Pissing On Demand

Author : Ken D. Tunnell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814784380
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pissing on Demand written by Ken D. Tunnell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the "detox industry," that works to beat these tests. Strategies include over-the-counter products like "body flushers" that sound innocent but are really designed to mask the presence of illegal drugs to kits advertised in pro-drug publications like High Times that make no bones about their real purpose. The first exposé of the detox industry in all its manifestations, this book is required reading for anyone concerned with social control, privacy, and workers' rights.

Author : Josh Lauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812253353
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surveillance Capitalism in America written by Josh Lauer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveillance Capitalism in America explores the historical development of commercial surveillance long before computers and suggests that a ubiquitous but often unseen surveillance infrastructure created by business and the state has been central to American capitalism since the nation's founding.

Author : Katrinell M. Davis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469630494
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Work Is Not Enough written by Katrinell M. Davis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Against this deepening economic divide, a dominant cultural narrative took root: immobility, especially for the working class, is driven by shifts in demand for labor. In this context, and with right-to-work policies proliferating nationwide, workers are encouraged to avoid government dependency by arming themselves with education and training. Drawing on archival material and interviews with African American women transit workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrinell Davis grapples with our understanding of mobility as it intersects with race and gender in the postindustrial and post–civil rights United States. Considering the consequences of declining working conditions within the public transit workplace of Alameda County, Davis illustrates how worker experience--on and off the job--has been undermined by workplace norms and administrative practices designed to address flagging worker commitment and morale. Providing a comprehensive account of how political, social, and economic factors work together to shape the culture of opportunity in a postindustrial workplace, she shows how government manpower policies, administrative policies, and drastic shifts in unionization have influenced the prospects of low-skilled workers.

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434976920
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Behind the Uniform written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Killing Fields written by Christopher Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Debbie Barham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840242836
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Life Scenario Survival Handbook written by Debbie Barham and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all those vitally important life skills such as: how to extract your leg from a randy dog; forgetting the punchline of rude joke; getting your skirt stuck in your knickers; and ingesting a Railtrack sandwich.

Author : Maggie Koerth-Baker
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 111817559X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before the Lights Go Out written by Maggie Koerth-Baker and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you need to know now about America's energy future "Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic." We have an energy problem. And everybody knows it, even if we can't all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peaking oil, foreign oil, public safety?if the fears are this complicated, then the solutions are bound to be even more confusing. Maggie Koerth-Baker?science editor at the award-winning blog BoingBoing.net?finally makes some sense out of the madness. Over the next 20 years, we'll be forced to cut 20 quadrillion BTU worth of fossil fuels from our energy budget, by wasting less and investing in alternatives. To make it work, we'll need to radically change the energy systems that have shaped our lives for 100 years. And the result will be neither business-as-usual, nor a hippie utopia. Koerth-Baker explains what we can do, what we can't do, and why "The Solution" is really a lot of solutions working together. This isn't about planting a tree, buying a Prius, and proving that you're a good person. Economics and social incentives got us a country full of gas-guzzling cars, long commutes, inefficient houses, and coal-fired power plants out in the middle of nowhere, and economics and incentives will be the things that build our new world. Ultimately, change is inevitable. Argues we're not going to solve the energy problem by convincing everyone to live like it's 1900 because that's not a good thing. Instead of reverting to the past, we have to build a future where we get energy from new places, use it in new ways, and do more with less. Clean coal? Natural gas? Nuclear? Electric cars? We'll need them all. When you look at the numbers, you'll find that we'll still be using fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables for decades to come. Looks at new battery technology, smart grids, passive buildings, decentralized generation, clean coal, and carbon sequestration. These are buzzwords now, but they'll be a part of your world soon. For many people, they already are. Written by the cutting edge Science Editor for Boing Boing, one of the ten most popular blogs in America

Author : Ramon Carrasco
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595375987
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Life written by Ramon Carrasco and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never saw myself as a soldier. I always imagined myself doing many different things, but this one was not one of them. My senior year in high school I planned everything out. It was nothing like this. Life has a funny way of changing your plans. Author Ramon Carrasco joined the U.S Army as a last resort, eager to leave the boring normalcy of Big Lake, Texas, and to make a fresh start. But he struggles to find his place in the military. Shipped off to Seoul, Korea, he must learn to deal with the absence of important people in his life, mainly his family, and come to terms with old relationships while making new ones. Army Life details Carrasco's quest to discover his purpose in life. In doing so, he finds out that the Army is not what he thought it would be, and that people are not always who they appear to be. Faced with new challenges, Carrasco learns more about who he is and why his life has led him to this point. Will Carrasco's personal struggles and being in the Army overwhelm him, or will his strong spirit see him through?

Author : Sophie Jane
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669885860
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 21St Century Language of Texting written by Sophie Jane and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 21 CLOT Found some unusual text on your phone? What the.......!! It’s all about the language. Oh No you say, I don’t want to learn a new language, well you don’t have to. Inside here are 2 books – acronyms sorted in alphabetical order, so if you receive a text that says....404 9:), you can look up easily or if you want to send in code you can go part 2, look up a phrase or sentence and send something like..... Be back in a minute...bbiam. Got the Idea. Greeat!! Now let’s have some fun!!

Author : Dana Beth Weinberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489198
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code Green written by Dana Beth Weinberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the quality of their nursing care, such as Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, now struggle to fill vacant positions. What happened? Dana Beth Weinberg argues that hospital restructuring in the 1990s is to blame. In their attempts to retain profit margins or even just to stay afloat, hospitals adopted a common set of practices to cut costs and increase revenues. Many strategies squeezed greater productivity out of nurses and other hospital workers. Nurses' workloads increased to the point that even the most skilled nurses questioned whether they could provide minimal, safe care to patients. As hospitals hemorrhaged money, it seemed that no one-not hospital administrators, not doctors-felt they could afford to listen to nurses. Through a careful look at the effects of the restructuring strategies chosen and implemented by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the author examines management's efforts to balance service and survival. By showing the effects of hospital restructuring on nurses' ability to plan, evaluate, and deliver excellent care, Weinberg provides a stinging indictment of standard industry practices that underestimate the contribution nurses make both to hospitals and to patient care.