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Table 01: Workplace Identity in Creative Industries (Presider: Debi Osonowitz)

• Behind the Curtain”: Strip Clubs and the Management of Competition for Scarce Resources, *Elizabeth Ann Mount, Syracuse University
• Art vs. Commerce: Competing Organizational Logics in an Entertainment Advertising Agency, *Gabrielle Raley, Knox College  OR Apprentice or Employee: Navigating Organizational Culture in an Entertainment Advertising Agency, *Gabrielle Raley, Knox College
• Experiencing Authenticity: The Organizational Production of Authenticity in Underground Supper Clubs, *Daphne Demetry, Northwestern University
• Nomadicity and the Care of Place – organization of space in freelance creative work, *Michael Liegl, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• “We are not ‘the department of good!’” Architecting Professional Identity for the Public Good, *Lakshmi Ramarajan; *Amanda Merryman, Harvard University

Table 02: Work, Family, and Community (Presider: Erynn Casanova)

• All in the ‘family’?: the penetration of work into life outside of work, *Aliya Hamid Rao, University of Pennsylvania
• Another Shift: How Members of a BGLO Sorority Balance Work, Family, and Civic Engagement, *Aisha Ariantique Upton, University of Pittsburgh
• Employer-Employee Relationships When the Family Becomes a Workplace, *Tina Wu, University of Pennsylvania
• Some clouds in Spain: Work and family in the age of austerity, *Marc Grau i Grau, University of Edinburgh
• The Nature of Job Flexibility in Care Work, *Kristin Smith, University of New Hampshire; *Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts

Table 03: Healthcare Professions and Professionalization (Presider: Katherine Lin)

• Competing and coexisting logics: medical professionalism and population based medicine in English general medical practice., *Ruth McDonald, University of Nottingham; *Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, University of Manchester, UK; *Sara Bayes, University of Nottingham; *Richard Morriss, University of Nottingham; *Joe Kai, University of Nottingham
• Frontline health care workers and perceived career mobility: Do high performance work practices make a difference?, *Janette S. Dill, University of North Carolina; *Jennifer Craft Morgan, Georgia State University; *Bryan Weiner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Embodied careers in nursing, *Rebecca Elizabeth Selberg, School of Social Sciences
• Technological expertise or supervisory responsibilities? Problems of social closure in nurses’ struggle for professional recognition, *Grace Eileen Scrimgeour, Loyola University Chicago
• “Aren’t you also educating them about their expectations?”: Diagnosis & Patient Consumerism in Medical Education, *Alexandra Hope Vinson, University of California – San Diego

Table 04: Wage Gaps and Mobility (Presider: Carrie Shandra)

• A Trajectory Analysis of Protection from Abuse Petitions and Women’s Earnings, *Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh; *Lisa D. Brush, University of Pittsburgh
• Do Higher Profits Lead to Higher Wages? A Study of California Hospitals., *Marcel Knudsen
• State Liberalism, Female Supervisors, and the Gender Wage Gap, *David J. Maume, University of Cincinnati; *Leah E. Ruppanner, University of Hawaii, Hilo
• Stay or Leave? Externalization of job mobility and the Black-White earnings gap 1976-2009, *Anne Kathrin Kronberg, Emory University
• While Away: Do the Reasons for Employment Interruptions Matter for Women’s Wages?, *Jessica Looze, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

Table 05: Workplace Cultures (Presider: John Kervin)

• Acculturation, Status, and Collaboration at the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Counterterrorism Center, *Bridget Rose Nolan, University of Pennsylvania
• Barriers to Service Provision and Utilization in a Community Resembling US Age Demographics in 2050, *Stephanie Marie Teixeira-Poit, RTI International; *Ariana Napier, RTI International; *Christine Carr, RTI International; *Jessica Williams, RTI International; *Paul Pulliam, RTI International
• Cooperative Norms Among Lobbyists, *John Scott, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Principles and Agents: Articulating Moral Authority and Moral Agentry in Environments of Organizational Moral Review, *Sorcha Alexandrina Brophy, Yale University
• The Reproduction of Social Capital in a Learning Organization, *Valery Yakubovich, ESSEC; *Ryan S. Burg, The Higher School of Economics

Table 06: Work and Well-Being (Presider: Marlese Durr)

• Employing the “Unemployable”: Promoting Self-worth through Work, *Ernesto Castaneda, University of Texas at El Paso; *Alma Angelica Hernandez, University of New Mexico; *Laura Guerrero, University of Texas, El Paso
• Job Characteristics, Job Preferences, and Physical and Mental Health in Later Life, *Jessica Halliday Hardie, University of Missouri-Kansas City; *Jonathan Daw, University of Colorado-Boulder
• Multitasking and its Consequences for Stress in the Work-Family Interface, *Scott Schieman, University of Toronto; *Marisa Christine Young, University of Toronto
• Revisiting the Challenge of the Dependent Variable: A Study of Lawyers’ Well Being and Distress, *Kristen Ann Desjarlais-deKlerk, The University of Calgary; *Jean E. Wallace, The University of Calgary
• The effects of savings and self-esteem on problem-focused coping behavior after job-loss, *Dara Elizabeth Naphan, University of Nevada, Reno; *Anthony Papa, University of Nevada, Reno; *Robyn Maitoza, University of Nevada, Reno

Table 07: Emotional Labor and Caring Professions (Presider: Annmarie Van Altena)

• Gendered Definitions of Quality: Emotions, Caring, and Boundaries in Hospice Work, *Cindy L. Cain, University of Arizona
• More than Emotion Work: Situational Resistance as the “Good Worker” Identity in Retail Work, *Ilana Demantas, University of Kansas
• Philanthropic Gifts or Exploited Labor?: Emotion Management in Personal Home Care Work, *Cynthia J. Cranford, Univ. of Toronto
• The Child Care Arrangements of Paid Child Care Workers: An Exploration using the SIPP, *Laura H. Braslow, CUNY Graduate Center; *Janet Gornick, The Graduate Center / City University of New York; *Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts; *Kristin Smith, University of New Hampshire
• The Culinary “Food Chain”: Private and Personal Chefs’ Boundary Work, *Alexandra Olympia Hendley, University of California, Santa Barbara

Table 08: Workplace Segregation and Discrimination (Presider: Sharla Alegria)

• Measuring the Glass Ceiling Effect: An Assessment of Discrimination in Academia, *Katherine Weisshaar, Stanford University
• Progress toward Genuine Occupational Integration? An Examination of Casino Gaming Floors and Restaurant Kitchens, *Christina Hatcher, University of California, Santa Cruz
• The Legal Translation and Documentation of Immigrant Abuse, *Sarah J. Morando, University of California, Los Angeles
• When Working Hard is not enough for Women and Racial/Ethnic Minority Apprentices in the Highway Trades, *Maura Kelly, Portland State University; *Maura Pisciotta, University of California, San Francisco
• Women Physicians: Gender and the Workplace, *Linda P. Rouse, The University of Texas at Arlington

Table 09: Global Labor Markets (Presider: Kumiko Nemoto)

• A Foreign Factory in a Post-Communist Romanian Village: Temporality, Salaried Labor and Traditional Lifestyle, *Milosz J Miszczynski, University of California, San Diego
• Gamification and Post-Fordist Labor, *PJ Rey, University of Maryland
• Market transition and the access to managerial positions in China, *Zhenyu Tang
• Sex Segregation in Australia and Selected OECD Countries: 1987–2010, *Kirsti Rawstron, University of Wollongong
• The Great Recession and the Employment Gap between U.S.-Born and Foreign-born Workers: Explanations and Implications, *Patricia A. McManus, Indiana University; *Michael Franklin Thompson, Grinnell College

Table 10: Institutions and Institutional Logics (Presider: Curtis Child)

• Emotional capital and institutional reproduction, *Maxim Voronov, Brock University; *Klaus Weber, Northwestern University
• Deference as a Mechanism of Cooperation in Conflicting Institutional Logics, *Julien Jourdan, Bocconi University; *Patricia H. Thornton, Duke University; *Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris
• Institutional Embeddedness and Nonprofit Growth: The Influences of Institutional Logics, Professionalism and Organizational Rationalization, 2000-2008, *Hokyu Hwang, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales; *David F. Suarez, University of Southern California
• A Comparative Analysis of Company-Sponsored and Independent Foundations, *Justin Koushyar, Emory University; *Wesley Longhofer, Emory University; *Peter Roberts, Emory University
• Entry of Cable Networks: the Impact of Ecology and Policy, 1969-2010, *Jin Won Chung, Emory University

Table 11: Inter-organizational Relationships (Presider: Mildred Schwartz)

• Beyond Network ‘Ties’: Modeling the Evolution of Interorganizational Exchange, *James A. Kitts, Columbia University; *Alessandro Lomi; *Daniele Mascia, Catholic University; *Francesca Pallotti, University of Lugano; *Eric Quintane, The University of Lugano
• Putting the Group Back in Closed Groups: Brokerage and Closure in the Indian Corporate Ownership Network, *Dalhia Mani, HEC Paris; *David Knoke, University of Minnesota
• Taking Strategic Condescension: Network Structure and Corporate Control in Korean Business Groups, *Ho-Dae Chong
• ‘We can network ourselves’: When can actors in strategic action fields (SAFs) coordinate interorganizational efforts?, *Katherine K. Chen, The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY)
• Facilitator or Buffer: Political Connections and Corporate Philanthropic Donation in Chinese Firms, *Jianjun Zhang, Peking University; *Lu Zheng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; *Xiaowei Luo, University of Illinois; *Christopher G. Marquis, Harvard Business School

Table 12: Organizations and Inequality (Presider: Emily Barman)

• Breaking Glass Ceilings, Ignoring Dirty Floors: The Culture and Class Bias of Diversity Management, *Ellen C. Berrey, University at Buffalo, SUNY
• Common Interests? Determinants of Intraorganizational Conflict in Community Associations and the Logics of Home Ownership, *Courtney Lynne Feldscher, Boston University
• His and Hers: Higher Education, Firm Size and Gender Gaps in Management, *Lauren Sage Beresford, UC Berkeley
• The Effects of Employee Involvement and Team Participation on Shared Capitalism, Promotion and Attitudes, *Vernon Anthony Woodley, Eastern Illinois University
• The Standardization of Subjectivity: How Employers Rely on Formal Policies to Dismiss Discrimination, *Elizabeth Kiester, Utah State University

Table 13: Constructing Identities and Boundaries (Presider: Laurie Okinaga)

• Practicing Indie: Organizational Practice and Category Membership within a Field of Restricted Popular Cultural Production, *Michael Louis Siciliano, University of California Los Angeles
• Organizational Identity Construction: Negotiating Boundaries, Securing Distinctiveness and Managing Relationships, *Helene Loe Colman, BI Norwegian Business School; *Birgitte Grogaard, University of Calgary; *Inger Stensaker, Norwegian School of Economics
• Social Integration Post-acquisition: How Identity Claims Demarcate and Compound, *Helene Loe Colman, BI Norwegian Business School; *Audrey Rouzies, IAE TOULOUSE; *Randi Lunnan, BI Norwegian Business School
• Actuaries and Accountants: A Macro-Sociological Analysis, *Yally Avrahampour, London School of Economics & Political Science
• Leadership and Mission-Based Decision-Making: The U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops and the Priest Shortage, *Catherine Hoegeman, Mount St. Mary’s College

Table 14: Innovation and Diffusion (Presider: Alesha Istvan)

• Information Transfer: A Network Study of Organizational Information Spread, *Brandy Lee Aven, Carnegie Mellon University
• Why so slow? How the business community resisted the internet, *Mary C. Still, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Gendering Invention Process in Industrial Plant – revisiting Tokenism, Gender and Innovation, *Seppo Poutanen, University of Turku, Finland; *Anne Kovalainen, University of Turku, School of Economics
• Social Embeddedness and Place: Examining Urban Contexts of Job Networking and Social Closure, *Lindsay Hamm, North Carolina State University; *Steve McDonald, North Carolina State University; *James R. Elliott, University of Oregon
• The Tortoise versus the Hare: Progress and Success Among Leisure-Based Business Ventures, *Phillip Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison; *Kyle Clayton Longest, Furman University; *Stephen Lippmann, Miami University

Table 15: Alternative Organizational Arrangements (Presider: Michael Corey)

• Changing Workplaces, Changing Work Behaviors: Does a Flexibility Initiative Change Where and When People Work?*, *Eric Tranby, University of Delaware; *Erin Kelly, University of Minnesota; *Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota
• Economic Choices of a Nomadic and Isolated Work Force: Shifts in Social Relations and Their Implications, *Christine D. Isakson, Stanford University; *Toke Reichstein, Copenhagen Business School; *Michael S. Dahl, Aalborg University
• Open-ended activities and time discipline in organizations, *Gilles van Wijk, Essec Business School
• Tie Formation and Cohesiveness in a Loosely Organized Group: Knitting Together, *Doris Palmer, Arizona State University
• Workplace Dispute Resolution and Quality of Work Life: The Worker Co-operative Alternative, *Elizabeth A. Hoffmann, Purdue University

Table 16: The Organization of Higher Education (Presider: Katie Kerstetter)

• Codes of Commerce and Citizenship: A Historical Look at Students as Consumers in Higher Education, *Daniel Lee Kleinman, University of Wisconsin-Madison; *Robert Osley-Thomas, University of Wisconsin
• Creating Collegiality: Chairs, Departmental Climate, and Faculty Work, *Amy S. Wharton, Washington State University; *Mychel Estevez
• Primary Care Practices’ Perceived Constraints to Engaging in Research: The Importance of Context & “Flow”, *Barret Michalec, University of Delaware
• Resource Partitioning among Research-oriented Sociology Departments, *Min Yim, University of South Carolina
• Streams of Thought: How Ties Form and Influence Flows among New Faculty, *Craig M. Rawlings, UC-Santa Barbara; *Daniel A. McFarland, Stanford University; *Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology; *Dan Wang, Stanford University

Table 17: The Social Construction of Work (Presider: Lindsey Trimble O’Connor)

• Construction Work: The Social Construction of “Work” in Canadian Introductory Sociology Textbooks, *Shane Dixon, Ryerson University; *Linda Quirke, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Dominant Divisions of Labor: What Stands up to Scrutiny among Eight Models?, *Thomas Edward Janoski, University of Kentucky; *Darina Elena Lepadatu, Kennesaw State University
• Professionalization into a non-expertise: the rise and fall of Israeli Community work, *Aharon Blank, McGill University
• Sociological Perspectives on Soft Skills Job Training: A Critical Review, *Sara Chaganti, Brandeis University
• The Sham of Repeat C-Sections and How Organizations Are Responsible, *Theresa Morris, Trinity College

Table 18: Stratification in the Labor Force (Presider: Wee Kiat Lim)

• Are Immigrants Less Likely than Natives to Have Decent Jobs in Europe?, *Lena Näre, University of Helsinki; *Antero Olakivi, University of Helsinki
• Birthing a Profession: What Can Workplace Coaching Learn from Midwifery?, *Susan W. Hinze, Case Western Reserve Univ.; *Margaret Waltz, Case Western Reserve University
• Socioeconomic attainment among U.S. and French veterans serving between 1940-1980, *Alair MacLean, Washington State University Vancouver
• Swiss Work Values and Attitudes: Individualization Confirmed – Or Is It Conformity Individualized?, *Ernest J.-P. Albert, University of Zurich
• The Significance of Job Requirements for the Training Gap, *Tomas Korpi, Stockholm University; *Michael Tahlin, Stockholm University

Table 19: Flexible Work Arrangements (Presider: David R. Johnson)

• “As Long as the Job Gets Done”: Managers Talk about Time Theft, *Nicholas Paul Solebello, North Carolina State University
• Satisfaction with Work-Life Balance in the Global Digital Marketplace: The Case of Russian-Language Internet Freelancers, *Shannon N. Davis, George Mason University; *Andrey Shevchuk, National Research University Higher School of Economics; *Denis Strebkov, National Research University Higher School of Economics
  • The Professionalized Body: Truck Driving in the Age of Flexibilization, *Benjamin Harrison Snyder, University of Virginia
  • The Social Context of Schedule Control: Flexible Work Practices in an Information Technology Workforce, * Anne Kaduk, University of Minnesota

Table 20: Miscellaneous Organizations, Formal and Complex (Presider: Janet Vertesi)

• Antecedents and Outcomes of Means-Ends Decoupling: The Role of Intra-Organizational Dynamics, *Sang-Bum Park, Korea University
• Complementary and substitution effects: The interrelatedness of institutional prescriptions in U.S. financial markets, *Guilhem Bascle, Louvain School of Management, Catholic University of Louvain
  • Core Conditions and Overlapping Pathways: Maintaining Prestige in the Field of Sociology 1997-2009, *David Jeremy McBee, University of Arizona
  • Diversity, Change, Fragmentation and Mission Drift: An Examination of College and University Spending Profiles, *Sondra N. Barringer, University of Arizona
  • Managerial control loss and organizational change, *Fernando Nieto Morales, University of Groningen; *Rafael P.M. Wittek, University of Groningen

Presiders

1.     Sharla N. Alegria: race, gender, migration, high tech (Table 08)
2.     Emily Barman: org theory, new institutionalization, valuation, npo (Table 12)
3.     Eryynn Casanova: gender, informal work, ethnography, white-collar (Table 02)
4.     Curtis Child: institutions and institutional logics (Table 10)
5.     Michael Corey: unusual work schedules, work-family balance, gender (Table 15)
6.     Marlese Durr: work/occupations, promotions, gender (Table 06)
7.     Alesha Istvan: orgs and environment, orgs and gender, orgs and political economy (Table 14)
8.     David R. Johnson: science, orgs, religion (Table 19)
9.     John Kervin: gender, org culture (Table 05)
10.  Katie Kerstetter: care work, elem teachers, education (Table 16)
11.  Wee Kiat Lim: org theories, resource dependency, crises (Table 18)
12.  Katherine Lin: gender, orgs, work-family, health (Table 03)
13.  Kumiko Nemoto: gender, work, org, Japan (Table 09)
14.  Lindsey Trimble O’Connor: work, family gender (Table 17)
15.  Laurie Okinaga: professions, organizations and the law, and diversity (Table 13)
16.  Debi Osonowitz: creative work (Table 01)
17.  Mildred Schwartz: organizations/political parties (Table 11)
18.  Carrie Shandra: occupational segregation, and gendered jobs/occupations (Table 04)
19.  Annmarie Van Altena; culture, qual methods (Table 07)
20.  Janet Vertesi: technology and organizations (Table 20)
21.  Wade Phillip Smith: Neo-institutional Theory Qualitative Methods: Organization Change Management
22.  Cassandra Engeman: labor unions, work and family, and workplace safety and health
23. Paul Kasun (Stanley L. Kasun): immigrant work, comparing Hispanic and African Americans
24.  Liana Christin Landivar, Ph.D.: occupational segregation, occupations, women’s employment and mothers’ employment, employment during the recession, work hours, and work-family policies

[the program is available after the jump]

Open Topic in Organizations, Occupations, and Work

Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm

Session Organizer: Beth A. Rubin (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Presider: Izabela Szymanska (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)

A Contested Institution: Struggles over the Student-Edited Law Review in the Field of Legal Scholarship
*Daniel N. Kluttz (University of California-Berkeley)

Network pathologies in international sustainable development work
*Meghan Elizabeth Kallman (Brown University)

Revisiting Organizational Frameworks: Modernity, Sex Segregation, and Organizational Inertia in Japanese Firms
*Kumiko Nemoto (Western Kentucky University)

Sexual Orientation and Gender Typicality of the Occupation in Young Adulthood
*Koji Ueno (Florida State University), Teresa A. Roach (Florida State University), Abraham E Pena-Talamantes (Florida State University)

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs? The Changing Nature of Work in Today’s Economy

Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm

Session Organizer: Elizabeth H. Gorman (University of Virginia)
Presider: Elizabeth H. Gorman (University of Virginia)

Discussant: Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Job Polarization and the Hollowing out of the Middle of the U.S. Job Structure
*Rachel E. Dwyer (The Ohio State University)

Trends in Self-Assessed Perceptions of Job Quality: 1970-2006
*Jonathan Adam Lind (The University of Washington)

Fostering Entrepreneurship? National Labor Market Policies and Self-Employment
*Lena Hipp (Cornell University), *Pamela S. Tolbert (Cornell University)

Beyond unemployment: Gender penalties in time-related underemployment and over-education during recession and austerity
*Anthony Rafferty (University of Manchester)

Open Topic in Organizations, Occupations, and Work

Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm

Session Organizer: David Brady (Social Science Research Center-Berlin)
Presider: Ryan Matthew Finnigan (Duke University)

All of the Incentives Were Wrong: Opportunism and the Financial Crisis
*Neil Fligstein (University of California-Berkeley), *Alexander Roehrkasse (University of California-Berkeley)

Can Managers Work Part-Time?—An Empirical Analysis of Managers in Europe
*Lena Hipp (Cornell University), *Stefan Stuth (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)

What is Outsourcing?: How the New Industrial Revolution has been Framed in Newspaper Editorials
*Jeffrey J. Sallaz (University of Arizona), *Michael Gibson (University of Arizona)

Conflicting Institutional Demands and Policy Implementation: Implementation of Workforce Downsizing by Large U.S. Firms, 1984-2005
*Jiwook Jung (National University of Singapore)

Worker Identities in a New Era of Immigration
*Kim Voss (University of California), *Fabiana Silva (University of California-Berkeley)

Section Reception – Mon Aug 12, 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm

Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Roundtables

Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 8:30 to 9:30am

Session Organizer: Kimberly Fox (Bridgewater State University)
Session Organizer: Eric C. Dahlin (Brigham Young University)

Over 80 presentations at 20 different tables!

Section Business Meeting - Tues Aug 13, 2013, 9:30-10:10 am

Organizations and the Natural Environment: “Sustainability” and Beyond

Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: Victoria Johnson (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Tim Bartley (The Ohio State University)

Market-Oriented Governance and Institutional Emergence: The Rise of Conservation Banking in the United States
*Chris M. Rea (University of California-Los Angeles)

Peer Effects and the Organizational Response to Environmental Ratings
*Amanda J. Sharkey (University of Chicago), *Patricia Bromley Martin (Stanford University)

Poisedness and Organizational Emergence: From Civic Order to Professional Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century New York
*Victoria Johnson (University of Michigan), *Walter W. Powell (Stanford University)

Rhetoric, Sustainability, and the Corporate Institutional Field
*William B. Stevenson (Boston College), Erica Steckler (Boston College)

Economic Sociology, Organizations and Social Inequality (co-sponsored with the Section on Economic Sociology)

Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 12:30 to 2:10pm

Session Organizer: Alexandra Kalev (Tel Aviv University)

Beyond the Digital Divide: Social Networking, Careers, and New Inequalities
*Ofer Sharone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

College Currencies
*Viviana A. Zelizer (Princeton University), *Lauren M. Gaydosh (Princeton University) 

Consequences of Conflicting Institutional Logics: Inequality and Isomorphism in the Hospice Division of Labor
*Cindy L. Cain (University of Arizona) 

Financialization and Firm Employment Dynamics, 1982-2005
*Ken-Hou Lin (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

The Dynamics of Organizational Inequalities: Emerging Approaches and Conceptual Dilemmas
*Steven Vallas (Northeastern University), *Emily Regina Cummins (Northeastern University)

Exploring Links between the Law and the Workplace

Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm

Session Organizer: Julie A. Kmec (Washington State University)
Presider: Kate Kellogg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Invisible Work, Invisible Workers: The Relationship between Marginality, Legal Exclusion, and Institutional Constraint
*Erin E. Hatton (State University of New York-Buffalo) 

Lawsuit Settlements in an Unsettling Legal Environment: Undocumented Workers, Sexual Harassment, and the EEOC
*Cynthia Deitch (George Washington University), Ariane Hegewisch (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)

Negative Compliance as Organizational Response to Legal Pressure
*Eunmi Mun (Amherst College)

Occupational Guardians: Safeguarding Professional Work for Inequality Remediation in Two Community Health Centers
*Kate Kellogg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 

Two Faces of Organizational Responses to Employment Protection
*Soohan Kim (Korea University)

co-sponsored by Asia and Asian American Section of the ASA, the Murphy Institute for
Worker Education and Labor Studies at CUNY, the UC Berkeley Center for
Labor Research and Education, the Manhattan College Labor Studies
Program, Critical Sociology, the Center for Global Workers’ Rights, the
Labour and Labour Movements Research Committee of the International
Sociological Association, and the China Association of Work and Labor of
the Chinese Sociological Association

Monday, 12 August 2013
9:30 am – 6:30 pm
Joseph A. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies

The ASA Labor Section and the Labor and Global Solidarity conference organizing committee invites everyone interested in attending this free one-day mini-conference to register soon to help finalize the planning work.

Here is the link to the online conference registration, which also has details on the program:

http://bit.ly/ZZZej4

Conference Organizers:
Carolina Bank Munoz – carolinabm75@gmail.com
David Fasenfest - critical.sociology@gmail.com
Steve McKay – smckay@ucsc.edu

The purpose of the workshop is to: 1) network with other scholars conducting research on similar topics and 2) write. As a group, we will talk about our current projects. This will provide workshop participants with the information necessary to explore potential collaborative projects. There will also be two large designated blocks of time for writing. All interested sociologists are welcome to join the writing workshop. Send an email to Christina Falci (cfalci2@unl.edu) to reserve your spot in the workshop.

Your ASA conference fees will cover the room cost for the writing workshop. Participants need to bring a laptop computer (maybe an extension cord) and are encouraged to bring snacks to share.  We will coordinate a place to have lunch during and dinner after the workshop (participants pay for their own meals; but attendance at meals is not essential for participation in the workshop).

Best,

Christina Falci (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Enobong Hannah (Anna) Branch (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts)

Former organizers: Kathrin Zippel, Laura Kramer, and Julia McQuillan

Organizer: Oliver Schilke; U. of California, Los Angeles;
Facilitator: Reinhard Bachmann; U. of Surrey;
Facilitator: Sharon Belenzon; Duke U.;
Facilitator: Steven C Currall; U. of California, Davis;
Facilitator: Chris P. Long; Georgetown U.;
Facilitator: Roger C Mayer; North Carolina State U.;
Facilitator: Bill McEvily; U. of Toronto;
Facilitator: Keith Murnighan; Northwestern U.;
Facilitator: Michele Williams; Cornell U.;
Facilitator: Lynne G Zucker; U. of California, Los Angeles

Please submit discussion questions (segment 1) and/or work-in-progress papers on trust (segment 2).

(1) The first segment starts with a panel discussion, in which leading scholars present their views on the hotly debated issue of whether organizations are “able” to trust. The goal of the panel discussion is to make explicit divergent assumptions, and to develop a richer repertoire of arguments for and against organizations as social actors with trusting abilities. Subsequently, the workshop breaks into groups that will discuss questions previously submitted by workshop participants. A requirement for registration for the PDW is to submit at least one discussion question in advance pertaining to current issues in the study of trust between individuals and organizations (see below for details on how to submit). Questions may relate (but are not limited) to: • Dynamic evolution of trust over time • Relationships between interpersonal and interorganizational trust • Trade-offs between methods of trust research • Difficulties in the measurement of trust • Detrimental consequences of (interpersonal or interorganizational) trust • Substitutes for trust • Underexplored sources of trust • Context-specificity of trust • Distinct types of trust • Interactions between trust and distrust • Avenues to trust repair

(2) After a short break, the second segment of the program consists of a paper development workshop, in which the facilitators provide in-depth feedback on work-in-progress trust research previously submitted by workshop participants. These papers should ideally be close to submission to a scholarly management journal and must not exceed 40 double-spaced pages.

Registration requirements: For segment 1 (discussion): Submit at least one discussion question by email totrustpdw@gmail.com no later than August 2, 2013. For segment 2 (paper development): Submit your working paper by email to trustpdw@gmail.com no later than July 19, 2013. You will then receive a code that will allow you to register for the PDW. Remember that you can register for segment 1, segment 2, or both.

Please see the official workshop announcement at http://program.aomonline.org/2013/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=10882

Submission deadline to WFRN Conference website: October 18, 2013.

The 2012 inaugural conference was a huge success! There were over 750 presenters and 125 sessions that discussed the latest work and family research from around the world. Approximately 30% of the attendees were from outside the U.S., and represented more than 30 countries. Like the 2012 conference, we expect that the 2014 conference will draw many global attendees in addition to providing numerous opportunities for networking and sharing ideas with colleagues.

Fresh and innovative submissions responsive to the conference theme of Changing Work and Family Relationships in a Global Economy are especially encouraged. The global economy is transforming the way work is done.  Work intensification and wide variation across societies in over- and under-employment is creating new issues for individuals, families, employers and nations. Advancing technology blurring work and home and social boundaries, the growing power of social media, and the coming of age of the “Digital Natives” are reshaping the fundamental meaning of “work,” “family,” and “life.” Increasing globalization and the growing footprint of transnational companies and growing international work and social systems, requires looking both within and across cultures to understand changing work and family relationships. Indeed, cultural values surrounding gender, norms concerning collectivism and individualism in achieving the greater good, and national attributions as to whether work and family issues are best served by government, employer or individual initiatives require scientific and practical scrutiny and evidence-based debate.

Learn more about the WFRN conference, including confirmed speakers, specific goals, types of sessions, and submission process at: http://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/content/call-papers

Scholars interested in participating should submit a paper to the conference organizers by November 15, 2013. Authors whose papers are accepted will be invited to a conference sponsored by the University of Illinois, School of Labor and Employment Relations and the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, to be held in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on March 14 and 15, 2014. Conference expenses will be partially subsidized. Papers presented at this conference should be suitable for submission to external reviewers. Based on the organizers’ recommendations, discussions at the conference, and fit with the issue, a subset of authors will be asked to submit their papers to the ILRReview with the expectation that their papers will be published in the special issue once they pass the external review process. Papersthat reviewers deem of good quality that are not selected for the special issue will be considered forpublication in a regular issue of the journal.

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The health care industry in the United States and in most developed and developing countries is in a state of rapid change. The industry faces dramatic challenges both in terms of the quality of care provided and in escalating costs and shortages in many key occupational groups.As such, scholarly interest is growing in this sector as a unique setting in which to study work, organizations, and employment relations.

Over the last decade, employment relations research in the health care sector has shed new light on a variety of innovations—from new models of labor representation and work structures to emerging methods of delivering patient care. Scholars from a number of disciplines have begun to examine the relationship between these innovations and their outcomes for organizations, employees, and patients. Nevertheless, the need is substantial for additional empirical evidence regarding the manner in which these different organizational innovations influence key outcomes for a variety of stakeholders. For example, large-scale investments in information technology (IT) are expected to revolutionize the nature of health care delivery in all three subsectors. However, employment relations theory and early empirical studies suggest that material performance improvements hinge on a careful restructuring of work systems around the new technologies. We also have much to learn regarding the interplay of market and institutional forces in the health care workplace. Apparent shortages in many important occupational groups, including primary care physicians, nurses, and other technical occupations, have sparked policy debates about the nature, sources, and solutions to these problems. Some scholars argue that perceived and actual shortages of domestically trained nurses and other occupational groups have led to programs of recruitment of foreign-trained and foreign-born workers to fill such gaps. And, at both the high- and low-skilled ends of the labor market, the system is dependent on global labor migration. All of this makes for a fertile context in which to study emerging workplace phenomena and their consequences for multiple stakeholders, within and beyond the health care domain.

We are especially interested in empirical submissions from scholars whose work is grounded in the health care workplace with diverse disciplinary perspectives from sociology, psychology, economics, or political science incorporated, as well as collaborative pieces from social scientists and scholars in medicine or public health. International research is especially encouraged, though U.S.-focused research is certainly welcome.Papers may be supported by a range of methodologies, including survey research, qualitative or quantitative case studies, or statistical analyses of archival data.

Potential topic areas include, but are not limited to:

• Management responses to technologically induced changes in the organization of work
• Implications of health care reform for multiple organizational stakeholders including patients, managers, employees, and unions
• Organizational experimentation with new forms of employee involvement
• Changes in physician compensation, pay inequality, and the gender pay gap resulting from new payment models, including managed care
• Partnerships between health care purchasers and providers aimed at improving care quality and efficiency
• New models of patient care delivery, such as patient-centered care or relationship-centered care
• New inter- or intra-organizational models of skill development and job ladders
• The relationship between care quality for patients and job quality for workers
• Workforce implications of the recent emphasis on health care quality and patient safety

Prospective contributors are urged to consult any of the coordinators regarding preliminary proposals or ideas for papers. To submit your full paper for consideration for the conference and subsequent consideration for the ILRReview special issue, please e-mail it to ERinHealthcare-submissions@illinois.edu by the November 15, 2013, deadline.

As the spring term wraps up, I wanted to experiment with a new type of blog post asking people to share their teaching wisdom. If you have ideas for future Teaching Talk posts, please send them to me or Matt Vidal (mgvidal@gmail.com).

What was the single best reading in your undergraduate organizations, occupations, or work course this year? Why did it work, i.e. what was the central message for students and what did they find engaging? Please specify the course you were teaching (title, level) as well.

I am particularly interested in readings on social service organization(s) or social movement organization(s) because I’ll be teaching a capstone course with a service-learning component next year, but it would be great to hear about readings on a variety of topics as we reflect back on this year and plan for next year.