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The History of Temp Work
Episode 16
Historian Louis Hyman, professor and director of the Institute of Workplace Studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations,…
3 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Episode 210
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the te…
3 years, 4 months ago
Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 129
Why is dental insurance so crummy? Why is pet insurance so expensive? Why does your auto insurer ask for your credit score? The answer to these quest…
3 years, 4 months ago
Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 350
It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. In Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of …
3 years, 4 months ago
Shifting Blame: What Should You "Own" and What Shouldn't You?
Episode 17
We claim to judge people for what they intentionally do, but accidents often influence our judgments. In our justice systems, people can be harshly a…
3 years, 4 months ago
How Did the Pandemic Transform Workers and Work?
Episode 108
The pandemic brought to the fore a group of workers deemed “essential” – frontline healthcare workers, restaurant employees, slaughterhouse workers, …
3 years, 4 months ago
Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA
Season 1 Episode 17
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in East LA, the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention and rehabilitatio…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage
Episode 46
Most people in developed countries think inequality is increasing. And most would also agree that in terms of the global poor, the last 20 years have…
3 years, 4 months ago
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
Episode 2
Catherine Coleman Flowers, activist, author, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and MacArthur “genius prize” winne…
3 years, 4 months ago
Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 188
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Its…
3 years, 4 months ago