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Pandemics, Labor Relations, and Political Regimes: The Bubonic Plague and COVID-19 Crises in India 流行病、劳资关系和政治制度:印度的黑死病和COVID-19危机
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10329806
Aditya Sarkar
Abstract This article investigates the possibility of comparisons between the COVID-19 crisis in India and an earlier episode of pandemic crisis: bubonic plague in Bombay at the end of the nineteenth century. There are numerous apparent parallels. In both cases, Indians experienced an unprecedented and sweeping use of state authority to enforce minute regulations of everyday life. These regulations, on both occasions, were nominally universal in their scope but in practice bore most heavily on the working classes and specifically the urban poor. During both pandemic crises, the immediate consequence of the strategy of state control chosen was a massive flight of the urban poor: from Bombay between 1896 and 1898, and from many of India's major urban centers in the summer of 2020. The parallels and convergences mentioned above provide a basis for comparison. But they do no more than that: the emphasis of the analysis that follows is on the contrasts between the two pandemic crises. It is these contrasts between the two episodes, rather than the superficially more striking similarities, which offer a basis for reflection on the character of the respective crises. These reflections focus, at their core, on the mode of authoritarian state policy deployed in the two cases, and on the predicament of laboring classes during the two cycles of pandemic crisis.
本文探讨了将印度的COVID-19危机与更早的大流行危机——19世纪末孟买的黑死病——进行比较的可能性。有许多明显的相似之处。在这两种情况下,印度人都经历了前所未有的广泛使用国家权力来执行日常生活中的细微规定。在这两种情况下,这些规定在名义上是普遍适用的,但实际上对工人阶级,特别是城市穷人的影响最大。在两次大流行危机期间,国家选择的控制战略的直接后果是城市贫困人口大规模外逃:1896年至1898年期间逃离孟买,2020年夏天逃离印度许多主要城市中心。上面提到的相似之处和趋同之处为比较提供了基础。但他们所做的也仅此而已:接下来的分析重点是两场大流行危机之间的对比。正是这两个事件之间的这些对比,而不是表面上更惊人的相似之处,为反思各自危机的特征提供了基础。这些反思的核心是在这两个案例中采用的专制国家政策模式,以及在两次大流行危机周期中劳动阶级的困境。
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry by Joe William Trotter Jr (review) 《非裔美国工人与阿巴拉契亚煤炭工业》作者:小乔·威廉·特罗特
IF 0.1 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10238074
Lou Martin
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The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism by Benjamin Holtzman (review) 《长期危机:纽约市与新自由主义之路》本杰明·霍尔茨曼著(书评)
IF 0.1 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10237976
J. Viteritti
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Editor's Introduction 编辑器的介绍
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10237836
Leon Fink
Like Appalachian coal mining, the Northwest logging industry has not gone down without a fight. Again, somewhat akin to the politics of mineworking communities in West Virginia, the protagonists in ensuing bitter fights over jobs versus environmental protectionism have skewed traditional class alliances and threatened long-standing regional progressive traditions. As Steven Beda makes clear in his assessment of a still-smoldering controversy that upended ambitious cap-and-trade legislation to stem logging in 2020, environmental regulation combined with a more long-term sectoral economic decline have fueled a decidedly right-wing version of populism across the region since the early 1970s. In this thoughtful assessment of Oregon's internally conflicted Timber Unity rank and file—a movement based on marginal, independent timber contractor-producers and small sawmill operators who draw variously on old-Wobbly and antiregulatory rhetoric redirected at “elitist” protectors of the spotted owl and a recreation-oriented middle class—Beda discovers a microcosm of a larger rural shift away from radical working-class identities (see A. Brooke Boulton's accompanying Common Verse poem) toward the defensiveness of populist backlash.Francis Ryan tracks an important but little-noticed component of the post–World War II labor force: school crossing guards. Born of the Baby Boom expansion of school-age children combined with a population of mothers eager for rewarding part-time work, official, uniformed crossing guards—taking the place of otherwise overworked police officers—became a fixture at urban intersections beginning in the early 1950s. Although initially linked in the public mind to the “voluntary” sector associated with “PTA women” and others, Ryan convincingly connects them to a labor feminist tradition centered on an emergent public sector workforce. By the 1960s, the guards’ economic demands encompassed both benefits and wages, and their formalized associations began to affiliate with established unions like AFSCME and the SEIU. Not surprisingly, the urban fiscal crises of the 1970s also directly touched the interracial guard associations, who fought back against massive job cuts. Yet the real threat—and seeming denouement—to this once-classic urban occupation, suggests Ryan, came with a decline of collective, public protection of street corners by the guards, replaced by the hyper-individualized vigilance over children by their own parents.In the course of a larger biographical study of civil rights and labor icon, A. Philip Randolph, Eric Arnesen pauses here to zero in on Randolph's relation to what might be considered the ultimate expression of late 1930s Popular Front radicalism: the National Negro Congress. With a spirited assault on both racial and economic exploitation—critiquing the inadequacies of the New Deal, supporting interracial trade unionism, combating segregation , and opposing fascism—the NNC temporarily repaired a breach between Comm
就像阿巴拉契亚的煤矿开采一样,西北地区的伐木业也不是没有斗争就衰落的。再一次,在某种程度上类似于西弗吉尼亚州矿工社区的政治,在随后的就业与环境保护主义的激烈斗争中,主角们扭曲了传统的阶级联盟,并威胁到长期存在的地区进步传统。史蒂文·贝达(Steven Beda)在他的评估中明确指出,自20世纪70年代初以来,环境监管与更长期的行业经济衰退一起,在整个地区助长了一种明显的右翼民粹主义。这场仍在酝酿中的争议颠覆了雄心勃勃的“总量管制与交易”立法,目的是在2020年阻止伐木。在这本对俄勒冈州内部矛盾的木材团结运动的深思熟虑的评估中,独立的木材承包商、生产商和小型锯木厂经营者,他们以各种方式利用旧的摇摆和反监管的言论,将矛头指向斑点猫头鹰的“精英主义”保护者和以娱乐为导向的中产阶级——贝达发现了一个更大的农村转变的缩影,从激进的工人阶级身份(见a .布鲁克·博尔顿随诗的《Common Verse》)转向对民粹主义反弹的防御。弗朗西斯·瑞安(Francis Ryan)追踪了二战后劳动力中一个重要但鲜为人知的组成部分:学校交警。从20世纪50年代初开始,由于婴儿潮时期学龄儿童的增多,加上许多母亲渴望兼职工作的回报,穿着正式制服的十字路口警卫取代了过度劳累的警察,成为城市十字路口的固定设施。虽然在公众的印象中,最初与“PTA妇女”等“自愿”部门联系在一起,但瑞安令人信服地将它们与以新兴公共部门劳动力为中心的劳动女权主义传统联系在一起。到20世纪60年代,卫兵的经济要求包括福利和工资,他们的正式协会开始与AFSCME和SEIU等老牌工会建立联系。毫不奇怪,20世纪70年代的城市财政危机也直接触动了跨种族警卫协会,他们反对大规模裁员。然而,真正的威胁——似乎是结局——对于这个曾经经典的城市占领来说,赖安认为,来自于警卫对街角的集体公共保护的减少,取而代之的是他们自己的父母对孩子的高度个性化的警惕。埃里克·阿内森在对民权和劳工偶像a·菲利普·伦道夫(a . Philip Randolph)进行更大规模的传记研究的过程中,在这里停下来,把注意力集中在伦道夫与可能被认为是20世纪30年代末人民阵线激进主义的终极表达的关系上:全国黑人议会。通过对种族和经济剥削的猛烈抨击——批评新政的不足之处,支持跨种族的工会主义,反对种族隔离,反对法西斯主义——NNC暂时修复了由小本·戴维斯领导的与共产党有联系的武装分子和迄今为止强烈反对共产主义的社会主义者伦道夫之间的裂痕。党干部对NNC的方向负责(尽管他们公开试图掩盖自己的身份),而最初的战略成功定义了一个持续的研究任务。与许多近代历史学家的“重新评估”相反,阿内森坚持认为,必须考虑到该党的中心作用,而这些作用是为了更广泛、更“基层”地理解像全国代表大会这样的人民阵线倡议。通常情况下,这些书评涵盖了劳工地图,触及了地理和年代的丰富历史组合。书中涉及的主题至少有三个是我们的读者以前不太可能遇到的:加勒比地区的海龟采收者,在英国电影制作中工作的妇女,以及穿越“夜间火车”往返于种族隔离的南非的莫桑比克移民。伊丽莎白·坦迪·谢默(Elizabeth Tandy Shermer)在对他们的指控进行普遍积极和尊重的处理时,对迈克尔·卡津(Michael Kazin)的民主党成功史进行了调整,因为他忘记了,鉴于美国民主的结构存在缺陷,民主党本身“不足以赢得胜利和执政”。同样,本杰明•戈德弗兰克也批评约翰•弗伦奇(John French)撰写的巴西领导人卢拉(Lula)传记本来“非常出色”,但书中对卢拉与一种“裙带主义”文化的合作轻描淡写,这种文化(至少暂时)逆转了卢拉及其运动的命运。约瑟夫·维特里蒂(Joseph Viteritti)对本杰明·霍尔茨曼(Benjamin Holtzman)关于新自由主义和纽约市财政危机的研究的处理就不那么积极了:好奇的读者可能会在做出自己的决定之前先查阅原文。
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Making Social Welfare Policy in America: Three Case Studies since 1950 by Edward D. Berkowitz (review) 美国社会福利政策的制定:1950年以来的三个案例研究爱德华·d·伯科维茨
IF 0.1 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10237920
Amy Zanoni
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“Tie a Yellow Ribbon for the Working Man”: Environmental Conflict and Working-Class Politics in Oregon Timber Country, 1970–Present “为工人系上黄丝带”:1970年至今俄勒冈州木材之乡的环境冲突与工人阶级政治
IF 0.1 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10237892
S. Beda
Abstract:This article focusing on Oregon’s timber industry contributes to recent efforts to chart the longer history of working-class conservativism, while also arguing that environmental change and conflict played a central role in shaping the political leanings and class identities of white, rural workers in resource extraction industries. It pays particular attention to Oregon’s independent contracting and milling operations—small, often family-owned enterprises where the lines separating labor and capital were blurry at best and where bosses and employers alike viewed unions and working-class radicals with deep skepticism. Independent contractors became the dominant form of labor relations in Oregon’s timber industry in the 1970s, largely because of changes to the forest wrought by decades of overharvests and the flight of large timber corporations. Workers unmoored by capital flight increasingly turned to independent contractors and thus began to believe that their economic futures depended on maintaining close ties with their employers. This sense grew stronger in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Oregon environmentalists began seeking new restrictions on logging to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl—restrictions that threatened to further reduce timber-based employment and exacerbate the economic problems of rural, timber-dependent communities. Workers and employers joined together in more visible coalitions, held together by a shared populist outrage at the urban, liberal, and affluent elite who, in their view, were responsible for their economic precarity. This view remains evident in Oregon today, where a new movement that joins bosses and workers, Timber Unity, has coalesced to fight proposed legislation intended to address climate change.
摘要:本文以俄勒冈州的木材工业为研究对象,有助于揭示工人阶级保守主义的长期历史,同时也认为环境变化和冲突在塑造资源开采行业白人农村工人的政治倾向和阶级认同方面发挥了核心作用。它特别关注俄勒冈州的独立承包和铣削业务——通常是小型的家族企业,在这些企业中,劳动力和资本的界限充其量是模糊的,老板和雇主都对工会和工人阶级的激进分子持深深的怀疑态度。20世纪70年代,独立承包商成为俄勒冈州木材行业劳资关系的主要形式,主要是因为数十年的过度采伐和大型木材公司的外逃给森林带来了变化。受资本外逃影响的工人越来越多地转向独立承包商,并因此开始相信,他们的经济未来取决于与雇主保持密切联系。这种意识在20世纪80年代末和90年代初变得更加强烈,当时俄勒冈州的环保主义者开始寻求新的伐木限制,以保护北方斑点猫头鹰的栖息地——这些限制可能会进一步减少以木材为基础的就业机会,并加剧依赖木材的农村社区的经济问题。工人和雇主联合起来,形成了更明显的联盟,把他们团结在一起的是一种共同的民粹主义,他们对城市、自由派和富裕的精英阶层感到愤怒,在他们看来,这些精英阶层要为他们的经济不稳定负责。这种观点在今天的俄勒冈州仍然很明显,在那里,一个加入老板和工人的新运动,木材团结,已经联合起来反对旨在解决气候变化的立法提案。
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Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work by Jason Resnikoff (review) 《劳动的终结:自动化如何降低工作质量》作者:杰森·雷斯尼科夫(Jason Resnikoff)
IF 0.1 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10238060
J. Suarez
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Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank 金融时代的劳工:从去工业化到多德-弗兰克法案的养老金、政治和企业
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10237990
Gabriel Winant
After the 2008 financial crisis, advocates of regulation often observed that banking needed to be made boring again. The footprint of finance in American and world society, it was widely realized, had expanded dramatically, relying on exotic innovations and yielding incredible profits. With disastrous effects, bankers now appeared as swashbuckling adventurers rather than the gray, dull figures they once had been.Organized labor was caught up in this transformation in important ways, as Sanford M. Jacoby demonstrates in Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. Jacoby, an eminent historian of business and industrial relations, argues that, with the rest of society, labor took a “financial turn” (1). “For much of the twentieth century, the worlds of finance and labor spun in separate orbits,” he writes. “They drew nearer as the century came to a close and a new one began” (8).While the workers’ movement in the broad sense and in its early days was concerned with questions of monopoly and corporate ownership, the triumph of the managerial firm in the twentieth century largely buried this tradition. Through the midcentury period, while community organizers and activists agitated for access to corporate decision-makers, labor leaders already had a forum in which to meet them: the bargaining table. But out of collective bargaining came the pension, an institution of unexpected significance in the nexus between workers and corporate control. As the labor movement lost members, weakened, and faced tougher opposition in the 1970s and 1980s, unions began to adopt the tactics pioneered by figures like Saul Alinsky and Ralph Nader to pressure corporate boards and managers. This approach, developed in campaigns such as ACTWU's fight against J. P. Stevens and later SEIU's Justice for Janitors, combined strategic research, spectacle confrontation, and shareholder and other stakeholder lobbying; eventually it became known as “corporate campaigning.” In some cases, unions discovered that they could use pensions accumulated by the movement's own members over years of collective bargaining—pensions that, after all, consisted of ownership shares of corporations—to gain access to corporate leadership. In this way, labor's own collective stake in financial markets began to take complex new forms of significance in workplace conflicts.The most significant player in thinking strategically about how to use labor's capital was CalPERS, the pension system of California public employees. In the 1980s CalPERS helped to organize the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), which exerted pressure on corporate governance. Along with similar organizations, including TIAA-CREF, CalPERS and CII helped produce what Jacoby calls a “cookbook” of recommendations for best practices, which investors could pressure corporations to adopt. The shareholder revolution of the 1980s was a complex process involving pressure on inc
在其中一个最有趣的章节中,雅各比记录了一场由劳工组织领导的争取“代理权”的运动,即股东提名公司董事会董事的权利。在21世纪的头十年里,工会主席依靠养老基金,一家公司接一家公司地争取代理权,美国企业界开始相信,一场政变即将到来。2009年,查尔斯•舒默(Charles Schumer)和玛丽亚•坎特韦尔(Maria Cantwell)提出了一项授权代理权的法案,该法案最终以弱化的形式被纳入多德-弗兰克(Dodd-Frank)金融改革法案,但由于一位保守派法官否决了SEC的执法规则制定,该法案被否决。正如美国商会所主张的那样,美国证券交易委员会“赋予了特殊利益集团以牺牲其他股东利益为代价,在个别问题上挟持董事会的能力”(163)。法院对此表示同意,并裁定机构投资者可能有“比他们对股票价值的兴趣更大的目标,并且[可以]被期望追求自利目标,而不是股东价值最大化”(164)。然而,即使没有这样的正式权力,由于金融化,工会继续利用所有权来对抗雇主。公共雇员养老金作为私募股权基金和对冲基金的有限合伙人,为工会提供了一个场所,可以依靠那些在美国经济中占有越来越多份额的公司——尤其是私募股权公司。但是这样的努力一再使工会陷入不完全合作的关系,不仅是与管理层——这在美国集体谈判中早已司空见惯——而且与财务所有者也不完全合作。当金融危机袭来时,在某种程度上,劳工在运动方面(如果不是在智力方面)没有准备好,也没有产生抗议的能量,而是通过“占领华尔街”(Occupy Wall street)进行了抗议,这一运动得到了工会的一些合作,但无论好坏,总是与工会保持距离。劳工运动与金融市场的部分整合,以及将这种整合转化为权力来源的努力,以及由此产生的制约和分歧,既是一个极其重要的话题,也是一个——也许是因为它的干涩——鲜为人知的话题,甚至在劳工运动和劳工历史圈内也是如此。从这个意义上说,《金融时代的劳动》为我们所有人都做了贡献。雅各比的解释很轻松,因此,这本书为未来的学者提供了更深入挖掘和更有力辩论的机会,在这本优秀的书中奠定的基础上进行扩展。
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“You’ll Never Walk Alone”: School Crossing Guard Associations and Labor Feminism in the Postwar United States “你永远不会独行”:战后美国学校十字警卫协会与劳工女权主义
IF 0.1 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10237878
Francis Ryan
Abstract:In the years immediately following World War II, cities and townships across the United States implemented public safety programs to oversee road crossing for children outside schools. The crossing guards assigned to coordinate safe passage at busy intersections were primarily women and, as part-time workers, were a distinct sector of an expanding public sector workforce. This article highlights the origins of these public safety initiatives and how crossing guards formed associations in the 1950s and 1960s to secure economic improvements. These independent organizations articulated an important variant of labor feminism in the early postwar era, and attention to the agendas put forward by these women opens new insight into this aspect of working-class activism. Into the 1970s, many guard associations merged with AFL-CIO unions, especially the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), becoming a catalyst for a range of programs that prioritized the needs of working women in collective bargaining agreements. The article concludes with an overview of the issues crossing guards and their organizations face in an age of increasing austerity in the new century.
摘要:在第二次世界大战后的几年里,美国各地的城市和乡镇实施了公共安全计划,以监督儿童在校外过马路。在繁忙的十字路口负责协调安全通行的交警主要是妇女,作为兼职工作者,是不断扩大的公共部门劳动力的一个独特部门。本文重点介绍了这些公共安全倡议的起源,以及在20世纪50年代和60年代,交警如何形成协会,以确保经济改善。这些独立组织阐明了战后早期劳工女权主义的一个重要变体,对这些妇女提出的议程的关注为工人阶级行动主义的这一方面开辟了新的视角。进入20世纪70年代,许多警卫协会与劳联-产联工会合并,特别是美国州、县和市雇员联合会(AFSCME)和服务业雇员国际工会(SEIU),成为一系列计划的催化剂,这些计划在集体谈判协议中优先考虑职业妇女的需求。文章最后概述了在新世纪日益紧缩的形势下,交警及其组织所面临的问题。
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Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil by John D. French (review) 卢拉和他狡猾的政治:从金属工人到巴西总统
IF 0.1 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/15476715-10237962
B. Goldfrank
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