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labor rights recognized by federal law

  1. The right to engage in concerted activity for mutual aid and protection (Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act).
  2. The right not to be ordered by a federal court to stop such activity (Section 4 of the Norris-LaGuardia Act).
  3. The right to refuse to perform abnormally dangerous work …
—p.20 Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law Where Do Workers’ Rights Come From? (17) by Daniel Gross
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the somewheres cling to the soil

However problematically, incompletely, and tendentiously, Schmitt anticipates the experience of globalization by Goodhart’s “somewheres” for whom attachments to nation, family, property, and whiteness are mobilized as a politically reactionary formation. Missing from both accounts is the toxic mix …

—p.187 In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West No Future for White Men: Nihilism, Fatalism, and Ressentiment (161) by Wendy Brown
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three tectonic shifts

Above all, when neoliberalism is reduced to economic policy or rationality, it blinds us to three tectonic shifts in the organization and consciousness of space that both spur certain political reactions today and organize the theater in which they occur. The first of these shifts is the lost horiz…

—p.183 No Future for White Men: Nihilism, Fatalism, and Ressentiment (161) by Wendy Brown
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perhaps negation is what remains

[...] Refracting this politics of indifference through the nihilistic disintegration of a social compact and through lost faith in capacities to control human powers and arrangements takes us beyond Hochschild’s inclination to root this sentiment in her subjects’ experience of social and political …

—p.170 No Future for White Men: Nihilism, Fatalism, and Ressentiment (161) by Wendy Brown
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every possible way to buy their way out of crowding

And yet there is an important aspect of the neoliberalization of everyday life that salts this wound: the deep inequality of access and hierarchies of status organizing every part of commerce and what remains of public life. As works such as Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy argue, today the…

—p.175 No Future for White Men: Nihilism, Fatalism, and Ressentiment (161) by Wendy Brown