Linda Coco conducted four years of ethnographic research in the US bankruptcy legal field that has resulted in several articles, a book chapter and a book manuscript. This article discusses part of the results of that research.
Sam Gindin is the former Chief Economist and Research Director of the Canadian Autoworkers Union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University. In addition to co-authoring The Making of Global Capitalism and In and Out of Crisis, his publications include The Canadian Autoworkers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union, as well as many articles, including most recently ‘Renewing Unions, Registering Socialism’ in the 2013 volume of the Socialist Register on The Question of Strategy.
Genevieve LeBaron is Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is co-author of Protest Inc: The Corporatization of Activism (with Peter Dauvergne), and has published recent articles in the Brown Journal of World Affairs, Third World Quarterly, New Political Economy, and Signs, among other journals.
Leo Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University. Editor of The Socialist Register for three decades, he is the author and co-author of many books, including Working Class Politics in Crisis; The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From New Left to New Labour; From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms; Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination; In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives; and, most recently, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire.
Leanne Roderick is a PhD candidate in political studies at Queen’s University in Kingston. Her research interests include consumer data broker companies, behavioral marketing, big data, financial cybercrime and the regulatory governance of financial data.
Adrienne Roberts is a lecturer in international politics at the University of Manchester. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of international political economy, feminist political economy, finance, debt and debt-driven development. She has published in a number of leading academic journals (including Third World Quarterly, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Signs, Politics & Gender, New Political Economy and Antipode) and is currently working on a manuscript entitled Disciplining Poverty: The Gendered Relations of Punishment and Welfare from Mercantilism to Neoliberalism.
Laureen Snider, is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Recent publications include: The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: Towards a Political Economy of Surveillance, 2013 (edited, with Kirstie Ball); “The “Great Unwatched” and the “Lightly Touched”*: Surveillance and Stock Market Fraud”, (with Adam Molnar) in K. Ball & L. Snider, eds., The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: A Political Economy of Surveillance, London: Routledge: 2013: 122-138; “Examining the Ruggie Report: Can Voluntary Guidelines Tame Global Capitalism?”, S. Bittle & L. Snider, Critical Criminology 2013: 21: 177-92; and “The Conundrum of Financial Regulation”, Annual Review of Law & Social Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2011).
Susanne Soederberg is a Professor of Global Political Economy in the Department of Global Development Studies and Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. She is author of several books including The Politics of the New International Financial Architecture: Reimposing Neoliberal Domination in the Global South (2004), Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class, and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations (2006), Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism: The Politics of Domination and Resistance (2010), and, her most recent book, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population (2014).
William K. Tabb is Professor Emeritus, Queens College and of Sociology, Political Science and Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author most recently of The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time (2012) and Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (2004). His published essays relevant to the article in this volume include: ‘Financialization and the world economy’, in The Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises edited by Martin H. Wolfson and Gerald A. Epstein (2013); ‘Finance and the contemporary social structure of accumulation, in Contemporary Capitalism and Its Critics: Social Structures of Accumulation Theory for the Twenty-First Century edited by Terrence McDonough et al. (2010); ‘Extending Occupy Wall Street’s message and critique,’ in International Critical Thought (2012); and ‘The crisis: a view from occupied America’ in the Monthly Review (2012).
