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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Arnold, Kathleen R., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Working class > United States.
Unskilled labor > United States.
Working poor > United States.
Political culture > United States.
Social conflict > United States.
Globalization > Economic aspects > United States.
Travailleurs pauvres > États-Unis.
Mondialisation > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
Globalization > Economic aspects
Political culture
Social conflict
Unskilled labor
Working class
Working poor
Arbeiterklasse
Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
Globalisierung
Kapitalismus
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Globalization, prerogative power, and the new working class
  • Asceticism, biopower, and the poor
  • Domestic war: Locke's concept of prerogative
  • Exploitation and the new working class
  • Antagonism and exploitation: the importance of biopower
  • War and "love."

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