{"id":406,"date":"2005-04-13T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2005-04-13T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T17:06:00","slug":"406","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Labor relations in Harry Potter’s world<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wendy A.F.G. Stengel tackles the tricky issues of house-elf slavery and other issues of class in the Harry Potter world in the SF ezine Some Fantastic<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is tempting to view the major labor conflict of the Harry Potter world\u2014-the status of house elves\u2014-simplistically: \u201cSlavery is bad.\u201d However, the house-elves\u2019 exploitation resonates on many more levels. . . . As many otherwise-sympathetic characters support the use of unpaid house-elf labor, there is clearly more going on. Harry and Hermione have similar mudblood but have very different levels of political awareness; Harry treats Dobby decently, Hermione becomes a firebrand for labor rights, the Weasley children beg for them not to challenge the status quo. From exploring the status of and reactions to the house-elves, we can extrapolate the production and perpetuation of class in the wizarding world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Labor relations in Harry Potter’s world Wendy A.F.G. Stengel tackles the tricky issues of house-elf slavery and other issues of class in the Harry Potter world in the SF ezine Some Fantastic. It is tempting to view the major labor conflict of the Harry Potter world\u2014-the status of house elves\u2014-simplistically: \u201cSlavery is bad.\u201d However, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-406","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":910,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=910","url_meta":{"origin":406,"position":0},"title":"This Will Be My Only Harry Potter Post Ever","author":"Chas S. 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There is, in my view, entirely too much pretentiousness, jargon, and affected weightiness oozing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"scholarship\"","block_context":{"text":"scholarship","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=scholarship"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1313,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1313","url_meta":{"origin":406,"position":5},"title":"Sex with Icelandic Elves","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I linked to a site about sex with ghosts, so why not sex with elves?Call them \"the hidden people,\" call the them the Shining Ones, whatever you like. These are not garden gnomes we are talking about: \"They're not like small, ugly gnomes. 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