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The New Labor Activism, a New Labor Sociology Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Daniel B. Cornfield
This symposium issue of Work and Occupations on “The New Labor Activism” develops a new generation of labor sociology research for comprehending and sustaining the contemporary labor mobilization i...
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An Overview of US Workers’ Current Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Thomas A. Kochan, Janice R. Fine, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Suresh Naidu, Jacob Barnes, Yaminette Diaz-Linhart, John Kallas, Jeonghun Kim, Arrow Minster, Di Tong, Phela Townsend, Danielle Twiss
American workers are currently engaged in an upsurge in collective actions aimed at achieving a stronger voice and representation at work; this desire for increased voice at work is also evident in...
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A Critical Industrial Relations Approach to Understanding Contemporary Worker Uprising Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Tamara L. Lee, Maite Tapia
Consistent with our calls for critical approaches to traditional Industrial Relations questions, we argue that it is important to consider whether the “major upsurge in union organizing” is more ac...
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She Still Works Hard for the Money: Composers, Precarious Work, and the Gender Pay Gap Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Timothy J. Dowd, Ju Hyun Park
Music composers exemplify precarious work: they historically have been freelancers and have relied on multiple jobs to subsidize their creative work. We focus here on the gender pay gap amidst such...
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Remote Work: New Fields and Challenges for Labor Activism Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Lena Hipp, Martin Krzywdzinski
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered how and when we work. Suddenly, organizations had to grant the possibility of working from home to all employees whose presence on-site was not necessary, independ...
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Resurfacing Dignity as a Tool for the Unionization of African American Lower-Tier Workers Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Alford A. Young
Selected lower-tier occupational sectors were defined as essential during the early phase of the Covid crisis. Accordingly, that period provided an opportunity to explore whether certain African Am...
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Toward a Field of Labor Activism Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jeffrey J. Sallaz, Sara Gia Trongone
A recent upsurge in organizing by workers in the United States presents an opportunity to reconsider the state and fate of the US labor movement. We argue that the conceptual apparatus of strategic...
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Who is Replaced by Robots? Robotization and the Risk of Unemployment for Different Types of Workers Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Andreas Damelang, Michael Otto
We study the effects of robotization on unemployment risk for different types of workers. We examine the extent to which robotization increases inequality at the skill level and at the occupational...
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What Can Unions Do? An Impact Estimate for an Increase in the US Private-Sector Unionization Rate on Workers’ Earnings Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Tali Kristal
Unions are known to increase earnings and wage equality. Therefore, indications for recent union revitalization provoke the question of what unions would do today were they to restore their union d...
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Women in the New Labor Activism: Gender Trends in Attitudes Toward Unions Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Margarita Torre
The gender gap in union membership rates has narrowed considerably in the last decades. How is this change related to women's attitudes toward unions? What is the profile of women who support union...
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Turning Points in U.S. Labor History, Political Culture, and the Current Upsurge in Labor Militancy Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Larry W. Isaac
I consider the current labor upsurge in context of prior pro-labor transformative turning points in U.S. labor history, all of which involved major changes in political culture. My assessment of ke...
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Workers and Work in the Arts: Definitional Challenges and Approaches to Collective Action Among Arts and Creative Workers Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Rachel Skaggs, Tania Aparicio
In response to an era of transformation that deeply impacts workers and increased attention to worker collective action in the United States, this article documents some definitional and boundary c...
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Race, Repression and the Future of New Labor Activism Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Adia Harvey Wingfield
Labor activism is on the rise in the U.S., and workers and organizers are taking new and intriguing steps to have more voice, involvement, and power in their workplaces. This begs the question of w...
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Unionizing High Tech: Opportunities and Obstacles Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Patrick Sheehan, Christine L. Williams
The WERN report documents the rise of worker-led collective action in the tech industry. We distinguish two types of activism emerging from tech professionals—demands for greater corporate social r...
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Stop Discounting Retail Workers Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Kyla Walters, Joya Misra
Retail workers are strong in numbers, but union density is weak. Transformation of the retail sector is possible. Returning stability to these jobs would change the lives of millions of workers and...
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Occupational Activism and the New Labor Activism: Illustrations from the Education Sector and an Agenda for Future Research Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Jonathan S. Coley, Jessica L. Schachle
The United States is currently witnessing a surge in labor activism that will likely embolden many workers to engage in occupational activism and thus enact their jobs in socially transformative wa...
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Labor Unbound? Assessing the Current Surge in Labor Activism Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Steven Peter Vallas, Hannah Johnston
Where will the current surge of labor activism lead? To address this question we examine two distinctive currents of labor struggle—one rooted in “new economy” firms and a second in the nation's lo...
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The Gender Wage Gap, Between-Firm Inequality, and Devaluation: Testing a New Hypothesis in the Service Sector Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Carmen Brick, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett
Unequal sorting of men and women into higher and lower-wage firms contributes significantly to the gender wage gap according to recent analysis of national labor markets. We confirm the importance ...
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Intersections and Commonalities: Using Matching to Decompose Wage Gaps by Gender and Nativity in Germany Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Maximilian Sprengholz, Maik Hamjediers
We investigate intersecting wage gaps by gender and nativity by comparing the wages between immigrant women, immigrant men, native women, and native men based on Western German survey data. Adding ...
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From Movements to Managers: Crossing Organizational Boundaries in the Field of Sustainability Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Grace Augustine, Brayden G King
This study investigates a route to occupational activism whereby individuals with significant experience in a social movement enter organizational positions that have been established to address th...
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Precarious Employment and Well-Being: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Quan D. Mai, Lijun Song, Rachel Donnelly
While precarious employment is not a new concept, it has been brought to the center of scholarly and public discourse worldwide by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. This essay delineates how pre...
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A Forced Vacation? The Stress of Being Temporarily Laid Off During a Pandemic Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Scott Schieman, Quan Mai, Philip Badawy, Ryu Won Kang
A million Canadian workers suddenly became temporarily laid off (TLO) early into the pandemic. How did this affect mental health? Guided by the Stress Process Model (SPM), we would expect that this...
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Do Workers Speak Up When Feeling Job Insecure? Examining Workers’ Response to Precarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Hye Jin Rho, Christine Riordan, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, J. Ryan Lamare, Maite Tapia
The COVID-19 pandemic inflicted unprecedented precarity upon workers, including concerns about job insecurity. We examine whether workers respond to job insecurity with voice, and assess the role o...
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Serving Like an Organization: How Foodservice and Retail Workers Interpret Their Interactions With Customers Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Adam Storer
How do customers affect the job quality of frontline workers? This paper draws on over 15,000 observations from two datasets of 10 foodservice and retail companies, conducting qualitative, quantita...
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The Demographic Context of Hiring Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment in 50 Metropolitan Statistical Areas Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Quan D. Mai
How do the demographic contexts of urban labor markets correlate with the extent to which racial and ethnic minorities are disadvantaged at the hiring stage? This paper builds on two branches of la...
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The Measurement of Precarious Work and Market Conditions: Insights from the COVID-19 Disruption on Sample Selection Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Sigal Alon
The precarious work construct combines employment instability and employment-contingent outcomes. Yet, I argue that confining the scope of the investigation to employed individuals creates a sample...
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Precarious Employment during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Disability-Related Discrimination, and Mental Health Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Robyn Lewis Brown, Gabriele Ciciurkaite
Drawing on separate strands of research documenting the psychological consequences of (a) precarious employment and other challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and (b) ableism, this stud...
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Gig Work and the Pandemic: Looking for Good Pay from Bad Jobs During the COVID-19 Crisis Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Jeremy Reynolds, Reilly Kincaid
COVID-19 led to work hour reductions and layoffs for many Americans with wage/salary jobs. Some gig work, however, which is usually considered precarious, remained available. We examine whether peo...
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The Politics of Prevention: Polarization in How Workplace COVID-19 Safety Practices Shaped the Well-Being of Frontline Service Sector Workers Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Tyler Woods, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reshaped the labor market, especially for service sector workers. Frontline service sector workers, already coping with precarious working conditions, faced proxi...
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Employment Precarity, COVID-19 Risk, and Workers' Well-Being During the Pandemic in Europe Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Qiong (Miranda) Wu
The COVID-19 crisis highlights a growing precarity in employment and the importance of employment for workers' well-being. Existing studies primarily examine the consequences of employment precarit...
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The Contributions of Social Stressors and Coping Resources to Psychological Distress Among Those Who Experienced Furlough or Job Loss Due to COVID-19 Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Matthew K. Grace
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a global economic recession resulting in widespread unemployment and worker furloughs. Using national survey data (n = 2,000), this study examines whether and how...
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Do Large Employers Discriminate Less? An Exploration of Company Size Variation in Disability Discrimination Based on Data from two Field Experiments Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Vegar Bjørnshagen
Recent field experiments have documented that discrimination constitutes a barrier to employment for people with disabilities. Less is known about how disability discrimination varies across contex...
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“It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Alexandrea J. Ravenelle, Ken Cai Kowalski
The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the labor market and given rise to the Great Resignation. Drawing on a mixed methods panel study of 199 precarious and gig-based workers, we analyze how a...
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Inequality in Household Job Insecurity and Mental Health: Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Rachel Donnelly, Rachel Zajdel, Mateo P. Farina
Using nationally representative data from the Household Pulse Survey (April 2020-March 2021), we examined how associations between household job insecurity and mental health changed throughout the ...
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Prime Suspect: Mechanisms of Labor Control at Amazon's Warehouses1 Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Steven P. Vallas, Hannah Johnston, Yana Mommadova
What mechanisms has Amazon deployed in its effort to control the labor of its warehouse employees? This question holds both practical and theoretical interest, given Amazon's prominent position in ...
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The Organization of Networking and Gender Inequality in the New Economy: Evidence from the Tech Industry Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Ethel L. Mickey
In the new economy, with shrinking organizational supports and increased precarity for professional workers, networking has intensified as an entrepreneurial career management strategy. Networking ...
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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Field Experiment of Accountants, 2018–2020 Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Koji Chavez, Katherine Weisshaar, Tania Cabello-Hutt
In this article, we ask whether macro-level changes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to changes in the levels of discrimination against women and Black job-seekers at the point...
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Job Satisfaction and Women's Timing of Return to Work after Childbirth in the UK Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Julia M. Gumy, Anke C. Plagnol, Agnieszka Piasna
This article examines to what extent multiple facets of pre-childbirth job satisfaction affect women's labor market outcomes after first childbirth in the UK. Using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we find that higher levels of overall job satisfaction increase the probability of returning to work sooner, and to the same job, during the sample period. Satisfaction with job security, work hours
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Scarred by Your Employer? The Effect of Employers’ Strategies on the Career Outcomes of Non-Standard Employment Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Lucille Mattijssen, Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Wendy Smits
In this article, we investigate how the strategies employers have for using non-standard employment – screening, workforce adaptability or cost reduction – affect the career outcomes of workers. To investigate this, we use multichannel sequence analysis to produce a typology of employment and income trajectories of workers with non-standard contracts in the Netherlands. The results show that workers
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Book Review: Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged by H. Wohl Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Rachel Skaggs
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LGBTQ@NASA and Beyond: Work Structure and Workplace Inequality among LGBTQ STEM Professionals Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Erin A. Cech, Tom Waidzunas
Scholars are just beginning to understand how organizational processes shape LGBTQ workplace inequality. Using multimethod data from STEM professionals, this article examines how one such factor—the way work tasks are structured within organizations—may impact LGBTQ workers’ experiences of marginalization and devaluation. Through interviews with STEM professionals at two NASA space flight centers with
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Kerrissey, Jasmine, Eve Weinbaum, Clare Hammonds, Tom Juravich, and Dan Clawson, eds. (2020). Labor in the Time of Trump Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Rebecca Kolins Givan
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When Do Work-Family Policies Work? Unpacking the Effects of Stigma and Financial Costs for Men and Women Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Sarah Thébaud, David S. Pedulla
Work-family policies—such as parental leave and flextime—can help to facilitate gender equality in workplaces and in families. But policy use is typically low, varies significantly from one workplace to another, and is often more prevalent among women than men. Extant research suggests that flexibility stigma—workplace norms that penalize workers for utilizing policies that facilitate non-work demands—as
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Immigrant–Native Wage Gaps at Work: How the Public and Private Sectors Shape Relational Inequality Processes Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Eileen Peters, Silvia Maja Melzer
We investigate how the institutional context of the public and private sectors regulates the association of workplace diversity policies and relational status positions with first- and second-generation immigrants’ wages. Using unique linked employer–employee data combining administrative and survey information of 6,139 employees in 120 German workplaces, we estimate workplace fixed-effects regressions
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Working More, Less or the Same During COVID-19? A Mixed Method, Intersectional Analysis of Remote Workers Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Wen Fan, Phyllis Moen
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed where paid work is done. Workers able to do so have been required to work remotely. We draw on survey data collected in October 2020 from a nationally representative sample of 3,017 remote workers, as well as qualitative survey data collected from 231 remote workers, to examine perceived changes in work hours from before to during the pandemic. Results indicate
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Inglis, P. (2019). Narrow Fairways: Getting by and Falling Behind in the New India Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 Sneha Annavarapu
of work continues, the de-stigmatization of remote employment, the collaboration between employer and employee about designing work schedules, and the recognition of the importance of employee time away from work need to be at the center stage. Scholars operating at the nexus of employment, well-being, and organizational change would appreciate Overload for its staggering breadth and depth. The book
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Book Reviews Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Gabriella Alberti
Michele Ford's From migrant to worker is an essential read to all those interested in the debate on migrant labor in industrial relations (IR), not only because it provides a comprehensive account of union action on migration spanning a vast region, but also because it focuses on a historical conundrum for the labor movement: whether or not to organize temporary migrant workers and what positions to
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Collins, C. (2019). Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-07-16 Michelle J. Budig
the crafting of the convention and recommendations. At the outset, Professor Blackett acknowledges that much of traditional labor was created for the male citizen. We cannot simply apply industrial workplace models to the domestic work relationship but at the same time, domestic workers must be treated as any other worker. Too many countries have just normalized or regulated the unequal law of the
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Kelly, E. L., & Moen, P. (2020). Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-07-04 Quan Mai
select sample is a limitation of the study. The work-family dilemmas of less educated, low-paid, and immigrant women in these wealthy nations likely are quite different, as Collins acknowledges. While some might argue that if even privileged women struggle to integrate work and family, we can infer the problem is serious for all women. However, the challenges faced by disadvantaged mothers may not
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Narrative Continuity/Rupture: Projected Professional Futures amid Pervasive Employment Precarity Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Elena Ayala-Hurtado
As working conditions change worldwide, employment precarity is increasing, including for groups for whom such conditions are unexpected. This study investigates how members of one such group—educationally advantaged young adults—describe their professional futures in a context of unprecedented employment precarity where their expected trajectories are no longer easily achievable. Using 75 interviews
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Blackett, A. (2019). Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Hina B. Shah
One in every twenty-five women workers worldwide is a domestic worker. They are largely invisible, undervalued, and lack the most basic labor protections. Professor Blackett’s book, Everyday Transgressions, tackles this invisibility head on and provides a much-needed conceptual framing that lays bare the inequities faced by domestic workers and the transnational movement for change. The book expertly
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Bulut, E. (2020). A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Mengyang Zhao
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Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Paul Glavin, Alex Bierman, Scott Schieman
While the gig economy has expanded rapidly in the last decade, few have studied the psychological ramifications of working for an online labor platform. Guided by classical and modern theories of work and alienation, we investigate whether engagement in platform work is associated with an increased sense of powerlessness and isolation. We analyze data from two national surveys of workers from the Canadian
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Chin, M. M. (2020). Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Yvonne Chen
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Carré, F., & Tilly, C. (2017). Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-05-30 Chris Warhurst
like these are typical throughout A Field in Flux, and provide multifaceted insights: the fact that much of Bob’s book manages to be simultaneously both local and global allows us to not only understand the field of industrial relations as it was during key junctures, but also to reflect on commonalities with our own present journeys within the field. I want to close by highlighting what I consider
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Dilemma Work: Problem-Solving Multiple Work Roles Into One Work Life Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-05-26 Phillipa K. Chong
Scholars have observed workers combining multiple work roles to earn a living to cope with the vicissitudes of the labor market. In studies of creative labor markets, this trend of workers broadening of their skills is termed “occupational generalism”. Previous scholarship has focused on the structural factors that push and pull workers into generalizing and combining multiple work roles. But we lack
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McKersie, R. B. (2018). A Field in Flux: Sixty Years of Industrial Relations Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-04-04 J. Ryan Lamare
tional pathways for corporate occupations in order to strengthen their control of corporate leadership. And education became “the chief public policy to address problems of work and employment” (p. 180). Groeger’s book provides a fascinating historical lens into understanding America’s current educational/occupational structure. Groeger comes from a background in history, and her scholarly criticisms
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Unemployment Experts: Governing the Job Search in the New Economy Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Patrick Sheehan
In recent years, sociologists have examined unemployment and job searching as important arenas in which workers are socialized to accept the terms of an increasingly precarious economy. While noting the importance of expert knowledge in manufacturing the consent of workers, research has largely overlooked the experts themselves that produce such knowledge. Who are these experts and what kinds of advice
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The Organizational Context of Supervisory Bullying: Diversity/Equity and Work-Family Policies Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Anthony Rainey, Silvia Maja Melzer
The impact of harmful social relations in the workplace, such as workplace bullying, has become abundantly clear to the social sciences. However, data limitations have prevented researchers from fully examining the organizational component of workplace bullying. Using a sample of linked-employer-employee data collected from the German working population, this paper shows how the interaction of organizational
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Groeger, C. V. (2021). The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston Work and Occupations (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Hannah Ingersoll
debatable. The consequences of its abandonment are not. Dispersed parallel production led to an inflexible system that could only compete on labor costs and ensured deindustrialization. With so much sunk into this model, U.S. manufacturers resorted to half measures, like the GM-Toyota joint plant in California or Saturn in Tennessee. Yet these efforts occurred in the context of significant cuts and