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2. We Need a Loud and Fractious Poor.
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Maskovsky, Jeff and Piven, Frances Fox
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POVERTY ,PROTEST movements ,POLITICAL science ,EQUALITY ,HUMILIATION - Abstract
This article explores the political consequences of four decades of consistent humiliation of the poor by the most authoritative voices in the land, and offers insights into ways that new movements are creating spaces for poor people's political voices to surface and become relevant again. Our specific concern is the challenge that the current humiliation regime poses to those who seek to revive radical, disruptive and fractious anti‐poverty activism and politics. By humiliation regime, we mean a form of political violence that maltreats those classified popularly and politically as "the poor" by treating them as undeserving of citizenship, rights, public goods or resources, and, importantly, that seeks to delegitimate them as political actors. Our article demonstrates the historical importance of authoritative voices in inspiring political unrest involving poor and working people, charts the depoliticising effects of poverty politics and governance since the 1980s, and highlights the new political possibilities that are surfacing now not just to defeat the very dangerous political forms of Trumpism and the new white nationalism but that seek as well to create something that looks like justice, freedom and equality. We insist on the importance of loud and fractious poor people's politics and call on scholars to direct attention to the incipient political potentialities of poor people today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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3. Financialisation as Monopoly Profit: The Case of US Banking.
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Christophers, Brett
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FINANCIALIZATION ,BANKING industry ,MONOPOLIES ,ECONOMIC competition ,CAPITALISM - Abstract
Abstract: Different economic measures afford different ways of seeing processes of financialisation. In the prototypical case of the US economy, the most compelling evidence of post‐1970s financialisation is found in corporate profits measures. This much has been clear for at least a decade. What remains much less clear, however, is the explanation for the long‐term maintenance and amplification of extreme financial‐sector profitability that financialisation in the United States has and continues to entail. With a specific focus on banking, this article turns to post‐Marxian scholarship on profit rate trends to explain this phenomenon. It argues that limited and declining levels of competition within the US banking sector during recent decades—rooted in high levels of industry concentration, collusive behaviour, and substantial entry barriers—have contributed to sustaining and boosting abnormal sectoral profitability. In doing so, the article theorises financialisation in the United States explicitly in terms of monopoly profit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. Trafficking in US Agriculture.
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Izcara Palacios, Simón Pedro and Yamamoto, Yasutaka
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HISTORY of human trafficking ,HUMAN smuggling ,AGRICULTURAL history ,EMPLOYMENT of agricultural laborers ,UNITED States economic policy ,HISTORY ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Based on a qualitative methodology that includes in-depth interviews with 90 Mexican migrant smugglers and 45 Central American farmworkers, this article analyzes the three separate elements of trafficking in US agriculture, namely acts, means, and purposes. We conclude that some US employers participate in human trafficking by financing or helping to recruit and transport Mexican and Central American migrants to the US by means of 'abuse of a position of vulnerability' for the purposes of involuntary servitude, debt bondage, and sex exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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