{"title":"Osterman, P. (2017). Who Will Care for Us? Long-Term Care and the Long-Term Workforce","authors":"Patrice M. Mareschal","doi":"10.1177/0730888421996787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888421996787","url":null,"abstract":"ers in isolation from workers with more power and stable employment? An implication of the analysis is that precarious labor is better situated when workers organize more broadly. This could be wall-to-wall, employer-wide, industry-wide, or community-wide. The Sidhu story can be seen as a cautionary tale about organizing migrant workers only, and peeling off their interests as separate. The study leaves us with the pressing question: How can citizens and migrants organize together? If the union had succeeded in its original plan for a wall-to-wall bargaining unit, how might things have played out differently? Perhaps deportation can only be stopped when citizen-workers refuse to let their migrant co-workers be deported, with threats of job actions and strikes. The labor story here, as always, is one of solidarity.","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888421996787","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44935345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Katz, S. (2019). Reformed American Dreams: Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism","authors":"Elizabeth Klainot-Hess","doi":"10.1177/0730888421996788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888421996788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888421996788","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44092612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bian, Y. (2019). Guanxi: How China Works","authors":"Yongren Shi","doi":"10.1177/0730888420979845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888420979845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888420979845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46729213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precarious Employment and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mini Conference and Special Issue","authors":"Anonymous","doi":"10.1177/07308884211016974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07308884211016974","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/07308884211016974","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65362648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating “Risky” New Roles in Healthcare: Identities, Boundary-Making, and Skilling Under Rationalization and Consumer Demand","authors":"C. Cain, Caty Taborda, M. Frazer","doi":"10.1177/0730888420983396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888420983396","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare is experiencing two countervailing pressures: to increase efficiency and be more responsive to consumer demands. Healthcare organizations often create new work arrangements, including “lay healthcare” roles, to respond to these pressures. Using longitudinal qualitative data, this article analyzes how one set of new lay healthcare workers attempted to construct a workplace identity, sell their value to existing professional workers, and navigate the precarious conditions of the new role. The authors find that workers in these new roles faced immense challenges stemming from their positions as “risk absorbers,” which ultimately harmed workers and reduced the efficacy of the new role.","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888420983396","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46395300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does the Black/White Wage Gap Widen During Recessions?","authors":"Shinjinee Chattopadhyay, Emily C. Bianchi","doi":"10.1177/0730888420968148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888420968148","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have long documented a significant wage gap between White and Black workers, at least some of which is attributable to discrimination. Drawing on research suggesting that discrimination increases during recessions, we test whether the racial wage gap expands during economic downturns. Using longitudinal wage data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics over a 40-year time period (N = 18,954), we find that the wage gap between Black and White workers increases with the unemployment rate. Moreover, we find that the cyclical wage gap is more pronounced in states in which Whites hold more negative attitudes about Blacks and in states with larger Black populations, suggesting that the racial wage gap expansion during recessions is at least partially driven by discrimination. Finally, we find evidence for at least two mechanisms by which the wage gap expands during recessions. First, we find that Black workers are more likely to lose their jobs during downturns and earn lower wages upon reemployment than comparable Whites. Second, we find that Black hourly workers are slightly more likely to have their hours reduced during recessions than White hourly workers, thereby resulting in lower earnings. These findings suggest that the racial wage gap widens during recessions and that discrimination accounts for at least some of this expansion.","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888420968148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48739448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wagner, I. (2018). Workers Without Borders: Posted Work and Precarity in the EU.","authors":"Virginia Doellgast","doi":"10.1177/0730888419884984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888419884984","url":null,"abstract":"risks, moving fast, and breaking things can mean disaster. Pensions can be lost. Health-care costs spiked. If the key thesis of this volume is that new approaches are available to be implemented, union practitioners may rightly worry that we do not yet have detailed evidence about whether and under what conditions these approaches will succeed. The most powerful response offered by No One Size Fits All to these reservations is the detailed organizational analysis that takes up the first third of the volume. As scholars of work, occupations, and organizations, we should be inspired. Thousands of studies dissect for-profit business practices. Yet, when unions implement solutions that seemingly work for businesses, they often violate crucial standards of voluntary commitment, democratic accountability and oppositional practice (exhibit A: the ill-fated Detroit SEIU call center). Organizational research that can be used by labor unions must be developed by researchers in concert with labor insiders. We should be running field experiments in unions, identifying what works for running successful contract campaigns and union elections. We should consider how network analysis can augment traditional organizing mapping. We should study union structure, asking how varying levels of centralization and coordination relate to efficacy, democracy, and union growth. No One Size Fits All points the way forward.","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888419884984","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46893601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Conservative Upsurge and Labor Policy in the States","authors":"Joseph DiGrazia, M. Dixon","doi":"10.1177/0730888419876970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888419876970","url":null,"abstract":"During the early- to mid-2010s, there was a dramatic upsurge in conservative legislation restricting labor unions in U.S. states. The sweeping Republican victories at the state level in the 2010 midterm elections certainly enabled this legislative surge, though not all states controlled by conservative governments passed such legislation and there was considerable variation in the number of laws passed among states that did. Understanding the conditions under which restrictive labor laws are passed is important for labor scholarship as well as broader academic debates on corporate power and political influence. Using a longitudinal negative binomial regression analysis, this article evaluates the role of organized business and conservative mobilization on state labor policies between 2011 and 2016. Our findings are consistent with and extend literature emphasizing the growing influence of corporate interests on politics today. At the same time, the authors find little support for explanations emphasizing the economic aftershocks of the Great Recession and public opinion and find no evidence that grassroots pressure impacted state laws.","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888419876970","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45842942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Has Computerization Increased Wage Inequality? Information, Occupational Structural Power, and Wage Inequality","authors":"T. Kristal","doi":"10.1177/0730888420941031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888420941031","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a new account of rising inequality by providing a new explanation for the observed correlation between computerization and earnings. The argument is that as computers transformed work into a more knowledge-intensive activity, occupations located at critical junctions of information flow have gained greater structural power, and thereby higher wages. Combining occupational measures for location in the information flow based on the Occupational Information Network with the 1979–2016 Current Population Surveys, the analyses reveal a rising wage premium for occupations with greater access to and control of information, independent of the spectrum of skills related to computerization.","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888420941031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48636044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wingfield, A. H. (2019). Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy","authors":"P. Banks","doi":"10.1177/0730888420971748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888420971748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47716,"journal":{"name":"Work and Occupations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0730888420971748","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43837942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}