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Suri
About: Suri is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 126 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1563 citations.
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7 May 2019
TL;DR: Gray and Suri as mentioned in this paper revealed how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force.
Abstract: "In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work. Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, designing engine parts, and much more. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this “ghost economy,” and that number is growing. They usually earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or none. There are no labor laws to govern this kind of work, and these latter-day assembly lines draw in—and all too often overwork and underpay—a surprisingly diverse range of workers: harried young mothers, professionals forced into early retirement, recent grads who can’t get a toehold on the traditional employment ladder, and minorities shut out of the jobs they want. Gray and Suri also show how ghost workers, employers, and society at large can ensure that this new kind of work creates opportunity—rather than misery—for those who do it."
911 citations
Book•
30 May 2003
TL;DR: Suri et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest in the early part of the 1960s through leaders and protesters on three continents, including Mao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Luther Kung Jr., Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Abstract: In this book Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international front, in the policy of d?tente. Though reflecting traditional balance of power considerations, d?tente thus also developed from a common urge for stability among leaders who by the late 1960s were worried about increasingly threatening domestic social activism. In the early part of the decade, Cold War pressures simultaneously inspired activists and constrained leaders; within a few years activism turned revolutionary on a global scale. Suri examines the decade through leaders and protesters on three continents, including Mao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Luther Kung Jr., Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He describes connections between policy and protest from the Berkeley riots to the Prague Spring, from the Paris strikes to massive unrest in Wuhan, China. Designed to protect the existing political order and repress movements for change, d?tente gradually isolated politics from the public. The growth of distrust and disillusion in nearly every society left a lasting legacy of global unrest, fragmentation and unprecedented public skepticism toward authority.
283 citations
TL;DR: The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith by Gilbert Rist and Madhu Suri Prakash as discussed by the authors, London: Zed Books, 1998. Pp.223.
Abstract: The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. By Gilbert Rist. London: Zed Books, 1997. Pp.vi + 276. £42.50/$65 and £14.95/$25. ISBN 1 85649 491 8 and 492 6 Grassroots Post‐Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures. By Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash. London: Zed Books, 1998. Pp.223. £45/$62.50 and £14.95/$22.50. ISBN 1 85649 545 0 and 546 9 The Post‐Development Reader. Edited by Majid Rahnema with Victoria Bawtree. London: Zed Books, 1997. £45.00/$65 and £15.95/$25. ISBN 1 85649 473 X and 474 International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge. Edited by Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 361. £40/$50 and £14.95/$20. ISBN 0 520 20956 7
173 citations
TL;DR: Suri et al. as discussed by the authors used Fin-tech as one of the key tools to facilitate poverty reduction and local economic development, which is increasingly seen as a key tool to facilitate economic development.
Abstract: Financial technology, or simply ‘fin-tech’, is increasingly seen as one of the key tools to facilitate poverty reduction and local economic development. One article in particular by Tavneet Suri an...
111 citations
TL;DR: The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties, by Martin Klimke (America and the World Series, edited by Sven Beckert and Jeremi Suri), Princeton a...
Abstract: The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties, by Martin Klimke (America and the World Series, edited by Sven Beckert and Jeremi Suri), Princeton a...
63 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2021 | 5 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 |