...Daniel Akselrad; Robert N. Proctor Abstract After the collapse of communism in the satellite states of the Soviet Union, global cigarette makers began acquiring factories throughout Eastern Europe to capitalize on this new market opportunity. Drawing on victims’ accounts of the Holocaust...

...Hannah Landecker Through examination of four examples from contemporary metabolic sciences, this article characterizes the rise of a postindustrial metabolism. Concerned with regulation, timing, and information, this emergent metabolism is analyzed as a shift away from the factory or motor model...

...Caitrin Lynch; Seamus Walsh Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Juki—That’s Not My Name Text by Caitrin Lynch Photographs by Seamus Walsh GGarment factory workers in Sri Lanka are known...

...Pun Ngai © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Pun Ngai is an assistant professor of social science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a cultural anthropologist and the author of various publications on Chinese migrant workers, gender, global factories...

... <new kinds of museums; alternative or oral history projects; the expansion of musical performance and recording into forgotten musi- cal histories or the dissemination of a broader range of musics; alternative publish- ing ventures or exhibition practices in film, theater, and dance; innovative cultural work with children; public art and art in public such as murals and graffiti; inno- vative uses of television, radio, or other mass media; and reports on past cultural work—the modernist, socialist, and avant-garde counterinstitutions of the early twentieth century> Visual “Literature” in Urban Senegal Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts Pape Samb left rural Senegal as a ten-year-old orphan, traveling to the capital city of Dakar. He has spent the last forty years there, in a fishing village squeezed between factory yards in the portside industrial park...

... emotional performances through which female migrants were encouraged to express their pain. 6 While recent work by Ngai Pun and Huilin Lu (2010) describes “anger” as an important dimension of the “subjective experience” of migrant factory workers, the authors are more interested in the outcome...

...Figure 16 Mary Petillo, Forelady of a Newark, New Jersey Factory Making Lamp Bulbs and Tubes for the Signal Corps, . . . Made a Suggestion to Conserve Bakelite Lamp Bases Formerly Discarded—a Suggestion Now in Use at the Plant—and Is Also the Inventor of an Apparatus Which Prevents Short...

... of reeducation. She wore a red “security volunteer” (Ch: anquan zhiyuan zhe ) band across her upper right arm and smiled at her Han customers. Because she was formally employed, she was not separated from her children and forced to work in the surveillant environment of the newly built “reeducation” factories...

... and the South China miracle: Two worlds of factory women . Berkeley:University of California Press. Lowe, Lisa. 1996 . Immigrant acts: On Asian American cultural politics . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Malkki, Liisa. 1995 . Purity and exile:Violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu...

.... Disciplinary processes are what make the performance of abstraction—the labor of abstracting—visible (to Marx) as a constitutive feature of the capitalist mode of production. The typical division of labor in a capitalist factory, the codes...

... largest trade union, Spi-Cgil, the pensioners’ union of the ex-communist Italian General Confederation of Labor. It today draws on the free labor of a genera- tion of highly politicized and socially conscious retired factory workers who self...

... family migrated to Chicago from rural Mexico a few years ago, he has been selling chewing gum along 18th Street in Pilsen, a large Mexican neighborhood. Blight, in fact, could be considered a kind of oficial recognition, a grudging admission that among blocks of factories...

... industrial city of Ciudad Juárez.1 On 21 March 1999, another young woman was found half-buried in the desert and bearing signs of rape and torture. Most of these women range in age from their teens to their thirties, and many worked in the export-processing maquila factories that have been operating...

.... Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory: Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Kwon, Soo Ah. 2013. Uncivil Youth: Race, Activism, and Affirmative Governmentality . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Levenson, Deborah T. 2013...

... experienced the effects of that process more thoroughly than the steel industry. That is particularly true in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley, where for the past fifteen years an ugly dispute has raged between labor and management over the closing of several factories and the layoff...

... of the union is seen as one of Nationalism As Such promoting democracy in the workplaces. We believe that management shouldn’t be left alone to decide on what workers need and we feel their factories should be run democratically so that things will be negotiated before management takes decisions.”31...

... or unfiltered) were rarely for sale, reserved for exclusive use by party elites. There was something of an arms race that emerged in China after 1949, with cigarette factories vying for recognition for their ability to balance production of mass-market labels alongside a highly exclusive brand favored by top...

... in time” (JIT), the basic goal guiding Taiichi Ohno’s (1988) “lean” approach to manufacturing. Edith, whose middle-class attitudes I have already drawn on, exemplifies the allure of JIT, for she is an international buyer of parts for a television factory. From seven in the morning to seven at night, she...

... 399 Public Culture Figure 4  Postmortem photograph of Bal Gangadhar Tilak by Narayan Vinayak Virkar, 1920. Private collection 400 “Factory Civilization” and “Gigantic Machinery...