Left Side of the Story: Labour, Welfare, and Workplace
By Cultural Shifts and Berrak Kabasakal — April 10th, 2008
The fourth panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
Posts Tagged ‘labour’
From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship
By Mary Rita Holland — April 10th, 2008
What were formerly considered ‘entitlements’ of highly vulnerable citizens are increasingly viewed as charity
Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’
By Matthew Nelson — April 10th, 2008
Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’: Labour’s Contradictory Role in the Upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
As Vancouver prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2010, the bid process has dominated urban discourse with its aim to transform Vancouver into a ‘world-class,’ competitive global-city. This …
Gazing Back Into the Closet: Theorizing about Queer Women in the Workplace
By Lesley Vaage — April 10th, 2008
How frustrating it is to step out of that suffocating Closet only to find yourself in a hall of two-way mirrors—undoubtedly, a common experience for queer women who “come out” in the workplace. This paper will attempt to tease out some of the regulatory forces …
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 …
Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
By Michael Lithgow — April 1st, 2008
The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of …
Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man
By Elizabeth Record — March 18th, 2008
Looking at the changing interactions between the organic and inanimate constructions of capitalism.
Skipping Over the Bourgeoisie Moment of Expropriation
By Armagan Teke — February 17th, 2008
Primitive accumulation - a concept Marx previously used for addressing the initial inhumane stage of capitalism at which both the expropriation of the producers from the means of production and transformation of them into wage-labourers took place - has long been an absent reference point …
Why Study Marx?
By Archie Techne — December 29th, 2007
From the ruins of the Berlin Wall and the decline of the Soviet empire emerged declarations about the end of Marxism and the triumph of Western capitalist democracy. And yet, these misguided assertions failed to address two key points - that Soviet-style top-down communism was …
Hate Work and Renegade Tribes
By Peru — November 28th, 2007
Hate Work (Left)
Man’s tragic flaw has led this beautiful planet towards self destruction (initially he was not supposed to reach the dollar but age stretched the rubber band and i dont have the heart to take it away from him now, …
