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An Intelligent Career

Taking Ownership of Your Work and Your Life

By: Michael Bernard Arthur,Svetlana N. Khapova,Julia Richardson

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An Intelligent Career

Taking Ownership of Your Work and Your Life

By: Michael Bernard Arthur,Svetlana N. Khapova,Julia Richardson

An Intelligent Career is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, with clear guidance and support on taking charge of your own destiny, seeking continuous learning, collaborating with others, recognizing and acting on fresh opportunities, determining when it is time to move on, and much more.

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281

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Oxford University Press

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0190866314

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9780190866310

The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism

By: Michael David Kaulana Ing

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The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism

By: Michael David Kaulana Ing

Michael Ing's The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism is the first monograph in English about the Liji--a text that purports to be the writings of Confucius' immediate disciples, and part of the earliest canon of Confucian texts called ''The Five Classics,'' included in the canon several centuries before the Analects. Ing uses his analysis of the Liji to show how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as arguments for ambiguity in ritual failure.

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298

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199924910

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9780199924912

Gunmen and Gangsters

Profiles of Nine Actors Who Portrayed Memorable Screen Tough Guys

By: Michael Schlossheimer

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Gunmen and Gangsters

Profiles of Nine Actors Who Portrayed Memorable Screen Tough Guys

By: Michael Schlossheimer

Gangsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano were considered by many people to be the most exciting personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. The public was hungry for press coverage about these mysterious and dangerous men. Most reports about them were sketchy, as the reporters did not want to get on the bad side of the racket bosses. Hollywood's response to the public's fascination was to portray the lives of gangsters on the movie screen, using actors such as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. Perhaps surprisingly, these men received not-so-favorable reviews from the Academy Award voters, and as their popularity grew with the public, censorship dictated other actors be brought in to play the roles. That's what this book is about--the personal and professional lives of William Bendix, Charles Bickford, Ward Bond, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Paul Douglas, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, and Lloyd Nolan, second-string actors who replaced the big names and did a memorable job. A filmography is supplied for each actor.

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364

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McFarland

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1476635463

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9781476635460

Open Mike

By: Michael Eric Dyson

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Open Mike

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Focusing on racial identity, popular cultures, and freedom struggles, these essays and interviews are collected from one of the most insightful and thought-provoking black intellectuals to emerge since the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement.

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450

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Civitas Books

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0465017657

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9780465017652

Creative Control

The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries

By: Michael L. Siciliano

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Creative Control

The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries

By: Michael L. Siciliano

Workers in cultural industries often say that the best part of their job is the opportunity for creativity. At the same time, profit-minded managers at both traditional firms and digital platforms exhort workers to “be creative.” Even as cultural fields hold out the prospect of meaningful employment, they are marked by heightened economic precarity. What does it mean to be creative under contemporary capitalism? And how does the ideology of creativity explain workers’ commitment to precarious jobs? Michael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. He details how such workplaces feature engaging, dynamic processes that enlist workers in organizational projects and secure their affective investment in ideas of creativity and innovation. Siciliano argues that performing creative labor entails a profound ambivalence: workers experience excitement and aesthetic engagement alongside precarity and alienation. Through close comparative analysis, he presents a theory of creative labor that accounts for the roles of embodiment, power, alienation, and technology in the contemporary workplace. Combining vivid ethnographic detail and keen sociological insight, Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participate in their own exploitation.

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196

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Columbia University Press

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0231550510

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9780231550512

Steel Barrio

The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940

By: Michael Innis-Jiménez

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Steel Barrio

The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940

By: Michael Innis-Jiménez

The richly documented history of Mexican South Chicago here yields a sophisticated, rounded, and compelling study of the evolution of an immigrant place. Attentive to structural factors shaping migration and assimilation, Innis-Jiménez also tells textured human stories of the work, play, and solidarity that created and recreated an enduring community, snatching life from discrimination and hardship." —David Roediger, University of Illinois Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago’s steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central role in American politics and society. Examining how the fortunes of Mexicans in South Chicago were linked to the environment they helped to build, Steel Barrio offers new insights into how and why Mexican Americans created community. This book investigates the years between the World Wars, the period that witnessed the first, massive influx of Mexicans into Chicago. South Chicago Mexicans lived in a neighborhood whose literal and figurative boundaries were defined by steel mills, which dominated economic life for Mexican immigrants. Yet while the mills provided jobs for Mexican men, they were neither the center of community life nor the source of collective identity. Steel Barrio argues that the Mexican immigrant and Mexican American men and women who came to South Chicago created physical and imagined community not only to defend against the ever-present social, political, and economic harassment and discrimination, but to grow in a foreign, polluted environment. Steel Barrio reconstructs the everyday strategies the working-class Mexican American community adopted to survive in areas from labor to sports to activism. This book links a particular community in South Chicago to broader issues in twentieth-century U.S. history, including race and labor, urban immigration, and the segregation of cities. Michael Innis-Jiménez is a native of Laredo, Texas and Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. He lives in Tuscaloosa where he working on his next book on Latino/a immigration to the American South. In the Culture, Labor, History series

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NYU Press

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0814724655

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9780814724651

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An Intelligent Career

An Intelligent Career

The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism

The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism

Gunmen and Gangsters

Gunmen and Gangsters

Open Mike

Open Mike

Creative Control

Creative Control

Steel Barrio

Steel Barrio

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