Performing the Filipina “mail-order bride”: Queer neoliberalism,affective labor,and homonationalism

The 2005 video/performance art piece, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride, by the Filipina American performance-art ensemble, the Mail Order Brides, examines the role of affective labor in constituting gay marriage as a form of US homonational belonging. In a contemporary context of capitalist globalization, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride critiques the subjugation of the third-world woman worker within a queer neoliberal logic, highlighting the inability of the mainstream US LGBT movement to address issues of race, migration, and labor. The Mail Order Brides enact forms of feminist camp and ethnic drag to denaturalize the affective labor that is embodied within the figure of the Filipina “mail-order bride.” In doing so, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride links an analysis of transnational Filipina labor with a critique of queer cultural politics in the US In its critique of queer neoliberalism, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride builds on and contributes to queer of color social movements committed to racial and economic justice.     

工会参与基层劳动争议调解机制研究

我国虽然在现有劳动争议处理程序的各个环节都对工会的作用作出了相关规定,但由于工会缺乏独立性、劳动争议处理程序缺乏法律的强制性保障等原因,工会参与劳动争议处理大多流于形式,应逐步完善工会参与基层劳动争议调解机制,切实发挥工会维权职能。     

THIRD FRONT RAILROADS AND INDUSTRIAL MODERNITY IN LATE MAOIST CHINA

Abstract

In the late 1960s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) became concerned that the United States or the Soviet Union might invade. To protect national sovereignty, the Party carried out a massive campaign to industrialize China's West called the Third Front. This article focuses on Third Front railway building. It shows that, although Third Front railroads initially had problems, they eventually integrated large parts of western China into nationwide industrial networks, which accelerated and standardized regional transportation. To build railroads, the CCP compensated for the country's shortage of industrial capital with massive inputs of labor. This industrialization strategy placed a heavy burden on rural men. To boost morale, the CCP organized thought campaigns that praised hard work as a revolutionary contribution to China's industrialization and defense. This collective narrative of national security and industrial progress never entirely silenced discontent, but it did provide workers with a way to think about hardship.     

Workers,parties and a “New Deal:” A comparative analysis of corporatist alliances in Mexico,and the United States, 1910–1940

Mexico experienced the twentieth century’s first social revolution, a decade of struggle from which emerged a new political regime – a post-revolutionary authoritarian or single-party state one – with President Lázaro Cárdenas as leader by 1934. This post-revolutionary creation included organized labor and peasants, a strong interventionist state and a hegemonic party. Cárdenas’ U.S. counterpart, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, too, was leading dramatic ‘New Deal’ institutional and political revolution in the 1930s and 1940s that spawned a new order of expanded federal government, a renovated Democratic Party, and new movements and interest groups, notably, labor. Both nations featured the same major actors: the state, political parties, and organized labor. Both presidents calculated that preserving labor alliances was crucial for formation and legitimization of a new political order, for maintaining conditions conducive to private-sector investment and economic growth, and for political and economic crisis management. Labor’s growing role reshuffled corporatist alliances within and between international neighbors. This study places Mexico and the United States in comparative context in the early twentieth century and analyzes elite control and inclusion of organized labor in transformation of political landscapes in two different political regimes – a democratic one couched in an established constitution and a post-revolutionary authoritarian one born of a bloody upheaval.     

劳动争议一裁终局制度适用问题探究

我国劳动争议中的“一裁终局”制度,是我国的《劳动争议阔解仲裁法》在基本维持传统“一裁两审· 处理机制的基础上,具有原创性的制度设计。但该制度的实际执行效果并未完全达到立法者的预期。司法实践中适用 “一裁终局”存在诉权受限面临法理质疑、劳动仲裁公信力不足,一裁终局实际执行效果不理想等问题,亟待解决。因 此,统一对一裁终局适用范固的理解、扩大劳动争改一我终局的适用范固、完善我国劳动仲裁监督机制等成为解决此 间题的合理方案。     

《劳动争议调解仲裁法》对劳动争议处理制度的完善

《劳动争议调解仲裁法》在坚持《劳动法》基本原则的前提下,根据经济和社会发展的要求,总结现行劳动争议处理制度的实践经验和不足,对劳动争议处理制度做了进一步完善,尽最大可能将劳动争议案件解决于基层,维护当事人合法权益。同时《劳动争议调解仲裁法》的颁布实施,一方面赋予了工会更广阔的履职空间,另一方面也为劳动者提供了公正高效的法律救济的途径。     

论经济技术创新工程的实现途径

要扎实有效地开展经济技术创新工程 ,提高广大职工的创新意识和技术素质 ,是实现经济技术创新工程的基础 ;开展形式多样的劳动竞赛活动 ,是实现经济技术创新工程的有效载体 ;建立有利于技术创新的新机制 ,是实现经济技术创新工程的重要保障。     

私营企业劳动关系的特点对工会工作的思考

目前,我国私营企业劳动关系既对立又统一,而总体上则存在着内在矛盾的对立性.工会作为劳动关系矛盾的产物,应顺应劳动关系的特点,有的放矢地开展工作,切实履行好其维护职工合法权益的基本职能.     

恩格斯城乡融合思想及其当代价值

一百多年过去了,恩格斯在《反杜林论》一书中论述的城乡融合思想在今天仍有显著的价值,其理论源于18世纪空想主义者,又实现了对空想主义的扬弃。城乡融合思想回答了人为什么会发生异化,并且从人与自然和谐的角度出发,提出了生态平衡的思想。对于消除我国多年存在的城乡二元对立的结构有重要指导意义。     

关于劳务派遣单位与劳务用工单位的侵权责任——兼论《侵权责任法》第34条第2款的适用

劳务派遣单位与劳务用工单位的侵权责任是用人单位责任的一种特殊形态。采用劳务派遣用工方式时,劳务用工单位责任的理论基础为报偿说,适用无过错责任原则。劳务派遣单位责任的理论基础为控制理论,适用过错责任原则。劳务派遣单位与劳务用工单位均为责任主体时,用工单位应先承担责任,劳务派遣单位承担与其过错相应的补充责任。用工单位承担全部责任后,可以向劳务派遣单位追偿。劳务派遣单位虽不能以劳务派遣协议中有免除其责任的约定对抗受害人要求赔偿的请求,但可以以此作为对抗用工单位追偿请求的抗辩事由。