Good Law | Bad Law

How are people coerced to work? How do we view “workers”?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by sociology professor and author, Dr. Erin Hatton, to discuss the issues of coercion, work, power dynamics and imbalance, as well as Dr. Hatton’s new book on the topic and how it relates to today’s COVID-19 pandemic.   In today’s episode, Aaron and Erin talk about how power is used, wielded, and abused in the context of work. What do prison laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? Erin argues that they all are part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Erin and Aaron explore this in depth, examining the different types of coercion and how these definitions are applied in varying situations. Coerced analyzes these four groups of workers and their experiences that differ from the traditional understanding of “employment.” Erin’s book considers how these groups function differently as their “