Jill Esbenshade
Biographic Data
| ID | 354412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Esbenshade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Esbenshade |
| SIGNATURE | ESBENSHADE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Leased Among Us: Precarious Work, Local Regulation, and the Taxi Industry
Through a case study of the taxi industry in San Diego, where 89 percent of drivers leased their vehicles as independent contractors (IC), we show how local regulation has enforced precarity. We find that the interaction of policies from various local governmental agencies has actually required lease drivers to operate as ICs and has simultaneously undermined the very control and economic independence that is fundamental to the IC designation. Wh…
Leveraging liminality: How San Diego taxi drivers used their precarious status to win reform
Using a case study in San Diego, California, we explore the complexities of precarious employment for taxi drivers. We seek to answer the following question: how do the ambiguities of taxi drivers’ status as independent contractors shape drivers’ work conditions and opportunities for resistance? Our study is based on 331 surveys, 20 in-depth interviews, participant observation, and policy analysis over two years. While drivers were objectively di…
Customer-driven management models for choiceless clientele? Business process reengineering in a California welfare agency
Business process reengineering and lean are increasingly used to restructure public sector work. This article presents a case study of reengineering in a California welfare agency. It finds extensive work intensification and reduced autonomy for the workforce, and deteriorating service for the clientele. Rather than attribute these outcomes as inherent to the business process reengineering model, this article emphasizes how cost cutting and quant…
A Review of Private Regulation: Codes and Monitoring in the Apparel Industry
This article reviews the last decade of scholarship on a leading corporate social responsibility initiative: the use of codes of conduct and monitoring in the global garment industry. The review focuses on three debates in the field: the evaluation of code and monitoring effectiveness, the problematic of various relationships in transnational anti‐sweatshop campaigns, and the meaning of private regulation vis‐a‐vis state enforcement. The article …
Discrimination, DNA Testing, and Dispossession: Consequences of U.S. Policy for African Refugees
This article seeks to expand the ways in which Marxist theory has explained the interaction of race and immigration policy. The article lays out the historical discrimination deeply embedded in U.S. refugee policy and then delineates the development, implementation, and ramifications of a new precedent-setting policy of DNA testing African refugees. The article argues that DNA testing is, in fact, a new mechanism to reassert the exclusion of Afri…
Marxism, Racism, and Exclusion: Introduction to Issue 2
Going Up Against the Global Economy: New Developments in the Anti-Sweatshops Movement
This article is inspired by Edna Bonacich's theoretical attention to the 'big picture,' substantive dissection of the garment industry and ethical call for public sociology. The article focuses on the newest developments in the US anti-sweatshop movement by delineating the progress of two movement organizations: United Students Against Sweatshops and Sweatfree Communities. The article argues that the development of these movements has been toward…
The Social Accountability Contract: Private Monitoring From Los Angeles To the Global Apparel Industry
The Social Accountability Contract: Private Monitoring From Los Angeles To the Global Apparel Industry
Customer-driven management models for choiceless clientele? Business process reengineering in a California welfare agency
Business process reengineering and lean are increasingly used to restructure public sector work. This article presents a case study of reengineering in a California welfare agency. It finds extensive work intensification and reduced autonomy for the workforce, and deteriorating service for the clientele. Rather than attribute these outcomes as inherent to the business process reengineering model, this article emphasizes how cost cutting and quant…
Leveraging liminality: How San Diego taxi drivers used their precarious status to win reform
Using a case study in San Diego, California, we explore the complexities of precarious employment for taxi drivers. We seek to answer the following question: how do the ambiguities of taxi drivers’ status as independent contractors shape drivers’ work conditions and opportunities for resistance? Our study is based on 331 surveys, 20 in-depth interviews, participant observation, and policy analysis over two years. While drivers were objectively di…
Going Up Against the Global Economy: New Developments in the Anti-Sweatshops Movement
This article is inspired by Edna Bonacich's theoretical attention to the 'big picture,' substantive dissection of the garment industry and ethical call for public sociology. The article focuses on the newest developments in the US anti-sweatshop movement by delineating the progress of two movement organizations: United Students Against Sweatshops and Sweatfree Communities. The article argues that the development of these movements has been toward…
Discrimination, DNA Testing, and Dispossession: Consequences of U.S. Policy for African Refugees
This article seeks to expand the ways in which Marxist theory has explained the interaction of race and immigration policy. The article lays out the historical discrimination deeply embedded in U.S. refugee policy and then delineates the development, implementation, and ramifications of a new precedent-setting policy of DNA testing African refugees. The article argues that DNA testing is, in fact, a new mechanism to reassert the exclusion of Afri…
The Social Accountability Contract: Private Monitoring From Los Angeles To the Global Apparel Industry
Going Up Against the Global Economy: New Developments in the Anti-Sweatshops Movement
This article is inspired by Edna Bonacich's theoretical attention to the 'big picture,' substantive dissection of the garment industry and ethical call for public sociology. The article focuses on the newest developments in the US anti-sweatshop movement by delineating the progress of two movement organizations: United Students Against Sweatshops and Sweatfree Communities. The article argues that the development of these movements has been toward…
Discrimination, DNA Testing, and Dispossession: Consequences of U.S. Policy for African Refugees
This article seeks to expand the ways in which Marxist theory has explained the interaction of race and immigration policy. The article lays out the historical discrimination deeply embedded in U.S. refugee policy and then delineates the development, implementation, and ramifications of a new precedent-setting policy of DNA testing African refugees. The article argues that DNA testing is, in fact, a new mechanism to reassert the exclusion of Afri…
Marxism, Racism, and Exclusion: Introduction to Issue 2
A Review of Private Regulation: Codes and Monitoring in the Apparel Industry
This article reviews the last decade of scholarship on a leading corporate social responsibility initiative: the use of codes of conduct and monitoring in the global garment industry. The review focuses on three debates in the field: the evaluation of code and monitoring effectiveness, the problematic of various relationships in transnational anti‐sweatshop campaigns, and the meaning of private regulation vis‐a‐vis state enforcement. The article …
Customer-driven management models for choiceless clientele? Business process reengineering in a California welfare agency
Business process reengineering and lean are increasingly used to restructure public sector work. This article presents a case study of reengineering in a California welfare agency. It finds extensive work intensification and reduced autonomy for the workforce, and deteriorating service for the clientele. Rather than attribute these outcomes as inherent to the business process reengineering model, this article emphasizes how cost cutting and quant…
The Leased Among Us: Precarious Work, Local Regulation, and the Taxi Industry
Through a case study of the taxi industry in San Diego, where 89 percent of drivers leased their vehicles as independent contractors (IC), we show how local regulation has enforced precarity. We find that the interaction of policies from various local governmental agencies has actually required lease drivers to operate as ICs and has simultaneously undermined the very control and economic independence that is fundamental to the IC designation. Wh…
Leveraging liminality: How San Diego taxi drivers used their precarious status to win reform
Using a case study in San Diego, California, we explore the complexities of precarious employment for taxi drivers. We seek to answer the following question: how do the ambiguities of taxi drivers’ status as independent contractors shape drivers’ work conditions and opportunities for resistance? Our study is based on 331 surveys, 20 in-depth interviews, participant observation, and policy analysis over two years. While drivers were objectively di…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Clothing (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works)