fascinate Karla A. Erickson, who worked for the restaurant, and they make up her new book The Hungry Cowboy. Weaving together narratives from servers, customers, and managers, Erickson explores a type of service work that is deeply embedded in personal relationships and community. Feelings, play, and emotions are inseparable from the market transactions within the restaurant. Based on extensive interviews and two years of working as a waitress, Erickson provides insights into the ways that people make contact in our society and how they build on the fleeting connections in the service exchange to form more intimate relationships. Written for readers, scholars, and students interested in American culture, consumerism, and community, The Hungry Cowboy offers a case study in how consumers and producers in the marketplace perform, and how dignity, meaning, and community can all be built at work.
Download or read book Doing Nothing written by Tom Lutz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work—and getting out of it Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Reviled by many, heroes to others, these layabouts stretch and yawn while the rest of society worries and sweats. Whenever the world of labor changes in significant ways, the pulpits, politicians, and pedagogues ring with exhortations of the value of work, and the slackers answer with a strenuous call of their own: "To do nothing," as Oscar Wilde said, "is the most difficult thing in the world." From Benjamin Franklin's "air baths" to Jack Kerouac's "dharma bums," Generation-X slackers, and beyond, anti-work-ethic proponents have held a central place in modern culture. Moving with verve and wit through a series of fascinating case studies that illuminate the changing place of leisure in the American republic, Doing Nothing revises the way we understand slackers and work itself.
Download or read book Vesper Talks to Girls written by Laura Anna Knott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is full of opportunities for new beginnings. Courage and hope go out of a person only when he ceases to believe that for him there is one more chance to retrieve the mistakes of the past. George Eliot says, "It is never too late to be what you might have been." Such a conviction is necessary if we would live lives of power. There is a sonnet by Senator Ingalls in which Opportunity is represented as saying, - "Soon or late I knock, unbidden, once at every gate! - - - - - - - ... those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more!" One who saw life from a different point of view[1] replied by a poem on the same subject in which Opportunity says, - "They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win." The latter view is surely the truer and more inspiring one.
Download or read book The Pearl of Days By a Labourer s Daughter i e B H Farquhar Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Affluenza written by John de Graaf and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “witty yet hard-hitting” look at the symptoms, causes, and cures for America’s addiction to buying more stuff (Library Journal). NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague. The new edition traces the role overconsumption played in the Great Recession, discusses new ways to measure social health and success (such as the Gross Domestic Happiness index), and offers policy recommendations to make our society more simplicity-friendly. The underlying message isn’t to stop buying—it’s to remember, always, that the best things in life aren't things. “It is not a book that shakes a finger in our faces and reprimands hardworking Americans for wanting a little more comfort, elegance, and enjoyment... it creates something of real value—a new way of accounting for true happiness in our lives.” —Scott Simon, Weekend Edition host, NPR “Affluenza is a sober indictment of the excesses and sheer waste in our increasingly consumer-oriented society. We would all be well served to read the book and pass it on to relatives, friends, and neighbors in the hopes of creating a great public conversation around how to eradicate the affluenza pandemic.” —Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Third Industrial Revolution
Download or read book The Five Great Philosophies of Life written by William De Witt Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healthy Work written by Namir Khan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference provides an overview of relevant literature to engineers, managers, accountants, occupational health and safety specialists, and industrial hygienists, so that they, and other professionals, can understand what has caused our workplaces to become primary sources of physical and mental illness.
Download or read book A STUDY IN THR PRINCIPLES OF PERSONALITY written by WILLIAM DE WITT HYDE and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from Harry and Helen written by Mary Blount White and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Millennial Harbinger written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pearl of Days written by Barbara H. Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sabbath on the Rock and the Gospel in the Decalogue by a Sabbath School Teacher Robert Wilson With a Recommendatory Preface by A Duff Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Millennial Harbinger written by Alexander Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book about Books written by E.H. Bernstein and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book about Books discusses what nonfiction books and subjects the author believes are important to know about. This book is volume I of III. Only the first volume is available at this time. The second volume is forthcoming and will be available in 2020. E.H. Bernstein is a former librarian turned author. The subtitle of the book describes the author’s objective: “A handbook in 3 parts to a choice of essential books, writers and subjects in order to understand the world we live in, about ‘big questions’ and possible answers, about books and writers that may improve people’s lives, about neglected writers, and other books and subjects.” A Book about Books attempts to share what the author has learned from nearly 50 years of nonfiction reading and to provide the reader with samples of the most important authors and subjects from that reading. While the book is based on research, it is intended to be a handbook or guide by trying to make that research understandable to the general reader and to students, and for teachers--by pointing to what the author believes is missing from today’s education. Note about how the volumes are related: each chapter is on a separate subject. So the chapters can be read individually, but the full message requires reading all the volumes. Volume I is important, but preliminary to the more important Volumes II and III. A future website, bookaboutbooks.com. is planned for later in 2019 and will include additional material not in the books. Note also that the book is not just about books, since other sources are also mentioned. This book tries to point to problems in how we live and to see if books have any answers. A contemporary writer once said that one of the purposes of writing is that books should be useful. I hope that my book will be of use.
