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Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and patrons – who include gangsters based in Europe, kleptocratic politicians in Congo, and lawless diamond dealers in northern Angola – this book offers insights into ideologies of power and value in central...
| Автор | Joe Trapido |
Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity, with no apparent end in sight. This volume explores the effects of policies pursued by the Greek state since then (under the direction of the Troika), and how Greek society has responded. In addition to charting the actual effects of the Greek crisis on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, the book both examines and challenges the “crisis” era as the context for changing attitudes and...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
What is the Standard data model problem definition? What do you need to resolve? How do you manage Standard data model Knowledge Management (KM)? How are the Standard data model's objectives aligned to the group’s overall stakeholder strategy? How do you proactively clarify deliverables and Standard data model quality expectations? What are your current levels and trends in key Standard data model measures or indicators of product and process performance that are important to and directly...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear language, she provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has changed since 1979, sets this situation within its historical context, and investigates the forces that are driving it. Among other factors, Blank looks closely at changes within families, including women’s...
| Автор | Rebecca M. Blank |
How are you doing compared to your industry? Are you changing as fast as the world around you? What adjustments to the strategies are needed? Do you have/need 24-hour access to key personnel? Who defines the rules in relation to any given issue? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a «new slavery,» one intricately linked to the global economy. The...
| Автор | Kevin Bales |
What do you stand for–and what are you against? How are outputs preserved and protected? Against what alternative is success being measured? Are events managed to resolution? What are your current levels and trends in key Adobe Certified Associate measures or indicators of product and process performance that are important to and directly serve your customers? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling portrait of one of the least understood and most debated regions in the country, Hendricks introduces us to the ordinary Americans and Mexicans who live there—cowboys and Indians, factory workers...
| Автор | Tyche Hendricks |
How will decision-support systems be incorporated into the workflow for clinicians? Is there a need for decision-support tools to assist managers prioritize maintenance activities? What is a decision-support system? What are the objectives of group decision-support systems? Is the management information system built and ready for decision-support? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group,...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
In <i>Someplace Like America</i>, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media—people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result...
| Автор | Dale Maharidge |
What were the criteria for evaluating a Electronic system level pilot? How is Electronic system level data gathered? Is the Electronic system level test/monitoring cost justified? When are costs are incurred? How do you catch Electronic system level definition inconsistencies? This instant Electronic System Level self-assessment will make you the entrusted Electronic System Level domain veteran by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Electronic System Level...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. <I>Cut Loose </I>provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers. Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after World War II. But today, they find themselves beleaguered in a changed economy of...
| Автор | Victor Tan Chen |
The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. Typically frequented by Latin American men (mostly «undocumented» immigrants), these sites constitute an important source of unskilled manual labor. Despite day laborers’ ubiquitous presence in urban areas, however, their very existence is overlooked in much of the research on immigration. While standing in plain view, these <I>jornaleros</I> live and work in a precarious...
| Автор | Juan Thomas Ordonez |
How do you verify your resources? How do you foster the skills, knowledge, talents, attributes, and characteristics you want to have? Who should receive measurement reports? How do you use Healthcare technician data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation? What extra resources will you need? This breakthrough Healthcare Technician self-assessment will make you the dependable Healthcare Technician domain assessor by revealing just what you need to know to be...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature. <i>Mining Capitalism</i> examines the strategies through which corporations manage their relationships with these critics and adversaries. By focusing on the conflict over the Ok Tedi...
| Автор | Stuart Kirsch |
Prodded by economists in the 1970s, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEOs with hopes of boosting their companies’ fortunes. Guided by largely unproven assumptions, this trend continues today. So what are companies getting in return for all the extra money? Not much, according to the empirical data.<BR /><BR /> In <I>Indispensable and Other Myths: Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It,</I> Michael...
| Автор | Michael Dorff |
Which functions and people interact with the supplier and or customer? What is the problem or issue? How will you measure your Architecture design software effectiveness? What can you control? What do employees need in the short term? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Essentials of Applied Econometrics prepares students for a world in which more data surround us every day and in which econometric tools are put to diverse uses. Written for students in economics and for professionals interested in continuing an education in econometrics, this succinct text not only teaches best practices and state-of-the-art techniques, but uses vivid examples and data obtained from a variety of real world sources. The book’s emphasis on application uniquely...
| Автор | J. Edward Taylor |
Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But what does a fair-trade label signify? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. Based on extensive research in Zapotec indigenous communities in Oaxaca, <I>Brewing Justice</I> follows the members of the cooperative Michiza, whose...
| Автор | Daniel Jaffee |
What is the System Protection's sustainability risk? What threat is System Protection addressing? What System Protection modifications can you make work for you? Are System Protection vulnerabilities categorized and prioritized? Can you identify any significant risks or exposures to System Protection third- parties (vendors, service providers, alliance partners etc) that concern you? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States.  <BR /><BR /><I>The Big Rig</I> explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and...
| Автор | Steve Viscelli |
How can you become the company that would put you out of business? When a Basic Email Security manager recognizes a problem, what options are available? How can you improve performance? How will you know that the Basic Email Security project has been successful? Have you made assumptions about the shape of the future, particularly its impact on your customers and competitors? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Additionally, powerful algorithms are capable of churning through seas of data to uncover patterns. Providing a simple and accessible introduction to data mining, Paul Attewell and David B. Monaghan discuss how data mining substantially differs from conventional statistical modeling familiar to most social scientists. The authors...
| Автор | Paul Attewell |
Which Business behavior data should be retained? What Business behavior data should be collected? What is the kind of project structure that would be appropriate for your Business behavior project, should it be formal and complex, or can it be less formal and relatively simple? Marketing budgets are tighter, consumers are more skeptical, and social media has changed forever the way we talk about Business behavior, how do you gain traction? Is there a Business behavior Communication plan covering...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |