Labor Laid Waste: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Waste Work
| Autor: | Jacob Doherty, Katherine A. Brown |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Labor history
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management History 060101 anthropology Natural resource economics 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts Human capital Work (electrical) Material quality Value (economics) 0601 history and archaeology Business Social science research 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Doherty, J & Brown, K 2019, ' Labor laid waste : An introduction to the Special Issue on Waste Work ', International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 95 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547919000048 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6445 0147-5479 |
| Popis: | Waste studies brings to labor history a suite of conceptual tools to think about precarious labor, human capital, migration, the material quality of labor in urban and rural infrastructures, and the porosity and interchangeability of workers’ bodies in the toxic environments in which they labor. In this introduction, we explore the conceptual insights that the study of waste offers for the field of labor history, and what, in turn, a focus on labor history affords to social science research on waste. We examine the relationship between surplus populations and surplus materials, the location of waste work at the ambiguous fulcrum of trash and value, and the significance of labor for the understanding of infrastructure. |
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