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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues\, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This fourth event in the series features Erin Hatton discussing her book Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\n\nWhat do prisoner laborers\, graduate students\, welfare workers\, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton\, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. \nCoerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers\, for whom a different definition of “employment” reigns supreme—one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power\, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy\, Hatton argues that coercion—as well as precarity—is a defining feature of work in America today. \nTheoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read\, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work\, pushing beyond concepts like “career” and “gig work.” Through this bold analysis\, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within it—and who are developing the tools needed to push back against it. \n\n\n \nErin Hatton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo. \n\n\n\n\nUC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith \n\n\n\n\n\n8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\n8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies\n8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\n8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment\n8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\n9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have Coerced sent to your door\, order here.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Richard Kadrey / Ballistic Kiss
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Upstream author Richard Kadrey to celebrate his new novel Ballistic Kiss\, the latest and penultimate volume in his Sandman Slim series. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  We are pleased to be able to offer signed copies of Ballistic Kiss! You can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration – just be sure to request a signed copy when checking out. \n\nSandman Slim is back in Los Angeles and kicking more supernatural ass in this inventive\, high-octane page-turner—the next to last volume in the popular and acclaimed fantasy adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. \nAs the battle between warring angels continues\, James Stark is focused on seemingly simpler matters now that he’s resurfaced on earth: an invasion of ghosts. L.A.’s Little Cairo neighborhood has suddenly been overrun by violent spirits\, and Thomas Abbott knows if anyone can figure out why they’ve appeared—and how to get rid of them—it’s Stark. \nArmed with the Room of Thirteen Doors\, Stark quickly learns that the answer may reach back to the 1970s and the unsolved murder of small-time actor\, Chris Stein. As he begins to dig into the cold case\, another area of Stark’s life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes entangled with Janet\, a woman he saved during the High Plains Drifter zombie attack. \nJanet’s brush with the living dead hasn’t quenched her thirst for danger. She’s an adrenaline junkie and a member of The Zero Lodge—a club that promises “there’s zero chance you’ll get out alive.” The Lodge attracts thrill seekers who flock to perilous events such as night walks through the LA Zoo—with its deadliest animals uncaged. Joining the lodge to be with Janet\, Stark makes a pair of crucial discoveries that could decide the fate of LA and Heaven itself. \nTo prevent the Little Cairo haunting from consuming the city\, Stark must piece together the connections between the Lodge and a missing angel last seen in a Hollywood porn palace. But while he may dispatch the ghosts\, Stark knows that without his help\, the bloody war in Heaven could rage forever. \n\n \nRichard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime\,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of his other books include The Wrong Dead Guy\, The Everything Box\, Metrophage\, and Butcher Bird. He also writes the Vertigo comic Lucifer. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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