Australia's Bicentennial $10 Note

Abstract

The Australian Bicentennial $10 banknote represents a major break with traditional banknote technology. The note is the first to use plastic film as a replacement for fibre substrates such as paper, and to incorporate optical variable devices (OVD) as security features. These OVDS cannot be reproduced by the normal photographic processes. The 20-year history of the development of this technology is reviewed and comments made on the difficulty of introducing revolutionary technology into an existing industry.     

The $15 Wage Movement Moves South: Politics of Region in Labor Union Campaigns

The North American labor movement continues to wrestle with the challenges of organizing workers in the US South. This article explores the contradictory position of the South in the contemporary labor movement, using the circulation of the $15 minimum wage to ground the analysis. By problematizing the place of the South in US labor, this article contributes to efforts to complicate the geographic imaginaries of the South and to our understanding of the contemporary labor movement's expansionary projects. Drawing on qualitative interviews and participant observation in Greensboro and Durham, North Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia, I trace the abstract circulation of organizational resources, strategies, and tactics of the $15 wage movement into, throughout, and back out of the South.