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CFP 92 - Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Labor and Class II
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Sponsors: Labor Studies
Poverty, Class, and Inequality

Organizers: Leticia Morales, University of Southern California
Sara Maani, University of Bologna

Presider/Discussant: Leticia Morales, University of Southern California

Description: 

This session examines how labor and class intersect to shape lived experiences, social structures, and professional opportunities. Presenters highlight the dynamics of working-class life, the impact of precarity and contingent labor, and the ways class stratification intersects with race, gender, and migration. The papers foreground how class is reproduced, contested, and transformed within institutions and everyday life.

Session I focuses on labor processes, workplace organization, precarity, and lived experience. Papers analyze how work is structured, intensified, and governed across sectors, and how insecurity, health risks, and vulnerability emerge within specific settings.

Session II explores stratification, mobility, and social reproduction across education, care, migration, health, and policy regimes, showing how class positions are allocated, institutionalized, and reproduced over time.

Papers:

“‘Brain Drain’ vs. ‘Brain Circulation’: Skilled Migration and Capitalist Inequality in Bangladesh,” Arifa Akter, The University of Texas at El Paso

“Beyond the Class Ceiling: The ‘Institutional Floor’ and Elite Convergence in South Korea, 1960s–1980s,” HongJin Jo, The University of Chicago

“Beyond the Office: Exploring the Role of Job Satisfaction and Health Disparities in Teleworking,” Taylor D. Sumpter, University of Miami

“Examining the Role of Parental and Personal Education in Earnings Disparities for American Indians and Alaska Natives,” Kimberly R. Huyser, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Sofia Locklear, University of Toronto Mississauga, Madi Lou Abel, Gabriella M. Mota and Dara Shifrer, Portland State University, Ned Tilbrook, University of Arizona, Allison Laing and Mary G. Jessome, University of British Columbia

“Pricing Care Labor: A Computational Systematic Review of How Care Work Is Economically and Socially Devalued,” Waris Ahmad Faizi, Virginia Tech

“The ‘Woman Penalty’: Gender Inequality, Mental Health, and Work–Family Conflict in the United States,” Katherine Maich, Paula Cornejo-Abarca, Zoraya Berlanga Aguilar and Raia Akte, Texas A&M University

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