Fall 2013 Newsletter

William Cabin, Chair

Poverty, Class and Inequality Division                                            December 2013


Hello division members! I hope your Fall semester has been a good one and productive. The purpose of this newsletter is to update you on some items of interest and encourage you to submit more of such items to me on an ongoing basis.

SSSP 2014 Annual Meeting

The call for papers is on the SSSP website. Please submit your proposals and encourage your colleagues and students to do so as well. Start thinking about nominees for the Michael Harrington Award and encourage students to apply for our PCI student awards.


Honors & Awards
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). His article, "Class and Collective Action: Writing Stories about Actors and Events," will appear in Sociología Histórica (No. 2, 2013) in a special issue on the 50th anniversary of the publication of E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.
Publications
Melissa J. Stacer and Robert Perrucci, “Parental Involvement With Children at School, Home and Community,” Journal of Family and Economic Issues,” Vol. 33, No. 1, September, 2012.
 
Robert Perrucci, “Corporate Restructuring,” in Vicki Smith, Editor,  Sociology of Work Encyclopedia,” Sage, 2013.
Robert Perrucci, “Protocols of Eisenhower, Kissinger, Carter, Findley, Ball, Shultz, Petras, Mearsheimer and Walt, and Ahmadinejad,” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 50, No. 2, October 2013.
Earl Wysong, Robert Perrucci, and David Wright, The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream,” 4th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
 Robert Perrucci, Mangala Subramanium, and Carolyn C. Perrucci, “Big Science and Social Closure: Publication Patterns in a Flagship Sociology Journal, 1960-2010.” Paper  presented at the 2013 meetings of the American Sociological Association.  
 
Andrew Fisher and Guðmundur Oddsson, University of Missouri, and Takeshi Wada, University of Tokyo, recently published the article "Policing Class and Race in Urban America" in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The article was featured in various popular media outlets, including an August 13, 2013 Atlantic Cities article, “How Race and Inequality Influence the Size of Urban Police Forces." The article is in attachments. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17090519&show=pdf

Chris Rhomberg’s (Fordham) article, "Class and Collective Action: Writing Stories about Actors and Events," will appear in Sociología Histórica (No. 2, 2013) in a special issue on the 50th anniversary of the publication of E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.

Medicaid Publication Opportunity
I am editing a small book on Current Medicaid issues. It is targeted for Fall 2014 publication. I am doing a chapter as is Darryl Wieland and colleagues from Duke. I need three more book chapters, ideally on current Medicaid issues. I want to resolve the book’s contents asap so if you have a proposal, please email me at: wcabin@umich.edu 

Have You Seen…..?
Inequality for All. Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has created both a film and website which are excellent interactive teaching tools.
Frontline’s January 2013 episode called The Untouchables, probing why there are so few prosecutions of crimes by Wall Streeters.

Have a great end of the semester and 2013, and terrific start in 2014.

Bill Cabin, PCI Chair
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