Professor Aaron Benanav (Cornell University, Global Development) is a historian, sociologist, and economic and social theorist whose research spans a variety of topics, including automation and the future of work, unemployment and underemployment, histories of social and economic development, critical theory, and alternative economic systems. His first book, Automation and the Future of Work (Verso, 2020) has been translated into ten languages.
“Unemployment, Underemployment, and Informality on the World Scale”
12:30-2:00 PM | HG 1002
This workshop will engage with the complex dynamics of unemployment, underemployment, and informality from a global historical perspective. Topics include the intertwined nature of formal and informal economies, the limitations of traditional economic measures, and the implications of viewing employment insufficiency as a historically contingent and value-laden construct.
Professor Benanav’s visit is organized by the Digital Humanities Exchange, the Marxist Institute for Research, and the Geographers at UCI Research Cluster, with generous co-sponsorship from the Department of History.