Talk of safety culture has emerged as a common trope in contemporary scholarship and
popular media as an explanation for accidents and as a recipe for improvement in complex …

Algorithms play an increasingly important role in the world.'In the form of software programs
and applications, algorithms power personal computers and smart phones. In the form of …

Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to
biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and …

The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability
is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is …

This book provides an introduction to the American legal system for a broad readership. Its
focus is on law in practice, on the role of the law in American society; and how the social …

Will advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning put vast swaths of the
labor force out of work or into fierce competition for the jobs that remain? Or, as in the past …

Untangling the long history of neoliberalism Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the
philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive, and …

In April 1917, the United States embarked on World War I--with little history of conscription,
an army smaller than Romania's, and a political culture that saw little role for the federal …

Long before the age of" Big Data" or the rise of today's" self-quantifiers," American capitalism
embraced" risk"--and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing …

Privatization is now virtually a national obsession. Hardly any domestic policy issue remains
untouched by disputes over the scope of private participation in government, with such …