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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Sara R. Farris Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Femonationalism and the "Regular" Army of Labor Called Migrant Women SaraR. Farris The First World talces on a role like that of the old-fashioned male in the family-pampered, entitled, unable to cook, clean, or find his socks...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the pandemic, the essay suggests that the pandemic shone new light on preexisting patronage relations. However, these relations were creatively harnessed by laborers in times of crisis. Accustomed to sanctions regimes that restricted movement even before the pandemic, Yusuf facilitated his release through new...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century—a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of deep contestation in which estate workers were organizing to reinvigorate the unfulfilled goals of anticolonial struggles. Reading this moment through the anxieties of European planters in the British archive, this article argues that these struggles deeply disturbed the localized racial labor order...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
.../1977/11/14/19th-hole-the-readers-take-over . Deford Frank . “ Dribbling on the Verge of Merge .” Sports Illustrated , August 9 , 1971 . https://vault.si.com/vault/1971/08/09/dribbling-on-the-verge-of-the-merge . Dubofsky Melvyn , and Dulles Foster Rhea . Labor in America...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... ofbetter living conditions. Yet just as minimum wage laws attempt to ameliorate the conditions oflow-wage workers, work­ ing communities appear under threat by temporary work, automation, task labor, mass incarceration, deportation, and a host ofother social pressures. Shifts in capital and labor seem...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 April 2011
... to pursue artistic interests indifferent to, or even at odds with, the routines ofcolonial governance and formations of colonial knowledge.Rather, he contributed to the German colonial project at a decisive moment, when expanding labor demands of German firms in New Guinea led to a crisis ofcolonial...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of manual labor, Mickey attempts one of the sorcerer’s spells to animate a mop to clean the laboratory of its own accord. This ingenious labor-saving scheme, however, quickly goes disastrously wrong as one mop becomes two, then four, then eight, then hundreds of angry mops that turn on the very individual...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 143–170.
Published: 01 October 2014
... increased power over, the processes by which people and things move through space and time. The modern usage ofthe flows metaphor took shape within linked nine­ teenth-century transformations in capitalism and social thought.It van­ quished a rival concept ofmotion and change,"work"-meaning both labor...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 122–147.
Published: 01 October 2012
... ofthe story ofexcess. While Freud was concerned with the problem of surplus emotion, with prohibited or excessive feeling, Marx was preoc­ cupied with surplus value. In any society that has evolved beyond the bar­ est subsistence, the collective labor of the population produces more value (more wealth...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 78–85.
Published: 01 April 2012
... accounts ofself-annihilation and injury bear analytical significance as they point to a curious paradox that unfolded in the maritime world of labor in the age of an expanding capitalist world market.9 While prompting an unheard ofintensification and acceleration ofthe circulation ofcommodities and people...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 130–147.
Published: 01 April 2011
... critique of the family wage, for instance, called for flexible labor conditions, that deprived women of choice in the face of microcredit schemes designed to integrate them into the market. Feminism's critique ofthe welfare state was echoed in Margaret Thatcher's denunciation ofthe "nanny state:' Macro...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Law Review 18 ( 1998 ): 319 – 410 . Hartman Saidiya . “ The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors .” Souls 18 , no. 1 ( 2016 ): 166 – 73 . Heerman M. Scott . The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730–1865...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and MichaelBurawoyeach dealt with thistopicfrom different viewpoints: "Where [Roy] had been interested in why workers did not work harder, I wondered why they worked as hard as they did;' Burawoy reflected retrospectively6. Burawoy's study, Manufacturing Consent, showed the importance of internal labor markets and what...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... labor; abusive conditions ofwork; migration within and across national boundaries (the latter, often undocumented); global inequality; and gender subordination and sexuality.For a rich understand­ ing of the forces that shape trafficking, it is vital to keep all these elements in play, in spite ofthe...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2016
... ofthe incompleteness of abolition, moves over generally familiar historical terrain, though it analyzes well-known historical developments with a new lens. Beneaththechangesin labor relations and credit relations that were implemented in the South soon after the Civil War-specifically, sharecropping...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 57–98.
Published: 01 April 2013
... the labors of women-centered households as integral to the production of both skill and people. Monastic teaching lineages took the presence of the guru's wife in the workshop-es­ tablishment for granted. Furthermore, donors too were often described as "couples;' as a donation to a temple in the Kathmandu...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 40–44.
Published: 01 April 2023
... for migrant villagers, typically enmeshed in urban service economies. Hamid from the province of Tata was one such example. For three decades, Hamid resided in Casablanca, laboring as a personal wash-servant in a public bath in an affluent neighborhood. His tips alone supported the members of his extended...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
...-seventeenth century opening of the mining and sugar fields of the Americas that slave owners and slave traders begin to articulate the desire for more male than female slaves.7 Even when they began to express this gendered de sire, slave ­ holders nonetheless continued to utilize female labor without...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 142–165.
Published: 01 October 2019
... HISTORY ofthe PRESENT Dru Stanley has observed, by the late 1980s and 1990s, women's and gender history had secured many ofits mostimportantinterpretive achievementsby demonstrating the centrality ofgenderedideologies to the decisive shifts of the political-economic past, such as the advent ofwage labor...