thousands throughout the July Monarchy. 3 Military violence in Algeria was an ongoing backdrop to episodic rebellions in France’s slave colonies in the Caribbean, and to frequent and often widespread worker unrest in French cities in the 1830s and 40s
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Selective Empathy
Workers, Colonial Subjects, and the Affective Politics of French Romantic Socialism
Naomi J. Andrews
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Sandbags, Strikes, and Scandals
Public Disorder and Problematic Policing in Occupied Roubaix during World War I
James E. Connolly
In late April 1915, female workers of the Selliez clothing factory in the French town of Roubaix were insulted for numerous consecutive days by local residents who, a French police report noted, “had built themselves up into an angry state.” 1 The
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 9–28 (20 total)
Alex Lichtenstein
Workers’ control in the enterprise is a necessary condition for freedom but it is not a sufficient condition ( Turner 2015 [1972]: 64 ). Detained, interrogated and tortured by the South African security police in early 1982, trade union
Being a Community Health Worker Means Advocating
Participation, Perceptions, and Challenges in Advocacy
Ryan I. Logan
Advocacy is perhaps the most unique component of the community health worker (CHW) model. The American Public Health Association (APHA 2018) defines a CHW as ‘a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of and/or has an unusually
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 9–18 (10 total)
Mark E. Spicka
On 23 November 1973, the Federal Republic of Germany ( frg ) halted the recruitment of guest workers, stopping a flow of people that had begun in the mid-1950s. Many observers did not recognize the significance of the recruitment stop
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2023
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- Research Article
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- 64–85 (22 total)
Migrant Care Workers in Israel
Between Family, Market, and State
Hila Shamir
In the early 1990s, Israel opened its gates to migrant guest workers who were invited to work, on a temporary basis, in the agriculture, construction, and in-home care sectors. The in-home care sector developed quickly during those years due to the introduction of migrant workers coupled with the creation of a new welfare state benefit: a longterm care benefit that subsidized the employment of in-home care workers to assist dependent elderly and disabled Israelis. This article examines the legal and public policy ramifications of the transformation of Israeli families caused by the influx of migrant care workers into Israeli homes. Exploring the relationship between welfare, immigration, and employment laws, on the one hand, and marketized and non-marketized care relationships, on the other, it reveals the intimate links between public policy, 'private' families, and defamilialization processes.
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2013
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- Research Article
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- 192–209 (18 total)
Worker Reactions to Crisis
Explaining 'Bossnappings'
Nick Parsons
In France in 2009-10, several managers announcing redundancies were held hostage by workers. Although the global economic crisis and an attendant rise in unemployment may provide a catalyst for "bossnappings," the real explanations for the phenomenon have to be found partly in the institutional make up of French industrial relations that have resulted in weak, divided unions and weak and conflictual collective bargaining mechanisms. However, such institutional factors cannot provide the whole explanation. Ideas also matter, and these underlying structural weaknesses have been unable to contain radical outbursts of anger when allied to pre-existing concerns over globalization—which appeared to be vindicated by the current economic crisis—, the reactions of the government to crisis, and the incapacity of unions or the state to respond to it.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2012
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- Research Article
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- 111–130 (20 total)
Bonnie White
Following the armistice of 11 November 1918, questions arose in government about what should be done with the woman worker as the men prepared to return from the theaters of war. Women’s contributions to the war effort were widely recognized, but in
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 97–114 (18 total)
Constructing the Socialist Worker
Gender, Identity and Work under State Socialism in Braşov, Romania
Jill Massino
Utilising socialist legislation, propaganda and oral history interviews, this article analyses how women’s identities and roles – as well as gender relations – were reformulated as a result of women’s participation in paid labour in socialist Romania. Although some women regarded work as burdensome and unsatisfying, others found it intellectually fulfilling, personally rewarding and, in certain respects, empowering. For example, work improved women’s economic position and offered them an array of social services, which, although inadequate in a number of ways, were welcomed by many women. Moreover, work increased women’s physical and social mobility, which in turn provided them with greater freedom in directing their own lives and in choosing a partner. Finally, the experience of being harassed by male co-workers and of combining work outside the home with domestic responsibilities motivated some women to rethink their status both within the workplace and the family, and to renegotiate their relationships with male colleagues and partners. Although women never achieved full equality in socialist Romania, by creating the conditions for women’s full-time engagement in the workforce, state socialism decisively shaped the course of women’s lives, their self-identities and their conceptions of gender roles, often in positive ways.
Classifying the “ideal migrant worker”
Mexican and Jamaican transnational farmworkers in Canada
Janet McLaughlin
This article analyzes the ideology and practice of multi-unit competition that pervades neoliberal subjectivities and produces the “ideal” flexible worker within contemporary global capitalism. It demonstrates how state and capitalist interests converge to influence the selection of the ideal transnational migrant worker, how prospective migrants adapt to these expectations, and the consequences of such enactments, particularly for migrants, but also for the societies in which they live and work. Multiple levels of actors—employers, state bureaucrats, and migrants themselves—collude in producing the flexible, subaltern citizen, which includes constructions and relations of class, race, gender, and nationality/citizenship. The case study focuses on Mexican and Jamaican participants in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a managed migration program that legally employs circular migrant farmworkers from Mexico and several English-speaking Caribbean countries in Canadian agriculture.