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\"How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen-hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line?\"-From the PrefaceIn this gutsy, eye-opening examination of the lives of workers in the New South, Vanesa Ribas, working alongside mostly Latino/a and native-born African American laborers for sixteen months, takes us inside the contemporary American slaughterhouse. Ribas, a native Spanish speaker, occupies an insider/outsider status there, enabling her to capture vividly the oppressive exploitation experienced by her fellow workers. She showcases the particular vulnerabilities faced by immigrant workers-a constant looming threat of deportation, reluctance to seek medical attention, and family separation-as she also illuminates how workers find connection and moments of pleasure during their grueling shifts. Bringing to the fore the words, ideas, and struggles of the workers themselves,On The Lineunderlines how deep racial tensions permeate the factory, as an overwhelmingly minority workforce is subject to white dominance. Compulsively readable, this extraordinary ethnography makes a powerful case for greater labor protection, especially for our nation's most vulnerable workers.

In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his own people. In the critically acclaimedMan Is Wolf to Man,Bardach recounted his horrific experiences in the Kolyma labor camps in northeastern Siberia, the deadliest camps in Stalin's gulag system. In this sequel Bardach picks up the narrative in March 1946, when he was released. He traces his thousand-mile journey from the northeastern Siberian gold mines to Moscow in the period after the war, when the country was still in turmoil. He chronicles his reunion with his brother, a high-ranking diplomat in the Polish embassy in Moscow; his experiences as a medical student in the Stalinist Soviet Union; and his trip back to his hometown, where he confronts the shattering realization of the toll the war has taken, including the deaths of his wife, parents, and sister. In a trenchant exploration of loss, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and existential loneliness, Bardach plumbs his ordeal with honesty and compassion, affording a literary window into the soul of a Stalinist gulag survivor.Surviving Freedomis his moving account of how he rebuilt his life after tremendous hardship and personal loss. It is also a unique portrait of postwar Stalinist Moscow as seen through the eyes of a person who is both an insider and outsider. Bardach's journey from prisoner back to citizen and from labor camp to freedom is an inspiring tale of the universal human story of suffering and recovery.

Relationships between LGBT people and police have been turbulent for some time now, and have been variously characterized as supportive (McGhee 2004) and antagonistic (Radford et al. 2006). These relationships were, and continue to be, influenced by a range of political, legal, cultural, and social factors. This chapter will examine historical and social science accounts of LGBT-police histories to chart the historical peaks and troughs in these relationships. The discussion demonstrates how, in Western contexts, we oscillate between historical moments of police criminalizing “homosexual perversity” and contemporary landscapes of partnership between police and LGBT people. However, the chapter challenges the notion that it is possible to trace this as a lineal progression from a painful past to a more productive present. Rather, it focuses on specific moments, marked by pain or pleasure or both, and how these moments emerge and re-emerge in ways that shaped LGBT-police landscapes in potted, uneven ways. The chapter concludes noting how, although certain ideas and police practices may shift towards more progressive notions of partnership policing, we cannot just take away the history that emerged out of mistrust and pain.

When James L. Cathcart referred to himself and his fellow enslaved Americans as “American Livestock” in 1794, he evoked an undifferentiated group of men, all equally suffering Algerian slavery. In practice, the Ottoman Algerian slave system recognized and reinforced divisions among slaves. Building on Ottoman and North African models of social inclusiveness and mobility, Ottoman Algerians used some as administrative slaves. American and European slaves fell into a socioeconomic structure with elite slaves at the top and menial laborers at the bottom. The disparate slave positions and situations undercut the formation of a Western slave community and gave the Ottoman Algerians an urban system of slavery that largely prevented slave rebellions despite the presence of skilled and unskilled slaves who “grasped the power of cash.” 1

In 2009, a group of gay men in Manchester under the title ‘Out in the City’ got together to record their memories of growing up in Lancashire in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.1 Now pensioners, they remembered various aspects of life, from childhood and schooling to first love and heartbreak. These memories give invaluable insight into the experiences of working-class men in the post-war period, but also pose challenges for the historian, as they test our historical and historiographic understandings of the concept of sexuality in the period before decriminalisation. What all the men had in common was a sense that neither they, nor those around them, had the sense of a language or identity to explain the desires of their youth. Looking back with the hindsight of the gay rights movements and from the sexual landscape of today, these men were keen to highlight a reluctance in their communities to speak of being gay or queer, or of homosexuality at all.2 Some even went so far as to say that gay men did not exist in the working-class world that they inhabited, outside of the odd wayward vicar or teacher who appeared in the tabloids.3 These limited examples were seen as middle-class and therefore belonging to a different breed — something entirely separate from the world evoked in these working-class oral histories. These Manchester men lamented this ignorance and the attendant invisibility that this brought to their sexuality, and came to the conclusion that their past contrasted unfavourably with their present. The story so far is a seemingly obvious one: that before decriminalisation, life could be extremely difficult and opportunities scarce for men who desired other men.

‘If you say “bugger” I’ll give you a spangle’ was the unusual rallying cry that could often be heard coming from Maurice Dobson’s Barnsley corner shop in the 1950s and 1960s.1 Maurice ran the successful business, the hub of the local community, with his long-term partner Fred Halliday. As is suggested by their playful interaction with local young people, Maurice and Fred were open about their relationship, to the point of promenading around Darfield on special occasions in full drag (it was remembered that during the 1950s, they looked like ‘Barbara Cartland and Joanna Lumley’).2 On an average day in the shop, Maurice could often be found wearing pastel suits and lipstick whilst smoking cigarettes in a beautiful cigarette holder. Not what one might expect in a South Yorkshire mining village. The fact that Maurice and Fred were able to not only live openly, but be ‘accepted … celebrated and appreciated’ in this tight-knit, traditional working-class community highlights one of the myriad different ways in which men could enact their emotions and desires within the bounds of traditional working-class society.3

Using labor force survey (LFS) data collected before and during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the Philippines, we showed that hard lockdowns had a larger negative impact on the employment of women who had minor children compared to women who did not have minor children. Among Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines was among the hardest-hit by the pandemic, in terms of both the number of infected and its economic toll. The large economic toll was partly attributable to the extreme and militarized lockdown imposed at the onset of the pandemic in the country’s three most populous and economically-important regions, namely Metro Manila, Calabarzon, and Central Luzon. Using difference-in-differences analysis on pooled LFS data, we showed that female household heads or spouses with children were significantly less likely to have paid employment during the hard lockdown compared to female household heads or spouses without children, even after controlling for important covariates. Among women with children, the employment losses were larger for women with two or more children, suggesting a lockdown-induced parenthood penalty for women in the labor market. This was due in part to the increased care responsibilities disproportionately shouldered by mothers during hard lockdowns, given that children were forced to be at home and do distance learning.

Previous evaluations of job creation schemes (JCS) reveal mostly negative employment effects, mainly due to inherent lock-in effects. In this paper, we assess the impact of an innovative JCS that employs a pre-selection mechanism to target programme participation on unemployed job seekers with very low integration chances, hereby reducing possible lock-in effects. Relying on high-quality administrative as well as survey data, we conduct regression-adjusted matching analyses to estimate the programme effect on integration into regular employment. Our results show that the programme did not succeed to foster labour market integration, but still entails remarkably negative employment effects in the first years after participation. We argue that this results from a principal-agent problem at the last step of the selection mechanism that may have led to cream-skimming rather than targeting on very hard to place workers. However, supplementary analyses reveal that negative effects can be avoided for subgroups with very poor employment chances in case of non-participation. These results are robust to the use of different matching estimators and definitions of non-participation. The inclusion of usually unobservable survey variables as well as placebo tests based on past employment outcomes refute concerns about endogenous selection. From a policy-perspective, these findings imply that targeting JCS on workers with very low integration chances is a key factor to avoid negative employment effects found in previous evaluations. At the methodological level, our analyses add to recent literature that assesses the credibility of non-experimental evaluations based on high-quality administrative data.

Energy transition, including the transition away from fossil fuels, is a difficult and complex process, particularly in emerging and developing economies. One of the key factors determining its effectiveness is the acceptance of its course and consequences by local communities. Taking into account these circumstances, as well as the ongoing period of profound energy sector transformation in Poland, the main objective of this article is to diagnose the perception of energy transition and assess the preparedness of local authorities for its consequences from the perspective of a representative sample of 1863 residents from 19 cities with county rights located in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. The research was conducted in the second quarter of 2025. In analyzing the survey results, descriptive statistics, identification of interdependencies, and non-parametric statistical tests (Mann–Whitney U, Kruskal–Wallis, and Wilcoxon) were employed. The obtained results indicate relative acceptance of decarbonization; however, there is significantly lower support for closing hard-coal mines. Respondents rate the preparedness of local authorities for the consequences of hard-coal mining liquidation in the region as low. Moreover, they believe that the local labor market is better prepared for restructuring changes than the local governments of Silesian cities. The respondents’ answers differ primarily according to gender and education, although the identified relationships are neither obvious nor linear. Furthermore, the age of respondents only influences the perception of the necessity of closing hard-coal mines and the assessment of city authorities’ preparedness for the consequences of this process. The results of the conducted research contribute to the analysis of socio-economic processes accompanying energy transition and may be useful in conducting social consultations and communication and information activities, as well as in developing regional restructuring strategies.