...,” which follows three contingent workers as they act on, for, and through the megacorporation ALIVE's proprietary platform. Employees access this amalgamation of ratings‐based social network and Amazon‐like marketplace by way of digital interfaces that the author formally reproduces with modifications...

... , no. 50/51: 263 -69. Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions. 2000. Casual nation. December. www.cgeu.org . Damrosch, David. 1995 . We scholars:Changing the culture of the university . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Davis, Lennard J. 1995-96 . Dancing in the dark: A manifesto against...

.... first union contract While we do not speak in the name of GSOC-UAW, the authors of covering graduate this essay are members of the union bargaining team. We have been priv- student employees at a ileged to participate in a historic event. Significantly, it is the first time private university...

... of the production process, where molten steel is transformed into sturdy slabs weighing up to thirty tons each.18 Other company employees explained that workers in the slab steel plant are more “hot-­headed” and attributed their emotional volatility to the dusty, deafening, sweltering climate of the plant...

... are a regular occurrence in capitalist economies, but the David M. Enron bankruptcy was unique for a number of reasons. At the time it Brennan occurred, it was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.1 Enron employees suffered staggering losses, as approximately 63 percent of their 401(k...

..., the economic, and the subjective.7 Once overwhelm- ingly Roman Catholic, Guatemala today is as much as 60 percent Pentecos- tal or charismatic Christian.8 Most call-­center employees also self-­identify as “born again,” and Christian conversion (for reasons...

... was part of a weeklong strike by Columbia University’s graduate student employees demand- ing collective bargaining rights. Although the giant rat of Morningside Heights was placed in front of the university gates to support a specific campaign, it was a symptom of contradictions...

.... Marshals, FBI agents, drug enforcement agents, immigration offi cers, border patrol agents, customs agents, secret service, as well as public-safety employees (so-called fi rst responders working as police and fi refi ghters). Virtually...

... Juárez, 30 September 1988). But the maquilas kept coming, their num- bers increasing in the following year to three hundred facilities with 150,000 employees. Other maladies besides scarce housing and rickety water pipes...

.... And if that weren’t enough, these new hotels barely paid employees min- imum wage; large chains, like Marriott and Hyatt, also turned into big- time union busters. Clinton’s “empowerment zones,” set up in 1993, merely continued...

... Committee, or GSOC-UAW. In the fall, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recognized NYU’s graduate student employee union, the first recognized grad union at a private university. The NLRB then instructed NYU to bargain with the union...

..., the graduate student employees were forming a union, and there were many public discussions about unionization. These discussions placed the paternalistic attitudes of many faculty on full display and exposed the entrenched accommodationism of our elected representatives. For participants in the seminar...

... on the sacramental use of peyote violated their First Amendment free exercise rights. The Oregon Supreme Court sided with the fired employees; the state appealed. The question that came before the Court was this: “Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment permits the State of Oregon to include...

... realized that pseudo-anthrax can wreak havoc. In the case of the B’nai B’rith, employees and police who walked through the “hot zone” had to remove their clothes, take showers, and undergo quarantine in a local hotel. By 1999 anthrax had become the hoax of choice, far surpassing bomb threats...

... of academic freedom as a guarantor of the perquisites of intellectual life in the United States today? The ongoing NYU graduate employee/student struggle for a contract, for example, underlines the increasingly large percentage of those working in the acad- emy who do not enjoy academic freedom...

... exemplified the old labor maxim that “justice for one is justice for all.” This campaign, named Justice for Jazz Artists (with its echo of the Service Employees International Union’s legendary Justice for Janitors campaign of the early 1990s), may have been...

.... Shares in Enron bought certainty for employees who bought themselves (as a part of a wage relation) a piece of their employer. They also simultaneously and necessarily bought into the idea of the company’s life, the company’s future...

... discussion in this essay. The rules are divided according to the kind of activity they refer to, and the wording of each rule is exactly as it appears in a summary memo of ethics rules given to all members, officials, and employees of the House of Represen- tatives (Committee on Standards of Official...

... the prize of rationality to the profiteers—what- the downsizable ever needs don’t make it into the calculus are outside market reason. Since profits derive solely from tuition revenue, lean administrators do no fund- professional’s raising and answer to their investors. Employees are not stakeholders...

... designated as a basic organization of associated labor (BOAL). Art workers were thus either employees of a BOAL or were able to organize working communities or to work independently. The highlight of the constitutional reform was the principle of associated labor ( združeno delo ) and the social exchange...