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SUMMARY:Living and Laboring off the Grid: Black Women Prisoners and the Making of the “Modern” South\, 1865-1920
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, LeFlouria will provide an in-depth examination of the lived and laboring experiences of imprisoned African-American women in the post-Civil War South\, and describe how black female convict labor was used to help construct “New South” modernity. Using Georgia—the “industrial capital” of the region—as a case study\, LeFlouria will analyze how African-American women’s presence within the convict lease and chain gang systems of the “empire state” helped modernize the “New South\,” by creating a new and dynamic set of occupational burdens and competencies for black women that were untested in the free labor market. In addition to discussing how the parameters of southern black women’s working lives were redrawn by the carceral state\, I will also account for the hidden and explicit modes of resistance female prisoners used to counter work-related abuses\, as well as physical and sexualized violence.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/living-and-laboring-off-the-grid-black-women-prisoners-and-the-making-of-the-modern-south-1865-1920/
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SUMMARY:Building China: The Rise of Informal Work and Spatial Politics
DESCRIPTION:Urbanization has been a cornerstone of China’s modernization project and an important driver of economic growth.  As a result\, over 50 percent of China’s billion people are now living in urban areas\, concentrated in the 160 cities with a population over one million. Based on extensive ethnographic field research\, this paper examines the lives and work of informal migrant construction workers as they are spatially\, socially\, and economically integrated into China’s cities. The study makes three main contributions concerning urban informal work in China. First\, it documents the different forms of informal work and helps us make sense of the diversity of informal precarious work more generally. Second\, it expands our understanding of China’s emerging labor regime that is central to labor control\, intimately related to the urbanization process\, and ultimately linked to China’s overall economic success. Finally\, it shows how these migrants struggle against the disciplining process\, contest exploitation and protest in unique ways.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/building-china-the-rise-of-informal-work-and-spatial-politics/
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