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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2022
... segregation labor discipline genealogy For over ten years, I have been conducting research across (and about) several agro-industrial enclaves in Italy, with a special focus on Tavoliere (coinciding roughly with the flatlands in the province of Foggia, northern Apulia) and the plain of Gioia Tauro...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2022
... of structural variables renders one's survival a mere probability, AMIREDIS emplots lopsided risk, labor discipline, and imperial debt as co-constitutive processes. By extension, AMIREDIS's testimonies afford compelling resources for reevaluating the capitalist webs of interdependence within which the death...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 375–394.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of criminality); and as Peter Zinoman has argued, it
was the “ill-disciplined” character of the colonial prison, its “communal architecture, haphazard
classification system, murderous forced labor regimes, and poorly trained and ethnically divided...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 189–208.
Published: 01 May 2004
... and familial investment through the accumulation
of embodied competencies along a division between mental and manual labor:
education for the middle-class child and labor discipline for the migrant. For the
subject, the politics of suzhi become...
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 24–60.
Published: 01 January 1997
... visual realism with various legal, penological/disciplinary
regimes,30 while Anson Rabinbach links the realism of nineteenth-century sci-
entific kinesthetic photography to Fordist labor discipline applied to the body of
the worker...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 653–678.
Published: 01 September 2000
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tory discipline makes it clear that he does not visualize the abstraction of labor
inherent in the process of exchange of commodities as a large-scale mental oper-
ation. Abstraction happens in and through practice. It precedes one’s conscious
recognition of its...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 2004
... and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap. Bogdanov, A. A. 1923a . A short course of economic science , translated by J. Fineburg. London:Labour. ———. 1923b . Proletarian poetry. Labour Monthly 4 : 276 -85, 357-62. ———. 1984 . Essays in tektology: The general science of organization...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 143–168.
Published: 01 January 2008
... to this.”
40. Ilaiah, “Productive Labour,” 168.
41. Ilaiah, “Productive Labour,” 168.
42. Here also we must note that Ilaiah’s rejection of academic disciplines cannot ever be total.
His relationship to academic disciplines, however...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Sareeta Amrute This article discusses violence against women in cars in India, including the recent high-profile Delhi rape case, arguing that these cases should be set in the context of economic liberalization. The dynamic between women and their drivers should be understood as a labor...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2014
... in the world they must navigate as independent adults. It is our mission to help in that process. Right now, in MOOCs and in our brick-and- mortar classrooms, we’re mostly doing a good job preparing students for the industrial age labor market — not to be engaged and resilient contributors in a global...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 547–575.
Published: 01 September 1994
... gadgets for
regulating deliberation and debate.
Clothing the body in distinctive dress further facilitates the ocular technology
of surveillance. In View ofthe Hard Labour Bill (1778), a pamphlet written three
years before the publication of Punopticon, Bentham questions the effectiveness...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 May 2002
... going to
recruit labor this afternoon. Now here come so many people, we can’t
handle them. Every year is like this.
Pun Ngai: Where do they come from?
Ying: Oh, provinces all over the country. But anyway, I’m...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1998) 10 (3): 577–607.
Published: 01 September 1998
...: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change , edited by Guillermo J. Grenier and Alex Stepick. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Portes , Alejandro , and Alex Stepick. 1985. “Unwelcome Immigrants: The Labor Market Experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian Refugees in South Florida...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 67–88.
Published: 01 January 2010
... circled the World Wide Web, the director of Guate-
mala’s central morgue reflected aloud to me: “It’s not like scissors cutting through
paper, you know. Decapitation is tedious work [trabajo tedioso], a sweaty kind of
labor [laborioso...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 387–399.
Published: 01 September 2013
... scrutiny to the degree it used to, if we accept this reasoning: the world has moved on. “Digital” and “mobile” media have clearly taken radio, film, and television’s place as more visible and trafficked sites of academic labor. Such swings in scholarship may be influenced by academic fashion...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 201–208.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., and mass consumer-
ism to neglected neighborhoods, failing infrastructures, and large-scale poverty.
Economics must take the labor of an invisible urban army of actants such as ille-
gal and informal workers, hidden infrastructures and supply chains, unrecorded
transactions, and data processing...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 417–440.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of slavery and the importing of Chinese and South Asian indentured labor; or a correlation of the East Indies and China trades and the rise of bourgeois Europe” (Lowe 2015 : 5). This organizational logic of the colonial archives that separates information along geographic units therefore makes it difficult...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 89–108.
Published: 01 January 1992
... The Three Worlds, or the Division of Social Scientific Labor, circa 1950–1975, Comparative Studies in Society and History 23 ( 4 ). Skurski , Julie , and Fernando Coronil. 1992 Country and City in a Colonial Landscape: Double Discourse and the Geopolitics of Truth, in Views from the Border...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 315–335.
Published: 01 May 2004
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ment (fighting racial oppression) and a workers’ movement (struggling against exploitation) not sim-
ply convenient or tactical but strategically and politically necessary.
6. “Migrant labour was never just a source of cheap labor; it was at the same time...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 5–23.
Published: 01 January 2013
... in the United States. Paid holidays — time off as reward
for labor — always remained a mirage for much of the proletariat. But they were a
powerful image of late industrial capitalism.
The complex blocks of time eroded agency. For agency, we need control of
time. The clock did not just discipline, as E...
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