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Precarious Power

Susan Booysen
Precarious Power Book PDF

Author : Susan Booysen
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776146451

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An incisive analysis of South Africa's ANC power-as party, as government, as state South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) is in decline, its hegemony has been weakened, its legitimacy diluted. President Cyril Ramaphosa's appointment suspended the ANC's electoral decline, it also heightened internal tensions between those who would deepen its acquired status as corrupt and captured, and those who would remodel it as redeemable. These are the incontrovertible knowns of South African politics; what will evolve from this is less certain. In Precarious Power, renowned political scientist Susan Booysen uses in-depth research and analysis to distill that which is bound to shape South Africa's political future, Booysen focuses on contradictory party politics and internal ANC dissent that is veiled for the sake of retaining an electoral following. Also exposed is the incongruous, populist policymaking, protest politics and the use of soft law to ensure it does not alienate angry citizens, fueling further discontent and protest. The ANC's power has become exceedingly precarious. Precarious Power is the name of the political game, for the foreseeable future. The comprehensive analysis in Precarious Power will appeal not only to political scientists and postgraduate students, but to all who take a keen interest in current affairs.

Precarious Life

Judith Butler
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Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839763038

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In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

Precarious Power

Susan Booysen
Precarious Power Book PDF

Author : Susan Booysen
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776146499

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Precarious Power by Susan Booysen Pdf

An incisive analysis of South Africa's ANC power-as party, as government, as state South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) is in decline, its hegemony has been weakened, its legitimacy diluted. President Cyril Ramaphosa's appointment suspended the ANC's electoral decline, it also heightened internal tensions between those who would deepen its acquired status as corrupt and captured, and those who would remodel it as redeemable. These are the incontrovertible knowns of South African politics; what will evolve from this is less certain. In Precarious Power, renowned political scientist Susan Booysen uses in-depth research and analysis to distill that which is bound to shape South Africa's political future, Booysen focuses on contradictory party politics and internal ANC dissent that is veiled for the sake of retaining an electoral following. Also exposed is the incongruous, populist policymaking, protest politics and the use of soft law to ensure it does not alienate angry citizens, fueling further discontent and protest. The ANC's power has become exceedingly precarious. Precarious Power is the name of the political game, for the foreseeable future. The comprehensive analysis in Precarious Power will appeal not only to political scientists and postgraduate students, but to all who take a keen interest in current affairs.

Youth Power in Precarious Times

Melissa Brough
Youth Power in Precarious Times Book PDF

Author : Melissa Brough
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478009085

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Youth Power in Precarious Times by Melissa Brough Pdf

Does youth participation hold the potential to change entrenched systems of power and to reshape civic life? In Youth Power in Precarious Times Melissa Brough examines how the city of Medellín, Colombia, offers a model of civic transformation forged in the wake of violence and repression. She responds to a pressing contradiction in the world at large, where youth political participation has become a means of commodifying digital culture amid the ongoing disenfranchisement of youth globally. Brough focuses on how young people's civic participation online and in the streets in Medellín was central to the city's transformation from having the world's highest homicide rates in the early 1990s to being known for its urban renaissance by the 2010s. Seeking to distinguish commercialized digital interactions from genuine political participation, Brough uses Medellín's experiences with youth participation—ranging from digital citizenship initiatives to the voices of community media to the beats of hip-hop culture—to show how young people can be at the forefront of fostering ecologies of artistic and grassroots engagement in order to reshape civic life.

The Preacher's Wife

Kate Bowler
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Author : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691209197

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Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket

Strong Governments, Precarious Workers

Philip Rathgeb
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Author : Philip Rathgeb
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501730597

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Strong Governments, Precarious Workers by Philip Rathgeb Pdf

Why do some European welfare states protect unemployed and inadequately employed workers ("outsiders") from economic uncertainty better than others? Philip Rathgeb’s study of labor market policy change in three somewhat-similar small states—Austria, Denmark, and Sweden—explores this fundamental question. He does so by examining the distribution of power between trade unions and political parties, attempting to bridge these two lines of research—trade unions and party politics—that, with few exceptions, have advanced without a mutual exchange. Inclusive trade unions have high political stakes in the protection of outsiders, because they incorporate workers at risk of unemployment into their representational outlook. Yet, the impact of union preferences has declined over time, with a shift in the balance of class power from labor to capital across the Western world. National governments have accordingly prioritized flexibility for employers over the social protection of outsiders. As a result, organized labor can only protect outsiders when governments are reliant on union consent for successful consensus mobilization. When governments have a united majority of seats, on the other hand, they are strong enough to exclude unions. Strong Governments, Precarious Workers calls into question the electoral responsiveness of national governments—and thus political parties—to the social needs of an increasingly numerous group of precarious workers. In the end, Rathgeb concludes that the weaker the government, the stronger the capacity of organized labor to enhance the social protection of precarious workers.

Precarious Claims

Shannon Gleeson
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Author : Shannon Gleeson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520963603

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Precarious Claims tells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global economy has fueled vast concentrations of wealth that have driven a demand for cheap and flexible labor. Workplace violations such as wage theft, unsafe work environments, and discrimination are widespread in low-wage industries such as retail, restaurants, hospitality, and domestic work, where jobs are often held by immigrants and other vulnerable workers. How and why do these workers, despite enormous barriers, come forward to seek justice, and what happens once they do? Based on extensive fieldwork in Northern California, Gleeson investigates the array of gatekeepers with whom workers must negotiate in the labor standards enforcement bureaucracy and, ultimately, the limited reach of formal legal protections. The author also tracks how workplace injustices—and the arduous process of contesting them—carry long-term effects on their everyday lives. Workers sometimes win, but their chances are precarious at best.

Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics

Audrey Evrard
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Author : Audrey Evrard
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786838427

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Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics by Audrey Evrard Pdf

Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics examines filmmakers return to work by the late 1990s, focusing on how they positioned the practice as a privileged point of articulation between aesthetics, politics and ethics, where work, precarity and activism could be addressed anew.

Precarious Prescriptions

Laurie B. Green,John Mckiernan-González,Martin Summers
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Author : Laurie B. Green,John Mckiernan-González,Martin Summers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452941639

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Precarious Prescriptions by Laurie B. Green,John Mckiernan-González,Martin Summers Pdf

In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have played throughout the past in defining the ideal citizen. By creating an intricate portrait of the close associations of race, medicine, and public health, Precarious Prescriptions helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America. Contributors: Jason E. Glenn, U of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Mark Allan Goldberg, U of Houston; Jean J. Kim; Gretchen Long, Williams College; Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, Cornell U; Lena McQuade-Salzfass, Sonoma State U; Natalia Molina, U of California, San Diego; Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College; Jennifer Seltz, Western Washington U.

Reconstructing Solidarity

Virginia Lee Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano
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Author : Virginia Lee Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198791843

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Reconstructing Solidarity by Virginia Lee Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano Pdf

"Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organizational tactics.00Where unions can limit employers' ability to 'exit' labour market institutions and collective agreements and build solidarity across different groups of workers, this results in a virtuous circle, establishing union control over the labour market. Where they fail to do so, it sets in motion a vicious circle of expanding precarity based on institutional evasion by employers. Exploring the struggle of the unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, Reconstructing Solidarity explains the importance of how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity. It uses a diverse range of comparative case studies to describe the struggles of workers and unions in industries such as local government, music, metalworking, chemicals, meat-packing, and logistics, to argue against the thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders."--Back cover.

Japan

Frank Baldwin,Anne Allison
Japan Book PDF

Author : Frank Baldwin,Anne Allison
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479889389

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"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."

Precarious Work

Arne L. Kalleberg,Steven P. Vallas
Precarious Work Book PDF

Author : Arne L. Kalleberg,Steven P. Vallas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787432888

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Precarious Work by Arne L. Kalleberg,Steven P. Vallas Pdf

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.

Technoprecarious

Precarity Lab
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Author : Precarity Lab
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912685721

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An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity. Technoprecarious advances a new analytic for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate geographical sites and cultural practices in the digital age. Digital technologies--whether apps like Uber built on flexible labor or platforms like Airbnb that shift accountability to users--have assisted in consolidating the wealth and influence of a small number of players. These platforms have also furthered increasingly insecure conditions of work and life for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, women, indigenous people, migrants, and peoples in the global south. At the same time, precarity has become increasingly generalized, expanding to include even the creative class and digital producers themselves.

A Precarious Game

Ergin Bulut
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Author : Ergin Bulut
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501746543

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A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South. A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives. Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.

State of Insecurity

Isabell Lorey
State of Insecurity Book PDF

Author : Isabell Lorey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781685952

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State of Insecurity by Isabell Lorey Pdf

Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control. In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.