The promise of a painless birth is a myth that is perpetuated by popular discourse about labor as proven by the countless google results on the topic.
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To confront the severed head and fragmented body of a janitor in a museum space is a discomfiting reminder of the undocumented (in more than one sense) material labor from which such discourses can help distract us.
By conceptualizing prostitution as a form of labor and avoiding moralistic discourses about sexuality, feminists can avoid unrealistic abolitionist approaches (Kempadoo and Doezema 1998; White 1990; Shrage 1996).
It is that many of the topics that dominate political discourse about the labor market — such as immigration, food stamps and Obamacare — are unlikely to bring back lost jobs.
"In three months, this movement succeeded in shifting political discourse more than labor had been able to accomplish with years of lobbying and electoral campaigns," said Robert Master, the Northeast political director for the Communications Workers of America, which represents more than half a million telecommunications workers.
Furthermore, I will show that Stowe's HHP responds directly to the Union's recruitment and discipline struggles via the homologous discourse of domestic labor recruitment and discipline, particularly its discussion of household servants.
That was important for the labor movement to articulate its discourse and negotiate its demands.
Sectional politics shaped sectional interpretations of history just as debates over free labor and slavery polarized national discourse.
In order to explain this discrepancy between the aspirations tied to the mapping activity and the mapping experience, I assess Plan Vivo mapping as a situated discourse and as a labor process.
By the time of his death in 1886, his vision and labor had given rise to a historical discourse and intellectual movement that devolved into vibrant sub-fields as it expanded to other geographic centers of Jewish life.
