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UNINA9910459927703321 |
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Osnowitz Debra |
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Freelancing expertise [[electronic resource] ] : contract professionals in the new economy / / Debra Osnowitz |
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Ithaca, : ILR Press, 2010 |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Collana |
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Collection on technology and work |
Cornell paperbacks |
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Self-employed - United States |
Independent contractors - United States |
Consultants - United States |
Professional employees - United States |
Temporary employment - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Two occupations with divided labor markets -- Assessing options, making choices -- Performing expertise -- Managing marginality -- Collegial networking, occupational control -- Extra-organizational careers -- Work relations reconsidered. |
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Contract work is more important than ever-for better or for worse, depending on one's perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming rarer, thereby erasing one of the major distinctions between "freelance work" and a "steady gig." Why hang on to a regular job for the sake of security if security can no longer be assumed? Instead, contractors, hired temporarily for specific knowledge and skills, market their expertise as they move from project to project. Even though their employment is precarious, a great many consider freelancing preferable to holding a "regular" job: the control they feel over their time and careers is well worth the risks that come with relatively uncertain cash flow. Freelancing Expertise is a qualitative study of decision making, work practices, and occupational processes among writers and editors who work in print and Web communications |
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and programmers and engineers who work in software and systems development. Debra Osnowitz conducted sixty-eight extended interviews with representatives of both groups and twelve interviews with managers and recruiters, observed four different work settings in which contractors work alongside employees, and monitored blogs and online discussions among contractors. As a result, she provides a unique and sensitive assessment of a cultural shift in occupations and organizations.Osnowitz calls for a reconfiguration of the employer/employee relationship that accepts more variation and flexibility: just as "freelancing" has, over time, taken on many traits considered characteristic of traditional career paths, so might regular jobs make themselves more appealing to today's workforce by mimicking some of the positive aspects of transactions between clients and contract workers. |
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UNINA9910465077703321 |
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Autore |
Casey Edward S. <1939-> |
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The fate of place [[electronic resource] ] : a philosophical history / / Edward S. Casey |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997 |
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1 online resource (507 p.) |
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Place (Philosophy) |
Space and time |
Electronic books. |
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"A Centennial Book"--P. ii. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-477) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Disappearing Places -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. From Void to Vessel -- Part Two. From Place to Space -- Part Three. The Supremacy of Space -- Part Four. The Reappearance of Place -- Notes -- Index |
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In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, |
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offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, The Fate of Place is acutely sensitive to silences, absences, and missed opportunities in the complex history of philosophical approaches to space and place. A central theme is the increasing neglect of place in favor of space from the seventh century A.D. onward, amounting to the virtual exclusion of place by the end of the eighteenth century.Casey begins with mythological and religious creation stories and the theories of Plato and Aristotle and then explores the heritage of Neoplatonic, medieval, and Renaissance speculations about space. He presents an impressive history of the birth of modern spatial conceptions in the writings of Newton, Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant and delineates the evolution of twentieth-century phenomenological approaches in the work of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, and Heidegger. In the book's final section, Casey explores the postmodern theories of Foucault, Derrida, Tschumi, Deleuze and Guattari, and Irigaray. |
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