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Periodizing our Current Moment: Work-Well-Fare As a New Mode of Social Regulation

By Matthew Lymburner — April 2nd, 2008
The title of my paper contains an assortment of words relevant to current labor studies – networks, struggle, unions – but one word, or more aptly, one concept, will certainly stand out as peculiar: work-well-fare. What is this concept? What does it mean? I argue …



The Internationalization / Transnationalization of the State and its Relation to Low-Intensity Democracy: The Case of Haiti

By Ray Silvius and Neil Burron — March 22nd, 2008
Historical materialist scholarship has, from the time of Marx, reflected the manner in which economics transcends national borders. Bastian van Apeldoorn (2004: 143) encapsulates this sentiment, writing that “the world of international relations has from the start been inextricably bound up with the expanding capitalist …



Democracy and the Rule of Law: Reflections on Gerald Frug

By Matthew Lymburner — January 13th, 2008
Listening to Gerald Frug talk about the concept of rule of law in relation to cities reminded me just how manipulative elites can be. Frug, a distinguished Harvard law professor, is concerned with the deconstruction of the idea of the rule of law as it …