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Q&A with Benjamin Shestakofsky, author of Behind the Startup
Mar 21 2024
In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses inste
How Today’s Tight Labor Market Could Have Lasting Impacts on Poverty
Dec 18 2023
By Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs, co-authors of Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the PoorFor nearly half a century, scholars and policymakers alike have pointed to the devasting impact of joblessness for individuals, families, and communities. William Julius Wilson’s cl
Q&A with Tristin K. Green, author of Racial Emotion at Work
Oct 03 2023
Tristin Green's new book unravels race and emotion in the workplace—exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it.Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace is an invitation to understand ou
Build Back Better? Why We Need Reimagine our Social Institutions
Nov 18 2021
By Leslie Paik, author of Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and InequalityThe pandemic has exposed so clearly how families everywhere in this country struggle to manage the competing demands of work, childcare, education and health. With this awareness comes
Q&A with Erin Cech, author of The Trouble With Passion
Nov 09 2021
Out today, The Trouble with Passion probes the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion." This data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. In t
What Fragments Tell Us About Cities
Sep 29 2021
By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban WorldsI was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an ordinary street. When I stood back, I realised that the photos were in fact of the same house. One image of t
Q&A with Laura Enriquez: on the Intimate Impact of Immigration Policy
Aug 03 2021
This interview was originally published on the UCI School of Social Sciences site by Heather Ashbach, and is reposted here with permission. Award-winning Author Laura EnriquezImmigration policy is fundamentally reshaping Latino families and perpetuating inequality, says UCI Chicano/Latino st