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

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Label

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

Title remainder

race, gender, and ethnicity in a biopolitical age

Statement of responsibility

Kathleen R. Arnold

Title variation

Race, gender, and ethnicity in a biopolitical age

Creator

• Arnold, Kathleen R., 1966-

Subject

• Unskilled labor -- United States
• Working class -- United States
• Social conflict -- United States
• Political culture -- United States
• Working poor -- United States
• Globalization -- Economic aspects -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.5/620973

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

HD8072.5

LC item number

.A757 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography