American Sociological Association
103rd Annual Meetings 2008
(this page last updated on August 5, 2008)
The 2008 ASA Annual Meetings will be held from Friday to Monday, August
1-4, 2008, in Boston, Massachusetts at the Sheraton Boston and Boston Marriott Copley Place.We will endeavor to keep
this page up to date with meetings information.
The ASA Call For Papers online submission is now CLOSED.
The Labor and Labor Movements' Regular and Invited Paper Sessions are now complete for the 2008 Annual
Meetings. Please feel free to contact the session organizer directly by email (see below) for further information on the
session or contact the author directly about specific papers. We expect that this year's annual meetings will be a great
success. You can also look at our previous activities at the ASA Annual Meetings by following the links at the bottom of
the page.
There is also the 2008 Mini-Conference on Race, Labor and Empire. The in-coming
co-chairs of the Section have decided to adopt the issues of race and racism in the labor movement over the upcoming year
and the mini-conference has been organized around the theme of "Labor and Race." The co-chairs welcome ideas and
participation from the section membership in helping to make the mini-conference a significant event. Check out the Mini-Conference on Race, Labor and Empire site.
The Labor and Labor Movement Section of the ASA will be present a new award on Race and Labor at the Race, Labor
and Empire conference on August 1 and 2 in Boston. The award will be given to the best article or book on race and labor
published either in 2006 or 2007.
Here are this year's sessions:
Business Meeting:
The Labor and Labor Movements Section Business Meeting immediately follows our roundtables and we invite everyone
to stay. The Business Meeting is always full of informative discussion and there are always a number of decisions to be
made--decisions we hope the entire section can help make.
Fri, Aug 1 - 9:30am - 10:10am Boston Marriott Copley Place
Students and others interested in the ASA Employment Service should consider the employment service.
The Employment Service will be open at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston from Monday, July 31- August 4.
Preregistration closed on July 1, 2008.
Other Sessions of Interest:
There are also some other labor related sessions at the 2008 Annual Meetings in
Boston. We have included a brief list of some of the sessions that may interest many Labor and Labor Movements
members and others interested in labor although we strongly encourage meeting participants to examine the final Official
Annual Meetings Program.
Other Events of Interest:
The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) call for papers deadline for
the 2008 SSSP Boston Meetings (July 31-August 2) was January 31, 2008. This year's SSSP theme is Crossing
Borders: Activist Scholarship, Globalization, and Social Justice. You can browse the
meeting information online at the SSSP 2008 Annual Meetings site.
The Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) deadline for papers was March
31, 2008. The ABS Annual Meeting information is also available online. This year's ABS
conferences theme is Challenging Hierarchies: Nation, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Gender.
Critical Sociology is also holding a one day forum in Boston on August 3,
2008 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers. Critical Sociology is currently seeking proposals for panels or papers for
this conference and the deadline to submit ideas was March 15, 2008. A copy of the 2008 Critical Sociology Conference call for papers and conference
information is available on this site and additional information can be obtained by contacting Critical Sociology at critical.sociology@gmail.com.
2008 ASA Annual Meeting Home
Section on Labor and Labor Movements Paper Sessions
The Alliance Between Labor and the Democratic Party:
Who Benefits?
Time: Fri, Aug 1 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Organizer: Michael Schwartz (mschwartz@notes.cc.sunysb.edu) (Stony Brook State University)
This session will discuss the long-term and ever-controversial alliance between the Democratic Party and organized labor.
It will seek to evaluate the alliance from the perspective of both sides. What is the current state of the alliance? What
has each side gained from the alliance and at what price? Has the equation of gains and expenses changed over time and,
in particular, is it different now than in the past. Under what circumstances and to what effect has organized labor refused
to engage the two party system, either by withdrawing from elections or by supporting minority parties?
Presenters:
Class Conflict, Policy Development, and the State:
Explaining the Postwar Divergence of Canadian and U.S. Unions
Barry Eidlin (University of California, Berkeley)
Why the Democrats Have Never Supported the Worker Cooperative Model
Joyce Rothschild (Virginia Tech)
Post-civil Rights Politics and Party Realignment: Race, Religion, Class, and Culture
Nancy DiTomaso (Rutgers University)
Presider and Commentator: Rhonda Levine (Colgate University)
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Changing Labor Markets, Changing Strategies:
Worker Organizing Outside of Traditional Collective Bargaining Frameworks
Time: Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Organized by Daisy Rooks (drooks@rci.rutgers.edu) (Rutgers University)
and
Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu) (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Workers in formal labor markets have confronted innumerable changes in recent decades. In agriculture and
manufacturing, for example, mechanization and lean production have depressed workers' wages, working conditions and
job security. In the service sector, health care, manufacturing and other industries, migration and immigration have
transformed worker demographics. These changes are not specific to the U.S.; workers employed in the formal sector
throughout the world have confronted similar changes. In response to these changes, groups of workers have developed
innovative strategies and tactics, and implemented them with varying degrees of success. This session examines how
changes in formal labor markets have influenced worker organizing in the U.S. and abroad. We are specifically interested
in papers that examine workers' efforts to organize outside of traditional collective bargaining frameworks, and those that
employ innovative tactics and strategies.
Presenters:
Community Unionism in Japan:
similarities and differences of region-based labor movements between Japan and other industrialized countries
Akira Suzuki (Hosei University)
From Economic to Political Mobilization:
Working-Class Organizing Targets the State
Rachel Meyer (University of Michigan)
From Shop Floor to Ethnic Group Organizing:
The Pilipino Workers' Center
Nazgol Ghandnoosh (University of California, Los Angeles)
Of Catharsis and Community: Bicycle Messengers and Organizational mise en scène
Benjamin William Stewart (New York University)
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Other Labor Related Sessions and Activities
Opening Plenary Session
Future of the American Labor Movement
Thu, Jul 31 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina)
Presider: Marshall Ganz (Harvard University)
Panelist: Steven Greenhouse (The New York Times)
Panelist: Sara Horowitz (Freelancers Union)
Panelist: Bruce Raynor (Unite Here)
Discussant: Marshall Ganz (Harvard University)
The 103rd Annual Meeting opens on the evening of July 31 with a panel presentation featuring Steve Greenhouse of the
New York Times; Sara Horowitz of the Freelancers Union (NYC) and Bruce Raynor of Unite Here. The panel will discuss
the future of the American labor movement. Organized labor has been on the decline for decades and the working class as
a whole has suffered consequently. As we close another decade and experience the end of the current presidential
administration, our chronic problems have become an acute crisis. Can ways be found to turn this around, to rebuild a labor
movement that can defend and advance the interests of American working people? One hopeful sign is that a serious
discussion is emerging in both leadership circles and among the ranks about the future direction of labor. Join us as the
panelists engage in a frank, wide ranging exchange of ideas.
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Regular Session
Exit and Voice in an Era of Globalization
Fri, Aug 1 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Andrew Schrank (University of New Mexico)
Presider: Sean C. Safford (University of Chicago)
Conquered then Divided on the High Seas: Inter-National Working Class Solidarity in the Vacation Cruise Ship
Industry
francisca emoshoghme oyogoa (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Conspicuous from a Distance? Rust Belt Mobilization in the Wake of the Global Economy
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Labor Standards in the U.S. and Mexican Auto Industries
Jeffrey S. Rothstein (Grand Valley State University of Michigan)
Neoliberalism, Migration, And Labor Substitution: U.S. Trade With Mexico- Poultry Goes South, Labor Comes
North
Kathleen C. Schwartzman (University of Arizona)
The papers on this panel address the growing mobility of capital and labor and their implications for working conditions,
living standards, and working class solidarity in developed and developing country contexts--as well as on the high seas.
They are united by their qualitative methodologies, their sensitivity to the dynamic relationship between "exit" (or potential
exit) and "voice," and their singular focus on the myriad ways in which our "worlds of work" have been forever altered by
globalization.
Regular Session
Jobs, Occupations, and Work: Race/Ethnicity and Gender
Fri, Aug 1 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Sheryl L. Skaggs (University of Texas-Dallas)
Presider: Steve McDonald (North Carolina State University)
Discussant: Kevin Stainback (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Occupational Concentration: Changes Over Time
Daniel H. Krymkowski (University of Vermont), Beth Mintz (University of Vermont)
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You: Gender, Race and Access to Elite Occupations
Steve McDonald (North Carolina State University)
Occupational Enclaves and the Wage Growth of Hispanic Immigrants
Sergio Chavez (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill), Ted Mouw (Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
The Paradox of Race at the Workplace: Latina Teachers Navigating Racial/Ethnic Tensions and Opportunities on the
Job
Glenda M. Flores (University of Southern California)
Regular Session
Gender and Work:
The Impact of Organizational Practices on Gender Inequality
Fri, Aug 1 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Louise Marie Roth (University of Arizona)
Presider: Jessica Hamar Martinez (University of Arizona)
The Effect of Work-Family Policies on Female Employee Attrition and Firm Profitability
Annalisa Mastri (Mathematica Policy Research)
Instituting Change within the Institution: Cross-Gender Collaborations and the Blindness of Neutrality
Anita Harker Armstrong (Utah State University), Ronda Roberts Callister (Utah State University), Stepanie Malin (Utah
State University)
"I really didn't have any problems with the male-female thing until ": Women in Information Technology (IT)
Organizations
Erin I. Demaiter (University of Toronto), Tracey Lynn Adams (University of Western Ontario)
Resurgence of the 'Separate Spheres' Arrangement? The Effect of Spousal Overwork on the Employment of Men and
Women in Dual Earner Households
Youngjoo Cha (Cornell University)
Discussant: Patricia Yancey Martin (Florida State University)
Regular Session
Work and the Workplace
Fri, Aug 1 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Ellen I. Rosen (Brandeis University)
Presider: Ellen I. Rosen (Brandeis University)
Passing the Buck: Employer Strategies for Transferring Risk onto Low-Skilled Jobs
Susan Lambert (University of Chicago)
Tackling the oxymoron "flexicurity". Optimal global configurations of flexibility and security
Miriam H. Abu Sharkh (Stanford University)
Workplace Subjectivity: Making Inequality Regimes Work
Joan S.M. Meyers (University of California-Davis)
Discussant: Janet Boguslaw (Brandeis University)
Thematic Session
Gender and Work:
Global, Local, and Transnational Perspectives
Fri, Aug 1 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Esther Ngan-ling Chow (American University)
Presider: Esther Ngan-ling Chow (American University)
The Gender Ideological Clash of Globalization: Women and Work in the Case of the Philippines
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas (University of California-Davis)
Organizing Domestic Work at the Local, National and Transnational Levels
Evangelia Tastsoglou (Saint Mary's University, Canada), Laura Alpranti-Maratou (National Centre for Social Research
(EKKE), Greece)
Women's Unpaid and Domestic Labor in Brazil: A Study in Inequality Between and Among Gender
Solange de Deus Simoes (Eastern Michigan University), Neuma Aguiar (Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais)
The Global Meets the Local: An Analysis of the Impact of Global Economic Reform on Ghanaian Women's
Work
Akosua K Darkwah (University of Ghana-Legon)
We interrogate how macro forces have impacted on women's and men's world of work in the ways that work is organized,
experienced, and transformed and how the results, in turn, shape and even change identity, ideology, gender relations and
social institutions at the global, transnational and local levels. We also examine how gendered work is bound up with class,
race/ethnicity, and nationality in influencing the nature of various types of women's work (paid or unpaid; formal or
informal) and how social organizations, labor processes, and job consequences inevitably intersect these macro-micro
linkages. Papers represent a variety of global issues concerning gendered work, inequality and social injustice from Africa,
Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
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Open Refereed Roundtables I
Table 10. Labor and Globalization
Fri, Aug 1 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Gregory Wayne Walker (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania)
Legacies and Possibilities: Challenges Facing the Australian OHS Profession in a Post-Industrial World
Debra F. Moodie-Bain (University of Western Sydney), Zina O'Leary (University of Western Sydney)
Migrant workers in low-skilled employment: assessing the implications for Human Resource Management
Robert MacKenzie (Leeds University), Chris Forde (Leeds University)
Strikes Work: UMUA Local 369's Victory at NStar
Tom Juravich (University of Massachusetts)
The Effect of Union Density on the Wage Gap in Manufacturing: 1949-1997.
Ann Shirley (University of Oregon), Caleb Southworth (University of Oregon, Eugene)
The Formation of Labor Responses to Globalization: The Case of the CFDT in France
Marcos Ancelovici (McGill University)
Women's Labor Force Status and Globalization: A Cross-National Study
Debarashmi Mitra (Delta State University)
Space Invaders: Scheme Conditions and Category Reconfiguration in Union Organizing Drives, 1961-1999
John-Paul Ferguson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Thematic Session
Worlds without Work:
African Americans and the Crisis of Joblessness
Fri, Aug 1 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Sandra S. Smith (University of California, Berkeley)
Joblessness, Discrimination, and Inner-city Education: Historical Perspectives on A Contemporary Crisis
Kathryn M. Neckerman (Columbia University-ISERP)
Declining Employment among Young Black Men: Economic Determinants and Implications?
Harry Holzer (Georgetown University)
Racial Inequality, Mass Imprisonment, and the U.S. Labor Market
Bruce Western (Harvard University)
The Cultural Logic of Low-Income African Americans on Work and Occupations in the Urban Sphere
Alford A. Young, Jr. (University of Michigan)
Chronic black joblessness is most often explained in terms of human capital deficiencies and pervasive employer
discrimination, the changing structure of urban economies, skyrocketing rates of incarceration, and cultural logics. In this
session, each of the four panelists will examine the causes and consequences of joblessness among lesser-skilled black men
and women living in major urban areas from one of these perspectives, adopting a comprehensive approach to the crisis
of joblessness experienced by the black poor.
Thematic Session
Volunteer Work/Work in Civil Society
Fri, Aug 1 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Thomas Rotolo
Presider: John Wilson (Duke University)
Education and Voluntary Association Participation: An Event History Analysis.
Rene Bekkers, Stijn Ruiter (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Is Volunteering "Work" in Retirement?
Susan M. Chambre (Baruch College, City University of New York), Christopher Justin Einolf (University of Virginia)
Discussant: John Wilson (Duke University)
Volunteering is an often overlooked, but very important, form of work. Estimates suggest that 61.2 million adults in the
United States volunteered last year (Corporation for National and Community Service 2007). In this session on
Volunteering, a diverse group of prominent scholars from around the world will present their latest research on volunteer
work.
Before the meetings, presenters will circulate papers to one another and raise questions they would like to consider in the
discussion. In the session, authors will summarize papers in short presentations. A discussant will lead the session and
encourage audience members to interact with authors.
Thematic Session
The World of Household Work
Fri, Aug 1 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Judith Treas (University of California-Irvine)
The Domestic Division of Labor and the Gender Wage Gap
Jonathan I Gershuny (Oxford University)
Welfare State Regimes and Household Work.
Sonja Drobnic (University of Hamburg)
What Do Children Want? Cross-National Differences in the Construction of Motherhood and Childhood
Maria Charles (University of California, Santa Barbara), Erin A. Cech (University of California, San Diego)
Changing Contours of Inside Work in Post-Socialist China
Susan E. Short (Brown University)
Despite widespread acceptance of married women's employment, women confront a "second shift" of housework and
childcare at the end of the working day. Even when employed full-time, wives spend more hours doing housework than do
husbands, performing the more tedious tasks. Time spent in housework depresses married women's wages in the workplace.
At home, the unequal division of labor is linked to marital conflict, divorce, and sub-replacement fertility.
Searching Sociological Abstracts reveals 853 articles on housework in peer-reviewed journals published since 1978, but
this research focuses largely on the micro-level characteristics of the partners and their household to the neglect of
macro-level influences. Only lately have sociologists leveraged on cross-national comparisons to embed domestic practices
in state policy, occupational structure, cultural ideology, kinship organization, and other macro-level contexts. In keeping
with the program theme, the session's insights emerge from a global perspective on household work.
This session brings to the attention of the broader discipline findings from a new direction of scholarship findings with
implications not merely for the study of the family, but also for gender, inequality, and the state.
Thematic Session
Displaced Workers: Coping With Job Loss
Fri, Aug 1 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Kenneth Root (Ken Root & Associates)
Presider: Amy Blackstone (University of Maine)
Panelist: Yolanda Kodrzycki (Federal Reserve Bank, Boston)
Panelist: Thomas S. Moore (Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Panelist: Carolyn C. Perrucci (Purdue University)
Panelist: Kenneth Root (Ken Root & Associates)
Panelists will review our knowledge of selected concepts, themes, and methods related to job loss, and suggest needed
research or new approaches to understand displaced worker adjustment.
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Plenary Session
Reinventing the American Dream
Fri, Aug 1 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina)
Presider: Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina)
Panelist: Christopher Jencks (Harvard University)
Panelist: Bob Kuttner (The American Prospect)
Panelist: Donna Shalala (University of Miami)
Globalization, the spread of neo-liberal political ideology, and growing population diversity are three of the major drivers
producing change in work and society in the 21st century. Increasing inequality and insecurity have made the attainment
of a good job, a comfortable retirement, home ownership, affordable health care, and a better future for one's children
problematic for millions of Americans. The percentage of people living in poverty remains high despite the economic boom
of the 1990's, and the middle class has become increasingly vulnerable. A distinguished panel--featuring Christopher Jencks
(Harvard University), Robert Kuttner (from the American Prospect), and Donna Shalala (President of the University of
Miami)--will engage in a discussion on reinventing the "American Dream."
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Thematic Session
The Worlds of Work in Africa:
Pathway to Modernity or Global Shadow?
Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Edward Charles Webster (University of the Witwatersrand)
Presider: Edward Charles Webster (University of the Witwatersrand)
Is a sociology of African transitions possible?
Karl von Holdt (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), Andries Bezuidenhout (University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), Khayaat Fakier (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Chalo Africa: Assessing India?s growing investment in Africa
Sanush Naidu (Stellenbosch University)
The New Scramble and the World of Work in Africa
Roger Southall (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesbur)
Panelist: Ching Kwan Lee (University of Michigan)
The aim of this panel will be to explore postcolonial modernity and the global inequalities that it is founded on and the
forms that it takes. We will identify the variety of `shadow' activities in Africa and examine more systematically what the
concepts of ?modernity' and `shadow' might mean. Is modernity the norm and `shadow' deviancy? What are the different
meanings these `shadows' may have? Does it mean that Africa has embarked on a parallel and opposite path to modernity
or is it a dumb and empty shadow? Does `shadow' mean something that haunts Africa to which it aspires but can never
achieve? Or is the `shadow' our pathway to modernity?
Regular Session
Social Movements
Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Amy L. Stone (Trinity University)
Affecting the Political: An Assessment of the Emotional Turn in the Study of Social Movements
Deborah B. Gould (University of Pittsburgh)
From Infanticide to Activism: The Transformation of Emotions and Identity in Self-Help Movements
Verta A. Taylor (University of California - Santa Barbara), Lisa A. Leitz (University of California-Santa Barbara)
The Impact of Safe Spaces: Biographical Trajectories of Gay-Straight Alliance Activists
Tina Fetner (McMaster University), Coralee Drechsler (McMaster University), Athena Elafros (McMaster
University)
Finding Voice, Creating Space: SisterSong?s Role at the Intersections of Movements
Zakiya T. Luna (University of Michigan)
Presider: Amy L. Stone (Trinity University)
Regular Session
Sociology of Work:
Work at the Margins
Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Peter Meiksins (Cleveland State University)
Presider: Cynthia Negrey (University of Louisville)
Unregulated Work in the Global City: Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City
Annette Bernhardt (Brennan Center for Justice), Siobhan McGrath (University of Manchester), James DeFilippis (Rutgers
University)
Work Experience in Low-wage Jobs: Small UK Food Manufactuing Firms
Paul Edwards (University of Warwick), Chin-Ju Tsai (Royal Holloway, london), Sukanya Sengupta (Cardiff Business
School)
Differences among nonstandard workers and perceived job security and work attitudes of standard employees
Mallika Banerjee (Cornell University), Pamela S. Tolbert (Cornell University)
Discussant: Heidi Gottfried (Wayne State University)
Section on Asia and Asian America Paper Session
Work, Labor, and Social Change in Asian American Communities
Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Participants:
Presider: Linda Trinh Vo (University of California, Irvine)
Session Organizer: Mary Yu Danico (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Litigation and Subterfuge: Chinese Immigrant Mobilization during the Chinese Exclusion Era
Alexander Jackson Lu (Louisiana State University)
Trust Relationships Among South Asian Immigrant Gas Station Workers
Jaya Kristin Soni (University of Texas)
Social Action and Public Interest Litigation in India: The Cases of Child Labor and Debt-Bondage
Modhurima Dasgupta (Lewis & Clark College)
Thematic Session
From Welfare And Work to Work Not Welfare:
How Poor Families Get By in the Post-Welfare Decade
Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Sandra K. Danziger (University of Michigan)
Presider: Sandra K. Danziger (University of Michigan)
Panelist: Kristin Seefeldt (University of Michigan)
Panelist: Kathryn J. Edin (John F Kennedy School of Government)
Panelist: Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Sandra S. Smith (University of California, Berkeley)
Since the 1996 welfare reform, receipt of public cash assistance has become conditional on a parent?s cooperation with
work requirements. Over the decade, welfare receipt has plummeted and employment has increased among single mothers.
Yet many who work continue to have below-poverty income for their families. Scholars discuss the changing patterns in
how poor families juggle work demands, manage income packaging strategies, use public benefits, and cope with financial
hardship. New qualitative research on navigating the low- wage labor market, on the role of the Earned Income Tax Credit
in economic coping strategies, and on how families manage the changing safety net will be highlighted.
Student Forum Paper Session
Work & Organizations
Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Catherine E. Connell (University of Texas at Austin)
Access to flexible work schedules: Differences by gender, education level, and occupation
Katherine Elizabeth Speirs (University of Maryland)
Session Organizer: Audrey E. Devine-Eller (Rutgers University)
Black Collar Work: The Meaning of Work Among African-American Temp Workers
Brian Lee Zirkle (The University of Kansas)
Shifting Spheres: Gender, Labor and National Identity in US World War II Propaganda.
Alecea Irene Standlee (Syracuse University)
The Art museum as a Boundary Organization:The Case of the Tate Galleries
Joyce Liu (Harvard University)
Discussant: Catherine E. Connell (University of Texas at Austin)
Presider: Catherine E. Connell (University of Texas at Austin)
Presidential Panel
Decent Work, Decent Jobs:
Globalization and Employment Conditions around the World
Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Naomi Cassirer (International Labour Organization)
Presider: Naomi Cassirer (International Labour Organization)
Working Conditions in European Union Countries
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (International Labor Organization)
Globalization and Changing Employment Conditions in Asia and the Pacific
Sangheon Lee (International Labor Organization)
Work, Families, and Development.
Naomi Cassirer (International Labour Organization)
Working Conditions Laws: Regulating for Decent Work
Deirdre McCann (International Labor Organization)
Discussant: Lucio Baccaro (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations, formulating international labor standards and providing technical
assistance on the full range of labor and employment issues. In this panel, ILO officials will discuss findings on changes
in working conditions and job quality around the world, in the context of globalization. The panel will cover the elements
that form the core of the employment relationship and determine the quality of working life; wages, working time, work
organization, and work-family balance. The panel will speak both to research efforts and findings and to national and
workplace policies and programs for improving the quality of work.
Thematic Session
Discrimination Processes at Work
Fri, Aug 1 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: William T. Bielby (University of Illinois--Chicago)
Presider: William T. Bielby (University of Illinois--Chicago)
Panelist: Louise Marie Roth (University of Arizona)
Panelist: Susan P. Sturm (Coloumbia Law School)
Panelist: Clayton Rose (Harvard Business School)
Panelist: Barbara F. Reskin (University of Washington)
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Regular Session
Homelessness
Fri, Aug 1 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Damian T. Williams (Vanderbilt University)
Presider: Damian T. Williams (Vanderbilt University)
Homeless Day Labor Workers? Perceptions of Fairness and Potentials for Organizing
Mary Nell Trautner (State University of New York-Buffalo), Kelly Eitzen Smith (University of Arizona)
An Arresting Development: Examining America?s Jailed Homeless
Kevin M. Fitzpatrick (University of Arkansas), Brad A. Myrstol (University of Arkansas)
The New Urban Punitiveness: The Rise of Anti-homeless Policies in San Francsico
Alex S. Vitale (Brooklyn College)
Recoveries of Space and Subjectivity in the Shadow of Violence: the Clandestine Politics of Pavement-Dwellers in
Mumbai
Gayatri Ambika Menon (Cornell University)
Regular Session
Sociology of Work:
New Forms of Work Organization
Fri, Aug 1 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Peter Meiksins (Cleveland State University)
Presider: Denise Benoit Scott (SUNY, Geneseo)
The Temporal Order of the Labor Process in a Silicon Valley Software Startup
Linus Huang (University of California - Berkeley)
The Accidental Organization: Power and Bureaucracy in a "New Culture" Firm
Gabrielle Raley (University of California-Los Angeles)
Embedded in the Tax Code: The Ongoing Contest Over Contract Employment
George Gonos (SUNY-Potsdam), Debra J. Osnowitz (Brandeis University)
Discussant: Michael J. Handel (Northeastern University)
Thematic Session
Gendered Bodies at Work
Fri, Aug 1 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California)
Presider: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California)
Panelist: Christine L. Williams (University of Texas at Austin)
Panelist: Carol Wolkowitz (University of Warwick)
Panelist: Rachel Sherman (New School for Social Research)
Panelist: Gul Ozyegin (The College of William and Mary)
Panelist: Carol Wolkowitz (University of Warwick)
The 2008 Thematic Session on "Gendered Bodies at Work" will bring together four prominent sociologists who have
conducted innovative empirical research on gender and work. While new perspectives on how we think about bodies and
embodiment have received much attention from cultural studies, women's studies, and gay/queer studies in recent years,
much of this scholarship has not been based on empirical foundations and has not focused very much on employment. The
session will provide a forum for the four established scholars to use their past and current research to reflect on questions
such as: How are women's and men's bodies deployed in particular work sites and occupations? How do body and work
come together in paid employment, and do these intersections transcend or reify intersectionalities of race, class and gender?
With the demise of Fordist industrial regimes replaced increasingly by service regimes, how are gendered bodies
reconfigured into paid employment?
Section on Children and Youth Paper Session
Children, Youth and Work
Fri, Aug 1 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Nancy L. Marshall (Wellesley College)
Presider: Robert Drago (Penn State University)
Adaptation to Paid Work in Adolescence
Jeremy Staff (The Pennsylvania State University)
Adolescent Work Patterns: Impact of Family Resources on Employment Sector and Intensity of Male and Female High
School Seniors
Irina Voloshin (University of Washington)
"School or Work" or "School and Work"? Enrollment and Work Activity among Mexican Origin Adolescents
James Dean Bachmeier (University of California, Irvine)
"College for All" for Urban, Minority Youths: Whether and How Educational and Occupational Expectations Intersect
for the Youth of Gautreaux Two.
Melody L. Boyd (Temple University), Kimberly Ann Goyette (Temple University)
Discussant: Nancy L. Marshall (Wellesley College)
Thematic Session
Disabled Persons at Work:
The Theory and Practice of Inclusion, Rehabilitation and Discrimination
Fri, Aug 1 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Russell K. Schutt (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Presider: Russell K. Schutt (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Panelist: William E. Kiernan (Institute for Community Inclusion, UMass Boston)
Panelist: E. Sally Rogers (Boston University)
Panelist: Russell K. Schutt (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Discussant: Barbara M. Altman (Disability Statistics Consultant)
This panel will present an overview of laws and policies concerning the inclusion of disabled persons in the workplace and
contemporary programs and research about vocational rehabilitation (VR). The goal is to improve sociologists' awareness
and understanding of disabled persons' role and acceptance in the workplace and the impact of vocational rehabilitation
on work organizations, work processes, and workers. William Kiernan, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Community
Inclusion, will present an overview of applicable federal laws and policies and will outline current controversies about
employability, consumer directed services and choice, employer perspectives, and employment outcomes. Sally Rogers,
Sc.D., Research Director at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, will discuss the role of employment preferences and
research about the Center's "Choose-Get-Keep" approach and she will present findings from research on predictors of
vocational potential and outcomes. Russell Schutt, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at UMass Boston, will review his research
with Norm Hursh, Ed.D., Boston University, on the impact of social support and intrinsic rewards on VR outcomes, and
he will discuss the implications of VR research for organizational theory. As the session discussant, Barbara Altman, Ph.D.,
will review the presentations in light of sociological research and theories on attitudes toward persons with disabilities and
their labor market experience. These diverse foci will stimulate discussion about the value of workplace structure and social
support, the importance of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards, the merits of training or direct job placement, and the meaning
of consumer work preferences. The panel will conclude with comments by each presenter about the implications of research
on disabled persons at work for sociological theories about organizations and for public policies about disabilities, health
care, and work management.
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Thematic Session
Race and the World of Work
Sat, Aug 2 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Stephen Steinberg (Queens College)
Presider: Stephen Steinberg (Queens College)
Racial Chutes and Trapdoors: The End of Black Economic Progress
Michael K. Brown (University of California, Santa Cruz), David Wellman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Crowded Out Forever? An Analysis of Ethnic and Racial Occupational Crowding over the Last Half Century
Darrick Hamilton (New School University), William Darity (Duke University)
The Throw-Away Men
Deirdre Royster (College of William and Mary), Franklin McFadden (.)
Disrespect and Discrimination in the Workplace and in the Courts
Laura Beth Nielsen (American Bar Foundation/Northwestern University)
The key institutional mechanism for the reproduction of racial inequality across generations is to be found in a system of
occupational apartheid that continues to severely limit access of African Americans to coveted jobs and excludes others
from even less desirable job sectors. Although there has been significant progress during the post civil-rights era, this does
not reflect the deracialization of labor markets so much as it does the implementation of affirmative action over several
decades. However, affirmative action never penetrated whole sectors of the economy and work force, and in recent years
has been severely eviscerated by actions of all three branches of government. Today we face the specter and scandal of yet
another generation of African American youth being relegated to the fringes of the job market, or excluded altogether from
the world of work.
Section on Sociology of Law Roundtable Session
Table 05. Labor Law
Sat, Aug 2 - 8:30am - 9:30am
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Anthony Paik (University of Iowa)
Table Presider: Marc W. Steinberg (Smith College)
Comparative Legal Ecologies of the Modern Enterprise: Case Analysis of the 1988 Flint UAW Strikes
*Charles Thomas Tackney (Copenhagen Business School)
The Fellow Servant Rule Reconsidered
*jeffrey steven kahana (Mount Saint Mary College)
Observations of Counteracting Effects of Political Institutions on Regulatory Enforcement
*Peter Shrock (University at Albany, State University of New York)
Regular Session
Food Systems and Agricultural Labor
Sat, Aug 2 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Ronald L. Mize (Cornell University)
Presider: Ronald L. Mize (Cornell University)
Session Organizer: Philip D. McMichael (Cornell University)
California Farmworkers' Impediments to Health: Ethnographic Explorations
*Elizabeth E. Wheatley (Hamilton College)
Relative Virtue: Comparing 'Local Food' in the United States and France
*Michaela DeSoucey (Northwestern University), Isabelle T‚choueyres (University of Bordeaux 2)
Third-Party Certification in the Global Agrifood System: From the Perspective of Indonesian Shrimp Farmers
*Maki Hatanaka (Utah State University)
Dispossession by Displacement: Globalization and Labor in Movement
*Farshad A. Araghi (Florida Atlantic University)
Thematic Session
Labor Standards
Sat, Aug 2 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Gary Gereffi (Duke University)
Presider: Peter B. Evans (University of California, Berkeley)
Does Monitoring Improve International Labor Standards? If So, How?
*Richard Michael Locke (Massachusetts Institute of Tech)
International Labor Standards and National Regulatory Agencies: US Influence, European Models, and Latin American
Outcomes.
*Andrew Schrank (University of New Mexico), *Michael J. Piore (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Regulating Labor Standards via Supply Chains: International Lessons from a U.S. Effort.
*David Weil (Boston University)
Discussant: Peter B. Evans (University of California, Berkeley)
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Regular Session
Workplace Transformation
Sat, Aug 2 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Robert Perrucci (Purdue University)
Presider: Robert Perrucci (Purdue University)
A Universal 'White-Collar Sweatshop?' Restructuring Middle Management in the USA, UK and Japan
Leo McCann (University of Manchester), John Hassard (Sociological Review)
Dialing for Service: Transforming the Public Sector Workplace in Canada
Norene Pupo (York University), Andrea Noack (Ryerson University)
Working time regulations in the bank sector in 3 countries - convergence towards more unsocial hours working?
Heidi Nicolaisen (University of Oslo)
Discussant: Daniel B. Tope (Florida State University)
Section on Political Sociology Roundtable Session
Table 04. Labor and the State
Sat, Aug 2 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Table Presider: Christian C. Lentz (Cornell University)
Session Organizer: Denise Benoit Scott (SUNY, Geneseo)
State Incorporation and Social Change: Explaining the Postwar Divergence of U.S. and Canadian Unions
*Barry Eidlin (University of California- Berkeley)
Political Fragmentation in the U.S. Auto Industry: Its Historical Origins
*maria gritsch (California State University)
Fields of Intervention: Agriculture and State-Society Relations in Revolutionary Vietnam
*Christian C. Lentz (Cornell University)
Presidential Panel
The Meaning of Work: What Is Work?
Sat, Aug 2 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Magali Sarfatti-Larson (Temple University)
Presider: Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina)
Panelist: Arlie Russell Hochschild (University of California-Berkeley)
Panelist: Richard Sennett (London Sch. Economics)
Understanding the changing meaning of work is central to appreciating the transformations occurring in work, workers, and
the workplace. In this Presidential panel session, two world-renowned scholars will present and discuss their ideas on the
meaning of work and its prospects.
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Thematic Session
Class and Work
Sat, Aug 2 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Rick Fantasia (Smith College)
Session Organizer: Magali Sarfatti-Larson (Temple University)
Panelist: Stanley B. Aronowitz (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Panelist: Michele Lamont (Harvard University)
Panelist: Paul W. Kingston (University of Virginia)
Author Meets Critics
L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the US Labor Movement (Russell Sage, 2006)
by Ruth Milkman
Sat, Aug 2 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Howard A. Kimeldorf (Univ of Michigan)
Author: Ruth Milkman (Univ of California-Los Angeles)
Critic: Frances Fox Piven (City University of New York)
Critic: Steven H. Lopez (Ohio State University)
Critic: Beverly Silver (Johns Hopkins University)
Presider: Howard A. Kimeldorf (Univ of Michigan)
Thematic Session
Production and Consumption, Workers and Consumers:
Rethinking Their Relationships
Sat, Aug 2 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: George Ritzer (University of Maryland)
Presider: George Ritzer (University of Maryland)
Panelist: Daniel B. Cornfield (Vanderbilt University)
Panelist: Kevin T. Leicht (The University of Iowa)
Panelist: Juliet Schor (Boston College)
Panelist: Barry Smart
Discussant: Randy Hodson (Ohio State University)
Thematic Session
Comparative Labor Movements
Sat, Aug 2 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Gay W. Seidman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Presider: Gay W. Seidman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Panelist: Rina Agarwala (Johns Hopkins University)
Panelist: Mark Anner (Cornell University)
Panelist: Hagen Koo (University of Hawaii)
Discussant: Gay W. Seidman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Globalization presents new challenges to labor movements everywhere, perhaps especially in the developing world, where
economic restructuring has complicated labor's choices. How have labor movements responded? What kinds of new
strategies are movements pursuing? To what extent and how are labor movements able to help shape development strategies
as the Washington concensus seems to be fraying around the edges?
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Regular Session
Jobs, Occupations, and Work in the Medical and Service Industries
Sat, Aug 2 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Sheryl L. Skaggs (University of Texas-Dallas)
Presider: Sheryl L. Skaggs (University of Texas-Dallas)
High-Touch and Here-to-Stay: Future Skills Demands in Low Wage Service Occupations
Mary Gatta (Rutgers University), Eileen Appelbaum (Rutgers University), Heather Boushey (Center for Economic and
Policy Research)
Good work: Emergency medical technicians in the public and private sectors
Dana Huyser de Bernardo (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Contemporary Issues in Medical Transcription
Gary C. David (Bentley College)
The Alignment of Countervailing Powers in Anesthesia: How a Segment of Nurses Became Independent
Practitioners
Deborah A. Sullivan (Arizona State University), Leah S. Rohlfsen (Arizona State University)
Discussant: Elizabeth Hirsh (Cornell University)
Thematic Session
Policy Regimes and Gendered Labor Markets
Sat, Aug 2 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Joya Misra (University of Massachusetts)
Presider: Joya Misra (University of Massachusetts)
Configurations of Inequality: Understanding Cross-national Differences in Gender Economic Inequality
*Hadas Mandel (Tel Aviv University)
Reproducing Occupational Inequality: Marriage, Parenthood and the Gender Divide in Occupations
*Jennifer L. Hook (Pennsylvania State University), *Becky Pettit (University of Washington)
Policy Regime Structuring of Class v. Gender Equality in Australia, Great Britain and the US
*Lynn Prince Cooke (University of Kent), *Liana C. Sayer (Ohio State University)
Leave Policy in the Nordic Countries: A 'Recipe' for High Employment/High Fertility?
*Anne Lise Ellingsaeter
Discussant: Joya Misra (University of Massachusetts)
This session will explore debates about the role of welfare/family policy on the gendering of labor markets. While some
scholars are fairly pessimistic about these effects arguing that such policies have led to greater occupational gender
segregation and lower wages others are more optimistic about their potential for creating greater success for women in
the labor market. Still other scholars examine how these processes relate to the gender division of labor in the home. This
session brings scholars from around the globe together to consider the effects of policy on gendered labor markets.
Thematic Session
Religion and Labor
Sat, Aug 2 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Mary Jo Neitz (University of Missouri)
Session Organizer: Michael O. Emerson (Rice University)
Presider: Christian Smith (University of Notre Dame)
Panelist: Rhys H. Williams (University of Cincinnati)
Panelist: David A. Smilde (University of Georgia)
Panelist: William A. Mirola (Marian College)
This session explores social movements in which religious groups form coalitions with labor activists. The researchers are
all concerned with how religious leaders and church members make links between faith and activism and join with activists
in specific contexts. The panel includes research on connections between religious leaders and organized labor in the United
States and research on the Latin American context where the relationship between religion and labor is configured
differently, reflecting the ties between the Catholic Hierarchy and the formal sector and the Evangelical movement and
informal sector of the labor market.
Section on Political Sociology Invited Session
Politics at Work
Sat, Aug 2 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Bruce Western (Harvard University)
Presider: Bruce Western (Harvard University)
It Takes Two: How Affirmative Action Oversight Catalyzed Corporate Fair Employment Practices
*Frank Dobbin (Harvard University), Daniel Schrage (Harvard), Alexandra Kalev (University of Arizona)
The Micro-Politics of Power, Structure and Abuse on the Shop Floor
*Vincent J. Roscigno (Ohio State University)
World Politics on the Shop Floor
*Beverly Silver (Johns Hopkins University)
The clash of rival social forces is often played out in the small theater of the workplace. This panel showcases research
taking institutional, organizational, and comparative perspectives on the workplace as an arena of political conflict.
Thematic Session
Labor Environment Coalitions
Sat, Aug 2 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Phil Brown (Brown University)
Presider: Phil Brown
Session Organizer: Brian Mayer (University of Florida)
Health, Labor, and the Environment.
*Brian Mayer (University of Florida)
Session Organizer: Laura Senier (Brown University)
Warming Climate?: Labor-Environmentalist Relations and the Global Climate Crisis
*J. Timmons Roberts (College of William & Mary), Kenneth Alan Gould (City University of New York - Brooklyn
College), Tammy Lewis (Muhlenberg College)
State Channeling and Labor-Environmental Coalitions.
*Brian K. Obach (SUNY- New Paltz)
The Unnatural Alliance Between Labor and Environment
*Charles Levenstein (University of Massachusetts-Lowell)
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Regular Session
Labor/Labor Movements
Sun, Aug 3 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: William Canak (Middle Tennessee State University)
Presider: John-Paul Ferguson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Community unionism as a revitalization strategy? A British case of innovation.
*Ian Greer (Leeds University Business School), Ian Greenwood (University of Leeds), Mark Stuart (University of
Leeds)
Newer Immigrants, Same "Old" Unions?: Exploring Barriers to Immigrant Incorporation in the Building
Trades
*Alice B. Gates (University of Michigan)
Union Members Who Vote for the Repbulicans
*Tracy Fang-Hui Chang (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
'Voice within voice': union member responses to dissatisfaction with their union.
*Peter Gerard Gahan (Monash University)
Discussant: Lucio Baccaro (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Professional Workshop
Public Sociology from the Bottom-up:
Teaching for Social Justice and Social Change
Sun, Aug 3 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Walda Katz-Fishman (Howard University)
Leader: Walda Katz-Fishman (Howard University)
Co-Leader: Rose Brewer (University of Minnesota)
The context of this interactive workshop is today's historic moment of deepening social, economic, political, and ecological
crises, renewed activism and social movements, and the emergence of public sociology as a framework for discussion about
the world and social transformation. Public sociology from the bottom-up involves the unity of theory and practice (praxis),
i.e., liberatory scholarship and pedagogy, putting teaching, learning and participation in movement building at the center.
This workshop critically examines the assumptions of public sociology (in relation to professional, critical, and policy
sociology) as an analytical and action framework connected to critical pedagogy that links analysis and vision with
bottom-up struggles in the early 21st century, e.g., growing grassroots struggles and the U.S. Social Forum process for
global social justice. We will offer teaching strategies and teaching and learning tools for classroom and community that
re-center around these assumptions. These include: popular education as a pedagogical strategy for creating a community
of learners with a vision of social justice and social transformation; and two teaching and learning tools we have developed
as activists and educators in Project South the social history timeline, and the CVS (consciousness, vision and strategy)
model of the movement building process focusing on social history, social movements and lessons learned for building
today's bottom-up social justice movement.
Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Paper Session
The Making of America, Past and Present: Labor, Laws, Religions, Wars
Sun, Aug 3 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Emily Noelle Ignacio (University of Washington, Tacoma)
(E)racing the Past: the "Greatest Generation's" memory bridge from paternalism to colorblindism
*Robert A. Hollenbaugh (University of Southern California)
Bringing Employers Back In: Employers' Utilization of Racial Ideology in Industrial Labor 1890-1945
*francisca emoshoghme oyogoa (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Retelling the Past: Collective Memory in the Japanese American Redress Movement
*Kumiko Tsuchida (Tohoku University)
Un-Pledging Allegiance: Waking up from the "'American' Dream"
*Melanie E. L. Bush (Adelphi University)
Class and the Color Line in The Re-Making of America In the Age of Globalization
*Dave Ramsaran (Susquehanna University)
Thematic Session
The Changing Nature of Work in Higher Education
Sun, Aug 3 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Irene Padavic (Florida State University)
Presider: Irene Padavic (Florida State University)
Panelist: Teresa A. Sullivan (University of Michigan)
Panelist: Dan Clawson (University of Massachusetts)
Panelist: Carol Colbeck (University of Massachusetts--Boston)
Working conditions in academia have shifted dramatically in the past 20 years, and the pace of change is accelerating. Some
of the changes panelists will address include the shift from tenure-track to non-tenure-track positions (and tensions between
the two groups), increased market pressures leading to administrative demands for on-line courses and grant funding, and
shifts in the demographic characteristics of the student body and the professoriate. This session is organized as a panel, with
each presenter speaking for 15 to 20 minutes, allowing maximal time for audience participation.
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Open Refereed Roundtables
Table 19. Work Situations and Culture
Sun, Aug 3 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Gregory Wayne Walker (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania)
Paid Domestic Work: Resisting an Employer Identity
*Amanda Moras (University of Connecticut)
Still Feeling Proud to be Working for Your Employer? Longitudinal Changes in White Collar Employees' Morale in
a Time of Organizational Restructuring
*Song Yang (University of Arkansas)
The Show Must Go On: A Descriptive Single-Site Case Study of Dignity in the Work Place among Academic Theatre
Collaborators
*Laura Thudium Zieglowsky (University of Iowa)
Whistle While You Work: The Work of Fitness Providers
*Erin Marie Rehel (Vanderbilt University)
"When Your Night Ends, Mine Begins": The Night Club Occupational Idioculture and the Economic Logic of the Labor
of Leisure
*Jonathan Dale Stringfield (DePaul University), *Black Hawk Hancock (DePaul University)
Special Session
Exploitation at Work and in Society
Sun, Aug 3 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Arthur Sakamoto (University of Texas-Austin)
Presider: Hiroshi Ishida (University of Tokyo)
Panelist: David B. Grusky (Stanford University)
Panelist: Francois Nielsen (University of North Carolina)
Panelist: Arthur Sakamoto (University of Texas-Austin)
Discussant: Trond Petersen (University of California, Berkeley)
Sociologists have been studying both the sources and consequences of rising income inequalities in the U.S. and elsewhere.
What has not been adequately considered in these studies, however, is whether rising income inequalities are associated
with increased exploitation. Despite being a central theme in Marxist sociology, exploitation has not been systematically
considered in contemporary research especially in terms of empirical analysis. This Special Session seeks to assess the
relevance of the concept of exploitation for current studies of inequality.
Thematic Session
Citizenship, Immigration, and Work
Sun, Aug 3 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Irene H.I. Bloemraad (University of California, Berkeley)
Presider: Irene H.I. Bloemraad (University of California, Berkeley)
Panelist: Ruth Milkman (Univ of California-Los Angeles)
Panelist: Jeffrey G. Reitz (University of Toronto)
Panelist: Yasemin Soysal (University of Essex)
Discussant: Irene H.I. Bloemraad (University of California, Berkeley)
This panel interrogates the inter-relations between citizenship, immigration and work. How does the intersection of
citizenship, immigration and work vary across societies? Is work and being a worker preconditions for being a "good"
citizen in the United States and other Western industrialized countries? If so, does work provide non-citizens, including
the undocumented, with a wedge to make citizenship claims on the state and fellow residents? We often see this discourse
used by immigration advocates who point out that immigrants fill job shortages or do the work that citizens will not do.
However, if work is central to "good" citizenship, how is citizenship conceived for immigrants who do not work? For those
who do not work, do perceptions of citizenship (by themselves or others) change depending on whether immigrants want
to work but cannot find employment, whether they cannot work at all (due to disability or other impediments), or because
they choose not to work (to raise a family, etc.)? Do universal welfare states place a higher premium on work, given the
greater costs of not working, or is there a greater tolerance and understanding of not working?
Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Roundtable Session
Table 04. Disparities and Inequalities Accessing and Within the Workplace
Sun, Aug 3 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Tabi L. White (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Table Presider: Martha Crowley (North Carolina State University)
Control and Inequality at Work: Variations, Processes and Implications for Worker Well-being
*Martha Crowley (North Carolina State University)
Worksite Segregation and Performance-Related Attitudes
*Niki T. Dickerson (Rutgers University), Joseph Raphael Blasi (Rutgers University), Douglas Kruse (Rutgers University),
Lisa Schur (Rutgers University)
The Effect of Intermittent Work Histories on Poverty: The Case of the Working Poor in Israel
Alisa C. Lewin (University of Haifa), *Haya Stier, Dafna Caspi-Dror (Tel Aviv University)
Pay Disparities Within Firms: The Role of Chief Executive Officers
*Taekjin Shin (University of California at Berkeley)
Thematic Session
Labour Process Theory: Contemporary Debates and Issues
Sun, Aug 3 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Christopher Dudley Smith (Royal Holloway)
Presider: Peter Meiksins (Cleveland State University)
Session Organizer: Paul Thompson (University of Strathclyde)
The State of the Labour Process Debate after 25 Years
*Paul Edwards (University of Warwick)
Core Theory and Contemporary Practice Re-evaluated
*Paul Thompson (University of Strathclyde), *Christopher Dudley Smith (Royal Holloway)
Service Work in the Global Economy
*Phil Taylor (University of Strathclyde)
Extension of the Commodity Form: New Sources of Labour Power
*Sharon Bolton (Strathclyde University)
This session will present papers on new developments in the workplace and society informed by insights from labour
process theory and research. Labour process theory remains the dominant perspective in the sociology of work in the UK
and much of Europe. It links issues of skill formation, managerial control and worker resistance to broader trends in political
economy. The International Labour Process Conference, now in its 25th year (see www.hrm.strath.ac.uk/ILPC/), is a key forum for critical research. The panel
organisers have been active in this conference and publications that have appeared from it, and they are currently editing
a volume on Contemporary Theory and Research.
The focus of the session is to reflect aspects of these debates by including scholars that have written and researched new
development in the labour. It will also connect with the BSA journal Work, Employment and Society, which will be edited
from 2008 by individuals that have been connected with the International Labour Process Conference.
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Plenary Session
Globalization and Work: Challenges and Responsibilities
Sun, Aug 3 - 12:30pm - 2:15pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina)
Presider: Michael J. Piore (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Panelist: Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard University)
Panelist: Erik Olin Wright (University of Wisconsin)
Globalization has produced important challenges for organizations, societies, communities and individuals. These
challenges create opportunities and responsibilities for managers, political leaders, and citizens. Three eminent social
scientists--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Erik Olin Wright, and Michael Piore--will discuss some of the major challenges related
to work that are produced by an increasingly global marketplace for large corporations, local communities, and the
state.
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Thematic Session
The "Wal-mart" Effect
Sun, Aug 3 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Jennifer L. Bair (Yale University)
Presider: Jennifer L. Bair (Yale University)
Panelist: Ellen I. Rosen (Brandeis University)
Panelist: Gary G. Hamilton (University of Washington)
Panelist: Jos‚ Luis lvarez Galv n (Department of Sociology, London School of Economics)
Panelist: Chris Tilly (University of Massachusetts-Lowell)
Discussant: Jennifer L. Bair (Yale University)
Wal-Mart's economic scale and global scope have made it a lightening rod for concerns ranging from the magnitude of the
U.S. trade deficit with China to the future of organized labor in America. This thematic panel will reflect on the extent to
which we can speak sociologically of a "Wal-Mart" effect that is, the impact that the world's largest retailer and largest
private employer (with more than 1.6 million workers globally) is having on the organization of social life in various fields.
Three speakers will offer their perspectives on different dimensions of the Wal-Mart effect, while the discussant will offer
comments on the unifying themes that run through these presentations.
Teaching Workshop
Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective
Sun, Aug 3 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Rhonda F. Levine (Colgate University)
Leader: Rhonda F. Levine (Colgate University)
Panelist: Rhonda F. Levine (Colgate University)
Panelist: Angela J. Hattery (Wake Forest University)
Panelist: Earl Smith (Wake Forest University)
Panelist: Warren S. Goldstein (University of Central Florida)
Panelist: Craig Reinarman (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Panelist: Rob Rosenthal (Wesleyan University)
This teaching workshop will discuss ways to teach a Marxist perspective of a number of sociological topics and areas, from
sociology of religion, to social stratification and poverty, to social theory, to name just a few. Panel members and workshop
participants will share successful teaching strategies.
Thematic Session
Worlds of Work in the Middle East
Sun, Aug 3 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Valentine M. Moghadam (Purdue University)
Islam and he Sub-Proletarian Work Ethic
*Cihan Ziya Tugal (University of California-Berkeley)
Conceptualizing the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Key Paradigm Shifts
*Sara Roy (Harvard University)
Toward Rights-Based Development in the Middle East
*Gilbert Achcar (University of London)
Women, Work, and Economic Citizenship in the Maghreb
*Valentine M. Moghadam (Purdue University)
The Middle East has not figured prominently in academic treatments of "worlds of work", including economic participation,
development, globalization, and social policy. This session challenges stereotypes by considering the ways in which class,
gender, and capital matter to the region's political economy.
Presidential Panel
From "Industrial Sociology" to "Sociology of Work"?
Sun, Aug 3 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Jennifer Platt (University of Sussex)
Presider: Michael Burawoy (University of California-Berkeley)
Neglected Classics in the Sociology of Work.
*Michael Rose (University of Bath)
Feminist Questions and the Sociology of Work.
*Jennifer L. Pierce (University of Minnesota)
Ethnography of Work and the Work of Ethnography: Hodson's Sample and the Discipline.
*Jennifer Platt (University of Sussex), *Charles Crothers (Auckland University of Technology), *Mervyn Patrick Horgan
(York University)
The session will focus on the history of the sociology of work, mainly in the USA. In reviewing different aspects of that
history, the papers will raise issues such as the field's relation to general sociology, how far its changes over time have
responded to changes in the wider society or to changes internal to sociology, which areas have been favored and which
neglected, and the reasons for these outcomes.
Thematic Session
The Future of Work in Latin America
Sun, Aug 3 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Alejandro Portes (Princeton University)
Presider: Alejandro Portes (Princeton University)
Panelist: Gary Gereffi (Duke University)
Panelist: Jose Itzigsohn
Panelist: Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito (University of Wisconsin)
Panelist: Jose Luis Velasco (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Section on Race, Gender, and Class Paper Session
The Intersection of Race, Gender and Work
Sun, Aug 3 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Karyn A. Loscocco (U Albany)
Presider: Shannon M. Monnat (University of Nevada Las Vegas)
Immigrant Niche Employment and Wages among Mexican Immigrant Women on the Border
*Rogelio Saenz (Texas A&M University), Aurelia Lorena Murga (Texas A&M University), Maria Cristina Morales
(University of Texas at El Paso)
Racial and Gender Inequality: Devaluation of jobs within and across U.S Labor Markets
*Anat Yom-Tov (University of Wisconsin)
'Passing the Buck': The Articulation of Class Struggle through Racism, Sexism and the Connections to
Fascism.
*Phoebe Christina Godfrey (Eastern Connecticut State University)
"Why Don't You Get Somebody New To Do It?": Gender, Race, and Cultural Taxation in the Academy
*Laura Ellen Hirshfield (University of Michigan), Tiffany D. Joseph (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Enobong Hannah Branch (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)
Thematic Session
Getting to Work: Cross-national Perspectives on Commuting and Relocation
Sun, Aug 3 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Roberto M. Fernandez (Massachusetts Inst of Technology)
Presider: Roberto M. Fernandez (Massachusetts Inst of Technology)
Travel to Work in China: Policies, Trends, and Models.
Sumeeta Srinivasan (Harvard University), Joan L. Walker (Boston University)
Reconceptualising the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis.
*Donald Houston (University of Dundee)
How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question, Improved Answer
*Yves Zenou (Research Institute of Industrial Economics)
Discussant: Roberto M. Fernandez (Massachusetts Inst of Technology)
The modern era in economic history has sometimes been defined by the separation of the workplace from the home. This
session will focus on the social consequences of the ways in which this separation between home and work is traversed.
In particular, the session will illuminate on the race and gender implications of home-work separation in cross-national
perspective. Presentations will organized as brief 5-10 minute presentations followed by a moderated open discussion
among the presenters and the audience.
This session will offer an unusually broad perspective. First, it will be truly cross-national. The papers report studies from
China (Srinivasan and Walker), United Kingdom (Houston), and Sweden (Zenou). In addition, the session will bring Boston
two international scholars Professor Houston who is based at the University of Dundee in the UK, and Professor Zenou
from the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, Sweden. Finally, the session is purposely broad in terms
of disciplinary approaches, involving an economist (Zenou), a sociologist (Fernandez), a geographer (Houston), and two
urban studies scholars (Srinivasan and Walker). This wide ranging approach will make for an unusual and lively
session.
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Thematic Session
Neoliberalism, Labor, and Labor Markets
Sun, Aug 3 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: John L. Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Presider: Fred Block (University of California-Davis)
Labor Laws in 180 Countries: How are Consensus and Disparities Growing?
*Jody Heymann (McGill University)
How Trade Openness Impacts Union Density in American Industries in the Age of Globalization.
*Judith Stepan-Norris (University of California, Irvine), *Caleb Southworth (University of Oregon, Eugene)
Inequality Among American Families, 1975 to 2005.
*Bruce Western (Harvard University)
Neoliberalism Meets Social Democracy: Danish Labor Market Flexicurity.
*John L. Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Thematic Session
Comparative Gender Theory: Power, Politics, and Work Transformation
Sun, Aug 3 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Heidi Gottfried (Wayne State University)
Presider: Judy Wajcman (Australia National University)
Comparing Gender Regimes: Globalisation, Complexity and Contested Modernities
*Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University)
Gendered Capitalism, Corporate Non-Responsibility, and Neo-Liberal Restructuring
*Joan R. Acker (University of Oregon)
Framing Gender Equality: Contextual Constraints and Strategic Choices?
*Myra Marx Ferree (University of Wisconsin)
Revisiting Agency in Feminist Theory: Global Lessons From Organizing Domestic Workers
*Raka Ray (University of California, Berkeley)
A proliferation of feminist scholarship has contributed to comparative theories on gender, power, politics and work
transformation. Yet, there are few opportunities for dialogue among feminists specializing in different sociological areas
of inquiry. The proposed panel seeks to provide a forum for exchange and discussion on a topic of central concern. The list
of panelists includes scholars who have written extensively about these themes but have different starting points, ranging
from political sociology, historical comparative sociology, social movements, organizational sociology, and work sociology.
By bringing together feminists prominent in many ASA sections, the panel has the potential of appealing to a large and a
diverse audience as well as advancing sociological theorizing about class and gender inequalities.
Thematic Session
International Perspectives on Revitalizing Labor
Sun, Aug 3 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Kim Voss (University of California)
Presider: Kim Voss (University of California)
Panelist: Peter B. Evans (University of California, Berkeley)
Panelist: Jennifer J. Chun (University of British Columbia)
Panelist: Pun Ngai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Panelist: Kim Voss (University of California)
Academics and activists around the globe are debating the prospects for labor movement revitalization. This thematic
session will take stock of how much revitalization has actually occurred in different parts of the globe, will excavate the
differing meanings of revitalization in different contexts, and will explore the prospects for the future.
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Section on Race, Gender, and Class Paper Session
Race, Gender, and Class: Environmental Justice & Global Climate Change
Mon, Aug 4 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Joane Nagel (University of Kansas)
Presider: Joane Nagel (University of Kansas)
Climate Change Lessons from the Environmental Justice Movement
*Robert D. Bullard (Clark Atlanta University)
Double Jeopardy: Urban Heat Islands and Global Warming
*Sharon L. Harlan (Arizona State University)
Say What?! Gender and Climate Change?
*Joane Nagel (University of Kansas)
Coping with Climate Change: Dimensions of Injustice
*J. Timmons Roberts (College of William & Mary)
Race, Place, and the Environment in the Aftermath of Katrin
*Beverly Lillian Wright (Xavier University)
This session examines the intersections of race, gender, and class as they relate to issues of environmental justice and global
climate change.
Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology Paper Session
Causes and Consequences of New and Old States as Units: Theory, Methods, and Evidence
Mon, Aug 4 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Elif Andac (University of Kansas)
Presider: Shushanik Makaryan (Washington State University)
The Informal Road to State Power: State Building in the Albanian Highlands, 1919-1939
*Besnik Pula (University of Michigan)
Nation-State, Education, Globalization: A Multi-Scale Trajectory of Japanese Education, 1945-2006
*Hiro Saito (University of Michigan)
Generational Politics and Pathways for Change in Transitional Economies: Cuba, China and Vietnam
Compared
*Enrique S. Pumar (The Catholic University of America)
The State-Society Relationship and Market Transition of China
*Jing Song (Brown University)
Discussant: Richard Lachmann (State University of New York-Albany)
Thematic Session
Over-work and Under-work
Mon, Aug 4 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Jerry A. Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania)
Presider: Jerry A. Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania)
The "Over-Paced" American: Recent Trends in the Intensification of Work.
*David J. Maume (University of Cincinnati)
Work-Time Pressures on Families in 30 Countries.
*Jerry A. Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania), *Carla Medalia (University of Pennsylvania)
Does Increased Schedule Flexibility Reduce Stress among the Overworked: Evidence from a Natural
Experiment.
*Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota), *Erin Kelly (University of Minnesota)
The Dynamics of Working Time Preferences.
*Jeremy E. Reynolds (University of Georgia)
The substantive theme of the session is the issue of patterns of work in the U. S. and other countries. Recent research has
found that some people and families are overworked (various definitions have been employed), while others find themselves
without sufficient employment to support themselves and their families. This session will explore this topic further with
original analyses of both behavioral data on the amount of time people spend in paid employment and attitudinal data with
respondents' evaluations of the time they spend working.
This session will have four panelists and no discussant. Each panelist will be asked to comment briefly on one of the other
papers. Panelists will have 15 minutes for their presentations. Thus the session will be designed to facilitate discussion
among the panelists and the audience.
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Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Roundtable Session
Table 01. The Role of Organizing in Labor Movements
Mon, Aug 4 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Edward T. Walker (University of Vermont)
Table Presider: Sarah Christine Swider (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Small Farmer Organizing in the Transition to Socialism in Venezuela
*Tiffany Linton Page (University of California-Berkeley)
Balanced Triangle: Regular worker unions' attitudes toward irregular workers, In the context of labor relations in
Korea
*Chio Soojung (Yonsei University)
Formal structures and informal exchange in an Organizing Union Local
*Laura Ariovich (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
"Why should the business agents be bigger then the organization?": A Study of Failed Rebellion in New York City's
Painters' Union, 1960 1973
*Michael Alexander McCarthy (New York University)
Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Roundtable Session
Table 02. Politics and Labor Movements
Mon, Aug 4 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Edward T. Walker (University of Vermont)
Politics, Race and Labor Organizing in the U.S. States, 1970-2002.
*Daniel B. Tope (Florida State University)
Not Just a Man's World: Women's Political Leadership in the American Labor Movement Today
*Andrew W. Martin (The Ohio State University)
Alternative Globalization within the US Labor Movement
*Kim Scipes (Purdue University North Central)
Rethinking Movement Trajectories: Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea
*Hwa-Jen Liu (National Taiwan University)
Table Presider: Marc Dixon (Dartmouth College)
Section on Race, Gender, and Class Roundtable Session
Table 06. Labor and Organizations
Mon, Aug 4 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Mary E. Kelly (University of Central Missouri)
Table Presider: H. Alexander Welcome (City University of New York-Graduate Center)
Session Organizer: Siobhan Brooks King (New School University)
African American Women's Work: Educating African Americans from slavery to the 19th Century
*Ezella May McPherson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
All Things To All People: The Racial Labor of Black Women
*H. Alexander Welcome (City University of New York-Graduate Center)
Piss Tests, Swing Shifts and Pencil-Whippings: Workplace Restructuring and its Affect on African American Female
Transit Operators, 1970-2000
*Katrinell M. Davis (University of California-Berkeley)
Variation in Organizational Structure: Are Gender and Racial Inequalities More Likely to Exist in Restructured
Firms?
*Brian Serafini (University of Washington)
Section on Political Economy of the World System Paper Session
Ecological Unequal Exchange
(co-sponsored with Section on Environment and Technology and the Section on Marxist Sociology)
Mon, Aug 4 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Andrew K. Jorgenson (North Carolina State University)
Presider: Jeffrey D. Kentor (University of Utah)
Ecologically-Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice: History and Implications of three Linked Ideas
for a New Social Movement
*J. Timmons Roberts (College of William & Mary), Bradley C. Parks (Millennium Challenge Corporation)
The Metabolic Rift and Unequal Exchange: Marx and the Age of Guano/Nitrate Imperialism
*Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster (University of Oregon)
Toward the Thermodynamics of Ecological Degradation in the World-System
*Kirk S. Lawrence (University of California, Riverside)
World Polity and Unequal Ecological Exchange: A Cross-National Analysis of Water Pollution
*John M. Shandra (State University of New York-Stony Brook), Bruce London (Clark University)
"Global Commodity Chains: Starting at the Source and Moving From There "
*David A. Smith (University of California-Irvine), Paul S. Ciccantell (Western Michigan University)
Thematic Session
Privatizing Public Service
Mon, Aug 4 - 10:30am - 12:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Andrew Stephen Fullerton (Oklahoma State University)
Presider: Andrew Stephen Fullerton (Oklahoma State University)
What *are* Your Tax Dollars Doing? Privatization, Misrecognition, and Mobilization in American Politics.
*Elisabeth S. Clemens (University of Chicago)
Privatization and Decentralized Growth and Redistribution: Local Governments' Responses across the U.S. in a
Neoliberal Era.
*Linda Lobao (The Ohio State University)
Why Privatization Weakens Democracy.
*Frances Fox Piven (City University of New York)
Privatization and the Consumer Directed Health Care Movement
*Jill Quadagno (Florida State University), *Joel Brandon Mckelvey (Florida State University)
Scholars address key questions regarding the shift in the provision of public services from the public sector to the private
sector and the consequences this may have for the quality of services provided, government responsiveness to the needs
of the public, employment in the public sector, and political participation and democracy in the U.S.
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Thematic Session
Paths of Resistance: Work Regimes and Global Protext
Mon, Aug 4 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Vicki Smith (University of California, Davis)
Panelist: Jeff Goodwin (New York University)
Panelist: Ching Kwan Lee (University of Michigan)
Panelist: Gay W. Seidman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Discussant: Gianpaolo Baiocchi (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
The sociologists on this panel will discuss alternate forms of resistance to economic and labor regimes. Each of these
scholars specializes in international research and brings a unique perspective to different forms of protest: what causes them,
who participates in them, and the consequences of social and collective protest. As traditional forms of labor militance (such
as strikes and the formation of labor unions) increasingly fail to yield substantive democratic outcomes for workers and
citizens, it is important to understand the recourses that people around the world have to challenge institutions and relations
of power.
Section on Political Economy of the World System Paper Session
Emerging Peripheries: Brazil, Russia, India and China
Mon, Aug 4 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Paul K. Gellert (University of Tennessee)
Presider: Paul K. Gellert (University of Tennessee)
Brazilian Iron, Russian Oil, and Chinese Factories: Emerging Peripheries Fundamentally Restructuring the Capitalist
World-Economy?
*Paul S. Ciccantell (Western Michigan University)
The New Surgical Colonialism: China, Africa, and Oil
*Albert J. Bergesen (University of Arizona)
Sweatshops in China and the "Race to the Bottom" in Global Labor Standards
*Robert J.S. Ross (Clark University)
Can China Survive Success? The Political Sociology of a Developmental Miracle
*Ho-Fung Hung (Indiana University - Bloomington)
Thematic Session
Upgrading Low Wage Work
Mon, Aug 4 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Christine L. Williams (University of Texas at Austin)
Panelist: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California)
Panelist: Hernan Ramirez (University of Southern California)
Panelist: Chris Tilly (University of Massachusetts-Lowell)
Panelist: Alford A. Young, Jr. (University of Michigan)
Scholars who study low wage work will be asked to explain how low wage work could and should be upgraded. The focus
will be on enhancing both external rewards (e.g., pay, benefits), and internal rewards (e.g., autonomy, creativity). Panelists
will also be asked to discuss strategies to counter discrimination in the low wage workplace.
Thematic Session
Industry Studies and the Ever Changing World of Work
Mon, Aug 4 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Dan Breznitz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Presider: Walter W. Powell (Stanford University)
Panelist: Dan Breznitz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Panelist: Andrew Schrank (University of New Mexico)
Panelist: Josh Whitford (Columbia University)
In this Koppel-model session, a group of promising young political and economic sociologists will discuss their work in
light of recent efforts to develop an interdisciplinary field of industry studies. The discussant will address their work in the
context of this emergent interdisciplinary field and consider whether efforts to think about the worlds of work and the
economy through the lens of discrete systems defined by industries advance or inhibit the development of economic
sociology and its search for a voice in sociology and beyond.
Since the late 1980s the efforts of the Alfred Sloan Foundation have moved industry studies into the forefront of many social
sciences. Moreover, throughout the years many of us have been graciously funded by these efforts. We therefore think it
essential that economic sociologists take a critical if not necessarily skeptical view of industry studies and, in particular,
the way this emergent interdisciplinary field has the ability to shape the career patterns of young scholars. By its very
definition industry studies is an inquiry into the world of work, past, present, and future, and we therefore view ASA 2008
as a particularly appropriate venue in which to discuss these issues.
In order to do so we assemble a panel of young scholars, one viewing himself as a practitioner of industry studies, one with
a very similar research agenda who has yet to embrace the term, and one who hopes to bridge the divide, to discuss their
work, their careers, and their answers to these questions.
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Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Paper Session
Social Movements and Strategic Action
Mon, Aug 4 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Holly J. McCammon (Vanderbilt University)
Strategizing Against Sweatshops: Strategic Principles, Models and Innovation in US Anti-Sweatshop
Movement
*Matthew Williams (Boston College)
Strategy and Rhetoric: Microfoundations of Political Action
*James M. Jasper (City University of New York-Graduate Center)
The Permeability of Seemingly Fixed Constraints: Shaping Public Discourse in the Islamic Family Law Reform
Campaign in Morocco.
*Alexandra Pittman (Boston College)
Thinking about Strategy
*David S. Meyer (University of California, Irvine), *Suzanne Staggenborg (McGill University)
Presider: Holly J. McCammon (Vanderbilt University)
Discussant: Holly J. McCammon (Vanderbilt University)
Regular Session
Gender and Work: Work Hours and Work Effort
Mon, Aug 4 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Louise Marie Roth (University of Arizona)
Gender and Self-Reported Discretionary Work Effort
*Julie A. Kmec (Washington State University), Elizabeth H. Gorman (University of Virginia)
Identities in Disequilibrium: Identity Change and the Careers of Professional Women
*Una Kim (Harvard University)
Family-Friendly Professional Change in American Medicine
*Ann K. Boulis (University of Pennsylvania)
Mothers and Part-time Work: Differentially Disadvantaged Across the Occupational Spectrum
*Gretchen R. Webber (Middle Tennessee State University), Christine L. Williams (University of Texas at Austin)
Discussant: Mary Blair-Loy (University California-San Diego)
Presider: Laura Hunter (University of Arizona)
Thematic Session
Work Time, Work Rhythms, and Control
Mon, Aug 4 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Sheraton Boston
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Beth A. Rubin (UNC-Charlotte)
Presider: Beth A. Rubin (UNC-Charlotte)
Time and Control in a 24/7 Environment: Clock Time, Work Time, Family Time.
*Robert Perrucci (Purdue University), *Shelley MacDermid (Purdue University)
Dilemmas of Time in Health Care: The Cost Crunch Meets the Family Squeeze.
*Naomi Gerstel (University of Massachusetts), *Dan Clawson (University of Massachusetts)
For Love or Money?: Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Rewards, Work-Life Issues, and Hour Mismatches.
*Jeremy E. Reynolds (University of Georgia), *Lydia Aletraris (University of Georgia)
Dual Careers and the Double Jeopardy of Risk.
*Stephen A. Sweet (Ithaca College), *Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota), *Peter Meiksins (Cleveland State
University)
A notable characteristic of contemporary Worlds of Work is that work occurs in a 24/7, global economy. Thus, employment
practices have been altered in a variety of ways that have transformed the working day and transformed work-time
structures. These changes have enormous impact both on paid and unpaid labor. This session features four papers that
address these changes and include consideration of individuals' subjective and objective experiences of these different
times. Regardless of the level or method of analysis, all four papers problematize rather than take for granted workplace
temporalities.
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ASA Mini-Conference on Race, Labor and Empire
August 1 & 2, 2008
Northeastern University
O'Bryant African-American Institute
40 Leon St.
Boston, Massachusetts
Organized by the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the ASA and the Association of Black Sociologists. Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Northeastern University, and
the following ASA Sections: Section on Asia and Asian America, Section on Latino/Latina Sociology, Section on Marxist Sociology, Section on Race, Gender and Class, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and Section on Political Economy of the World System.
Directions to the Race Labor Empire Mini-Conference:
From the Sheraton or Hilton Hotels:
Head southeast on Dalton Street to Belvidere Street, turn left and walk .2 miles to Huntington Avenue; at Huntington, turn
right and walk past the Marriott and Colonnade Hotels.
From the Colonnade Hotel:
Head southwest on Huntington Ave/Ave of the Arts/Rt-9 for .6 miles
Turn left at Forsyth Street (at midpoint of Northeastern Univ campus) and go .1 miles
Turn right at Greenleaf Street and go 266 feet (thru campus)
Turn left at Leon Street and go .1 miles to #40 Leon St, the O'Bryant African American Institute
On the SUBWAY:
Green Line E line subway (outbound) to the Northeastern Stop on Huntington Ave. It is a two block walk from there.
Here is important information about the mini-conference that our section is co-sponsoring:
Theme
Race has a long history of being a basis of division among workers in the United States. The history of the U.S. labor
movement provides many examples of racial exclusion. Yet despite this exclusion, people of color have been, and continue
to be, among the staunchest supporters of unions and other labor organizations. While the history of racism in the U.S.
labor movement has been well documented, there has been little analysis about the more recent role of people of color in
the labor movement. In fact, most of the official labor movement has shied away from discussing "race" at all, fearing that
it is a divisive topic. But racism (including its "color-blind" version) continues to be a problem in many unions. Divisions
have occurred not only between whites and people of color, but between various groups of color. Moreover, unions often
want to work with communities of color but fail to create true and equal partnerships with them. The time has come to
explore these and similar issues openly and honestly.
The "race question" is part of a larger context of imperialism and colonialism. Scant attention has been given to the role
of imperialism, especially U.S. imperialism, both past and present, in defining and intervening in the lives of all working
class people. Such imperialism, in the form of neoliberal economic policies, contributes to increasing global inequalities,
including the development of offshore production based on intensified labor exploitation, and to the creation of dispossessed
workers who have been forced to migrate because their survival has been threatened.
A central goal of this mini-conference is to bring together academics and activists who are interested in the intersection of
race, labor, and empire. We hope to stimulate discussion, research, and policy development with the aim of producing a
more sustainable and just labor movement.
Program
Download a pdf version of the final Conference Program flyer.
Friday, August 1
6:30-7:00. Gathering
7:00-9:00. Dinner and Plenary
Organizers: Dan Clawson and Deirdre Royster
Moderator and MC: Deirdre Royster, Black Studies and Sociology, the College of William and Mary
Jerome Scott, Founder and Director, Project South
Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant Opportunities Center
General Baker, founding member the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Saturday, August 2
8:00-9:00. Gathering and Welcome
Jill Esbenshade and Rod Bush
9:00-9:45. Opening Keynote
Bill Fletcher, Jr, Executive Editor of BlackCommentator.com (www.blackcommentator.com), and former Assistant to President John
Sweeney, AFL-CIO, "Labor and the Racial Trip-Wire."
9:45-11:15. Session: Theorizing Race and Capitalism/Imperialism
Organizer: Rod Bush
Kelvin Santiago-Valles, SUNY Binghamton. "Racialized capitalist accumulation in the historical long-term: The continuing
significance of Oliver C. Cox."
Edna Bonacich, University of California, Riverside, "Race and the U.S. Labor Movement: A Continuing Challenge."
Cynthia Lucas Hewitt, Morehouse College. "Soul to soul: Alternative paradigms of solidarity to race, nation, class, and
gender."
Agustin Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Contending Pan-Africanisms in the Americas: Imperial
multiculturalism against radical hemisphere Black politics."
Discussant: Aldon Morris, Northwestern University
11:30-1:00. Session: Dividing Lines: How Capital, States, and We Ourselves, Divide Us
Organizers: Carolina Bank Muñoz and Dorian Warren
Stephen Steinberg, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, "Neoliberal immigration policy and its impact on African
Americans."
Steven Pitts, University of California, Berkeley.
Margaret Grey, Adelphi University. "'Are They Taking Our Jobs?' Black-Brown Tensions in the Workplace."
1:00-2:00. Lunch
Chair: Hector Delgado, University of La Verne
Presentation of prize for best work on Race, Labor and Empire
2:00-3:30. Panels:
- A. Comparative Racial Capitalisms:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on How Race Matters for Global Capital
Organizers Ching Kwan Lee and Steve McKay
Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Neoliberal and Neoconservative Imperialisms and Race, in Milwaukee
and Mexico."
Robin Archer, London School of Economics. "Race and Labor in New World Settler Societies in Australia and the United
States."
Steve McKay, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Our Little Brown Sailors: Colonial Constructions of Race and Labor
in and beyond the Philippines."
Moon-Kie Jung, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Hanapepe Massacre: Racism, Violence, and Filipino Sugar
Workers in Hawai'i."
- B. Beyond Union Organizing:
Mobilizing around Race and Labor
Organizers: Rachel Meyer and Anna Guevarra
Dorian Warren, Columbia University. "Contesting Neoliberalism in the City: Race, Class, and Anti-Wal-Mart Campaigns
in Chicago and Los Angeles."
Sarah Swider, University of Wisconsin. "Recognizing Difference and Recreating Unions: Migrant Domestic Workers in
Hong Kong."
Alliance to Develop Power Workers Center/Casa Obrera, Springfield, MA.
Discussant: Rachel Meyer, University of Michigan.
- C. Racializing Capitalism:
Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Labor
Organizers: Jennifer Chun and Robyn Rodriguez
Bridget Kenny, University of Witwatersrand
"Recognizing race: South African service workers' post-apartheid gendered politics."
Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia
"The racial impurities of global capitalism: The politics of labor, interraciality, and lawlessness in British Columbia's
salmon canneries."
Bruce Nissen and Sherman Henry
"The legacy of racism: A case study of continuing racial impediments to union effectiveness."
Enobong Hannah Branch and Melissa Wooten, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Who gets to work? Race, gender, and the notion of 'appropriate' labor."
3:45-5:15. Building an Inclusive and Just Labor Movement
Open discussion led by Bill Fletcher Jr.
Labor and Labor Movements Program Committee
- Edna Bonacich, Program Committee Co-Chair
Department of Sociology
1223 Watkins Hall
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
edna.bonacich@ucr.edu
- Jill Esbenshade, Program Committee Co-Chair
Department of Sociology
NH 208
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4423
jesbensh@mail.sdsu.edu
- Michael Schwartz
State University of New York, Stony Brook
mschwartz@ms.cc.sunysb.edu
- Rick Fantasia
Smith College
rfantasi@email.smith.edu
- Steve McKay
University of Wisconsin-Milwa