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For more in that depressing vein, check out "Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass" by Mary L. Gray
by rexpop 5y ago
For more in that depressing vein, check out "Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass" by Mary L. Gray
- iancmceachern 5y agoI will, I liked nickel and dimed so I'll give this a read. One side note, in looking up this book to purchase on Amazon, the hardcover is 2 bucks cheaper than the soft cover. I've seen this kind of thing quite a bit lately. What gives?
- rexpop 5y agoIf you liked Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed,"[0] you might like a few of her unrelated books as well. I highly recommend her "Dancing in the Streets,"[1] a 5,000 year history of the deadening of European culture (at Europeans' own hands, no less) that pairs nicely with Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000"[2], a book of similar pacing, as well as a much shorter book on the gendered professionalization/demolition of the medical practice in the medieval era titled "Witches, Midwives, and Nurses" or "W.M.N."[3] Her "Bait and Switch,"[4] however, about the white-collar unemployment industry I found dull and unenlightening. 0. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1869.Nickel_and_Dimed https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1869.Nickel_and_Dimed 1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24452.Dancing_in_the_Streets https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24452.Dancing_in_the_Str... 2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt 3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24453.Witches_Midwives_and_Nurses https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24453.Witches_Midwives_a... 4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24450.Bait_and_Switch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24450.Bait_and_Switch
- dreamcompiler 5y agoI've noticed this too. Hypothesis: Nobody wants books made of atoms any more, and the few that are selling are paperbacks. Therefore hardbacks are cheaper even though they're rarer and more expensive to produce. Just a W.A.G...
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoPaperbacks have their price inflated to make the ebook look like a deal. Someone forgot to apply the markup to hardcover too.