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Author Apostolidis, Paul, 1965- author.

Title The fight for time : migrant day laborers and the politics of precarity / Paul Apostolidis
Published New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages)
Series Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics
Contents Generative themes : freirean pedagogy and the politics of social research -- Desperate responsibility -- Fighting for the job -- Risk on all sides, eyes wide open -- Visions of community at worker centers: from protected workforce to convivial politics -- Organizing the fight against precarity
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2019)
Subject Foreign workers -- United States
Foreign workers -- Latin America
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
Foreign workers.
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Subject Latin America.
United States.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018028943
ISBN 0190459352
9780190459352
9780190459369
0190459360