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Hearing the news from South America at the turn of the millennium can be like traveling in time: here are the trials of Pinochet, the searches for "the disappeared" in Argentina, the investigation of the death of former president Goulart in Brazil, the Peace Commission in Uruguay, the Archive of Terror in Paraguay, a Truth Commission in Peru. As societies struggle to come to terms with the past and with the vexing questions posed by ineradicable memories, this wise book offers guidance.
Combining a concrete sense of present urgency and a theoretical understanding of social, political, and historical realities, State Repression and the Labors of Memory fashions tools for thinking about and analyzing the presences, silences, and meanings of the past. With unflappable good judgment and fairness, Elizabeth Jelin clarifies the often muddled debates about the nature of memory, the politics of struggles over memories of historical injustice, the relation of historiography to memory, the issue of truth in testimony and traumatic remembrance, the role of women in Latin American attempts to cope with the legacies of military dictatorships, and problems of second-generation memory and its transmission and appropriation.
Jelin's work engages European and North American theory in its exploration of the various ways in which conflicts over memory shape individual and collective identities, as well as social and political cleavages. In doing so, her book exposes the enduring consequences of repression for social processes in Latin America, and at the same time enriches our general understanding of the fundamentally conflicted and contingent nature of memory.
Elizabeth Jelin is senior researcher for the National Council of Scientific Research, Argentina, and academic director of the Center for the Study of Memory in Buenos Aires.
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This book analyzes the relationship between Peronism and the Argentine working class from the foundation of the Peronist movement in the mid 1940s to the overthrow of Peron's widow in 1976. It presents an account of such crucial issues as the role of the Peronist union bureaucracy and the impact of the Peronist ideology on workers. Drawing on a variety of untapped sources, Daniel James confronts many of the dominant myths that have surrounded the movement. He argues that its role in containing working-class militancy cannot be explained solely in terms of manipulation, corruption, or union gangsterism.
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Blurring the line between Unions and the National State.......2000-05-05
Peronism managed to control the Union movement in Argentina. Working from the national state, Perón moved to legalize long-sought rights of Argentine workers (like paid yearly vacations). He also took the time to crush or isolate any dissent with him within the Union movement. And guaranteed to the Union "bosses" some privileges (like having only one Union legalized for each kind of workers).
The book tells the story.
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Crippled Justice, the first comprehensive intellectual history of disability policy in the workplace from World War II to the present, explains why American employers and judges, despite the Americans with Disabilities Act, have been so resistant to accommodating the disabled in the workplace. Ruth O'Brien traces the origins of this resistance to the postwar disability policies inspired by physicians and psychoanalysts that were based on the notion that disabled people should accommodate society rather than having society accommodate them.
O'Brien shows how the remnants of postwar cultural values bogged down the rights-oriented policy in the 1970s and how they continue to permeate judicial interpretations of provisions under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In effect, O'Brien argues, these decisions have created a lose/lose situation for the very people the act was meant to protect. Covering developments up to the present, Crippled Justice is an eye-opening story of government officials and influential experts, and how our legislative and judicial institutions have responded to them.
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This study examines the changing effects of labor migration on the countryside of post-Mao China. Most of the changes are occurring because the migrants send money home and return to their villages for visits or to resettle. The return flows of money, people and information affects rural inequalities, rural spending patterns, agriculture, family relationships, the position of women, and the interactions between villagers and officials. Importantly, some returned migrants even create businesses at home. The book is based on in-depth fieldwork in the Chinese countryside, and it draws comparisons with migration and rural development in other countries.
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migration and rural development.......2003-06-21
Rachel Murphy's important and well written volume greatly expands our understanding of the major changes in rural China from 1996-2001 that were induced by rapidly expanding rural-to-urban migration. Other scholars have analyzed experiences in the cities (ex: Dorothy Solinger, Delia Davin, Li Zhang), but Murphy shines the light on the impact of migration on the socio-economic life of the migrant's home village, both during the away-from-home period and after return. She does this through interview-based case studies of several villages in Jiangxi province, an interior province in the southeast of China. Her well researched analysis of migration's impact is very balanced. She makes a convincing case that migration is, on net, a positive phenomena, facilitating rises in the standard of living, social mobility, and expanding horizons, but she also explores some of its negative sides.
There are 8 chapters (not counting the conclusion) in the book.
Chapter 1 is an overview of the literature on rural migrants in the developing world, mainly anthropology theories; "push" vs "pull", etc.
Chapter 2 lays out the background material for her case study area in Jiangxi.
In Chapter 3 Murphy investigates the impact of migration on intra-village inequality, household composition, local off-farm employment, agricultural investment, and land tenure patterns. She explains how migration, and the remittances and reallocation of labor responsibilities that result from it, increase family incomes substantially but also can enhance intra-family tensions and create inequities. She also discusses how the local state coordinates investment of agricultural remittances.
Chapter 4 is on the education, house-building, and marriage goals of migrants, and how migration alters the situation. Murphy finds migration has dual-edged impact on the desire for education by villagers, but on net a positive one. This chapter includes extensive discussion of gender issues, such as how womens' life choices can be expanded by migration and how it can improve the marriage prospects of both men and women.
Chapters 5, 6 and 7 form the heart of the book. These chapters discuss returning migrants, drawing from managerial or other skills they learned during their migrant experience, who become local entrepreneurs in the village or in the connected market towns.
Central to chapter 5 is discussion of the actions by local governments to try to encourage returnee entrepreneurship in order to create the pool of talent needed for rural industrialization, and how the successful return migrant entrepreneurship cases were usually from areas where the local government assists returnees. Chapter 6 discusses the nature of the returnee businesses. It also includes some interesting comments by peasant migrants on their work culture preferences. Many migrants return to gain relief from the extreme subordination to management in the wage-labor urban sector, and return to the relative autonomy of individual entrepreneurship. Related, Murphy mentions how returnee factory owners are increasingly bringing in labor from poorer villages that intensifies the working environment and reduces welfare benefits. This chapter has important analysis of gender discrimination related to returnee enterpreneurship and skill acquisition. Chapter 7 discusses attempts by government to create a good business environment, the contribution of returnee entrepreneurship to absorbing surplus unskilled labor (less than one would think it turns out), and the general modernizing impact (both economically and culturally) of returnees.
Chapter 8, titled "Returning Home with Heavy Hearts and Empty Pockets" examines the negative side of migration and the return experience.
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A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, And Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry (Politics and Society in the Modern South)
Beth English
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With important ramifications for studies relating to industrialization and the impact of globalization, A Common Thread examines the relocation of the New England textile industry to the piedmont South between 1880 and 1959. Through the example of the Massachusetts-based Dwight Manufacturing Company, the book provides an informative historic reference point to current debates about the continuous relocation of capital to low-wage, largely unregulated labor markets worldwide.
In 1896, to confront the effects of increasing state regulations, labor militancy, and competition from southern mills, the Dwight Company became one of the first New England cotton textile companies to open a subsidiary mill in the South. Dwight closed its Massachusetts operations completely in 1927. In 1959, the branch factory Dwight had opened in Alabama at the end of the nineteenth century became one of the first textile mills in the South to close in the face of post-World War II foreign competition.
Beth English explains why and how New England cotton manufacturing companies pursued relocation to the South as a key strategy for economic survival, why and how southern states attracted northern textile capital, and how textile mill owners, labor unions, the state, manufacturers' associations, and reform groups shaped the ongoing movement of cotton-mill money, machinery, and jobs. A Common Thread is a case study that helps provide clues and predictors about the processes of attracting and moving industrial capital to developing economies throughout the world.
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The Emergence of Modern South Africa views economic conflict, specifically the interaction of the state, big business, and labor, as the central issue in the development of South Africa. Yudelman focuses on the labor-management conflict in the country's gold fields in the early decades of this century, a time and place critical to the development of the state. At that time government walked a tightrope between supporting big business (to ensure economic growth) and appeasing the workers (to remain in power). Yudelman demonstrates how a symbiotic alliance between the mining companies and the state successfully subjugated the workers, and points out that this unique relationship continues to this day, dominating every aspect of life in South Africa. David Yudelman's historical analysis and lengthy epilogue on the 1970s and 1980s shed light on today's economic unrest and those conflicts to come. His book also shows how the South African case provides early and important insights into the development of the state-business symbiosis in industrial societies everywhere.
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Brilliant, A seminal work.......2005-12-12
This eminent work develops a new way of looking at the state, this revolutionary idea, takes into account aspects of Marxism and nationalism and applies it to South Africa. A brilliant hypothesis tries to explain the history or labour in the South African Gold Fields in the first half of the 20th century, while at the same time using theory, philosophy and economic theory to view this process.
This work remains the standard in its field as a point of departure for theories about the emergence of Modern South Africa. A Highly recommended work for any specialist, historian, social theorist or anyone interested in South Africa from a more detailed standpoint.
Seth J. Frantzman
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Title: Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution.(Review)
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The Making of the Labor Party in New South Wales, 1880-1900 (The Modern History Series)
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Title: Michelle Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South.(Book Review)
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As I Lay Dieting, "Abe's Saloon! Abe's Saloon!" Sound like Faulkner with a twist? It is-bad Faulkner, or, to be exact, some of the best of bad Faulkner composed by the hundreds who have entered the Faux Faulkner Contest. Here, too, are outstanding Faulkner parodies from the past-even one written by Faulkner himself. Caricatures.
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Grow your own third hootie-eye...........2005-03-25
This book is a hoot! Or series of same, to be both brief and precise. It's been so long since I read college Faulkner that I can't remember a shred (skein?) of it, but who would be so dyspeptic as to argue that either absurdist humor or bathroom reading are unworthy literary categories -- let alone a genre that combines both?
More to the point: sure, the best single way to learn about style is to read and re-read the great stylists, and so come to grok both the breadth of their differences and the depth of their similarities, and thereby enliven a sense of the space of possibilities for human expression -- both to enhance appreciation of each writer's uniquely in-formed and informing "flavor", and to articulate within oneself a "framing space" for placing (and perchance assessing) the perspectives and technical accomplishments of future writers (yikes -- this style parody stuff is corrupting!).
But reading skillful parody *does* add an undeniable dimension to this enrichment process, by shining a light on the nature of style as such. I recently read selections from some book or other of multi-author parodies (I think it was one of those "an education in a book" titles), and was amazed at how deft they were, at how incapable I would have been to produce such eloquent verbal portraiture -- distorted as in a fun house mirror, but in spite of this (or because of it) so revealing, in terms of elements as subtle as "tone" and "voice".
Interestingly enough, I may have learned more from the parodies of the authors I hadn't read than of those I had. This says something on an intensely fashionable "meta" level about something or other involving mind, language and Being, but, existential self-referentiality being as ineffable as the ineffability of Being itself, I'll have to be excused from articulating it.
ANYway, what the heck -- why not triangulate on these fascinating aspects of literary form? Compare authors with each other, compare them with their respective parodies to sharpen your eye and ear, compare parodies with each other (and do a little theoretical reading on the subject, perhaps) to gain a sense of the stylistic (meta-stylistic?) "vocabulary" or meta-same of literary burlesque -- and by extension (or inversion, or un-perversion, or pre-version -- SOMEbody's version), of the root-level resources of language itself...
P.S. There's a whole subfield of Vedic philosophy dedicated to the analysis of modes of learning from analogies by examining where and how they fail; isn't there an analogy here to the fruits of study of parodies, precisely in terms of their failings as precise metaphors? If so, only the finest products will do for such analyses -- unless they become SO fine as expressions of the authors' sensibilities that it becomes a looking-glass proposition as to which "authorless text" be considered the "original" and which the "'parody'". Even then we might learn something, though it might well be limited to which hemisphere of our brain looks better in a mirror, versus in real life...
Come on Mara, lighten up..........2000-11-30
A splended collection of Faux Faulkner. Having lived in Oxford and passed the time of day with him in Krogers (he would always stop us to talk to our little boy)...i.e. when we had not mixed him up with Brother John...I can tell you how much he enjoyed this Faux stuff...I suggest that anyone who has grown as a result of sharing his world try their hand at faux...and read the old Oxford Eagle...If Mr. Bill puts your soul on warp speed, order this book right now.
What a Stupid Idea........2000-10-31
I realize that an American tradition is mocking great writers and painters, but this is ridiculous. Why don't all these idiots go and write their own books? What did Faulkner do to deserve such a FATE? And this brings up a question: WHAT kind of PERSON would WASTE their time reading "faux" Faulkner? The only answer to that QUESTION is No one. No one who has read Faulkner would EVEN BOTHER to imitate him. The only people left to read this book are bored old ladies sipping tea in the south and amusing themselves with a little LITE SOUTHERN "LITERATURE."
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