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Teresa Sullivan Reinstated at the University of Virginia
One remarkable development, just aired live on line, concerning the administrative turmoil at the University of Virginia: the university’s board has relented, admitted its procedural misstep in ousting...
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Farewell to Work?
It’s an old debate, actually –think back to the 1950s, when a burgeoning literature emerged on the employment effect of automation. Or, think about fictitious portrayals such as Kurt Vonnegut’s Player...
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Of Mice, Men, and the Workings of Popular Culture
Lately, I’ve become convinced that those of us who study work organizations have kind of missed the boat. Which boat? I suppose that vessel can best be described as popular culture. Let me explain. I...
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But How Do Inequality Regimes Actually Work?
In making sense of the desegregation trajectories that have developed since passage of the Civil Rights Act, the book makes highly creative use of social closure theory, applied alongside the shifting...
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The Precarious Position of Workplace Sociology
Chris Warhurst raises a number of issues that warrant careful attention. One stems from the still-considerable boundary between UK and US sociology – trends “over there” don’t map on to what’s...
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The Roar of the Adjuncts
Northeastern University adjuncts organized successfully on their own behalf. There’s a great deal of discussion about the “corporatization” of the university, or about “academic capitalism,” and the...
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Postcards from the Neo-Liberal University
From time to time I write about the commercialization of higher education. Some of my writings are even based on actual research, using interviews with administrators and faculty at various...
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Covering Labor: An interview with Steven Greenhouse, Long Time Labor Reporter...
Steven Greenhouse has had a distinguished career as a journalist. Trained initially as an attorney, he served as a longtime correspondent for The New York Times. He is perhaps best known as the Times’s...
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Slaves to Beauty
Credit: The New York Times LAST WEEK The New York Times ran a set of stories that illustrate just how vital investigative journalism is, especially in an era in which savage capitalism seizes upon...
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The Structure of Organization Studies
Image: Geisel Library by Amerique, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-2.0) [Ed note: This is the fifth of six articles in a virtual panel on Who should benefit from organizational research?] We are all...
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Images of Work in Hollywood: “Nightcrawler” and “Good Kill”
It may seem strange to say, but we academics who study work sometimes get too caught up in the workplace itself. By that I mean that, much like the workers we study, we get so fixated on workplace...
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Lending dignity to workplace life: The work of Randy Hodson
Academic readers will recognize not only the name but also the many scholarly contributions of Randy Hodson, who passed away a little more than a year ago. Remembrances, both personal and intellectual,...
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Conversations: Ashley Mears Talks about the Ethnography of Desire
Ashley Mears, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University, has gone where few sociologists have gone: First, the world of high fashion and runway modeling, and now the world of VIP clubs,...
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