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UNINA9910789823503321 |
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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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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 |
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Monografia |
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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 and programmers and engineers who work in software and systems |
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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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UNINA9910787585103321 |
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Autore |
Millie Julian <1967-> |
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Splashed by the saint [[electronic resource] ] : ritual reading and Islamic sanctity in West Java / / Julian Millie |
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Leiden, : KITLV Press, 2009 |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, , 1572-1892 ; ; 262 |
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Sufism - Indonesia - Jawa Barat - Rituals |
Sundanese (Indonesian people) - Rites and ceremonies |
Holiness - Islam |
Prayer - Islam |
Jawa Barat (Indonesia) Religious life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaelani and ritual reading in West Java -- CHAPTER II Situating tales in ritual: Graves, ancestors and karamat tales -- CHAPTER III Karamat in Bandung: Four practitioners -- CHAPTER IV Pangaosan Layang Seh: |
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Prayers are solemn; Tales are fun -- CHAPTER V Nguningakeun maksad: Seeking mediation from urang luhung -- CHAPTER VI Tawassul: Seeking mediation from wasilah -- CHAPTER VII: Ritual tale-telling -- CHAPTER VIII Talking about karamat: Khāriq al-‘āda anecdotes -- CHAPTER IX Reading karamat in public: The manakiban besar of Suryalaya -- CHAPTER X PLS and the Sundanese canon: Rustana performs wawacan -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX A Tanbih: A translation -- APPENDIX B Wawacan Layang Seh: Hikayat 53 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sanctity is a concept recognized by Muslims throughout the Islamic world, and often motivates observances with highly localized characteristics. Julian Millie spent a year attending a supplication ritual in which Muslims of West Java directed their prayers to Allah through ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaelani (d. 1166). This man, whose tomb even today is a popular pilgrimage site in Baghdad, is widely considered the most powerful intercessor of all the saints of Islam. The supplication takes the form of reading or singing the narrative proofs of ‘Abd al-Qadir’s saintliness in a ritual context. The ritual has deep roots in the Sundanese culture of West Java. The book captures the variety of understandings that participants bring to the ritual when it is held in various contexts, including Java’s largest Sufi order, religious schools and private homes. This first, book-length study of intercession through ritual reading in Indonesia will be of interest to scholars of Indonesian religions, Sufism and the anthropology of Islam. It expands our knowledge of Sufism and sanctity, and seriously considers the liturgical forms of village Islam, paying special attention to the use of Arabic supplications in localized ritual practice. |
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UNINA9910813829603321 |
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Autore |
Marsh Nicky |
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Money, speculation and finance in contemporary British fiction / / Nicky Marsh |
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London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2007] |
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©2007 |
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1 online resource (171 p.) |
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Continuum literary studies series |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Money in literature |
Finance in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index. |
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'Kiss, kiss, bang, bang' : money and the thriller -- Sound money : Thatcher, gender and the state -- Bang, boom, bust : the fortune of the city -- Rogue traders : popular fiction and the professional -- Women, work and risk. |
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Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets - from Ian Fleming''s Goldfinger to Jonathan Coe''s What a Carve Up and Martin Amis'' Money. This book argues that recent British fiction demystifies the ''weightless'' economy of contemporary money and critiques the popular sense of money as being everywhere but nowhere. The monograph provides a comprehensive survey of a large body of fictional texts that have striven to represent and understand the formative significance of finance capital on contemporary cu |
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UNINA9910689462103321 |
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Titolo |
The Taliban : engagement or confrontation? : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, July 20, 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 43 p.) |
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Afghanistan Politics and government 1989-2001 |
United States Foreign relations Afghanistan |
Afghanistan Foreign relations United States |
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