Michael Denning

(Leave of absence Spring 2015) Wm R Kenan Jr Prof American Studies and English
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320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511-3627
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Papers

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September 17, 2015

The occupation of one’s place of work has long been a central figure of labor and livelihood movements: though instances of workplace occupation are relatively rare and their durations brief, they have had a disproportionate imaginative impact. This essay considers the imaginative lineaments of workplace occupations—from the factory occupations of 1917–19 to the worker occupations of the...

September 17, 2015
Is the security guard the representative worker of neoliberalism? Over the last fifty years, private security workers have come to outnumber public security workers, as the multinational private security industry has grown rapidly, the product both of the privatization of policing, the marketing of “security...
July 1, 2015

SLIDE “Money is the god of this world,” the young Engels wrote; “the bourgeois takes the proletarian’s money from him and so makes a practical atheist of him.” (MECW 4:412) The marxist theory of money usually begins with Marx’s account of the social origins of money. In this part of our presentation, I will begin instead with Engels’ account of the cultural effects of money. BLANK SLIDE
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