1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910321054803321

Autore

Du Rose Natasha

Titolo

The governance of female drug users : women's experiences of drug policy / / Natasha Du Rose [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Policy Press, 2015

Bristol, UK : , : Policy Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-4473-3446-9

1-4473-5472-9

1-4473-0783-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

362.29092

Soggetti

Women drug addicts - Services for

Women - Drug use

Drug abuse - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Mar 2022).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; About the author; Introduction; Governing mentalities; Expertise ; Technologies of power ; A feminist sociological perspective ; A comparative approach; Outline of the book; Part One ; 1. Research context; Baby vessels and bad mothers; Psychopathological and emotionally disturbed women; Polluted and polluting women ; Passive dependents or emancipated lawbreakers? ; Rational agents ; 2. Political context ; History of prohibition; Punitive regulation; Neoliberalism, freedom and disordered production

The neoliberal welfare state, risk and responsibilityPart Two; Drug use as a medical-moral-legal hybrid; Drug policy discourse ; 3. Prohibition; Construction of the problem for government: protecting families, young people and communities; Unprecedented increase in the female prison population; Locking up the 'dangerous underclass'; Protection of young people and families through the incarceration of 'unfit' mothers: the impact on children; Irresponsible, unfit mothers: the criminalisation of pregnancy; Dangerous criminals and unrecognised victims ; Conclusion; 4. Medicalisation

Medicalisation of drug use and mutually reinforcing technologiesSocial



control of pathological users ; Harm minimisation and the responsibilisation of dependent users ; Harm reduction, HIV/AIDS and female drug users; Harm reduction as social control: 'state-sponsored' dependent women; Recoverable, changeable, transformable women; Responsible and needy women ; A low priority, but requiring coercion; Conclusion ; 5. Welfarisation; Undeserving addicts; Denial of social services in the US; 'Benefit scroungers' in the UK; Benefit conditions in Canada; Welfarisation of drug-using mothers

Conclusion Part Three ; Technologies of the self; Ascription of characteristics; Normalisation; Responsibilisation; 6. Psychosocial accounts; A short-term solution; Contradictory characteristics; Irresponsible, disordered choice makers; Chemically enslaved addicts ; Dangerous, immoral, criminals, worthy of punishment; Irresponsible, unfit mothers ; Recoverable, programmable, changeable and transformable; Conclusion ; 7. Social stories ; Introduction ; Unrecognised pain; Rational, adaptive, caring, resourceful women; Victims of policy: criminals versus victims

Disciplined, normalised and punished mothersSaveable, changeable, programmable and recoverable; Conclusion ; Conclusion; Appendix: Research methods; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging popular misconceptions of female users, this book is the first to examine how female drug user's identities, and hence their experiences, are shaped by drug policies.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797648503321

Autore

Ness Immanuel

Titolo

Southern insurgency : the coming of the global working class / / Immanuel Ness

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pluto Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-78371-709-2

1-78371-708-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Wildcat: Workers' Movements and Global Capitalism

Disciplina

305.562091724

Soggetti

Working class - Developing countries

Labor unions - Developing countries

Working class

Working class - South Africa

Working class - India

Working class - China

Race relations

Discrimination - Developing countries

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies

Discrimination

Labor unions

Klassenkampf

Arbeiterbewegung

Gewerkschaft

China

Developing countries

India

South Africa

Indien

Südafrika

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Part I. Capitalism and imperialism. The industrial proletariat of the global south -- Migration and the reserve army of labor -- Part II. Case studies. India : neoliberal industrialization, class formation, and mobilization -- China : state capitalism, foreign investment, and worker insurgency -- South Africa : post-apartheid labor militancy in the mining sector -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers' self-organization is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving in ambitious, militant and creative ways. Southern Insurgency will lead the way in examining these organizations in the contemporary era.  Immanuel Ness looks at three key countries: China, India and South Africa. In each case he considers the broader historical forces at play -- the effects of imperialism, the decline of the trade union movement, the class struggle and the effects of the growing reserve army of labor. For each case study, he narrows his focus to reveal the specifics of each grassroots insurgency: the militancy of the miners in South Africa, the new labor organizations in India and export promotion and the rise of worker insurgency in China.   A result of intensive, dedicated firsthand research, at the heart of Southern Insurgency is a study of the nature of the new industrial proletariat in the Global South - a terrifying, precarious existence - but also one of experimentation, solidarity and struggle.  -- Provided by publisher.