{"product_id":"fight-for-time-migrant-day-laborers-and-the-politics-of-precarity-paperback","title":"Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Apostolidis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn today's precarious world, working people's experiences are strangely becoming more alike even as their disparities sharpen. \u003cem\u003eThe Fight for Time\u003c\/em\u003e explores the logic behind this paradox by listening to what Latino day laborers say about work and society. The book shows how migrant laborers are both exception and synecdoche in relation to the precarious conditions of contemporary work life. As unauthorized migrants, these workers are subjected to extraordinarily harsh treatment - yet in startling ways, they also epitomize struggles that apply throughout the economy. Juxtaposing day laborers' descriptions of their desperate circumstances and dangerous work with theoretical accounts of the forces fueling insecurity, \u003cem\u003eThe Fight for Time\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the temporal contradictions that define precarity today. The book taps the core intellectual current among day labor groups - Paulo Freire's popular-education theory - to craft an original \"critical-popular\" approach for understanding the\u003cbr\u003epoints of connection between the ways that day laborers view their lives and scholarly analysis of precarious work-life writ large. The result is a temporally attuned and politically bracing perspective on neoliberal crises, the work ethic in the era of affective and digital labor, the intensifying racial governance of public spaces, the burgeoning deportation regime, and the growth of occupational safety and health hazards. The accounts of the day laborers in this book are rich with potential to catalyze social critique among migrant workers - and clarify the terms on which mass-scale opposition to precarity can occur. Such opposition would demand restoration of workers' stolen time, engage in a fight for the city, challenge the conditions under which aversion to financial risk puts workers into physical danger, and foment the refusal of work. We can look to the urban worker centers where this radically democratic politics of precarity is taking root to understand what types of\u003cbr\u003eorganizations have the potential to wage the fight for time and enable broad mobilization in the face of precarity: worker centers for all working people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Apostolidis\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor and Judge \u0026amp; Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Endowed Chair of Political Science at Whitman College. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBreaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753874194720,"sku":"9780190459345","price":76.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8a54bb4b55bb0065f2e123cbc7d4ea16.webp?v=1780028708","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fight-for-time-migrant-day-laborers-and-the-politics-of-precarity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}