The everyday civil war
Migrant working men, within and against capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N De Genova (0000-0003-2587-4073, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 243-267 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138106067055 |
| OpenAlex | W2170625459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 16 |
In an industrial workplace distinguished by flagrant health and safety violations and a fairly explicit antagonism between the virtually all-male workforce and the plant management, many of the male Mexican/migrant workers' postures of fearlessness and stoic perseverance evinced a sometimes deadly complicity between the compulsions of their masculinity with their own exploitation. While these male workers participated in their own effective subordination to the mandates of their employers, as labor for capital, this article contends that the constitutive role of antagonism and struggle between labor and capital nonetheless defines some of the decisive parameters of everyday life, and thus ought to be central to all critical social inquiry. It becomes crucial then for ethnography in particular to account for the ethnographer's own institutionally mediated social situation and practice. The article therefore examines some of the material and practical conditions of possibility of its own research endeavor, in order to critically and self-reflexively consider the often-agonistic relationship of the ethnographer to the wider politics of workplace 'training', managerial surveillance, labor discipline and subordination
Complicity · Critical management studies · Emancipation · Ethnography · Everyday life · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Reflexivity · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Workforce · Gender Studies · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America
Sex and conquest
Manufacturing Consent
Genders in Production
Learning to Labor
Ethnography unbound
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Capital
Working the Boundaries
The Sexual Contract
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization
The Terror of the Machine
The Functions and Reproduction of Migrant Labor
The Anthropology of Industrial Work
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |