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Figure 1. “Instructor’s Guide” of the DOE Handbook: Radiological Worker Training (DOE 2013)

“Instructor’s Guide” of the DOE Handbook: Radiological Worker Training ( ...

in Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure > Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2016
Figure 1 “Instructor’s Guide” of the DOE Handbook: Radiological Worker Training ( DOE 2013 ) More
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Figure 22. War Workers’ Ideas. Jury Votes on War Workers’ Ideas That Save Man-Hours and Critical Materials. Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer. Farm Security Administration–OWI, 1942, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USE6-D-009370 [P&P].

War Workers’ Ideas . Jury Votes on War Workers’ Ideas That Save Man-Hours ...

in Uncle Sam Needs Your Ideas: A Brief History of Embodied Knowledge in American World War II Posters > Public Culture
Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 22 War Workers’ Ideas . Jury Votes on War Workers’ Ideas That Save Man-Hours and Critical Materials . Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer. Farm Security Administration–OWI, 1942, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USE6-D-009370 [P&P]. More
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Figure 18. Checking workers’ submissions from a suggestion box installed in the Cadillac motorcar division of General Motors Corporation, Detroit. Photographer: Arthur S. Siegel. OWI, 1942, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USW3-016341-C [P&P].

Checking workers’ submissions from a suggestion box installed in the Cadill...

in Uncle Sam Needs Your Ideas: A Brief History of Embodied Knowledge in American World War II Posters > Public Culture
Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 18 Checking workers’ submissions from a suggestion box installed in the Cadillac motorcar division of General Motors Corporation, Detroit. Photographer: Arthur S. Siegel. OWI, 1942, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USW3-016341-C [P&P]. More
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Uncle Sam Needs Your Ideas: A Brief History of Embodied Knowledge in American World War II Posters

Bregje F. van Eekelen
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 113–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189191
Published: 01 January 2018
...Figure 22 War Workers’ Ideas . Jury Votes on War Workers’ Ideas That Save Man-Hours and Critical Materials . Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer. Farm Security Administration–OWI, 1942, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USE6-D-009370 [P&P]. ...
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The Checkpoint State: Extortion, Discontents, and the Pursuit of Survival

Daniel E. Agbiboa
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 123–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435488
Published: 01 January 2022
...Daniel E. Agbiboa Abstract This essay is about everyday encounters with the checkpoint state in a locus of enduring counterinsurgency. Specifically, the essay examines how road-transport workers in northeast Nigeria experience and negotiate the omnipresent threat of the checkpoint state...
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Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure

Shannon Cram
Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 519–539.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3511526
Published: 01 September 2016
...Figure 1 “Instructor’s Guide” of the DOE Handbook: Radiological Worker Training ( DOE 2013 ) ...
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Self-Appreciation; or, The Aspirations of Human Capital

Michel Feher
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 21–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-019
Published: 01 January 2009
...Michel Feher Human capital is to neoliberalism what Marx's free worker was to liberal capitalism, that is, the subjective formation at once presupposed and targeted by neoliberal technologies of government. According to this thesis, the neoliberal condition involves investors in their own human...
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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization

Sareeta Amrute
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841892
Published: 01 May 2015
... of navigating roads at speed. I focus on call center drivers as an example through which to think about how such subjects figure in postliberalization Indian imaginaries—as border guards to middle-class private consumer pleasures and as call center workers with unvalorized labor. I use the cases of call center...
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Turkish Women, West German Feminists, and the Gendered Discourse on Muslim Cultural Difference

Rita Chin
Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 557–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-009
Published: 01 September 2010
... worker migrants. It shows how Turkish women became a central trope for representing the fundamental cultural differences between Turks and Germans and explores the somewhat surprising hand that feminists had in facilitating this line of thinking. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010...
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Simulating Iraq : Cultural Mediation and the Effects of the Real

Claire Beckett, Nuit Banai
Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 249–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1535489
Published: 01 May 2012
...Claire Beckett; Nuit Banai This essay examines Claire Beckett’s Simulating Iraq (2007–9), a series of large-format color photographs that documents army personnel and civilian workers training American troops for military deployment by staging the theater of operations awaiting them. At the heart...
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Urban Popular Economies: Territories of Operation for Lives Deemed Worth Living

The Urban Popular Economy Collective, Solomon Benjamin, Alioscia Castronovo, Luci Cavallero, Cristina Cielo ...
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 333–357.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937241
Published: 01 September 2022
... the everyday practices of urban inhabitants as they put together territories in which to operate, which sustain their imaginations of well-being as part of a process of being with others—in households, neighborhoods, communities, and institutions. What is it that different kinds of workers have in common; what...
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“Your Life Is One-Hundred-Percent at Risk”: The Caravan of the Mutilated and the Internationalism of the Vulnerable

Eric Vázquez
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 47–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435442
Published: 01 January 2022
... incorporated. In effect, their testimonies and embodiments invert the reparative logic of worker remittances — cash transfers often thought to be the objective of migration. Against the cruel economies of risk that decapacitated AMIREDIS members as laborers, their testimonies offer an internationalism...
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The Intimacy of Labor: Street Sweeping and the Pleasures of Anything Else

Elana Resnick
Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 233–254.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10575595
Published: 01 May 2023
...Elana Resnick Abstract This essay rethinks writing on “intimate labor” to ethnographically explore the intimacy of labor by attending to how Romani women waste workers in Bulgaria assert workplace friendships to lay claim to public space and cultivate life‐sustaining solidarities. Under conditions...
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The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Rethinking Race and Capitalism

Mingwei Huang
Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 193–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8917178
Published: 01 May 2021
... that devalue Black labor. Whereas these histories are lost upon Chinese newcomers, African workers experience working for “the Chinese” through the memory of the mines. With the aim of theorizing emergent formations of race and capital in the Chinese Century, the essay threads this new epoch through...
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Prospecting a Socialist Oil Field Extraction as Geotechnical Mediation

Tim Shao-Hung Teng
Public Culture 11767218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11767218
Published: 19 March 2025
... as a question of visuality, whereby oil workers’ skyward vision in propaganda posters is reoriented to become earthbound gazes whose fixation on data collection and whose receptiveness to energy flows suggest an alternative model of subject formation. The conclusion draws attention to underground fissures...
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Violence Work and the Police Order

Madiha Tahir
Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 409–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7532643
Published: 01 September 2019
..., then, is the relationship between these two violence workers, the soldier and the police officer? Should we characterize violence work, from Ferguson to Fallujah, as “policing”? And if so, how? What productive analytics, politics, and solidarities can such a framing underwrite? Equally important, what significant...
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Bodycams and Gender Equity: Watching Men, Ignoring Justice

Kim Shayo Buchanan, Phillip Atiba Goff
Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 625–644.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7532739
Published: 01 September 2019
... crimes such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex work or sex trafficking. Thus women, sex workers, and gender-nonconforming people may be disproportionately excluded from any benefits of bodycam surveillance. But privacy and dignity interests, as well as investigatory realities, preclude...
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The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras

Melissa W. Wright
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 453–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-453
Published: 01 September 1999
... de Ciudad Juárez , 10 October, 3C. Cockburn , Cynthia . 1985 . Machinery of dominance . London: Pluto Press. Elson , Diane , and Ruth Pearson. 1981 . Nimble fingers make cheap workers: An analysis of women's employment in third world export manufacturing. Feminist Review 8 : 87...
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Spatiality and Urban Citizenship in Late Socialist China

Li Zhang
Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 311–334.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-2-311
Published: 01 May 2002
....: Rowman and Littlefield. Caldeira, Teresa Pires do Rio. 2000 . City of walls: Crime, segregation, and citizenship in São Paulo . Berkeley: University of California Press. Chan, Anita. 1999 . The culture of survival and Chinese migrant workers: Through the prism of private letters . Paper...
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Nationalism As Such: Violence during South Africa's Political Transition

Ivor Chipkin
Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 315–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-2-315
Published: 01 May 2004
... African townships located on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg metropolitan area. Apart from an urbanized residential population without strong links to the rural areas, they are also home to thousands of migrant workers accommodated...
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