Despotic Time in the U.S.

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
Alex J. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Internal State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Flexible Scheduling ◽  
Internal Labor Markets ◽  
Employment Insecurity ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The U.S ◽  
At Will

This chapter examines the existence of internal labor markets at ConflictCo, looking at flexible scheduling in this workplace regime. While workers at PartnershipCo experienced little employment insecurity, this was not the case at ConflictCo. It was clear that workers at ConflictCo were highly fearful of losing their jobs. This was a consequence of ConflictCo's internal state, which made use of “at-will employment,” meaning that there was no redundancy policy, and managers were free to decide themselves which workers to keep on. Those who lost their jobs received no redundancy pay or notice. There was, therefore, a great deal of employment insecurity among the informants. If flexible discipline is found to be central to the operation of control at ConflictCo, despite the availability of traditional forms of discipline, then it significantly strengthens the case that this is a vital feature of workplace regimes in the twenty-first century.

Military Operations and the Defense Department

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Clark
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Gray Zone ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Electronic Warfare ◽  
Defense Department ◽  
Force Structure ◽  
Joint Operations ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Strategic Context ◽  
The U.S

This article examines the U.S. military’s plans for carrying out combined joint operations across multiple theaters and domains in the twenty-first century. It summarizes the most likely strategic and operational approaches available to future adversaries, such as anti-access/area denial (A2/AD), gray zone warfare, and other asymmetric methods. The article also considers the respective challenges posed by the two likely catalysts for military operations: contested norms and persistent disorder. The U.S. military response to this strategic context is still forming, but there are common themes among the services: the recognition that future operations will entail greater risk; the need to disperse forces to survive on a more lethal battlefield; a desire to create networked forces attacking with a combination of physical and nonphysical (cyber and electronic warfare); and a rebalancing of force structure in terms of both weapon sophistication and mission type.

The Persecuted Body

Facing Fear ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melani Mcalister
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
First Century ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
The World ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
International Religious Freedom Act ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the politics of fear underlying the antipersecution discourse that revolved around evangelical Christians at the turn of the twenty-first century. A video made by the U.S.-based Christian evangelical group Voice of the Martyrs showed that Christians are being persecuted all around the world. By the turn of the twenty-first century, a passionate concern with the persecution of Christians united conservatives as well as liberal and moderate evangelicals. The chapter shows how antipersecution discourse resulted in the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. It also considers the significance of spectacles of the violated body to the discourse of persecution and how intense attention to Christian persecution created a tension for evangelicals between the universalizing language of human rights and a specific commitment to the “persecuted body” of Christ. Finally, it explores how evangelicals' attention to Christian persecution intersects with Islamic concerns.

Despotic Time in the UK

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Alex J. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
Flexible Scheduling ◽  
Internal Labor Markets ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

This chapter traces the historical evolution of working time and internal labor markets in the United Kingdom. The term “internal labor market” refers to the shielding of employment relations from the external labor market through mechanisms such as seniority policies, employment protections, internal promotion ladders, and differentiated job structures based on skill and knowledge development. The chapter then looks at the temporal organization of labor at PartnershipCo. It considers wage rates and pay structure, employment protections, mobility, and promotion opportunities, but finds that flexible scheduling is the most significant means of securing control. Flexible scheduling was found to be highly manager-controlled, even when institutionalized working time regulations were present.

scholarly journals James Baldwin: Interventions

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Robert Jackson ◽  
Sharon P. Holland ◽  
Shawn Salvant
Keyword(s):  
James Baldwin ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Space Property ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Association Convention

“Interventions” was the organizing term for the presentations of three Baldwin scholars at the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago in January of 2019. Baldwin’s travels and activities in spaces not traditionally associated with him, including the U.S. South and West, represent interventions of a quite literal type, while his aesthetic and critical encounters with these and other cultures, including twenty-first-century contexts of racial, and racist, affect—as in the case of Raoul Peck’s 2016 film I Am Not Your Negro—provide opportunities to reconsider his work as it contributes to new thinking about race, space, property, citizenship, and aesthetics.

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