OOW Student Gift Membership

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If you are a student member of ASA or know of a student member who is interested in the sociology of organizations, occupations, and work, please consider joining or encouraging him/her to join at no cost ASA’s Organization, Occupations, and Work (OOW) section. Thanks to the generous support of its members, OOW is covering the section membership fees ($5) for the first 90 students whose full names are emailed to Michel Anteby, treasurer of the section, at manteby@hbs.edu

Please note that students must already be members of the ASA to be eligible for this offer. They will be signed up on a first come, first served basis. Any sponsors who sends more than 10 eligible names will be recognized in our next newsletter. Please send names at your earliest convenience and no later than June 15, 2015. Thanks!

Introducing the 2015-2016 OOW Editorial Team

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We are pleased to introduce the members of the 2015-2016 OOW Editorial Team

bentonpicRichard A. Benton is currently a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. His research interests include corporate governance, social network analysis, job search networks, formal and complex organizations, and economic sociology. He is currently studying how structural cohesion in elite social networks helps maintain managerialism in the face of the shareholder activism and scrutiny. In Fall 2015 Richard will join the faculty at the University of Illinois as Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations.

Profile_hyl3Hang Young Lee is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. His areas of research span income and wealth inequality, social stratification and mobility, social capital, social network analysis, and economic sociology. He is currently studying the mobility into the top one percent in either income or net worth distributions, and social capital as a source of immigrant disadvantages in the labor market. In Summer 2015 Hang Young will be a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Sociology at Duke University.

IMG_0745Sarah Mosseri is currently a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on work, culture and inequality. She is currently studying the cultural contestation of overwork in the media and how the meanings of work and family influence working parents’ strategies for meeting the demands of both.

 

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Taekjin Shin is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests concern corporate governance, executive compensation, wage inequality, organizational sociology, and economic sociology. He is currently studying the institutional explanation for the rise of executive compensation and the symbolic effect of shareholder-value orientation on the career outcomes of executive managers. In Fall 2015, Taekjin will join the faculty at the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University.

Job Posting: University of Virginia

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The University of Virginia Department of Sociology seeks to fill a non-tenure track Lecturer position during the 2015-2016 academic year. The initial one year appointment may be renewable for an additional year contingent upon funding, satisfactory performance, and departmental teaching needs. A teaching load of 2-2 is anticipated, and compensation will take the form of part-time salary with part-time benefits. This appointment is not eligible for ECE (Expectation of Continued Employment). Subject areas of particular need include, but are not limited to, Sociology of Health and Illness, Medical Sociology, Crime and Deviance, Environmental Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Inequality. Applicants must be on track to receive a PhD in the relevant field by May 2015 and must hold a PhD at the time of appointment.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis beginning May 13, 2015.

To apply, please complete a Candidate Profile online through Jobs@UVa (https://jobs.virginia.edu), and electronically attach the following: a current CV, cover letter, statement of teaching, and complete contact information for three professional references.

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New book: Schwartz on the education of health care professionals

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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

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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

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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.

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