03659nam 2200565 450 991046781510332120211005151933.01-4411-5863-4(CKB)4340000000253868(MiAaPQ)EBC5309696(Au-PeEL)EBL5309696(CaPaEBR)ebr11518663(OCoLC)1027166972(MiAaPQ)EBC4948611(Au-PeEL)EBL4948611(CaONFJC)MIL851511(OCoLC)1024238171(EXLCZ)99434000000025386820180315h20032003 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLife after theory /edited by Michael Payne and John Schad1st ed.London, [England] ;New York, New York :Continuum,2003.©20031 online resource (196 pages)0-8264-6565-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Is there life after theory? If the death of the Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what's left? Indeed, who's left? To explore such riddles Life. After.Theory brings together new interviews with four theorists who are left, each a major figure in their own right: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Toril Moi, and Christopher Norris. Framed and introduced by Michael Payne and John Schad, the interviews pursue a whole range of topics, both familiar and unfamiliar. Among other things, Derrida, Kermode, Moi and Norris discuss being an outsider, taking responsibility, valuing books, getting angry, doing science, listening to music, remembering Empson, rereading de Beauvoir, being Jewish, asking forgiveness, smoking in libraries, befriending the dead, committing bigamy, forgetting to forget, thinking, not thinking, believing, and being mad. These four key thinkers explore why there is life after theory...but not as we know it. Jacques Derrida is Professor at the +cole des Hautes +tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of a range of extraordinarily influential works including Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Sir Frank Kermode is a former King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and author of, among many other books, The Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, Shakespeare's Language, and Not Entitled, his memoirs. Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Her books include Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman and What Is a Woman? And Other Essays. Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He has published some twenty books to date, including, most recently,Deconstruction and the Unfinished Project of Modernity, Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Response-Dependence, and Hilary Putnam: Reason, Realism, and the Uses of Uncertainty.Philosophy, ModernCritical theoryPhilosophersInterviewsElectronic books.Philosophy, Modern.Critical theory.Philosophers190/.9/04Payne Michael1941-Schad John1960-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467815103321Life after theory2472791UNINA05196nam 22008414a 450 991045505900332120210827030931.01-4008-1742-01-4008-2313-71-282-75374-697866127537491-4008-1290-910.1515/9781400823130(CKB)111056486499270(EBL)617311(OCoLC)705527076(SSID)ssj0000243173(PQKBManifestationID)11191188(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243173(PQKBWorkID)10320790(PQKB)10564019(SSID)ssj0000442210(PQKBManifestationID)11313697(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442210(PQKBWorkID)10445110(PQKB)11433002(MiAaPQ)EBC617311(OCoLC)51328383(MdBmJHUP)muse36063(DE-B1597)446221(OCoLC)1013960953(OCoLC)922692391(DE-B1597)9781400823130(Au-PeEL)EBL617311(CaPaEBR)ebr10031996(CaONFJC)MIL275374(EXLCZ)9911105648649927019990128d1999 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrSecuring prosperity[electronic resource] the American labor market : how it has changed and what to do about it /Paul OstermanCore TextbookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19991 online resource (239 p.)A century foundation book."0-691-08688-5 0-691-01011-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Figures and Tables --Foreword /Leone, Richard C. --Preface --ONE. Introduction --TWO. The Changing Structure of the American Labor Market --THREE. Experiencing the New Economy --FOUR. Restructuring within Firms: The Shifting Employment Contract --FIVE. Preliminaries to Policy --SIX. Policies for a Mobile Workforce --SEVEN. Redressing the Balance of Power --EIGHT. Conclusion --Notes --IndexWe live in an age of economic paradox. The dynamism of America's economy is astounding--the country's industries are the most productive in the world and spin off new products and ideas at a bewildering pace. Yet Americans feel deeply uneasy about their economic future. The reason, Paul Osterman explains, is that our recent prosperity is built on the ruins of the once reassuring postwar labor market. Workers can no longer expect stable, full-time jobs and steadily rising incomes. Instead, they face stagnant wages, layoffs, rising inequality, and the increased likelihood of merely temporary work. In Securing Prosperity, Osterman explains in clear, accessible terms why these changes have occurred and lays out an innovative plan for new economic institutions that promises a more secure future. Osterman begins by sketching the rise and fall of the postwar labor market, showing that firms have been the driving force behind recent change. He draws on original surveys of nearly 1,000 corporations to demonstrate that firms have reorganized and downsized not just for the obvious reasons--technological advances and shifts in capital markets--but also to take advantage of new, team-oriented ways of working. We can't turn the clock back, Osterman writes, since that would strip firms of the ability to compete. But he also argues that we should not simply give ourselves up to the mercies of the market. Osterman argues that new policies must engage on two fronts: addressing both higher rates of mobility in the labor market and a major shift in the balance of power against employees. To deal with greater mobility, Osterman argues for portable benefits, a stronger Unemployment Insurance system, and new labor market intermediaries to help workers navigate the labor market. To redress the imbalance of power, Osterman assesses the possibilities of reforming corporate governance but concludes the best approach is to promote "countervailing power" through innovative unions and creative strategies for organizing employee voice in communities. Osterman gives life to these arguments with numerous examples of promising institutional experiments.Labor marketUnited StatesLabor unionsUnited StatesIndustrial relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesEconomic conditions1981-2001United StatesEconomic policy1981-1993United StatesEconomic policy1993-2001Electronic books.Labor marketLabor unionsIndustrial relations331.12/0973Osterman Paul127577Leone Richard C., ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455059003321Securing prosperity2450871UNINA