Magic Wands and Monkey Brains: Is Labor Ready to Lead Society in the New Struggle Over Data?

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 422-431
Author(s):  
Biju Mathew
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Multiple Production ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Production Processes

Based on extensive conversations with Uber, Lyft, and Ola drivers across multiple cities in the United States and India, this article argues that gig/platform work operates through a reorganization of established labor process with data at the center of such changes. Not only is data central to a dynamic restructuring of labor processes but data as “value” moves across multiple production processes enabling a new spatiotemporal fix. Data as “value/capital” thus enters a potentially endless cycle of value creation and appropriation. This makes possible for the labor movement to move away from narrow business unionism and instead build a new politics that has at its center data as unaccounted value produced by workers.

Origins and consequences of economic globalization: moving beyond a flawed orthodoxy

2021 ◽  
pp. 135406612098342
Author(s):  
Syed Javed Maswood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Network ◽  
New Production ◽  
Supply Chain Networks ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Liberal Trade

Contemporary economic globalization is typically seen as a product of both trade and economic liberalization after the Second World War and of technological advances that have made it possible to overcome coordination and management of geographically dispersed production units. Trade liberalization and technological advances were certainly important variables, but I argue that it was neo-protectionist American policies of the early 1980s that provided the initial catalyst for globally networked production processes. American protectionism encouraged Japanese investment in the United States that allowed US car manufacturers to learn the essentials of network manufacturing as practiced by Japanese transplants in the United States. In the next stage of global network manufacturing, liberal trade played a much more pivotal role because the global supply chains could not obviously be maintained without liberal trade. In this paper, I also discuss the likelihood of a reversal and suggest that globalization is unlikely to reversed in a significant way. Liberal trade is essential to the integrity of global supply chain networks, but these new production processes have themselves created a firewall against future systemic protectionism.

The Early Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

1962 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Maxwell Whiteman ◽  
Aaron Antonovsky ◽  
Elias Tcherikower
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Volume, intensity and intra-industrial proportion of bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States 1981-2017

Norteamérica ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dulce Albarrán Macías
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Intensity ◽  
Trade Volume ◽  
Production Processes

The aim of this paper is to characterize the bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States during the period 1981-2017, highlighting the effects of Mexico's accession to the GATT and the entry into force of NAFTA, as well as the entry of China into the WTO. Although there have been decelerations at some point, results show an increase in trade volume and, consequently, in the intensity of bilateral trade, but in the latter case with some falls resulting from the different growth rates of world trade. Intra-industrial trade, meanwhile, recorded sustained growth, which could reflect a greater vertical integration of production processes. Keywords: trade volume, trade intensity, intra-industrial trade, Grubel and Lloyd index added and corrected, economic integration.

Alternative Pluralisms: Israeli and American Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective

1989 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary J. Jacobsohn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Institutional Evolution ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Legal Development ◽  
New Politics ◽  
American Model

Constitutional transplantation, the process by which the constitutional practice of one society becomes an important source for the legal development of another, has figured importantly in the institutional evolution of new politics. In this article, I examine the constitutional experience of Israel and the United States, two societies that share a language of jurisprudential discourse while differing significantly in a number of polically relevant ways. In particular, the fact that both societies can be described as pluralistic only conceals the fact that they represent alternative models of pluralism that may render problematic the the transferablity of constitutional outcomes from one place to another. Thus, the literature of modern constitutionalism, which has tended to emphasize the rights-based liberal ethic of individualism, is arguably more compatible with an American model in which the principles of the “procedural republic” are more unproblematically embraced. To pursue this question, I look at two issues—the advisability of adopting a bill of rights and the appropriate stance of the regime on the question of free speech—that allow us to reflect upon the limits and possibilities of constitutional transplantation.

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