Scott Martin

Scott B. Martin, PhD (Columbia, 2001) has lectured on comparative political economy of development, global labor issues, comparative social welfare regimes, and critical approaches to corporate social responsibility at Columbia University (SIPA) and The New School (GPIA), where he is Part-Time Associate Professor, since the early 2000s.  He has advised and helped create SIPA student capstone projects in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa for close to two decades. Previously he held visiting appointments at Yale, Princeton, and Sarah Lawrence College and he is occasional lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania (School of Social Policy and Practice) and New York University (Wagner School of Public Service).  Currently Prof. Martin is Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Center of Artificial Intelligence (C4AI) at the Universidade de São Paulo.  His current research explores algorithmic management and labor conflict at the Amazon corporation in its Latin American operations as well as regulation of social and employment impacts of deployment of artificial intelligence.  Grants from the Centennial Center of the American Political Science Association, the Faculty Research Fund at The New School, and a Faculty Fellowship from the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School have funded his fieldwork in 2023-24 in Brazil and Mexico. He is co-editor and co-author of several chapters for a forthcoming volume “Contesting Global Amazon in Cross-Continental Perspective: Labor, Work, and Community  Meet E-Commerce Logistics.”   Prof. Martin’s most recent book is Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil:  Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America (Palgrave, 2021, with João Paulo Veiga and Katiuscia Galhera).  He is also co-author (with Ilán Bizberg) of the book Globalización y Estado de Bienestar: El Caso de Norteamérica (El Colegio de México, 2012) exploring social policy and labor regulation in Mexico, Canada, and the United States comparatively.  He is co-editor and contributor to the volumes, The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America (Oxford, 1997) and Competividade e Desenvolvimento: Atores e Instituições Locais (São Paulo, SENAC, 2001).  

Education

• PhD, Columbia University