Nyu Press: 1737 books
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.
An Independent Institute Book
Prosecutors in the Boardroom
Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Who should police corporate misconduct and how should it be policed? In recent years, the Department of Justice has resolved investigations of dozens of Fortune 500 companies via deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements, where, instead of facing criminal charges, these companies...
The Structure of Production
New Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In 2014, the U. S. government adopted a new quarterly statistic called gross output (GO), the most significance advance in national income accounting since gross domestic product (GDP) was developed in the 1940s. The announcement came as a triumph for Mark Skousen, who advocated GO nearly 25 years...
Spaces of Security
Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world
It is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as a soccer stadium and a panic room. Yet, they both demonstrate dynamics of the interplay between security and space. This book focuses...
Money at Work
On the Job with Priests, Poker Players and Hedge Fund Traders
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Financial advisors, poker players, hedge fund traders, fund-raisers, sports agents, credit counselors and commissioned salespeople all deal with one central concern in their jobs: money. In Money at Work, Kevin Delaney explores how we think about money and, particularly, how our jobs influence that...
Commodity Activism
Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS.
Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to
support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All
these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary
culture: the...
Social Media Entertainment
The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
How the transformation of social media platforms and user-experience have redefined the entertainment industry
In a little over a decade, competing social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, have given rise to a new creative industry: social media...
Ghosts of Jim Crow
Ending Racism in Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
"Higginbotham provides a thoughtful and perceptive discussion on the role of race in America today. His keen legal analysis and compelling narrative has resulted in a fascinating examination of how far we have come as a nation, but more importantly, of how far we have to go."
Woodrow Wilson
Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
From the Ivy League to the oval office, Woodrow Wilson was the only professional scholar to become a U.S. president. A professor of history and political science, Wilson became the dynamic president of Princeton University in 1902 and was one of its most prolific scholars before entering active politics....
The Color of Crime (Second Edition)
Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its tenth anniversary year, Katheryn Russell-Brown’s book is more relevant than ever. The Jena Six, Duke Lacrosse Team, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, James Byrd, and all of those...
Women Who Opt Out
The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original...
Pissing on Demand
Workplace Drug Testing and the Rise of the Detox Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the "detox industry," that works...
Sensational Flesh
Race, Power, and Masochism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Workplace crimes are never far from the news. From major scandals like Enron to violent crimes committed by co-workers to petty theft of office supplies, deviant and criminal behavior is common in the workplace. Psychological factors are almost always involved when an employee engages in such behavior.
Deviant...