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Hierarchies at Work: Race, World-Systems, and Legal Distribution Karen Engle 9780231212250

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This book challenges dominant understandings of both economic inequality and the future of work. Leading scholars in law, social sciences, and the humanities consider the production and reproduction of global hierarchies by revisiting and deploying three critical approaches that emerged in the late twentieth century: racial capitalism, world-systems theory, and critical legal distributional analysis. They demonstrate that these methods-especially when brought together-offer new insights into the forces that entrench the asymmetries of power and wealth that are too often shorthanded as inequality. They also uncover elisions and erasures of the past and present in prevailing technological-determinist narratives about the future of work.

Hierarchies at Work features powerful, grounded studies of the dynamics of work and livelihood in sites ranging from garment factories in Jordan and palm oil fields in Colombia to dairy farms in the United States. These studies underscore the necessity of thinking about the future of work and livelihoods through their racialized past and present and recognizing the systemic role of law in unequal distribution. Highlighting alternative imaginaries that contest systems of domination and subordination, this timely book offers resources to spur more just futures across local and global levels.

About the Author
Karen Engle is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and codirector of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law (2020) and The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (2010).

Neville Hoad is associate professor of English and codirector of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Pandemic Genres: Imagining Politics in a Time of AIDS (2025) and African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization (2007).

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There could hardly be a more pivotal moment for this rigorous volume on distributive justice and work. Engle and Hoad bring some of the most recognized critical legal scholars into dialogue around foundational literature on racial capitalism and world systems theories, moving the work of "others" from margin to center. -- Adelle Blackett, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labor Law, McGill University
The future of work and transformations of inequality are deeply entwined with each other and with racial capitalism, the shifting world-system, and the persistence of imperialism alongside efforts to decolonize. Hierarchies at Work helps connect the political economy and geographies of exploitation and struggle today. -- Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University



Book Information
ISBN 9780231212250
Author Karen Engle
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press

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