By Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, author of Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán Chances are that you have been a tourist, traveling to experience new things, learn from others, …
Read More >COVID-19 has laid bare the enormous gap between the value that frontline workers bring to society and the low wages many earn in return.
Read More >UC Press is proud to be part of the Association of University Press’s eighth annual University Press Week, whose overall theme this year is Read. Think. Act.“Through this positive theme AUPresses members worldwide seek …
Read More >“Uber didn’t invent the idea that its technology would be neutral. That comes from a Silicon Valley idea.” —Alex Rosenblat, technology ethnographer and author of Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules …
Read More >In an interview with CityLab, Alext Rosenblat, technology ethnographer and author of Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, shares her research on how Uber’s “algorithm as a boss” attitude affects …
Read More >To celebrate Women’s History Month, Feminist Media Histories will be highlighting articles from past issues, all of which document rich histories of women’s engagement with a range of media across diverse global …
Read More >Happy Labor Day! In celebration and solidarity of the strides made for worker’s rights, and of the struggles that laborers continue to face today, we’ve prepared a list of suggested UC Press …
Read More >Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. These seven things, according to Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, have made our world and will have an unmistakable impact on its future. Bringing …
Read More >by Ahmed White, author of The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America Several weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, millions of Americans …
Read More >By Victor Tan Chen, author of Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy While there are many reasons why Donald Trump won the election, it’s clear that the movement of …
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