Brian Thorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1451269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Thorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorn |
| SIGNATURE | THORN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
After the Gig
In November 2020, California voters passed Proposition 22, a ballot measure that allows ridesharing companies like Uber to continue classifying their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. By avoiding the employee classification, these sharing economy companies also avoid labour law requirements for employees relating to health care, unemployment insurance, safe working conditions, and other benefits. Proposition 22 was the mos…
The Value of Everything
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy MarianaMazzucato. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. Penguin Books, Penguin Random House, UK. 2019. pp. 358. ISBN: 978-0141980768. Brian Thorn Brian Thorn Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 39, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 118–120, https://doi.org/10.109…
A Colourful Crowning Ceremony
This article discusses beauty contests held by the Communist Party (cp) in British Columbia during World War II. It presents two arguments. First, the article argues that the beauty contests symbolized the Communist Party's viewpoint on the role of women in left movements, and in society in general. Thus, cp beauty pageants possessed a two-sided nature. On one level, cp women appropriated these pageants to present a hybrid version of the beauty c…
Peace Is the Concern of Every Mother”
This article discusses the antiwar activism of Canadian women within two left‐wing political movements: the revolutionary Communist Party of Canada and the social democratic Co‐Operative Commonwealth Federation. The piece focuses on the period from 1948 to 1960, which is often seen as a time of retreat for the feminist movement in North America. This article engages in a critical dialogue with the concept of “maternalism,” the notion that women h…
Healthy Activity and Worthwhile Ideas
La délinquance juvénile, l'une des grandes préoccupations dans le contexte de la guerre froide et des années 1950, faisait partie intégrante de la plate-forme idéologique du Parti Communiste du Canada (PC), de tendance révolutionnaire, de la Fédération du commonwealth coopératif (FCC) et du Parti Crédit Social du Canada (CS), à penchant réactionnaire. Les femmes de ces mouvements politiques avaient, malgré leurs différences idéologiques sur de no…
Women Are Truly Wonderful in their Ingenuity”
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
After the Gig
In November 2020, California voters passed Proposition 22, a ballot measure that allows ridesharing companies like Uber to continue classifying their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. By avoiding the employee classification, these sharing economy companies also avoid labour law requirements for employees relating to health care, unemployment insurance, safe working conditions, and other benefits. Proposition 22 was the mos…
Women Are Truly Wonderful in their Ingenuity”
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Healthy Activity and Worthwhile Ideas
La délinquance juvénile, l'une des grandes préoccupations dans le contexte de la guerre froide et des années 1950, faisait partie intégrante de la plate-forme idéologique du Parti Communiste du Canada (PC), de tendance révolutionnaire, de la Fédération du commonwealth coopératif (FCC) et du Parti Crédit Social du Canada (CS), à penchant réactionnaire. Les femmes de ces mouvements politiques avaient, malgré leurs différences idéologiques sur de no…
Peace Is the Concern of Every Mother”
This article discusses the antiwar activism of Canadian women within two left‐wing political movements: the revolutionary Communist Party of Canada and the social democratic Co‐Operative Commonwealth Federation. The piece focuses on the period from 1948 to 1960, which is often seen as a time of retreat for the feminist movement in North America. This article engages in a critical dialogue with the concept of “maternalism,” the notion that women h…
A Colourful Crowning Ceremony
This article discusses beauty contests held by the Communist Party (cp) in British Columbia during World War II. It presents two arguments. First, the article argues that the beauty contests symbolized the Communist Party's viewpoint on the role of women in left movements, and in society in general. Thus, cp beauty pageants possessed a two-sided nature. On one level, cp women appropriated these pageants to present a hybrid version of the beauty c…
The Value of Everything
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy MarianaMazzucato. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. Penguin Books, Penguin Random House, UK. 2019. pp. 358. ISBN: 978-0141980768. Brian Thorn Brian Thorn Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 39, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 118–120, https://doi.org/10.109…
After the Gig
In November 2020, California voters passed Proposition 22, a ballot measure that allows ridesharing companies like Uber to continue classifying their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. By avoiding the employee classification, these sharing economy companies also avoid labour law requirements for employees relating to health care, unemployment insurance, safe working conditions, and other benefits. Proposition 22 was the mos…
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Communism (2 works)