Third wave capitalism : how money, power, and the pursuit of self-interest have imperiled the American dream / John Ehrenreich. / / John Ehrenreich

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820746703321
• Autore: Ehrenreich John <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : ILR Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-5017-0358-7; 1-5017-0359-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.973
• Soggetti: Capitalism - United States - History - 20th century; Capitalism - United States - History - 21st century; United States Social conditions 20th century; United States Social conditions 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-236) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Third Wave Capitalism -- 2. The Health of Nations -- 3. Getting Schooled -- 4. Race and Poverty: The Betrayal of the American Dream -- 5. The Crisis of the Liberal and Creative Professions -- 6. Anxiety and Rage: The Age of Discontent -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century gave way to corporate capitalism in the twentieth, recent decades have witnessed corporate capitalism evolving into a new phase, which Ehrenreich calls "Third Wave Capitalism. "Third Wave Capitalism is marked by apparent contradictions: Rapid growth in productivity and lagging wages; fabulous wealth for the 1 percent and the persistence of high levels of poverty; increases in the standard of living and increases in mental illness, personal misery, and political rage; the apotheosis of the individual and the deterioration of democracy; increases in life expectancy and out-of-control medical costs; an African American ; president and the incarceration of a large percentage of the black population. Ehrenreich asserts that these phenomena are evidence that a virulent, individualist, winner-take-all ideology and a virtual fusion of government and business have subverted the American dream. Greed and economic inequality reinforce the sense that each of us is "on our own." The result is widespread lack of faith in collective responses to our common problems. The collapse of any organized opposition to business demands makes political solutions ever more difficult to imagine. Ehrenreich traces the impact of these changes on American health care, school reform, income distribution, racial inequities, and personal emotional distress. Not simply a lament, Ehrenreich's book seeks clues for breaking out of our current stalemate and proposes a strategy to create a new narrative in which change becomes possible.

Computers Helping People with Special Needs : 10th International Conference, ICCHP 2006, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2006, Proceedings / / edited by Klaus Miesenberger, Joachim Klaus, Wolfgang Zagler, Arthur Karshmer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484177703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2006
• ISBN: 3-540-36021-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2006.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (LVIII, 1358 p.)
• Collana: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 4061
• Altri autori (Persone): MiesenbergerKlaus <1966->
• Disciplina: 362.4/0483
• Soggetti: User interfaces (Computer systems); Human-computer interaction; Information storage and retrieval systems; Application software; Computers and civilization; Education - Data processing; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Storage and Retrieval; Computer and Information Systems Applications; Computers and Society; Computers and Education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: People with Disabilities: Accessible Content Processing -- People with Disabilities: Web Accessibility -- People with Disabilities: Automatic and Manual Evaluation of Websites -- People with Disabilities: Quality of Web Accessibility -- People with Disabilities: Accessible Tourism -- People with Disabilities: Materials for Teaching Accessibility and Design for All -- People with Disabilities: Entertainment Software Accessibility -- People with Disabilities: Human Computer Interface -- People with Disabilities: Assistive Homes and Environments -- People with Disabilities: Service Delivery -- People with Disabilities: Education and Training -- Deaf and Hard of Hearing People: Electronic Communication Aids -- People with Cognitive Problems and the Aging Population -- People with Specific Learning Difficulties -- People Using Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC) -- People with Motor and Mobility Impairement: Human Computer Interaction, Rehabilitation -- People with Motor and Mobility Impairement: Innovative Interfaces to Wheelchairs -- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Human Computer Interface -- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Access to Information and Communication -- Blind People: Access to Graphics -- Blind People: Access to Mathematics -- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Mobility and Orientation -- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Education and Training.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2006, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2006. The 193 revised contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers evaluate how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities and impairment.