The fight for time : migrant day laborers and the politics of precarity / Paul Apostolidis.
In this work, Paul Apostolidis asks what we can learn about social and economic precarity by considering the situation of Latin American migrant day laborers in the United States today. To do so, the author places Latino day laborers' commentaries in dialogue with critical social theory. Aposto...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | In this work, Paul Apostolidis asks what we can learn about social and economic precarity by considering the situation of Latin American migrant day laborers in the United States today. To do so, the author places Latino day laborers' commentaries in dialogue with critical social theory. Apostolidis sees these day laborers' circumstances both as exceptional and as synecdoches for precarious conditions that affect multitudes of workers. Through its combined approach to critical theory and field research with migrant workers, this text makes a case for a politics that is attuned to questions of time and advanced by precarious workers throughout society. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |