Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12194
• Author: Terence K. Huwe,Janice Kimball
• Published date: 01 October 2017
• Date: 01 October 2017

Recent Publications

Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and

Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

TERENCE K. HUWE, Director of Library & Information Resources

JANICE KIMBALL, Library Assistant

Note to readers: This is the final column of Recent Publications.

After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality. Edited by

Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, and Marshall Steinbaum.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. 9780674504776.

640 pp. $35.00.

Thomas Piketty’sCapital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of

economics in recent history. The contributors to this volume pose a number questions,

including whether its analyses of inequality and economic growth are on target. They also

challenge economists to question how to respond in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to

the forefront of global conversations. Topics include whether Piketty said enough about

power, slavery, and the complex nature of capital; the impact of technology on inequality;

gender to trends in the global South; and potential agendas for future research on inequality.

Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational

Families. By Kristin Elizabeth Yarris. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford

University Press, 2017. 9781503602045. 224 pp. $24.95.

Yarris studies the transnational experience of “grandmother care”in Nicaraguan transnational

families, examining both the structural and gendered inequalities that motivate migration and

caregiving as well as the cultural values that sustain intergenerational care. She broadens the

transnational migrant story beyond the parent–child relationship, situating care across genera-

tions and as part of “kin networks”in sending countries. She posits that intergenerational

reconfigurations of care serve as a resource for the well-being of children and other family

members who stay behind after transnational migration. Her profile of migrant experience

demonstrates the emergence of new models for family care and how they develop over time.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Vol. 56, No. 4 (October 2017). ©2017 Regents of the University of California

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