Hierarchies at work : race, world-systems, and legal distribution / edited by Karen Engle and Neville Hoad.
| Other author | Engle, Karen editor. |
| Other author | Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Columbia University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xii, 398 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Series | New directions in critical theory New directions in critical theory. ^A715235 |
| Contents | Neville Alexander : racial capitalism South African style / Dennis Davis -- Walter Rodney, world-systems theory, and racial capitalism / Nicole Burrowes -- Critical system analysis and the great disparities / David Kennedy -- Law distributes : Ricardo, Marx, CLS / Duncan Kennedy -- Distributional analytics and the TWAIL tradition / Vasuki Nesiah -- The future of work from a Victorian past / Neville Hoad -- The past, the outside, and the hidden : sites for new imaginaries of the future of work / Kerry Rittich -- Financialization, fissuring, and global futures of work / Jennifer Bair -- Labors in time and subjectivity : gender nonconformity and racial capitalism in the making of eighteenth-century New Orleans / Vanja Hamzić -- Garment work, refugees, and resistance : the Jordan compact / Jennifer Gordon -- Distributional analysis and supply chain interventions : migrant worker organization in Vermont's dairy industry / Jennifer Bair -- Beyond essential : growth, a pandemic, and the future of expendable workers in a "progressive" Texas boomtown / Karen Engle and Samuel Tabory -- Land and labor in the Colombian palm oil industry / Helena Alviar García and Jorge González Jácome -- Dead ends and blind alleys in the future of work : notes from Italy / Jorge L. Esquirol. |
| Abstract | "This book makes an important, influential, and timely contribution to the study of global inequality in the context of labor markets, framed as 'the future of work', a framing that prioritizes a western bias toward waged work and full employment, neglects the contribution of nonwaged work to wealth creation, and fails to consider the historical and ongoing ways in which global patterns of accumulation are built on (neo)colonial, racialized, and gendered forms of labor devaluation and resource extraction. The editors construct a new hybrid methodology that combines the approaches of racial capitalism, world-systems theory, and distributional analysis and bring that methodology to bear on a wide range of contemporary and historical examples of inequitable work relations from around the globe. This approach enables sociologists, political theorists, and economists to understand and challenge structures and longstanding patterns that create and sustain pernicious asymmetries of wealth and power within as well as among countries, especially in the landscapes of livelihood. Grounding these phenomena in lived experiences, It suggests both theoretically and empirically that solutions to economic inequality must move far beyond 'the future of work'."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024048165 |
| ISBN | 9780231212250 |
| ISBN | 0231212259 trade paperback |
| ISBN | 9780231212243 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0231212240 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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