Peter Ikeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 221895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Ikeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Ikeler |
| SIGNATURE | IKELER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Old Westbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3577-229X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Are Services Post-Capitalist? A Marxian Interrogation
Recent post-capitalist theorizing, particularly Winant, revives the question of service sector growth. At stake is whether an economic system built on the extraction of surplus value can continue to function when ever-larger shares of workers do not produce this; also, whether their growing predominance prefigures post-capitalist relations of production. Most contributions offer imprecise concepts of service work and capitalist productivity, howe…
Lean In for Industrial Workers? Comments on Management Divided
Nostalgic Resignation: Working‐Class Characters in Neoliberal Film
This article interrogates the depiction of working‐class and subaltern characters in neoliberal US cinema. Deploying a Marxian class schema in a content analysis of 53 top‐grossing films released between 1980 and 2010, we find working‐class characters unexpectedly prominent. They appear in most films, lead in a plurality, and are far more often heroes than heavies. Yet the vast majority are white, male and US‐born while exhibiting near ubiquitous…
Critical engagements with “ Climate Change as Class War” —class critical ecomodernism
This essay considers the import and originality of Matt Huber's book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. It identifies class critique and skillful application of the Professional-Managerial Class (PMC) concept to contemporary environmental movements as the book's most substantive contributions, culminating in a reflective reassertion of Marxian modernism with regard to capitalist-induced climate change. It also fi…
Antinomies of Class: Jack Metzgar's Bridging the Divide
Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World's Call Center Capital
Labor relations and the overdose crisis in the United States
Background/Objective To assess the impact of noted long-term changes in US labor relations and labor market structures on the rapid rise of overdose death in the United States.Methods State-level overdose death rates obtained from the Centers for Disease Control were combined with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on manufacturing employment, unionization and self-employment, as well as Census data on key demographic variables to construct a longit…
The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
Precarity's Prospect: Contingent Control and Union Renewal in the Retail Sector
Precarity and deunionization have grown up (or down) together. Yet the focus of union renewal scholars on the forms and constituencies of organizing has neglected a holistic appraisal of their connection and the role of work itself. This article uses a focused examination of frontline retail to understand the links between deteriorating job quality, new modes of control and their effects on worker consciousness. Based on qualitative interviews wi…
Training to empower: A decade of the Retail Action Project
Founded by a union in 2005, the Retail Action Project (RAP) has led multiple campaigns for workers' rights, back wages and unionization in the heart of Manhattan's retail district. It has also undertaken worker training and hiring efforts while cultivating a community of creative worker-members. This combination of organizing, community building and attempted re-skilling, along with its industrial rather than ethnic focus and operation within a l…
Middle Class Decline? The Growth of Professional-Managers in the Neoliberal Era
This study examines changes in the U.S. class structure under neoliberalism. Applying a Marxian analytic framework to U.S. Census data from 1970 to 2010, we find that the professional middle class grew to 32% of the workforce and experienced steady earnings growth. The working class declined in size and earnings, the petty bourgeoisie remained stable but lost income, whereas the ruling class advanced significantly on both fronts. This overall pat…
Hard Sell: Work and Resistance in Retail Chains
Along with fast-food workers, retail workers are capturing the attention of the public and the media with the Fight for
Deskilling emotional labour: Evidence From Department Store Retail
How have the skills of service jobs changed? Have they undergone deskilling, upgrading or some contingent or compensatory development? This study examines these questions as they pertain to frontline sales work in US department stores. It begins by identifying an operational concept of service skill latent across recent debates and then examines it via qualitative comparison of full-line and discount stores in New York City. Based on an evaluativ…
Global Centrality and Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: A Test of Two Hypotheses
This article provides a quantitative assessment of two global city hypotheses: Sassen's polarization and Hamnett's professionalization claims. We conduct our analysis by using a continuous measure of global city status developed by researchers at the Global and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) and examining its correlation with the Gini index of household income inequality with relevant controls across a large sample of U.S. metropolitan area…
Workers’ Power in the Global City? Lessons from Three New York Transit Strikes
Drawing on the influential global cities paradigm, this article derives three hypotheses about the future of organized labor in major urban centers of the advanced capitalist world. Hypotheses are structured around Erik Olin Wright’s concepts of structural and associational power, plus that of employer power, and explored through comparative analyses of the last three strikes by New York City transit workers in 2005, 1980, and 1966. Examination o…
Deskilling emotional labour: Evidence From Department Store Retail
How have the skills of service jobs changed? Have they undergone deskilling, upgrading or some contingent or compensatory development? This study examines these questions as they pertain to frontline sales work in US department stores. It begins by identifying an operational concept of service skill latent across recent debates and then examines it via qualitative comparison of full-line and discount stores in New York City. Based on an evaluativ…
Middle Class Decline? The Growth of Professional-Managers in the Neoliberal Era
This study examines changes in the U.S. class structure under neoliberalism. Applying a Marxian analytic framework to U.S. Census data from 1970 to 2010, we find that the professional middle class grew to 32% of the workforce and experienced steady earnings growth. The working class declined in size and earnings, the petty bourgeoisie remained stable but lost income, whereas the ruling class advanced significantly on both fronts. This overall pat…
Training to empower: A decade of the Retail Action Project
Founded by a union in 2005, the Retail Action Project (RAP) has led multiple campaigns for workers' rights, back wages and unionization in the heart of Manhattan's retail district. It has also undertaken worker training and hiring efforts while cultivating a community of creative worker-members. This combination of organizing, community building and attempted re-skilling, along with its industrial rather than ethnic focus and operation within a l…
Precarity's Prospect: Contingent Control and Union Renewal in the Retail Sector
Precarity and deunionization have grown up (or down) together. Yet the focus of union renewal scholars on the forms and constituencies of organizing has neglected a holistic appraisal of their connection and the role of work itself. This article uses a focused examination of frontline retail to understand the links between deteriorating job quality, new modes of control and their effects on worker consciousness. Based on qualitative interviews wi…
Global Centrality and Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: A Test of Two Hypotheses
This article provides a quantitative assessment of two global city hypotheses: Sassen's polarization and Hamnett's professionalization claims. We conduct our analysis by using a continuous measure of global city status developed by researchers at the Global and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) and examining its correlation with the Gini index of household income inequality with relevant controls across a large sample of U.S. metropolitan area…
Workers’ Power in the Global City? Lessons from Three New York Transit Strikes
Drawing on the influential global cities paradigm, this article derives three hypotheses about the future of organized labor in major urban centers of the advanced capitalist world. Hypotheses are structured around Erik Olin Wright’s concepts of structural and associational power, plus that of employer power, and explored through comparative analyses of the last three strikes by New York City transit workers in 2005, 1980, and 1966. Examination o…
Are Services Post-Capitalist? A Marxian Interrogation
Recent post-capitalist theorizing, particularly Winant, revives the question of service sector growth. At stake is whether an economic system built on the extraction of surplus value can continue to function when ever-larger shares of workers do not produce this; also, whether their growing predominance prefigures post-capitalist relations of production. Most contributions offer imprecise concepts of service work and capitalist productivity, howe…
Workers’ Power in the Global City? Lessons from Three New York Transit Strikes
Drawing on the influential global cities paradigm, this article derives three hypotheses about the future of organized labor in major urban centers of the advanced capitalist world. Hypotheses are structured around Erik Olin Wright’s concepts of structural and associational power, plus that of employer power, and explored through comparative analyses of the last three strikes by New York City transit workers in 2005, 1980, and 1966. Examination o…
Global Centrality and Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: A Test of Two Hypotheses
This article provides a quantitative assessment of two global city hypotheses: Sassen's polarization and Hamnett's professionalization claims. We conduct our analysis by using a continuous measure of global city status developed by researchers at the Global and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) and examining its correlation with the Gini index of household income inequality with relevant controls across a large sample of U.S. metropolitan area…
Hard Sell: Work and Resistance in Retail Chains
Along with fast-food workers, retail workers are capturing the attention of the public and the media with the Fight for
Deskilling emotional labour: Evidence From Department Store Retail
How have the skills of service jobs changed? Have they undergone deskilling, upgrading or some contingent or compensatory development? This study examines these questions as they pertain to frontline sales work in US department stores. It begins by identifying an operational concept of service skill latent across recent debates and then examines it via qualitative comparison of full-line and discount stores in New York City. Based on an evaluativ…
Training to empower: A decade of the Retail Action Project
Founded by a union in 2005, the Retail Action Project (RAP) has led multiple campaigns for workers' rights, back wages and unionization in the heart of Manhattan's retail district. It has also undertaken worker training and hiring efforts while cultivating a community of creative worker-members. This combination of organizing, community building and attempted re-skilling, along with its industrial rather than ethnic focus and operation within a l…
Middle Class Decline? The Growth of Professional-Managers in the Neoliberal Era
This study examines changes in the U.S. class structure under neoliberalism. Applying a Marxian analytic framework to U.S. Census data from 1970 to 2010, we find that the professional middle class grew to 32% of the workforce and experienced steady earnings growth. The working class declined in size and earnings, the petty bourgeoisie remained stable but lost income, whereas the ruling class advanced significantly on both fronts. This overall pat…
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
Precarity's Prospect: Contingent Control and Union Renewal in the Retail Sector
Precarity and deunionization have grown up (or down) together. Yet the focus of union renewal scholars on the forms and constituencies of organizing has neglected a holistic appraisal of their connection and the role of work itself. This article uses a focused examination of frontline retail to understand the links between deteriorating job quality, new modes of control and their effects on worker consciousness. Based on qualitative interviews wi…
Labor relations and the overdose crisis in the United States
Background/Objective To assess the impact of noted long-term changes in US labor relations and labor market structures on the rapid rise of overdose death in the United States.Methods State-level overdose death rates obtained from the Centers for Disease Control were combined with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on manufacturing employment, unionization and self-employment, as well as Census data on key demographic variables to construct a longit…
The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy
Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World's Call Center Capital
Lean In for Industrial Workers? Comments on Management Divided
Nostalgic Resignation: Working‐Class Characters in Neoliberal Film
This article interrogates the depiction of working‐class and subaltern characters in neoliberal US cinema. Deploying a Marxian class schema in a content analysis of 53 top‐grossing films released between 1980 and 2010, we find working‐class characters unexpectedly prominent. They appear in most films, lead in a plurality, and are far more often heroes than heavies. Yet the vast majority are white, male and US‐born while exhibiting near ubiquitous…
Critical engagements with “ Climate Change as Class War” —class critical ecomodernism
This essay considers the import and originality of Matt Huber's book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. It identifies class critique and skillful application of the Professional-Managerial Class (PMC) concept to contemporary environmental movements as the book's most substantive contributions, culminating in a reflective reassertion of Marxian modernism with regard to capitalist-induced climate change. It also fi…
Antinomies of Class: Jack Metzgar's Bridging the Divide
Are Services Post-Capitalist? A Marxian Interrogation
Recent post-capitalist theorizing, particularly Winant, revives the question of service sector growth. At stake is whether an economic system built on the extraction of surplus value can continue to function when ever-larger shares of workers do not produce this; also, whether their growing predominance prefigures post-capitalist relations of production. Most contributions offer imprecise concepts of service work and capitalist productivity, howe…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works)