Author: Benjamin Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book explores how sweatshops provide the best opportunity to workers and the role they play in the process of development.
Out of Poverty
Author: Benjamin Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book explores how sweatshops provide the best opportunity to workers and the role they play in the process of development.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book explores how sweatshops provide the best opportunity to workers and the role they play in the process of development.
Behind the Screen
Author: Sarah T. Roberts
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245319
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity’s worst on today’s commercial internet Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content moderators evaluate posts on mainstream social media platforms: enforcing internal policies, training artificial intelligence systems, and actively screening and removing offensive material—sometimes thousands of items per day. Sarah T. Roberts, an award-winning social media scholar, offers the first extensive ethnographic study of the commercial content moderation industry. Based on interviews with workers from Silicon Valley to the Philippines, at boutique firms and at major social media companies, she contextualizes this hidden industry and examines the emotional toll it takes on its workers. This revealing investigation of the people “behind the screen” offers insights into not only the reality of our commercial internet but the future of globalized labor in the digital age.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245319
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity’s worst on today’s commercial internet Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content moderators evaluate posts on mainstream social media platforms: enforcing internal policies, training artificial intelligence systems, and actively screening and removing offensive material—sometimes thousands of items per day. Sarah T. Roberts, an award-winning social media scholar, offers the first extensive ethnographic study of the commercial content moderation industry. Based on interviews with workers from Silicon Valley to the Philippines, at boutique firms and at major social media companies, she contextualizes this hidden industry and examines the emotional toll it takes on its workers. This revealing investigation of the people “behind the screen” offers insights into not only the reality of our commercial internet but the future of globalized labor in the digital age.
Sweatshop
Author: Laura Hapke
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813534671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories told. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that policymakers are concerned with, nor intending to provide a strict historical chronology, this unique book shows, rather, how the "real" sweatshop has become intertwined with the "invented" sweatshop of our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth has endowed American sweatshops with rich and complex cultural meaning. Hapke uncovers a wide variety of tales and images that writers, artists, social scientists, reformers, and workers themselves have told about "the shop." Adding an important perspective to historical and economic approaches, Sweatshop draws on sources from antebellum journalism, Progressive era surveys, modern movies, and anti-sweatshop websites. Illustrated chapters detail how the shop has been a facilitator of assimilation, a promoter of upward mobility, the epitome of exploitation, a site of ethnic memory, a venue for political protest, and an expression of twentieth-century managerial narratives. An important contribution to the real and imagined history of garment industry exploitation, this book provides a valuable new context for understanding contemporary sweatshops that now represent the worst expression of an unregulated global economy.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813534671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories told. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that policymakers are concerned with, nor intending to provide a strict historical chronology, this unique book shows, rather, how the "real" sweatshop has become intertwined with the "invented" sweatshop of our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth has endowed American sweatshops with rich and complex cultural meaning. Hapke uncovers a wide variety of tales and images that writers, artists, social scientists, reformers, and workers themselves have told about "the shop." Adding an important perspective to historical and economic approaches, Sweatshop draws on sources from antebellum journalism, Progressive era surveys, modern movies, and anti-sweatshop websites. Illustrated chapters detail how the shop has been a facilitator of assimilation, a promoter of upward mobility, the epitome of exploitation, a site of ethnic memory, a venue for political protest, and an expression of twentieth-century managerial narratives. An important contribution to the real and imagined history of garment industry exploitation, this book provides a valuable new context for understanding contemporary sweatshops that now represent the worst expression of an unregulated global economy.
Students Against Sweatshops
Author: Liza Featherstone
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843024
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This short, punchy book is both a record of a new mass campaign and a tool for the realization of its goals. The students demand one thing: that clothing bearing university logos must be produced under healthy, safe, and fair working conditions.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843024
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This short, punchy book is both a record of a new mass campaign and a tool for the realization of its goals. The students demand one thing: that clothing bearing university logos must be produced under healthy, safe, and fair working conditions.
Manpower
Author:
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Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Migrant Child Welfare
Author: Sandra McClure Porteous
Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Labor Literature
Author: United States. Department of Labor. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
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Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
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Publisher:
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Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
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Labor Literature
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Agricultural Child Labor Provisions of FLSA, 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description