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The Joseph S. Murphy Student Essay Prize Winner: Janus, the Roman God, and the Labor Movement

The Joseph S. Murphy Student Essay Prize Winner: Janus, the Roman God, and the Labor Movement 765769 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796018765769New Labor ForumBonilla research-article2018 New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(2) 83 –86 The Joseph S. Murphy Student Copyright © 2018, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Essay Prize Winner: Janus, the sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796018765769 DOI: 10.1177/1095796018765769 Roman God, and the Labor journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Movement Alyssa Bonilla Keywords capitalism, labor, radicalism, trade unions, unorganized workers, working class The Janus case pending before the Supreme The Roman pantheon of gods and goddesses Court is an important moment in the ongoing bat- is one of Western civilization’s oldest systems tle between labor and capital in America. Labor is of symbolic thought. The gods and goddesses anticipating the case with dread. Capital antici- represent qualities of human nature, variously pates a major victory. The case is invoking famil- configured and embodied in its many charac- iar legal arguments such as constitutional ters. Janus is depicted as having two faces look- questions, the rights of the individual, and fair pay ing in opposite directions, one in the front of his for services rendered. There is, however, another head and one at the back. Janus was, thus, a god lens through which one might view this case, a of wisdom and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

The Joseph S. Murphy Student Essay Prize Winner: Janus, the Roman God, and the Labor Movement

Bonilla, Alyssa
New Labor Forum , Volume 27 (2): 4 – May 1, 2018
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765769 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796018765769New Labor ForumBonilla research-article2018 New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(2) 83 –86 The Joseph S. Murphy Student Copyright © 2018, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Essay Prize Winner: Janus, the sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796018765769 DOI: 10.1177/1095796018765769 Roman God, and the Labor journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Movement Alyssa Bonilla Keywords capitalism, labor, radicalism, trade unions, unorganized workers, working class The Janus case pending before the Supreme The Roman pantheon of gods and goddesses Court is an important moment in the ongoing bat- is one of Western civilization’s oldest systems tle between labor and capital in America. Labor is of symbolic thought. The gods and goddesses anticipating the case with dread. Capital antici- represent qualities of human nature, variously pates a major victory. The case is invoking famil- configured and embodied in its many charac- iar legal arguments such as constitutional ters. Janus is depicted as having two faces look- questions, the rights of the individual, and fair pay ing in opposite directions, one in the front of his for services rendered. There is, however, another head and one at the back. Janus was, thus, a god lens through which one might view this case, a of wisdom and

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