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SUMMARY:Community Bank and Banking Structure Effects on Local Economies\, Unemployment and Recovery: An Economic Sociology Perspective
DESCRIPTION:With good reason\, scholars and policy makers have focused on the profound industry-wide transformations American banking and finance experienced over the last three decades\, emphasizing deregulation\, concentration within a handful of giant global banking corporations\, their abandonment of the “real economy” for market-based banking grounded in securitization and derivative transactions\, and the devastating effects these changes have had on the broader economy.  Less clear is the extent to which decentralized systems of smaller\, locally owned and operating community banks and credit unions withstood transformations in American finance\, providing local economies with alternatives to banking corporations like Citigroup or JP Morgan Chase.  Less clear also are whether and how localism\, organizational diversity and the persistence of alternatives to “too-big-too-fail” institutions in local economies may have helped them weather the recent storm of a combined financial and economic crisis\, whether by sustaining small business\, fostering new enterprise formation or dampening employment shocks.  Analyzing banking organization and markets at the county and metropolitan area levels\, this research documents substantial variation in banking structure across local economies in the US up to and including the current period\, confounding a simple narrative of dominance\, displacement and homogenization under the aegis of too-big-to-fail banking corporations.  It also presents preliminary analyses of whether and how differences in banking structure and the persistence of “Jeffersonian” alternatives to too-big-to-fail bank corporations in local economies affected levels and changes there in the relative size of the small business sector\, new establishment formation and unemployment during and “after” the great recession.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/community-bank-and-banking-structure-effects-on-local-economies-unemployment-and-recovery-an-economic-sociology-perspective/
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SUMMARY:Racializing Normative Markets: Whiteness\, Masculinity\, and the "Efficiency" of Networks
DESCRIPTION:While critical scholarship has made important contributions to the understandings of markets and difference\, many of these approaches have focused on how dominant markets have actively depended upon\, as well as excluded groups based on\, hierarchies of raced\, gendered\, classed\, sexualized\, and national differences. That we better understand how capitalism depended on enslavement\, how US real estate markets segregated and excluded African Americans\, and how productive labor cannot be jettisoned from reproductive labor are due to this crucial research. However\, we need to go further. Even as dominant\, capitalist markets are depicted as exclusionary and exploitative of differences\, they themselves are often held stable\, and not directly analyzed as composed of particular bodies\, assumptions\, actions\, and values. This presentation\, inspired by critical race theory\, cultural histories of risk and the construction of the risk-bearing individual\, as well as ethnographic accounts of financial markets\, examines both the underbelly of what makes financial markets possible as well as the whiteness and classed masculinity of financial markets themselves. I will explore how the very underpinnings of what makes markets and market exchange possible are arrangements of exchangeability\, commensurability\, and liquidity made possible\, in part\, through the instruments and assumptions of racial fraternity and exclusion.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/racializing-normative-markets-whiteness-masculinity-and-the-efficiency-of-networks/
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SUMMARY:Black Feminism\, The Carceral State\, and Abolition
DESCRIPTION:Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials\, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy Here: Gender\, Punishment\, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity illuminates black women’s experiences of imprisonment in the South to uncover how gendered regimes of incarceration were crucial to the making of Jim Crow modernity. No Mercy Here examines the brutalization of imprisoned women in local\, county\, and state convict labor systems\, while also situating them within the black radical tradition by illuminating practices of resistance\, refusal\, and sabotage that challenged ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy\, offering alternative conceptions of social and political life and envisioning a world beyond prisons.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/black-feminism-the-carceral-state-and-abolition/
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SUMMARY:Does Innovation Go with Social Inclusion?  Multinational Corporation in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Recent research has revealed that contrary to the expectations generated by globalization\, there is no automatic correlation linking world trade expansion and multinational companies\, product innovation\, and more generally\, economic progress (measured in terms of growth) with social progress. On the contrary\, there is evidence showing that even when there has been a significant job transfer to developing countries\, there has been deterioration in its quality.\nThis research stems from the need to understand and document the variety of paths experienced when adapting working relations to the requirements arising from the economic innovation processes in the case of Mexico\, considering there is a wide selection of multinational companies from various sectors installed in the country. Therefore\, this paper aims to identify the relationship between innovation and social-labor progress\, through the analysis multinational firms established in Mexico. \nIt is worth mentioning that this paper is derived from an study in nine countries coordinated by the Intrepid\, an academic international network. In Mexico’s case\, the survey represents 922 multinational firms in the manufacturing and service sectors. The purpose of the survey was to determine their performance in terms of innovation\, employment practices and outsourcing. After the analysis of the data\, a typology of innovation-social inclusion was designed\, and based on these results\, a second stage of the study was conducted through qualitative analysis with 16 companies from different productive sectors. Companies from different country of origin were taken into account\, including Americans\, Europeans\, Chinese and Mexicans. \nAll selected companies have significant national and international economic relevance\, and all of them follow practices of innovation. The research question in this case was whether innovation is associated with socio-labor progress in multinational companies. \nThe main results confirm the general perception of literature on the topic: innovation giving economic and competitive results to multinational companies is not associated to the results of social-labor progress\, and the overall balance of globalization is not the reduction of inequality. In most companies\, innovations (product and process) were observed and changes in the business model were also perceived; however\, these improvements did not go alongside the socio-labor progress. Only a small proportion of companies follow the “high road”. Finally\, this paper offers some results on the associated variables\, which allow observing the positive articulation between innovation and social-labor progress.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/does-innovation-go-with-social-inclusion-multinational-corporation-in-mexico/
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