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America's new working class : race, gender, and ethnicity in a biopolitical age /

Today's political controversy over immigration highlights the plight of the working class in this country as perhaps no other issue has recently done. The political status of immigrants exposes the power dynamics of the "new working class," which includes the former labor aristocracy,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arnold, Kathleen R., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Today's political controversy over immigration highlights the plight of the working class in this country as perhaps no other issue has recently done. The political status of immigrants exposes the power dynamics of the "new working class," which includes the former labor aristocracy, women, and people of color. This new working class suffers exploitation in many ways in this and other advanced industrial countries as the social cost of capitalism's success in a neoliberal and globalized political economy. Paradoxically, as borders become more open, they are also increasingly fortified, subjecting many workers to the suspension of law. It is Kathleen Arnold's purpose in this book to analyze the role of the state's "prerogative power" in creating and sustaining this condition of severe inequality for the most marginalized sectors of our population in the United States.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780271048994
0271048999
9780271073569
027107356X