...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...

...Biao Xiang The increasing labor migration from China to other Asian countries since the late 1980s is often attributed to the ascendance of the free market that has driven China’s internal transformation as well as the Asian regionalization. The actual process of the labor migration is however...

... the acceleration of a specific proletarianization—successive generations of rural migrant workers ( nongmingong ) have become the mainstay of the country’s export-processing sector, but they cannot become “free” laborers in the market. Within the dormitory labor regime, in which work and residence are tightly...

...Dinesh Wadiwel Emerging perspectives on the labor of animals highlight the role of non-humans in generating value. However, few of these accounts explore the role of resistance in shaping the character of animal labor and the structure of this activity within value chains. In this essay, I explore...

...Biju Mathew Based on extensive conversations with Uber, Lyft, and Ola drivers across multiple cities in the United States and India, this article argues that gig/platform work operates through a reorganization of established labor process with data at the center of such changes. Not only is data...

...Sarah Ann Wells The consignment of industrial wage labor and its central figures to the status of ruins has become something of a cliché in contemporary scholarship and artistic practice. On this view, its demise first became apparent in the 1970s, the precise moment when Brazilian labor movements...

... control of data open opportunities for value creation and realization, quite distinct from the value propositions of industrial manufacturing. As the relationship between value generation and human labor becomes tenuous or invisible, management strategies to appropriate value extends beyond labor control...

...Fabien Brugière Drawing from a transurban field research conducted in the ride-hailing sector in Paris and Brussels regions, this article investigates platformization as a productive model defined by the articulation of an outsourced labor regime with an algorithmic and data-driven type...

...Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco Across the globe, algorithmic technologies have undeniably altered the way labor relations are governed. The purpose of this article is to investigate a particular manifestation of that phenomenon: how, in Brazil, platform capitalism consists in a hybrid...

...Carlotta Benvegnù; Nelli Kampouri Outside of the literature focusing on the platformization of specific “informal” feminized and racialized sectors, especially care and domestic work, in which reproductive labor has been traditionally carried out, there is a dearth of research on platforms from...

... the fall of the working classes into neofeudal labor practices—trajectories embedded in and abetted by decisions of the US Supreme Court. jacksoje@whitman.edu Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 capitalist jurisprudence constitutional political economy neoliberalism neofeudalism...

...Stevphen Shukaitis; Joanna Figiel This article addresses the class composition of artistic and cultural labor in the metropolis: practices bringing with them political possibilities and potentials for renewed economic growth, but also the threat of exploitation and precarity. To shed light...

... draws on Negri, Hardt, and Deleuze to rethink finance and risk as involving forms of production at the financial frontier of capital: the construction of globally traded securities. In so doing, the analysis opens up novel ways of framing the evolving relation between labor and capital. © 2015 Duke...

...Lisa Adkins In a context of wage repression, indebted labor, and a pervasive gap between what labor earns and what it needs to spend, in this essay I ask: what are post-Fordist wages? I suggest that the key features of the post-Fordist wage should be understood in terms of broad transformations...

...Melinda Cooper In recent years, theoretical inquiries into the changing forms of labor and money have proceeded alongside each other but have rarely entered into dialogue, much less investigated the evolving relationship between the two terms. This is a curious omission given that contemporary...

... forces in South Africa. For the first time since the democratic breakthrough in 1994, there is a very real possibility of forging a mass-based and sustained, united front of action for labor and community struggles. Translating possibility into practice will be difficult. Even if there is much...

...Tomiko Yoda 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Tomiko Yoda The Rise and Fall of Maternal Society: Gender, Labor, and Capital in Contemporary Japan...

...William E. Cain Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 William E. Cain F. O. Matthiessen s Labor of Translation: From Sarah Orne Jewett to T. S. Eliot F O. Matthiessen s American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941) is one of the landmark texts...

...Billy H. Wyche Southern Newspapers View Organized Labor in Billy H. Wyche The American press, like so many other social institutions, suffered a crisis of confidence during the depression-ridden thirties. Critics depicted it as incurably conservative, biased, and mercenary. In his controversial...

...Martin Bronfenbrenner Some Reactionary Suggestions on the Labor Front Martin Bronfenbrenner I The existing body of American trade union legislation inten­ tionally encourages free collective bargaining by trade unions. It does so by restricting the legal and economic weapons of employers who...