--a doctoral specialty in North Carolina State University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Work, Industry and Organizations emphasizes how workplaces and labor markets structure and are structured by social inequality. We focus on worker control, exploitation and resistance; power relations within and between organizations; differential access to economic opportunities and rewards through social networks; and global disparities/historical shifts in economic power.
Graduate Courses
- Work and Industry (SOC 752): examines the historical evolution of worker control techniques, their influence on individuals' psychological well-being, and the nature and impact of worker resistance. Special emphasis is placed on class, gender, race and global disparities.
- Formal Organizations (SOC 753): involves the sociological study of bureaucracies and other formal organizations, including theoretical roots, current theory and research, especially on organization-environment relations. Sociological assessment of psychological, economic and managerial theories of organizations.
- Economic Sociology (SOC 754): explores how economic actors, institutions, and processes are embedded in social networks and operate in distinct global, historical, and cultural contexts. The class focuses on how this embeddedness ultimately structures power and inequality in markets.
Faculty
Steve McDonald, Ed Kick, Martha Crowley, Toby Parcel, Michael Schulman, and Jeff Leiter
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, 2006
325 1911 Bldg, (919) 515-9022, email: martha_crowley@ncsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Current research interests: Social Stratification and Mobility; Work and Organizations; Education; Social Demography, Spatial Inequality
Representative Publications:
- Martha Crowley, Daniel Tope, Lindsey Joyce Chamberlain, and Randy Hodson. "Neo-Taylorism at Work: Occupational Change in the Post-Fordist Era." Paper in progress.
- Lindsey Joyce Chamberlain, Martha Crowley, Daniel Tope, and Randy Hodson. 2008. "Sexual Harassment in Organizational Context." Work and Occupations 35 (3): 262-295.
- Daniel Tope, Lindsey Joyce Chamberlain, Martha Crowley, and Randy Hodson. 2005. "The Benefits of Being There: Lessons from the Literature on Work." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 34 (4): 470-493.
Professor, Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloomington, 1980
316 1911 Bldg, (919) 513-0282, email: elkick@ncsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Current research focus: Global and Community; Development; Crime; Political; Organizations; Environment
Representative Publications:
- Jeffrey Kentor and Edward L. Kick. 2008. “Bringing the Military Back in: Military Expenditures and Economic Growth.” Journal of World Systems Research 14: 142-172.
- James Fraser and Edward L. Kick. 2007. “The Role of Public, Private, Non-Profit and Community Sectors in Shaping Mixed Incomes Housing Outcomes.” Urban Studies 44:2357-2377.
- Edward L. Kick, James C. Fraser, and Byron Davis. 2006. “Performance Management, Managerial Citizenship, and Worker Commitment: A Study of the United States Postal Service.” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 27:137-172.
Professor, Ph.D. from University of Michigan, 1977
339 1911 Bldg, (919) 515-9009, email: jeff_leiter@ncsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Current research interests: Nonprofit Organizations; Labor Unions; the Chocolate Industry
Representative Publications:
- Seunghee Choi, Jeffrey Leiter, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. 2008. "Contingent Autonomy: Technology, Bureaucracy, and Relative Power in the Labor Process." Work and Occupations 35: 422-55
- Jeffrey Leiter. 2005. "Structural Isomorphism in Australian Nonprofit Organizations." Voluntas: International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organisations 16: 1-31.
- Jeffrey Leiter and Sandra Harding. 2004. "Trinidad, Brazil, and Ghana: Three Melting Moments in the History of Cocoa." Journal of Rural Studies 20: 113-30.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. from Florida State University, 2004
343 1911 Bldg, (919) 515-9028, email: steve_mcdonald@ncsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Current research interests: Social Stratification and Mobility; Social Networks; Work & Labor Markets; Life Course
Representative Publications:
- Steve McDonald, Nan Lin, and Dan Ao. 2009. "Networks of Opportunity: Gender, Race and Job Leads." Social Problems 56(3): In press.
- Steve McDonald, Lance D. Erickson, Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, and Glen H. Elder, Jr. 2007. "Informal Mentoring and Young Adult Employment." Social Science Research 36(4):1328-1347.
- Steve McDonald and Glen H. Elder, Jr. 2006. "When Does Social Capital Matter? Non-Searching for Jobs Across the Life Course." Social Forces 85(1):521-550.
Professor, Ph.D. from University of Washington, 1977
252 1911 Bldg, (919) 515-9014, email: toby_parcel@ncsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Current research focus: Work and Family; Comparing work and family effects on child cognition and adjustment in the United States and Great Britain; Work and Inequality; Work-Family Policy in Organizations
Representative Publications:
- Lori Ann Campbell and Toby L. Parcel. Forthcoming. "Children's Home Environments in Great Britain and the United States." Journal of Family Issues.
- Toby L. Parcel. 1999. "Work and Family in the 21st Century: It's About Time." Work and Occupations 26:264-274. (Review Essay).
- Toby L. Parcel and Elizabeth G. Menaghan. 1994. "Early Parental Work, Family Social Capital and Early Childhood Outcomes." American Journal of Sociology 99:972-1009.
Professor, Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, 1975
333 1911 Bldg, (919) 515-9016, email: michael_schulman@ncsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Current research focus : Globalization and Rural Restructuring; Labor Market Transformation
Representative Publications:
- K. Rausher, C. W. Runyan, and M. Schulman. 2008. "U.S. Child Labor Violations: Findings of a National Survey of Adolescents Working in the Retail and Service Sectors." American Journal of Public Health 98: 1693-1699.
- L. Hossfeld, D. Charleston and M. Schulman. 2008. "Services Delivery for Displaced Rural Workers: A North Carolina Case Study of the Theory and Reality of One Stop." Sociation Today. 6:2. (http://ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v62/)
- M. Schulman, L. Hossfeld, T. McTague, D. Charleston, and K. Stainback. 2008. "Globalization and Worker Displacement: Is There Life After Converse." Pp 187-214 in The Impact of Globalization on the United States: Volume 3 Business and Economics, Crawford, B., and E. Fogarty, eds., Greenwood Publishing Group.
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