Graduate Students 

Jake B. Wilson

Degrees:

• University of California, Berkeley, BS (Magna Cum Laude),
  Conservation and Resource Studies, 2001
• University of California, Riverside, MA, Sociology, 2005

Awards:

Graduate Teaching Award of the Year, University of California, Riverside

Graduate Student Research Award, Program on Global Studies (PoGS), University of California Riverside

Dean’s Fellowship, University of California, Riverside

Honors Colloquia Presentation, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley

Honors Research Thesis, University of California, Berkeley

Research Areas:

Race, Class, and Gender Inequality

Publications:

Bonacich, Edna and Jake B. Wilson. “Hoisted by its own Petard: Organizing Wal-Mart’s Logistics Workers.” New Labor Forum 14(Summer 2005): 67-75.

Bonacich, Edna and Jake B. Wilson. 2006. “Global Production and Distribution: Wal-Mart’s Global Logistics Empire.” In Wal-Mart World: The World’s Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy, edited by Stanley D. Brunn. New York: Routledge.

Bonacich, Edna and Jake B. Wilson. Forthcoming. Getting the Goods: The Logistics Revolution and the Ports of Southern California.

Bonacich, Edna, Sabrina Alimahomed, and Jake B. Wilson. Forthcoming. “Global Racialized Labor.” American Behavioral Scientist.

Biography:

Jake B. Wilson’s research focuses on race, class, labor, and masculinities. Specifically, he is interested in the racialization of labor and the ways in which racism and capitalist exploitation intersect. He is also interested in the social construction of whiteness and masculinity, anarchist theory, and environmental racism. Recently, Jake completed a co-authored book, Getting the Goods, with Professor Edna Bonacich on the Southern California ports and the surrounding logistics systems. The book examines the changes associated with the increased reliance on logistics in today’s retail-dominated global capitalist system and the effect this has had on labor. The book also outlines possibilities for increasing the power of workers around the world in light of these changes. Currently, Jake is working on his dissertation which examines the ways race and gender shape longshore work in the Southern California ports.

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