Where We Worked

Where We Worked
Author: Jack Larkin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1461745926

A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers.

Where We Work

Where We Work
Author: Shonquis Moreno
Publisher: Frame Publishers
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 949231150X

As we think about the future of the office in a post-pandemic world, this book provides an indispensable reference tool. The office isn’t dead. But just in what form will it live? Departing from Frame’s successful The Other Office series, Where We Work explores ground-breaking workspaces, providing an indispensable reference tool for interior designers, architects and companies alike. As we think about the future of the office in a post-pandemic world, this book presents important design lessons from the modern office through a curated showcase of 51 projects by designers worldwide. These lessons are highlighted as key takeaways at the end of each of the book’s four chapters: Designing for Community, Flexibility, Identity, and Wellbeing. An introductory essay explores how these four ideas – or ideals – will continue to drive the workspaces of the future. Features •As we think about the future of the office in a post-pandemic world, this 320-page reference book showcases 51 pioneering workspace designs. •The book explores the various iterations of the contemporary workspace, from co-works and corporate offices to work cafés and material libraries, and everything in between. •Projects are accompanied by a detailed description of the design concept, sketches, and stunning photography on four to eight-page features. •Key takeaways at the end of each of the book’s four chapters highlight important design lessons from the modern office.

Where We Work

Where We Work
Author: An Bogaerts
Publisher: Lannoo Publishers
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9789401478335

* A timely book of inspiring design ideas for creating the perfect in-home office, from kitchen to bedroom and classic office to attic* Lifestyle journalist An Bogaerts explores the most up-to-date home office trends with more than 200 pictures of innovative home officesWhere We Work highlights the many options that come into play when designing a home office. It brings together a wealth of inspiring visuals and design ideas from home offices around the world, along with practical guidance and the latest trends. The author introduces a variety of designs and styles - from London to Tokyo, from country-style to industrial - that might inspire us to turn our home offices into more than just a place to work.

Why We Work

Why We Work
Author: Barry Schwartz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1476784876

An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace. Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent. We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we’ve shaped much of the infrastructure of our society to accommodate this belief. Then why are so many people dissatisfied with their work, despite healthy compensation? And why do so many people find immense fulfillment and satisfaction through “menial” jobs? Schwartz explores why so many believe that the goal for working should be to earn money, how we arrived to believe that paying workers more leads to better work, and why this has made our society confused, unhappy, and has established a dangerously misguided system. Through fascinating studies and compelling anecdotes, this book dispels this myth. Schwartz takes us through hospitals and hair salons, auto plants and boardrooms, showing workers in all walks of life, showcasing the trends and patterns that lead to happiness in the workplace. Ultimately, Schwartz proves that the root of what drives us to do good work can rarely be incentivized, and that the cause of bad work is often an attempt to do just that. How did we get to this tangled place? How do we change the way we work? With great insight and wisdom, Schwartz shows us how to take our first steps toward understanding, and empowering us all to find great work.

What We Work With

What We Work With
Author: William C. McCoy
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2002-10-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 146165551X

Teachers are easily and often criticized. New waves of criticism have gained momentum due to what some have termed our 'failing schools.' The schools and the teachers in particular have been singled out as targets for reproach based on flawed and often erroneous premises arrived at by many who have never spent a day in our schools and walked the walk with a teacher. William McCoy writes from the perspective of more than twenty years experience in the public schools. He knows that today, too many students are arriving at school with poor attitudes that sooner or later reflect on their academic success and behavior. These attitudes are formed from the beliefs and attitudes our youth encounter at home and in the community. His inside perspective on the countless other possible reasons schools are not measuring up to expectations makes the case for students, parents, and the community to realize 'we are all teachers_children learn from everyone.' Knowing there is no one answer, McCoy opens a new door of understanding of the educators' dilemmas and predicament in an increasingly complicated profession.

How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work

How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work
Author: Robert Kegan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2001-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780787958664

Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even ourdecisions-and what we are actually able to bring about? Even whenwe are able to make important changes-in our own lives or thegroups we lead at work-why are the changes are so frequentlyshort-lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can wedo to transform this troubling reality? In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists RobertKegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey take us on a carefully guided journeydesigned to help us answer these very questions. And not justgenerally, or in the abstract. They help each of us arrive at ourown particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between whatwe intend and what we are able to accomplish. How the Way WeTalk Can Change the Way We Work provides you with the tools tocreate a powerful new build-it-yourself mental technology.

We Work in Space

We Work in Space
Author: Angela Aylmore
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781410922496

Simple text and photographs describe the daily life and duties of astronauts.

We Work at the Vet's

We Work at the Vet's
Author: Angela Aylmore
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781410922502

Simple text and photographs explore the daily life and duties of a veterinarian.

Changing the Way We Work

Changing the Way We Work
Author: R Meredith Belbin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136422021

How many problems at work arise from the way in which jobs are set up? Either people don't have a clear understanding of their duties and responsibilities, spending time and energy disentangling them from those of their co-workers or they are hemmed in by job specifications that allow no room for movement and initiative. An alternative system is needed, where jobs can grow and develop: where communication about the work can flow up as easily as down. Dr Belbin describes a radical approach incorporating colour-coding and information technology derived from experiments now being undertaken in three countries. Workset is a new means of delivering greater efficiency in a dynamic process that equally involves managers and jobholders. Dr R. Meredith Belbin, regarded as the father of team-role theory for his widely-read Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail and its successor Team Roles at Work, obtained his first and higher degree at Cambridge University. Later, in a research, lecturing or consulting capacity, he has visited and worked in many countries. In 1988 he founded Belbin Associates which produces Interplace, a computer-based Human Resource Management System, now used world-wide.

The Works of Jack London: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs & Essays

The Works of Jack London: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs & Essays
Author: Jack London
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 4763
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, war correspondent and much more. He wrote adventure novels & sea tales, stories of the Gold Rush, tales of the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area - most of which were based on or inspired by his own life experiences. Content: The Cruise of the Dazzler A Daughter of the Snows The Call of the Wild The Kempton-Wace Letters The Sea-Wolf The Game White Fang Before Adam The Iron Heel Martin Eden Burning Daylight Adventure The Scarlet Plague A Son of the Sun The Abysmal Brute The Valley of the Moon The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Star Rover The Little Lady of the Big House Jerry of the Islands Michael, Brother of Jerry Hearts of Three Son of the Wolf The God of His Fathers Children of the Frost The Faith of Men Tales of the Fish Patrol Moon-Face Love of Life Lost Face South Sea Tales When God Laughs The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii Smoke Bellew The Night Born The Strength of the Strong The Turtles of Tasman The Human Drift The Red One On the Makaloa Mat Dutch Courage Uncollected Stories The Road The Cruise of the Snark John Barleycorn The People of the Abyss Theft Daughters of the Rich The Acorn-Planter A Wicked Woman The Birth Mark The First Poet Scorn of Woman Revolution and Other Essays The War of the Classes What Socialism Is What Communities Lose by the Competitive System Through The Rapids on the Way to the Klondike From Dawson to the Sea Our Adventures in Tampico With Funston's Men The Joy of Small Boat Sailing Husky, Wolf Dog of the North The Impossibility of War...