by Angela Stuesse, author of Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Minneapolis. Check …
Read More >By Adia Wingfield, co-author of “Maintaining Hierarchies in Predominantly White Organizations,” (found in Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World) When we think about work, it’s easy to imagine someone sitting at a desk, …
Read More >by Steve Viscelli, author of The Big Rig This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Seattle. Check back every week for new posts through the end …
Read More >May Day, “International Worker’s Day,” is a curiously un-American holiday. Celebrated by labor groups and political parties outside the United States, it began in 1890 as a global day of solidarity to …
Read More >By Jacqueline Hagan, co-author of Skills of the “Unskilled”: Work and Mobility among Mexican Migrants This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Chicago.Check back every day for new posts …
Read More >By Victor Tan Chen, author of Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy This guest post, originally published by Virginia Commonwealth University News, is posted in advance of the American Sociological …
Read More >This Tuesday, March 31 marks Cesar Chavez Day. The University of California Press is proud to have published broadly on this important labor and civil rights leader. From first-hand accounts of working …
Read More >by Luis D. León This guest post is part of a series leading up to the upcoming joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature in San Diego. Eight of …
Read More >UC Press is home to one of the oldest and most prestigious lists in Food Studies, an interdisciplinary field that brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to examine the role and impact …
Read More >by Margaret Gray The burgeoning local food movement comes with a promotional promise: buying direct from the farmer seals a bond of intimacy, offers fresher and tastier products, and is more wholesome …
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