Work, Race, and Economic Citizenship

• Autores: Karen Brodkin
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. Extra 9, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Crisis, value, and hope: rethinking the economy), págs. 116-125
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper examines campaigns in two US social movements, an African American unionization struggle in the 1960s and 1970s, and a recent environmental justice campaign in a Latina/o community. These and the larger movements of which they are a part have been movements of the most economically precarious sectors of the population and have also been historically reliable sources of hope and inclusive regimes of economic and civic value. These regimes manifest in everyday ways that participants in these campaigns construct economic value and in how they link that economic value to their claims for full civic membership. I develop the concept of economic citizenship�namely, that clashes over economic values and social worth are double stranded and mutually constituting. That is, economic regimes of value (capitalist and otherwise) are key to constituting social worth and civic belonging, and notions of civic worthiness in turn constitute economic value.