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Gretchen W. Purser, Ph.D.

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2009 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
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Incarnation, the penal state, race as a principle of social vision and division, comparative urban inequality and marginality, extreme social systems, politics of reason, classical and contemporary social theory
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Loïc Wacquant grad student 2009 UC Berkeley
 (Labor on demand: Dispatching the urban poor.)

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Purser G. (2019) Day Labor Agencies, “Backdoor” Hires, and the Spread of Unfree Labor Anthropology of Work Review. 40: 5-14
Hennigan B, Purser G. (2018) Jobless and Godless: Religious neoliberalism and the project of evangelizing employability in the US The authors contributed equally to the research for and writing of this article.: Ethnography. 19: 84-104
Purser GW, Hennigan B. (2018) Disciples and dreamers: job readiness and the making of the US working class Dialectical Anthropology. 42: 149-161
Purser GW, Hennigan B. (2017) “Work as unto the Lord”: Enhancing Employability in an Evangelical Job-Readiness Program Qualitative Sociology. 40: 111-133
Purser GW. (2016) The Circle of Dispossession: Evicting the Urban Poor in Baltimore Critical Sociology. 42: 393-415
Purser G. (2016) Consuming Work: Youth Labor in AmericaConsuming Work: Youth Labor in America, by Besen-CassinoYasemin. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2014. 188 pp. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 9781439909492. Contemporary Sociology. 45: 20-21
Purser G. (2014) Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston Contemporary Sociology. 43: 535-537
Purser G. (2012) “Still Doin' Time:” Clamoring For Work In The Day Labor Industry Workingusa. 15: 397-415
Purser G, Rooks D. (2012) Labor and the Political Economy of Punishment Workingusa. 15: 323-325
Purser G. (2010) Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States Contemporary Sociology. 39: 144-145
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