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Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West by Geoff Mann (Paperback, 2007)

A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues Geoff Mann. Beyond being a quantitative reflection of productivity or bargaining power, a wage is a political arena in which working people's identity, culture, and politics are negotiated and developed. In Our Daily Bread , Mann examines struggles over wages to reveal ways in which the wage becomes a critical component in the making of social hierarchies of race, gender, and citizenship. Combining a fresh analysis of radical political ecomy with a critical assessment of the role of white men in North American labor politics, Mann addresses the issue of class politics and places the problem of interests squarely at the center of political ecomy. Rejecting the idea that interests are self-evident or unproblematic, Mann argues that workers' interests, and thus wage politics, are the product of the ongoing effort by wage workers to focus on quality in a socioecomic system that relentlessly quantifies. Taking three wage disputes in the natural resources industry as his case studies, Mann demonstrates that wage negotiation is t simply emblematic of ecomic conflict over the distribution of income but also represents critical contests in the cultural politics of identity under capitalism.

Place of Publication
Chapel Hill
Spine
20mm
Series Title
Cultural Studies of the United States
Content Note
2 Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Author Biography
Geoff Mann Is Assistant Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University.
Date of Publication
15/09/2007
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Economics: Professional & General

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