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Author | : David J. Schnall |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780881257519 |
Fulfillment can never result from work-related productivity and financial success alone."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Nicholas K. Bromell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226075556 |
The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, the challenge to slavery - these and other developments fueled an anxious debate about work in antebellum America. In this book, Nicholas K. Bromell discusses the ways in which American writers participated in this cultural contestation of the nature and meaning of work. In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Bromell shows how these writers not only scrutinized work - be it factory labor, agriculture, maternal labor, or slave labor - but also reflected upon its relation to their own work of writing. Bromell argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labor of writing and such bodily labors as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering, field labor, growing beans, and so on. Nevertheless, writers resisted identifying their labor as purely or simply bodily, both because society placed mental and spiritual labor at the top of its scale of values and because the body was so often the site of gender or racial subjugation. Bromell also makes important contributions to three areas of nineteenth-century social history. He probes the period's conflicting ideas of mothers as both spiritual "angels of the house" and ineluctably embodied laborers in the home. Using as an example the exhibitions of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, he discusses the advent of an industrial ideology that sought to devalue the meaning of skilled manual labor. Finally, he suggests that, paradoxically, slaves were sometimes able to find in their labor a mode of self-actualization within slavery. Deftly combining literary and social history, canonical and noncanonical texts, primary source material and contemporary theory, By the Sweat of the Brow establishes work as an important subject of cultural criticism. At the same time, it contributes to discussions of race, gender, and the body in American literary studies.
Author | : Angela V. John |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-11-03 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : 9780415380096 |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Melvin Kranzberg |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
In their history of man and his work, the authors have told the story of work, how man has conceived of it, organized it, and reacted to it from pre-historic times to the present, and they speculate what work will become in the future as man is increasingly replaced by machine. The book is divided into three main sections: Work in the Pre-Industrial Age, Work in the Early Industrial Age, and Modern Production: Technology and Consequences.
Author | : Zachary Chastain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Job descriptions |
ISBN | : 9781422218617 |
Provides an overview of the various occupations men, women, and children held in nineteenth-century America.
Author | : Theodore Roosevelt |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2022-05-29 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Citizenship in a Republic is the title of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910. One notable passage from the speech is referred to as "The Man in the Arena": It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
Author | : Kahlil Gibran |
Publisher | : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9390287820 |
A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.
Author | : Angela V. John |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136599312 |
The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women’s work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain, cruelly torn from her ‘natural sphere’, the home. The, attempt to restrict women’s work at the mines in the 1880s highlights the dichotomy between the fashionable ideal of womanhood and the necessity and reality of female manual labour. Although only a tiny percentage of the colliery labour force, the pit lasses aroused an interest out of all proportion to their numbers and their work became a test case for women’s outdoor manual employment. Angela John discusses the implications of this debate, showing how it encapsulates many of the ambivalences of late Victorian attitudes towards working-class female employment, and at the same time raises wider questions both about women’s work in industries seen as traditionally male enclaves, and about the ways in which women within the working community have been presented by historians.This book was first published in 1980.
Author | : Carolyn Brown |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 140227016X |
Book 5 in the Spikes & Spurs Series 'Tis the season for... •A matchmaking grandma on a long-distance mission •Mistletoe temptation in every doorway •A sexy cowboy with a killer smile When Gran Presely agrees to sell Creed Riley the Rockin' C Ranch for a song at Christmastime, he can hardly believe his good fortune. There's just one little catch—her tantalizing granddaughter Sage is part of the deal. Spikes & Spurs Series Love Drunk Cowboy (Book 1) Red's Hot Cowboy (Book 2) Darn Good Cowboy Christmas (Book 3) One Hot Cowboy Wedding (Book 4) Mistletoe Cowboy (Book 5) Just a Cowboy and His Baby (Book 6) Cowboy Seeks Bride (Book 7) Praise for Darn Good Cowboy Christmas: "A story with a cowboy always hits the target, but add a little Christmas flair and a saucy heroine and you have a winner."—Long and Short Reviews "This fast-paced holiday romp brims with music, laughter...and plenty of Texas flavor."—Library Journal "Full of sizzling chemistry and razor-sharp dialogue."—Night Owl Reviews, Reviewer Top Pick, 4 1⁄2 Stars
Author | : Norbert Wiener |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2018-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0262347067 |
Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume. Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics combines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography. Published at the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics—when it was taken up by scientists, engineers, science fiction writers, artists, and musicians—Ex-Prodigy (1953) and I Am a Mathematician (1956) received attention from both scholarly and mainstream publications, garnering reviews and publicity in outlets that ranged from the New York Times and New York Post to the Virginia Quarterly Review. Norbert Wiener was a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener was reading Dante and Darwin at seven, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, and received a PhD from Harvard at eighteen. He joined MIT's Department of Mathematics in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1964 at sixty-nine. In Ex-Prodigy, Wiener offers an emotionally raw account of being raised as a child prodigy by an overbearing father. In I Am a Mathematician, Wiener describes his research at MIT and how he established the foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the theory of feedback systems. This volume makes available the essence of Wiener's life and thought to a new generation of readers.