... This chapter looks at a similar set of politics in Southern Rhodesia (contemporary Zimbabwe), where multiracial people similarly sought attention from the colonial state. In particular, it looks at print culture and its employment for engaging in these politics. ...

... employment and the expansion of neoliberal capitalism. ...

... The situations of government employees on antiretroviral therapy (ART) provide a unique perspective on the contemporary para-state. Dependent on external funding, and divested of many of its earlier functions, the state is still a highly valued employer, not least for soldiers, teachers, health...

... unfree state, and proceed directly to abolition. Then the chapter presents the ways that black working people contested the official version of freedom through informal and often extralegal negotiations with their employers over issues such as wages, work schedules, workplace duties, the labor of women...

... Pressed by a nagging recession, a declining—and aging—population, insecuritization of employment, and the threat of nuclear contamination, Japanese are struggling with social precarity. More live alone, fewer have regular jobs, and a sense of human disconnectedness is rampant. This chapter...

... U.N.I.A. in Dominica.” We can never forget the day when you were asked by your employer to “Either abandon the U.N.I.A or “Abandon your employment” to see that you abandoned your employment to stick to the U.N.I.A. that caused us to believe the more in you. As a whole we cannot find the words in...

... employment, could never be more important than the club itself. Alan Dodd, Jim Burgess, and Roy Thode were the principal DJs. Burgess retired on 31 January in dramatic circumstances; DJs Sharon White and Robbie Leslie stepped forward. During the same period the parameters of DJ-ing in the Saint and meeting...

... sought attention from the colonial state. In particular, it looks at print culture and its employment for engaging in these politics. This chapter examines struggles for and over housing for multiracial people in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (contemporary Zambia). In this regard, it is concerned with...

... This chapter explores the affective dimensions of biopolitics in a consumer society. The chapter focuses on low-skilled workers who no longer hold hope of being reintegrated into the regular workforce. Instead of being retrained for future employment, these homeless and unemployed men have been...

... beats of global capitalism and imperialism. The British American Tobacco Company made China its largest outpost by the 1920s; Shanghai held its headquarters, and the company was the booming city’s largest employer. The jazz cabarets arose to entertain the legions of foreign businessmen in the city, but...