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... of the local workforce created unusual conditions for the formation of a working-class community. São Paulo urbanization working-class community Brazilian industrialization ...

... The Introduction begins with a critique of long-standing stereotypes about Mexican working-class men, especially their alleged machismo. It provides background on Mexico City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (including demographic changes in the workforce) and the satiric penny press...

... Chapter 4 foregrounds the workforces powering the movement of goods along the waterway from the colonial period to the present. It argues that the labor power required by the fluvial transport and logistics industry depends on regimes of difference-making whose racial underpinnings have both...

... of infrastructure access and allow for precarious conditions; to re-value cable labor and develop a more extensive cable workforce; to intervene in the bureaucracy of the landing point and to better engage communities there; to support state funding for cable networks; to triangulate currents extending between...

... 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...

... people were made complicit in the dispossession of Indigenous people in another locale through settlement. It highlights Okinawans historical role as a disposable, colonial workforce and therefore reads the extension of the Farm Household Survey project to Okinawa in 1930 as an instrument of colonial...

..., and pedagogues diagnosed the “Indian problem” and tried to craft public school reform (governed by a racialized “national pedagogy”) to solve it. Debates were colored by theories and schemes advancing the civilizers' goals of Indian racial uplift and cultural assimilation, agricultural workforce training...

... Chapter 7 plants the battles over rural school reform at the axis of peasant mobilizations for lands, literacy, and schools, and the MNR's revolutionary mandate to forge a patriotic citizenry, pacify the countryside, and modernize the agricultural workforce after the 1952 insurrection. It shows...

... and inclusion. Not only is ensuring a diverse workforce the right thing to do, but it also fosters innovation, enhances productivity, and attracts consumers. In her 2011 speech at Ohio State University, she argues that “excellence in education is only possible if there is diversity.” In “Lessons from the Life...

... and Mexico are complicit in the construction of this racial geography as "savage," as subject to all forms of terrorism (including jihadist) and in need of militarization. The coda argues that the scalping and beheadings used by the narcos to intimidate their workforce, consumers, and the general citizenry...

... or artificiality. These debates are particularly interesting in that they argue that biology is shaped by social life. Changing patterns of fertility associated to the entrance of women into the workforce are described by menstrual suppression advocates as exposing contemporary women to what is often referred...

... in academia, philanthropy, museums, and even corporate America. In her 2010 speech to Goldman Sachs, she outlines the moral and business case for diversity and inclusion. Not only is ensuring a diverse workforce the right thing to do, but it also fosters innovation, enhances productivity, and attracts...