On the Clock

2019-07-16
On the Clock

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  • Author: Emily Guendelsberger
  • Publisher: Little, Brown
  • ISBN: 0316508993
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she travelled to North Carolina to work at a call center, a place where even bathroom breaks were timed to the second. And finally, Guendelsberger was hired at a San Francisco McDonald's, narrowly escaping revenge-seeking customers who pelted her with condiments. Across three jobs, and in three different parts of the country, Guendelsberger directly took part in the revolution changing the U.S. workplace. Offering an up-close portrait of America's actual "essential workers," On the Clock examines the broken social safety net as well as an economy that has purposely had all the slack drained out and converted to profit. Until robots pack boxes, resolve billing issues, and make fast food, human beings supervised by AI will continue to get the job done. Guendelsberger shows us how workers went from being the most expensive element of production to the cheapest - and how low wage jobs have been remade to serve the ideals of efficiency, at the cost of humanity. On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans.

The Clock Book

1924
The Clock Book

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  • Author: Wallace Nutting
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Clock and watch makers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

Contains 250 black and white photographs of clocks, followed by a List of American Clockmakers and a List of Foreign Clockmakers. Indexed. Note publication date of 1924.

The Clock Book

2020-02-20
The Clock Book

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  • Author: Wallace Nutting
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

There's always time for a great clock in your life. Famed collector and clock enthusiast Wallace Nutting originally released The Clock Book in 1924, a celebration of the decorative properties of more than 250 clocks pictured with detailed descriptions of their functions and makers. Antique clock enthusiasts should find immense enjoyment pouring through the images and intricacies of this fascinating collection of clocks that span the ages, in addition to historic clock dates and lists of artist and craftspeople. This special edition reprint of The Clock Book enlarges the page sizes, includes a spectacular new cover design, and retains the original retro period font for a most enjoyable contemporary reading experience. In addition to photographs, illustrations, and historical perspective, more than 100 pages are devoted to classic American clockmakers and period manufacturers, as well as lists of European and foreign clockmakers from around the world. Includes: Notable Clock Dates More than 250 photographs and Illustrations An Introduction by Mr. Wallace List of Former Foreign Clockmakers List of American Clockmakers Description of Illustrations and more

Off the Clock

2018-05-29
Off the Clock

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  • Author: Laura Vanderkam
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0735219818
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

"I well recall a conversation with an executive I hoped to interview about her astonishing productivity. I began our call with an assurance that I would not take much of her time. She laughed. 'Oh, I have all the time in the world,' she said." Most of us feel constantly behind, unsure how to escape feeling oppressed by busyness. Laura Vanderkam, unlike other time-management gurus, believes that in order to get more done, we must first feel like we have all the time in the world. Think about it: why haven't you trained for that 5K or read War and Peace? Probably because you feel beaten down by all the time you don't seem to have. In this book, Vanderkam reveals the seven counterintuitive principles the most time-free people have adopted. She teaches mindset shifts to help you feel calm on the busiest days and tools to help you get more done without feeling overwhelmed. You'll meet people such as... ♦ An elementary school principal who figured out how to spend more time mentoring teachers, and less time supervising the cafeteria ♦ An executive who builds lots of meeting-free space into his calendar, despite managing teams across multiple continents ♦ A CEO who does focused work in a Waffle House early in the morning, so he can keep an open door and a relaxed mindset all day ♦ An artist who overcame a creative block, and reached new heights of productivity, by being more gentle with herself, rather than more demanding The strategies in this book can help if your life feels out of control, but they can also help if you want to take your career, your relationships, and your personal happiness to the next level. Vanderkam has packed this book with insights from busy yet relaxed professionals, including "time makeovers" of people who are learning how to use these tools. Off the Clock can inspire the rest of us to create lives that are not only productive, but enjoyable in the moment.

The Clock Struck One

2017-08-01
The Clock Struck One

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  • Author: Trudy Harris
  • Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
  • ISBN: 1512478946
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 33

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! When the clock strikes one, a fun-loving mouse runs up the clock. But what happens when the clock strikes two? A cat gets hungry for mouse-tail stew . . . and the chase is on! Hour by hour, more animals—and even a few people—join in. The crowd charges into the barnyard, dashes through the kitchen, and eventually heads right into the middle of town. Keep your eye on the many clocks in this book and follow along until this twelve-hour race comes to a surprising end!

Mastered by the Clock

2000-11-09
Mastered by the Clock

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  • Author: Mark M. Smith
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 0807864579
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 334

Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on an extraordinary range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archival sources, Smith demonstrates that white southern slaveholders began to incorporate this new sense of time in the 1830s. Influenced by colonial merchants' fascination with time thrift, by a long-held familiarity with urban, public time, by the transport and market revolution in the South, and by their own qualified embrace of modernity, slaveowners began to purchase timepieces in growing numbers, adopting a clock-based conception of time and attempting in turn to instill a similar consciousness in their slaves. But, forbidden to own watches themselves, slaves did not internalize this idea to the same degree as their masters, and slaveholders found themselves dependent as much on the whip as on the clock when enforcing slaves' obedience to time. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock.

The Clock Of The Long Now

2008-08-01
The Clock Of The Long Now

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  • Author: Stewart Brand
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • ISBN: 0786722924
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.

Caring on the Clock

2015-01-22
Caring on the Clock

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  • Author: Mignon Duffy
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN: 0813572878
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 497

A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story to soothe a child to sleep. Every day, workers like these provide critical support to some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Caring on the Clock provides a wealth of insight into these workers, who take care of our most fundamental needs, often at risk to their own economic and physical well-being. Caring on the Clock is the first book to bring together cutting-edge research on a wide range of paid care occupations, and to place the various fields within a comprehensive and comparative framework across occupational boundaries. The book includes twenty-two original essays by leading researchers across a range of disciplines—including sociology, psychology, social work, and public health. They examine the history of the paid care sector in America, reveal why paid-care work can be both personally fulfilling but also make workers vulnerable to burnout, emotional fatigue, physical injuries, and wage exploitation. Finally, the editors outline many innovative ideas for reform, including top-down and grassroots efforts to improve recognition, remuneration, and mobility for care workers. As America faces a series of challenges to providing care for its citizens, including the many aging baby boomers, this volume offers a wealth of information and insight for policymakers, scholars, advocates, and the general public.

The Clock of Ages

1997-08-13
The Clock of Ages

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  • Author: John J. Medina
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521594561
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

Anyone who has watched a wrinkle slowly gouge their face like a strip mine, or has been disturbed by a loss of memory, has uncomfortably confronted the human ageing process. The inexorable march of time on our bodies begs an important question: why do we have to grow old? Written in everyday language, The Clock of Ages takes us on a tour of the ageing human body - all from a research scientist's point of view. From the deliberate creation of organisms that live three times their natural span to the isolation of human genes that may allow us to do the same, The Clock of Ages also examines the latest discoveries in geriatric genetics. Sprinkled throughout the pages are descriptions of the aging of many historical figures, such as Florence Nightingale, Jane Austen, Bonaparte and Casanova. These stories underscore the common bond that unites us all: they aged, even as we do. The Clock of Ages tells you why.

Harold Lloyd

1983
Harold Lloyd

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  • Author: Tom Dardis
  • Publisher: Viking
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392