This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor desiring collectivity on May 20 , 2014by arc_berkeley.
Bulosan's juxtaposition of the abstract with the literal in his portrayal of the exploited labor and desires of Filipino American seasonal fieldworkers exposes new forms of knowledge about debt, obligation, and reciprocity that ironically emanate from the illiterate and the uneducated.
Wealthy capitalists wishing to strike a balance between the demands of labor and desires of capital looked to Robert Owen's example.
Except you alone, O Man, said that god, each creature first studies its own self, and, according to its needs, has limits to his labors and desires.
The sudden surge of union endorsements in Mr. Ravitz's direction appears to have much less to do with the candidate himself than with labor leaders' desire to curry favor with the powerful Senator Bruno.
Instead, she takes the metaphor of work at its word, characterizing ours as an age "when monogamy becomes labor, when desire is organized contractually, with accounts kept and fidelity extracted like labor from employees, with marriage a domestic factory policed by means of rigid shop-floor discipline".
Skarstedt felt surrounded by "arrogance on one side and obsequiousness on the other, a manifest scorn for menial labor, a desire to appear to be more than one was".
Yet, these visible signs of racial progress gnawed at the psychosocial moorings of Southern whites that resented losing their ability to exploit free black labor and desired to maintain their white supremacist values at the expense of human beings with dark skin.
The "need" for cheap labor is a desire, held by those who don't face its consequences.
In this contradiction Ivan V. Small reveals a creative space for emergent imaginaries that disrupt local structures and scales of desire, labor and expectation.
