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Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 1–31.
Published: 01 June 2000
...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...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 33–58.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Tiziana Terranova Duke University Press 2000 2. Terranova 4/24/00 11:22 AM Page 33 Free Labor PRODUCING CULTURE FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 99–130.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... They also offer places for Mexican immigrants to orga- manifestation nize activism and activities dedicated to their empowerment. As a network organization, Tepeyac coordinates activism, lobbying, and advocacy, and it as Our Lady of provides services to its constituency, including assistance in labor...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 63–84.
Published: 01 March 2007
... reaches of the service economy. Although university administrators don’t talk about and may not even be aware of this, the casualization of the academic labor force is part of a systematic attack on tenure and on academic freedom...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 117–132.
Published: 01 March 2007
...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...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 125–145.
Published: 01 September 2007
...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...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 55–76.
Published: 01 June 2009
...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...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2012
...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...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 95–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
...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...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Andy Merrifield 2. merrifield 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 31 The Urbanization of Labor LIVING-WAGE ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAN CITY For well over a decade now, practically...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (1 (70)): 27–50.
Published: 01 March 2002
...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...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 43–68.
Published: 01 December 2022
...), and its film adaptation, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang! (1932), the essay shows how these white‐authored stories imagine the extraction of Black male labor in the construction of road infrastructure in the early twentieth‐century southern United States. The essay demonstrates how logistics—the art...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 25–46.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Tina M. Campt How do we engage a contemporary visual archive of blackness that is saturated by the proliferation and mass circulation of images of violence, antiblackness, and premature death? This article explores the labor required by visual enactments of black precarity in the work of filmmaker...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 83–115.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Katja Praznik This article offers a contribution to the political economy of creative labor in socialist Yugoslavia, tracing the emergence of a socialist entrepreneur from the shell of an art worker. It discusses shifts in economic policies that restructured the economic and material conditions...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 155–157.
Published: 01 September 2009
...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...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 81–84.
Published: 01 June 2023
... consciousness forms outside the labor process — through games, play, sex, and community organizing — as much as from within it. 1. Aronowitz, False Promises , 62 . Reference Aronowitz Stanley . False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness . Durham, NC : Duke...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 75.
Published: 01 June 2023
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 9–33.
Published: 01 September 2001
... 1989/90. In Kolonialisierung der DDR:Kritische Analysen und Alternativendes Einigungsprozesses , edited by Wolfgang Dümcke and Fritz Vilmar. Münster: Agenda Verlag. Peters, Tom. 1997 . The circle of innovation . New York: Vintage. Postone, Moishe. 1996 . Time, labor, and social domination...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 39–66.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Micki McGee Four decades of neoliberal approaches to the provision of care (medical care, mental health care, childcare, and eldercare, to name a few) have resulted in a crisis of care so ubiquitous as to appear natural. Among the unanticipated consequences of the redirection of women’s labor from...
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