Maura Kelly and Amy Lubitow recently published, “Pride at Work: Organizing at the Intersection of the Labor and LGBT Movements” in the Labor Studies Journal.
The article is available at: http://lsj.sagepub.com/content/39/4/257.abstract
Category: Announcements
Announcement: Recent Publications by OOW Member, Barry Wellman
Several recent publications by Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) may be of interest to OOW members.
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New book: Schwartz on the education of health care professionals
Mildred A. Schwartz. 2014. Trouble in the University: How the Education of Health Care Professionals Became Corrupted. Leyden: Brill. About the Book: In Trouble in the University, Mildred A. Schwartz analyzes how changes in U.S. higher education affecting the health care professions and in the relations between universities and the state have created conditions that can give rise to corruption. Explanations for how the connections between changing conditions and organizational structures can lead to illegal and unethical behavior are uncovered through the study of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Because that University’s experiences were not unique, they can be used to demonstrate how higher education has become vulnerable to corruption. Identification of the structural and cultural sources of corruption also suggests possible ways it could be avoided. More information can be found at: www.brill.com/products/book/trouble-university
New book: Zhang on autoworkers in China
Lu Zhang (Temple University) recently published the book, Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN: 9781107030855, 254 pp).
About the Book
This book explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of autoworkers in the world’s largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factories in various regions of China, Zhang provides an inside look at the daily factory life of autoworkers and a deeper understanding of the roots of rising labor unrest in the auto industry. Combining original empirical data and sophisticated analysis that moves from the shop floor to national political economy and global industry dynamics, the book develops a multilayered framework for understanding how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.
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Announcement: New Publication by OOW Members, Jeannette A. Colyvas and Spiro Maroulis
Jeannette A. Colyvas from Northwestern University and Spiro Maroulis from Arizona State University recently published an article entitled, “Moving from an Exception to a Rule: Analyzing Mechanisms in Emergence-Based Institutionalization” in Organization Science.
Organization Science. Vol. 26, No. 2, March–April 2015, pp. 601–621 ISSN 1047-7039 (print) ISSN 1526-5455 (online)
History: Published online in Articles in Advance January 15, 2015.
New book: Harris & Giuffre on women chefs in the professional kitchen
Deborah A. Harris and Patti Giuffre. Forthcoming (2015). Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen. New York: Rutgers University Press.
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Announcement: Special Themed Section on Marxist Studies of Organization Published
A Special Themed Section on Marxist Studies of Organization has now been published in Organization Studies.
When Organization Studies Turns to Societal Problems: The Contribution of Marxist Grand Theory
Matt Vidal, Paul Adler, and Rick Delbridge
Organizational Learning: Bringing the Forces of Production Back In
Jonas A. Ingvaldsen
Community and Innovation: From Tönnies to Marx
Paul S. Adler
Free Labour, Social Media, Management: Challenging Marxist Organization Studies
Armin Beverungen, Steffen Böhm, and Chris Land
Giuliano Maielli
Announcement: New Book: Do-It-Yourself Democracy
Do-It-Yourself Democracy: The Rise of the Public Engagement Industry
Caroline W. Lee
In Do-It-Yourself Democracy, sociologist Caroline W. Lee examines how participatory innovations have reshaped American civic life over the past two decades. Lee looks at the public engagement industry that emerged to serve government, corporate, and nonprofit clients seeking to gain a handle on the increasingly noisy demands of their constituents and stakeholders. New technologies and deliberative practices have democratized the ways in which organizations operate, but Lee argues that they have also been marketed and sold as tools to facilitate cost-cutting, profitability, and other management goals – and that public deliberation has burdened everyday people with new responsibilities without delivering on its promises of empowerment.
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Announcement: New Volume: Democratizing Inequalities
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation (2015, NYU Press)
Edited by Caroline W. Lee, Michael McQuarrie, and Edward T. Walker
Foreword by Craig Calhoun
Contributors: Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Emily Cummins, Ernesto Ganuza, Nina Eliasoph, J. Matthew Judge, Daniel Kreiss, Caroline Lee, Isaac Martin, Michael McQuarrie, David Meyer, Aaron Panofsky, Francesca Polletta, Amanda Pullum, David Schielfer, Steven Vallas, Edward Walker
Opportunities to “have your say,” “get involved,” and “join the conversation” are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive policymaking context, we now hold the keys to large-scale democratic revitalization. Democratizing Inequalities shows that the equation may not be so simple. Modern societies face a variety of structural problems that limit potentials for true democratization, as well as vast inequalities in political action and voice that are not easily resolved by participatory solutions. Popular participation may even reinforce elite power in unexpected ways. Resisting an oversimplified account of participation as empowerment, this collection of essays brings together a diverse range of leading scholars to reveal surprising insights into how dilemmas of the new public participation play out in politics and organizations. Through investigations including fights over the authenticity of business-sponsored public participation, the surge of the Tea Party, the role of corporations in electoral campaigns, and participatory budgeting practices in Brazil, Democratizing Inequalities seeks to refresh our understanding of public participation and trace the reshaping of authority in today’s political environment.
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OOW sections at ASA 2015
The OOW section has seven sessions this year.
1-3. Three open submission, open-topic sessions, organized by Heather Haveman and Phyllis Moen:
The Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section welcomes submissions on any topic relevant to the section’s mission, from very micro (individual worker) to very macro (interorganizational fields). The organizers, Phyllis Moen and Heather Haveman, will sift through the submissions and create three coherent sessions.
Organizations, Occupations and Work 