“Inoculations: The Social Politics of Time, Labor, and Public Good in COVID-America”

IF 0.5 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Jennifer L. Klein
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“We are becoming a 24/7 workforce.” —Fair Workweek Initiative “I Can't Breathe” —Eric Garner, George Floyd, Manuel Ellis, Derrick Scott, Byron Williams, Vincente Villela, Ngozi Mbegu, Willie Ray Banks, James Brown… On May 1, 2020, Justa Barrios, a New York City home-care worker and labor activist, passed away from COVID-19. After working twenty-four-hour shifts for fourteen years, Barrios had injuries and compounding medical issues, including asthma, stomach difficulties, and heart problems. Her doctor determined that she could no longer work twenty-four-hour shifts. Yet when the home-care agency received a letter from the doctor requesting Barrios be assigned to eight-hour shifts, the agency dropped her. Barrios fought back. She found her voice in the “Ain't I a Woman?!” Campaign; comrades described her as a “fearless leader.” Stemming from an alliance among female immigrants and US-born garment, plastics, office, and home-care workers, via workers’ centers such as the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, this organizing effort has sought to end twenty-four-hour days—and the legally permissible practice of paying for only thirteen hours—in New York state through direct action, the courts, union arbitration, and state legislation prohibiting twenty-four -hour shifts. Women such as Justa Barros, Lai Yee Chan, Mei Kum Chu, Seferina Rosario, and Sileni Martinez see the “Aint I a Woman?!” Campaign as a “new women's movement fighting for control over our time, health, respect and payment.” As a cross-racial group, members chose to invoke Sojourner Truth, who tied together the causes of slavery abolition and women's rights, emancipation from coerced labor and from patriarchy, the dignity of women's labor and the dignity of release from work. But this legislation, which would seem so obviously humane and jarringly anachronistic, has been stalled in the New York legislature and ignored by Governor Andrew Cuomo for over a year.
“接种:新冠肺炎美国的时间、劳工和公共利益的社会政治”
“我们正在成为一个全天候的劳动力。”-公平工作周倡议“我无法呼吸”-埃里克·加纳、乔治·弗洛伊德、曼努埃尔·埃利斯、德里克·斯科特、拜伦·威廉姆斯、文森特·维莱拉、恩戈齐·姆贝古、威利·雷·班克斯、詹姆斯·布朗……2020年5月1日,纽约市家庭卡工人和劳工活动家贾斯塔·巴里奥斯因新冠肺炎去世。在24小时轮班工作了14年后,巴里奥斯受伤并出现了复杂的医疗问题,包括哮喘、胃部困难和心脏问题。她的医生断定她不能再24小时轮班工作了。然而,当家庭护理机构收到医生的来信,要求将巴里奥斯安排在八小时轮班制中时,该机构放弃了她。巴里奥斯进行了反击。她在“我不是女人吗?!”运动中找到了自己的声音;同志们形容她是一位“无畏的领袖”。这得益于女性移民和美国出生的服装、塑料、办公室和家庭护理工作者之间的联盟,通过全国反血汗工厂动员等工人中心,这项组织工作试图通过直接行动、法院、工会仲裁和禁止24小时轮班的州立法,结束纽约州24小时工作制,以及法律允许的仅支付13小时工资的做法。Justa Barros、Lai Yee Chan、Mei Kum Chu、Seferina Rosario和Sileni Martinez等女性将“Ait I a Woman,从强迫劳动和父权制中解放出来,妇女劳动的尊严和从工作中解放出来的尊严。但这项立法显然是人道的,而且不合时宜,但在纽约立法机构却停滞不前,被州长安德鲁·科莫忽视了一年多。
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期刊介绍: ILWCH has an international reputation for scholarly innovation and quality. It explores diverse topics from globalisation and workers’ rights to class and consumption, labour movements, class identities and cultures, unions, and working-class politics. ILWCH publishes original research, review essays, conference reports from around the world, and an acclaimed scholarly controversy section. Comparative and cross-disciplinary, the journal is of interest to scholars in history, sociology, political science, labor studies, global studies, and a wide range of other fields and disciplines. Published for International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc.
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