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Jessie Hammerling is a Lead Researcher for the Technology and Work Program at the University of California’s Berkeley Labor Center. She studies changes in the organization of production in key industries and the consequences of these changes for workers and their communities. Her current work focuses on technological change in the workplace and domestic outsourcing in the U.S. Recent research has explored methods for estimating outsourcing trends across industries in the U.S., and a case study of food services that examines connections between outsourcing, financialization, and market concentration.
In previous years, Jessie worked with the Labor Center’s Green Economy Program, studying labor standards and training in the energy and construction sectors. Prior to joining the Labor Center, she worked at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) in Madison, WI. Jessie holds a Ph.D. in geography from UC Davis and a master’s degree in public policy from UW-Madison.

Juan De Lara is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at The University of Southern California.  His research focuses on the intersections of race, the economy, and social movements. His book, Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Inland Southern California, uses global logistics and commodity chains to show how technological innovations and just-in-time business strategies produced new labor regimes that facilitated a more complex and extended system of global production, distribution, and consumption. He has authored several academic articles and policy papers on the warehouse and logistics sectors, including the co-authored Organizing Temporary, Subcontracted, and Immigrant Workers, a case study that focuses on outsourced labor in Southern California.

De Lara holds a Ph.D. in Geography from, UC Berkeley and an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA.  His undergraduate degree is in Sociology and Labor Studies from Pitzer College.