Jose miguel class biography sampler

  • Abstract: The article aims to explore the relationship between biographical work and the strategies of managing precarity (low-paid and unstable employment).
  • "My name is Yomo Toro".
  • The main theoretical framework of the article is based on concepts deriving from biographical sociology and was elaborated during a joint.

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    Biographical Work as a Mechanism of Dealing with Precarity and Precariousness

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    Born December 5, 1868, Königsberg, Prussia, into a family of the German Evangelical Church. His mother was born Cäcilie Matthiass. (Vita in doctor's dissertation. Bib. 1891. ["Bib." refers to a bibliography of Sommerfeld's writings prepared in connection with this biography.] ) His father, Dr. Franz Sommerfeld, was a medical practitioner devoted to science and a passionate collector of natural objects like minerals, shells, amber, beetles. (Royal Soc. Obit.8 [1952] : pp. 275-296, written by Max Born, henceforth [R.S.O.]).

    Sommerfeld studied at Altstädtisches Gymnasium, where Hermann Minkowski, Max Wien, and Willy Wien were simultaneously in attendance, all slightly ahead of Sommerfeld. Sommerfeld was almost more interested in literature and history than in exact sciences and equally good in all subjects, including classical languages (RSO).

    1886. Passed final examination at gymnasium (RSO). Entered Albertus-Universität Königsberg (Vita). 1886-90. Aft

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    Yomo Toro in a Bronx recording studio in 1994  Photo by Juan Sotomayor

    "My name is Yomo Toro".

    In 1996, Yomo gave us a short autobiography summarizing his long life with the cuatro
    [NOTE: Immediatly below read Denise Toro's notes on when her father introduced the cuatro into Salsa music!]

    "My name is Yomo Toro. I was born in the southwestern part of Puerto Rico, in a village called Guánica, in a neighborhood called Ensenada where there was a sugar cane processing factory--one of the largest in the Antilles--actually, I think it was the second biggest (the biggest was in Cuba), the second largest in the Antilles. It was in Guánica. It was called the South Porto [sic] Rican Sugar Company. The neighborhood folks made their living there, they worked at the processing factory. Some did one thing, others did something else. My father was a "technician," in other words, he drove. He was a driver, he drove the mach

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