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Weekly Roundup: December 9, 2019

By LPE Editors

We’ve been so chock full of posts that we haven’t had the time to round them up! Since our last round up, we’ve hosted two symposia: The LPE in Europe Symposium, with Ioannis Kampouraksis’s introductory meditation on what might travel the trans-Atlantic wire, Federico Fornasari’s consideration of the relationship between environmentalism. . .
Symposium

Care Work In & Beyond the Labor Market

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Focusing on universalizing access to better paid work submerges two other longstanding elements of critical feminist analysis of care work. These are particularly pertinent to LPE conversations about the political-economic centrality of markets. First, feminist accounts of social reproduction have long highlighted the extensive, essential, but systematically devalued. . .
Symposium

The Neglect of Long-Term Care

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This post is part of a series on Care Work. Read the rest of the series here.  ** ** ** Caregiving has long been shunted aside and undervalued in the United States. Long-term care (LTC) is no exception. Sometimes called “long term services and supports,” LTC is the help that over 40 million Americans who are sick or…
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Service Workers or Servile Workers? Migrant Reproductive Labor and Contemporary Global Racial Capitalism

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This post is part of a series on Care Work. Read the rest of the series here.  Grassroots migrant worker activists, particularly those working as domestic workers or care workers, have characterized their labor experiences as “servitude,” “modern-day slavery,” and “bondage.” They use these terms to describe both their workplace conditions and. . .
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Making Care Work Green

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Click here to read all posts in our Care Work series.  “Domestic workers arrive to smoke, ash,” the headline in the Los Angeles Times read on October 29, 2019. Unaware of mandatory evacuations from a fire sweeping through exclusive enclaves near the Getty Museum, domestic workers had trudged up deserted streets and through particle-filled air…
Essay

The Borders of Empire

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The designations “illegal” or “economic” immigrant swiftly mark those to whom they are applied as legitimate targets of national exclusion. Public and academic discourse often treats such immigrants as the consummate political strangers, standing outside the political borders of “we the people” or “we the citizens,” whose status as citizens. . .
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The Second Wave of Algorithmic Accountability

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Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists, computer scientists, journalists, and lawyers. Exposés have sparked vibrant debates about algorithmic sentencing. Researchers have exposed tech giants showing women ads for lower-paying jobs, discriminating against the aged, deploying deceptive dark. . .
Essay

The Case for Basic Health

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We seem to be approaching an apotheosis of liberal health care angst, as the irresistible force of the appeal of truly universal health care meets the immovable object of Democrats’ desire to make double-triple-sure not to lose the 2020 election. Replacing our current shambles of a health care system with something much simpler and more…
Essay

When All Social Problems Become Financial Problems

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When it comes to government programs, credit support is often cheaper and less controversial than direct expenditures. Understand this, and you can understand why government officials have an incentive to define all sorts of social problems as financial ones. Government officials face considerable pressure to promote credit markets. Wall Street firms leverage. . .
Symposium

Measuring the Sustainable Corporation

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This post comes out of the early career workshop ‘Law and Political Economy in Europe’, which took place at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, at the University of Oxford, on the 7th of October 2019. For all the posts this series, click here. The impending climate crisis, the widespread social tensions and the burgeoning level of wealth and…
Announcement

Join LPE at Law & Society 2020

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Join LPE at the Law & Society Conference in 2020 as we expand the Law and Political Economy CRN (55)! There are only two and half days left to apply to the Law and Society Association (LSA) Conference, which will be held in Denver, Colorado, May 28 – May 30, 2020. All paper, panel, and session…
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: November 15, 2019

By LPE Editors

The latest in LPE World: An interview with Bolivian anthropologist Raul Rodriguez Arancibia on the role of right-wing Christian leadership in the coup against Evo Morales (Related: NACLA Statement on the Coup in Bolivia: In Solidarity with Bolivians Resisting Military Intervention and Right-Wing Violence); Let Them Eat Tech: the Democratic Party’s love. . .

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