Author: Leigh Claire La Berge Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478005270 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 183
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The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor—the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the demands of work. Outlining the ways in which socially engaged artists relate to work, labor, and wages, La Berge examines how artists and organizers create institutions to address their own and others' financial precarity; why the increasing role of animals and children in contemporary art points to the turn away from paid labor; and how the expansion of MFA programs and student debt helps create the conditions for decommodified labor. In showing how socially engaged art operates within and against the need to be paid for work, La Berge offers a new theorization of the relationship between art and contemporary capitalism.
Author: Ernie Lindsey Publisher: Ernie Lindsey ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 29
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Alan Parker's world is quickly coming unhinged. As the #2 contract assassin for an ultra-secret organization called The Company, he's already a possible target for elimination after an ill-fated job went horribly wrong in Morocco. Another mistake could be his last. As if that wasn't enough, his dying wife isn't responding to her experimental treatments and his next mark, a brilliant doctor who may have discovered a universal cure for cancer, disappears. Things aren't what they seem as he scrambles to ensure the mission's success, but he faces a monumental decision; complete his assignment like a good employee should, or spare the doctor's life and ultimately risk the unforgiving wrath of The Company. Keywords: Suspense, Thriller, Mystery, Assassin, Hitman, Medical, Free, Freebie, free mystery books
Author: Stephen J. Martin Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd ISBN: 1856355497 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 385
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Being a rock star was all Jimmy ever wanted, but it was supposed to happen when he was seventeen, not in his thirties. Now it's happening and Jimmy doesn't know what to do - it's wrecking his head.
Author: Charles D. Lewis Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc. ISBN: 1685372392 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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RoachMan By: Charles D. Lewis The Southside of Chicago has no need for another drug kingpin. Englewood needed a hero: not a perfect man; just a working man. Roach Man heard the Hood calling. He answered the call in a new and true Donald Goines fashion.
Author: Shane Townsend Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: 1646542835 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 55
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This book is about the collective set of circumstances that drove the main character, Nathan, to make the choice to begin robbing banks. Nathan is an ex-con who is doing his best to live a square life and follow the rules. Along the way, he meets a vibrant, sexy lady named Brandy, and she has his nose wide open. Eventually they move in together. For this handsome couple, the future looks bright. But an unexpected and sudden bout with a recurring illness causes Nathan to lose his job and puts a serious strain on both his finances and his relationship. Feeling like less than a man because of his inability to contribute to his household financially and due to the constant nagging and negativity and disrespect by Brandy, Nathan decides to rob just one bank to remedy his situation. But Nathan is an addict and was instantly addicted to the thrill and adrenaline rush caused by robbing that bank. Once he got started, stopping was never really an option.
Author: Paddy Doherty Publisher: Random House ISBN: 144811781X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
'I fight hard and love strong. I'm a traveller.' Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller, but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school, he was bullied for being a gypsy boy. And beyond the gates of the camp he found nothing but hostility. Slowly, Paddy's hurt turned into anger and by the age of 11 he had started out on an illustrious career in bare-knuckle fighting. This earned him a position as one of the most well-respected (and feared) men in the travelling community. Yet while he won countless contests in the ring, the real battles he faced were very much outside. In this deeply honest autobiography, he tells of how he has loved and lost five children; plummeted to seven stone while battling depression, drink and drugs. He describes how it feels to be shot point-blank in the head and the lengths he'll go to to protect his people, as well as life since My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and Big Brother. Told with all the warmth and humour he is famed for, Paddy's rich and colourful story is one that will stay with you for a long time to come.
Author: Wm. E. Bobb Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1646288645 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 279
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Jake Leggs didn't know when he walked into his favorite watering hole that his life was going to change on a dime, and not for the better. A drug courier—a young woman—abandons a suitcase of drugs in Jake's truck behind the bar. He only finds out about it after he rescues her from her minders. Normally he'd turn it over to the cops, but a certain judge has a hard-on for him, and he's not sure he trusts anyone in law enforcement. He's forced by events to negotiate a trade for the girl's life with a drug lord while evading the cops. Throw in high-level corruption, a breakaway polygynous cult's involvement, the mob, and you have a recipe for disaster.
Author: Kaptain Obvious Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1452587027 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 123
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The wise old bartender Had cleaned every glass From the lips that would listen As their footprints would pass He learned about 'talkers' And the things they'd drink in While by nature and wisdom What we've learned in our skin He spoke very little As he'd wipe them all dry Not only the outside But their insides that cry... "I'm empty and lonely And need something with proof" ....That's when he'd open up And serve the hardest drink - 'Truth'
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