Celebrating the World of Work

Celebrating the World of Work
Author: Susan A. Thompson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2001-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313010218

Explore a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Peruse a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Corresponding open-ended projects, stories, recipes, and book suggestions give further insights into how certain careers fulfill particular people. Many career-based projects make great learning extensions for different subject areas such as art, math, science, and social studies. Blue collar, white collar, and arts positions are given even attention.

A Celebration of Work

A Celebration of Work
Author: Norman Best
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1996-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803261273

“Nothing is better for a person than to have an opportunity to do meaningful work," says Norman Best in this memoir detailing his forty-eight years as a blue-collar worker. During those years, he built and maintained highways and bridges in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana, and served stints as a machinist in the San Francisco shipyards and as business agent for Local 86 of the International Association of Machinists. In A Celebration of Work he shows how the construction of rural roads, railroad bridges, and modern superhighways depended on the expertise of skilled workers who cared deeply about quality. Yet the work of private contractors, interested solely in profit, was often careless and dangerous. Best's concern for the worker led him to the Communist Party in the 1930s, but, disillusioned with the party's leadership, he left it in 1946. His philosophy of economic democracy, rooted in Jeffersonian democracy, Marxian socialism, and the Golden Rule, renders his voice unique. Whether Best is describing organizing a union, busting the highway construction contract system, or refusing to cooperate with the FBI, his memoir honors the art of laboring with pride, self-confidence, and dignity.

The New World of Work

The New World of Work
Author: Bashker Biswas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000782514

Arguing that a functional approach to Human Resource Management is fast becoming obsolete, this book explores the many areas of accelerated change in the workplace and how business leaders must evolve their thinking to meet the needs of their workers and managers alike. With a clear focus on the accelerations caused by Covid-19 and how technological platforms have enabled working practices and business continuity, the book effectively lays the groundwork for a changed but well-functioning people management system. The authors present the new model of Strategic Human Asset Lifecycle Management that incorporates the drastic changes in how jobs are designed, how human talent is acquired, how work is performed, how work is rewarded and conditions set, and crucially, how labor laws must change – all to meet the fast-moving requirements of a digitized world. Enriched with cases that illustrate both well-adapted and badly-adapted organizations, as well as helpful summaries and thought-provoking challenges, this book is an essential resource for all those who aspire to great people leadership in their organizations, including HR professionals, instructors, and upper-level students.

The Value of Time and Leisure in a World of Work

The Value of Time and Leisure in a World of Work
Author: Mitchell R. Haney
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2010-03-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0739141422

It is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live' rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, work weeks have expanded and the divide between work time and personal time has significantly blurred due to innovations in such things as electronic communications. Concerns over the value of work in our lives, as well as with the balance or use of time between work and leisure, confront most people in contemporary society. Discussions over the values of time, leisure, and work are directly related to the time-honored question of what makes a life good. And this question is of particular interest to philosophers, especially ethicists. In this volume, leading scholars address a range of value considerations related to peoples' thoughts and practices around time utilization, leisure, and work with masterful insight. In addressing various practical issues, these scholars demonstrate the timeless relevance and practical import of Philosophy to human lived experience.

The Curious World of Christmas

The Curious World of Christmas
Author: Niall Edworthy
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1440636745

A fascinating miscellany that celebrates all things Christmas from the author of The Curious Gardener?s Almanac. Drawing from more than two thousand years of history and culture, this collection of anecdotes, customs, tips, and recipes features more than 1,000 entries honoring one of the world?s most celebrated holidays. This unpredictable, addictive gem weaves in famous quotations, traditional sayings, verses, and wisdom to create a book that will be enjoyed long after the Christmas tree is down and the turkey leftovers finished off. Each page yields tidbits on everything from the real reason why December 25th was chosen as the celebratory day and a 19th-century turkey recipe to the origins of kissing under mistletoe and statistics showing why Christmas is proven to be more stressful than divorce or burglary. Chapter topics include: ? Farting Dwarves and Peacock Pie (or, How Our Ancestors Celebrated Christmas) ? Will the Real Father Christmas Please Stand Up (or, The Origins of Santa Claus) ? Happy Reunions, Terrible Tantrums (or, Christmas and the Family) ? Reindeer Sausages and Minced Coffins (or, Christmas Food and Drink) ? And much more With enough curiosities to intrigue, amuse, and enlighten even the grumpiest Scrooge, this is the perfect gift book for anyone who counts down the months until their favorite holiday.

The World of Orthodox Judaism

The World of Orthodox Judaism
Author: Eli W. Schlossberg
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 131
Release: 1997-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1461631998

This book is a friendly, engaging explanations of the traditions and lifestyles of Orthodox Jews. Informative for both Jews and non-Jews, Eli W. Schlossberg draws on personal experiences as an Orthodox Jew active in the international business world to answer the most commonly asked questions people have about religious Jewish life. The World of Orthodox Judaism is a concise resource for anyone interested in learning more about the customs and standards of Orthodox Jewish life.

Camel-makers

Camel-makers
Author: Daniel L. Kain
Publisher: National Middle School Association
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781560901518

(2) "What's This Thing Supposed To Do?": Teaming for a Purpose; (3) "Does She Always Have to Have the Last Word?": Developing Team Norms; (4) Melchuzar to the Rescue!: Team Leadership; (5) "I've Got a Great Idea. We'll Use a Hump!": Team Dialogues; (6) "That's Not the Way Horses Gallop!": Freeing Teams from Constraints; (7) "One Hump or Two?": Conflict on Teams; (8) "They're Laughing at Our Horse!": Teams and Boundary Relations; (9) "It's Not a Horse. It's a Camel!": Celebrating Team Accomplishments; and (10) Jamal Anticipators: A Bibliography.

Celebrate with a Cake!

Celebrate with a Cake!
Author: Lindy Smith
Publisher: David & Charles
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2005-02-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 071533106X

Mark those special moments with a cake as memorable as the occasion. Novelty cake designer Lindy Smith offers a comprehensive guide to making a range of beautiful celebration cakes, and guides the reader step by step from baking and carving to icing and adding special finishing touches. A clear techniques section introduces the wide range of equipment available to today’s cake maker, and explains how to make sponge, fruitcake, fondant, buttercream, and other recipes. The fifteen projects have easy-to-follow illustrated steps for creating and decorating the cakes. Handy tips for shortcuts and creative variation ideas throughout allow you to tailor each cake to your timescale and taste, resulting in bespoke cakes for any occasion—weddings, anniversaries, christenings, birthdays, and more. In addition, handy templates and cutting guides are provided to ensure professional results every time.

The Fourfold

The Fourfold
Author: Andrew J. Mitchell
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2015-08-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810130785

Heidegger’s later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he names “the fourfold”—a convergence of relationships bringing together the earth, the sky, divinities, and mortals—and Mitchell’s book is the first detailed exegesis of this neglected aspect of Heidegger’s later thought. As such it provides entrée to the full landscape of Heidegger’s postwar thinking, offering striking new interpretations of the atomic bomb, technology, plants, animals, weather, time, language, the holy, mortality, dwelling, and more. What results is a conception of things as ecstatic, relational, singular, and, most provocatively, as intrinsically tied to their own technological commodification. A major new work that resonates beyond the confines of Heidegger scholarship, The Fourfold proposes nothing less than a new phenomenological thinking of relationality and mediation for understanding the things around us.

Public Life in Renaissance Florence

Public Life in Renaissance Florence
Author: Richard C. Trexler
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801499791

Public life - Humanism - Civic humanism - Friendship - Ritual - Alberti - Women in Florence - Family - Everyday life in Florence.