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A Sociology of Financialisation?
Idea go What does a sociologist know about finance? Surely it’s a matter for accountants, economists and business people?….and maybe politicians and lawyers when things go really wrong. But...
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The Myth of Academic Stardom
Idea go For brands to work as brands, it must be possible to rank them. Blackberry’s smart phones are out, Samsung’s smart phones are in. Burger King sells bigger burgers than McDonald’s. And so on....
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The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Johnson administration when he wrote what was to be a confidential report titled The Negro Family: the Case for National...
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When Tenure-Track Faculty Take On the Problem of Adjunctification
I am part of an unofficial group of tenured faculty at a state institution that relies on many non-tenure-track faculty, but we are not the tenured faculty Ivan Evans refers to in his piece “When the...
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Work, Work, Work…
The following post is drawn from the Management INK blog. *** Today is International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, a celebration of the international labor movement. SAGE publishes a number of...
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The Sociologist of Informal Labour: Sharit Bhowmik, 1948-2016
Sharit Kumar BhowmikSharit Kumar Bhowmik, sociologist well known for his studies in labor and especially on the informal sector, passed away September 8 in Bangkok. He was in a coma for some time,...
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Award Winning Journal of Management Article on Capitol Hill
“Age Stereotypes in the Workplace: Common Stereotypes, Moderators, and Future Directions,” by Richard A. Posthuma of the University of Texas at El Paso and Michael A. Campion of Purdue University, won...
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Top Five: Advances in Developing Human Resources
Want to know all about the latest research in human resource development? Take a look at the top five most read articles from Advances in Developing Human Resources! This journal explores problems and...
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Book Review: Ofer Sharone: Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and...
Ofer Sharone: Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-07336-1, $85 (Cloth); ISBN 978-0-226-07353-8,...
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Book Review: Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules
Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules. By Dan Clawson Naomi Gerstel . New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2014. 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-87154-014-0, $35 (Paperback). Matthew M....
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Book Review: Steven Raphael: The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S....
The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record. By Steven Raphael. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute Press, 2014. 107 pp. ISBN 978-0-880994798, $14.99 (Paperback)....
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Book Review: Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians
Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians. Catherine P. Mulder; New York and London: Routledge, 2009, xiii + 147 pp. DOI: 10.1177/0486613415574474 Costas Panayotakis of New...
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What Role Does Location Play in Teacher Collective Bargaining?
[We are pleased to welcome Lesley Lavery of Macalester College. Lesley recently published an article in ILR Review with co-authors Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald, entitled “My End of the Bargain: Are...
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Understanding Vocational Education in Industrialized Countries
[We’re pleased to welcome Nuria Rodriguez-Planas. Nuria published an article in ILR Review in March 2015, entitled “A Road Map to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries” with...
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Research and the Census: Exploring the Labor Force
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Frank Donnelly’s Exploring The U.S. Census. A follow-up except will look at labor force statistics in more detail. The concept of the labor force...
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After Rana Plaza: Scholars Study Exploitive Labor Regimes in Bangladesh
Worker exploitation in garment supply chain factories is not just about sweatshops, note the authors of “After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export...
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Decolonizing Research: Putting India on the Agenda
India presents a rich context for research on work and employment, epitomizing the paradox of being the world’s fifth-biggest economy but one where 92.4 percent of the workforce is informal –...
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