Jessie Luna published “The chain of exploitation: intersectional inequalities, capital accumulation, and resistance in Burkina Faso’s cotton sector” in The Journal of Peasant Studies this September. Luna joined CSU’s Department of Sociology in Fall 2018 and specializes in environmental inequality, race, food and agriculture, development, and cultural sociology. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado-Boulder, M.A. from […]

Although both popular and scholarly accounts have argued that income inequality reduces trust, some recent research has been more skeptical.

Using over a decade of time-use and expenditure data, this paper shows how rising income inequality in the U.S. has the potential to reshape domestic labor and, crucially, inequality in domestic labor, by increasing the ability of the affluent to outsource domestic labor by hiring others to perform it.

Residents tell researchers they consider themselves powerless to control their surroundings or to protect the environment, their health or their property.

The Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA), in partnership with the Center for Fair and Alternative Trade (CFAT) is releasing the first-ever comprehensive report on consumer market patterns and awareness of domestic fair trade messaging.

Women constitute nearly half of India’s population. This book is a rigorous social scientific examination of the issue of violence against women in India.

What we need are bridges. It is time we start building them – and walking across the political divide.