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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 109–120.
Published: 01 April 2022
... university studies student movements precarious labor higher education In December 2019, graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), went on a wildcat strike. We were fighting for graduate students to be recognized as workers. We demanded a living wage. When COVID-19...
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Published: 01 December 2020
far have led us to attend to the struggle of coastal farmers against the government’s developmentalist agenda; the precarious labor of online service ride-hailing drivers; and the economic tactics of urban community organizations led by poor women who live in wastelands, among other questions
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The School of Improper Education
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 566–578.
Published: 01 December 2020
... far have led us to attend to the struggle of coastal farmers against the government’s developmentalist agenda; the precarious labor of online service ride-hailing drivers; and the economic tactics of urban community organizations led by poor women who live in wastelands, among other questions...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 444–474.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and precarious labor as well as the dissolution of the difference between the time of production and the time of social reproduction have been rendered visible and presented as political issues. 7 Since 2016, all the feminist strikes that have been organized in Mexico have managed to make two historic...
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The Strike that Made a Difference
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 241–262.
Published: 01 April 2018
...: in every part of the world, women and men, precarious, industrial workers and migrants, mobilized to make the strike a reality, and go beyond its evocation, thus breaking with the isolation of their daily insubordination. The immense demonstrations that we saw were strikes. The withholding of labor...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 April 2018
...' Initiative, in Poland. In the union, she is a part of a training group that provides practical and legal support to new members. Her main areas of interest are the right to strike, migration, Palestinian solidarity activism, and the reproduction of the labor force. Licensed under a Creative Commons...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., which is the right to life. They make death, and I'm the labor of life. And here I ask you, what is insanity? Is it insanity that a child of my age speaks? Or that the Shabak [the Israeli Security Agency] has opened a file on her even before she is born? 25 These are the words of freedom...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... , and Schuster Aaron , 113 – 60 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2019 . Millar Kathleen . “ The Precarious Present: Wageless Labor and Disrupted Life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .” Cultural Anthropology 29 , no. 1 ( 2014 ): 32 – 53 . Mitchell Timothy . Rule of Experts...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 559–565.
Published: 01 December 2020
...University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective Abstract This short dispatch reflects on the recent cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) student movement at the University of California. We outline a short history of student labor activism at the University of California...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 371–381.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., but the world in general is becoming radically fleeting. Nothing promises duration or substance ( Bestand ). Given this lack of Being, nervousness and unease arise” ( TBS , 18). Precarious life, ephemeral contracts, informal work, all of this bare life. Labor itself appears as a bare activity...
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The Intricacies of Sovereignty
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 321–325.
Published: 01 August 2021
... labor militancy and the state's aversion to it, nor is he solely concerned with the physical deaths of the thirty-four mineworkers who were killed with impunity. It appears that by deploying Agamben's conception of “bare life,” he wants to cast a critical glance on the erasure of the black subject who...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 478–501.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., incarceration, biometric surveillance, precarious labor. The notion of the body-territory therefore exceeds an analytics of oppression centered on the individual, “decentering the individual as the privileged space of dispossession” 65 and avoiding an interpretation of systemic oppression where...
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Debt and Structural Gender Violence
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 167–169.
Published: 01 April 2021
... if we evaluate the duties and conditions that are socially imposed on us: Domestic and care work are conveniently invisible to the commercial economic system. Governments have benefited from this for a long time. Unpaid domestic labor and care work have supported life for centuries without economic...
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Critical Times / The Earth Trembles
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 158–177.
Published: 01 April 2018
... dispossessed of their lands and for decades have been left with no option but to provide cheap manual labor. Many Mapuche youth have opted to engage in this “return,” which has thus assumed a generational significance. In the meeting, women from the union of domestic workers noted this sequence of events...
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From 1990 to 2020
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 87–96.
Published: 01 April 2022
...” was economically eroded and discredited in the 1990s by leading policy thinkers. One of these was the policy entrepreneur Robert B. Reich, who would become Bill Clinton's secretary of labor in part because of his book The Work of Nations (1991) . In that book, Reich, whose post-bachelor's credential...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 618–631.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the strike do not account for reproductive and other forms of unwaged or marginalized labor. The question then becomes what kind of strike would best serve those who tirelessly perform the labor of social reproduction and who at the same time are most denigrated and devalued. Yet looking back on the history...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 33–67.
Published: 01 April 2020
... claims to sovereignty are policed in ways that would not be required if the aim were only to safeguard reproductive labor in a narrow sense. Nor are they merely a remnant from an allegedly more brutal, premodern past. Gender as phantom possession is a surrogate or a sort of compensation for the ongoing...
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The Ghost and the Censor: Loss in Parallax
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 244–256.
Published: 01 August 2023
... : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . Taussig Michael . Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1999 . Teiser Stephen F . “ ‘Having Once Died and Returned to Life’: Representations of Hell in Medieval China .” Harvard...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 241–248.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of capitalism on our lives, questions the neoliberal division of labor based on the devaluation of reproductive work carried out mostly by women, and proposes alternatives such as the feminist commons. 19 In open contrast with any form of “lean in” or neoliberal feminism, the International Women's Strike...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 66–93.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of movement, reproductive justice, empowerment, citizen-making, reproductive labor, autonomy, health, care, access, need, affective labor, inevitability, violence, femicidio , or feminicidio . 104 Some negotiating the new modes of legality showed how the most predictable distributions of exception...
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