Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory 9780801464560, 0801464560

Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory 9780801464096

In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Compan

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The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production 0801852617, 9780801852619

Searching for a "rational" workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the facto

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The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age 9781501708060

Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emb

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Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age 9781501701436

In Saving Faith, David Mislin chronicles the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their na

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Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work 1503607402, 9781503607408

America is witnessing a retirement crisis. As the labor market shifts to the gig economy and new strains restrict social

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Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work 9781503607415

A safe and secure retirement is increasingly out of reach for as much as half of the American population. Taking the liv

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Work and Labor in the Digital Age

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Retirement Communities : An American Original [1 ed.] 9781135849382, 9780866562676

This insightful book focuses on state-of-the-art retirement communities in the United States today. Experts from the fie

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On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Information Economy 9781501724220

The importance of customer service is widely emphasized in business today. This book offers the first comprehensive anal

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Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, & the Factory Farm: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm 1478007893, 9781478007890

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 millio

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