Living the Third Shift

This chapter examines gendered expectations resulting not only from the intersecting relations of race and class but also from the age as well as the inequality of nations that gives rise to particular patterns of international labor migration. Drawing on nine months of ethnographic observations and twenty in-depth interviews with Latina/o adolescent street vendors (sixteen girls and four boys) in Los Angeles, the chapter investigates how Latina girls negotiate a triple shift: street vending, household work, and schoolwork. It also explores the continuities between gendered household divisions of labor and street vending, whether the girls see “third-shift” work obligations as a burden or as a source of empowerment, and how the work that girls do as street vendors both perpetuates and challenges gendered expectations.

A detailed analysis of the mechanism of a carbocationic triple shift rearrangement

The mechanism of a carbocationic triple shift rearrangement is analyzed within the conceptual framework of the reaction force.

Intellectual Disabilities

Ethical issues presented by people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and mental health problems are usually addressed by reference to rights, autonomy, choice, and inclusion. These liberal valuesprovide certainty in the face of uncertain and complex situations. However, Deleuze argues that ethical vision expands more effectively by sitting with repetition: the most obvious repetition in ID is scandals. Inquiries into the abuse of people in the community as well as hospital patients suggest that denial of difficulty associated with ID encourages denial of the difficulty experienced by staff and parents. They also show how an essentially-contested dichotomy between medical and social models is played out, obscuring the significant emotional impact of ID on all parties not least on the individual’s own sense of personhood. We argue for a triple shift in ethical thinking: from individual achievements to enduring relationships; from negative judgment to affirmative living; and from moral rules to practical action.