SSSP Labor Studies Division Newsletter Ð May 2014 Division Chair: Jackie Krasas, Lehigh University Newsletter Assistance: Dina Banerjee, Shippensburg University Note from the Division Chair: Dear Division Members, August will be here before we know it. I am really looking forward to seeing you all in San Francisco this year. We have sponsored or cosponsored many excellent sessions that are listed in this newsletter. I truly appreciate the work of our organizers who put this yearÕs sessions together. I hope that you will find the time to make it to many of them to hear about the excellent scholarship and activism of our members. Please also remember to come to our division meeting (Friday 4:30 Ð 6:00 p.m.) where we begin planning for the 2015 meetings. We need your assistance to continue to make this a successful division. It is also a great opportunity to get involved in the division and to get to know other division members. Please encourage your graduate students to become a part of SSSP and the Labor Studies Division. SSSP does a great job of supporting the efforts and work of graduate student members. Many of us who joined as graduate students stay connected and give back because we remember how this organization supported and positively shaped our experience. One final note, donÕt forget that during this coming year we will be electing our next division chair. Self-nominations are welcomed! In Solidarity, Jackie Krasas General Election Results: Mission Statement: The Labor Studies Division is comprised of members who are scholars, activists and laborers interested workplace and workforce issues that shape, and are shaped by, economic, social and political forces. We see all workers - standard to contingent, paid to unpaid, and core to marginal- as equal contributors of a global network connected by labor. We believe that no person should be subject to discrimination, ill-treatment, or unwarranted subordination based on any social status or ideological hierarchy. We recognize systemic and interlocking oppressions, such as gender and race, that are reproduced through social practices and embedded in social structures related to work and workplaces. We promote a society that recognizes all members of a diverse workforce with equality and democracy through fairness in wages, opportunities and respect. We aim to expose and oppose the malfeasance of any corporate and government sanctions that deny workersÕ rights as basic human rights. With great urgency, we work to elevate workers, empower unions, build labor movement inertia, reveal exploitation by corporations and big business, analyze and affect policies and practices, and understand whatÕs new in the New Economy to prepare this and the next generation of labor activists. Labor Studies Division 2014 Meetings at a Glance: Transnational Organizing: Friday, 8:30 Ð 10:10 a.m. Precarity in the Labor Market Roundtables: Friday, 10:30 a.m. Ð 12:10 p.m. Austerity Measures and the University: Workers, Students, and Social (Im)Mobility: Friday, 2:30 to 4:10 p.m. CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Forty Years Since Braverman: Control and Resistance in the 21st Century, Saturday, 8:30 Ð 10:10 a.m. CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Contemporary Ways of Protest: Saturday, 10:30 a.m. Ð 12:10 p.m. Low-Wage and Marginalized Workers: Saturday, 12:30 -2:10 p.m. Gender and NonStandard Employment: Saturday, 2:30 Ð 4:10 p.m. Are You Being Served?: Institutional Ethnographies of Social Services and Frontline Workers in an Age of Austerity I: Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Ð 12:10 p.m. Are You Being Served?: Institutional Ethnographies of Social Services and Frontline Workers in an Age of Austerity II, Sunday, 12:30 Ð 2:10 p.m. Disability and the Labor Force: Sunday, 2:30 Ð 4:10 p.m. The Culture and Theory of Neoliberalism: Its Meaning and Effects: Sunday, 4:30 Ð 6:10 p.m. From Our Members: Vicki Smith's Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia (Sage, 2013) was selected by Choice magazine as a 2013 "Outstanding Academic Title." It includes approximately 350 entries, many of which were written by Labor Studies Division members. Chris Rhomberg (Fordham University) received the 2013 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Labor and Labor Movements for his book, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (Russell Sage, 2012). The book was also selected as one of the ÒNoteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 2012,Ó by the Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University. Carolyn C. Perrucci, ÒDisplaced Workers,Ó Pp. 182-184 in V. Smith, (ed.), Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, Sage Publications, 2013. Gender and Workplace Support: Work Pressure of the American Dina Banerjee, Shippensburg University Impacts of supportive workplace culture have not received considerable attention of sociologists and other social scientists. In particular, there exists hardly any empirical study that examines the influences of supportive workplace culture on the perceived work pressure of workers, as well as the gender dynamics thereby. In this article, I compare work pressure of women and men workers and explore the effects of supportive workplace culture along with supportive supervisor and coworker support on workersÕ work pressure. Additionally, I examined the gender difference in perceived work pressure. Based on the literature review, I expected that supportive workplace culture, supportive supervisor, and coworker support would considerably reduce workersÕ work pressure. Deriving data from a nationally representative sample of American adult workers, I asked: (1) do women and men differ in their perceived work pressure at workplaces? And (2) what are the impacts of supportive workplace culture, supportive supervisor, and coworker support on perceived work pressure? Findings from quantitative analyses suggested that contrary to the expectation, women express greater work pressure than men. And, supportive workplace culture and supportive supervisor are more important than coworker support in the reduction of workersÕ work pressure. Member Lecture: In Search of One Big Union: Folksongs and the U.S. Labor Movement A Singing Lecture by Corey Dolgon, Folksinger and Sociologist Corey Dolgon, a Ph.D in American Culture and Sociology Professor has been performing Òsinging lecturesÓ for over a decade. Focusing on the role that folksongs play in the U.S. labor movement, CoreyÕs words and music bring both history and theory to life. He is a long-time labor activist and community organizer and has used folk songs to build solidarity on the line and engage students in the classroom. This singing lecture covers labor history from a multicultural perspective and examines the function of folk songs in workersÕ lives, labor, and organizing. The lecture can be tailored for specific needs and time periods, but generally runs about an hour to an hour and a half depending on questions and format. The lecture is about 25 minutes of actual speaking and about 35 minutes of song. Corey is very adept at gaining audience participation and provides an object lesson in how the collective acts of singing can enhance the feelings of solidarity and create new possibilities for collective identities. HereÕs what students, faculty and labor folk had to say about CoreyÕs performances: ÒI learned about the importance and power of strikes and labor unions. I never knew there were songs about them. [The lecture] made the period come alive for me.Ó --student, Stonehill College ÒCoreyÕs work weaves together a coherent and accessible narrative about labor struggles with a tour de force of labor songs that move an audience with workersÕ own articulate descriptions of their conditions and inspiring visions of movements to improve those conditions.Ó --Chris Dale, Professor of Sociology, New England College ÒCorey's music added tremendous spirit to our National Labor Assembly. Hearing and singing labor songs gave our nurses a sense of community with others in the union movement and helped build energy at our meetings. I encourage other unions to add Corey's talents and expertise to their agendas.Ó --Cheryl Johnson, President, United American Nurses, AFL-CIO Corey DolgonÕs Òsinging lectureÓ is a hit. Those who attended his presentation for the University of Louisville Labor-Management Center from union retirees to active union member to academics and management were entertained and enlightened. A good time and good learning. --John Ralston, Asst. Director, University of Louisville Labor-Management Center CoreyÕs wonderful voice, abundant energy, and great knowledge about folksongs, the labor movement, and other social movements were entertaining, very informative, and inspiring.Ê He made a major impact on WPUNJ,Êperforming in front of almost 300 students and faculty.ÊÊ--Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology, William Patterson University Please contact Corey for scheduling a lecture or receiving a sample CD at 617-298-0388 or at cdolgon@stonehill.edu. He is happy to combine his lecture with other engagements and will also help arrange other performances in the area to defray expenses. For more info, see www.coreydolgon.com SSSP Labor Studies Sessions 2014 Date: Friday, August 15 Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 11: Transnational Organizing Room: Pacific H Sponsors: Global Labor Studies Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Stephanie A. Limoncelli, Loyola Marymount University Papers: ÒNew American Relief and Development Organizations: Voluntarizing Global Aid,Ó AllisonÊSchnable, Princeton University ÒNetworking for WomenÕs Rights: Transnational Feminist Organizing in Southern Africa,Ó YvonneÊA.ÊBraun and MichaelÊC.ÊDreiling, University of Oregon ÒInternational Health Volunteering; Understanding Organizational Goals,Ó JudithÊN.ÊLasker, Lehigh University Date: Friday, August 15 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 20: Roundtables: Precarity in the Labor Market Room: Club Room Sponsor: Labor Studies Organizer: George Gonos, SUNY-Potsdam Presider: Debra Osnowitz, Clark University Roundtable Title: Precarity in the Labor Market Papers: ÒÔPirate crewsÕ and the Reality of Being a Pirate: Mexican Immigrants and the Precariousness of Labor in the Restaurant Industry,Ó Black HawkÊHancock, DePaul University ÒBarriers to Treatment and Compensation for Work-Related Injuries among Workers in the Low-Wage Labor Market,Ó KevinÊRiley, UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program and DougÊMorier, UCLA School of Public Health ÒChaebolÕs Turn to Service: Retail Concentration and Fate of the Self-Employed After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis,Ó LanuÊKim, University of Washington and SoleeÊI.ÊShin, Lund University ÒRenegotiating the Boundaries: Precarious Workers and Inequality in the Creative Economy,Ó RebeccaÊCollins-Nelsen, McMaster University ÒThe role of social networks and internal hiring practices in the labor market incorporation of Hispanic immigrants in economically depressed new destinations,Ó JacquelineÊVillarrubia-Mendoza, Colgate University Date: Friday, August 15 Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 36: Austerity Measures and the University: Workers, Students, and Social (Im)Mobility Room: Foothill B Sponsors: Educational Problems Labor Studies Organizer & Presider: Jennifer J. Reed, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Papers: ÒA Better Life: Educational Attainment and Perceptions of Standard of Living,Ó JennyÊNguyen and SabrinaÊDeaton, University of Central Florida ÒTeaching Associates: Creating Professional Development Opportunities for Advanced Graduate Students,Ó AmandaÊM.ÊJungels, Army Institute of Public Health and MarniÊA.ÊBrown, Georgia Gwinnett College ÒThe Organizational Double Bind: How Professional Schools Respond to Prolonged Uncertainty,Ó MaxÊBesbris and CaitlinÊPetre, New York University ÒUnderstanding Teacher Pay for Performance: Flawed Assumptions and Disappointing Results,Ó KarenÊPhelanÊKozlowski and DouglasÊLeeÊLauen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ÒWhen Educationally Purposive Practices are Not Enough: Student-Faculty Interaction at a Research University and the Downside of High Expectations,Ó MargaretÊAustinÊSmith, University of Maryland Date: Saturday, August 16 Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 70: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Forty Years Since Braverman: Control and Resistance in the 21st Century Room: Pacific I Sponsor: Labor Studies Organizers & Presiders: Debra Osnowitz, Clark University Kevin Henson, College of San Mateo Papers: ÒBraverman in the IT Department: Flexibility as Resistance or Control?Ó KimberlyÊFox, Bridgewater State University ÒClass, Control, and Worker Subjectivity: Governing the WorkerÕs Soul,Ó StevenÊVallas, Northeastern University ÒControlling the Definition of Skill in the Early Education and Care Workforce,Ó ClareÊHammonds, University of Massachusetts ÒIs there a ÔweÕ? Is there a ÔtheyÕ? Conceptual chains versus struggle processes and visions of liberation,Ó SamuelÊR.ÊFriedman, NDRI ÒThe degradation of unpaid work: Paying your dues as a music industry intern,Ó AlexandreÊFrenette, John Jay College, CUNY ÒThere Is No There There: Domination, Coercision, and Resistance of the Self,Ó AndreaÊHill, Northeastern University Date: Saturday, August 16 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 82: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Contemporary Ways of Protest Room: Pacific I Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change Labor Studies Organizer: Eric Turner, University of New Mexico Presider: Rebecca Erickson, University of New Mexico Papers: ÒÔWe Will Be Idle No MoreÕ: Legacies of Protest, Political Opportunity, and Claims Making in the Social Media Narratives of a Canadian First Peoples Social Movement,Ó TamaraÊL.ÊMix and KelleyÊJ.ÊSittner Hartshorn, Oklahoma State University ÒBusiness Unity and Anti-Corporate Social Movement Protests in the U.S.,Ó TarunÊBanerjee, SUNY - Stony Brook, Winner of the Conflict, Social Action, and Change DivisionÕs Student Paper Competition ÒEscalating Mutual Obligation in the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011,Ó MatthewÊLawrenceÊKearney, University of Wisconsin-Madison ÒOb Friedlich oder Militant: the Rise and Reign of the ÔDiversity of TacticsÕ Approach in the German Anti-Nuclear Movement, 1997-2011,Ó DarcyÊK.ÊLeach, Bradley University ÒPolitical Mass Strikes: Resisting the StateÕs Changing Functions of Capital,Ó FernandoÊCortes Chirino, University of California, Irvine ÒSocial Movement Conflict: Lessons from Occupy Pittsburgh,Ó MarieÊSkoczylas, University of Pittsburgh ÒStrategies and Tactics of The International Solidarity Movement: Working for Palestinian Freedom, Equality, and Dignity,Ó RebeccaÊErickson, University of New Mexico Date: Saturday, August 16 Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM THEMATIC Session 94: Low-Wage and Marginalized Workers Room: Pacific E Sponsor: Labor Studies Organizer & Presider: Kendra Jason, University of North Carolina - Charlotte Papers: ÒDoes Discrimination Pay? Perceptions of Intergroup Tipping Differences, discriminatory Service, and Relative Tip Earnings among Restaurant Servers,Ó ZacharyÊW.ÊBrewster, Wayne State University ÒHealth Care Needs and Access Among Warehouse Workers in Inland Southern California,Ó JuliannÊAllison, Political Science, UC-Riverside, EricaÊGonzalez and ChristianÊJaworski, Sociology, UC-Riverside and EllenÊR.ÊReese, UC-Riverside ÒOrganizational Inequality, Training Deficiencies, and Worker Failure in Healthcare,Ó KendraÊJason, University of North Carolina - Charlotte ÒRhetoric and Reality: Employability and Career Making in a Low Wage Labor Market,Ó BrianÊW.ÊHalpin, University of California Davis Date: Saturday, August 16 Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 105: Gender and NonStandard Employment Room: Pacific E Sponsor: Labor Studies Organizer: Kendra Jason, University of North Carolina - Charlotte Papers: ÒEntrepreneurs and Intellectuals: How Marginalized Men of Color Create Rap Music to Become Valued Masculine Subjects,Ó KaraÊA.ÊYoung, University of California, Berkeley ÒGender and Workplace Support: Work Pressure of the American Workers,Ó DinaÊBanerjee, Shippensburg University ÒHaitian Immigrant Women in the U.S. Labor Force: A Comparative Analysis with other Caribbean Immigrant Women,Ó NadjhiaÊNormil-Skakavac, Virginia State University ÒMarginalized Workers: Drug Using Women and Their Struggles in the Workforce,Ó AukjeÊK.ÊLamonica, Southern Connecticut State University and MiriamÊBoeri, Bentley University ÒNew Scars for the New Economy? Gender and the Consequences of Non-Standard Employment Histories,Ó DavidÊPedulla, Princeton University, Winner of the Poverty, Class, and Inequality DivisionÕs Student Paper Competition Date: Sunday, August 17 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM THEMATIC Session 131: Are You Being Served?: Institutional Ethnographies of Social Services and Frontline Workers in an Age of Austerity Room: Club Room Sponsors: Institutional Ethnography Labor Studies Sociology and Social Welfare Organizer & Presider: Matthew Strang, York University Papers: ÒEligible for Service? Immigrant WomenÕs Experiences of Ruling Relations: Findings from an Institutional Ethnography of an Employment and Leadership Skills Program,Ó HeatherÊHolroyd, University of British Columbia ÒHuman-Animal Welfare in the Age of Austerity,Ó KatjaÊM.ÊGuenther, University of California, Riverside ÒPrison realignment and front-line reentry work,Ó MeganÊWelsh, CUNY Graduate Center/John Jay College of Criminal Justice ÒVicarious Trauma and Sexual Assault Crisis Work: A Focus on Structural Forces,Ó AmandaÊB.ÊMoras, Sacred Heart University ÒWomen Empowering Women: An Institutional Ethnography of Subaltern Resistance and the Politics of Identity in Iran,Ó FaeÊChubin, University of South Florida Date: Sunday, August 17 Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM THEMATIC Session 143: Are You Being Served?: Institutional Ethnographies of Social Services and Frontline Workers in an Age of Austerity II Room: Club Room Sponsors: Institutional Ethnography Labor Studies Sociology and Social Welfare Organizer & Presider: Matthew Strang, York University Discussant: Eric Mykhalovskiy, York University Papers: ÒÔItÕs all about the people:Õ Immigrant Identity among Managers in the Retail Sector,Ó IlanaÊDemantas, University of Kansas ÒEmotional Work and Labor in U.S. Refugee Resettlement Programs,Ó FatimaÊSattar, Boston College ÒEngineering Medicine:The Deployment of Lean Production in Healthcare,Ó WillÊAttwood-Charles, Boston College ÒResident and Staff Experiences of Service Utilization and Delivery: An Exploratory Study of a Transitional Housing Program for Homeless Youth,Ó SusannaÊR.ÊCurry, University of California, Los Angeles Date: Sunday, August 17 Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 148: Disability and the Labor Force Room: Foothill B Sponsors: Disabilities Labor Studies Organizers: Sarah Parker Harris, University of Illinois-Chicago Robert P. Gould, University of Illinois-Chicago Presider & Discussant: Barbara M. Altman, Disability Statistics Consultant Papers: ÒAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA) National Knowledge Translation Center Systematic Review: A rapid evidence review of the ADAÕs impact on attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge in Employment,Ó SarahÊParker Harris and RobertÊP.ÊGould, University of Illinois-Chicago ÒBridging Research and Policy to Promote Work-Based Learning Experiences For Youth with Disabilities,Ó MariaÊTown, Office of Disability Employment Policy, US Department of Labor ÒIllustrating Current Tensions in Conceptualizing and Measuring Disability with the Debate over Measuring the 1990s Employment Decline,Ó JuliaÊA. RiveraÊDrew, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities ÒRights are not enough: Disability Employment Policy and ItÕs Discontents,Ó VictorÊSantiagoÊPineda, UC Berkeley Date: Sunday, August 17 Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Session 158: The Culture and Theory of Neoliberalism: Its Meaning and Effects Room: Foothill B Sponsors: Labor Studies Sociology and Social Welfare Organizer & Presider: Jennifer Zelnick, Touro College Graduate School of Social Work Papers: ÒNeoliberalismÕs High Tide: Tracking the Effects of a Political-Economic Wave,Ó GraceÊCale, University of Kentucky ÒNarrating NeoliberalismÕs Miseries: The Operation of Symbolic Power in Right Wing Anti-Poor Politics,Ó KyleÊR.ÊWillmott, Simon Fraser University ÒFrom Coercion to Containment: The Evolving Role of Neoliberal Austerity,Ó JohnÊO'Connor, Central Connecticut State University ÒThe Public, the Private and the Culture(s) of Neoliberalism: A Case Study of how Mexican Immigrant Workers Perpetuate Their own Dispossession,Ó Black HawkÊHancock and RobertaÊGarner, DePaul University ÒÔVulnerable Yet Enterprising PeopleÕ: Fair Trade Marketing and the Representation of Producers as the Deserving Poor,Ó Mary BethÊFinch, Northwestern University