A Place on the Corner:
Working Queues in Day Labor
Talk by Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
4:00-6:00 pm
Thomson 211
Drawing on field research collected over almost three years of men (undocumented male migrant and US-born men) who looked for work as day laborers on a set of adjacent street corners in New York City, this talk will examine how the identity of the day laborer is created in a market system where hierarchical structures of race, gender and citizenship, to name a few, collaborate in the moral construction of the good, deserving worker.
Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky is Visiting Faculty in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at UW and is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara. Carolyn’s manuscript, Daily Labors: Marketing Identity and Bodies on a New York City Street Corner, is based on her fieldwork with day laborers in New York City.
