Language Put to Work

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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
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Mapping Careers with LD and ADD Clients

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

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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

The School Journal
Title The School Journal PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 884
Release 1901
Genre
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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

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

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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.