Support Bay Area booksellers and local literary programming by attending a Bay Area author event (or two) this Fall. Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America …
Read More >Helmut K. Anheier is Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Max Weber Institute at Heidelberg University, Germany. He also has academic appointments at the London …
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 >At UC Press, open access—the free, immediate, unrestricted, online access to peer-reviewed research and scholarly work—is central to our mission. In celebration of 2018 International Open Access Week (October 22-28), we are …
Read More >“I do not know how things will be by the time you read it, but this book goes to press at a grim moment.” —Adam Hochschild Lessons From a Dark Time and …
Read More >In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we share an article by David Bacon, author of In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte. Bacon discusses how the history of …
Read More >Highlighting issues that face current and future workers, Alex Rosenblat, author of Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, was in conversation with Sarah Kessler, author of Gigged: The End …
Read More >As many in the U.S. debate the potential consequences of Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination for Supreme Court Justice, we are reminded that this moment in history is not about pro-choice or anti-abortion …
Read More >As Brett M. Kavanaugh faces allegations of sexual assault, many are focusing on what this means for his nomination as Supreme Court Justice. Coupled with his stance on reproductive justice and Roe v. …
Read More >This Labor Day, we remember the history of the U.S. labor movement, the contributions and achievements of American workers, and the struggles that laborers continue to face today regarding worker’s rights. Below …
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