Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century

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This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.S. auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. Milkman's extensive interviews and surveys of workers from the Linden, New Jersey, GM plant reveal their profound hatred for the factory regime--a longstanding discontent made worse by the decline of the auto workers' union in the 1980s. One of the leading social historians of the auto industry, Ruth Milkman moves between changes in the wider industry and those in the Linden plant, bringing both a workers' perspective and a historical perspective to the study.
Milkman finds that, contrary to the assumption in much of the literature on deindustrialization, the Linden buyout-takers express no nostalgia for the high-paying manufacturing jobs they left behind. Given the chance to make a new start in the late 1980s, they were eager to leave the plant with its authoritarian, prison-like conditions, and few have any regrets about their decision five years later. Despite the fact that the factory was retooled for robotics and that the management hoped to introduce a new participatory system of industrial relations, workers who remained express much less satisfaction with their lives and jobs.
Milkman is adamant about allowing the workers to speak for themselves, and their hopes, frustrations, and insights add fresh and powerful perspectives to a debate that is often carried out over the heads of those whose lives are most affected by changes in the industry.

Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth century.: An article from: Labour/Le Travail

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Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth century.: An article from: Labour/Le Travail

Manufacturer: Canadian Committee on Labour History
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on September 22, 1998. The length of the article is 1404 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth century.
Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1998
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Issue: 42 Page: 302-4

Article Type: Book Review

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101 Ways to Answer the Request: "Would You Please Put Out That # (!&!$ Cigar!")

Manufacturer: Fireside
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 067163500X

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the LP chart, this superb and visually awesome book brings you the very best rock, pop, rap, reggae, soul, and punk album covers ever created.

At a time when listeners increasingly download or upload songs, creating personal playlists on MP3 players and I-Pods, the art of packaging music seems to be fading away. But for the past 50 years, musicians have released their work inside brilliantly-designed packages that made an important statement about their music and style. Look at the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Band, for example--just one of the 500 memorable images in this amazing collection, all chosen by a panel of 50 experts and each accompanied by enlightening commentary. Among the choices: the brilliantly psychedelic and way-out art from the Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request; Peter Tosh's fiery cover for Bush Doctor; and the somewhat demented-looking prom queen on Hole's Live Through This album. From rock to pop, jazz to blues, these are all artistically, stylistically, and culturally significant in their own way, and will undoubtedly spark a debate with fans around the world.

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why aren't the art directors listed in the index?????.......2007-03-31

My husband, John Berg, was the art director of many of the covers in this book. I looked in the index to find where they were and I was amazed that a book on the subject of the album COVERS would not have a listing for the people who created the album covers. Listing the albums by recording artist and listing by album name is fine but the subject of the book is the ART on the covers, and yet the art directors, while buried in the text under the pictures of the individual album covers within the body of the book, are not singled out in an index. A person researching the work of John Berg, or Bob Defrin or Paula Scher would have to KNOW the album title or the band in order to see the work. That's ok for a book about the bands, or the music or even the decade, but if it's about the cover art lets have it BE about the cover art- there should have been an index for the ART PEOPLE: the illustrators, the photographers and the art directors...so for someone interested in who did the covers rather than just what they look like this is not the best book, no matter how well it's printed.

For Fun or the Music Enthusiast.......2007-01-29

I received this book for the holidays and wound up reading it cover to cover in 3 hours. The book does a great job of explaining the evolution of the album cover. It also gives great background into what the artist's was trying to portray with the cover. The book covers all genres, as well as, explains covers that were giving social commentary to covers that are just plain silly. Great purchase for anyone that loves not only the music but everything that goes into it.

Fun Book, brings back the memories.......2007-01-21

If I had known, this would have been the last gift my husband opened. We could not get him away from this book on Christmas morning. It was fun to see him sit with our daughter and tell her about which titles he had and some of his memories to go along with the album covers. Neat book!

Some mistake: perheaps most banal covers of all time?.......2006-12-09

I am a record collector with more than 30 years of addiction.
I enjoyed enormously Michael Ochs "1000 Record Covers" issued by Taschen in 1994. And afterwords I bought and reasonably enjoyed other record cover reference books such as One Hundred Album Covers by Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell issued by DK and others.
Well learning about such a luxury edition as what this one seemed at a first glance, I thougt that I shall have a valuable addition to my library...
but I was badly mistaken.
This is the worst collection of "best" covers I ever came accross in my life.
The Authors begin with the Fiftes: Frank Sinatra's banalities that will not catch the eye even of a Sinatra's dedicated fan. Then come other albums full of b/w graffities. A whole page is dedicated to the White Album with a ridiculously high issue number (White Album means logically a white page). Just for a laugh - there is another completely red page with another "highly conceptual" cover, that would merit only a verbal mentioning. The only passable covers in the book are either in bad printing quality or poor(creased and soiled) cover quality. Apart from that these staple famous cover art pictures are so banal that a 10-years old child is already tired of looking at them.
I wonder why the Authors made such an expensive and useless book.
Well I understand that the tastes differ, but ... not to this point.
My advice to any serious collector and cover art fetishist: leave this book to the Remainders.
It is a pity there are no 0 stars in this scale, but I should perheaps leave 1 star because the Authors are at least interested in cover art: good for them.

Great converstion piece.......2006-07-30

Fascinating read, helped answer a lot of questions as to who or where or what.
The only downside - if you can call it that, is that we were not familiar with a lot of the album covers, but if
only this book and Michael Ochs's 1000 Album Covers combined their information and published a book together - that would be the ultimate. But no regrets, I have them both and they make great coffee table books.

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Greatest Album Covers of All Time
Miles Scott
Manufacturer: Collins & Brown
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K4T6UG

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This book focuses on the issues and trends in outdoor, 'nature-based' recreation, leisure and tourism and explores the implications for public policy, planning, management and marketing. It is intended as supplementary reading for advanced students and is a useful reference tool.

Leisure in a Changing America: Trends and Issues for the Twenty-First Century (2nd Edition)

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Leisure in a Changing America: Trends and Issues for the Twenty-First Century (2nd Edition)
Richard Kraus
Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings
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This new edition sets the stage for the twenty-first century by outlining a number of major trends, issues, and challenges for the leisure-service field. Leisure in a Changing America, Second Edition, provides the in-depth coverage while still providing the comprehensive picture of the role of recreation and leisure in American culture needed for a survey course. This edition has drastically expanded the scope of the original book. It points sharply toward the social, economic, cultural, and other trends that have accelerated during the last decade and seem certain to be more pronounced in the years ahead. It covers the predictions of study and planning groups involving such issues as changing age-group patterns, family life, work and leisure changes, the influence of technology, the trend toward public/private partnerships, environmental needs, and urban/suburban developments. This book covers a wide range of societal developments affecting leisure. For anyone interested in recreation, leisure services, and park departments.

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Magic for Beginners (Fell's Official Know-It-All Guides)

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Magic for Beginners (Fell's Official Know-It-All Guides)
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Manufacturer: Frederick Fell Publishers
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Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers (Before & After Makeovers)
Taz Tally
Manufacturer: Wiley
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You're no stranger to Photoshop. But sometimes, it certainly would simplify your life if you had a step-by-step recipe for fixing this problem or creating that effect. And wouldn't it be nice if you could see the expected result? Open this book and that's what you'll find. From basic enhancements like sharpening contrast and tweaking lighting to radical makeovers that change backgrounds or add elements, you simply pick your project, follow the directions, and watch blah "befores" become amazing "afters"!

The cream of the makeovers crop, including:

Dimensional makeovers, such as adding image area, altering dimensions, or creating a panorama.
Exposure enhancements--bringing subjects out of shadow or adjusting contrast.
Color corrections using highlights, adjusting color object by object, or matching color across images.
Controlling composition by desaturating, removing distracting objects, and creating a focal point.
Mode makeovers--interchanging black-and-white, color, grayscale, and transparency.
Repurposing images from digital to print or print to the Web.
A companion Web site with bonus makeover chapters, images from most of the projects in the book, and more.

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Author Overview.......2006-03-06

Hello, Taz Tally here, the author of Photoshop CS2 Before and After Makeovers.
Greetings from glorious Alaska!

I thought you might like to know a bit more about what is in my book and why I wrote it.
For years, I have been teaching my Photoshop production techniques in my seminars. I have received numerous requests to gather many of my production techniques and tips in one volume ... well, this is it. I like to work quickly (to provide plenty of time for kayaking) as well as to produce good results, so I use lot's of shortcuts, many of which I include in this book.

Some jobs and images require careful detailed work, and some do not ... often a quick and dirty technique is just as effective as a longer more time consuming one. I share with you how to recognize those images and challenges that require only Q&D attention, and those that require more. And you will learn a whole slew of the time tested approaches and Photoshop techniques that I use.
I hope you enjoy this book ... please let me know what you think.
Also, if you have your own Before and After projects and techniques you would like to share, please send them to me ... I am collecting projects and techniques for the second volume of Photoshop Before and After and am eager to include other peoples work and wisdom along with my own ... so feel free to send me your project ideas, and you might just get published! You can contact me via email at < >

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