Well another traveling odyssey has begun, which means I was able to listen to talks and books for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

Next was a great session on how coordination technologies change organizations at INSEAD with Piyush Gulati, Arianna Marchetti, and Phanish Puranam https://youtu.be/wAQJCKXIi-s?si=_OQWDaT96-etVZDV

Next was an informative run through of the latest BLS data by Sarah Dickerson at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise https://youtu.be/dQzrcCUKqj0?si=zz0du9Q1Tr7lcho7

Next was “Industrial Islam” by Utku Balaban. Most of this book is an anachronistic sociological analysis of Turkey, with some time spent on other Muslim-majority countries, and their complicated process of industrialization and how it is connected to political developments. The more interesting sections of this book deal with observations of workplaces and individual worker experiences in Turkey, although those observations are unfortunately also not methodologically rigorous. Still, if you're interested in low-wage Turkish labor case studies you'll find some good ones here https://www.ucpress.edu/books/industrial-islamism/paper

Last was “The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law” by Leora Bilsky. This is an extremely insightful and painful examination of transnational Holocaust law - the movement to penalize companies that benefited from the Holocaust and deliver funds to victims. The book is more focused on the legal and philosophical issues around these cases, which as discussed towards the end is a useful framework for other crimes against humanity cases that involve corporations. I do wish there was more historical context here, since understanding more deeply how particular companies operated would have helped me think about culpability and the issues at play more accurately. Highly recommend https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Holocaust-Corporations-and-the-Law2