IST 605: Sociology of Labor

Cai, J. Y., & Mattingly, M. J. (2025). Unstable Work Schedules and Racial Earnings Disparities Among U.S. Workers. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 11(1), 201–223. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48803887

Capasso, A., Kim, S., Ali, S. H., Jones, A. M., DiClemente, R. J., & Tozan, Y. (2022). Employment conditions as barriers to the adoption of COVID-19 mitigation measures: how the COVID-19 pandemic may be deepening health disparities among low-income earners and essential workers in the United States. BMC Public Health, 22, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13259-w

Choi, H., & Marinescu, I. (2025). Work attendance anxiety, precarious work schedules, and job satisfaction of essential retail workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One, 20(3)https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318586

Cornfield, D. B., Campbell, K. E., & McCammon, H. J. (2001). Working in restructured workplaces : challenges and new directions for the sociology of work (1st ed.). Sage Publications.

Fletcher, R. A. (2015). “Money Gets Things Done, But Legwork Does Too”: Labor’s (Re)Claiming of Community Space in a Privatized Public. Journal of Appalachian Studies, 21(2), 189–206. https://doi.org/10.5406/jappastud.21.2.0189

Fligstein, N. (2022). Will Labor Unions Make a Comeback? [Review of Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank, by S. Jacoby]. Contemporary Sociology, 51(6), 433–436. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27235415

Kalleberg, A. L. (2009). Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition. American Sociological Review, 74(1), 1-22. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/precarious-work-insecure-workers-employment/docview/218852964/se-2

Kalleberg, A. L., Reskin, B. F., & Hudson, K. (2000). Bad jobs in America: Standard and nonstandard employment relations and job quality in the United States. American Sociological Review, 65(2), 256-278. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/bad-jobs-america-standard-nonstandard-employment/docview/218824679/se-2

Kelly, E. L., Moen, P., Oakes, J. M., Fan, W., Okechukwu, C., Davis, K. D., Hammer, L. B., Kossek, E. E., King, R. B., Hanson, G. C., Mierzwa, F., & Casper, L. M. (2014). Changing Work and Work-Family Conflict: Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Network. American Sociological Review, 79(3), 485-516. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122414531435

Llanes, A. (2024). Social Media in the Labor Movement: How TikTok is Being Utilized. Michigan Sociological Review, 36, 107-121. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/social-media-labor-movement-how-tiktok-is-being/docview/3151245084/se-2

Marx, M. (2011). The Firm Strikes Back: Non-compete Agreements and the Mobility of Technical Professionals. American Sociological Review, 76(5), 695-712. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/firm-strikes-back-non-compete-agreements-mobility/docview/901615039/se-2  

McLaughlin, D. K., & Coleman-Jensen, A. (2008). Nonstandard Employment in the Nonmetropolitan United States*. Rural Sociology, 73(4), 631-659. https://doi.org/10.1526/003601108786471558

Ness, I. (2021). The Status and Future Prospects of the U.S. Labor Movement under the Trump Presidency [Review of Labor in the Time of Trump, by J. Kerrissey, E. Weinbaum, C.Hammonds, T. Juravich, & D. Clawson]. Contemporary Sociology, 50(1), 1–7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26985046

Padavic, I. (2005). Laboring under Uncertainty: Identity Renegotiation among Contingent Workers. Symbolic Interaction, 28(1), 111-134. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2005.28.1.111

Rodriguez, G., Trejo, G., Schiemann, E., Quandt, S. A., Daniel, S. S., Sandberg, J. C., & Arcury, T. A. (2016). Latina Workers in North Carolina: Work Organization, Domestic Responsibilities, Health, and Family Life. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 18(3), 687-696. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-015-0314-x

Rosenfeld, J. (2014). What unions no longer do (First edition.). Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726215

Segarra, P., & Prasad, A. (2024). Undocumented immigrants at work: invisibility, hypervisibility, and the making of the modern slave. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 45. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02449-5

Silver, B. (2008). Is Another Labor Movement Possible? Contemporary Sociology, 37(1), 4-8. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/is-another-labor-movement-possible/docview/233583976/se-2

Stepan-Norris, J., & Southworth, C. (2010). Rival Unionism and Membership Growth in the United States, 1900 to 2005: A Special Case of Inter-organizational Competition. American Sociological Review, 75(2), 227-251. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/rival-unionism-membership-growth-united-states/docview/612694037/se-2

Voss, Kim, and Rachel Sherman. “Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement.” American Journal of Sociology 106, no. 2 (2000): 303–49. https://doi.org/10.1086/316963.