Faculty Feature: Prof. Zakiya Luna
Highlighting Prof. Zakiya Luna's Newest Publication and Public Scholarship
In the News
Flexible working for parents is great. But child-free people need it, too
Caitlyn Collins explores how work and family tensions are exacerbated by both a long-hours culture and what she sees as society’s dismissive attitudes towards care-giving in The Guardian.
Rules Without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy
This book is about the idea that transnational corporations can push these standards through their global supply chains, and in effect, pull factories, forests, and farms out of their local contexts and up to global best practices.
A Proposal for Public Sociology as Localized Intervention and Collective Enterprise: The Makings and Impact of Invisible in Austin
What can local public sociology look like, and what does it accomplish? This essay tracks the origins, makings and impacts of the book Invisible in Austin to evaluate its model of public sociology: as a collective enterprise with a local aim.
What Unions No Longer Do
What Unions No Longer Do shows in detail the consequences of labor's decline: curtailed advocacy for better working conditions, weakened support for immigrants' economic assimilation, and ineffectiveness in addressing wage stagnation among African Americans.