Knowledge Commons | Labor Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/labor-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Labor Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:37:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f8a73dc8713266e2a7df41091b0d979c Valeria Graziano deposited Training for Exploitation?: Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902280/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:49 -0400 Foreword by Silvia Federici. 'Training for Exploitation' provides a pedagogical framework to deconstruct dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy. Training for Exploitation? includes tools for critically examining the relationship between education, work and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7958581dbff5d499f679578dbf5bf4bf Valeria Graziano deposited ŽIVOTNA VJEŠTINA RAJE: INSTITUCIONALNO KRPARENJE I PUČKI ILEGALIZMI (THE RABBLE’S LIFECRAFT: INSTITUTIONAL TINKERING AND POPULAR ILLEGALISMS) in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888619/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:00:25 -0400 The essay explores "institutional tinkering," which refers to practices of disobedience and resource reappropriation that highlight the contradictions within systems or institutions. It argues that practices of institutional tinkering and popular illegalisms are critical lenses to understand power dynamics and resistance in the ongoing crisis of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d950943051276cbae334c45b77fda716 Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Die Protokolle des cisleithanischen Ministerrates 1867–1918, VIII/1: 1914–1918, Teilband 1: 1914–1916 in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882912/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:16 -0400 Am 23. Juli 1914 unterrichtete Ministerpräsident Karl Stürgkh den Ministerrat Cisleithaniens von der Übergabe des österreichisch-ungarischen Ultimatums an Serbien. Am 22. November 1916 fand in der ersten Sitzung nur die „Trauerkundgebung anlässlich des Hinscheidens Sr. Majestät Kaiser Franz Joseph I.“ statt.

Die Sitzungsprotokolle des Minis…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac269ea3eb503795b9acb90e9fa7fb02 Ilana Gershon deposited Bullshit Genres: What to Watch For When Studying the New Actant ChatGPT and Its Siblings. in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861362/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 03:00:07 -0400 I lay out what I believe ethnographers of AI who engage with large language models (LLMs) might want to pay attention to in the next couple of years.
My starting point is that it would be helpful to explore how people are responding to ChatGPT in terms of genre, that people’s reactions to ChatGPT is to treat it at its core as though it is a g…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e73c912b992a7abd667d95797a14f68 Ilana Gershon deposited Hello to Tristes Tropes in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860107/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:56 -0400 Just how bleak is the academic job market for anthropologists? Job ads over the past twenty years reveal some surprises and point to ways departments are seeking to change themselves and the discipline

]]> 0 e77e2c1edf36d365e9c71b24154686b7 Ilana Gershon deposited Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860103/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:44 -0400 Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk

]]> 0 a26974b9036e4d56345dfb5a5b0d17ab Ilana Gershon deposited Studying Humanities Teaches You How to Get a Job in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860101/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:38 -0400 Forget the tut-tutting of politicians: The skills you learn in the humanities are exactly the skills you use in a job search.

]]> 0 11a6cb4e55de5d554c2cd7c7999cf281 Ilana Gershon deposited The quitting economy in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860099/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:31 -0400 The quitting economy

]]> 0 7d19ed7aa15428a252ded6236a31a155 Ilana Gershon deposited “A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860097/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:25 -0400 “A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

]]> 0 dbd2093d457ad1f516169b86c003cfa0 Ilana Gershon deposited Plague Jobs: US Schismogenetic Approaches to Social Contracts in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856719/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:11:11 -0400 In this homage to David Graeber, I turn to Americans’ experiences working in person during the pandemic as an ethnographic lens for understanding how workers respond when implicit social contracts are violated and when ideas about the common good are being contested. Because the United States federal government and many state governments refused t…[Read more]

]]> 0 540088612a9ac6c7dd338e4ce42434b4 Ilana Gershon deposited Digital Economy and Labor in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856717/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:11:05 -0400 Digital Economy and Labor

]]> 0 9e37a2762fb7522c7d4fc5f4c0dc4c23 Ilana Gershon deposited New Media and Laborunlocked in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856714/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:10:56 -0400 In the early decades of the internet, many saw new channels of communication as potentially beneficial disruptions, analyzing largely through a utopic lens, albeit often with a technolibertarian bent. This did not last, and by the 2020s, scholars were increasingly pessimistic about how neoliberal logics structured the ways these technologies…[Read more]

]]> 0 93e0426843ef64b2ccfab73e9524c514 Ilana Gershon deposited The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021 in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856712/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:10:50 -0400 Every fall, some lucky anthropology departments get to hire. The search for a new colleague happens behind the scenes for a while before it goes public—five-year plans have been written, external reviews have been navigated, lots of conversations have occurred, and some pleading with a dean has taken place. But the first public hint that the d…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fb693b7b6a7d4438ed4d9ae5ac0f51c Ilana Gershon deposited Genres are the drive belts of the job market in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856710/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:10:44 -0400 Many job applicants spend an inordinate amount of time struggling with the task of fashioning the most appealing biography of the increasingly skillful self out of interwoven genres that can also circulate individually. These struggles are most frequently articulated as questions of how best to manage different genres’ chronotopic expectations. U…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd8f3c2bd559b6bbb1d4c5353586ecad Ilana Gershon deposited Genres in new economies of language in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856682/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:09:22 -0400 This article suggests that one of the understudied and substantive ways in which actors produce and transform social hierarchies and classifications is by aligning and misaligning genres. Alignments within and across genres have furnished methods for construing and evaluating qualities of people – as examples, the genre repertoires of job a…[Read more]

]]> 0 76686f522f9e85a98a9bfb32a682797b Ilana Gershon deposited Media as Channel in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856680/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:09:16 -0400 To understand how people navigate shifting media ecologies, linguistic anthropologists have turned to an array of analytical concepts that address how people communicate when using multiple channels: media ideologies, remediation, participant structures, heteroglossia, and entextualization. After demonstrating how these concepts are pertinent to…[Read more]

]]> 0 8596910ad4cb11e87ae5c179ec1de235 Ilana Gershon deposited Click for work: Rethinking work through online work distribution platforms in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856678/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:09:10 -0400 Online work distribution platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk or Uber alter how work tasks are chosen or assigned. Put succinctly, instead of the employer choosing the employee, the worker chooses the task. Responses to these new technological possibilities for distributing tasks are all deeply influenced by the contemporary historical moment,…[Read more]

]]> 0 82e5db214a8944dd80e210b2e203d8e2 Ilana Gershon deposited You got a hole in your belly and a phone in your hand: How US government phone subsidies shape the search for employment in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856676/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:09:04 -0400 Many of the tasks involved in looking for a job these days involve sharing and storing
digital data. Digital technology is now required for job seekers to research employers,
store resumes, complete applications, and schedule interviews. What is the employment
process for people who are living on the poverty line, without reliable access to…[Read more]

]]> 0 287376d5f4bd90551ac91aa92af052c8 Ilana Gershon deposited Introduction: genre work and the new economy in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856674/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:08:57 -0400 The special issue brings together anthropologists working at the intersection of language and economy to draw attention to the dynamics of how people’s experiences of social change are articulated through genre work in different institutional contexts. In recent years, many scholars working in cultural economy have turned to language as an a…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f74e52efbae22f6b553e3f07a8ef274 Valeria Graziano deposited The right to be lazy and to enjoy it too. On the art of refusing work and the labour of refusing art. in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791469/ Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:24:45 -0400 On the art of refusing work and the labour of refusing art.

]]> 0 bca635eeef91f8c3921a6a366c33eaa0 Valeria Graziano deposited On Domestic Fantasies and Anti-work Politics: A Feminist History of Complicating Automation in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756823/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:25:27 -0400 In this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques
and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work,
showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend themselves to an anti-work rather than…[Read more]

]]> 0 8696fde327c6b4c19890062772c160db Valeria Graziano deposited Figures of unwork and ethics of care. Between knowing how to live and knowing how to write. in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747903/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:30:27 -0400 The depth and significance of the shifts associated with the post-work society has pro-voked a newfound interest in the role of imagination in political thinking, made explicit by many authors who turned to the literary genre of utopian and sci-fi writing to sketch possible scenarios of the near future. This paper turns to another mode of…[Read more]

]]> 0 59518c631d81f7754f72a28fc009fb7b Etienne Simard deposited Une gang de tu-seuls : télétravail et dystopie pandémique in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716167/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:23:38 -0500 La crise sanitaire a précipité la généralisation du télétravail à domicile dans bon nombre de secteurs. S’il présente une situation privilégiée face aux risques de contagion ainsi que des avantages non négligeables en termes de flexibilité, il attaque aussi nos capacités d’auto-organisation en milieux de travail et contribue à moyens termes à l…[Read more]

]]> 0 083a649b6834da14ffe68ad393b96eda Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited John R. Palandech (1874–1956): The Many Faces of a Chicago Transatlantic Immigrant Media Man in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714424/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:37:23 -0400 John R. Palandech was a well-known immigrant publisher, politician, and entrepreneur in Chicago from the Gilded Age to the post–World War II era. This article retraces his biography and crosses it with the transatlantic political, cultural, and economic world Palandech was a part of and actor in. At the core of this study is a collection of l…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0051d62182a89d9c2f261a01eece338 Hannah Gillard deposited Que(e)rying Antiwork Politics: Queer Identities, Agency, Affect and the Normalcy of Work in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674263/ Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:30:49 -0500 People's relationships to paid work are many and varied. For some it is an important indicator of their identity, while for others it is a form of inescapable drudgery, boredom, or a place of exploitation. For those under- and unemployed, this unbearable state of boredom might itself be an aspiration. Current literature on queer identities and…[Read more]

]]> 0 0253b3ac98877b1b6fea22e78bf80fc9 Rebecca Powers deposited "Economic Fictions: Literature and Theory in Modern France (1802-2018)" (syllabus) in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663704/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:25:40 -0400 This is a lecture course for upper-level undergraduates, and is offered in English through the French department. It is designed for 50-60 students, with 30 hours of grading assistance.

]]> 0 01a0bba6f772036e0ec560f09fdabbdc Valeria Graziano deposited The breaking of the spell. Young women and internships in popular television culture in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660778/ Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:25:44 -0400 This article is concerned with the popular imaginaries associated with internships and
unpaid labour and their implications for emerging subjectivities and conceptualisations of
work. It draws on a comparative analysis of three prime-time television series about young
women’s experiences of their first entry in the world or work. By analysing t…[Read more]

]]> 0 377b4006e3c5e830a19b7bf2bc5aa845 Valeria Graziano deposited Free Labour Syndrome. Volunteer Work and Unpaid Overtime in the Creative and Cultural Sector in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660565/ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:26:26 -0400 Collective article by Precarious Workers Brigade and Carrot Workers Collective. In: Joy Forever: The Political Economy of Social Creativity. Edited by Michał Kozłowski, Agnieszka Kurant, Jan Sowa, Krystian Szadkowski and Jakub Szreder.

]]> 0 5dc5ef4d476822ada75dea350e62fca8 Valeria Graziano deposited Caring for the Carers in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642616/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:26:01 -0400 The rapid development and adoption of technological care equipment for remote monitoring, self-diagnosis and other forms of telemedicine risks splitting care work: on the one hand, well-paid professionals developing or operating new technologies; on the other, much poorer and much less qualified assistants to take care of the operations that are…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ec9cdc25971741a0929d68ffc38b3b6 Frans Prasetyo deposited Popular struggle in Indonesia : The spirit of Bandung in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641505/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:22 -0400 This week the Indonesian presidential election has been a contest between the incumbent Jokowi, who has promised an ambitious programme of agrarian reform, and the descendent of the military dictator Suharto. In this article, Frans Ari Prasetyo exposes the contradictions of the Jokowi government’s dependence on the World Bank and local c…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1527e15e3ea6e3d9e16783d72c8ac5d Ilana Gershon deposited A Business of One or Nurturing the Craft: Who are You? in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625924/ Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:25:23 -0500 Media workers have always adopted branding tactics for themselves: creating and managing a certain persona, doing the emotional labour necessary in largely informal and reputation-driven working environments to suggest a persona, performing this identity dutifully in order to make it work. However, branding is not an inevitable practice -- it is…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4358ac95029b9786dc30da70519da14 Ilana Gershon deposited Employing the CEO of Me, Inc.: US corporate hiring in a neoliberal age in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609822/ Sun, 03 Jun 2018 04:13:46 -0400 Social practices and contingencies always exceed the neoliberal models by which people currently try to contain
the inherent unpredictability of accomplishing social tasks with others, such as getting a job. Contradictions in
neoliberal logics emerge when people try to live according to neoliberal precepts, engaging with other social…[Read more]

]]> 0 75c3b06d5e1fd6f5b96c1547f2c7be61 Rebecca Powers deposited Embodying History for Social Change in Jules Michelet’s Le Peuple (working document) in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1606598/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 04:12:26 -0400 In his 1846 history-from-below, Le Peuple, Michelet presents himself as the embodiment of the history of France in order to reach beyond the discursive and effect social change. Unlike in many of his other histories, where an allegory of the body is used in the service of an overarching national or political narrative, the body in Le Peuple is…[Read more]

]]> 0 06fd065fe64bdebe1562c4bd7d4f5638 Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Vom 'Gastarbeiter' zum 'Ausländer'. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Diskurses über ArbeitsmigrantInnen in Österreich. in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596461/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:08:35 -0500 Dieser Aufsatz wartet mit einigen wahrscheinlich unerwarteten Thesen1auf:• Der rassistische Diskurs in den österreichischen Medien, wie wir ihn heute kennen, hatsich nicht schon von Anbeginn der Arbeitsmigration nach Österreich in den 1960er und70erJahren entwickelt. Er ist ein Produkt der 80erJahre.•In den 1960er und 1970erJahren herrschte ein p…[Read more]

]]> 0 690daac6ef29a1567c50a5ffa6191310 Sian Sullivan deposited The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589991/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:42:26 -0500 This engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures.

]]> 0 40d4d1e81ac78a5ba6073590b7a9d263 Trevor Griffey deposited "The Blacks Should Not Be Administering the Philadelphia Plan": Nixon, the Hard Hats, and “Voluntary” Affirmative Action in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589979/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:41:51 -0500 History of the "racial reconciliation" staged by building trades unions and President Richard Nixon, through which building trades union leaders taught Nixon how to reach out to organized labor and the white working class for the 1972 election in exchange for the President withdrawing his support for affirmative action in the construction industry.

]]> 0 ef79954c24cc7b2660fabb2a2b98c0a3 Trevor Griffey deposited From Jobs to Power: The United Construction Workers Association and Title VII Community Organizing in the 1970s in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589978/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:41:46 -0500 A history of the first two years of the United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) in Seattle, Washington, and its struggle to represent black workers entering the construction industry under court order separately from organized labor and employers.

]]> 0 0dbec5585499c628f95557a156db2044 Ilana Gershon deposited Selling Your Self in the United States in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1586412/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:03:03 -0400 In the contemporary U.S. workplace, corporate personhood is increasingly becoming
the metaphor structuring how job seekers are supposed to present themselves as
employable. If one takes oneself to be a business, one should also take oneself to
be an entity that requires a brand. Some ethnographic questions arise when job
seekers try to embody…[Read more]

]]> 0 211668c9b5dcbe7b0fe39bcf9d6078bb Paul STOCK deposited Behavioral Insights Reveal a Consumer of Mixed Rationality in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575697/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:00:03 -0400 While a fundamental axiom in economics is that consumers act rationally, maximizing their utility by obeying the law of demand, it has become increasingly recognized that these individuals may make irrational decisions in situations of influence. As not all consumers have the same rationality, this study aimed to identify specific consumer…[Read more]

]]> 0 58fd72f0f195c4f96815fe0314dfa306 Angela Vergara posted an update in the group Labor Studies: And the last link (the other projects were posters) […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570002/ Wed, 10 May 2017 02:27:15 -0400 And the last link (the other projects were posters) https://history3700.wixsite.com/wagetheft

]]> 0 130f8c431f96f55fd29dfe83ebed1355 Angela Vergara posted an update in the group Labor Studies: Another […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570001/ Wed, 10 May 2017 02:26:43 -0400 Another one:

https://www.facebook.com/Workers-Rights-115125952337885/

]]> 0 2c344f830cf46c4e36a9af88fd028c8d Angela Vergara posted an update in the group Labor Studies: More: […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570000/ Wed, 10 May 2017 02:26:20 -0400 More: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016589146710&lst=100016589146710%3A100016589146710%3A149365969

]]> 0 0f1bcc7d4a3dbe8bc9a73252c5f3b3b0 Angela Vergara posted an update in the group Labor Studies: Here is another […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569999/ Wed, 10 May 2017 02:25:29 -0400 Here is another project:

https://www.facebook.com/ChavezLegacyHist3700/?notif_t=page_admin&notif_id=1493229617173778

]]> 0 ffbd6260f82915c34615cc7b9e34a302 Angela Vergara posted an update in the group Labor Studies: Students working on their final civic learning assignments. […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569998/ Wed, 10 May 2017 02:24:55 -0400 Students working on their final civic learning assignments. I'm sharing some of their exciting projects:
https://www.facebook.com/worthmore15now/

]]> 0 cc72874436314476a7ac8ecf319f6429 Angela Vergara started the topic Sweatshop Assignment in the discussion Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/labor-studies/forum/topic/sweatshop-assignment/ Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:34:28 -0500 <u>This is the first group assignment of the semester, the end of the first section of the semester, "Industrialization and Working People." Following the group presentations, students completed a self-evaluation questionnaire about their work and the activity more generally. In general, it was a successful and fun activity, and students enjoyed…[Read more]

]]> 7a49c2218710da590725f9b862b2e8a5 Angela Vergara created the doc HIST 3700 in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560556/ Wed, 01 Feb 2017 15:25:40 -0500 ca4d3b59b5a3e04040666ef6c82d97c7 Angela Vergara started the topic Introducing labor studies to GE students in the discussion Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/labor-studies/forum/topic/introducing-labor-studies-to-ge-students/ Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:40:24 -0500 Most undergraduate students have not taken a class in labor history, and have little understanding of what labor history is or studies. However, in a university (CalStateLA), where most students work, it's easier to start the discussion based on students' experiences as workers.

My first activity was to discuss the historical transformation of…[Read more]

]]> bce86d6e3317bb25c75444d0290b1b37 Angela Vergara created the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560552/ Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:34:17 -0500 0