In this lecture, Juliet B. Schor will consider dominant social
science perspectives on labor platforms, the role of algorithmic
management, and whether platform work can fulfill its early
promises.
Schor is an economist and Professor of Sociology at...
In alignment with the current School of Social Science theme
seminar, titled “The Politics of Migration and Displacement as a
Form of Life,” the School of Social Science hosted Philippe
Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the UN agency...
In the second half of the twentieth century, liberal reformers
worked to computerize welfare administration in the United States.
In response to racialized rights claims of the 1960s, and the
racist tropes of the “welfare queen” in the 1970s and the...
Global climate change policy is not enough: environmental damage
emerges patch by patch. It is up close and personal as well
as planetary. Perhaps what we need is a “field guide” to the
feral, that is, to nonhuman responses to human building...
The ultimate function of the city is to enable connections
between people. Cities fail either because segregation means that
those connections fail to occur or because those connections create
calamities, such as epidemic outbreaks. New data sources...
Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s presentation will examine
the ways that housing policies inspired and shaped by private
sector organizations undermined the federal government's ability to
enforce fair housing rules and regulations long after the...
Most readers of Toni Morrison know her best as a novelist. She
is the author of 11 extraordinary works of fiction, including the
1987 masterpiece, Beloved, and her work is assigned
in high school and college classrooms and debated at book
club...
