We asked a handful of scholars what they’re reading these days. Pick up one of these great works while enjoying a “break” between semesters!

Books

• The Politics of Value: Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy by Jane Collins. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
• The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy by Gerald F. Davis. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016
• The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy by Cynthia Enloe. University of California Press, 2017.
• The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers by Alison Gerber. Stanford University Press, 2017.
• Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal. Pegasus Books, 2016.
• Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take On Walmart by Carolina Bank Muñoz. ILR Press, 2017.
• Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs by Lauren Rivera. Princeton University Press, 2015.
• Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty by Jennifer M. Silva. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Articles

• Barley, Stephen R.  2016.  “60^th anniversary essay:  Ruminations on how we became a mystery house and how we might get out.”  Administrative Science Quarterly, 61 (1):  1-18.
• de Rond, Mark and Deniz Tuncalp. 2017. “Where the Wild Things Are: How Dream Can Help Identity Countertransference in Organizational Research” Organizational Research Methods 20(3):413-437
• Christin, Angèle. Forthcoming. “Counting Clicks: Quantification and Variation in Web Journalism in the United States and France.” American Journal of Sociology
• Goldberg, Amir, Sameer B. Srivastava, V. Govind Manian, William Monroe, and Christopher Potts.  2016.  “Fitting in or standing out?  The tradeoffs of structural and cultural embeddedness.”  American Sociological Review, 81 (6):  1190-1222.
• Reeves, Aaron, Sam Friedman, Charles Rahal, and Magne Flemmen.  2017.  “The decline and persistence of the old boy:  Private schools and elite recruitment 1897 to 2016.”  American Sociological Review, 82 (6):  1139-1166.
• Rivera, Lauren A.  2017.  “When two bodies are (not) a problem:  Gender and relationship status discrimination in academic hiring.”  American Sociological Review, 82 (6):  1111-1138.

Thank you to Michel Anteby, Heather Haveman, Steve Vallas, Christine Williams and Adia Harvey Wingfield for their recommendations!