Victoria Hattam
Biographic Data
| ID | 642994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Hattam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Hattam |
| SIGNATURE | HATTAM V |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3773-3457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais is a collaborative visual essay by nine people from Migration Mobilities Bristol and Multiple Mobilities Research Cluster, New York. The contributors have been working on questions relating to migration and mobility in a variety of contexts; we went together to Dover and Calais. Our collaboration thus emerges from the middle of ongoing conversations, freezing somewhat arbitrarily our multidirectional exchanges. E…
Border Time: Policing Movement in the Rio Grande Valley
The southern border of the United States has been policed intensively for over half a century. Donald Trump and many other global political leaders have narrowed their policy focuses from bordering more generally to building walls. Even short trips to the US-Mexico border make clear that the wall is not a continuous integrated structure. On the contrary, the wall is fragmented by design. Attending to the materialization of the wall, to the bits a…
Visualizing the Virus
The coronavirus has upended life as we know it. Comparing two sets of government images makes manifest the competing assumptions about what the virus is, where it is located, and how to respond to it. Pandemic politics have been set - and might be reset - visually
Beyond Sovereignty: Building Other Worlds
by detailed accounts of the entanglements among imperialism, national liberation, and anti-immigrant politics now. The argument is expansive, the geographic and historical range daunting, the research and scholarly literatures engaged incredible. Sovereignty is dissected with exquisite skill. That sovereignty and bordering are reinforcing processes is not surprising, but the ways Sharma extends the entanglements, the ways in which she traces the …
The whiteness of capital
Everyday language anticipates capital mobility. Capital flows and liquid assets are invoked at every turn. But language deceives. There is nothing inherently mobile about capital: it is made mobile
Political Loved Ones
Political Loved Ones Victoria Hattam (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. Terrace Park Cemetery, Holtville, California. Photograph by Victoria Hattam, April 1, 2013. [End Page 174] In Holtville, California, the county government buries undocumented migrants who have died crossing the US-Mexico border and places them in paupers' graves. Small cement bricks serve as headstones, each simply inscribed John Doe, Jane Doe, or Baby Do…
What Works
What Works? Alyson Cole (bio) and Victoria Hattam (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936 © Roy Export SAS. Scan courtesy of Cineteca di Bologna. Worlds of work are changing. How polities respond remains a matter of consternation. Brexit, Donald Trump, Yanis Varoufakis, and Marine Le Pen signal a return to economic nationalism, while Xi Jinping, Justin Trudeau, and Angela Merkel pursue economic innovat…
Images Unwalled
The Right to Work? Rethinking Labor and Politics in the 19 th and 21 st Centuries
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Imperial designs: Remembering Vietnam at the US–Mexico border wall
Portable helicopter landing mats designed for Vietnam have been reused to build large sections of the US–Mexico border wall. The Army Corps of Engineers provided institutional links between these two geographically distant imperial projects. After documenting the historical connections between war and wall, I shift the analytic lens to show how mid-century modernism and imperial foreign policy were entangled aesthetically. General Westmoreland, A…
Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change
Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate over institutional change by showing how rules and roles are always subject to reconfiguration. Ever-present creative action is explored in many settings, from land boards in Botswana to civil rights in the US.
From Immigration and Race to Sex and Faith: Reimagining the Politics of Opposition
The article explores contemporary immigrant politics in Boston, Massachusetts to understand the political coalitions behind the immigrant rights rallies held in the spring of 2006. Many scholars and activists have been anticipating the formation of a Black-brown coalition between African Americans and new immigrants. Were the 2006 rallies a manifestation of such an alliance in formation? While important coalitional work is being done in Boston by…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Ethnicity & the boundaries of race: Rereading Directive 15
gories current in American life can be traced to an obscure government edict: Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, promulgated by the Of1⁄2ce of Management and Budget (omb) on May 12, 1977.1 Although the directive was of1⁄2cially limited to federal statistics and administrative reporting, its categories quickly became the de facto standard for American society at large, setting the terms ever since for racial and ethnic classi1⁄2cation in the Uni…
The 1964 Civil Rights Act: Narrating the Past, Authorizing the Future
Civil rights legislation of the sixties and seventies sought to end racial discrimination in the United States; doing so required that the federal government establish an official ethnoracial taxonomy in order to specify who was and was not covered by the various statutes. Specifically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, and the Home Mortgage Act of …
Editors' Remarks
Observant readers of ILWCH will have already noticed some recent changes in the ranks of our editors. They reflect a larger goal of moving towards a periodic rotation which we believe is the best way to bring fresh ideas and approaches and wider regional expertise to the journal
Whiteness: Theorizing Race, Eliding Ethnicity
Arnesen too quickly dismisses recent whiteness scholarship without first taking stock of the ways in which this work has transformed the research agenda in labor history and beyond. Whiteness scholars have made three important contributions: theorizing class as identification, historicizing race, and centering the nation. After briefly elaborating on each of these contributions, I argue that this body of new research has been limited both by its …
History, Agency, and Political Change
Bringing Which State Back In
Victoria C. Hattam, Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1993). David Montgomery, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1993). Melvyn Dubofsky, The State and Labor in Modern America (Chapel Hill, NC: University of Nor…
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
Reply to Lovell: Politics of Commitment or Calculation
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Rethinking Questions of Culture and Institutional Power: A Reply to Fisk
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Rethinking Questions of Culture and Institutional Power: A Reply to Fisk: [Commentary]
In her Review Essay Catherine Fisk provides a very sympathetic and judicious reading of my book Labor Visions and State Power.1 She is especially attuned to my institutional argument concerning the demoralizing impact of judicial regulation on labor politics which she engages provocatively. Her account of my cultural argument, however, is incomplete and less focused in ways that obscure the larger reconceptualization of state-labor relations adva…
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
Journal Article Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States. By Victoria C. Hattam. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. xii, 266 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-07870-X.) Get access Nick Salvatore Nick Salvatore Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1486–1487, https://…
Institutions and Political Change: Working-Class Formation in England and the United States, 1820-1896
Ethnicity & the boundaries of race: Rereading Directive 15
gories current in American life can be traced to an obscure government edict: Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, promulgated by the Of1⁄2ce of Management and Budget (omb) on May 12, 1977.1 Although the directive was of1⁄2cially limited to federal statistics and administrative reporting, its categories quickly became the de facto standard for American society at large, setting the terms ever since for racial and ethnic classi1⁄2cation in the Uni…
History, Agency, and Political Change
Economic Visions and Political Strategies: American Labor and the State,1865–1896
After the Civil War, a new wave of workers' protest swept the country as trade lunions, third parties, eight-hour leagues, and a host of other reform associations sprang up in many cities and towns. For the three decades following the war, no one organization was hegemonic. Instead, there was a proliferation of associations, often advocating quite different programs of labor reform. Accounts of the more prominent organizations such as the Knights…
Imperial designs: Remembering Vietnam at the US–Mexico border wall
Portable helicopter landing mats designed for Vietnam have been reused to build large sections of the US–Mexico border wall. The Army Corps of Engineers provided institutional links between these two geographically distant imperial projects. After documenting the historical connections between war and wall, I shift the analytic lens to show how mid-century modernism and imperial foreign policy were entangled aesthetically. General Westmoreland, A…
Visualizing the Virus
The coronavirus has upended life as we know it. Comparing two sets of government images makes manifest the competing assumptions about what the virus is, where it is located, and how to respond to it. Pandemic politics have been set - and might be reset - visually
Whiteness: Theorizing Race, Eliding Ethnicity
Arnesen too quickly dismisses recent whiteness scholarship without first taking stock of the ways in which this work has transformed the research agenda in labor history and beyond. Whiteness scholars have made three important contributions: theorizing class as identification, historicizing race, and centering the nation. After briefly elaborating on each of these contributions, I argue that this body of new research has been limited both by its …
Rethinking Questions of Culture and Institutional Power: A Reply to Fisk: [Commentary]
In her Review Essay Catherine Fisk provides a very sympathetic and judicious reading of my book Labor Visions and State Power.1 She is especially attuned to my institutional argument concerning the demoralizing impact of judicial regulation on labor politics which she engages provocatively. Her account of my cultural argument, however, is incomplete and less focused in ways that obscure the larger reconceptualization of state-labor relations adva…
Economic Visions and Political Strategies: American Labor and the State,1865–1896
After the Civil War, a new wave of workers' protest swept the country as trade lunions, third parties, eight-hour leagues, and a host of other reform associations sprang up in many cities and towns. For the three decades following the war, no one organization was hegemonic. Instead, there was a proliferation of associations, often advocating quite different programs of labor reform. Accounts of the more prominent organizations such as the Knights…
Institutions and Political Change: Working-Class Formation in England and the United States, 1820-1896
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the …
Reply to Lovell: Politics of Commitment or Calculation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rethinking Questions of Culture and Institutional Power: A Reply to Fisk
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rethinking Questions of Culture and Institutional Power: A Reply to Fisk: [Commentary]
In her Review Essay Catherine Fisk provides a very sympathetic and judicious reading of my book Labor Visions and State Power.1 She is especially attuned to my institutional argument concerning the demoralizing impact of judicial regulation on labor politics which she engages provocatively. Her account of my cultural argument, however, is incomplete and less focused in ways that obscure the larger reconceptualization of state-labor relations adva…
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
Journal Article Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States. By Victoria C. Hattam. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. xii, 266 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-07870-X.) Get access Nick Salvatore Nick Salvatore Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1486–1487, https://…
Bringing Which State Back In
Victoria C. Hattam, Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1993). David Montgomery, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1993). Melvyn Dubofsky, The State and Labor in Modern America (Chapel Hill, NC: University of Nor…
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
History, Agency, and Political Change
Whiteness: Theorizing Race, Eliding Ethnicity
Arnesen too quickly dismisses recent whiteness scholarship without first taking stock of the ways in which this work has transformed the research agenda in labor history and beyond. Whiteness scholars have made three important contributions: theorizing class as identification, historicizing race, and centering the nation. After briefly elaborating on each of these contributions, I argue that this body of new research has been limited both by its …
The 1964 Civil Rights Act: Narrating the Past, Authorizing the Future
Civil rights legislation of the sixties and seventies sought to end racial discrimination in the United States; doing so required that the federal government establish an official ethnoracial taxonomy in order to specify who was and was not covered by the various statutes. Specifically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, and the Home Mortgage Act of …
Editors' Remarks
Observant readers of ILWCH will have already noticed some recent changes in the ranks of our editors. They reflect a larger goal of moving towards a periodic rotation which we believe is the best way to bring fresh ideas and approaches and wider regional expertise to the journal
Ethnicity & the boundaries of race: Rereading Directive 15
gories current in American life can be traced to an obscure government edict: Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, promulgated by the Of1⁄2ce of Management and Budget (omb) on May 12, 1977.1 Although the directive was of1⁄2cially limited to federal statistics and administrative reporting, its categories quickly became the de facto standard for American society at large, setting the terms ever since for racial and ethnic classi1⁄2cation in the Uni…
From Immigration and Race to Sex and Faith: Reimagining the Politics of Opposition
The article explores contemporary immigrant politics in Boston, Massachusetts to understand the political coalitions behind the immigrant rights rallies held in the spring of 2006. Many scholars and activists have been anticipating the formation of a Black-brown coalition between African Americans and new immigrants. Were the 2006 rallies a manifestation of such an alliance in formation? While important coalitional work is being done in Boston by…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change
Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate over institutional change by showing how rules and roles are always subject to reconfiguration. Ever-present creative action is explored in many settings, from land boards in Botswana to civil rights in the US.
Imperial designs: Remembering Vietnam at the US–Mexico border wall
Portable helicopter landing mats designed for Vietnam have been reused to build large sections of the US–Mexico border wall. The Army Corps of Engineers provided institutional links between these two geographically distant imperial projects. After documenting the historical connections between war and wall, I shift the analytic lens to show how mid-century modernism and imperial foreign policy were entangled aesthetically. General Westmoreland, A…
The Right to Work? Rethinking Labor and Politics in the 19 th and 21 st Centuries
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political Loved Ones
Political Loved Ones Victoria Hattam (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. Terrace Park Cemetery, Holtville, California. Photograph by Victoria Hattam, April 1, 2013. [End Page 174] In Holtville, California, the county government buries undocumented migrants who have died crossing the US-Mexico border and places them in paupers' graves. Small cement bricks serve as headstones, each simply inscribed John Doe, Jane Doe, or Baby Do…
What Works
What Works? Alyson Cole (bio) and Victoria Hattam (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936 © Roy Export SAS. Scan courtesy of Cineteca di Bologna. Worlds of work are changing. How polities respond remains a matter of consternation. Brexit, Donald Trump, Yanis Varoufakis, and Marine Le Pen signal a return to economic nationalism, while Xi Jinping, Justin Trudeau, and Angela Merkel pursue economic innovat…
Images Unwalled
The whiteness of capital
Everyday language anticipates capital mobility. Capital flows and liquid assets are invoked at every turn. But language deceives. There is nothing inherently mobile about capital: it is made mobile
Visualizing the Virus
The coronavirus has upended life as we know it. Comparing two sets of government images makes manifest the competing assumptions about what the virus is, where it is located, and how to respond to it. Pandemic politics have been set - and might be reset - visually
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