Laboring In The Shadow Of Empire

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Laboring In The Shadow Of Empire
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Author : Celeste Vaughan Curington
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2024-09-13
Laboring In The Shadow Of Empire written by Celeste Vaughan Curington and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-13 with Business & Economics categories.
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste Vaughan Curington focuses on Portugal—a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, has shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries. Many researchers focus on informal work settings, where immigrant rights are restricted and many workers are undocumented or without permanent residence status. Curington instead examines workers who have accessed citizenship or permanent residence status and also explores African women’s experiences laboring in care and service industries in the formal market, revealing how deeply colonial and intersectional logics of a racialized and international division of reproductive labor in Portugal render these women “hyper-invisible” and “hyper-visible” as “appropriate” workers in Lisbon.
Empire S Labor
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Author : Adam D. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-15
Empire S Labor written by Adam D. Moore and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-15 with Political Science categories.
In a dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted military logistics, Adam Moore examines the lives of the global army of laborers who support US overseas wars. Empire's Labor brings us the experience of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who perform jobs such as truck drivers and administrative assistants at bases located in warzones in the Middle East and Africa. He highlights the changes the US military has undergone since the Vietnam War, when the ratio of contractors to uniformed personnel was roughly 1:6. In Afghanistan it has been as high as 4:1. This growth in logistics contracting represents a fundamental change in how the US fights wars, with the military now dependent on a huge pool of contractors recruited from around the world. It also, Moore demonstrates, has social, economic, and political implications that extend well beyond the battlefields. Focusing on workers from the Philippines and Bosnia, two major sources of "third country national" (TCN) military labor, Moore explains the rise of large-scale logistics outsourcing since the end of the Cold War; describes the networks, infrastructures, and practices that span the spaces through which people, information, and goods circulate; and reveals the experiences of foreign workers, from the hidden dynamics of labor activism on bases, to the economic and social impacts these jobs have on their families and the communities they hail from. Through his extensive fieldwork and interviews, Moore gives voice to the agency and aspirations of the many thousands of foreigners who labor for the US military. Thanks to generous funding from UCLA and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Convict Labor In The Portuguese Empire 1740 1932
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Author : Timothy J. Coates
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-11-14
Convict Labor In The Portuguese Empire 1740 1932 written by Timothy J. Coates and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with History categories.
Forced convict labor provided the Portuguese with solutions to the growing criminal population at home and the lack of infrastructure in Angola and Mozambique. In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, Timothy J. Coates examines the role of large numbers of convicts in Portuguese Africa from 1800 until 1932. This work examines the numbers, rationale, and realities of convict labor (largely) in Angola during this period, but Mozambique is a secondary area, as well as late colonial times in Brazil. This is a unique, first study of an experiment in convict labor in Africa directed by a European power; it will be welcomed by scholars of Africa and New Imperialism, as well as those interested in law and labor.
Faith Class And Labor
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Author : Jin Young Choi
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-12-16
Faith Class And Labor written by Jin Young Choi and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-16 with Religion categories.
Despite the fact that 99 percent of us work for a living and although work shapes us to the core, class and labor are topics that are underrepresented in the work of scholars of religion, theology, and the Bible. With this volume, an international group of scholars and activists from nine different countries is bringing issues of religion, class, and labor back into conversation. Historians and theologians investigate how new images of God and the world emerge, and what difference they can make. Biblical critics develop new takes on ancient texts that lead to the reversal of readings that had been seemingly stable, settled, and taken for granted. Activists and organizers identify neglected sources of power and energy returning in new force and point to transformations happening. Asking how labor and religion mutually shape each other and how the agency of working people operates in their lives, the contributors also employ intersectional approaches that engage race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism. This volume presents transdisciplinary, transtextual, transactional, transnational, and transgressive work in progress, much needed in our time.
Report Of The Committee Of The Senate Upon The Relations Between Labor And Capital And Testimony Taken By The Committee
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Report Of The Committee Of The Senate Upon The Relations Between Labor And Capital And Testimony Taken By The Committee written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Arbitration, Industrial categories.
Making The Empire Work
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Author : Daniel E. Bender
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-07-17
Making The Empire Work written by Daniel E. Bender and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-17 with Business & Economics categories.
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
Report Of The Committee Of The Senate Upon The Relations Between Labor And Capital And Testimony Taken By The Committee In Five Volumes
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee upon the Relations Between Labor and Capital
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Report Of The Committee Of The Senate Upon The Relations Between Labor And Capital And Testimony Taken By The Committee In Five Volumes written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee upon the Relations Between Labor and Capital and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with categories.
Global Labor Migration
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Author : Eileen Boris
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2022-12-27
Global Labor Migration written by Eileen Boris and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-27 with Social Science categories.
Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living and working conditions in the past, and what opportunities exist for them today? Global Labor Migration presents new multidisciplinary, transregional perspectives on issues surrounding global labor migration. The essays go beyond disciplinary boundaries, with sociologists, ethnographers, legal scholars, and historians contributing research that extends comparison among and within world regions. Looking at migrant workers from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the contributors illustrate the need for broader perspectives that study labor migration over longer timeframes and from wider geographic areas. The result is a unique, much-needed collection that delves into one of the world’s most pressing issues, generates scholarly dialogue, and proposes cutting-edge research agendas and methods. Contributors: Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales, Jenny Chan, Penelope Ciancanelli, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos, Eileen Boris, Charlie Fanning, Judy Fudge, Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Justin Jackson, Radhika Natarajan, Pun Ngai, Bastiaan Nugteren, Nicola Piper, Jessica R. Pliley, Devi Sacchetto, Helen Sampson, Yael Schacher, Joo-Cheong Tham, and Matt Withers
Wage Labor And Guilds In Medieval Europe
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Author : Steven A. Epstein
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 1991
Wage Labor And Guilds In Medieval Europe written by Steven A. Epstein and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Epstein takes a fresh look at the organization of labor in medieval towns and emphasizes the predominance of a wage system within them. He offers illuminating comment on a wide range of subjects_on guilds and guild organization, on women and Jews in the work force, on the value given labor, and on the sources of disaffection. His book presents a feast of themes in medieval social history. David Herlihy, Brown University
Nationalism And The International Labor Movement
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Author : Michael Forman
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2007-06-05
Nationalism And The International Labor Movement written by Michael Forman and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-05 with Political Science categories.
The resurgence of nationalism accompanying the decline of Communism has been taken to indicate the failure of socialist theory to grasp the nature of this phenomenon. Against both those who argue that the radical tradition has ignored and underestimated nationalism and those who accuse it of economic reductionism, this careful analysis of the idea of the nation as it was developed in the work of the major thinkers of the international labor movement reveals evidence of how seriously they grappled with nationalism. Each of the main sections of the book focuses on the most influential theorists of the international labor movement as it became organized and grew: Bakunin, Marx, and Engels and the concern of the First International (1864&–1876) with class solidarity across political borders; Lenin, Luxemburg, and Bauer and the preoccupation of the Second International (1889-1914) with socialism in ethnically plural societies; Stalin and Gramsci in relation to the substitution by the Third International (1919&–1943) of nation-building and national liberation for the old class project. In the conclusion, the author examines the relationships among ethnic and civic nationality, national self-determination, republican institutions, and the process of globalization from the perspective of the post-Soviet era and in the light of social theory and Kant's ideas about cosmopolitan right.