...Andrew Ross Working simply to pay off debt is an increasingly large component of the time quotient that characterizes our precarious economy. Since debts are the wages of the future, creditors are requiring debtors to tie up their time for decades to come. Just as the struggle over wages...

... myth reveals how, in declaring war on terrorism, we have likewise waged a shadow war against the projections of collective paranoia. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Phantom of the Forever War: Fazul Abdullah Muhammad...

...Alison Shonkwiler This essay examines the growing interest in home-based labor in light of the changing structures of conventional work. Neo-homesteading, particularly in its part-time and casual modes, reveals the conflicted middle-class desire to achieve freedom from the wage economy without...

... form of figuring reality reduces ecological complexities, interactions, fluidity, and biodiversity into two general forms or ideas of “environment”: the idea of an untouched and pristine wilderness and the idea of an environmental struggle waged by indigenous peoples comprehended as victims...

... . Towards a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living . Final Report to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. Bound, John, and George Johnson. 1992 . Changes in the structure of wages during the 1980s: An evaluation of alternative explanations. American Economic Review 82 : 371 -92. Burtless, Gary...

... mineral wealth and a migrant labor system that compelled men from South Africa's “native reserves” and southern Africa to become low-wage contract laborers. While the migrant-labor system was still embryonic, 64,000 Chinese laborers arrived on British ships between 1904 and 1910 to fill a labor shortage...

... month. Machine operators who work overtime, meet production targets, and have perfect attendance can take home more than 5,000 rupees ($90) per month in wages and bonuses. Although the dollar figure may suggest otherwise, this wage provides basic subsistence for an individual. In 1996 a loaf of bread...

..., for fear of capital flight. Here again eco- nomic and social globalization feed each other: the national governments of Europe and North America, under severe pressure from emerging as well as existing economic competitors by the late 1970s, were less and less dependent on a home-grown, low-wage...

..., in which real wages have fallen while entitlement to nonwage enterprise benefits has shrunk. Even if benefit withdrawal is spread over several months or tax credits are used, international evidence shows that those at the edge of the labor...

... in 1924, W. F. Hertzog wanted to replace large numbers of cheap black labor with unskilled or semiskilled whites. “Uncivilized labor” was replaced with “civilized labor” at “civilized wages,” particularly in the railways, the harbors...

... the 5 Public Culture legal protection of the Cuban state, which did not recognize—beyond wages— authors’ economic rights over their creations; not domestically, much less inter- nationally. Consequently, no reciprocal agreements existed at the time between...

... wealth to those in control of the corpo- ration that he has exchanged the position of independent owner for one in which he may become merely the recipient of the wages of capital3 For Berle and Means, this transformation...

... woman takes shape in the model of variable capital whose worth fluctuates from a status of value to one of waste. Variable capital refers to the labor power—what the worker provides in exchange for wages—that produces a value in excess...

... and formative influence on the quality and particular- ity of the record, is clearly downplayed. This is because the musicians are in the role of wage laborers. Of course, one could not find musicians in New York or London to do what they do because they are not just wage laborers, they are the bearers...

... of seasonal migration away from their native villages, to seek money between harvests, working as ten- ant farmers and wage laborers in the plantations, mines, and factories located in the urban centers of the colony...

... professional elites create markets for goods and services produced in small scale enterprises - subcontractors, family enterprises, sweatshops and households (86). Such low-wage workers are paid minimum wages, have no job security, and by virtue of their working conditions, are often isolated...

... in California. See www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/economic-justice/fair-pay/african-american-women-wage-gap.pdf . 3. Though Marxist urban imaginaries diverge from Black feminist and queer of color urban imaginaries, I engage Marxist critiques where they are core to the anticapitalist...

... discovered that this war was not actually our war. That’s what we’ve been talking about. It was Japan and England‘s war. . . . They didn’t wage this war on their own land; they came and waged it on our land. Because our colonial bosses had...

... are worth noting. First, if the government fails to provide employment to an applicant within fifteen days of receipt of appli- cation, he or she is entitled to a daily unemployment allowance. Second, all pay- ments of wages — which, it should...

... of pastoral autonomy under colonialism. But it also meant that social reproduction came to depend on the wages remitted by migrant workers. In order to make her more marriageable, this man adorns his only daughter with money and clothes that represent her value as a future wife and mother...