IRLE Colloquia Series presents:
In conversation with Paul Apostolidis about his new book:
The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity.
As unauthorized migrants, day laborers are subjected to extraordinarily harsh treatment when they work and search for jobs. Yet these extremely marginalized migrants also epitomize struggles that apply throughout our increasingly precarious working world. Tracking the conditions that make day laborers both exceptions within today’s economy and fitting symbols of its dysfunctions, using intellectual resources drawn from Paulo Freire’s popular education theory, this talk sheds light on the contortions of time that define what “precarity” means. The analysis also takes lessons from day laborers’ worker centers about the kinds of organizations capable of fighting precarity for the good of all working people.
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Paul Apostolidis joins the Government faculty at the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK) in June 2019; he is currently on the Politics faculty at Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA, USA). His new book, The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity, was released by Oxford University Press in January 2019. Previously he authored Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Duke University Press, 2000). With Juliet Williams (UCLA, Gender Studies) he co-edited Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (Duke University Press, 2004). Professor Apostolidis’s articles have appeared in journals of political theory, critical theory, feminist studies, and race & ethnic studies. His teaching emphasizes public impact research and he is the founder and director of Whitman’s nationally recognized community-based research program on “The State of the State for Washington Latinos.” Professor Apostolidis received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University and his A.B. from Princeton University. He can be reached at paulapostolidis@gmail.com.
The 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty, students, and special guests to discuss multidisciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.
The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center, Human Resources Roundtable, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.
Cosponsored by:
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
