Yannis Bougiatiotis

Dec 10, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Hannah McIntyre |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Peter Dreier |Susan Yelavich

Still from Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion | Eva Orner / © HBO Max“From the beginning of the supply chain to the end, we’re all being exploited by the same system” says Chloe Asaam, who represents the Or Foundation. She’s speaking in Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion, an HBO documentary that explores the toxicity of the international brand Brandy Melville.

Oct 17, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Yannis Bougiatiotis |Lina Moe |Peter Dreier |Phyllis Jeffrey

An inventory of inequality (2022) | Quality Stock Arts / ShutterstockI know someone, a nurse, who doesn’t have health insurance. His employer, a staffing agency, bounces him from assignment to assignment—sometimes with only a day’s notice. Engaged in skilled care work that is profoundly dependent on the ability to maintain human relationships, he often finds himself treated more like a commodity than a care professional.

Oct 16, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Lina Moe |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Phyllis Jeffrey |Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Food delivery driver in traffic | Tricky_Shark / ShutterstockAsk any organizer and you’ll hear how hard it is to reach gig workers. These workers typically lack a physical place of work or regular schedule (though many work all the time), and their work is poorly measured in Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics datasets. The gig workers themselves agree this is a problem.

Sep 17, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Anna Pick |Mark Setterfield |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Teresa Ghilarducci

Photograph from Specimens of Fancy Turning Executed on the Hand or Foot Lathe(1869) | Edward J. Woolsey / Public DomainFeathers were ruffled at Davos this year when, during a panel on “How to Trust Economics,” a speaker went rogue, accusing economists of being a “tribal clique” who only quote each other and have “blind faith” in models, however disconnected from real events they may be. The critique came not from an activist infiltrator but the European Central Bank president, Christine Lagarde.

Sep 16, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Yannis Bougiatiotis |Peter Dreier |Trebor Scholz |Nicole Hemmer

President Joseph R. Biden discusses his plans for investing in labor and green energy during a tour of Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (July 20th, 2023) | Ooglemages / ShutterstockDomestic economic commentators tend to describe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the rise of American green industrial policy along three lines.