...Andy Merrifield Duke University Press 2000 2. merrifield 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 31 The Urbanization of Labor LIVING-WAGE ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAN CITY For well...

...Kitty Krupat; Laura Tanenbaum Duke University Press 2002 A Network for Campus Democracy REFLECTIONS ON NYU AND THE ACADEMIC LABOR MOVEMENT At 10:00 A.M. on the morning of 1 March 2001, undergraduates and fac- Kitty Krupat...

...Rick Maxwell This essay concerns three decades of engagement with themes of labor and class in the pages of Social Text . It identifies common threads and describes dozens of variations that contributors made on these themes. The continuities include: social and cultural reproduction of class; race...

...Liam Connell This essay examines a series of visual representations of illegalized migration in order to consider how they respond to the presence of labor within global systems of economic exchange. Through an examination of the aesthetic qualities of these images it suggests that the worker’s...

...After Globalism Writing Group Labor, value, and information emerge on a continuum in the now long history of commodification because commodification was also an incipient digitization. This emergence positions the social as a substrate of what Jonathan Beller calls “computational capital” and...

...Andrew Ross Duke University Press 2000 1. Ross 4/24/00 11:21 AM Page 1 The Mental Labor Problem In the winter months of 1998–99, Local 802 of the American Federation Andrew Ross of...

...Tiziana Terranova Duke University Press 2000 2. Terranova 4/24/00 11:22 AM Page 33 Free Labor PRODUCING CULTURE FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY The...

... assistance in labor disputes, Guadalupe. housing and health care, ESL and other education programs, counseling, and more. For Tepeyac, immigrants’ rights are associated with their status as human beings and are couched in a...

...Malini Johar Schueller; Ashley Dawson Duke University Press 2007 Academic Labor at the Crossroads? An Interview with Andrew Ross This interview was conducted with Andrew Ross through a...

...Michael Denning Duke University Press 2007 Representing Global Labor Arise, you prisoners of starvation! Michael Denning Arise, you wretched of the earth! For justice thunders condemnation...

...Laikwan Pang This paper offers a Marxist analysis of the creative agency conceptualized by the new creative economy. Analyzing the differences and continuities between the creative economy and the traditional industrial economy, I explore how creative labor is selectively invested with the logics...

... . Time, labor, and social domination: A reinterpretation of Marx's critical theory . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rajagopal, Arvind. 1999 . Thinking through emerging markets: Brand logics and the cultural forms of political society in India. Social text no. 60 (fall): 131 -49. Requate...

...Edlie L. Wong This article investigates the possibilities of storytelling and black Atlantic literature in forging new critical approaches to the archive of New World Asian indenture. It also emphasizes the significance of the comparative study of bonded labor to our understanding of “the Atlantic...

... recognition in broader society, the narratives drew on long-standing cultural tropes of bad masters, individual victims, and the home as a site of care that have longer genealogies in slavery and colonialism. As earlier myths of domesticity masked labor relations in colonial and slave economies, so too these...

... over the definition of the Anthropocene. It looks in Fredric Jameson’s treatment of the time of capital, and of the place therein of dead labor, for a clue to critically rethink both these phenomena, revealing their profound affinity in the aporia besetting our thinking of historical agency under...

... savage social inequality and a bifurcated labor market as individual mental functions whose ideal type is corporate decision making; it also aids the transition to corporate control of education itself. Following this trope from the realm of cultural logic to public policy allows us to watch...

...Paul Stephens; Robert Hardwick Weston Free Time is a collection of collaboratively written experimental prose fragments on topics primarily involving labor and leisure. The form of the project ( Denkbilder ) is taken from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Included in this selection is a...

...Thulani Davis This article describes the process of looking across post–Civil War political, labor, and social archives for black community formations, black imaginaries around freedom, and fugitive legislative changes in an attempt to recover freed people's theorizing of the political. © Thulani...

... and actions of African Americans. Such sources lack a crucial dimension of experience found in the more voluminous direct personal responses of Lincoln's white mourners: the persistence of everyday life (matters of labor, health, romance, leisure) in the face of shock and grief, an absence that stems...