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Singout

In July 1998, the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, INFN, decided to make its researchers start clocking in and out of the lab. They did not know the backlash this would inspire: not only at the institute but also across the world. Hundred of scientists around the world wrote in support of the INFN professor‘s complaints: saying that the book was needlessly bureaucratic, insulting, and out of step with how the researchers actually worked.

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#Bookspin for July (yikes!)
only four books because I don‘t think I‘ll get to even one of these after all the others I want to read…

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2d
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Singout

Even after a drastic rise in wage labour after the Civil War, it was compared to prostitution or slavery, sometimes by white workers wanting distance between sex workers and enslaved Black people. But Black free people too noticed the similarity of a hireling to a slave. Richard L. Davis, a miner, maintained that “none of us who toil for our daily bread are free.” “At one time we were chattel slaves, today we are, white and Black, wage slaves.”

TheBookHippie Sounds like a good read. 5d
Singout The first chapter has been, and follows some of the same themes as “How to Do Nothing,” which I found compelling. 4d
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Nanni notes the colonial missions tried to induce people not simply to work, but to work in a regular and uniform manner for a specific period of time per day. This view of abstract labour hours could not have been more alien to task-oriented communities, who recognized their activities based on different ecological and cultural cues, such as the flowering and rooting of certain plants, and where things took however much time they took. /1

Singout These communities for whom work was not profit, but part of a social economy, did not make the same distinctions called “work time” and “non-work time,” and just as colonists saw their abstract time reckoning as more evolved than that of their subjects, their attempts at “civilizing” meant inculcating in those subjects the perception of time as money. 5d
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Maggie4483
Grouchy Ladybug | Eric Carle
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#Bookspin #Doublespin May 2025. 🐞

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
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dabbe
The Catcher in the Rye | Jerome Salinger
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wanderinglynn Fantastic! 2mo
dabbe @wanderinglynn 💙🩵💙 2mo
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dabbe 🩵💙🩵 2mo
Read-n-Bloom 😭 2mo
wanderinglynn 😢💙 2mo
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Robotswithpersonality
Are We There Yet? | Dan Santat
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Mehso-so

I had way more fun with the visual storytelling and turn-the-book text gimmick than with the fairly schmaltzy message and somewhat cliche/confused narrative. I think I would look for other Santat picture books for that pictures alone.

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Robotswithpersonality
Are We There Yet? | Dan Santat
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🥰🦖

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Robotswithpersonality
Are We There Yet? | Dan Santat
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Best inclusion of a back of book barcode in the cover art I've seen in a while. 😁

GingerAntics Oooooh, I do like that! 2mo
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