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positions (2015) 23 (3): 545–564.
Published: 01 August 2015
... in the 1970s and 1980s Japan's labor market was characterized by life-time employment and generous benefits—producing the seemingly ubiquitous subjectivity of the “salaryman”—today the sociology of labor in Japan seems to be overwhelmed by the precarious labor subjectivities of the freeters and NEETS...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
... writing say? What other actors and factors shape his persona? What can we learn from all this about the nexus of precarious labor and cultural production? The stories of Picun, Xiao Hai, and migrant worker literature subvert simple oppositions of grassroots versus state discourse and unofficial versus...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
... unsurprisingly, the landowning villagers’ quest to be “equal” inherently excluded the migrant peasant renters from whom owners had been receiving rental income for decades. Thus, whereas migrant renters negotiate their precarious conditions in the labor market, peasant landlords have to deal with their own...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 745–767.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Arai Andrea Ren Hai , 1 – 28 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Arnold Dennis Pickles John . 2011 . “Global Work, Surplus Labor, and the Precarious Economies of the Border.” Antipode 43 , no. 5 : 1598 – 1624 . Arnold Kathleen R. 2007 . Homelessness...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 171–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
....” Scholarship in English, exemplified by Anne Allison's ( 2013 ) Precarious Japan and the essays in Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature (Iwata-Weickgenannt and Rosenbaum 2015 ), has deployed the concept to capture contemporary Japan's experiences of job shortages, labor...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Xia Zhang In recent years, China's labor market deregulation and increasing unemployment and underemployment have hit Chinese youth particularly hard. How are Chinese urban youth responding to these new labor conditions? This article argues that they are not only creating new forms of work...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 357–378.
Published: 01 May 2023
... theater scene introduced him to the labor NGO and community cultural center Migrant Workers Home in the urban village Picun in Beijing. Sakurai's collaborators suggested that the suburban village-in-the-city, populated by rural migrant workers, would be a performance venue that fit the Japanese director's...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 516–546.
Published: 01 August 2018
... migrants in Northeast China, whose labor is no longer demanded in Korea’s neoliberal restructuring processes and who try their luck in China’s uncertain but fast-growing economy. In Seotap, a Korean migrant enclave in Shenyang, South Korean sojourners, who mostly engage in the unstable service sector, have...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and accumulation. The containerization of migrant housing entails a multifaceted process of extraction of labor and land, during which migrants’ mobility and sense of entitlement are highly contained. Container housing represents migrants’ sociospatial precarity in China's exclusive urban citizenship and place...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... restructured its economic systems, outsourcing factory production to the Global South and replacing lifetime employment with part-time, contractual, precarious labor (Song 2009 ). Youth, particularly from provincial and rural cities, bore the brunt of these changes, facing the highest rates of unemployment...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... such as writing, music, theater, and use of the internet and social media. By “cultures of labor” we meant the expressive forms and meaning-making practices by and about those who are referred to or identify as “rural migrants” ( nongmingong 农民工), “precarious laborers” ( dagongzhe 打工者), or “new workers” ( xin...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 February 2024
... industrialization has created a considerable amount of precarious employment (Masina and Cerimele 2018 ). The labor of the precariat created by compressed capitalism in turn creates the foundation for contemporary urban foodscapes and enables the food practices discussed in this article. The article draws...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 May 2023
... . “ Precarity, Precariousness, and Vulnerability .” Annual Review of Anthropology , no. 47 : 331 – 43 . Hardt Michael . 1999 . “ Affective Labor .” boundary 2 26 , no. 2 : 89 – 100 . Hardt Michael , and Negri Antonio . 1994 . Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 381–409.
Published: 01 August 2015
... in the value of affec-
tive labor as a historically specific expression of young people’s resistance
to highly precarious labor conditions that are increasingly becoming main-
stream. For Japan, I investigate how the digital economy mobilized young...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of wage labor
but also complements conventional spaces of human capital development. It
becomes an apparatus that prepares young people for entering a precarious
labor force. It socializes them to embrace the ideology of the possible. More...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 437–462.
Published: 01 August 2015
... made young people and their
parents complicit in facilitating the transition to a neoliberal society built on
a flexible and precarious labor regime.
Cho ∣∣ Spec Generation Who Can’t Say “No” 441
The New Generation...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 565–593.
Published: 01 August 2015
... and national advancement in an economically and racially stratified world order. In this sense, overseas language travels operate as spaces that both reinscribe as well as destabilize existing social hierarchies along race, class, and nation. youth precarious labor English-language travel working holiday...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 701–727.
Published: 01 November 2020
...- imposes the nation s geopolitical legacy onto the socioeconomic milieu in an age of precarious labor. Economically drifting, socially fragmented, and emotionally insecure, the ingy subjects in the postindustrial era are differ- ent from the traditional working class. Overeducated and underemployed...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... . “ Jasic Workers Fight for Union Rights .” New Politics , no. 66 . https://newpol.org/issues/new-politics-vol-xvii-no-2-whole-number-66/ . Chan Jenny , Ngai Pun , and Seldon Mark . 2015 . “Interns or Workers? China's Student Labor Regime .” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 13...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 655–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
...-traveler in Fully Charged Prude Braving Winds and Waves in Showbiz (2020), must mobilize her feminine beauty and acting skills to navigate a cruel and treacherous showbiz world dominated by powerful men. The novelist describes the immaterial and precarious labor many actresses must devote...
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