Monday, 4 September 2006

New book: "A New Sociology of Work?". This book asks what might be required of "a new sociology of work" and why such a project is vital for understanding people's working lives at the start of the twenty-first century. 16.08.08 [PASCAL Observatory]
11:12:53 PM    

Families and households and youth : My generation. Creed O'Hanlon questions the real influence of baby boomers in this essay for Griffith Review 13. He suggests that rather than being the social conscience of the twentieth century, they deliberately co-opted and distorted youth culture and turned it into a commodity, packaging dissent as readily as community, music or fashion. He believes that the baby boomers were never really idealists but were, and still are, innately selfish and cynical. [Creative Economy : Topic Articles]
11:07:45 PM    

In Today's Rat Race, the Most Overworked Win . For years, economists have taught their students a simple maxim: As employers hunt for workers, they want to get the best talent at the lowest price. By Shankar Vedantam. [washingtonpost.com - Business News From The Washington Post]
11:06:49 PM    

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