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Item Cash and Carry(2021-05) McFarland, Grant, D RCash and Carry is made up of two sets of six objects (bed, spoon, shirt, playing cards, stool, butter). One set is in my apartment, while the other is shown in the gallery. Each object in the gallery has a corresponding piece that calls to mind the other object in my home.Item Knowmad Society(2013-06-11) Moravec, John W.; Cobo, Cristóbal; Besselink, Thieu; Hartkamp, Christel; Spinder, Pieter; de Bree, Edwin; Stokman, Bianca; Renaud, Christine; van den Hoff, RonaldKnowmad Society explores the future of learning, work, and how we relate with each other in a world driven by accelerating change, value networks, and the rise of knowmads. Knowmads are nomadic knowledge workers: Creative, imaginative, and innovative people who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. The jobs associated with 21st century knowledge and innovation workers have become much less specific concerning task and place, but require more value-generative applications of what they know. The office as we know it is gone. Schools and other learning spaces will follow next. In this book, nine authors from three continents, ranging from academics to business leaders, share their visions for the future of learning and work. Educational and organizational implications are uncovered, experiences are shared, and the contributors explore what it’s going to take for individuals, organizations, and nations to succeed in Knowmad Society.Item Rating Generations at Work: A 24-years of Multisource Feedback and Generational Biases(2021-01) Wohkittel, JosephAbstractThe purpose of this study was to explore the strength and nature of generation bias in ratings of workplace behavior within the context of multisource feedback interventions. Discussions of generational differences in the workplace are rife with anecdotes and have resulted in stereotypical representations of generational cohorts that are not based on adequate quantitative research. A specific concern was that biases stemming from these stereotypes may reduce the efficacy of learning and development interventions such as multisource feedback. A large archival database of multisource feedback collected between 1991 and 2015 was used to test for generation effects within ratings of; (a) managerial competencies, (b) the importance of these competencies to participants’ work, and (c) overall job performance. The hypotheses tested stated that after controlling for the age of the rater, the age of the person being rated, and the year the ratings were collected, significant differences in ratings would be observed based on generational membership. Results of the study supported the hypotheses tested. Significant differences among generational cohorts were observed in competency ratings, competency importance ratings, and overall job performance. However, the effect sizes of these differences were small, with none of the partial eta-squared (η2) values exceeding 0.02. These findings indicate that generational differences withing multisource feedback ratings are real (albeit small), at least withing the sample used in this study. Ancillary findings were than age and temporal-period effects were substantially larger than those for generation. The evidence presented suggests that HRD professionals looking to reduce bias within the multisource feedback process should direct their attention to other potential sources.Item Single Fathers and Employment Discrimination: Penalized or Protected?(2023-05) Iztayeva, AimzhanThis research examines employment discrimination against custodial single fathers in the United States. Fatherhood is associated with breadwinning, and employers expect full work commitment. Yet, caregiving constrains breadwinning because family demands are time-consuming and labor-intensive. This raises the following questions: In what ways, if at all, do employers discriminate against single fathers with primary caregiving responsibility? How do custodial single fathers experience their roles as primary breadwinners and primary caregivers? My dissertation offers answers to these questions by considering how gender, breadwinning, and caregiving roles operate in employers’ hiring preferences and single fathers’ efforts to meet work and caregiving demands.Item Wearing Out: Digital Precarity In Just-In-Time Retail(2018-05) Van Oort, MadisonWearing Out: Digital Precarity in Just-in-Time Retail investigates the booming but vastly understudied world of fast fashion. Glance at any list of the world’s wealthiest people, and alongside Bill Gates, you’ll find Amancio Ortega and Stefan Persson, who head multinational retail giants Zara and H&M, both of which are now found in almost every major city in the United States. This sector of retail—known for quickly designing, producing, circulating, and selling tremendous amounts of trendy, cheap clothing—is an increasingly important player in the global market. For my dissertation, I embarked on one of the first ethnographies of the industry: working undercover in two of the world’s largest fast fashion stores in New York City, interviewing dozens of front-line workers and labor activists, and attending corporate conferences. The manuscript advances both sociology of work and critical data studies by providing an on-the-ground account of how big data and surveillance shape the lives of low-status workers in an industry in flux. I argue that fast fashion represents a distinct regime of retail capitalism, in which fast fashion retail companies take advantage of big data and biometric technology to perfect just-in-time production practices in the retail workplace, reaping profits by creating commodities and workers designed to wear out and frequently turn over. This digital precarity, I find, is entangled with broader forms of precariatization, digitization, and policing throughout society, compounding insecurity for already marginalized populations. Finally, my ethnography reveals how collective struggles for racial, gender, and economic justice in and around retail spaces help advance a critical data praxis.Item The Well-Being of Parents and Children in the Minnesota Family Investment Program in Hennepin County, Minnesota, 1998-2002(University of Minnesota: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2003-11) Hollister, David; Martin, Mary; Toft, Jessica; Yeo, Ji-in; Kim, Youngmin