Book Review Essay

Digital Labour and Karl Marx by Christian Fuchs discusses how labor changes in the world of social media. In combination with the works of Marx and Hochschild, this book provides an entirely different perspective on labor. This book is particularly interesting because currently social media and the digital world play a vital role in the lives of many. Just like factory workers and flight attendants, digital media comes at a cost to human emotion…

series of questions that might help us better understand how exactly we have come to relate to that once mighty republic that met such a bleak end. Most importantly for us today, he questions if decline and fall lurk somewhere ahead? Throughout this book, Murphy tries to explain the complexities of Roman culture and how the various factors within this society, contributed to the demise of the empire.…

It could be argued that of all the general principles of Catholic social thought (CST), aside from what could be considered the foundational principle of the dignity of human life, the principle of the preferential option for the poor is the cornerstone by which all the other points of social thought are held in comparison to. With respect to the teachings of the Church, an option for the poor and maligned closely matches the historical Jesus’ teachings concerning social thought in the Gospels.…

Rights in Argentina provides a look into how Argentina’s history has shaped the populace’s view of human rights and how human rights has in tern affected public discourse and history in Argentina through groups like Memoria Activa and Hotel BAUEN. This book was valuable to me because I was able to see the effects of neoliberalism in a way I had never seen before, since I have grown up within the culture of neoliberalism my entire life. Faulk studies the conception of human rights in Argentina,…

effective and socially optimal allocation of resources. Despite the widespread acceptance of this economic theory, the reality faced by individuals especially in developing countries, does not necessarily reflect a fair allocation of resources. The book ‘Invisible Hands’ discusses this departure between free market theory and reality, through a vivid narrative of the issues faced by people in the Global South.…

lifestyles of the time. Pitti was clearly the wealthier and political of the two, being involved in wars, diplomacy, and politics. Pitti took his business as more of a side job to his political involvements in France. Compared to his counterpart in the book, Pitti travels considerably more, spending more time outside of Florence as he travels to meet emperors, kings, and nobles. Pitti’s memoirs also take on a novel persona as he writes to show his own exploits to the future generations rather…

efficient way, as a substitute for the appraisals, overtime. He takes the concepts in the book and almost persuasively details how the same methods are important but can be better used in a way differently than the traditional performance appraisal. In the way Pontecraft sort of thinks, expectations for employees aren’t dismissed, but sort of transmitted from boss to employee differently. The ideas in the book are still present but differently utilized, in an almost more effective…

Martha’s diary shines the light on the intelligence and work ethics that midwives had in the 1700s. Throughout the book with Martha practice is reminessance to English botanic medicine and Martha’s experience rested on a long accumulation of English experience. While caring for the sick was considered the women’s role, Martha’s ends up delivering approximately 814 children…

invested in their Puritan religion, women were also considered a substitution for men, in terms of labor. Along with collecting information from online resources, about how these witch trials not only occurred in the 1600s, but also far thereafter, the book also provided examples of many witches, Elizabeth Seager, and Katherine Harrison; who escaped conviction, due to the lack of tangible evidence. One lenient evening in October 1692, was expected to progress routinely, until the moment…

Mark R. McMinn (2011), Psychology, theology, and spirituality in Christian counseling book, is an exceptional resource that provides counselors relevant core concepts related to the integration process of theology and spirituality into the counseling setting. However, the primary objective of the textbook is to focus on the difficulties encounter in the counseling office. In addition, McMinn provides relevant data that aids the Christian and secular counselor understand the process of…