4356 - Economic Justice

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This panel examines research initiatives aimed at developing policy and programs to persistent barriers to economic and civic participation. Research asking beyond “what is” and pursuing “what ought to be,” is a necessary step toward economic parity equality of opportunity. What emerges when scholars seek to design an economic system that promote personal, social, and economic development.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Panel

Session Organizer

• Mary Romero, Arizona State University

Presider

• Zulema Valdez, University of California-Merced

Individual Presentations

• Working, Taxes and the Local Market: The Gig Economy - Barbara J. Robles

• Social Democratic Capitalism - Lane Kenworthy, University of California, San Diego

• Public Sociology in the Pursuit of Climate Justice: Lessons from the Corporate Mapping Project - William K. Carroll

• Are Platforms the Route to a Democratic Economy? - Juliet B. Schor, Boston College