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Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Season Two follows various hotel guests over a week, but with each passing day, a darker side of the picture-perfect travelers, hotel employees, and idyllic locale emerges. At its Sicily location, the White Lotus welcomes two couples trying to decide if they're friends or enemies, a three-generation Italian American family exploring its Sicilian roots, and a White Lotus VIP traveling with her husband (and assistant) in tow. Behind the scenes, the...
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This charming picture book by author-illustrator Julia Seal celebrates the brave everyday heroes who keep our world turning through difficult times. From supermarket staff to delivery drivers to doctors and nurses and more, this book is dedicated to the real superheroes who look after us. --Back cover.
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Language
English
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Description
Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations. Examining how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms...
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Language
English
Description
"In the Last Plantation, James Jones uses the plantation metaphor to investigate how Congress operates as a racialized governing institution, a state body organized through racism that imposes the rules that structure our society along racial lines. He develops his argument in two parts by analyzing the career experiences of Black congressional workers. First, he shows how the congressional workplace produces inequality. Lawmakers' decisions to exempt...
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Language
English
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"Transnational customer service workers are an emerging touchstone of globalization given their location at the intersecting borders of identity, class, nation, and production. Unlike outsourced manufacturing jobs, call center work requires voice-to-voice conversation with distant customers; part of the product being exchanged in these interactions is a responsive, caring, connected self. In Phone Clones, Kiran Mirchandani explores the experiences...
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Language
English
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In If We Can Win Here, Fran Quigley tells the stories of janitors, fry cooks, and health care aides trying to fight their way to middle-class incomes in Indianapolis. As one Indiana-based organizer says of the struggle being waged in a state that has earned a reputation as antiunion: "If we can win here, we can win anywhere." The outcome of the battle of Indianapolis may foretell the fate of workers across the United States. -- from back cover.
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Series
Report - 94th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume no. 94-1571
Publisher
[U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Interactive Library
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Briefly describes workers who provide services to the community and shows children pretending to be a waiter, teacher, police officer, fire fighter, postal worker, nurse, veterinarian, doctor, dentist, and librarian.