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The making of a cybertariat: virtual work in a real world
Ursula HuwsThe process often makes the situation of the workers more precarious, as they are forced to pay for the tools of their trade, are expected to be constantly accessible to workplace demands, and are isolated from their fellow workers.Huws'The ...
Global Electronics
More editionsThe authors, Liz Bisset and Ursula Huws, estimate that there are at least 300,000 homeworkers in Britain today. Most of those who work at home, as opposed to " from home as a base," are women. Bisset and Huws conducted a survey of 130 ...
Teleworking and Globalisation
Ursula HuwsInexpensive telecommunications, the spread of computing, and globalization are creating major change in the location of work within and between countries.
Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes ...
Ursula HuwsFor every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device.
New Technology and Women's Employment: Case Studies from ...
Ursula HuwsNot only are they more likely to lose their jobs, but they are also more likely to find that the quality of work has deteriorated in the jobs that remain. (MN)
Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More
PreviewNotes 1 2 3 4 Sheila Allen and Carol Wolkowitz, Homeworking: Myths and Realities (London: Macmillan, 1987); Liz Bisset and Ursula Huws, SweatedLabour: Homeworking in Britain Today (Nottingham: Low Pay Unit, 1985 ); Monica Elling, ...
Hotel of the Saints
Ursula HegiUrsula Hegi's bicultural background enriches these eleven luminous stories that are set in Europe, Mexico, and the United States.
Acta Cancellariae, Or Selections from the Records of the ...
Cecil Monro... daughter of the said Ursula Peterson, whom they do think most fit and convenient to take benefit of the said legacy, the said large bason and ewer, to the only proper use and behoof of the said Ursula Dysney, her executors, administrators, ...
Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My ...
Ursula HegiThe Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set by Ursula Hegi brings together her four novels set in Burgdorf, Germany that explore the consequences of Hitler’s reign and the ramifications of World War II.
Acta Cancellariæ: Or, Selections from the Records of the ...
Great Britain. Court of Chancery... daughter of the said Ursula Peterson, whom they do think most fit and convenient to take benefit of the said legacy, the said large bason and ewer, to the only proper use and behoof of the said Ursula Dysney, her executors, administrators, ...
Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories
Ursula HegiIn this stunning collection of stories, bestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love -- familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent.
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered ...
Ursula K. HeiseUrsula K. Heise argues that understanding these stories and symbols is indispensable for any effective advocacy on behalf of endangered species.
The Golden Day
Ursula DubosarskyWhat actually happened in the seaside cave that day? And most important — who can they tell about it? In beautifully shimmering prose, Ursula Dubosarsky reveals how a single shared experience can alter the course of young lives forever.
Intrusions
Ursula HegiBrilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling Stones from the River, creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the ...
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
Preview7. URSULA K. HEISE ... and power plants), journeys to the Moon and Mars, television, global communications networks,tl1c discovery of DNA, in i'itro fertilizatiim, the cloning of. 136 Science, technology, and postmodernism URSULA K HEISE.
The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins
PreviewLegendeVerehrungBilderwelt (Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 1985); Scott B. Montgomery, St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne. Relics, Reliquaries and the Visual Culture of Group Sanctity in Late Medieval Europe ( Bern: Peter ...
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Essex Record Office22 December 1582. [26/14] To my brothers Benjamin Gonson £10 and Anthony Gonson £20 and to my sisters Ursula Peterson £5, Bennet Gonson £20, Thomasine Gonson £20, and Avis Gonson £20. To my niece Ursula Peterson £ 13 6s. 8d.
Coastal Planning and Management
Robert KayUrsula Kaly and John Morrison School of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia Also: Ursula Kaly, Tautai International Consultants PO Box 913, Port Moresby, NCD Papua New Guinea Emmanuil ...
Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex gentry and merchants
Frederick George Emmison22 December 1582. [26/14] To my brothers Benjamin Gonson £10 and Anthony Gonson £20 and to my sisters Ursula Peterson £5, Bennet Gonson £20, Thomasine Gonson £20, and Avis Gonson £20. To my niece Ursula Peterson £ 13 6s. 8d.
Elizabethan Life: Morals & the church courts
Frederick George Emmison22 December 1582. [26/14] To my brothers Benjamin Gonson £10 and Anthony Gonson £20 and to my sisters Ursula Peterson £5, Bennet Gonson £20, Thomasine Gonson £20, and Avis Gonson £20. To my niece Ursula Peterson £ 13 6s. 8d.
Floating in My Mother's Palm
Ursula HegiFloating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River.
Supervision und Weiterbildung: Instrumente zur ...
Ursula KleinPräzise und stimmig beschreibt Ursula Klein, wie die Instrumente Weiterbildung und Supervision wirkungsvoll zum Einsatz kommen.
Verbindung und Affinität: Die Grundlegung der neuzeitlichen ...
Ursula KleinJahrhundert Ursula Klein. IV. 1 DAS „CHEMISCHE“ GEWERBE IM 16. UND 17. JAHRHUNDERT Ein chemisches Gewerbe im eigentlichen Wortsinn, d. h. ein Gewerbe, das ausschließlich und im größeren Umfang dhemische Präparate ...
Art of our time: selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, ...
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of ArtEmily Stamey 1. Von Rydingsvard interviewed by Deborah Emont Scott in Michael Brenson, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Deborah Emont Scott, Ursula von Rydingsvard, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1997), ...
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