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Katznelson's Working Within the System Now
Germany has been reunified. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have fractured into ethnically defined nationalist republics trying to dismantle decades of communist political and economic structures and replace them with free markets and free marketplaces of ideas. It seems only fitting that Ira Katznelson should publically embrace liberal political theory with a new “zest for political engagement”, enthusiastically endorsing the old liberal vision of political science as a discipline, and thrusting both onto labor historians as the perfect solution to political and epistemological crises in their field.In response, I would say to Katznelson, “You're working within the system now, but do we all need to?” Even more significantly, did the working-class populations we study operate within a liberal framework sufficiently enough to make liberal, state-centered concerns—the relationships and negotiations between actors in civil society (particularly articulated through unions and parties) and the liberal state—the “most potent tools” for political and historical analysis?Histor
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From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America
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Colston E. Warne Lecture: Is it Time for Another Round of Consumer Protection? The Lessons of Twentieth-Century U.S. History
The first year of Barack Obama's presidency has returned consumer issues to center stage, with several contentious struggles over consumer protection. This moment can be viewed as a fourth wave of the twentieth-century consumer movement, and a comparison with the first three waves (during the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the 1960s–1970s) offers instructive insights. In particular, the contemporary battle over the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bears striking similarities to the failed campaign for a Consumer Protection Agency in the 1970s.Histor
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Struggling on the Home Front: The Personal, the Political, and Working-Class Women
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Consumo e gênero: uma revisão da produção historiográfica recente sobre a América Latina no século XX
A partir de una revisiĂłn de la producciĂłn historiográfica reciente que estudia el siglo XX, este artĂculo muestra la relevancia del gĂ©nero para la construcciĂłn de una historia del consumo en AmĂ©rica Latina. Con este objetivo, se enfoca el análisis en tres lĂneas de investigaciĂłn que, desde una aproximaciĂłn interseccional, aportan nuevas miradas y preguntas: la primera destaca la dimensiĂłn polĂtica del consumo, centrándose en la relaciĂłn entre gĂ©nero y clase; la segunda aborda consumo y trabajo domĂ©stico, señalando el vĂnculo entre gĂ©nero y naciĂłn; y la tercera analiza cultura material y corporalidades, destacando la articulaciĂłn entre gĂ©nero y edad.Starting from a recent historiographical production’s revision studying the 20th Century, this article depicts the relevance of gender for the history of consumption-building in Latin America. Bearing that in mind, the analysis is geared to three researching lines, contributing with new perspectives and questions, as from an inter sectorial approach: the first one highlights the political dimension of consumption based upon the interaction between gender and class; the second addresses consumption and domestic work, displaying a link between gender and nation, and the third one analyses material culture and corporality emphasizing upon the articulation between gender and age.A partir de uma revisĂŁo da produção historiográfica recente que estuda o sĂ©culo XX, este artigo mostra a relevância do gĂŞnero para a construção de uma histĂłria do consumo na AmĂ©rica Latina. Com esse objetivo, a análise está focada em trĂŞs linhas de pesquisa que, sob uma aproximação interseccional, contribuem com novos olhares e perguntas: a primeira destaca a dimensĂŁo polĂtica do consumo e foca-se na relação gĂŞnero e classe; a segunda aborda consumo e trabalho domĂ©stico, e sinaliza o vĂnculo entre gĂŞnero e nação; a terceira analisa cultura material e corporalidade, e destaca a articulação entre gĂŞnero e idade.Fil: PĂ©rez, InĂ©s. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Humanidades. Departamento de Sociologia; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Humanidades. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios HistĂłricos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - Mar del Plata; Argentin
Through Oceans Darkly: Sea Literature and the Nautical Gothic
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Genetic Determinants of Phosphate Response in Drosophila
Phosphate is required for many important cellular processes and having too little phosphate or too much can cause disease and reduce life span in humans. However, the mechanisms underlying homeostatic control of extracellular phosphate levels and cellular effects of phosphate are poorly understood. Here, we establish Drosophila melanogaster as a model system for the study of phosphate effects. We found that Drosophila larval development depends on the availability of phosphate in the medium. Conversely, life span is reduced when adult flies are cultured on high phosphate medium or when hemolymph phosphate is increased in flies with impaired Malpighian tubules. In addition, RNAi-mediated inhibition of MAPK-signaling by knockdown of Ras85D, phl/D-Raf or Dsor1/MEK affects larval development, adult life span and hemolymph phosphate, suggesting that some in vivo effects involve activation of this signaling pathway by phosphate. To identify novel genetic determinants of phosphate responses, we used Drosophila hemocyte-like cultured cells (S2R+) to perform a genome-wide RNAi screen using MAPK activation as the readout. We identified a number of candidate genes potentially important for the cellular response to phosphate. Evaluation of 51 genes in live flies revealed some that affect larval development, adult life span and hemolymph phosphate levels
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