University of California Press
Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
Key Metrics
- Erin Hatton
- University of California Press
- Hardcover
- 9780520305397
- 9.1 X 6 X 1 inches
- 1.15 pounds
- Social Science > Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of employment reigns supreme--one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that coercion--as well as precarity--is a defining feature of work in America today.
Theoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work, pushing beyond concepts like career and gig work. Through this bold analysis, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within it--and who are developing the tools needed to push back against it.
Author Bio
Erin Hatton, PhD, is an associate professor in the UB Department of Sociolgoy. Prof. Hatton’s research focuses on work and political economy, while also extending into the fields of social inequality, labor, law and social policy.
Her first book, The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America (Temple University Press, 2011), weaves together gender, race, class and work in a cultural analysis of the temporary help industry and rise of the new economy. Prof. Hatton’s new book, Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment (UC Press, 2020), analyzes four very different--and unusual--groups of workers: incarcerated, workfare, college athlete, and graduate student workers.
Drawing on more than 120 in-depth interviews across these four groups, in this book she uncovers a new form of labor coercion and analyzes its consequences for workers in America.
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
BA, Kenyon College, 1996
Source: The State University of New York - Buffalo
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