Decentering wage labor as a new class politics

Millar, Kathleen M.

doi:10.1007/s10624-019-9541-1

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“…By analysing the nuanced narratives through which cycle-rickshaw pullers make sense of their strenuous labour, I join the efforts of other scholars to decentre wage labour as the inevitable starting point for making sense of work and work-related vulnerabilities (Denning, 2010;Millar, 2014;Ferguson and Li, 2018;Narotzky, 2018;Millar, 2019). The experiences of rickshaw drivers significantly blur intuitive distinctions between precarious self-employment and stable wage labour.…”

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“Earning Money as the Wheels Turn Around”: Cycle-rickshaw Drivers and Wageless Work in Dhaka

Prins¹

2021

Beyond the Wage

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“Earning Money as the Wheels Turn Around”: Cycle-rickshaw Drivers and Wageless Work in Dhaka

Prins¹

2021

Beyond the Wage

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“…Secondly, its claim to theoretical novelty overlooks long-standing scholarship on marginality and informality. Thirdly, it advocates inclusion in regulated wage employment as a solution, thereby reproducing “the form, the logic, and the implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest” (Manzo, 1991: 8) while reaffirming the “normativity of capitalist wage labor” (Millar, 2020: 83). Finally, the notion of a “dangerous class” lacking class consciousness overlooks the political potential of a large and growing segment of workers outside wage relations, particularly in the majority world (Munck, 2013).…”

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“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Nogueira

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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In this paper, I examine the links between revanchist populism and the labor crisis in Brazil, a country with a stratified labor market where informality is prevalent among low-income, racialized groups. I analyze the struggles of street vendors for accessing urban space in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where the Worker’s Party (PT) played a key role in evicting vendors from public spaces and criminalizing their activity in the early 2000s. I focus on the connections between this initiative and a more recent “revitalization” policy that displaced street vendors from public spaces in the city center. In this context, I explore the political discourses of displaced workers during the 2018 elections that brought Bolsonaro to power. I show how the eviction stimulated antipetismo (anti-PT sentiment) among street vendors by triggering collective memories and rage against the party that “sold them out.” I argue that street vendors strongly identify as workers but are excluded from the unionized waged workingmen notion central to unions and Latin American left-wing parties. By discussing how street vendors reiterate their position as workers and not criminals, I highlight their identification with a moral notion of worker aligned with Bolsonaro’s conservative anti-crime agenda. I thus argue that support for Bolsonaro among street vendors was stimulated by the shortcomings of Brazil’s urban reform as well as the lack of appropriate policy responses to an increasingly heterogeneous and informalized workforce. I conclude by emphasizing the importance of supporting the collective struggles of non-waged workers as a path beyond revanchist populism.

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“…Considering the political dimension in the work of social reproduction, Latin American scholars claim these activities not as informal, but rather as popular economies (Diniz, 2019; Gago, 2008; Giraldo, 2017; Roig, 2017; Vega & Bermúdez, 2019). Based on this approach, the popular economy category does not imply a subjectivity of suffering or lack, as with other terms such as informal, precarious, external, or survival, and therefore seems to offer a political potential (Millar, 2019). This critical approach can establish a dialogue with the SRT in which theoretical contributions enhance the economic discipline.…”

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Social reproduction, the popular economy and informality: Feminist reflections from Latin America

Cortès

2022

Cuad. Econ.

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The economic discipline is characterised by hierarchical dualisms. This paper examines formal/informal and productive/reproductive binary categories by means of a dialogue between the social reproduction theory and the popular economy. A starting point is the wealth of feminist contributions that highlight both reproduction and work as the heart of socioeconomic phenomena. Based on formalization processes in Latin America, the article explores how public policy interventions focus on the productive sphere. However, upon closer examination, these policies seem to neglect reproductive activities, as well as the demands of popular sectors. We argue that the contributions of feminism are necessary to broaden the economic field.

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Decentering wage labor as a new class politics

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

“Earning Money as the Wheels Turn Around”: Cycle-rickshaw Drivers and Wageless Work in Dhaka

“Earning Money as the Wheels Turn Around”: Cycle-rickshaw Drivers and Wageless Work in Dhaka

“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Social reproduction, the popular economy and informality: Feminist reflections from Latin America

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