... worker has been rhetorically deployed to trouble the boundaries between productive, unproductive, and reproductive work. More recently, the prostitute imaginary has shaped accounts of contemporary service work: in particular, the figure of the sex worker has been used to metaphorize the intimate affects...

...Enoch Walter Sikes, Ph.D. Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 The Work of the Smithsonian Institution By Enoch Walter Sikes, Ph. D. Mr. Carnegie s munificent bequest of ten million dollars for the founding of a National University at Washington has directed attention to Washington...

...Enoch Walter Sikes, Ph.D. Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 The Work of the Smithsonian Institution By Enoch Walter Sikes, Ph. D. Mr. Carnegie s munificent bequest of ten million dollars for the founding of a National University at Washington has directed attention to Washington...

...Matthew Engelke Studies on religion in philosophy and the human sciences have been focusing increasingly on the relationship between religion and media. In much of this work, a key concern has been to understand what constitutes mediation and, concomitantly, the lure of immediacy that drives some...

...Michael Naas Jacques Derrida died more than five years ago now, but his work keeps on coming out and, in the case of his work on photography, keeps on developing . While three important works on photography were published in English during Derrida's lifetime (“The Deaths of Roland Barthes” [1981...

... invites us to consider how movements against educational privatization might be remolded to the extent that we adequately value—rather than disavow—the work of care that sustains our opposition to the spaces and times of neoliberalism. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S T the D A Y...

...Ian Duncan 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Ian Duncan Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic Scotland The Private Memoirs and Confessions...

.... The South Atlantic Quarterly 111:4, Fall 2012 doi 10.1215/00382876-1724111 © 2012 Duke University Press Lisa Adkins Out of Work or Out of Time? Rethinking Labor after the Financial Crisis Introduction The recent global financial crisis and subsequent recession sparked, among other things, a call for all...

...Kalindi Vora Affective and biological labor such as that found in call center and surrogacy work are indices of new forms of exploitation and accumulation within neoliberal globalization, but they also rearticulate a longer historical colonial division of labor. In this essay, feminist materialist...

.../00382876-1724165 © 2012 Duke University Press Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore Politicizing Contingent Work: Countering Neoliberal Labor Market Regulation . . . from the Bottom Up? Introduction: Growing Unequal Economic growth is not what it used to be especially for workers employed at the bottom of the labor...

... and uncertainty for journalists, intersecting with neoliberal enterprise culture and the spread of digital technologies to promote an ideology that masks the precarious nature of contemporary media work. The article considers the work of freelance journalists in historical context and argues that the discourse...

...Franco Barchiesi In twentieth-century South African history, from the consolidation of a racially hierarchical social order to the country's transition to democracy, ideologies and policies linking work to welfare have defined the precarious predicament of blackness in highly specific ways...

...W. H. Scheifley Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Paul Hervieu and His Work W. II. St'HEIFbEY Indiana University The death of Paul Hervieu in October, 1915, was a great loss to French letters. Ever since 1890, the year in which "Flirt revealed his talent, the whole literary world...

...John D. Hammond Copyright © 1915 by Duke University Press 1915 The Work of the General Education Board in the South Mks. John D. Hammond The existence of the General Education Board has long been a matter of common knowledge as well as the fact of its frequent and generous contributions...

...William Ivey Cranford, Ph. D. Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 Herbert Spencer and His Work By William Ivey Cranford, Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy in Trinity College On December 8, 1903, Herbert Spencer, the last of the great thinkers of the Victorian age died at his home...

...Henry E. Harman, Litt. D. Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 Volume XV OCTOBER, 1916 Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly John Charles McNeill and His Work Henry E. Harman, Litt. D. Author of "A Bar of Song , Dreams of Yesterday , etc. The thought of old, dear things...

...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...

...Heather Berg Heather Berg Reading Sex Work: An Introduction it s true, sometimes I have to get extremely drunk but it isn t like poor me, in a strapless sequin dress it s just these people are all too stupid to have all this money Rachel Rabbit White, Porn Carnival (2019) Sex work is tedious...

...Svati P. Shah In the wake of the twinned specters of authoritarianism and antidemocratic governance that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in India have both exacerbated and facilitated, the author argues that scholarship on sex work deployed through a critique of labor will be pressed to rethink its...

...femi babylon; Heather Berg In this interview, femi babylon elaborates a proheaux womanist theory of erotic labor as at once work and antiwork. “Sex work is work” speaks to the realities of erotic labor as a survival strategy and illuminates the connections among erotic labor and other forms of gig...