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... Press 2009 Matthew Abraham “Human Rights, Anyone?” Conceptions of Intellectual Labor after Noam Chomsky Adherence to doctrinal truth confers substantial award, not only acceptance within the system of power and a ready...

...Vanessa Carlisle This article interrogates the common sex worker rights’ slogan “sex work is real work,” a claim that yokes sex worker struggles to labor struggles worldwide. This article argues that US-based sex worker rights activism, which relies on the labor rights framework to confront stigma...

...Peter Rachleff While the labor uprising in Madison, Wisconsin, in the winter and spring of 2011, was precipitated by a proposal from the Republican governor and senators to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees, the movement itself transcended the ideologies, structures...

... to the parliamentary coup, analyzing the imposed agenda in terms of a political economy of its regulatory aspects, in tandem with a sociospatial perspective on the right-wing turn and its implications. The major elements of the package are: the imposition of a workfare regime, the flexibilization of labor relations...

... to advance the rights of low-waged and immigrant workers from the bottom up, the countervailing maneuvers of which can be seen as an embryonic form of repoliticization, a new politics of contingent labor. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 The South Atlantic Quarterly 111:4, Fall 2012 doi 10.1215...

... and commercial exchange, and bestowed a rights-bearing subject with a capacity for the ethical delib- eration of risk. Across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Lockean understanding of labor as a form of property and of contract freedom as the nonabsolute transference of the rights to this property...

... interconnected, workers turn the workplace and dormitory spaces into a battlefield to fight for their rights. Foxconn’s cost-efficient use of dormitory labor ensures that its more than one million workers spend their off-hours just preparing for another round of production. Paradoxically, workers are claiming...

... of others. I have the right to express my own opinions, preferences, and feelings; and feel they are as legitimate as the attitudes of others. (King 1998 : 5) The rights listed enumerate the messiness of doing what we might now call “emotional labor” in a marginalized community where adequate health...

... freedom as the primary theoretical cover for tenure and examine—dare I say affirm?—tenure as a practice in its own right, as a business practice in a particular labor situation. While most recent analysis suggests no future for tenure precisely because of its economic costs, I argue that tenure is in fact...

... 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...

... that it was solidarity. The establishment of the Korean Confedera- tion of Trade Unions (KCTU) was the achievement of the 1987 Grand Labor Struggle, creating a consensus on the value of united struggle and social solidarity among the working class. Migrant workers started to speak out about their rights in the 1990s...

... have been leading struggles to uphold the Rohingyas’ rights in Bangladesh. This article registers the struggles of these organizations against the production of illegality and statelessness. It discusses how they contest and negotiate the thick mix of politics, the local labor control regime, laws...

... commodity thesis implicitly calls the standard employment relationship into question, highlighting forms of production that occur at its margins. Rather than seeing media audiences as labor, the Keynesian state framed policies aimed at protecting them in terms of the public interest or consumer rights...

... . Beldo Les . 2017 . “ Metabolic Labor: Broiler Chickens and the Exploitation of Vitality .” Environmental Humanities 9 , no. 1 : 108 – 28 . doi: 10.1215/22011919-3829154 . Benton Ted . 1993 . Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights, and Social Justice . London : Verso...

...-beginning . De Stefano Valerio . 2019 . “ ‘Negotiating the Algorithm’: Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Labour Protection .” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 41 , no. 1 : 15 – 46 . De Stefano Valerio Aloisi Antonio . 2019 . “ Fundamental Labour Rights, Platform...

... contemporary forms of mobility and labor, including topics such as “illegality” and “trafficking,” problematize the relationship between free waged labor, rights, and citizenship. She is the author of Agency, Migration, and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking (2010) and a member of the editorial collec- tive...

... in which a precarious labor regime was instituted by platforms, based on uncertain contracts and lack of social protections and labor rights, including those of unionization, paid sick and vacation leaves, and accident insurance. Another aspect of feminization has to do with the rising significance...

... consultation of the worker council for technology development (Moore and Joyce 2019). In the global South, where labor rights such as minimum wages were often not extended to platform work, which was a new category of employ- ment in the informal sector, trade unions were instrumental in advocating...

...: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette . 2001 . Domestica . Berkeley, CA : University of California Press . Human Rights Watch . 2013 . “ The ILO Domestic Workers Convention: New Standards to Fight...

... that, if anything, fulfil a role of coordina- tion and moderation, platform workers conflicts tend to highlight the role of power these exert and the asymmetries they produce in terms of control and knowledge of the productive process. This kind of conflict aimed at gaining labor rights and redistributing profits...