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Accounting for Capitalism
Author | : Michael Zakim |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022654589X |
The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust. This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The personal trajectory of these young men from farm to metropolis, homestead to boarding house, and, most significantly, from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life. As Zakim reveals in his highly original study, there was nothing natural or preordained about the stunning ascendance of this capitalism and its radical transformation of the relationship between “Man and Mammon.”
Clerks
Author | : Kevin Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Clerks (Motion picture) |
ISBN | : 9780571202294 |
The award-winning debut feature of self-taught US auteur Kevin Smith, Clerks is set in and around that well-known hub of the social universe, a convenience store in suburban New Jersey. It revolves around a day in the amiably bickering friendship of Dante and Randal, hapless clerks who serve time behind the counter. The monotony of work compels these reluctant wage-slaves to resort to simple diversions: shooting the breeze, antagonising their customers and indulging time-honoured masculine obsessions (sex, movie trivia, ice hockey). Clerks showcases Kevin Smith's keen ear for dialogue and his ability to capture ordinary life in the raw, leavening the edge with buoyant down 'n' dirty humour.
The Church Clerk
Author | : Zelotes Grenell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Church officers |
ISBN | : |
The Computer and the Clerk
Author | : Enid Mumford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-04-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351173669 |
Originally published in 1967 and the result of extensive interviews and case studies, this book examines the implications of technical change. Although focussed on the early introduction of computers the kinds of problems discussed in this book are found in technical change more widely and the book therefore continues to have enduring relevance. The book is divided into three parts - an attitude survey of the administrative staff in departments affected by the introduction of computers, a study of the mechanisms of change and a second survey and re-examination of departmental organisation and work flow.
North Carolina Clerk of Superior Court Procedures Manual
Author | : Joan G. Brannon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1662 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781560114291 |
A complete set of the manuals used by North Carolina Superior Court Clerks and their staff. Volume One includes an overview of the clerk¿s office and sets out the law and practice applicable to criminal and civil courtroom procedures and child support procedures before the clerk. Volume Two covers estates, adjudication of incompetence, guardianships, trusts, and special proceedings.
The Clerk's Tale
Author | : Thomas Augst |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2003-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226032205 |
Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it? Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America.