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Author: Andy Horowitz Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 067497171X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 168
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, HUD, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 212
Author: David M. Walker Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 9781422398586 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 18
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Statement of David M. Walker, Comptroller Gen. of the U.S., discussing performance budgeting as a way to help government meet the pressing challenges of the 21st century. As part of its work to improve the management and performance of the federal government, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) monitors progress and continuing challenges in using performance information to inform budgetary choices (performance budgeting). In light of the nation’s long-term fiscal imbalance and other 21st century challenges, GAO has reported that the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) and performance budgeting can support needed reexamination of what the federal government does, how it does it, and who does it. GAO remains committed to working with Congress and the Administration to help address these important and complex issues. Figures. This is a print on demand report.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 232
Author: Stephen R. Barley Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400841275 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 353
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Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown exponentially, especially in high-technology areas. Yet almost nothing is known about contracting or about the people who do it. This book seeks to break the silence. Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. Based on a year of field work in three staffing agencies, life histories with over seventy contractors and studies of workers in some of America's best known firms, the book dismantles the myths of temporary employment and offers instead a grounded description of how contracting works. Engagingly written, it goes beyond rhetoric to examine why contractors leave permanent employment, why managers hire them, and how staffing agencies operate. Barley and Kunda paint a richly layered portrait of contract professionals. Readers learn how contractors find jobs, how agents negotiate, and what it is like to shoulder the risks of managing one's own "employability." The authors illustrate how the reality of flexibility often differs substantially from its promise. Viewing the knowledge economy in terms of organizations and markets is not enough, Barley and Kunda conclude. Rather, occupational communities and networks of skilled experts are what grease the skids of the high-tech, "matrix economy" where firms become way stations in the flow of expertise.
Author: Andy Horowitz
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Author: United States. Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, HUD, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Author: David M. Walker
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Author: Stephen R. Barley
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