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On October 25, 2024, The University of Richmond Law Review hosted a Symposium entitled Economies of Extraction: Labor, Care, and the Carceral State. Professor Gali Racabi delivered the presentation transcribed below, which has been edited for clarity and cohesion. The University of Richmond Law Review was honored to host him and is thrilled to publish this transcript of his thoughtful discussion.

Gali Racabi *

* Assistant Professor, School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University. Associated Faculty, Cornell Law School. Professor Racabi’s research focuses on the legal foundations of workplace power, and his current projects include writing on exclusions from work law; technological change and antidiscrimination law; platform work; and the burgeoning U.S. students’ worker movement. Professor Racabi earned his doctorate at Harvard Law School, and an LL.B. and B.A. from Haifa University, Israel.