Jobs in Paradise
Title | Jobs in Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Maltzman |
Publisher | Harper Perennial |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Listing more than 100,000 jobs in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, this is the perfect resource for getting terrific jobs in great locations. Includes job listings by geographic area, employers, and skills required, plus a special section on working in a foreign country.
Jobs in Paradise Revised Edition
Title | Jobs in Paradise Revised Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Maltzman |
Publisher | Harper Paperbacks |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1993-03-31 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780062731869 |
The best and most comprehensive resource for more than 200,000 job listings in the United States, Canada, South Pacific, Caribbean, and many other exotic regions.
Race Against the Machine
Title | Race Against the Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Brynjolfsson |
Publisher | Brynjolfsson and McAfee |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0984725113 |
Examines how information technologies are affecting jobs, skills, wages, and the economy.
See You in Paradise
Title | See You in Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | J. Robert Lennon |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2014-11-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1555973280 |
The first substantial collection of short fiction from "a writer with enough electricity to light up the country" (Ann Patchett) "I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal," observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of J. Robert Lennon's distinctive and brilliantly comic take on the pathos and surreality at the heart of American life. In Lennon's America, a portal to another universe can be discovered with surprising nonchalance in a suburban backyard, adoption almost reaches the level of blood sport, and old pals return from the dead to steal your girlfriend. Sexual dysfunction, suicide, tragic accidents, and career stagnation all create surprising opportunities for unexpected grace in this full-hearted and mischievous depiction of those days (weeks, months, years) we all have when things just don't go quite right.
Paradise Laborers
Title | Paradise Laborers PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia A. Adler |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1501726706 |
Resorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the tourism industry. Yet despite the ubiquity of hotels, little has been written about those who labor there. Drawing on eight years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the renowned ethnographers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler reveal the occupational culture and lifestyles of workers at five luxury Hawaiian resorts. These resorts employ a workforce that is diverse in gender, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Hawaiian resort workers, like those in nearly all resorts, consist of four groups. New immigrants hold difficult and dirty low-status jobs for little pay. Locals provide an authentic Polynesian flavor for guests, a ready pool of youthful high-turnover employees, and a population trapped in a place that offers few occupational alternatives. Managers tend to be middle-class, college-educated young and middle-aged men from the mainland whose lifestyles are occupationally transient. Seekers, mostly young, white, and from the mainland as well, escape to paradise seeking adventure, warmth, extreme sports, or some alternate life experiences. The Adlers describe the work, lives, and careers of these four groups that labor in organizations that never close, with shifts scheduled around the clock and around the year. Paradise Laborers adds to the growing interest in the global flow of labor, as these immigrant workers display different trends in gendered opportunities and mobility than those exhibited by other groups. The authors propose a political economy of tourist labor in which they compare the different expectations and rewards of organizations, employees, and local labor markets.
Paths to Paradise
Title | Paths to Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Gorz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Fiction |
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We are moving into a world where a power elite allocates jobs: where commodities buy consumers: where socialist as well as capitalist dogma is an obstacle to comprehension.In this book, Andre Gorz returns to Marx's Grundrisse and the prophecy of early nineteenth century socialists and rediscovers a vision of post-capitalist society founded on the automation of work and the transcending of the exchange economy. He argues that we have reached the precise stage where these utopian insights become a reality. If the socialist movement is to have something to say to a generation whose identity is no longer shaped at work, it must grasp these insights.
Occupational Outlook Quarterly
Title | Occupational Outlook Quarterly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 764 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Occupations |
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