The fight for time : migrant day laborers and the politics of precarity /
Apostolidis, Paul, 1965-
The fight for time : migrant day laborers and the politics of precarity / Paul Apostolidis. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). - Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics Oxford scholarship online . - Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics. Oxford scholarship online. .
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this work, Paul Apostolidis asks what we can learn about social and economic precarity by considering the situation of Latin American migrant day laborers in the United States today. To do so, the author places Latino day laborers' commentaries in dialogue with critical social theory. Apostolidis sees these day laborers' circumstances both as exceptional and as synecdoches for precarious conditions that affect multitudes of workers. Through its combined approach to critical theory and field research with migrant workers, this text makes a case for a politics that is attuned to questions of time and advanced by precarious workers throughout society.
Specialized.
9780190459369 (ebook) : No price
Foreign workers--United States.
Foreign workers--Latin America.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
Latin America--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
HD8081.H7
331.5440973
The fight for time : migrant day laborers and the politics of precarity / Paul Apostolidis. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). - Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics Oxford scholarship online . - Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics. Oxford scholarship online. .
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this work, Paul Apostolidis asks what we can learn about social and economic precarity by considering the situation of Latin American migrant day laborers in the United States today. To do so, the author places Latino day laborers' commentaries in dialogue with critical social theory. Apostolidis sees these day laborers' circumstances both as exceptional and as synecdoches for precarious conditions that affect multitudes of workers. Through its combined approach to critical theory and field research with migrant workers, this text makes a case for a politics that is attuned to questions of time and advanced by precarious workers throughout society.
Specialized.
9780190459369 (ebook) : No price
Foreign workers--United States.
Foreign workers--Latin America.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
Latin America--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
HD8081.H7
331.5440973