...” in Franco Berardi's terms—to work. But that labor, in accordance with capitalist valorization, is nearly always human. At best, it is human labor supplemented with machines. But what are we to make of the lively materials—of human and nonhuman provenance alike—now at “work” alongside us? This essay takes up...

... a process of the active constitution of socialism and its institutional establish- ment, between the productivity of living labor and the organization of the enterprise. Lenin entrusted the Bolshevik party and its skill for enlightened Negri • Soviet: Within and beyond the “Short...

... at the start of the film. We know that the body is a factory to metabolize food / living labor and produce shit. And we don’t need to hear about the connection between the erection and Lulù’s missing finger. More interesting are the aleatory moments when the machines break...

..., stimulus packages, and a return to a real productive economy gaining audience in many parts, can labor still serve as a conceptual pivot of political action, a critical lens to sharpen our visions of other worlds beyond the world of permanent crisis and grow- ing immiseration in which we now live...

... of exploitation that have historically been ascribed to it; now, human capital is allegedly free to valorize itself autonomously and creatively without disciplinary constraints. Yet, living labor, captured by the platforms, 696 The South Atlantic Quarterly October 2021 does not always coincide...

... on the streets by working, begging, or stealing, and why they label the whole range of such activities as “work.” In examining the various kinds of labor the children engage in as they try to make a living in Rio’s destructured, largely informal economy, I use “child street labor” to refer to these varied forms...

... because they are unable to afford even a small apartment in the industrial town. Many married workers live apart from their spouses. Only a few can share a place Pun and Chan • Spatial Politics of Labor  185 outside of the dormitories. In this context, capital...

... intellect does not coin- cide with fixed capital, but manifests itself principally as a linguistic reit- eration of living labor.” This statement encapsulates a central motif of the autonomist interpretation of Marx’s “Fragment on Machines.” Part of the Grundrisse, the “Fragment” is the key text...

... is increasingly educated and gives voice to a range of desires and perspectives about the Chinese state, its relationship to global capital, and the ways of life, living, and labor for workers in the electronics industry. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Apple . n.d. Apple Supplier Code...

... on the area of knowledge engaging with the lived realities of creative workers and the forms of subjectivation occurring in forms of labor, we bring together existing accounts addressing the politics of cultural work and the findings of our “Metropolitan Factory” research project. The research project, based...

... Horton-Stallings in that I am not arguing to widen the umbrella of sex worker so far as to include research- ers, writers, academics, and others who engage with sex and the sex indus- tries on the page but not with the labor of their bodies. The distinction of lived experience with commercial...

... the history of the social movements of Italy, in which migration is situated within the history of labor, capitalism, and modern forms of governance, while highlighting the formerly unchecked capability of living labor to resist and to escape from the conditions of (re)pro- duction (cf. Mezzadra...

...Ho-fung Hung This essay outlines the three stages of Chinese capitalist development in the 1980s through the 2000s and discusses how labor politics played out differently in each of the three stages and helped shape the next stage. Whence the erosion of living standards of urban workers amid out...

... successful, social engineers with an eye focused on white economic dependence on black labor. The “urban labor preference” prioritized the employment of urban Africans living in upgraded “model townships,” in which work continued to be synonymous with moral respectability, personal responsibility...

... sectors. It shows how reproductive labor weighs on the lives of platform workers, determining their tactics, strategies, and working patterns. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 reproduction platforms ride hailing food delivery...

... of affective labor to their work. In so doing, interlocutors reap the benefits of deploying embodied knowledge—the harnessing and transformation of insight derived from lived experiences of racial, gender, and sexual subjection into useful strategies, tactics, and tools—to secure material and human resources...

... care if others ate or went hungry. Here, through compañerismo and collective labor, I experienced a different form of living, one that isn't selfish. Now, my aspiration is to have a community” (CGRs of La Polvorilla, interview). The lived experience of relation, of facing the world together...

... of insubordination by living labor produce resistance that depletes the desire of logistics for “smooth space,” forcing it rather to draw new borders in order to prevent the current from causing a tidal wave. Starting from this contradictory dynamic, we insist on intertwining land and sea as a metaphor...

... experience of the politicization of millions of anybodies or whatever people [ personas cualesquiera ]. That does not mean that the social or labor composition (and within it, what we might call the technical composition) did not matter or was irrelevant for minimally understanding 15M. Indeed, in this essay...

... in autonomist Marxist debates on communicative labor, recent interdisciplinary work on Anthropocene ecologies, and writing on the violences of ongoing colonialism, the essay shows how silence in its diverse forms can be used to expand what commons might mean and what they might come to do in the present era...