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Arts Vocational guidance Home-based businesses Management Home-based businesses United States Home-based businesses United States Management Older people Employment Older people Employment United States Self-employed Self-employed United States Temporary employees Vocational guidanceEberstadt, Nick
Summary: By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession—lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work—most especially among America’s men. Nicholas Eberstadt, a political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templeton Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 EBESummary: Filmmaker Moore examines the history of free-market capitalism in post-Reagan America and questions its efficacy as the basis for the nation's economy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPStockman, Farah
Summary: "Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one of the world's top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to become chairman of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.13 STOBrowning, Dominique.
Summary: Browning, former editor in chief of House & Garden magazine, offers a humorous and moving work about losing a job and winning a life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNING, DOMINIQUE BROFreed, Dolly.
Summary: Freed guides readers on how to buy and maintain a home, dress well, stay healthy, save money, and be lazy, proud, miserly, and honest, all while enjoying leisure and keeping up a middle-class faȧde. Possum Living instructs on practical matters, including how to grow and can food, raise and slaughter rabbits, catch and cook fish and turtles, and distill your own moonshine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home FreedKearns, Josie
Summary: From the Publisher's Website: As one sixty-year-old, thirty-and-out auto worker said, "My people came from Scotland, and they worked in the mines and we thought black lung was the worst. We came over here for a better life and work in the factories and now [GM] closes them down the same way." This is just one of the quotes Josie Kearns shares in her stories of thirty laid-off auto workers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.1378 KEALancaster, Jen
Summary: A memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life and perfect job vanishes when she goes from a six-figure career to unemployment, and, forced to do some soul searching, becomes an author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LANOrwell, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1961
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Summary: "Describes gig jobs in the creative arts, including the history of gig jobs in the creative arts, working a gig job, the pros and cons of gig work, and the future of gig jobs in the creative arts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BrightPoint Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 338.4 MACEdwards, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.041 EDWBlack, Yuwanda
Summary: "A step-by-step guide to becoming successful as a freelancer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2016