The fight for time : migrant day laborers and the politics of precarity

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Label

The fight for time : migrant day laborers and the politics of precarity

Title remainder

migrant day laborers and the politics of precarity

Statement of responsibility

Paul Apostolidis

Creator

• Apostolidis, Paul, 1965-

Subject

• Foreign workers -- Latin America
• Foreign workers -- United States
• Latin America -- Emigration and immigration | Economic aspects
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Economic aspects

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized