Join us for an in-person book talk with award-winning sociologist Jamie K. McCallum on his latest book, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. Co-hosted by IRLE, the Labor Center and Berkeley Sociology About the Book In Essential, McCallum uncovers the deep roots of essential workers’ rage and reveals how their

Alford A. Young, Jr. will discuss his new book, which presents a case for how configurations of race, class, and gender surface for lower-income African Americans in their struggle to come to terms with post-industrialism.

America’s high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former prisoners who rejoin society each year. On the Outside examines the lives of 22 people—varied in race and gender but united by their time in the criminal justice system—as they pass