The Day the World Stopped Working: Jacques Derrida, Jeremy Rifkin, and the Theology of Work

The title of this essay refers not, as one might have imagined, to that moment in the spring of 2020 near the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic when tens of millions of people across the world were suddenly laid off or furloughed or told to work from home and a worldwide economic slowdown began. Despite the echoes of this most recent crisis, the title refers instead to all the discourses regarding the "end of work";that have cropped up periodically since the end of the nineteenth century and that drew widespread public attention back in the 1990s, due in large part to Jeremy Rifkin's book The End of Work. In that now classic work of 1995, Rifkin, the well-known economic and social theorist, predicted the end of work as we know it, as more and more jobs once performed by human beings in the agricultural, manufacturing, and even the service sector become automated and taken over by machines, robots, and computers.

SHARPENING UP WITH CERTIFICATION

Table 1 shows, for example, that respondents with a job title of auditor who hold the ASQ quality auditor certification earn a beefy 16.1% more, on average, than those without that certification. Table 1 shows the power of a close match between one's job title, with its attendant duties, and an ASQ certification. U.S. and Canadian respondents with a job title of manager who are ASQ-certified Six Sigma Black Belts earn a beefy 16.1% more, on average, than those without that certification.

A MORE EXACT PORTRAYAL?

SALARY BY JOB TITLE If you regularly review the annual ASQ Salary Survey, it's no surprise to see that the average salary for U.S. full-time respondents increased more than your own pay in the years since 2019. HOW HAS COVID-19 CHANGED YOUR WORK LIFE? "It has added processes and protocols that did not exist before in response to the effects of COVID-19 on the business and human interactions." Explore the different ASQ geopgraphic and technical communities, chek out upcoming events, cathc up on ASQ news and peruse the discussion boards, Visit my.asq.org for access to relevent solutions, meaningful connections and interaction.

BELT COLOR COUNTS

Table 2 breaks down salaries by Six Sigma Belt and job title for full-time professionals in the United States and Canada viewed together. The table shows that even when viewed by individual job title, pay strongly tends to increase with higher levels of Six Sigma credentials. BRUSH UP ON SIX SIGMA ASQ offers a range of Six Belt, Black Belt and learning options.

Differences and similarities of occupational risk factors for COVID-19 across waves of the pandemic;extended follow-up of the COVICAT cohort

IntroductionDuring the first pandemic lockdown in Spain certain workers have been at increased risk of COVID-19. Results from published studies are heterogeneous, possibly due to differences in public health interventions, availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), virulence of variants of concern, population-wide immunity or methodological issues.MethodsThe COVICAT study (IEC approved) pooled ongoing population-based cohort studies from Catalonia. Occupational analyses of COVICAT were restricted to working age and included 8,422 participants, of which 3,563 were tested for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies during the first wave;study participants were re-contacted in mid-2021. Participants responded to a web-based or telephone survey including questions on socio-demographics, pre-pandemic health, behavioural and environmental risk factors. Occupational questions covered mode of work, job title, PPE, and mode of commuting. COVID-19 cases were defined by self-reported symptoms or hospitalisation and SARS CoV-2 seropositivity. Association of type of work, job titles and job-exposure matrix (JEM) with COVID-19 was assed using log-binomial models adjusted for potential confounders, such as age, sex, education, deprivation index, population density and survey type. Analyses for the extended follow-up were stratified by pandemic waves.ResultsThe relative risk (RR) for COVID-19 for working at the usual workplace compared to telework was 1.83 (95% CI: 1.41, 2.38), and 1.63 (95% CI: 1.05, 2.52) among the serology study participants. The RR by job title was increased for all health care workers and highest for personal health care workers in health services (6.19;3.71, 10.33);PPE was associated with a stronger protective effect by increasing protection level. Using public transport for commuting was associated with a 50% increase in COVID risk. Results for the extended follow-up will be presented.ConclusionsThe extended follow-up of the COVICAT cohort provides data to illuminate occupational risk factors for COVID-19 infection over time, which may contribute to explain heterogeneities across countries.

THE NORMALISTA ADVISORY PRACTICE: THE BLACK BOX OF INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING

The objective of this work is to understand the Normalista Advisory Practice to accompany the degree work in a public normal school in central Mexico. This research is carried out from a hermeneutic study of the narratives of a group of methodological advisors and final grade normal students, during the 2019-2021 school cycles, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and collected through interviews. The relationship between the Methodological Advisor and the Normal Student is studied, in which the intersubjectivity of both is present, and is understood through a metaphor from the performing arts entitled The Black Box of Initial Teacher Training. Studying advisory practice based on hermeneutics gives us the possibility of recovering the dialogue between advisor and student as the axis of meaning and thereby making visible the formative potential of the curricular space of degree work, and redefining the role of the methodological advisor in the normal schools. (English) [ FROM AUTHOR]

Analysis of Research Paper Titles Containing Covid-19 Keyword Using Various Visualization Techniques

It’s been around two years from the outbreak of the coronavirus, thus labeled as Covid-19, and there has been an explosion of literature being published by research scholars related to work done on Covid-19. Covid-19 as a keyword has been mentioned in the titles of most of these papers. It was thought to analyse the number of papers and the titles of papers which include Covid-19 in the title of the research papers. The various combinations of other words like, prefixes, suffixes, N-gram combinations with the keyword Covid- 19 in the titles of these papers were also analysed. The research publication repositories analysed were: IEEE Explore, ACM Digital Library, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, Cornel University etc. The domains of research publication title analysis were restricted to computer science/computer engineering related papers. As the term labeling the corona virus outbreak as Covid-19 was labeled in 2020, the timeline of title analysis was restricted from 2019 till December 2021. The term Covid-19 is also one of the most searched terms in most of these research repositories as is evident from the search suggestions offered by them. Considering the usefulness of Bag of Words and N Gram algorithm in analytics and data visualization, a methodology is proposed and implemented based on bag of words algorithm to do prefix and suffix words analysis. This methodology is working correctly to state different prefix and suffix words used by various researchers to demonstrate significance of their titles. Methodology based on N Gram analysis is found effective to find topic on which most of the researchers have done work. Word Clouds are generated to demonstrate different buzz words used by researchers in their respective paper titles. These are useful for providing visualization of the data if it is in big size. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Copyright Under COVID-19 in Film and Media Studies

Film and media educators already rip short film clips for teaching purposes, a practice expressly protected in the United States under a "1201" exemption [https://www.federalre gister. gov / documents /2018/10/26/2018-23241/ exemption-to-prohibition-on-circumvention-of-copyright- protection-systems-for-access-control_t) [https://www.federalre gisten gov / documents /2018 /10/26/2018-23241/ exemption-to-prohibition-on-eireumvention-of-eopyright-protection-systems-for-access-control] у the Librarian of Congress, named for the provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that permits circumvention in certain instances. For years, many scholars have looked to the statements of best practices developed by Patricia Aufderheide and the Center for Media and Social Impact [https: / /emsimpaet.org /resources/teaehing-tools /] : today, as we consider the question of whether and how to continue screening media for our online classes, including full-length films, television episodes and games, we must further develop and refine those practices.[#N1] How have faculty approached the legal issues of copyright and compliance across different national contexts? [...]a number of institutions have made the decision to digitize titles from their own media libraries and make them available to students, often limiting access to those enrolled in specific courses via the university's learning management system (LMS). In the UK and US, risk management decisions also play a part in assessing the mixed case law around whether anti-circumvention prohibitions - in the DMCA (in the US), or the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act (CDPA) (in the UK) - prevent film faculty from otherwise permissible reliance on fair use.

Not in Our Name: The Disingenuous Use of "Public Health" as Justification for Title 42 Expulsions in the Era of the Migrant Protection Protocols

Sadly, Celina's experience at the US border is not uncommon, although her ultimate admission to the United States is rare indeed. Because ofthe confluence of MPP and the 2020 invocation of 42 US Code 265 (hereafter "Title 42"), an obscure public health policy last updated in 1944, more than a million expulsions of migrants and asylum seekers occurred at the US border in fiscal year 2021 alone, contrary to international law.1 POLICY BACKGROUND The policy known today as Title 42 originated in a 1944 law called the Public Health Service Act, which (among other things) granted the federal government quarantine powers and the power to prevent the introduction of disease at the border. Robert Redfield, then director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), determined that introduction into congregate settings of persons from Canada or Mexico would increase the already serious danger to the public health of the United States to the point of requiring a temporary suspension of the introduction of covered aliens into the United States.3 The same order also noted the logistical challenges of preventing the transmission ofCOVID-19 at the border: Widespread, compulsory federal quarantines or isolations of such persons pending test results are impracticable due to the numbers of persons involved, logistical challenges, and CDC resource and personnel constraints.3 Although the US government did not have access to vaccines or rapid tests in March 2020, they need not have adopted such an extreme policy to protect the public's health. Given the barriers to effective implementation of PPE [personal protective equipment] and administrative controls to prevent the spread of [COVID-19] in immigration detention centers, an evidence-based public health approach suggests . . . the release of detainees from immigration detention centers, as this strategy will reduce the likelihood of person-to-person infection and enhance the possibility of engaging in meaningful social distancing and hygienic practices as directed by the CDC.4(p112) That the US government invoked Title 42 for those coming through land borders but instituted only temporary travel bans for other international travelers and did not institute interstate travel bans underscores how unnecessary these extreme measures truly were, even in the early days of COVID-19.5 In addition to the challenges posed by the use of Title 42 to prevent the entry of asylum seekers during COVID-19, MPP-often referred to as the Remain in Mexico program- creates additional barriers for migrants seeking to enter the United States.

COMING INTO FOCUS

Whereas last year the number of extra toplevel executives responding to the survey pulled the overall average higher, in this year's results, the fact that the lowest-paid job titles continued and deepened their response rate slide from 2019 means that the overall average is an average for a group of people that are simply paid more because of their job titles. What would the overall average salary have been if the number of vice presidents/executives had decreased in proportion with the decrease from all job titles in aggregate? [...]back-to-back increases of more than 4% from year to year are pretty healthy increases. The work of quality engineers is somewhat more intuitively understandable. Because that work is key to quality efforts in many organizations, it's worth examining how this core job title has fared during the past two years.

YEARS IN QUALITY: TO BE CONTINUED

Results consistently showed that while holding the same job title for a long time with the same employer seldom brings great rewards, staying in quality fattens the annual salary for most who continue the course. Near the top (ignoring the small numbers of statisticians and Master Black Belts) are the vice presidents/ executives-the title with the highest pay. All salaries are expressed in U.S. dollars, with Canadian salaries converted to their U.S. dollar equivalent using the exchange rate in effect on Aug. 1, 2021.