Dead Labor
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Dead Labor
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Author : James Tyner
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2019-03-12
Dead Labor written by James Tyner and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-12 with Political Science categories.
A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century From a 2013 Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed fifteen people and injured 252 to a 2017 chemical disaster in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we are confronted all too often with industrial accidents that reflect the underlying attitude of corporations toward the lives of laborers and others who live and work in their companies’ shadows. Dead Labor takes seriously the myriad ways in which bodies are commodified and profits derived from premature death. In doing so it provides a unique perspective on our understanding how life and death drive the twenty-first-century global economy. James Tyner tracks a history from the 1600s through which premature death and mortality became something calculable, predictable, manageable, and even profitable. Drawing on a range of examples, including the criminalization of migrant labor, medical tourism, life insurance, and health care, he explores how today we can no longer presume that all bodies undergo the same processes of life, death, fertility, and mortality. He goes on to develop the concept of shared mortality among vulnerable populations and examines forms of capital exploitation that have emerged around death and the reproduction of labor. Positioned at the intersection of two fields—the political economy of labor and the philosophy of mortality—Dead Labor builds on Marx’s notion that death (and truncated life) is a constant factor in the processes of labor. Considering premature death also as a biopolitical and bioeconomic concept, Tyner shows how racialized and gendered bodies are exposed to it in unbalanced ways within capitalism, and how bodies are then commodified, made surplus and redundant, and even disassembled in order to accumulate capital.
Labor Of Fire
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Author : Bruno Gullì
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2005
Labor Of Fire written by Bruno Gullì and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
Can work exist outside of capitalism?
Histories Of Racial Capitalism
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Author : Justin Leroy
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
Histories Of Racial Capitalism written by Justin Leroy and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Political Science categories.
The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism—since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ideological senses, has been racial, deriving social and economic value from racial classification and stratification. Although Cedric J. Robinson popularized the term, racial capitalism has remained undertheorized for nearly four decades. Histories of Racial Capitalism brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept across historical settings. These scholars offer dynamic accounts of the relationship between social relations of exploitation and the racial terms through which they were organized, justified, and contested. Deploying an eclectic array of methods, their works range from indigenous mortgage foreclosures to the legacies of Atlantic-world maroons, from imperial expansion in the continental United States and beyond to the racial politics of municipal debt in the New South, from the ethical complexities of Latinx banking to the postcolonial dilemmas of extraction in the Caribbean. Throughout, the contributors consider and challenge how some claims about the history and nature of capitalism are universalized while others remain marginalized. By theorizing and testing the concept of racial capitalism in different historical circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today’s scholars and activists.
Living Thinkwork
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Author : Mike Hales
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Living Thinkwork written by Mike Hales and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Labor categories.
Dreams For Dead Bodies
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Author : Michelle Robinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2016-02-02
Dreams For Dead Bodies written by Michelle Robinson and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
A Treatise Of Social Labor
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Author : Lawrence Krader
language : en
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Release Date : 1979
A Treatise Of Social Labor written by Lawrence Krader and has been published by Humanities Press International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Business & Economics categories.
Wake Up Dead Man
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Author : Bruce Jackson
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1999
Wake Up Dead Man written by Bruce Jackson and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Music categories.
Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.
Dead Man Working
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Author : Carl Cederström
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2012
Dead Man Working written by Carl Cederström and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Philosophy categories.
Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence – a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term – where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what does the worker tell us today? "I feel drained, empty… dead." This book tells the story of the dead man working. It follows this figure through the daily tedium of the office, to the humiliating mandatory team building exercise, to awkward encounters with the funky boss who pretends to hate capitalism and tells you to be authentic. In this society, the experience of work is not of dying...but neither of living. It is one of a living death. And yet, the dead man working is nevertheless compelled to wear the exterior signs of life, to throw a pretty smile, feign enthusiasm and make a half-baked joke. When the corporation has colonized life itself, even our dreams, the question of escape becomes ever more pressing, ever more desperate…
Capital Is Dead
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Author : McKenzie Wark
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-02-09
Capital Is Dead written by McKenzie Wark and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Philosophy categories.
It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism - what if it's something worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital as traditionally understood as well. And it’s not just tech companies like Amazon and Google. Even Walmart and Nike can now dominate the entire production chain through the ownership of not much more than brands, patents, copyrights, and logistical systems. While techno-utopian apologists still celebrate these innovations as an improvement on capitalism, for workers—and the planet—it’s worse. The new ruling class uses the powers of information to route around any obstacle labor and social movements put up. So how do we find a way out? Capital Is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyze this new world, but ways to change it. Drawing on the writings of a surprising range of classic and contemporary theorists, Wark offers an illuminating overview of the contemporary condition and the emerging class forces that control—and contest—it.
Living Labor
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Author : Joseph B. Entin
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2023-02-13
Living Labor written by Joseph B. Entin and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and workers are emerging to refashion this image. Living Labor examines these narratives and, in the process, offers an innovative reading of American fiction and film through the lens of precarious work. It argues that since the 1980s, novelists and filmmakers—including Russell Banks, Helena Víramontes, Karen Tei Yamashita, Francisco Goldman, David Riker, Ramin Bahrani, Clint Eastwood, Courtney Hunt, and Ryan Coogler—have chronicled the demise of the industrial proletariat, and the tentative and unfinished emergence of a new, much more diverse and perilously positioned working class. In bringing together stories of work that are also stories of race, ethnicity, gender, and colonialism, Living Labor challenges the often-assumed division between class and identity politics. Through the concept of living labor and its discussion of solidarity, the book reframes traditional notions of class, helping us understand both the challenges working people face and the possibilities for collective consciousness and action in the global present. Cover attribution: Allan Sekula, Shipwreck and worker, Istanbul, from TITANIC’s wake, 1998/2000. Courtesy of the Allan Sekula Studio.