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The Working Press
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Author : Ruth Adler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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American journalists present the stories behind news events they had covered.
The Working Press Of The Nation
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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The Working Press
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Author : Donald Charles Davis
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-02-08
The Working Press written by Donald Charles Davis and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-08 with Fiction categories.
Both the waning of America and the waning of the American novel have coincided with the decline of newspapers. Fortunately, a long, funny and sexy newspaper novel called The Working Press might yet save us all. The plot of The Working Press relentlessly unfolds at a third rate daily called the Boston Ledger-Transcript in 1980 just before the paper begins its long swan dive into bankruptcy. Typically, newspaper novels are funny books with sharp characters and The Working Press overflows with memorable characters and mirth. The publisher is a former slaver who detests reporters and frogs and would rather own a cable television company. The editor is embittered and mean. The sports writers are all morons. The night editor is world weary and damned. The hero is Sam Melton, a haunted war veteran who stumbled into journalism and doesn't have the sense to quit. His girlfriend is a Wellesley educated psychotherapist and when she betrays him he consoles himself with a beautiful and promiscuous young reporter whose life was ruined by Gone With The Wind. Melton is determined to prove that an old gangster named Frank “The Fat Tuna” Bompalarca murdered his own niece as part of a real estate deal. As he pursues his story Melton infuriates defense contractors, fire captains, librarians and cops. He disappoints women. He witnesses the birth of a new religion, argues with ghosts, makes up sources, ruins dinners, writes bad prose, collects dozens of parking tickets and gets evicted, mugged and roughed up. He can never quite get a handle on reality and he inadvertently changes the course of history on his way to becoming someone else. If you care about newspapers, novels or America you should read The Working Press. And, you should wear your old clothes when you read because sooner or later the book will make you fall down laughing. Then it will make you cry.
Hard At Work
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Author : Gerard Sasges
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2019
Hard At Work written by Gerard Sasges and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Business & Economics categories.
For most of us, work is a basic daily fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses an incredibly wide range of experiences. Hard at Work takes readers into the day-to-day work experiences of more than fifty working people in Singapore who hold jobs that run from the ordinary to the unusual: from ice cream vendors, baristas, police officers and funeral directors to academic ghostwriters, temple flower sellers, and Thai disco girl agents. Through first-person narratives based on detailed interviews, vividly augmented with color photographs, Hard at Work reminds us of the everyday labor that continually goes on around us, and that every job can reveal something interesting if we just look closely enough. It shows us too the ways inequalities of status and income are felt and internalized in this highly globalized society.
The Working Press Of The Nation Newspaper Directory
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
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In A Day S Work
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Author : Bernice Yeung
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2018-03-20
In A Day S Work written by Bernice Yeung and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Political Science categories.
2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice "In a Day's Work is a . . . much-needed addition to the literature on sexual harassment in the U.S." —The New York Review of Books A searing exposé about the hidden stories of immigrant workers overlooked by #MeToo—at turns heartrending and hopeful—by acclaimed journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bernice Yeung Apple orchards in bucolic Washington state. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this harrowing yet often inspiring tale, investigative journalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against women farmworkers, domestic workers, and janitorial workers and charts their quest for justice in the workplace. Yeung takes readers on a journey across the country, introducing us to women who came to America to escape grinding poverty only to encounter sexual violence in the United States. In a Day's Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women's need to earn a basic living. When these women find the courage to speak up, Yeung reveals, they are too often met by apathetic bosses and underresourced government agencies. But In a Day's Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers—and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women.
Working
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Author : Studs Terkel
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2011-07-26
Working written by Studs Terkel and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-26 with Social Science categories.
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post
No Longer Newsworthy
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Author : Christopher R. Martin
language : en
Publisher: ILR Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
No Longer Newsworthy written by Christopher R. Martin and has been published by ILR Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Political Science categories.
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed "upscale" consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how the media lost sight of the American working class and the effects of it doing so. The damning indictment of the mainstream media that flows through No Longer Newsworthy is a wakeup call about the critical role of the media in telling news stories about labor unions, workers, and working-class readers. As Martin charts the decline of labor reporting from the late 1960s onwards, he reveals the shift in news coverage as the mainstream media abandoned labor in favor of consumer and business interests. When newspapers, especially, wrote off working-class readers as useless for their business model, the American worker became invisible. In No Longer Newsworthy, Martin covers this shift in focus, the loss of political voice for the working class, and the emergence of a more conservative media in the form of Christian television, talk radio, Fox News, and conservative websites. Now, with our fractured society and news media, Martin offers the mainstream media recommendations for how to push back against right-wing media and once again embrace the working class as critical to its audience and its democratic function.
The Working Press Of The Nation
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The Work Of The Future
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Author : David H. Autor
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-10-03
The Work Of The Future written by David H. Autor and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem. The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases steadily and new technology has transformed large parts of the economy, enhancing the skills and paychecks of higher paid knowledge workers. What’s wrong with this picture? Why have so many workers benefited so little from decades of growth? The Work of the Future shows that technology is neither the problem nor the solution. We can build better jobs if we create institutions that leverage technological innovation and also support workers though long cycles of technological transformation. Building on findings from the multiyear MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, the book argues that we must foster institutional innovations that complement technological change. Skills programs that emphasize work-based and hybrid learning (in person and online), for example, empower workers to become and remain productive in a continuously evolving workplace. Industries fueled by new technology that augments workers can supply good jobs, and federal investment in R&D can help make these industries worker-friendly. We must act to ensure that the labor market of the future offers benefits, opportunity, and a measure of economic security to all.