... serves to distinguish Asian superbloggers from earlier Asian fashion workers characterized by physical sweated labor, while simultaneously deskilling the bloggers’ work in ways that mirror the devaluation of garment manufacturing work. By attending to the racial history and politics of digital fashion...

... racialized labor internal colonialism modernization social neoliberalism single issue development ...

... cute culture social commerce Asian luxury markets garment worker Racialized labor ...

.... The introduction explains how the reorganization of global consumer capitalism around Asian commodities, consumers, and tastes structurally advantages as well as disadvantages English-speaking Asian personal style bloggers. It further shows how the work context of this new ideal racialized labor force is different...

... Queer Marxism Richard Fung Maxine Hong Kingston Chinese labor racial perv ...

... Chapter 1 establishes the book’s foundational claim that the economism of Asian racialization arises from a temporal alignment of Chinese bodies with abstract labor, which has implications for what constitutes socially necessary labor time. Analyzing Richard Fung’s Dirty Laundry: A History...

... of these global development templates for thinking about social difference, demonstrating how their implementation in Ecuador drew powerfully on colonial readings of the differential value of social groups. racialized labor internal colonialism modernization social neoliberalism single issue...

... Chapter 4 examines the persistent and evolving economism of Asian racialization in the postexclusion era. Turning to Ken Lum’s multimedia works and Karen Tei Yamashita’s novel Tropic of Orange , this chapter tracks their works’ reconceptualizations of labor, migration, urbanism...

... foreign-trained nurses become licensed in Ontario. These classes employ “pedagogies of affect” that reproduce a racialized notion of femininity predicated on Westernized ideas about docility and deference. While other accounts of affect and labor have considered the role of gender, I bring these studies...

... toward an identification with Native identities after relocation. This cross-racial identification with Native contexts evokes the neutralization of Japanese labor’s association with the production of unnatural value and reconstitution as an exploited but ideal surplus labor force. Ruth Asawa Rea...

... functioned paradoxically to position Asians both as a model minority labor force willing to work hard for little compensation or reward and as a racial threat to economic opportunities that “belong” to whites. In the digital fashion media economy, Asian cheapness has been recoded. The cheapening of Asian...

..., and begins to realize the need for major change. He did this, for example, through an experiment called “follow the sheet,” which enabled him to learn the unacceptable conditions under which the hospital laundry employees labored. Duke’s legacy of segregation and racial inequality came to the fore...

... patterns are racialized and produce class, the embodied nature of work needs to be incorporated into the theorization of cognitive labor from the outset. Germany migration cognitive labor autonomist Marxism ...

... This chapter examines the transformations in labor after abolition. It first examines the racial and economic reasons why Antigua, unlike most other British Caribbean colonies, decided to forego the four-year apprenticeship scheme devised to keep enslaved people in a liminal, subservient...

... This essay argues that decolonization entails a rethinking of existing social analytics and genealogies of empire. It calls attention to the shifting imperial mandates that racial and sex and gender regimes—as conjoined systems of producing, managing, and understanding social divisions of labor...

... This introduction brings together the political economy of labor regimes with intimate affective economies to examine how they have become mutually constitutive features of late capitalism. What I describe is a global story of immigration, but also a story of racialization and gendering...

.... Putting jokes and gifts together suggests another reading of the gift—as a material instantiation of the problem of commensuration. Both jokes and gifts help commensurate the dictates of work and the demands of middle-class identity. The chapter argues that jokes help ease the racial division of labor...