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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810853603321

Autore

Brass Tom

Titolo

Labour markets, identities, controversies : reviews and essays 1982-2016 / / by Tom Brass

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2017

ISBN

90-04-33709-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (453 pages)

Collana

Studies in critical social sciences, ISSN 1573-4234 ; v. 102

Disciplina

331.12

Soggetti

Labor market

Labor - History - 21st century

Labor

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies -- Reinventing India? -- Saints and Sinners -- Seeing Ghosts -- Brief Encounters with Class -- Interns Interned -- Marxist Academics and Liberal Hypocrisy -- Backing into the Limelight -- A Marxist Defence of Marxist Theory -- Houellebecq, Anthropologist? -- The Struggle of/(over) Post-emancipation Rural Labour (‘At Their Perfect Command’?) -- Shifts and Stasis in Development Studies -- Zomia, or a Postmodern History of Nowhere -- The Populist Drift of Global Labour History -- The Sabotage of Anthropology and the Anthropologist as Saboteur -- How Agrarian Cooperatives Fail: Lessons from 1970s Peru -- Capitalism Bonded Labour in India: Reinterpreting Recent (Re-) Interpretations -- The Unsaying of Marxism: Capitalist Accumulation and Unfreedom -- Academia as Mode of Seduction, or the Elephant in the Socialist Room -- The Industrial Reserve Army: What’s Not to Like? -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Debates about labour markets and the identity of those who, in an economic sense, circulate within them, together with the controversies such issues generate, have in the past been confined by development studies to the Third World. Now these same concerns have shifted, as the study of development has turned its attention to how these same



phenomena affect metropolitan capitalist nations. For this reason, the book does not restrict the analysis of issues such as the free/unfree labour distinction and non-class identity to Third World contexts. The reviews, review essays and essays collected here also examine similar issues now evident in metropolitan capitalism, together with their political and ideological effects and implications.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557721303321

Autore

Hsu Gee-Sern Jison

Titolo

Deep Learning for Facial Informatics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (102 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Deep learning has been revolutionizing many fields in computer vision, and facial informatics is one of the major fields. Novel approaches and performance breakthroughs are often reported on existing benchmarks. As the performances on existing benchmarks are close to saturation, larger and more challenging databases are being made and considered as new benchmarks, further pushing the advancement of the technologies. Considering face recognition, for example, the VGG-Face2 and Dual-Agent GAN report nearly perfect and better-than-human performances on the IARPA Janus Benchmark A (IJB-A) benchmark. More challenging benchmarks, e.g., the IARPA Janus Benchmark A (IJB-C), QMUL-SurvFace and MegaFace, are accepted as new standards for evaluating the performance of a new approach. Such an evolution is also seen in other branches of face informatics. In this Special Issue, we have selected the papers that report the latest progresses made in the following topics: 1.      Face liveness detection



2.      Emotion classification 3.      Facial age estimation 4.      Facial landmark detection We are hoping that this Special Issue will be beneficial to all fields of facial informatics.