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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Arnold, Kathleen R., 1966- America's new working class. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2008 (OCoLC)608366726 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathleen R Arnold |
| ISBN: | 9780271032764 0271032766 |
| OCLC Number: | 128237440 |
| Description: | viii, 247 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Globalization, prerogative power, and the new working class -- Asceticism, biopower, and the poor -- Domestic war: Locke's concept of prerogative -- Exploitation and the new working class -- Antagonism and exploitation: the importance of biopower -- War and "love." |
| Other Titles: | Race, gender, and ethnicity in a biopolitical age |
| Responsibility: | Kathleen R. Arnold. |
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Abstract:
Today's political controversy over immigration highlights the plight of the working class in this country as perhaps no other issue has recently done. The political status of immigrants exposes the power dynamics of the "new working class," which includes the former labor aristocracy, women, and people of color. This new working class suffers exploitation in many ways in this and other advanced industrial countries as the social cost of capitalism's success in a neoliberal and globalized political economy. Paradoxically, as borders become more open, they are also increasingly fortified, subjecting many workers to the suspension of law.It is Kathleen Arnold's purpose in this book to analyze the role of the state's "prerogative power" in creating and sustaining this condition of severe inequality for the most marginalized sectors of our population in the United States.
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- Working class -- United States.
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- Social conflict -- United States.
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- Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer.
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