This post is part of our AAA #RaisingOurVoices2020 event blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more. by Roberto J. González, author of Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its …
Read More >Publishers Weekly just named their Big Indie Books of Fall 2020 – and we’re proud to say that Juliet B. Schor’s After the Gig made the list! PW’s picks highlight the not-be-missed …
Read More >By Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life (coming November 2020) The image of a darkened White House from several weeks ago, while screams of protest clamored …
Read More >While many of us might associate archaeology with the pop culture adventure icon Indiana Jones, the truth of the field is just as fascinating and more accessible to all of us. Being …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that Michelle Lipinski has joined the University of California Press as our new senior acquisitions editor for economics and technology studies. With just three days in the office …
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 >Facial recognition technology is notoriously unreliable in its efforts to accurately identify people of color.
Read More >Uber has released their safety report detailing thousands of incidents of sexual assault. But as Sociologist & Gig Economy Researcher Alexandrea J. Ravenelle says in her New York Times op-ed, the statistics in the report don’t tell the whole story.
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 >Many assume that only younger people work in the gig economy. But according to Alexandrea J. Ravenelle, author of Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy, “about a quarter …
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