The Rapoport Center and the Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy have gathered a team of international and interdisciplinary scholars over the past year for a book project rethinking the future of work through methods of racial capitalism, world-systems, and critiques of distribution. This panel highlights case studies from the book about precarity in sites ranging from the Austin construction and Vermont dairy industries in the U.S. to Jordanian apparel factories and Colombian palm plantations.
Helena Alviar García
Professor, Sciences Po Law School
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Jorge Gonzalez
Professor, Universidad de los Andes Law School, Colombia
Jennifer Bair
Professor of Sociology & Department Chair, University of Virginia
Karen Engle
Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law & Founder and Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
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Samuel Tabory
PhD Student, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Jennifer Gordon
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Vanja Hamzić
Reader in Law, History and Anthropology and an Associate Director of Research, SOAS University of London
Neville Hoad
Associate Professor of English & Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin
Kerry Rittich
Professor of Law, Women and Gender Studies, and Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
Moderated by David Kennedy
Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law & Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University
Relevant Research Clusters: AI and Technology, Care Work, Essential Work, Work Across the Global South
Albena Azmanova’s latest book, Capitalism on Edge, provocatively insists: “Capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. And yet, the time is ripe for radical progressive change.” In conversation with Jamie Galbraith, Azmanova discusses these claims and more – from the rise of global precarity to the future of capitalism.
Albena Azmanova
Reader (Associate Professor), Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent
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James Galbraith
Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government and Business Relations & Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Relevant Research Clusters: AI and Technology, Care Work, Essential Work, Work Across the Global South
