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Love, sex, and corporate slavery in a futuristic world from the two-time winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize
Author : Guillermo Saccomanno
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948830256
Love, sex, and corporate slavery in a futuristic world from the two-time winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize
Author : Michael Zakim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 022654589X
The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust. This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The personal trajectory of these young men from farm to metropolis, homestead to boarding house, and, most significantly, from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life. As Zakim reveals in his highly original study, there was nothing natural or preordained about the stunning ascendance of this capitalism and its radical transformation of the relationship between “Man and Mammon.”
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847496865
In 'The Death of a Civil Servant', an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories included in this volume, 'A Calculated Marriage', 'The Culprit', 'The Exclamation Mark', 'The Speech-Maker', 'Who Is to Blame?' and 'A Defenceless Creature' are in the same absurdly comical vein. This short collection shows Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at the greed, sycophancy and ignorance of his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his major, serious works.
Author : Todd C. Peppers
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813932653
Sharing their insights, anecdotes, and experiences in a clear, accessible style, the contributors provide readers with a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court.
Author : William Cockburn (LL.B.)
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 1753
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Author : Thomas Augst
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2003-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226032205
Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it? Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America.
Author : Zelotes Grenell
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Church officers
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Author : Enid Mumford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351173669
Originally published in 1967 and the result of extensive interviews and case studies, this book examines the implications of technical change. Although focussed on the early introduction of computers the kinds of problems discussed in this book are found in technical change more widely and the book therefore continues to have enduring relevance. The book is divided into three parts - an attitude survey of the administrative staff in departments affected by the introduction of computers, a study of the mechanisms of change and a second survey and re-examination of departmental organisation and work flow.
Author : England. Court of Chancery
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 1738
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Author : Attorney at law
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 1733
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