Making Workers
Title | Making Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Katharyne Mitchell |
Publisher | Radical Geography |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Capitalism and education |
ISBN | 9780745399850 |
As globalisation transforms the organisation of society, so too is its impact felt in the classroom. Katharyne Mitchell argues that schools are spaces in which neoliberal practices are brought to bear on the lives of children. Education's narratives, actors and institutions play a pivotal role in the social and political formation of youth as workers in a capitalist economy.Mitchell looks at the formation of student identity and allegiance -as well as spaces of resistance. She investigates the transition to educational narratives emphasising flexibility and strategic global entrepreneurialism and examines the role of education in a broader political project of producing new generations of economically insecure but compliant workers.Scrutinising the impact of an influx of new actors, practices and policies, Mitchell argues that public education is the latest institution to embrace the neoliberal logic of 'choice' - pertaining to schools, faculty, and curricula - that, if unchallenged, will lead to further incursions of the market and increased socioeconomic inequality.
Making a New Deal
Title | Making a New Deal PDF eBook |
Author | Lizabeth Cohen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 569 |
Release | 2014-11-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107431794 |
Examines how ordinary factory workers became unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s.
Workers on Arrival
Title | Workers on Arrival PDF eBook |
Author | Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2021-01-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520377516 |
"An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American working class."—The Nation From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing, and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” as “takers” rather than “givers,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” In his engrossing history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr., refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class’s vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, Trotter traces the complicated journey of black workers from the transatlantic slave trade to the demise of the industrial order in the twenty-first century. At the center of this compelling, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women. A dynamic and vital history of remarkable contributions despite repeated setbacks, Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America’s economic and industrial growth, its cities, ideas, and institutions, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today.
Making the World Safe for Workers
Title | Making the World Safe for Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth McKillen |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2013-10-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0252095138 |
In this intellectually ambitious study, Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the influence of American labor in both shaping and undermining the foreign policies and war mobilization efforts of Woodrow Wilson's administration. McKillen highlights the major fault lines and conflicts that emerged within labor circles as Wilson pursued his agenda in the context of Mexican and European revolutions, World War I, and the Versailles Peace Conference. As McKillen shows, the choice to collaborate with or resist U.S. foreign policy remained an important one for labor throughout the twentieth century. In fact, it continues to resonate today in debates over the global economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impact of U.S. policies on workers at home and abroad.
Making Work Visible
Title | Making Work Visible PDF eBook |
Author | Dominica DeGrandis |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781942788157 |
Information Technology time management expert Dominica DeGrandis, the reveals the real crime of the century--time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations. The solution to preventing these value stream delays? Make the work visible. In this timely book (title not final), solutions and preventative measures are illustrated and methodologies outlined for immediate application into daily work.
Genders in Production
Title | Genders in Production PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Salzinger |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2003-04-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780520929302 |
In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that transnational production is a gendered process. The research grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides an important new perspective on globalization.
Making a Living
Title | Making a Living PDF eBook |
Author | Chad Montrie |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2009-01-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807877646 |
In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile "mill girls" in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading women in the Kansas and Nebraska grasslands, native-born coal miners in southern Appalachia, autoworkers in Detroit, and Mexican and Mexican American farm workers in southern California. Montrie shows how increasingly organized and mechanized production drove a wedge between workers and nature--and how workers fought back. Workers' resistance not only addressed wages and conditions, he argues, but also planted the seeds of environmental reform and environmental justice activism. Workers played a critical role in raising popular consciousness, pioneering strategies for enacting environmental regulatory policy, and initiating militant local protest. Filled with poignant and illuminating vignettes, Making a Living provides new insights into the intersection of the labor movement and environmentalism in America.