Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tweet[IWS] BLS: DISPARITIES in AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT PLAN AVAILABILITY [30 August 2010]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Compensation and Working Conditions
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/
Disparities in Automatic Enrollment Plan Availability [30 August 2010]
by Javier Celis, San Diego State University
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20100824ar01p1.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/print/cm20100824ar01p1.htm
Abstract:
Savings and thrift plans have become a popular retirement savings alternative to traditional pension plans; the inclusion of an automatic enrollment feature is gaining traction and is especially prevalent in certain worker and establishment groups.
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[IWS] EWC (European Works Councils) NEWS, Issue 2, 2010 [August]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Training and Consultancy Network
"euro-workscouncil.net"
http://www.euro-workscouncil.net/ebr/index.html
EWC (European Works Councils) NEWS
Issue 2, 2010
August 2010
http://www.ewc-news.com/en022010.pdf
[full-text, 15 pages]
For back issues, see -- http://www.ewc-news.com/
Contents:
1. Contradictory rulings on collective bargaining competition
2. Country Viewpoints
3. European Work Councils organize action days
4. Agreement on personnel policy and occupational safety
5. EWC structure adapted after merger
6. New European Work Councils
7. Documents on new EWC Directive
8. Update on the European Company (SE)
9. Establishment of World Work Councils
10. Interesting Web Pages
11. New publications
12. Training and consulting network " euro-workscouncil.net ": Examples of our work
13. Current Seminar Schedule
14. Imprint
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[IWS} BLS: WORKPLACE SAFETY & HEALTH IN THE HEALTH CARE & SOCIAL ASSISTANCE INDUSTRY, 2003-07 [30 August 2010]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Compensation and Working Conditions
Workplace Safety and Health in the Health Care and Social Assistance Industry, 2003-07 [30 August 2010]
by Jill A. Janocha and Ryan T. Smith
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/sh20100825ar01p1.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/print/sh20100825ar01p1.htm
Abstract:
The health care and social assistance industry is characterized by large employment, diverse demographics, and unique occupational safety issues. Over the 5-year period from 2003 to 2007, the number of nonfatal injuries and illnesses in private industry declined; over the same period, the number of fatal occupational injuries in all industries increased somewhat, averaging 129 per year.
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[IWS] JEC: WOMEN & the ECONOMY 2010: 25 Years of Progress But Challenges Remain [25 August 2010]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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United States Congress
Joint Economic Committee
Women and the Economy 2010: 25 Years of Progress But Challenges Remain [25 August 2010]
or
http://jec.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=f9f3a9b8-2f54-4e83-9029-477a3fc73cd5
[full-text, 14 pages]
Includes numerous CHARTS....
[excerpt]
This report, which includes annual data from 1984 through 2009, provides a
comprehensive overview of women’s economic progress over the last twenty-five
years and highlights the additional work left to be done. The role of women in
the American economy is of indisputable importance. The future of the American
economy depends on women’s work, both inside and outside the home.
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[IWS] Census: FEDERAL AID TO STATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009 [31 August 2010]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Census
FEDERAL AID TO STATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009 [31 August 2010]
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/fas-09.pdf
[full-text, 56 pages]
This report presents data on federal government aid to
state and local governments by state and U.S. outlying area.
Coverage is restricted to federal government expenditures
for grants to state and local governments for which data are
available by state and outlying area. For fiscal year 2009
(October 1, 2008, to September 30, 2009), the statistics
compiled cover $552.1 billion. The data are shown by
federal agency and program whenever possible.
CONTENTS
Introduction v
Figures
1. Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, Per Capita Ranges by State: Fiscal Year 2009 vii
2. Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, Amounts and Percentages by Major Agency: Fiscal Year 2009 viii
3. Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, Amounts and Percentages by Major Program Area: Fiscal Year 2009
4. Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, Annual Amounts by Major Agency: Fiscal Years 1981–2009
5. Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, Per Capita Amounts by State, by Agency: Fiscal Year 2009
6. Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, Annual Amounts by Major Program Area: Fiscal Years 1981–2009
7. Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, Per Capita Amounts by State, by Major Program Area: Fiscal Year 2009
Table
1. Federal Government Grants and Other Payments to State and Local Governments, by Agency and for Selected Programs, by State and Outlying Area: Fiscal Year 2009
Appendixes
A. Agency and Selected Program Coverage for Columns in Table 1 -1
B. State Coordinating Agencies, State Data Center Program, U.S. Census Bureau. . . . . . . . . . . . .B-1
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[IWS] Census: CONSOLIDATED FEDERAL FUNDS REPORT 2009 [31 August 2010]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Census
CONSOLIDATED FEDERAL FUNDS REPORT 2009 [31 August 2010]
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/cffr-09.pdf
[full-text, 119 pages]
Press Release
Census Bureau Reports 16 Percent Increase in Federal Domestic Spending in 2009Overall Spending More Than $10,000 Per Person [31 August 2010]
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/governments/cb10-131.html
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that obligations for federal domestic spending increased 16.0 percent in fiscal year 2009 to $3.2 trillion. The 2009 spending total is equivalent to $10,548 per person living in the United States.
The annual percentage change (16.0 percent) is the largest since the Census Bureau began compiling these data in 1983. The increase is in part from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
Entitlement programs Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security comprised 45.7 percent of all funding, or $1.5 trillion. Social Security alone accounted for $709.7 billion of that total. The one-year increase ($136.0 billion) in spending for these three programs was approximately $401 for every person in the United States.
States that had the highest per capita federal spending were Alaska ($20,351), Virginia ($19,734) and Hawaii ($19,001). States with the lowest were Nevada ($7,148), Utah ($7,435) and Georgia ($8,538).
These new figures come from Consolidated Federal Funds Report: 2009 [PDF], which describes the distribution of federal funds by department and agency, and by state and county. A companion report also released today, Federal Aid to States: 2009 [PDF], shows federal grants to state and local governments. These reports do not include interest paid on the federal debt and foreign aid. Although federal expenditure and obligation totals for fiscal year 2009 in these reports include money from the ARRA, specific dollar amounts are not identifiable for all programs.
Federal spending includes expenditures or obligations for grants, salaries and wages, procurement contracts, direct payments for individuals for retirement and disability, and other direct payments.
Grants represented nearly one-quarter (23.0 percent) of federal spending in fiscal year 2009, totaling $744.1 billion. Three federal departments accounted for 77.9 percent of all federal grant money in 2009 — Health and Human Services ($414.9 billion), Education ($83.2 billion) and Transportation ($81.6 billion).
Salaries and wages for federal employees accounted for $299.4 billion (9.2 percent) of all federal spending. The largest share of this category went to Department of Defense payrolls (45.8 percent), followed by federal civilian payrolls (35.3 percent) and U.S. Postal Service payrolls (18.9 percent).
Approximately one in six federal dollars went to procurement contracts, which totaled $550.8 billion, or 17.0 percent of total federal spending. Defense contracts comprised 64.4 percent of that amount, followed by Energy (5.8 percent) and Veterans Affairs (4.0 percent).
Retirement and disability accounted for more than one-quarter (27.2 percent) of all federal spending, at $881.1 billion.
Other direct payments (e.g., housing assistance, unemployment compensation, Medicare) made up 23.6 percent of the federal spending at $762.9 billion.
Other highlights from the Consolidated Federal Funds Report:
•The federal government spent $85.8 billion on unemployment compensation in 2009, an increase of 114.6 percent from 2008. Forty states saw increases in unemployment compensation of more than 100 percent. Meanwhile, 27 states allocated more than $1 billion for unemployment compensation. (See Table 1 Excel | PDF).
•In addition to direct expenditures and obligations, the federal government committed $1.9 trillion in direct loans, guaranteed loans and insurance in 2009. Insurance comprised 69.6 percent of that total, including flood insurance ($1.2 trillion), crop insurance ($77.8 billion) and life insurance for veterans ($14.4 billion).
•Guaranteed or insured loans totaled $510.0 billion, led by home mortgage insurance loans, which accounted for $310.0 billion.
•Direct loans were $54.4 billion, led by federal direct student loans, which accounted for $36.7 billion.
•Medicare and Medicaid per capita obligations were highest in Hawaii ($6,990), Kansas ($4,367) and Wisconsin ($3,544). States that had the lowest were Utah ($1,118), Nevada ($1,216) and Colorado ($1,352).
•Total obligations for two major welfare programs — Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (previously known as the food stamp program) — reached $68.4 billion in 2009, a 31.7 percent increase.
•Grants for the Department of Housing and Urban Development obligated $43.9 billion, a 58.6 percent increase from 2008.
•Department of Transportation grants totaled $81.6 billion in 2009, a 52.9 percent increase from 2008.
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[IWS] BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS BY INDUSTRY: WHOLESALE TRADE, RETAIL TRADE, AND FOOD SERVICES AND DRINKING PLACES INDUSTRIES, 2009 [31 August 2010]
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS BY INDUSTRY: WHOLESALE TRADE, RETAIL TRADE, AND FOOD SERVICES AND DRINKING PLACES INDUSTRIES, 2009 [31 August 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prin1.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin1.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]
Labor productivity - defined as output per hour - fell in wholesale trade, but rose in retail trade and in
food services and drinking places, in 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Productivity
changes were as follows:
-3.3 percent in wholesale trade,
1.5 percent in retail trade, and
1.0 percent in food services and drinking places.
In comparison, labor productivity fell in each of the three sectors overall in 2008. However, both output
and hours declined more rapidly in each of the sectors in 2009 than they did in 2008.
Unit labor costs, which reflect the total labor costs required to produce a unit of output, declined in
retail trade but rose in wholesale trade and food services and drinking places. By comparison, unit labor
costs increased in each of the sectors in 2008.
Productivity rose in 2009 in nearly 60 percent of the 50 detailed industries studied. (See table 1.) This
was higher than the 36 percent of detailed industries that recorded productivity increases the previous
year. In 2009, productivity growth in most industries resulted from declines in hours that more than
offset changes in output. Output grew in only 10 of the detailed industries in 2009, while hours declined
in 47. In comparison, output grew in 14 industries and hours declined in 30 in 2008. In 2009, only a
single industry - farm product raw materials wholesalers - registered productivity growth as a result of
increases in both output and hours. Unit labor costs declined in 46 percent of the detailed industries in
2009, compared to 32 percent in 2008.
AND MUCH MORE...including CHARTS & TABLES....
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Tweet[IWS] ILR Press: NOTES ON NIGHTINGALE: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon [2010]
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)
NOTES ON NIGHTINGALE: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon
Sioban Nelson (Editor); Anne Marie Rafferty (Editor)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5660
$18.95s paper
2010, 184 pages, 6 x 9, 1 halftone, 2 tables
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7611-2
$59.95x cloth
2010, 184 pages, 6 x 9, 1 halftone, 2 tables
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4906-2
Florence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishment of the world's first nursing school; and advocacy for the hygienic treatment of patients and sanitary design of hospitals. In Notes on Nightingale, nursing historians and scholars offer their valuable reflections on Nightingale and analysis of her role in the profession a century after her death on 13 August 1910 and 150 years since the Nightingale School of Nursing (now the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College, London) opened its doors to probationers at St Thomas' Hospital.
There is a great deal of controversy about Nightingale—opinions about her life and work range from blind worship to blanket denunciation. The question of Nightingale and her place in nursing history and in contemporary nursing discourse is a topic of continuing interest for nursing students, teachers, and professional associations. This book offers new scholarship on Nightingale's work in the Crimea and the British colonies and her connection to the emerging science of statistics, as well as valuable reevaluations of her evolving legacy and the surrounding myths, symbolism, and misconceptions.
Contributors: Judith Godden, University of Sydney; Carol Helmstadter, RN (Toronto); Joan E. Lynaugh, University of Pennsylvania; M. Eileen Magnello, University College London; Lynn McDonald, University of Guelph; Sioban Nelson, University of Toronto; Anne Marie Rafferty, King’s College, London; Rachel Verney, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (Visiting Associate, August 2009); Rosemary Wall, King’s College, London
Reviews
"Notes on Nightingale is an extraordinary achievement, bringing together some of the world’s most eminent Nightingale scholars. It explodes myths, develops sophisticated lines of analysis, and reveals the full range of achievement of one of the world’s most iconic figures. In doing so, it also provides a lens through which we might view that most elusive of modern arts: nursing."—Christine Hallett, Director, the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery, the University of Manchester
"In reexamining and reinterpreting the life and influence of Florence Nightingale, the authors of the thought-provoking essays in Notes on Nightingale demonstrate the continued power of Nightingale’s work and image and, most critically, validate the significance of analyzing contemporary issues from a historical perspective."—Rima D. Apple, Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin–Madison
About the Author
Sioban Nelson is Dean and Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, also from Cornell. Anne Marie Rafferty is Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College, London. Rachel Verney is Visiting Associate at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.
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[IWS] ILR Press: POWER IN COALITION: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change [2010]
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Cornell University
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)
POWER IN COALITION: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change
Amanda Tattersall
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5664
$21.00s paper
2010, 224 pages, 6 x 9, 3 halftones, g8 tables, 3 charts/graphs
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7606-8
$59.95x cloth
2010, 224 pages, 6 x 9, 3 halftones, 8 tables, 3 charts/graphs
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4899-7
The labor movement sees coalitions as a key tool for union revitalization and social change, but there is little analysis of what makes them successful or the factors that make them fail. Amanda Tattersall—an organizer and labor scholar—addresses this gap in the first internationally comparative study of coalitions between unions and community organizations.
Tattersall argues that coalition success must be measured by two criteria: whether campaigns produce social change and whether they sustain organizational strength over time. The book contributes new, practical frameworks and insights that will help guide union and community organizers across the globe. The book throws down the gauntlet to industrial relations scholars and labor organizers, making a compelling case for unions to build coalitions that wield "power with" community organizations.
The book centers on three detailed case studies: the public education coalition in Sydney, the Ontario Health Coalition in Toronto, and the living wage campaign run by the Grassroots Collaborative in Chicago. Together they enable Tattersall to explore when and how coalition unionism is the best and most appropriate strategy for social change, organizational development, and union renewal.
Power in Coalition presents clear lessons. Tattersall suggests that "less is more," because it is often easier to build stronger coalitions with fewer organizations making decisions and sharing resources. She finds the role of the individual is traditionally underestimated, even though a coalition's success depends on a leader's ability to broker relationships between organizations while developing the campaign's strategy. The crafting of goals that combine organizational interest and the public interest and take into account electoral politics are crucial elements of coalition success.
For more about Power in Coalition, visit the author's wesbite: http://powerincoalition.com.
Reviews
"Amanda Tattersall's book is the most insightful study of coalitions to date. It is not your typical gauzy view of coalition building, but offers a clear-sighted, practical road map to building more effective labor-community coalitions and in turn an opportunity to transform the labor movement. It combines a rare mix of academic rigor and analysis with an organizer's sensibility, which makes it as useful in the field by practitioners as in the classroom by scholars." —Jeff Blodgett, Executive Director, Wellstone Action
"At last a scholar/activist who understands that coalitions are not merely a way of advancing union goals! Building on three successful coalitions in Australia, Canada, and the United States, Amanda Tattersall identifies three main mechanisms that lead to successful coalition formation between unions and community organizations: identifying common concerns, building organizational relationships, and finding the right scale. She shows how unions can transcend the narrow corporatism of 'business unionism' to return to the social movements they once were in a world that has become more complex and more indifferent to the needs of both workers and communities."—Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University
"If unions are to maximize their influence in the twenty-first century they must build alliances with other organizations around economic, social, and ecological concerns affecting humanity. This book shows it is possible to build the necessary coalitions to achieve this end."—Jack Mundey, instigator of the 1970s Green Bans movement in Sydney
"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power of working people in a changing world, Amanda Tattersall’s book is at once timely, practical, inspiring and challenging. Combining analysis of action with useful theory, it provides an important new tool for activists everywhere —in unions or beyond them—who want to build sustained and sustaining coalitions that have the potential to change the world."—Barbara Pocock, Director, Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia
About the Author
Amanda Tattersall is Director of the Sydney Alliance, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Unions NSW, and Honorary Associate, Work and Organizational Studies, University of Sydney.
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[IWS] ILR Press: CITY OF STRANGERS: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain [2010]
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CITY OF STRANGERS: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
Andrew M. Gardner
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5651
$19.95s paper
2010, 216 pages, 6 x 9, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 map
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7602-0
$59.95x cloth
2010, 216 pages, 6 x 9, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 map
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4882-9
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, that organizes the flow of migrants from South Asia to the Gulf states and contractually links each laborer to a specific citizen or institution. In order to remain in Bahrain, the worker is almost entirely dependent on his sponsor's goodwill. The nature of this relationship, Gardner contends, often leads to exploitation and sometimes violence.
Through extensive observation and interviews Gardner focuses on three groups in Bahrain: the unskilled Indian laborers who make up the most substantial portion of the foreign workforce on the island; the country's entrepreneurial and professional Indian middle class; and Bahraini state and citizenry. He contends that the social segregation and structural violence produced by Bahrain's kafala system result from a strategic arrangement by which the state insulates citizens from the global and neoliberal flows that, paradoxically, are central to the nation's intended path to the future. City of Strangers contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the states of the Arabian Peninsula and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization.
Reviews
"Andrew M. Gardner expertly combines in-depth ethnography with theoretical sophistication in this important look at the complex linkages between labor, migration, globalization, and the structural violence that accompanies the new world economic order. Gardner follows the labyrinthine paths of migrant workers in the Gulf, drawing on powerful qualitative data to complicate existing assumptions about the lives of skilled and unskilled workers in the Middle East's fastest growing region. Beautifully written and compelling, the book sheds light on a population and area of the world that remains understudied despite its rapid emergence onto the global market."—Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College, author of Passionate Uprisings
"Amid the dizzying array of changes taking place across the Persian Gulf, Andrew M. Gardner sheds light on the pervasive but little-studied phenomenon of labor migration. With an anthropologist’s fine eye for detail, he chronicles the structural violence that migrant workers experience in Bahrain. By mapping the machinery that produces this violence, and how it shapes the experiences of Bahrain’s transnational proletariat, Gardner has produced an extremely effective and useful analysis of labor migration both in Bahrain and elsewhere in the region. City of Strangers is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious study of the Persian Gulf in general and its small sheikdoms in particular."—Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University
"All over the world there is a great trade in people. Men and women move to rich countries for the dangerous, dirty, and demeaning jobs we don't want. They seek work abroad for exactly the same reasons we would if we filled their shoes: to feed their children, to seek opportunity, to escape oppression. But on arrival they find new oppression as second-class citizens suffering under laws reminiscent of the worst of Jim Crow. Andrew M. Gardner lifts the lid on their lives and the many ways that they adapt and resist, as well as the ways they are beaten down. This is the best of inquiry, engaged but clear-headed, analytical yet ready to make clear the injustices suffered."—Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, author of Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, and coeditor of To Plead Our Own Cause
"City of Strangers presents new information about the forces that bear on expatriate workers in Bahrain; Andrew M. Gardner’s material on social organizations and newspapers is intriguing. Gardner’s ethnography is compellingly written, and he compares his findings and analysis to other relevant work on the Gulf and on structural violence."—Karen Leonard, University of California Irvine
About the Author
Andrew M. Gardner is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puget Sound.
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New York, NY 10016
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