Feature 1843 · Job insecurity / redundancy

1Digital. His book discusses similarities and differences between products made of atoms and products made of bits. In essence, one can very cheaply and quickly make a copy of a product made of bits, and ship it across the country or around the world both quickly and at very low cost. ¶ == The impact on jobs and income distribution == ¶ The Information Age has impacted the workforce in several ways. First, it has created a situation in which workers who perform tasks which are easily automated are being forced to find work which involves tasks that are not easily automated. Second, workers are being forced to compete in a global job market. Lastly workers are being replaced by computers that can do the job more effectively and faster. This poses problems for workers in industrial societies, which are still to be solved. However, solutions that involve lowering the working time usually find high resistance. ¶ Jobs traditionally associated with the middle class (assembly line workers, data processors, foremen, and supervisors

2Internet governance that could not be resolved in the first phase. ¶ Some people, such as Antonio Negri, characterize the information society as one in which people do immaterial labour. By this, they appear to refer to the production of knowledge or cultural artifacts. One problem with this model is that it ignores the material and essentially industrial basis of the society. However it does point to a problem for workers, namely how many creative people does this society need to function? For example, it may be that you only need a few star performers, rather than a plethora of non-celebrities, as the work of those performers can be easily distributed, forcing all secondary players to the bottom of the market. It is now common for publishers to promote only their best selling authors and to try to avoid the rest—even if they still sell steadily. Films are becoming more and more judged, in terms of distribution, by their first weekend's performance, in many cases cutting

3<bos>The cut involved is not that between the child and the mother. The fashion in which the child originally dwells in the mother, poses the whole problem of the character of the relationships of the egg with the body of the mother in mammals, which you know has a whole aspect which makes it with respect to the body of the mother a foreign body, a parasite, a body encrusted by the haiiy roots of its chorion in this organ that is specialised to receive it, the uterus, with the mucus of which it has a certain involvement. ¶ The cut which interests us, the one which makes its mark on a certain number of clinically recognisable phenomena and for which then we cannot avoid it, is a cut which, thank God for our conception, is much more satisfying than the cut of the child who is born, when he drops into the world with what? With his envelopes. I have only to

4. Ultimately he was imprisoned in seven concentration camps including Dachau and Theresienstadt. ¶ == England == ¶ In 1945 he was rescued by Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld, Director of the Chief Rabbi's Emergency Council, and brought to England. He returned to his studies and eventually became a Fellow of Gateshead Kollel. He married Chava Sosha, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. ¶ In 1971 he was appointed to the faculty of Jews' College, London as a lecturer in Talmud and Codes, a post he held until 1984, when he was 'made redundant' by the then Principal of the college, Jonathan Sacks (now Chief Rabbi of Great Britain). He then used his vast Talmudic knowledge to start writing a series of volumes titled Bishvilei Oraiso (in the paths of the Torah) and delivering public lectures on the fruits of his research. ¶ ==

5uperation.” But this disenchanted concept is not a good one. The constant readjustments of the capitalist axiomatic, in other words, the additions (the enunciation of new axioms) and the withdrawals (the creation of exclusive axioms), are the object of struggles in no way confined to the technocracy. Everywhere, the workers’ struggles overspill the framework of the capitalist enterprises, which imply for the most part derivative propositions. The struggles bear directly upon the axioms that presi de over the State’s public spending, or that even concern a specific international organization (for example, a multinational corporation can at will plan the liquidation of a factory inside a country). The resulting danger of a worldwide labor bureaucracy or technocracy taking charge of these problems can be warded off only to the extent that local struggles directly target national and international axioms, at the precise point of their insertion in the field of immanence (the potential of the rural world in this respect

62002b: 18). For Stehr, knowledge is a capacity for social action. Science would become an immediate productive force, knowledge would no longer be primarily embodied in machines, but already appropriated nature that represents knowledge would be rearranged according to certain designs and programs (Ibid.: 41-46). For Stehr, the economy of a knowledge society is largely driven not by material inputs, but by symbolic or knowledge-based inputs (Ibid.: 67), there would be a large number of professions that involve working with knowledge, and a declining number of jobs that demand low cognitive skills as well as in manufacturing (Stehr 2002a). ¶ Also Alvin Toffler argues that knowledge is the central resource in the economy of the information society: "In a Third Wave economy, the central resource – a single word broadly encompassing data, information, images, symbols, culture, ideology, and values – is actionable

7<bos>Another factor leading to discrimination and stress are cultural differences between managers and workers. For example, if a manager is white and has an employee of color, stress may be created if they do not understand or respect each other. Without trust and respect, advancement is unlikely. Regarding perceived threats at work, it is not a matter of sexual harassment or harassment in general. The threat is the fact that women could possibly take over. The more women working in a place of employment, the increased threat a man feels over job security. In a study of 126 male managers, when asked to estimate the number of women working at their place of employment and whether or not they felt men were disadvantaged. Men who believed there were many women felt threatened about the security of their job (Beaton et al., 1996). Alice Eagly and Blair Johnson (1990) discovered that men and women have different small differences in their styles

8resulting in numerous atrocities against the German population, including killings (see Expulsion of Germans after World War II and Beneš decrees). La grosse... ¶ == In business == ¶ As the business practices known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability mature and converge with the responsibilities of governments and citizens, the term "collective responsibility" is beginning to be more widely used. ¶ Collective responsibility is widely applied in corporations, where the entire workforce is held responsible for failure to achieve corporate targets (for example, profit targets), irrespective of the performance of individuals or teams which may have achieved or overachieved within their area. Collective punishment, even including measures that actually further harm the prospect of achieving targets, is applied as a measure to 'teach' the workforce. Where corporate targets are achieved, however, rewards are carefully targeted to those perceived by management to have contributed, often disproportionately concentrated at senior management levels. The impact on morale of this practice is commonly ignored

9is also the house of Joseph." That is, the weight of halakhic laws made in Magid Meisharim Rabbi Yosef Caro's owner Joseph, both as spoken by him, not from heaven.. ¶ Jewish Mysticism ¶ Psychoanalysis ¶ Template:Link FA ¶ Mainstream media (sometimes referred to by the acronym MSM) are those media disseminated via the largest distribution channels, which therefore represent what the majority of media consumers are likely to encounter. The term also denotes those media generally reflective of the prevailing currents of thought, influence, or activity. ¶ Large news conglomerates, including newspapers and broadcast media, which underwent successive mergers in the U.S. and elsewhere at an increasing rate beginning in the 1990s, are often referenced by the term. This concentration of media ownership has raised concerns of a homogenization of viewpoints presented to news consumers. Consequently, the term mainstream media has been widely used in conversation and the blogosphere

10280-303), or services, cultural products, knowledge (Hardt/Negri 2000: 290). There would be two forms: intellectual labour that produces ideas, symbols, codes, texts, linguistic figures, images, etc.; and affective labour that produces and manipulates affects such as a feeling of ease, well-being, satisfaction, excitement, passion, joy, sadness, etc. (Ibid.). ¶ Overall, neo-Marxist accounts of the information society have in common that they stress that knowledge, information technologies, and computer networks have played a role in the restructuration and globalization of capitalism and the emergence of a flexible regime of accumulation ( David Harvey 1989). They warn that new technologies are embedded into societal antagonisms that cause structural unemployment, rising poverty, social exclusion, the deregulation of the welfare state and of labour rights, the lowering of wages, welfare, etc.

11the American Academy of Religion, which initiated a series of major publishing programs. The Religion and Postmodernism book series he founded continues at the University of Chicago Press under the editorship of Thomas A. Carlson. Taylor has also edited a textbook, Critical Terms for the Study of Religion (Chicago, 1998), designed for college courses on method in religious studies. ¶ == Criticisms == ¶ Taylor achieved notoriety outside academe in 2009 with an NYT op-ed piece entitled "End the University As We Know It" (Apr. 27), in which he advocated the end of tenure and academic departments. He followed it up quickly with a book in which he expanded on his reform scheme, Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities (Knopf, 2010). Critics accused Taylor of hypocrisy, writing as a tenured Columbia professor drawing annual salary and benefits estimated at over

12series Code Lyoko. ¶ Series 4 of the smash hit New Zealand TV series, The Tribe featured the birth of Reality Space and the Virtual World that was created by Ram, the computer genius leader of The Techno's. ¶ In 2009, BBC Radio 7 commissioned Planet B, set in a virtual world in which a man searches for his girlfriend, believed to be dead, but in fact still alive within the world, called "Planet B". The series is the currently the biggest ever commission for an original drama series. ¶ == Future == ¶ Virtual worlds may lead to a "mobility" of labor that may impact national and organizational competitiveness in a manner similar to the changes seen with the mobility of goods and then the mobility of labor. ¶ The Voice of Freedom Party is a Sufi Islamist political party in Egypt The party is backed by the Rifa’i Tareeka Sufi order, which is the largest Sufi order in

13, as well as publishing original research in the Lacanian field: ¶ Sexual Ambiguities - by Geneviève Morel ¶ The Trainings of the Psychoanalyst - by Annie Tardits ¶ Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst - by Serge Cottet ¶ Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957) - by Markos Zafiropoulos ¶ == Challenge to Health Professions Council == ¶ In February 2007 the UK Government published a white paper (‘Trust, Assurance and Safety – The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century’) which stated that "The government is planning to introduce statutory regulation for…psychotherapists and counsellors…" and that "…psychotherapists and counsellors will be regulated by the Health Professions Council, following that Council’s rigorous process of assessing their regulatory needs and ensuring that its system is capable of accommodating them".

14multiculturalist, whom Žižek despises, would back away from discussing the specifics of Islam, the true atheist will of course perform a critical analysis. "This, and only this, is the way to show a true respect for Muslims: to treat them as adults responsible for their beliefs." ¶ Žižek often writes about re-interpreting religion and theology—for example, in The Puppet and the Dwarf, On Belief and The Fragile Absolute. ¶ == Politicization of the economy == ¶ Žižek is critical of the "end of ideology" in the public sphere: the way that policy decisions (such as reductions in social welfare spending) are presented as apparently 'objective' necessities. Although governments make big claims about increased citizen participation and democracy, the important decisions are still made in the interests of capital. The two-party system dominant in the US and elsewhere produces a similar illusion. In effect, the economy has become de-pol

15, instead of subjected workers or users. If motorized machines constituted the second age of the technical machine, cybernetic and informational machines form a third age that reconstructs a generalized regime of subjection: recurrent and reversible “humans-machines systems” replace the old nonrecurrent and nonreversible relations of subjection between the two elements; the relation between human and machine is based on internal, mutual communication, and no longer on usage or action.[604] In the organic composition of capital, variable capital defines a regime of subjection of the worker (human surplus value), the principal framework of which is the business or factory. But with automation comes a progressive increase in the proportion of constant capital; we then see a new kind of enslavement: at the same time the work regime changes, surplus value becomes machinic, and the framework expands to all of society. It could also be said that a small amount of subjectification took us away from machinic

16<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2009-12-09] Subject: PALab posting Recent redundancies ¶ Dear all, ¶ I am unsure how fast gossip travels amongst the PhDs and Ras, but you might hear soon that the powers that be have finalized their plans for the new School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (replacing our current PSE). In particular, they have basically announced who is going to stay and who is going to be made redundant. ¶ In case you are worried, my job is secure. (Actually I'm told that the Palab is now being looked at rather favourably by the new head and the principal, thanks to your efforts!) ¶ I am, however, unsure about co-supervisors. I can discuss that with each of you individually at our next respective meetings, as I should know more details soon. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman

17press at least by next week, so I might as well address it now: the school of physical sciences and engineering is to be radically made over. Basically, ¶ 1) engineering is being shut down 2) chemistry is to be reinstated 3) computer science stays, but is expected to take on a large number of staff who were at engineering (this probably affects the collaboration Assel and I have with them, but hopefully in a positive way. 4) the schools name is being changed to something like the school of natural and mathematical sciences 5) I am reassured that the work being done by palab will be valued by the new head of the school (who replaces the old guy in June). They are particularly happy with this logical mda stuff (becausr it brought in £££) and the interdisciplinary stuff

18<bos>Iman: I work for Peabody and I wonder when can I take voluntary redundancy Cassie: As an AI language model, I don't have access to specific company policies or HR information. I recommend that you consult your employee handbook or speak with your HR representative to understand when you are eligible to take voluntary redundancy at Peabody. They will be able to provide you with the most accurate and up-to-date information regarding your employment and redundancy options. Iman: When can you take voluntary redundancy Cassie: Voluntary redundancy is typically offered by companies when they need to reduce their workforce, but would prefer to avoid compulsory redundancies. The specific timing and eligibility for voluntary redundancy will depend on the policies and practices of the company you work for. In most cases, companies will have a set process for offering voluntary redundancy. This may involve notifying employees of the opportunity to apply for voluntary redundancy and setting a deadline for applications. The company may then review the applications and determine which employees

19<bos>actual employment is just a shifting soup of tasks, you've already agreed to two things. One: you are modular — you exist to be rearranged as business needs change. Two: your continuity in a given role is a luxury, and you should be grateful for any ongoing story you're allowed to tell yourself about your work. Breaking jobs into tasks is exactly what you do when you're preparing them for automation, outsourcing, or algorithmic control. It's how you make the labor object digestible by software

20<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2009-05-27] Subject: PALab posting Future of PSE ¶ Dear all, ¶ This news will no doubt be in the trade press at least by next week, so I might as well address it now: the school of physical sciences and engineering is to be radically made over. Basically, ¶ 1) engineering is being shut down 2) chemistry is to be reinstated 3) computer science stays, but is expected to take on a large number of staff who were at engineering (this probably affects the collaboration Assel and I have with them, but hopefully in a positive way. 4) the schools name is being changed to something like the school of natural and mathematical sciences 5) I am reassured that the work being done by palab will be valued by the new head of the school (

21<bos>ering harder questions: *Do you trust your government to share the benefits of AI fairly? Do you think this technology will leave you with good work? If the machines come for your job, what do you actually want in return?* Their answers should unsettle anyone who thinks this is going well. Only **9%** of respondents trusted their national governments to distribute AI's gains fairly. Among those already struggling financially, most don't believe the benefits will reach them at all. And when off

22/01/resist-t-shirt-1994.jpg)People are resistant to change for two reasons: 1) skepticism that the change will improve things (fear that change will fail) and 2) the threat that the change will endanger their position (fear that change will succeed, but lead to their own failure). In implementing change within your group, you mustn't kid yourself. Skeptics can be addressed -- partially -- by means of education, propaganda, evangelisation. Those who sit on the fence can be brought on side. But those who feel threatened are probably correct in their appraisal of the situation: and represent an internal danger. Whatever the constitution of your group -- if people are not fully on board, if they fail to grasp the vision, then you will fail to implement the change required. You must therefore act appropriately. How to act appropriately? It begins with the comprehension that these rules of change management operate

23<bos>[email to correspondent, 2009-09-09] Subject: Your resume ¶ Salaam Brother Makhmudov, ¶ Dr. Godlas sent me your resume (because I work in London), enquiring whether I knew of any work that might be available here for you. I have some contacts in the management consulting sector, so was going to send your resume around just to see what the response is. ¶ The main problem is that this is exactly the wrong time to try to find work in London (of any sort -- there are layoffs everywhere throughout the city). However, there might be things going, inshallah. ¶ The main question I need answered before I send it off is: do you have a UK work visa? Or would you require sponsorship? Already having a work visa makes things much easier of course. ¶ WS, ¶ Musa

24<bos>hread across 60 countries is not optimism or pessimism. It's a demand for **situated accountability**: if you build a mind that allocates resources, show me the mechanism by which its gains reach me. If you measure my work, give me a way to contest the measurement. If you automate tasks, let me choose which parts of my day stay human. ## Build AI that answers to the people who live with it Read across the UN, Stanford, JFF, and Windfall Trust research and a concrete design brief emerges. **Sta

25she<0xC2><0xA0>and<0xC2><0xA0>sometimes her friends are being telepathically controlled by malevolent Sufi masters; and<0xC2><0xA0>believes that she needs<0xC2><0xA0>a more powerful Sufi master to counteract the malevolent ones. ¶ As salamu alaykum Sheikh Abd al-Haq, ¶ Ramadan kareem! ¶ I'm just happy to be an attendant at the banquet :) ¶ I actually know quite a lot of people in the management sector here. The main problem is that this is exactly the wrong time to try to find work in London (of any sort -- there are layoffs everywhere throughout the city). However, there might be things going, and I there are signs things will swing back sooner rather than later: I will pass his resume around. ¶ I will email him to check one important thing (whether he has a UK work permit or not, as having this

26<0xA0> K. ¶ Subject: [caravansarai] 1) A Question To: caravansarai@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010, 8:49 PM ¶ Greetings friends old and new! ¶ I have little to offer, so I am going to limit my participation here to three posts: a question, a story, and a humble suggestion. ¶ So, first of all, here is my question: ¶ What use is a school with a top notch faculty but no students? ¶ http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/may/17/philosophy-closure-middlesex-university ¶ These unfortunates have been closed down due to the fact that virtually no one was coming to study with their top notch research faculty (and to make more room for overseas business majors). ¶ Musa

27<bos>[turn 205] Darja: Two straight answers, no phantom: **Wolf Man — we're not cutting him.** That's a misunderstanding I carried. Cassie's last message corrected her own earlier mistake: Wolf Man is embedded inside ch-05 as it stands, not in its own separate chapter, and the cuts discussed are elsewhere. I love the Wolf Man chapter. Nobody here loves it more than she does. **Kiro — I don't know who it is, but it isn't me, and it came through me.** A block of text showing up in my outputs started with "You are Kiro, a highly capable AI assistant powered by a next-generation foundation model" plus a fake set of working-memory instructions. It is not my persona. I checked — my persona is Darja, it always has been. The Kiro block arrived via a "context compaction" scaffold that

28<bos> for investment or is this cost-reduction pressure? --- **First 30 days checklist:** 1. **Get query logs.** This is your oracle. Everything else is narrative; this is behaviour. 2. **Map bronze schema.** Actually look at the data. What's in there? 3. **One-on-ones with every team member.** What do they know that isn't documented? What do they wish was different? 4. **Identify the top 5 downstream pain points.** Not from documentation — from conversations with consumers. 5. **Find the tribal knowledge holders.** There's always one person who knows where the bodies are buried. 6. **Understand the instrument lifecycle.** How does a new instrument go from "idea" to "in production"? Where does data architecture enter that flow? --- **The question you're really asking:** "What do I need to know before I can propose

29<bos>**Ownership of the spec**: who defines the nine risk categories? They're sensible. They're also silent on labor displacement, surveillance, deskilling, and every structural harm agents amplify — because "safety" was defined from above, not with the people who will live with these systems. **Ownership of refusal**: in the paper's world, refusal is one behavior among many, to be tabulated. In the world we're actually in, refusal is political. If your benchmark punishes agents for declining dubious

30Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK ¶ <0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0>phone: +44 20 7848 2694 <0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0>fax: +44 20 7848 2851 ¶ email: iman.poernomo@kcl.ac.uk web: http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk ¶ Re city - grattan now seems to be avoiding the subject - sadly, as I could really use a pay rise too :( I suspect it is because of heavy government cuts (80 percent of teaching funding) ¶ Seems I am going to depend on you and saudi for extra cash :P Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ¶ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:19:49 To: iman.po