Bargaining With The Machine

Author : Robert M. Pallitto
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700629858
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bargaining with the Machine written by Robert M. Pallitto and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cell phone apps share location information; software companies store user data in the cloud; biometric scanners read fingerprints; employees of some businesses have microchips implanted in their hands. In each of these instances we trade a share of privacy or an aspect of identity for greater convenience or improved security. What Robert M. Pallitto asks in Bargaining with the Machine is whether we are truly making such bargains freely—whether, in fact, such a transaction can be conducted freely or advisedly in our ever more technologically sophisticated world. Pallitto uses the social theory of bargaining to look at the daily compromises we make with technology. Specifically, he explores whether resisting these “bargains” is still possible when the technologies in question are backed by persuasive, even coercive, corporate and state power. Who, he asks, is proposing the bargain? What is the balance of bargaining power? What is surrendered and what is gained? And are the perceived and the actual gains and losses the same—that is, what is hidden? At the center of Pallitto’s work is the paradox of bargaining in a world of limited agency. Assurances that we are in control are abundant whether we are consumers, voters, or party to the social contract. But when purchasing goods from a technological behemoth like Amazon, or when choosing a candidate whose image is crafted and shaped by campaign strategists and media outlets, how truly free, let alone informed, are our choices? The tension between claims of agency and awareness of its limits is the site where we experience our social lives—and nowhere is this tension more pronounced than in the surveillance society. This book offers a cogent analysis of how that complex, contested, and even paradoxical experience arises as well as an unusually clear and troubling view of the consequential compromises we may be making.

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Bargaining in the Electrical Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Industry written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Bargaining in the Motor Vehicle and Equipment Industry written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report reviewing collective bargaining and strikes in the USA transport equipment and motor vehicle industries from 1950 to 1979, with particular reference to the role of united auto workers (uaw) and afl- cio trade unions. References and statistical tables.

Author : James L. Halperin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345439805
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth Machine written by James L. Halperin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1999-09-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to have your conception of truth rocked to its very foundation. It is the year 2004. Violent crime is the number one political issue in America. Now, the Swift and Sure Anti-Crime Bill guarantees a previously convicted violent criminal one fair trial, one quick appeal, then immediate execution. To prevent abuse of the law, a machine must be built that detects lies with 100 percent accuracy. Once perfected, the Truth Machine will change the face of the world. Yet the race to finish the Truth Machine forces one man to commit a shocking act of treachery, burdening him with a dark secret that collides with everything he believes in. Now he must conceal the truth from his own creation . . . or face his execution. By turns optimistic and chilling--and always profound--The Truth Machine is nothing less than a history of the future, a spellbinding chronicle that resonates with insight, wisdom . . . and astounding possibility. "PROFOUND." --Associated Press

Author : Mike McConville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847312055
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jury Trials and Plea Bargaining written by Mike McConville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy. Focused upon the apprehension, investigation and adjudication of indicted cases in New York City's main trial tribunal in the nineteenth century - the Court of General Sessions - it traces the historical underpinnings of a lawyering culture which, in the first half of the nineteenth century, celebrated trial by jury as the fairest and most reliable method of case disposition and then at the middle of the century dramatically gave birth to plea bargaining, which thereafter became the dominant method of case disposition in the United States. The book demonstrates that the nature of criminal prosecutions in everyday indicted cases was transformed, from disputes between private parties resolved through a public determination of the facts and law to a private determination of the issues between the state and the individual, marked by greater police involvement in the processing of defendants and public prosecutorial discretion. As this occurred, the structural purpose of criminal courts changed - from individual to aggregate justice - as did the method and manner of their dispositions - from trials to guilty pleas. Contemporaneously, a new criminology emerged, with its origins in European jurisprudence, which was to transform the way in which crime was viewed as a social and political problem. The book, therefore, sheds light on the relationship of the method of case disposition to the means of securing social control of an underclass, in the context of the legitimation of a new social order in which the local state sought to define groups of people as well as actual offending in criminogenic terms. "At a moment when France is poised to adopt plea bargaining, McConville and Mirsky offer the best historical account of its emergence in mid-nineteenth century America, based upon exhaustive analysis of archival data. Their interpretation of the reasons for the dramatic shift from jury trials to negotiated justice offers no comfort for contemporary apologists of plea bargaining as more "professional." The combination of new data and critical reflection on accepted theories make this essential reading for anyone interested in criminal justice policy." Rick Abel, Connell Professor of Law, UCLA Law School "A fascinating account which traces the origins of plea-bargaining in the politicisation of criminal justice, linking developments in day-to-day practices of the criminal process with macro-changes in political economy, notably the structures of local governance. This is a classic socio-legal study and should be read by anyone interested in criminology, criminal justice, modern history or social theory". Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory, London School of Economics.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farm Bargaining written by United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farm Bargaining written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing and Consumer Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Marketing and Bargaining written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing and Consumer Relations and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abraham Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Bargaining Provisions written by Abraham Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Napel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642561608
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilateral Bargaining written by Stefan Napel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates bargaining between two agents. Its objective is to present, to extend, and to apply the present state of theoretical knowledge. A wide range of questions will be considered: First of all, will two parties reach efficient agreements? Traditional economic theory gives a generally affirma tive answer for perfectly rational agents, who can carry out complex calcu lations instantaneously and without cost. The book uses innovative methods to analyse the implications of less demanding assumptions. A practical ques tion related to bargaining is: How much power does the design of institutions such as the U. N. Security Council give to each of its members? Formally, non permanent members' votes are necessary to pass resolutions, but theoretical investigation of pre-voting negotiation attributes all power to the five perma nent members. Or one may ask whether a society should rather finance the education in higher mathematics for a talented person than remedial training for a retarded person? Different concepts of justice yield different answers. Which particular concept is implemented in a given society is also a matter of bargaining, and it is of special philosophical interest to investigate which bargain will be struck in an ideal society in which individual talents and resources are not yet known. Very generally, a bilateral bargaining situation is characterized by two agents - individuals, firms, governments, etc.