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South Atlantic Quarterly (1942) 41 (4): 425–436.
Published: 01 October 1942
...Harold H. Punké Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 DEMOCRACY AND THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN HAROLD H. PUNKL DURING a national emergency in material production with its accompanying expansion in employment, we may overlook the social consequences of recent unemployment. Even though...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1962) 61 (2): 141–150.
Published: 01 April 1962
...Gene Roberts, Jr. Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Waste of Manpower Race and Employment in a Southern State Gene Roberts, Jr, Each spring, the seniors in North Carolina s Negro high schools accept their diplomas with much the standard attitudes: a slight touch of nostalgia...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (1): 225–234.
Published: 01 January 2015
...; workers might contract with hundreds of employers in a year without ever meeting them. Employers, likewise, can access these workers through computer interfaces without ever interacting with them. I examine the AMT-mediated computational labor relations between technologist employers and the data...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (2): 420–429.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Ayse Akalin The services that the domestic worker performs are best described as affective labor. The interactions between domestic workers and their employers occur on the proximity of their bodies and therefore through the affective intensities that constantly are exchanged between them...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 33–59.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Dinah Rajak This article focuses on HIV/AIDS management at Anglo American, the world's third-biggest mining company, the largest private-sector employer in South Africa and across the continent, and the first company to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) “free of charge” to its workforce...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (4): 741–761.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Jamie Peck; Nik Theodore The dismantling of the Fordist social contract and the neoliberalization of labor regulation have been associated with a historic shift toward decentralized, commodified, and atomized employment relationships, vividly reflected in the rise of temping and the (re)appearance...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (3): 513–533.
Published: 01 July 2015
... individual journalist forging a career for herself through practices of self-branding and self-employment and learning to be adaptable, flexible, and self-sufficient. This essay challenges the notion of entrepreneurial journalism, arguing that it emerges at a time of institutional crisis for journalism...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (1): 204–214.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Bettina Wagner; Anke Hassel This article analyzes the challenges of labor migration for both capital and labor within the European Union (EU). It asks how, in a country with traditionally strong unions and employers’ associations, it has been possible to create and maintain a segment in the labor...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 113–124.
Published: 01 January 2016
... everyday material conditions of life under apartheid. The enormity of the historical injury and the implementation of less than effective policies to address land, housing, services, and employment has led to renewed social struggles since 1994 that have been primarily focused on restoring the idea...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 149–174.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., is the black, cast as a threatening and unpredictable entity on account of its aversion to capitalist employment. The centering of African desire and well-being around labor not only has played a decisive role in structuring sociopolitical conflicts in contemporary South Africa. It also has underpinned...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (3): 647–654.
Published: 01 July 2021
...: the rising employment in the logistics industry and the expanding platform-based economy taking over new and traditional sectors. As the locus of the Chinese economy shifts from manufacturing to service, understanding the nature and implications of the logistics workers’ organizing sheds light on China’s...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (3): 533–551.
Published: 01 July 2021
... into closer dialogue is mutually productive. Studies of digital sex work would benefit from critical insights into power and control in platform work, while scholars of platform work—and of work and employment more generally—have much to learn from paying attention to the gendered labor of sex workers...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (3): 663–669.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Jonathan S. Parhusip Local labor laws in Taiwan push migrant workers to run away from contracted employment arrangements and become undocumented. This article examines the common forms of struggle pursued by runaway Indonesian migrant workers with a focus on the informal organizational structures...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (3): 595–613.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Margrit Shildrick The term neoliberalism has appeared in the policies of the Global North for several decades, with the concept of precarity in employment practices coming from the same period. In the last few years, however, precarity has been embodied and personalized, coming to signify not only...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (2): 412–421.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., in the employment rights court cases against Uber in the UK. The article is the outcome of co-writing with Jamie Woodcock, presenting Yaseen’s first-person perspective. It builds on the method of workers’ inquiry and writing between workers and academics. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Uber workers...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (2): 430–438.
Published: 01 April 2018
... successfully passed Conven- tion 189, also known as the Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Insisting upon the global recognition of domestic work, this convention sought to establish a standard of employment. Indeed, it led to the enactment of legal reforms for the greater protection...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1923) 22 (2): 126–138.
Published: 01 April 1923
... of employers liability to the system of industrial accident indemnity estab­ lished through workmen s compensation laws has been called the most remarkable transition of its kind in all our social and political history. The first workmen s compensation law was passed in Germany in 1884 and became effective...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1974) 73 (4): 460–474.
Published: 01 October 1974
... of the 1930 s, Congress passed, after long and considered debate, the Employment Act of 1946. An important provision in the act made the federal government responsible for promoting conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employ­ ment, for those able...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1911) 10 (4): 346–355.
Published: 01 October 1911
... or killed, the loss falls upon him and his family. Action can be brought against the employer only if the injury was due to his negligence, and even so the workman concerned must not have shared in the negligence. If the employer cannot be proved at fault, the loss ipsofacto, falls upon the workman...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (4): 621–641.
Published: 01 October 2012
... on unemployment, specifically on how unemployment in recessionary post-Fordism is both highly productive and eventful, that is, organized through the temporal logic of the event. Cru- cially, this eventfulness positions unemployment not as opposed to or dif- ferentiated from employment but as part of a continuum...