Hierarchies At Work - Race, World-Systems, and Legal Distribution

This book challenges dominant understandings of both economic inequality and the future of work.

About the author

Karen Engle is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and codirector of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law (2020) and The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (2010).

Neville Hoad is associate professor of English and codirector of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Pandemic Genres: Imagining Politics in a Time of AIDS (2025) and African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization (2007).

Product details

• Authors: Karen Hoad Engle
• Assisted by: Engle Karen (Editor), Hoad Neville (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9780231212243
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21224-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, social science; philosophy