Language Put to Work
Title | Language Put to Work PDF eBook |
Author | Enda Brophy |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2017-08-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1349952443 |
WINNER of The Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Communication Association, and the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies, Book of the Year Award. This book examines the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter century through the lens of the resistance and collective organizing generated by workers along the digital assembly lines. Drawing on field research in Atlantic Canada, Ireland, Italy, and New Zealand, Enda Brophy investigates the contested making of the transnational call centre workforce and its integration into the circuits of global capitalism. Moving beyond depictions of call centre labour as either entirely liberated or utterly subordinated, Language Put to Work inquires into the forms of work refusal and insubordination provoked by the spread of these communicative workplaces, including informal strategies of quitting, slacking and sabotage, conventional trade union activity, tactical innovations at the margins of the labour movement, and forms of self-organization forged by workers outside of the established trade union movement. Weaving rich empirical evidence together with political-economic analysis and theories of resistance, this book argues that the submission of language to the production of value in the call centre is a process of proletarianization rather than professionalization, and that the new working class has widely opposed this transformation.
How Languages Work
Title | How Languages Work PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Genetti |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 677 |
Release | 2014-01-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107782570 |
A new and exciting introduction to linguistics, this textbook presents language in all its amazing complexity, while guiding students gently through the basics. Students emerge with an appreciation of the diversity of the world's languages, as well as a deeper understanding of the structure of human language, the ways it is used, and its broader social and cultural context. Chapters introducing the nuts and bolts of language study (phonology, syntax, meaning) are combined with those on the 'functions' of language (discourse, prosody, pragmatics, and language contact), helping students gain a better grasp of how language works in the real world. A rich set of language 'profiles' help students explore the world's linguistic diversity, identify similarities and differences between languages, and encourages them to apply concepts from earlier chapter material. A range of carefully designed pedagogical features encourage student engagement, adopting a step-by-step approach and using study questions and case studies.
Pastoral Work
Title | Pastoral Work PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Byassee |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2014-01-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1625640226 |
Eugene Peterson may be the most influential theological writer in the church today. Yet because most of his career has not been in academia there is not much critical engagement with his work. Here some of the finest scholar-pastors we have describe the way Peterson has inspired and infuriated on the way to (hopefully) more faithful pastorates. Book jacket.
A Century of Gospel-work
Title | A Century of Gospel-work PDF eBook |
Author | William Francis Pringle Noble |
Publisher | |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | Evangelicalism |
ISBN |
Mapping Careers with LD and ADD Clients
Title | Mapping Careers with LD and ADD Clients PDF eBook |
Author | Raizi Abby Janus |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Attention-deficit-disordered adults |
ISBN | 9780231109789 |
This user-friendly guidebook enables career counselors and employers to recognize when an employee or client has a learning disability, provide relevant guidance to these individuals, optimize their job performance and productivity, help clients attain a clarified sense of identity, know when to refer clients to other professionals for further evaluation, and be able to suggest reasonable accommodations on the job in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The School Journal
Title | The School Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 884 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
Title | Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board PDF eBook |
Author | National Labor Relations Board |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 1780 |
Release | 2016-02-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780160930379 |
Each volume of this series contains all the important Decisions and Orders issued by the National Labor Relations Board during a specified time period. The entries for each case list the decision, order, statement of the case, findings of fact, conclusions of law, and remedy.