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America's new working class : race, gender, and ethnicity in a biopolitical age
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America's new working class : race, gender, and ethnicity in a biopolitical age

Author: Kathleen R Arnold
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English
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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  Read more...
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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
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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