...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...

... Press . Woolard Caroline . 2013 . “Dear Potential Trade School Organizers.” Socialtextjournal.org , October 14 . socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/trade-school/ . Leigh Claire La Berge Wages against Artwork: The Social Practice of Decommodification...

...Roland Hugins Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 The Effect of Scientific Management on Wages Roland Hugins Fellow in Economics in Cornell University Scientific management, like a handsome man, makes a good impression on first acquaintance. To the person who stands outside...

...Frank T. de Vyver Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Concept of Wages in Australia Frank T. de Vyver Hidden away in decisions of arbitration courts, commissions, and panels are concepts of fair and proper wages. Orders of the Australian Commonwealth Arbitration Commission reveal...

... of welfare for all. Anne-Maria Makhulu A Brief History of the Social Wage: Welfare before and after Racial Fordism ​Previously, a majority of South Africans were denied welfare in the sense of state provided public or social...

...Susan Levine Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States . By Kessler-Harris Alice . New York : Oxford University Press , 1982 . Pp. xiv , 400 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Book Reviews 475 narrowly based, than...

... demanded by service work. Rather than use service work to think about the exploitation and coercion that shapes all wage labor under capital, however, such accounts tend to treat service work and sex work as uniquely abject. As a result, they do not attend to the systemic and structural features common...

... the order for which such war is waged. This essay considers Judith Butler's claim that the wars waged by the United States produce a subject that conceives not only his or her own violence as righteous but his or her own destructibility as unthinkable. The U.S. desire for a condition of radical...

...Domenico Perrotta This article analyzes migrant agricultural labor in southern Italy, focusing on migrants from Burkina Faso and Romania laboring in the regions of Puglia and Basilicata. The argument underlines the connections between mobility, willingness to work for low wages, and conflict...

... market characterized by very low wages and abusive practices. The challenges of mobility within the EU are presented from an institutional perspective, focusing on its effects on migrant labor as well as on social partners in the receiving countries. The claim is that, in the context of increased labor...

... of the temporal order of things. Every politics of security, in the name of which war is waged, is thus also a political eschatology. Modern politics of security are distinguished by the fact that the temporal horizon within which they take place is that of the factical finitude of modern times. Its security...

... of exploitation. Mainstream macroeconomics represents the watershed changes in world capitalism in the 1970s as due to technical improvements in economic theory and policy, thereby obscuring the underlying political economy of those changes. Globalized financial capitalism eliminated upward wage pressures...

... 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...

... a critique of oikonomia (the law of the household). Focusing on the history of debates around insurance, the family wage and slavery, the actuarial and inoculation, I underline Locke’s reworkings of Aristotle, Pascal, and the Thomist transformation of contingency into necessity through the delineation...

... of readers was motivated by the ascent of the desegregationist campaigns in the United States and by the anticolonial struggles being waged in Africa and Asia, while Europe remained deeply divided by the barbed wire of the Cold War. It was in that European context that many young people from all kinds...

... waged by a rising urban middle class. The goal of the essays here is to challenge this view and demonstrate a different and radical perspective on the process. This introduction stresses several points important for understanding the protests: the prolonged effects of privatization and neoliberal “shock...

... nations: an apathetic and conformist people and an enlightened minority (which includes the protesters). This essay proposes that the culture war waged by the liberal opposition coexists with government propaganda in a kind of symbiosis that blocks the creation of a broader popular protest movement...

... compacts, blacks confronted ideas of wage labor and welfare as paradigmatically coincidental, to the exclusion of further expectations. Moreover, images of personal responsibility and community life attached to work ethics have shaped the imagination of African nationalist politics and its claims...

... as a source of energy and legitimation for the deregulatory, promarket reforms of neoliberal capitalism, with its valorization of market mechanisms (such as wage labor and micro-credit) that have harnessed the dream of women's emancipation to the engine of capitalist accumulation. I conclude by asking how...

...Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard What is possible when empire is uncertain about its authority? This essay looks to West Indian Emancipation, a moment of crisis, for a method. As emancipated peoples of African descent became wage laborers, and set the terms of their work, the sugar industry required free...