... technology and education by invoking Lauren Berlant’s term cruel optimism and challenges assertions that technical savvy yields more jobs for undergraduates and that moocs reduce the cost of higher education. Chun insists that if the humanities are at risk, it is because they have capitulated...

... other people overlook” (388). He hasn’t got a job, but he does “some day labor, fruit picking, furniture removal, leafleting, yard work” (389), and occasionally he sneaks into a farm to glean “things to eat” (388). In other words, he is a modern-day chiffonnier . The neighborhood looks more or less...

... the achievement of complete equality. As equals in the economy and politics of capitalism, women must share with men the com- petitive, aggressive characteristics required to keep a job and to get ahead in the job. Thus, the Performance...

... to the apparently instrumental or utilitarian value of the digital humani- ties (their ability to provide liberal arts majors with digital skills that can be turned into productive jobs) that university administrators, foundation officers...

... Geoff Krysa Joasia . Brooklyn : Autonomedia , 2005 . 95 – 105 . James William . Memories and Studies . 1911 . Rockville : Arc Manor , 2008 . Jaschik Scott . “ Disappearing Jobs .” Inside Higher Education 17 Dec. 2009 . http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12...

... : McGraw-Hill , 1935 . Lee Ralph L. Man to Man on the Job: A Series of Meetings for Foremen and Executives of General Motors Corporation . General Motors : 1943 . Milkman Ruth . Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II . Urbana : U of Illinois P...

... related. Digital humanities advocate Bethany Nowviskie envisions code-savvy literary critics securing new kinds of jobs inside and outside academe, even as she worries about the fact that “digital humanities centers are especially apt...

... as work that developed in the 1970s resulted in sex workers’ placing their labor within “a conceptual template which explicitly situates prostitution in terms of the likely array of other available working-class jobs” (48). What...

... work is public (away from home) and done by men. The women think of their jobs as sidelines, not “real” work. In choosing jobs, they recalibrate the public/private divide, applying it now in the context of the world of paid work...

... and peasants into the indispensables of a socialist society. This augured well for rural women farmers, who did backbreaking agricultural labor with little recompense, for the handful of women with industrial jobs in the towns, and for members of newly forming producer cooperatives. But vestiges of Rhodesian...

... me down. I was late today because of my kitchen. By the way, I quit my job, you know. I just said to myself: I'm a real woman. A real woman: What's that for you? Oh, dresses, a hairdo, afew minutes restfrom time to time, a well prepared boeuf bourguignon [beef stew}. But you're right...

... at the beginning of the twenty-first century? There are a couple of striking moments in The Road, both mov- ing and pathetic, when the man refers to his “job,” his job at the end of the world. The novel sometimes seems to suggest that the world...

... conspire to rob their possibly dead neighbor, Miss Bailey. Who is Miss Bailey? Nobody knows: she is a neighbor, so one does not need to know her; her job is to be around, to be a “character,” which is what you call someone who...

... imagine” (215). To see the labor that goes into the work of sustaining social organization requires a shift in perspective: “[A]n initial shift,” Sacks writes, “is not to think of an ‘ordinary person’ as some person, but as somebody having as their job, as their constant preoccupation, doing ‘being...

... Teach, and What Theory’s Got to Do with It The urgent need to professionalize graduate students con- fronting a miserable job market led me in the eighties to create a course given solely to feminist theory...

... Winnifred Eaton’s autobiographical novel Me: A Book of Remembrance (1915) traces the adventures of one Nora Ascough, a seven- teen-year-old girl who aspires to be a writer. She travels to Jamaica to take up a job as a journalist, leaves...

... roots if not (yet) in an ipo then in the academic currency of jobs, fund- ing, and tenure. But this is poor critique and worse history, suggesting, as it does, that the differences between venture capital and public institutions...

.... —“The Jamesian Lie” 153 On the first day of my new teaching job, I told the students they could ask me anything. I only remember one of their questions, which was, “Why did you get married?” I said something about identifying with the impossible. Years before, while writing about the relation between...

... thinking of contamination, philosophy and its carceral breakouts. His act was cleaned up after him. This gets me down. In what follows, when I'm on the job, I shall try to make a connection on a somewhat complicated switchboard that always threatens to jam up. This will be no reading of the Purities...

... for employment. The acceptance of this practice as a regrettable but unavoidable part of the industry treated sexual harassment as a job hazard. I emphasize what all the women have in common not to suggest that any victim’s injury holds greater or lesser value, but to zero in on a category of injury...