... and criminalization, is unable to undo how racial capitalism constructs sex work as not a legitimate form of work. While labor protections are important, sex work offers opportunity for the development of antiwork potentials. Many people engaging in sexual performance or trading sex are already creating spaces where...

..., underpaid, and underprotected sector. Because domestic work is not generally understood to be “real work,” it tends not to have the same legal labor protections that other sectors enjoy. The essay draws on research with Filipino migrants to illustrate the limitations of current state efforts at protection...

...Timothy Brennan Only yesterday a discussion of economics in cultural circles was considered boring—a mere “economism”—but it is now everywhere in the arts. “Labor,” while being summoned as a grand economic category, enters conversations in the humanities today in the form of a theory of the latest...

... at reclaiming the conditions of social reproduction and subject these to new value practices. A politics based on social reproduction would imply the progressive subtraction of social and natural wealth and labor time from the control of capital, and their (re)production and circulation in the processes...

..., with its ties to property and patriarchy, under the umbrella of labor remains the most effective way to gain protections for a variety of subjects. For example, feminists in India have historically conducted efforts and con- tinue to push the government toward a future that opens up opportunities for women...

... Labor and Capital a Financial Makeover .” Review of Radical Political Economics 41 , no. 4 : 458 – 72 . Bryan Dick Rafferty Mike Jefferis Chris . Forthcoming . “ Decomposing Money: Ontological Options and Spreads .” Journal of Cultural Economy . Consumer Financial Protection...

... protections. Domestic worker organizers have global ambitions, too. Pushed by the NDWA and similar groups from other countries, the Interna- tional Labor Organization (ILO) in 2011 released a Convention and Recom- mendation on domestic workers’ rights that breaks precedent by “moving the ILO standard...

...) supported the govern- ment’s motion to temporarily restrict the free movement of labor, claiming that additional preparatory policies were necessary for wage as well as employment protection at a national level to prevent massive wage dumping (“Arbeits­marktöffnung” 2007). Apart from...

... their anger toward both Foxconn and Apple: “It’s just for show.” When the Chinese government does not enforce labor laws and codes protecting workers, employers like Foxconn feel free to ignore state restric- tions on overtime and health and safety in order to meet global manufactur...

... to the structural conditions that define the labor process (including, for instance, the failure of both the state and traditional unions to protect criminalized sex workers and devalued service workers). In this article, we take up the various ways thinkers have yoked sex work to other kinds of wage labor...

... to receive labor protections remain tied to a standard employment relationship. While work is being made flexible to suit the needs of employ- ers, workers outside of standard employment have limited access to social security, health benefits, pensions, and labor protections. This recognition does...

.... This aspect of the debate, a prolonged, internal battle pitting the proposed amendment against protective labor legislation, illustrates the many problems feminists faced in the years between World War I and the Vietnam War. Monomaniacal personalities and petty jealousies sometimes gave the ERA disputes...

... as to curtail personal rights.5 Clearly these limitations have to be taken care of before the labor injunction can be justified even from a legal point of view. In the first place, since the only excuse for a proceeding in equity is the protection of property, it was necessary to show 4 Frey, John P...

... of stringent child labor laws in North Carolina need to be especially vigilant at the coming session of the General Assembly. Not only is more adequate protection due the children, but the reputation of North Carolina demands that she should have a child labor law and a system of enforce­ ment...

..., demanded a throughgoing system of Protectionism on the lines laid down by Joseph Chamberlain twenty years before.8 Other promi­ nent leaders; such as Lord Derby and Lord Cecil, were in reality, perhaps, free traders, who were not at all convinced that Protection would prove a sovereign specific...

...: The Role of Macro, Investment, Education, Labor and Social Protection Policies . Washington, DC : World Bank . https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/13217 . A G A I N S T the D A Y Lea Bou Khater Lebanon s October 2019 Revolution: Inquiry into Recomposing Labor s Power In a world...

... an obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different Jackson New Aristocracy: Political Wealth, Neofeudal Labor, and American Law 323 degrees...

.... Differently articulated, the feminist struggle for emancipation could align with another project, aimed at strengthening social protections. In this second scenario, the thrust of feminist critique would be to reject androcentric valuations, especially the overvaluation of waged labor...

... declared it void as contravening the Fourteenth Amendment, which forbids any State to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The right to purchase or sell labor and make contracts, said Mr. Justice Peckham for the majority, is a part of the liberty protected...

..., and arbitrary outcomes of legal claims in different state venues generated a mystification around employment status and employment protections, subverting even the best intentions of regulators. The central question of whether low-income workers who labored for wellfinanced corporate entities should have access...