Development Quality
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CHRIS TILLY
Curriculum Vitae
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ADDRESS
Professor of Urban Planning
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Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Voice 310-***-****
University of California Los Angeles Fax 310-***-****
10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2107 abqjy1@r.postjobfree.com
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1478
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Joint Ph.D. in Economics and Urban Studies and Planning, February 1989
Thesis: Half a job: How U.S. firms use part-time employment
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Biochemistry, 1976
PUBLICATIONS
Research publications
Work in progress
Explaining variation in the quality of retail jobs. With Fran oise Carr and Diana Denham. UCLA Institute for
Research on Labor and Employment, January 2011.
Short hours, long hours, flexible hours: Hours levels and hours adjustments in the retail industry in the United
States, Canada, and Mexico. With Fran oise Carr . UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment,
October 2010.
Beyond contratos de protecci n : Strong and weak unionism in Mexican retail enterprises. UCLA Institute for
Research on Labor and Employment, revised January 2010.
Competitive strategies in the US retail industry: Consequences for jobs in food and consumer electronics stores.
With Fran oise Carr and Brandynn Holgate. Industry Studies Association Working Paper WP-2009-5, November
2009.
Participatory planning in a rural Mexican village: Lessons for community development and planning education.
With Marie Kennedy and Mercedes Arce. Working Paper 19, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment,
UCLA, May 2009.
America s biggest low-wage industry: Continuity and change in retail jobs. Center for Social Policy, UMass
Boston, and Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, UMass Lowell. June 2008.
Retail jobs in Mexico: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Paper presented at the Latin American Studies
Association annual meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
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What s happening to retail jobs? Wages, gender, and corporate strategy. With Fran oise Carr and Brandynn
Holgate. Center for Social Policy, UMass Boston, and Department of Regional Economic and Social Development,
UMass Lowell. Revised January 2006.
Refereed journal articles
The New Triangular Trade, special section of New Labor Forum 19(3): 48-74, 2010.
Co-editor, with Kent Wong
Work and inequality in the global economy: China, Mexico, and the United States, with Kent Wong, 49-
50.
Confronting globalization: Lessons from Puebla. With Graciela Bensus n. 65-69.
Special Issue in Memory of Charles Tilly, 1929-2008. Cities, States, Trust, and Rule. Theory and Society, May-
July 2010, 39(3-4):
Co-edited with Michael Hanagan.
Cities, states, trust, and rule: new departures from the work of Charles Tilly. With Michael Hanagan.
245-264.
The limits of work-based social support in the United States. With Heather Boushey. Challenge, March-April
2009.
El tama o s importa: Monopolio, el monopsonio y el impacto de Wal-Mart en M xico. With Jos Luis lvarez.
Econom a Informa (Mexico City), March-April 2008.
Under construction: The continuing evolution of job structures in call centers. With Philip Moss and Hal Salzman.
Industrial Relations, April 2008.
Avere un lavoro: i limiti del sistema di sostegno sociale contributivo negli Stati Uniti ( Get a job: The limits of
work-based social support in the United States ). With Heather Boushey. Annali della Fondazione di Vittorio
(Rome), special issue on New poverty, new priorities: Rethinking social inclusion. February 2008 (in Italian).
Challenging Coke s thirst for water: The Apizaco story. With Marie Kennedy. Progressive Planning, Fall 2007.
Wal-Mart and its workers: NOT the same all over the world. Connecticut Law Review, May 2007. Reprinted in
Neil Coe and Neil Wrigley, eds., The Globalization of Retailing (London: Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
The Mexican retail sector in the age of globalization: Lousy jobs, invisible unions. With Jos Luis lvarez
Galv n. International Labor and Working Class History, Fall 2006.
Employment conditions as social determinants of health part I: The external domain. With Supriya Lahiri, Rafael
Moure-Eraso, Marian Flum, Robert Karasek, and Ephraim Massawe. New Solutions, Vol.16, No.3, 2006.
Employment conditions as social determinants of health part II: The workplace. With Supriya Lahiri, Rafael
Moure-Eraso, Marian Flum, Robert Karasek, and Ephraim Massawe. New Solutions, Vol.16, No.4, 2006.
Participaci n extranjera en el autoservicio mexicano: El efecto Wal-Mart. With Jos Luis lvarez Galv n.
Comercio Exterior, November 2006.
Bottom-up planning: Lessons from Latin America s third left. With Marie Kennedy. Progressive Planning,
Summer 2006.
From here to autonomy: Mexico s Zapatistas combine local administration and national politics. With Marie
Kennedy. Progressive Planning, Spring 2006.
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Participatory housing cooperatives: An Argentinean experiment. With Marie Kennedy. Progressive Planning,
Summer 2005.
We ve been fighting for the land since time immemorial : Indigenous land struggles in Michoacan, Mexico. With
Marie Kennedy. Progressive Planning, Summer 2004.
Missives from Mexico, with Marie Kennedy. Humanity and Society. Vol. 28, No. 2, 2004.
Raw deal for workers: Why have U.S. workers experienced a long-term decline in pay, benefits, and working
conditions? International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 34, No.2. 2004.
Looking at participatory planning in Cuba through an Art Deco window. With Marie Kennedy and Lorna
Rivera. Progressive Planning, Summer 2003.
Fighting rural removal in Alc ntara, Brazil, with Marie Kennedy. Planners Network, Winter 2003.
Part-time work, low-wage jobs, and class struggle in the United States. Trabajo (Mexico City), Vol.2, No. 3,
January 2000. (In Spanish)
Haiti s Lavalas movement: Cracking under U.S. pressure? with Marie Kennedy. Radical America, Vol.26, No.4,
1999.
Arresting the decline of good jobs in the U.S.A.? Industrial Relations Journal, December 1997.
Buenos y malos empleos en los Estados Unidos al final del milenio. Sistema (Madrid), No.140-141, November
1997.
Hay que hacerlo bien: Lessons for progressive planners, scholars, and activists from Mauricio Gast n, with Marie
Kennedy. Colloqui: Cornell Journal of Planning and Urban Issues, 1997.
Compet ncias indefinidas e ra a: Uma investiga o sobre os problemas de emprego dos homens negros, with
Philip Moss. Estudos Afro-Asi ticos (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 29, 1996.
Soft skills and race: An investigation of black men s employment problems, with Philip Moss. Work and
Occupations, Vol.23, No.3, 1996. Reprinted in abridged form in The Changing Nature of Work (Frontier Issues in
Economic Thought series, Medford, MA: Global Development and Environment Institute 1998).
Skills and race in hiring: Quantitative findings from face to face interviews, with Philip Moss. Eastern Economic
Journal, Vol.21, No.3, 1995
Family structure and family earnings: How resources, opportunity, and effort shape earnings, with Randy Albelda.
Industrial Relations, Spring 1994.
State strategy for developing base industries: A Massachusetts case study, New England Journal of Public Policy
Vol.19, No.1, 1993.
A turn for the worse: Why black men s labor market fortunes have declined in the United States, with Philip Moss.
Sage Race Relations Abstracts, Vol.18, No.1, 1993.
Labor market outcomes of young black and white women: The 1960s and the 1980s, with Mary Stevenson and
Barry Bluestone. Proceedings of the Third Women s Policy Research Conference, May 15-16, 1992.
All in the family: Family types, access to income, and implications for family policies, with Randy Albelda.
Policy Studies Journal, Vol.20, No.3, 1992.
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Dualism in part-time employment. Industrial Relations, Spring 1992.
Reasons for the continuing growth of part-time employment, Monthly Labor Review, March 1991.
The politics of the new inequality. Socialist Review 90/1, 1990.
Good jobs or bad jobs? Evaluating the American job creation experience, with Gary Loveman. International
Labour Review, Vol.127, No.5, 1988, pp.593-611.
Good jobs or bad jobs: What does the evidence say? with Gary Loveman. New England Economic Review,
January-February 1988, pp.46-65.
The Mandela campaign: A summary, with Marie Kennedy. Radical America, Vol.20, No.5, June 1987.
Socialism, feminism, and the stillbirth of socialist feminism in Europe, 1890-1920, with Marie Kennedy. Science
and Society, Vol.51, No.1, Spring 1987, pp.6-42.
Wage inequality takes a great U-turn, with Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone. Challenge, March/April 1986,
pp.26-32. Reprinted in David Obey and Paul Sarbanes, eds., The Changing American Economy, New York: Basil
Blackwell, Ch.8, pp.111-134.
At arm s length: Feminism and socialism in Europe, 1890-1920, with Marie Kennedy. Radical America, Vol.19,
No.4, 1985, pp.35-54.
Other journal articles and proceedings
Global restructuring in retail: What impact on labor? International Labor Brief (Korea Labor Institute, Seoul),
November 2007 (in Korean).
Como afecta a la fuerza laboral la re-estructuraci n de la industria comercial al por menor: Una comparaci n entre
M xico y los EUA. IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociolog a del Trabajo (Proceedings). Buenos Aires,
Argentina: Asociaci n Latinoamericana de Sociolog a del Trabajo. September 2003.
Tracking internal labor market shifts in four industries. Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research
Association Annual Meeting, 2002.
Discussion: New research on labor market intermediaries. Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research
Association Annual Meeting, 2001.
Understanding income inequality, Sociological Forum, December 1991.
Service unionism: Directions for organizing, with James Green. Labor Law Journal, August 1987, pp.486-495.
What is making American wages more unequal? with Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. Proceedings of the
Industrial Relations Research Association Annual Meeting, December 1986.
Roy Lichtenstein: Fine art meets mass culture. Theoretical Review, No.27, March-April 1982, pp.27-28.
Authored books
Stories Employers Tell: Race, Skills, and Hiring in America, with Philip Moss. Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.
Named a Notable Book by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section.
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Work Under Capitalism, with Charles Tilly. Westview Press, 1998. Published in Korean translation by Hanul Press,
2006. Ch.4, An analytical frame, reprinted in abridged form in The Changing Nature of Work (Frontier Issues in
Economic Thought series, Medford, MA: Global Development and Environment Institute 1998).
Chapter 10, Inequality at Work, reprinted in Carolyn C. Perrucci and Robert Perrucci, eds., The Transformation of
Work in the New Economy (Roxbury Publishing Company, 2006)
Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women s Work, Women s Poverty, with Randy Albelda. South End Press,
1997.
Half a Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market. Temple University Press, 1996.
Edited books
The Gloves-Off Economy: Labor Standards at the Bottom of the American Labor Market. Co-edited with Annette
Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, and Laura Dresser. Cornell University Press (Labor and Employment Relations
Association Annual Volume), 2008.
Real World Latin America: A Contemporary Economics and Social Policy Reader, edited with Dan Fireside, Pablo
Morales, Alejandro Reuss, and Christy Thornton. Boston: Dollars & Sense, 2008.
Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, edited with Alice O Connor and Lawrence Bobo. Russell Sage
Foundation, 2001.
Real World Micro (microeconomics reader), edited with members of the Dollars and Sense Editorial Collective.
Dollars and Sense, 1st edition 1989, new editions every 1-2 years. (Involved in many of the editions 1989-2006,
including major revision in 2003.)
Real World Macro (macroeconomics reader), 9th Edition, edited with members of the Dollars and Sense Editorial
Collective, Dollars and Sense, 1992.
Chapters in edited volumes
Endnote: Retail work Perceptions and reality, with Fran oise Carr . In d l Bozkurt and Irena Grugulis,
eds., Retail Work. London: Palgrave, forthcoming.
Retail jobs in comparative perspective, with Fran oise Carr, Maarten van Klaveren, and Dorothea Voss-
Dahm. In J r me Gauti and John Schmitt, eds., Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World. New York: Russell
Sage Foundation, 2010, 211-268.
What is the potential of Latin America s third left ? with Marie Kennedy and Fernando Leiva. In David
Fasenfest (ed), Engaging Social Justice: Critical Studies of 21st Century Social Transformation, Leiden: Brill,
2009, 233-252.
An introduction to the Gloves-Off Economy, with Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, and Laura Dresser. In
Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser, and Chris Tilly, eds. The Gloves-Off Economy: Labor
Standards at the Bottom of the American Labor Market. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (Labor and Employment
Relations Association Annual Volume), 2008., 1-29.
Construyendo un futuro mejor para San Miguel Analco, with Mercedes Arce and Marie Kennedy. In Rosa
Mart nez Ruiz, Gustavo E. Rojo Mart nez, Hilda Susana Azp roz Rivero, Emma Zapata Martelo, Benito Ram rez
Valverde, eds., Estudios y propuestas para el medio rural (Tomo IV). Mochicahui, El Fuerte, Sinaloa, M xico:
Universidad Aut noma Indigena de M xico, 2008, 215-293.
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Wal-Mart goes south: Sizing up the chain s Mexican success story. In Stanley Brunn, ed., Wal-Mart World. New
York: Routledge, 2006.
Trabajo marginal: Trabajadores en el comercio y los servicios en M xico, with Jos Luis lvarez. In Enrique de
la Garza and Carlos Salas, editors, La Nueva Situaci n del Trabajo en Mexico 2000-2003. Mexico City: Instituto de
Estudio del Trabajo, 2006.
Learning about discrimination by talking to employers, with Philip Moss. In William Rodgers III, Handbook on
the Economics of Discrimination. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006.
Labor market inequality, past and future: A perspective from the United States. In Lena G nas and Jan Carlsson,
Divisions of Gender and Work. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006.
The economic environment of housing: Income inequality and insecurity. In Rachel Bratt, Chester Hartman, Mary
Ellen Hombs, and Michael Stone, eds., Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda. Philadelphia, PA: Temple
University Press, 2006.
Wal-Mart in Mexico: The limits of growth. In Nelson Lichtenstein, ed, Wal-Mart: Template for 21st Century
Capitalism. New York: New Press, 2005.
Living wage laws in the United States: The dynamics of a growing movement. In Maria Kousis and Charles Tilly,
eds., Threats and Opportunities in Contentious Politics. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005.
When firms restructure: Understanding work-life outcomes, with Philip Moss and Hal Salzman. In Ellen Kossek
and Susan Lambert, eds., Work Life Integration in Organizations: New Directions for Theory and Practice.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
Labor market theories as explanations for poverty. In Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O Connor, eds., Poverty and
Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
Too many cooks? Tracking internal labor market dynamics in food service with case studies and quantitative data.
With Julia Lane, Philip Moss, and Hal Salzman. Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt, and Richard Murnane, eds.,
Low-Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace. New York, NY: Russell Sage
Foundation, 2003.
The diagnostic imaging equipment industry: What prognosis for good jobs? with Michael Handel. in William
Lazonick and Mary O Sullivan, eds., Corporate Governance and Sustainable Prosperity. New York: Palgrave,
2002. Also published on web at Social Science Research Network (http:www.ssrn.com/) and Economics Working
Papers Archive (http://econwpa.wustl.edu/).
Hiring in urban labor markets: Shifting labor demands, persistent racial differences, with Philip Moss. In Ivar
Berg and Arne Kalleberg, eds, Sourcebook on Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes (Plenum Press,
2001). Reprinted in abridged form in Portuguese translation in Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo.
Moving beyond Get a job : What real welfare reform would look like, with Randy Albelda. In Mary King, ed.,
Squaring Up: Policy Strategies to Raise Women's Incomes in the United States (Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, 2001).
Dualismo en el empleo a tiempo parcial. In Ra l Lorente-Campos, ed., Trabajo a Tiempo Parcial (Valencia,
Spain: Germania Serveis Gr fics, 2001)
Why opportunity isn t knocking: Racial inequality and the demand for labor, with Philip Moss. In Urban
Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, edited by Alice O Connor, Chris Tilly, and Lawrence Bobo (Russell Sage
Foundation, 2001).
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Space as a signal: How employers perceive neighborhoods in four metropolitan labor markets, with Philip Moss,
Joleen Kirschenman, and Ivy Kennelly. In Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, edited by Alice O Connor,
Chris Tilly, and Lawrence Bobo (Russell Sage Foundation, 2001).
Bending the rules? Race, ethnicity, and gender effects in a rule-bound model of hiring and wage-setting, with
Tom Hertz and Michael Massagli. In Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, edited by Alice O Connor,
Chris Tilly, and Lawrence Bobo (Russell Sage Foundation, 2001).
Limits to market-mediated employment: From deconstruction to reconstruction of internal labor markets, with
Philip Moss and Harold Salzman. In Francoise Carre, Marianne Ferber, Lonnie Golden, and Steve Herzenberg, eds.,
Non-Traditional Work Arrangements and the Changing Labor Market: Dimensions, Causes, and Institutional
Responses, IRRA Research Volume (Madison, WI: Industrial Relations Research Association, 2000).
How labor market tightness affects employer attitudes and actions toward black applicants: Evidence from
employer surveys, with Philip Moss. In Robert Cherry and William Rodgers, Prosperity for All? The Economic
Boom and African Americans (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000).
What do greater Boston area employers seek in their workers? with Philip Moss. In Barry Bluestone and Mary
Stevenson, eds., Greater Boston in Transition: Race and Ethnicity in a Renaissance Region (Russell Sage
Foundation, 2000).
Single, with children: The economic plight of single mothers. With Randy Albelda. In Ron Baiman, Heather
Boushey, and Dawn Saunders, eds., Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on
Economy Theory and Policy (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 2000). Reprinted in Ellen Mutari and Deborah Figart, eds.,
Women and the Economy (M.E. Sharpe, 2003).
Falling wages, widening gaps: U.S. income distribution at the millennium. In Ron Baiman, Heather Boushey, and
Dawn Saunders, eds., Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economy Theory
and Policy (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 2000).
Income distribution, with Randy Albelda. Meg Lewis and Janice Peterson, eds. The Elgar Companion to Feminist
Economics. New York: Elgar 2000.
Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers, with Fran oise Carr and Virginia duRivage. In
Kathleen Christensen and Kathleen Barker, eds., Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition,
Cornell University Press, 1998.
It s a family affair: Women, poverty, and welfare, with Randy Albelda. In Diane Dujon and Ann Withorn, eds.,
For Crying Out Loud: Women s Poverty in the United States, South End Press, 1996. Reprinted in Margaret L.
Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, Race, Class, and Gender, 3rd edition, Wadsworth Publishing 1997, in Estelle
Disch, ed., Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology (2nd edition), Mayfield Publishing, 1999, in Tracy E.
Ore, ed. The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality : Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, Mayfield
Publishing, 2000 (and 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2003), and in Susan J. Ferguson, ed., Shifting the Center:
Understanding Contemporary Families, Mayfield Publishing, 2001.
Not markets alone: Enriching the discussion of income distribution, with Randy Albelda. In Robert Heilbroner
and Charles Whalen, eds., Political Economy for the Next Century, M.E. Sharpe, 1995. Reprinted in abridged from
in Global Development and Environment Institute, The Political Economy of Inequality, Frontier Issues of Economic
Thought Series, 2000.
Piecing together the fragmented workplace: Unions and public policy on part-time and temporary employment,
with Francoise Carre and Virginia duRivage. In Lawrence Flood, ed., Unions and Public Policy, Greenwood Press,
1995.
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Capitalist work and labor markets, with Charles Tilly. In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, eds., Handbook of
Economic Sociology (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 1994).
Toward a broader vision: Race, gender, and labor market segmentation in the Social Structure of Accumulation
framework, with Randy Albelda, in David Kotz, Terence McDonough, and Michael Reich, eds., Social Structures
of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Representing the part-time and contingent workforce: Challenges for unions and public policy, with Francoise
Carre and Virginia duRivage. In Sheldon Friedman et al., eds., Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law,
Industrial and Labor Relations Press, 1994.
Two faces of part-time work: Good and bad part-time jobs in U.S. service industries. In Barbara Warme,
Katherina Lundy, and Larry Lundy, eds., Working Part-Time: Risks and Opportunities, Greenwood Press, 1992.
Short hours, short shrift: The causes and consequences of part-time employment. In Virginia L. duRivage, ed.,
New Policies for the Part-Time and Contingent Workforce, M.E. Sharpe, 1992.
Transformative populism and the development of a community of color, with Marie Kennedy and Mauricio
Gaston. In Joseph Kling and Prudence Posner, eds., Dilemmas of Activism, Temple University Press, 1990.
Roxbury: Capital investment or community development? with Marie Kennedy and Mauricio Gaston. In Mike
Davis, Steven Hiatt, Marie Kennedy, Susan Ruddick, and Michael Sprinker, eds., Fire in the Hearth: The Radical
Politics of Place in America, London: Verso, 1990.
Regenerating inequality: The distribution of U.S. family income and individual earnings in the 1980s. In Union
for Radical Political Economics, ed., The Imperiled Economy, Vol.II. New York: URPE, 1988.
Research reports and working papers
Competitive strategies and worker outcomes in the U.S. retail industry, with Fran oise Carr and Lauren
Appelbaum. UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Research and Policy Brief 5, June 2010.
Confronting the Gloves-Off Economy: America s Broken Labor Standards and How to Fix Them. Co-edited with
Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, and Laura Dresser. UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment,
Center for Economic Policy Research, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, and National Employment Law Project,
September 2009.
The Changing World of Work in Retail Trade. With Fran oise Carr and Brandynn Holgate. Report to the National
Retail Federation, December 2007.
Construyendo un futuro major para San Miguel Analco. Reporte Final del Equipo de Planificaci n Participativa,
With Mercedes Arce and Marie Kennedy (professors), Amelia Garc a, Tom s Gonz lez, Claudia Hern ndez,
Eugenia Huerta, Maribel Meza, Jos de la Luz S nchez, Rosal o Valseca, and Arturo V squez (students). El
Colegio de Tlaxcala. Tlaxcala, Mexico. June 2007.
Profile of the uninsured in Massachusetts and the possible implications of the Massachusetts health care reform
plan. With Melissa Nemon. University of Massachusetts, December 2006.
Wal-Mart de M xico y el sector detallista: La calidad de empleos y el rol de los sindicatos, with Jos Luis lvarez.
Instituto de Estudios del Trabajo, Mexico City, September 2005.
Workforce development challenges for Massachusetts. With Jennifer Gaudet, Philip Moss, Hal Salzman, and
Christopher Lim. University of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Department of Economic Development, 2002.
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Knowledge sector powerhouse: The reshaping of Massachusetts industries and employment during the 1980s and
1990s. With Robert Forrant and Philip Moss. University of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Department of
Economic Development. June 2001.
The New Corporate Landscape and Workforce Skills. With Harold Salzman and Philip Moss. National Center for
Postsecondary Improvement, Stanford University. 1998.
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Good and bad jobs in the United States at the millennium. Working Paper #103,
Russell Sage Foundation, 1996.
Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women, Income, and Poverty in Massachusetts. With Randy Albelda. Boston,
MA: Women s Statewide Legislative Network, 1994.
An assessment of the impact of deindustrialization and spatial mismatch on the labor market outcomes of young
white, black, and Latino men and women who have limited schooling, with Barry Bluestone and Mary Stevenson,
Working Paper, McCormack Institute of Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1992.
It ll take more than a miracle: Income in single-mother families in Massachusetts, 1979-1987, with Randy Albelda.
Working paper, McCormack Institute for Public Policy, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 1992.
Why black men are doing worse in the labor market: A review of supply-side and demand-side explanations, with
Philip Moss. Working Paper, Social Science Research Council Committee on the Urban Underclass, 1991.
Short hours, short shrift: The causes and consequences of growing part-time work. Washington, D.C.: Economic
Policy Institute, 1990.
Half a job: How U.S. firms use part-time employment. Ph.D. dissertation, M.I.T. Departments of Economics and
Urban Studies and Planning, February 1989.
From FDIC to DIDMCA: Notes on the regulation of financial institutions and markets, with special reference to
housing finance, with John Parsons. Mimeo, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., September 1985.
Fifteen years of community development: an annotated bibliography, 1968-1983, with Yohel Camyd-Freixas, Phil
Clay, Belden Daniels, and Frank Jones. Chicago: Council of Planning Librarians, Bibliography No.156, September
1985.
Working in the basement, working on the floor: The restructuring of the hospital workforce, 1945-1980. Paper
presented at the Union for Radical Political Economics Summer Conference, August 22-26, 1984.
Book reviews
Review of A Future of Good Jobs? America s Challenge in the Global Economy, edited by Timothy J. Bartik and
Susan N. Houseman. British Journal of Industrial Relations, December 2010.
Review of America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market, by Richard Freeman. New
Politics, 12(2): 93-95. Winter 2009.
Review of Job Quality and Employer Behaviour, edited by Stephen Bazen, Claudio Lucifora, and Wiemer Salvedra.
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 46(3):555-557, September 2008.
Review of Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement, edited by Deborah Eade and Alan
Leather. With Marie Kennedy. Feminist Economics 14:1, January 2008.
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Review of Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement, by Rick Fantasia and Kim Voss, and
Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Story of the American Labor Movement, by Steven Henry Lopez. Qualitative
Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 4, December 2006.
Review of Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream, by Janice Fine. Administrative
Science Quarterly, December 2006.
Review of Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs, by
Deirdre Royster. Work and Occupations, Vol. 33 No. 2, May 2006.
Review of Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry, by Ellen Israel Rosen. Social
Service Review, Vol.77 No.4, December 2003.
Review of The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology, and Global Production, edited by Rick Baldoz, Charles
Koeber, and Philip Kraft. International Labor and Working Class History, No.64, Fall 2003.
Review of Who Gets the Good Jobs? Combating Race and Gender Disparities, by Robert Cherry. Review of
Radical Political Economics, Summer 2003.
Review of Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help?, by Timothy Bartik. Contemporary Sociology,
Vol.31, No.6, 2002.
Review of The German Skills Machine: Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy, edited by Pepper
Culpepper and David Finegold. Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 22, No.4, 2001.
Review of A Working Nation: Workers, Work, and Government in the New Economy, by
David T. Ellwood, Rebecca M. Blank, Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, and Karen Lynn-Dyson. American Journal of
Sociology, September 2001.
Review of Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society, by Andr Gorz. Contemporary Sociology, Vol.30,
No.5, 2001.
Review of Restructuring the Employment Relationship, by Duncan Gallie, Michael White, and Yuan Cheng,
Contemporary Sociology, January 2001.
More than wages: Good jobs in Canada. Review of The Quality of Work: A People-Centred Agenda, by Graham
Lowe, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, September-October 2000.
Review of Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal by Sanford Jacoby and The Business of
Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America by Andrea Tone, Contemporary Sociology, November
1998.
Review of Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win, by David I. Levine Electronic
Journal of Radical Organizational Theory, August 1998.
Review of Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss, American Journal of Sociology, by Miriam A. Golden, January
1998.
Review of Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial
Downsizing, by David Gordon, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1997.
Review of Faded Dreams: The Politics and Economics of Race, by Martin Carnoy, American Journal of Sociology,
Vol.101, No.5, March 1996.
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Review of The New Unemployed, by Frank Gaffikin and Mike Morrissey, Work and Occupations, Vol.21, No.2,
May 1994.
Cities: Beyond the fragments (book review), with Marie Kennedy. Contemporary Sociology, Vol.22, No.6,
November 1993.
Review of The Japanese Labor Market in a Comparative Perspective with the United States, by Masanori
Hashimoto, Eastern Economic Journal Vol.18, No.4, 1993.
Review of Labour Economics, by J.E. King, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1992.
Consulting and policy publications
The National Center for a Clean Energy Workforce: A scoping study. With Carol Zabin and Chris Benner.
Sacramento, CA: California Energy Commission, 2010.
The Massachusetts minimum wage: Making work pay in Massachusetts. With Randy Albelda. Boston, MA:
Massachusetts AFL-CIO, 1999.
Workfare s impact on the New York City labor market: Lower wages and worker displacement. Working Paper
#92, Russell Sage Foundation, March 1996.
Putting employers in the picture: Engaging employers in employment/training programs for disadvantaged youth
and young adults, for Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA, July 1995.
New England Observers Delegation to Haiti: Delegation report, with Marie Kennedy. New England Observers
Delegation to Haiti, Boston, MA, November 1993.
Public policy alternatives for dealing with the labor market problems of central city young adults: Implications from
current labor market research. Background memorandum for the Social Science Research Council Policy
Conference on Persistent Urban Poverty, Washington, D.C., November 9-10, 1993.
Testimony on labor flexibility, arbitration between the United States Postal Service and the National Association
of Letter Carriers and American Postal Workers Union, Washington, D.C., May 7, 1991.
Contract negotiations report. Boston, MA: Boston Globe Employees Association, April 1987.
Employment and economic development policy paper, with the Labor and Economic Development
Issue/Constituency Group. Cambridge, MA: Mel King for Congress Campaign, August 1986.
Four analyses of the food stamp program: Analysis plan, with William Hamilton, David Hoaglin, Michael Puma,
and Alan Werner. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates, Inc., July 1986.
Economic impact of different options for re-use of the Quincy Shipyard. Quincy, MA: Quincy Shipyard Save the
Jobs Coalition, April 1986.
The great U-turn: increasing inequality in wage and salary income in the U.S., with Bennett Harrison and Barry
Bluestone. U.S. Congressional Joint Economic Committee, January 1986.
The Affordable Tax Plan: Tax relief without loss of revenues. Boston: Boston Affordable Housing Coalition,
August 1985.
The future is now: The impact of new technologies on the Massachusetts workforce, with Richard Kazis. Boston:
Technology Working Group of the Executive Office of Labor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, September 1984.
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Affirmative action in the City of Boston: Recommendations based on the experience of other cities. Boston: Task
Force on Affirmative Action and Civil Rights, Mayor Raymond Flynn s Transition Team, January 1984.
Popular publications
Is Wal-Mart s takeover of Chile s D&S a good move? Interamerican Dialogue s Latin American Advisor.
February 3, 2009.
Making sense of Latin America s third left . With Marie Kennedy. New Politics, Winter 2008.
Laws and injustice: Fighting for human rights in Mexico. With Marie Kennedy. New Politics, Summer 2007.
Reprinted in Dollars & Sense and North American Conference on Latin America, Real World Latin America
(Boston: Dollars & Sense, 2008).
Desafiando al sed de Coca Cola. With Marie Kennedy. Noticias de Puebla y Tlaxcala. July 4, 2007.
Mexico Blog, with Marie Kennedy. Posted on grassrootsonline.org and dollarsandsense.org
Supply and demand in Mexico: Rises in staple prices rile the population. January 2007.
Laws and injustice: Fighting for human rights in Mexico. February 2007.
Dreams and borders: Looking at immigration from the Mexican side. April 2007.
Up against the charros and the changarros: Mexico s independent unions confront a wave of lousy jobs. May
2007.
Challenging Coke s thirst for water: The Apizaco story. June 2007
Chiapas: Counter-campaigns and autonomous communities The Zapatistas new fight. With Marie Kennedy.
Against the Current, July/August 2006.
Argentinean grassroots movements at the crossroads: Dilemmas of horizontalidad, with Marie Kennedy. Z
Magazine, October 2005.
Indigenous land struggles in Michoac n, Mexico: We ve fought for the land since time immemorial. Peacework,
July-August 2004.
Mexico: Stories of hope and frustration. The Humanist Sociologist, May 2004.
Haiti s crisis: Thoughts from two long-time Grassroots International activists, with Marie Kennedy. Grassroots
International website, www.grassrootsonline.org, March 2004. Reprinted on OneWorld website, us.oneworld.net .
Too many cooks? Changing wages and job ladders in the food industry, with Julia Lane, Philip Moss, and Hal
Salzman. Regional Review (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), Quarters 4/1, 2003-04.
The cost of state tax cuts (Op Ed). MetroWest Daily News, Milford Daily News, Neponset Daily News Transcript,
Waltham Daily News Tribune. April 17, 2003.
Thinking globally, acting locally in Alc ntara, Brazil, with Marie Kennedy. Peacework. October 2002.
Experiencing Brazil s spirit of solidarity, with Marie Kennedy. Insights, Grassroots International, Fall 2002.
Pride and prejudice: Employers look for skill, but still act on stereotypes. CommonWealth, January 2001.
Race, skill, and hiring in U.S. cities. Nation s Cities Weekly, June 19, 2000.
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Big city labor markets, inner-city workers. Regional Review, Fourth Quarter 1999, 16-23.
Planners Network 99: Labor and community meet. Planners Network, July/August 1999.
Toward a strategy for women s economic equality, with Randy Albelda. New Politics, Summer 1999. Reprinted
in Nancy Holmstrom, ed., The Socialist Feminist Project: A Reader (New York: Monthly Review Press 2002).
It wasn t just the hurricane: Confronting structural adjustment. Peacework, December 1998/January 1999.
Who s poor in America, with Randy Albelda. In America Needs Human Rights: Fighting Hunger and Poverty in
the Richest Nation on Earth, Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset (Oakland, CA: Food First, 1999).
Why American poverty policies don t work, with Randy Albelda. In America Needs Human Rights: Fighting
Hunger and Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth, Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset (Oakland, CA: Food First,
1999).
Glass ceilings and bottomless pits: Women s work, women s poverty, with Randy Albelda. WorkingUSA,
January/February 1998.
Part-time work: a mobilizing issue. New Politics, Winter 1998.
Reversing the spread of lousy jobs. Uncommon Sense (National Jobs for All Coalition), #20, March 1998.
Beyond the strike. Boston Globe (Focus section, p.D1), August 10, 1997. Reprinted in the Center for Popular
Economics Newsletter.
Glass ceilings and bottomless pits: Women s work, women s poverty. Sojourner: The Women s Forum, August
1997, pp.14-15.
Are you better off now? Tracking and reversing the spread of lousy jobs. Peacework, December 1996.
Who calls the shots? Haitians fight structural adjustment. Insights (Grassroots International), Spring 1996.
Structural maladjustment: Haiti fights back. Crossroads, November 1995.
Haiti s other crisis: It s the economy, stupid. Peacework, October 1995.
The gender connection: Women, poverty, and welfare, with Randy Albelda. MTA Today (Massachusetts Teacher
Association), June 9, 1995.
Coping with a cruel economy. Peacework, June 1995.
With strings attached: U.S. intervention blocks reform in Haiti, with Marie Kennedy. Insights (Grassroots
International), Vol.9, No.1, 1995.
Glass ceilings and bottomless pits: Making welfare a women s issue, with Randy Albelda. Poverty and Race,
November/December 1994.
Haiti at Aristide s return: Hope, fear, and U.S. arrogance, with Marie Kennedy, Peacework, November 1994.
Reprinted in abridged form in Crossroads, December 2004.
Challenging the U.S. Haiti agenda, with Marie Kennedy, Peacework, October 1994.
Teamsters extra load (op ed). Boston Globe, April 25, 1994.
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New opportunities in part-time workers, Boardroom Reports, May 1, 1993.
The U.S. economy: Post-prosperity capitalism? with John Miller, Crossroads, July/August 1992.
A city called Mandela: secession and the struggle for community control, with Marie Kennedy. The North Star,
Spring 1987.
Dollars and Sense, Cambridge, MA, May 1986-present.
Member of editorial board 1986-2006, Associate 2006-present, and author or co-author of numerous articles,
including:
U-turn on equality: The puzzle of middle class decline, May 1986. Reprinted in D. Stanley Eitzen and
Maxine Baca Zinn, The Reshaping of America: Social Consequences of the Changing Economy (Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1989).
Does rock n roll aid spell relief? with Laurie Kellogg, October 1986.
White lines, bottom lines: Profile of a mature industry, December 1986. Reprinted in Economics 88/ 89,
Annual Editions, Dushkin Publishing Group, Guilford, CN.
Mandela, Massachusetts: Boston s black independence movement, March 1987.
How s the labor climate where you live? April 1987.
Working half a job: Part-timers fill employers need for disposable workers, October 1987.
Broken promises: Elders set adrift in a changing economy, with Randy Albelda, January/February 1988.
Europe under one roof: Will 1992 leave labor out in the cold? with Catherine Lynde, September 1989.
Mobilizing for community development [interview with former Chicago development official Tim Wright],
with Teresa Amott, October 1989.
Shaking the invisible hand: The uncertain foundations of free-market economics, November 1989.
Republished in Microeconomics 90/ 91, and Microeconomics 91/ 92 Annual Editions, Dushkin Publishing
Group, Guilford, CN.
What s work got to do with it? Work alone won t lift poor families out of poverty, with Randy Albelda,
March 1990.
Down and out in the city: Examining the roots of urban poverty with Abel Valenzuela, April 1990.
Republished in Social Justice, Opposing Viewpoints Series, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, 1990, Social
Problems 91/ 92 and Urban Society, Fifth Edition, Annual Editions, Dushkin Publishing Group, Guilford, CT
1991.
The world is their ashtray: U.S. tobacco companies seek new markets October 1990. Republished in
Microeconomics 91/ 92 Annual Edition, Dushkin Publishing Group, Guilford, CN.
Rich and poor: New Englanders bucked the inequality trend, with Susan Schact, September 1991.
Raising cane in Jamaica [interview with Jamaican activist Cordell Stewart], September 1991.
Rocking the house: Public tenants hold Jack Kemp to his word [interview with housing activists Juandamarie
Brown and Jim McNeill], with Sarah Griffen, December 1991.
All work and no play: Burnt-out Americans working more, liking it less [interview with economist Juliet
Schor], January/February 1992.
Mexico s road to nowhere [interview with Mexican opposition leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas], with James
Cypher and Ricardo Grinspun, April 1992.
Dilemmas of socialism, July/August 1992.
Canada s feminist model [interview with Canadian feminist leader Judy Rebick], with Patricia Horn,
November 1992.
Stitch by stitch: A Guatemalan union six years in the making [interview with Guatemalan union leader Rosa
Delia Galicia Lopez], with Maria Estela Carrion, April 1993.
From New World Order to global community [book review], November/December 1993.
Lessons from Europe [book review], January/February 1994.
Haiti s agony, March/April 1994.
Japan in recession: A conversation with Ronald Dore, March/April 1994.
The poultry index, May/June 1994.
Retro-economics [book review], September/October 1994.
Let them eat cake [report review], September/October 1994.
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It s not working: Why many single mothers can t work their way out of poverty, with Randy Albelda,
November/December 1994. Reprinted in Social Problems 96/97, Dushkin Publishing Group 1996.
A third way for Cuba? The country looks beyond the special period, November/December 1994.
Measuring a neighborhood s economy [report review], November/December 1994
Unnecessary evil: Why inequality is bad for business, with Randy Albelda, March/April 1995
The Reich stuff, with Rose Batt, September/October 1995
A local drive for democracy [interview with union official Paul Filson], September/October 1995
Up against the death plan : Haitians resist U.S.-imposed economic restructuring, with Marie Kennedy,
March/April 1996. Revised for Real World International, 2000.
End of the road? [report review], May/June 1996
Postindustrial and mean, [book review], May/June 1996
Is small beautiful? Is bigger better? Small and big businesses both have their drawbacks, Real World Micro,
6th edition, 1996. Revised for Real World Micro, 10th edition, 2000.
Once upon a time A brief history of welfare, with Randy Albelda, November/December 1996
Fighting phone privatization in El Salvador [interview with union official Wilmer Erroa Argueta], July/August
1997
Part-time and temporary work: Flexibility for whom? with Fran oise Carr, January/February 1998
A dialogue about capitalism [interview with AFL-CIO Education Director Bill Fletcher], with Marc Breslow,
September/October 1998
Good news: The minimum wage works, September/October 1998
Beyond patching the safety net: A welfare and work survival strategy, January/February 1999
Understanding the service economy [book review], September/October 1999
Temp workers unite, March/April 2000. Reprinted in Kent County Daily Times, 6/12/00
Next steps for the living wage movement, September/October 2001.
Haiti in 2001: Political deadlock, economic crisis, with Marie Kennedy, November/December 2001
Dancing to a different samba, with Marie Kennedy, September/October 2002.
Raw deal for workers, July/August 2003.
Resource markets or resource rights? with Clark Taylor and Marie Kennedy. November/December 2003.
Foxonomics flops. July/August 2004.
Why inequality is bad for the economy: Geese, golden eggs, and traps. July/August 2004. Published
simultaneously in Dollars & Sense and United for a Fair Economy, editors, The Wealth Inequality Reader
(Cambridge, MA: Economic Affairs Bureau, 2004).
From resistance to production in Argentina: Worker-controlled businesses take the next step, with Marie
Kennedy. November/December 2005. Reprinted in Dollars & Sense and North American Conference on Latin
America, Real World Latin America (Boston: Dollars & Sense, 2008) and Dollars & Sense, Real World Labor
(Boston: Dollars & Sense, 2009).
Supply, demand, and tortillas, with Marie Kennedy. Spring 2007.
Up against the charros and the changarros: Mexico s independent unions confront a wave of lousy jobs, with
Marie Kennedy. September/October 2007. Reprinted in Dollars & Sense, Real World Labor (Boston: Dollars
& Sense, 2009).
Dreams and borders: Looking at migration from the Mexican side, with Marie Kennedy.
November/December 2007. Reprinted in Dollars & Sense and North American Conference on Latin America,
Real World Latin America (Boston: Dollars & Sense, 2008).
They work here, they live here, they stay here! French immigrants strike for the right to work and win,
with Marie Kennedy. July/August 2008, 27-29. Reprinted in Dollars & Sense, Real World Labor (Boston:
Dollars & Sense, 2009).
Land reform under Lula: One step forward, one step back, with Marie Kennedy and Tarso Lu s Ramos,
January/February, 17-20. In Real World Latin America, 2nd edition, 2009. Reprinted online by Share the
World s Resources (stwr.org), October 2009.
Haiti s fault lines: Made in the U.S.A., with Marie Kennedy. March/April 2010, 8. Reprinted in Dollars &
Sense, Current Economic Issues (Boston: Dollars & Sense, 2010).
On strike in China, with Marie Kennedy. September/October 2010, 19-23. Reprinted in Dollars & Sense,
Current Economic Issues (Boston: Dollars & Sense, 2010).
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Department of Urban Studies and Planning News, M.I.T., October 1984-June 1987.
Author of numerous articles, including a regular column of commentary on the economy and economic thought,
Life Among the Econ, February 1985-May 1986.
The Scalpel, The Beth Israel Cross-Examiner, rank-and-file employee newsletters, 1978-1983
Wrote, edited, and shared production responsibilities.
The Fenway News, community newspaper, Boston, MA, 1975-81
Wrote, edited, photographed, illustrated, produced a monthly comic strip, and shared other production duties.
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, LECTURES, TESTIMONY
Labor and Employment Relations Association, Annual Meeting. Explaining variation in the quality of retail jobs.
Denver, CO, January 9, 2011.
KPFK s Labor Review, What the midterm elections mean for labor. Los Angeles, CA, November 4, 2010.
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Conference on Labor Markets in Employment and Recovery.
Short hours, long hours, flexible hours: Hours levels and hours adjustments in the retail industry in the United
States, Canada, and Mexico. Kalamazoo, MI, October 23. 2010.
M.I.T., Conference in Celebration of Michael Piore s Career at MIT. Discussant, Immigration. Boston, MA,
October 1, 2010.
KPCC s AirTalk, Town Hall: The Jobs of the Future. Panelist. Pasadena, CA, September 28, 2010.
Global Labour University 2010 Conference. An opportunity not taken yet: U.S. labor and the current economic
crisis. Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, September 15, 2010.
University of Birmingham, Center for Research on Employment and Work, Special Seminar. Globalization? What
globalization? How national institutions shape retail work around the world. Birmingham, U.K., September 10,
2010.
Work, Employment, and Society 2010 Conference. Global migration and the current economic crisis. Brighton,
U.K., September 7, 2010.
American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA, August 14-17, 2010.
Organizer, presider, and discussant, regular session on Poverty: Policy impacts, social cohesion
outcomes.
Invited session on Dissenting voices under fire: Academic freedom at risk, presenter, Varieties of attacks
on academic freedom: Lessons from three attempts at institutional eradication.
International Center for Development and Decent Work, Annual Thematic Conference on Labour Migration and
Decent Work: Challenges and Opportunities. International migration in the context of a neoliberal crisis of
capitalism, keynote speech. University of Campinas, Brazil, July 1, 2010.
Chinese Center for Comparative Politics and Economics, Special Seminar. Latin America s third left: Autonomy
and participation in the new political landscape. Beijing, June 22, 2010.
Chinese Institute for Industrial Relations, Special Seminar. How national institutions determine job quality in retail
around the world. Beijing, June 18, 2010.
School of Economics and Employment and Social Security Research Center, Fudan University, 2010 International
Workshop on Employment Dynamics and Social Security. Shanghai, June 12-14, 2010.
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Presenter, Systems of benefit provision and job quality regulation: Lessons from the United States and
Europe.
Discussant, session on Institutions and the Labor Market.
Laborers International Union, Southern California District Council Leadership Seminar, The path to recovery.
Pasadena, CA, April 30, 2010.
Congress of Asociaci n Latinoamericana de Sociolog a del Trabajo. Mas all de los contratos de protecci n :
Sindicalismo fuerte y d bil en las empresas comerciales mexicanas. Mexico City, Mexico, April 21-23, 2010.
International Labour Process Conference. New Brunswick, NJ, March 15-17, 2010.
Stream co-coordinator, Are bad jobs inevitable?
Presenter, A framework for international comparative analysis of the determinants of low-wage job
quality.
Presenter, What academics can do to help improve bad jobs.
Market Cultures Seminar. Globalization? What globalization? How national institutions determine job quality in
retail around the world. New School for Social Research, New York, NY, February 25, 2010.
Seminario Permanente, Departamento de Estudios Sociales, Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Desde Wal-Mart hasta la
crisis actual: Como las instituciones nacionales afectan la calidad de empleos alrededor del mundo. Tijuana,
Mexico, January 29, 2010.
Allied Social Science Association annual meeting, session on Developments in U.S. Labor and Working Class
History Scholarship: Implications for Radical Political Economy, discussant. Atlanta, GA, January 3-5, 2010.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Gallery Talk. What can we learn from images of workers? Los Angeles, CA, December 3,
2009.
Social Science History Association annual meeting, session on Cities, States, Trust and Rule: New Departures from
the Work of Charles Tilly. Cities, states, and trust networks, with Michael Hanagan. Long Beach, CA,
November 14, 2009.
KNX radio station, Business Hour. Obama s job summit and the job outlook. Los Angeles CA, November 12,
2009.
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and co-sponsors, conference on Work and Inequality in the
Global Economy: China, Mexico, and the United States, October 8-10, 2009.
Discussant, opening plenary on Economic and environmental crises: Implications for workers
Discussant, plenary on The role of transnational corporations: The case of Wal-Mart.
Panelist, closing plenary on Overcoming inequality.
KFHB radio station, Hola Bloomington show. Latin America: Globalization and social movements, with Marie
Kennedy (in Spanish). Bloomington, IN, aired September 18, 2009.
Indiana University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Department of Geography. Seminars,
Bloomington, IN, September 17-18, 2009.
Globalization? What globalization? How national institutions determine job quality in retail around the
world. September 17.
Latin America s third left: Autonomy and participation in the new political landscape, with Marie
Kennedy. September 18.
American Sociological Association annual meeting, session on Activism in the classroom. This far but no
farther: An ambivalent approach to activism in the classroom. San Francisco, CA, August 9, 2009.
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American Sociological Association annual meeting, thematic session on Neo-liberalism and the assault on
community. Building solidarity within the cracks of neoliberalism: Lessons from Latin America, applications in
the U.S. San Francisco, CA, August 8, 2009.
Central European University, one day of mini-course Work and inequality in a global economy. Cross-national
differences in workplaces: Consequences for workers, challenges for researchers. Budapest, Hungary, July 7, 2009.
Departments of Political Science and Sociology, University of S o Paulo, seminar. Globalization? What
globalization? How national institutions determine job quality in retail around the world (talk given in Spanish).
S o Paulo, Brazil, June 17, 2009.
Department of Sociology, University of S o Paulo, seminar. Unregulated work: Research and public policy for a
growing trend in the U.S. labor market (talk given in Spanish). S o Paulo, Brazil, June 17, 2009.
Center for the Study of Unions and Labor Economics (CESIT), Department of Sociology, and School of Education,
University of Campinas, seminar. The economic crisis: Its impact on workers in the United States (talk given in
Spanish). Campinas, Brazil, June 16, 2009.
Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), seminar. The economic crisis: Its impact on workers in the
United States (talk given in Spanish). Brasilia, Brazil, June 15, 2009.
Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 10-14, 2009
Presenter, Beyond contratos de protecci n : Strong and weak unionism in Mexican retail enterprises
Discussant, Local democracy and inequality
Discussant, Local sites, actors, and strategies: Challenges of raising labor standards and employment
quality in global supply chains and TNCs
UCLA Department of Urban Planning. Occupy! Resist! Produce! Argentineans rebuild their economy from the
bottom up. May 13, 2009. Los Angeles, CA.
UCLA Anderson School of Management, Executive Seminar, Wal-Mart and beyond: What retail jobs around the
world tell us about HR strategy and public policy. May 12, 2009. Los Angeles, CA.
International Labour Process Conference, How national institutions matter: Comparing food retail jobs in France
and the US. April 7, 2009. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Media comments on the unemployment situation, April-May 2009
Television station KCET, SocCal Connected, podcast, California s job outlook. March 26, 2009. Los
Angeles, California.
Free Speech Radio News, Defining and measuring unemployment. April 3, 2009. Los Angeles, CA.
Radio station KPBS, Unemployment in California. April 17, 2009. San Diego, CA.
Free Speech Radio News, New unemployment figures better than anticipated. May 8, 2009. Los Angeles,
CA.
MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research Seminar, Wal-Mart and beyond: How national institutions shape
retail jobs around the world. March 10, 2009. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
UCLA Public Interest Law and Policy Group, forum on A second Great Depression or a second New Deal?
Inequality and policies to overcome it. February 24, 2009. Los Angeles, CA.
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, workshop on Uncharted territory: A dialogue about progressive
organizing in Los Angeles. The economic crisis: Threats and opportunities. November 22, 2008. Los Angeles,
CA.
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