The Dehumanization of Man: Dimensions and Processes

This paper is concerned with the dimensions and processes of dehumanization within the context of our contemporary social order. It considers briefly the nature of post-industrial society and its dehumanizing consequences, discussing the various dimensions of dehumanization articulated by various writers. The core argument is that dehumanization is created by external social structural conditions and only later becomes internally self-generating within the individual, which can lead to a self-perpetuating dehumanization syndrome.     

Differential Health and Social Needs of Older Adults Waitlisted for Public Housing or Housing Choice Vouchers

Affordable housing is an important form of income security for low-income older persons. This article describes characteristics of older persons waitlisted for either public housing or a housing choice voucher (HCV; previously Section 8) in Portland, Oregon. 358 persons (32% response rate) completed a mailed survey with questions about demographics, health and housing status, food insecurity, and preference for housing with services. Findings indicate that many waitlisted older persons experienced homelessness or housing instability, poor health, high hospital use, and food insecurity. Public housing applicants were significantly more likely to report lower incomes, homelessness, and food insecurity than HCV applicants. We conclude with policy implications for housing and health agencies that serve low-income older persons.     

Life 'Inside the Shell': A Needs Survey of Spinal Cord-injured Wheelchair Users in a Black South African Township

The paper focuses on the experiences of a sample of black spinal cord-injured people living in Soweto. It is argued that their lives are marked by poverty and social isolation. Both are the outcome of environmental and attitudinal barriers. These barriers operate against both disabled people and black people in apartheid South Africa. Therefore black disabled people are doubly discriminated against. Both sets of constraints prevent them from developing their abilities and joining with others to lead socially productive and satisfying lives.     

Steel,Nature and Society

The paper analyses the impact of free-market corporate logic on nature and society through focusing on ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer. The rapid expansion of this company from the Global South was achieved through strategic acquisitions of privatized state steel companies. This growth is characterized by processes which seriously altered nature in ways which proved detrimental to society. This impact is considered through field research in a South African community living in proximity to the steel mill in the Vaal Triangle. The paper evaluates both local and global mobilizations for nature, concluding that a movement-orientated globalization from below appears to be the only pathway to challenge the logic of global corporations.

El artículo analiza el impacto de la lógica del mercado libre corporativo sobre la naturaleza y la sociedad a través del enfoque de ArcelorMittal, el mayor productor de acero en el mundo. La rápida expansión de esta compañía desde el hemisferio sur, se logró mediante adquisiciones estratégicas de compañías estatales privatizadas de acero. Este crecimiento se caracteriza por procesos que alteran seriamente la naturaleza, en formas que se comprobaron ser perjudiciales para la sociedad. Este impacto es considerado mediante una investigación en el campo, a una comunidad surafricana que residía en las proximidades de la acería en el Triángulo de Vaal. El artículo evalúa tanto las movilizaciones locales como globales por la naturaleza, concluyendo que la globalización orientada a un movimiento desde abajo, parece ser la única senda para desafiar la lógica de las corporaciones globales.

通过对世界上最大的钢铁生产商ArcelorMittal的分析,本文论述自由市场公司的逻辑对自然和社会的影响。这家来自全球的南方的公司的快速扩张主要是通过对已经私有化了的国家钢铁公司的战略性并购实现的。这种增长是以已经被证明为对社会有害的对大自然的严重改变为特征的。在南非Vaal

三角地区的一个靠近钢铁厂的社区,我们的田野调查了这种影响。为了大自然,本文评估当地的和全球的流动化,从而得出结论认为,以自于下层的流动为导向的全球化似乎是唯一的挑战全球公司的逻辑的路径。

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В статье анализируется влияние корпоративной логики свободного рынка на природу и общество посредством внимательного рассмотрения ArcelorMittal, крупнейшего производителя стали в мире. Быстрое расширение этой компании с “Глобального Юга” было достигнуто посредством стратегических приобретений приватизированных государственных металлургических компаний. Этот рост характеризуется процессами, которые серьезно изменили природу способами, которые оказались вредными для общества. Это воздействие рассматривают посредством полевых исследований в южноафриканском сообществе, живущем в близости к сталелитейному заводу в Ваальском Треугольнике. Статья оценивает локальную и глобальную мобилизацию, применимую к природе, заключив, что глобализация ориентированная на движение снизу, кажется, единственный путь поставить под сомнение логику глобальных корпораций.     

A Gendered Analysis of the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Contemporary South Africa

This article argues that African working class households are the sites of a crisis of social reproduction in contemporary South Africa. Through a gendered analysis of five townships in Emnambithi the article demonstrates that African working class women are the shock absorbers of this crisis. While feminist scholars point to a growing crisis of social reproduction as a global phenomenon, the South African material illustrates how poor women experience this in the South.     

Beyond the nature–labour divide: trade union responses to climate change in South Africa

ABSTRACT

We present the life histories of two environmentally engaged unionists in South Africa, who were decisive for formulating the environmental programmes of their respective trade unions. Their experiences of participating in the resistance against apartheid in universities and factories taught them the necessity to connect different struggles and equipped them with the knowledge and ability to connect the fight for workers’ rights with the fight against environmental degradation. Both activists experienced the difficulty of integrating ‘the environment’ politically and practically into a trade union agenda. The labour movement has traditionally experienced nature as a place outside of work to be enjoyed for recreation. While nature constitutes an indispensable condition for labour, it has been privately appropriated by Capital. For environmental policies to form an integral part of union agendas, nature needs to be wrestled away from its appropriation by Capital and understood as an inseparable ally of labour.     

Economic socialization in children in a midwestern American community

This study is part of an international program of research involving fifteen countries. The goal of the research program is to advance international understanding of economic socialization in children. This study attempts to describe and understand this process in American children aged 8, 11 and 14. In-depth interviews were used to learn about economic understanding, economic reasoning and economic attitudes in 87 children living in a midwestern town. Analysis of the interview data indicated that economic socialization is indeed a reality in that sophistication increased with age.