Joseph Varga
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Varga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Varga |
| SIGNATURE | VARGA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4106-3377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Clifton Hood. In Pursuit of Privilege
In The Making of the English Working Class (1963), E. P. Thompson famously remarked that the English working class was not conjured to meet the needs of the newly developing capitalist system, but was rather “present at its own making,” as an active agent that drew upon its own traditions, social relations, customs, and skills to form a sometimes cohesive yet often fractious class of workers who could act in their own best interests (Thompson, 10…
Global Problems, Local Solutions
The inspiration for this special issue came at a faculty retreat held on a glorious late summer day on a bucolic campus. In such a setting, what else would Social Work and Labor Studies faculty think about but intractable problems and impossible solutions! We had been thinking of ways that our two disciplines, social work and labor studies, converge, and the obvious answer was that both were oriented towards problem-solving, as were other discipl…
Dispossession is Nine-tenths of the Law
Anti-union right-to-work (RTW) laws are key tools in the reproduction of insecure or precarious workers. This article uses a comparison of the passage of RTW laws in Indiana in 1957 and 2012 to examine the process that sociologist Guy Standing and others have termed precariatization, the formation of a new type of insecure labor force. Through a comparison of the passage of the laws and the resistance of organized labor in both cases, the article…
More Powerful Than Dynamite
Thai Jones, More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy (New York: Walker and Company, 2012), 416 pages, $28, hardback. The setting of Thai Jones's wonderful book will be all too familiar to those involved in direct action politics: a liberal urban administration, a radical protest movement, disparities of wealth deepened by economic crisis. A series of incidents sets off a new phase of demonstr…
Dispossession is Nine-tenths of the Law
Anti-union right-to-work (RTW) laws are key tools in the reproduction of insecure or precarious workers. This article uses a comparison of the passage of RTW laws in Indiana in 1957 and 2012 to examine the process that sociologist Guy Standing and others have termed precariatization, the formation of a new type of insecure labor force. Through a comparison of the passage of the laws and the resistance of organized labor in both cases, the article…
More Powerful Than Dynamite
Thai Jones, More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy (New York: Walker and Company, 2012), 416 pages, $28, hardback. The setting of Thai Jones's wonderful book will be all too familiar to those involved in direct action politics: a liberal urban administration, a radical protest movement, disparities of wealth deepened by economic crisis. A series of incidents sets off a new phase of demonstr…
Dispossession is Nine-tenths of the Law
Anti-union right-to-work (RTW) laws are key tools in the reproduction of insecure or precarious workers. This article uses a comparison of the passage of RTW laws in Indiana in 1957 and 2012 to examine the process that sociologist Guy Standing and others have termed precariatization, the formation of a new type of insecure labor force. Through a comparison of the passage of the laws and the resistance of organized labor in both cases, the article…
Clifton Hood. In Pursuit of Privilege
In The Making of the English Working Class (1963), E. P. Thompson famously remarked that the English working class was not conjured to meet the needs of the newly developing capitalist system, but was rather “present at its own making,” as an active agent that drew upon its own traditions, social relations, customs, and skills to form a sometimes cohesive yet often fractious class of workers who could act in their own best interests (Thompson, 10…
Global Problems, Local Solutions
The inspiration for this special issue came at a faculty retreat held on a glorious late summer day on a bucolic campus. In such a setting, what else would Social Work and Labor Studies faculty think about but intractable problems and impossible solutions! We had been thinking of ways that our two disciplines, social work and labor studies, converge, and the obvious answer was that both were oriented towards problem-solving, as were other discipl…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · History (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Administration (probate law) (1 work)