Labor and Labor Movements / Critical Sociology Best Student Paper Award
2024: Katy Habr, Columbia University, “Towards a Gig Economy: A Case Study of Non-Platform firms’ use of Platforms in California’s Grocery Industry.”
2024: Emily Ruppel, University of California, Berkeley, “Disability and the State Production of Precarity.”
2023: Luis Flores Jr., University of Michigan, “Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Youbin Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Unionizing Against Solidarity: The Meritocracy Habitus and the Politics of Skill in the Seoul Metro.”
2022: Eric Blanc, New York University, “How Digitized Strategy Impacts Movement Outcomes: Social Media, Mobilizing, and Organizing in the 2018 Teachers’ Strikes.” Politics & Society. 2021.
2022: Sara Gia Trongone, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “A New Collective Bargain? A Multi-Case Comparison of U.S. Labor Union Strategy.”
2021: Laura Adler, “From the Job’s Worth to the Person’s Price: The Evolution of Pay-setting Practices in the US since the 1950s.”
2020: Yewon Andrea Lee, “Organizing Workers Beyond the Factory Walls: Self-Employed Tenant Shopkeepers in Seoul Subverting Urban Spaces for Workers’ Power”
2019: Madison Van Oort, “The Emotional Labor of Surveillance: Digital Control in the Fast Fashion Retail”
2019 Honorable Mention: Kathleen Griesbach, “Dioquis: Being Without Doing in the Migrant Agricultural Labor Process”
2018: Katy Fox-Hodess, University of California-Berkeley, “Worker Power, Trade Union Strategy and International Connections: A Cross-National Comparison of Dockworker Unionism in Latin America”
2018: Pablo Gastón, Rutgers University, “The Strike and the Moral Economy of Care: The Moral Dilemmas of Economic Conflict in California Hospitals, 1946-1974”
2017: Manuel Rosaldo, “Revolution in the Garbage Dump: The Political and Economic Foundations of the Colombian Recycler Movement, 1986-2011,” Social Problems 63(3):351-72. 2016.
2016: Katherine Maich, “Collective [Dis]Empowerment: Gendered Divisions and the Organization of Worker Centers”
2016: Brian Halpin, “Subject to Change Without Notice: Mock Schedules and Flexible Employment in the United States,” Social Problems (62):419–438. 2015.
2015: Jane McAlevey, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “The Crisis of New Labor and Alinsky’s Legacy,” Politics & Society 43(3):415-441. 2015.
2013: Barry Eidlin, “Class vs. Special Interest: Labor Regimes and Union Strength in the United States and Canada, 1911-2011,” Politics & Society 43(2):181-211. 2015.
2013: Madison Van Oort, “Post-Recession Governmentalities: Neoliberalism, Job Searching, and Comparative Control in Minneapolis”
2012: Shinji Kojima, University of Hawaii, Manoa, “Why Do Temp Workers Work as Hard as They Do?: The Process of Embodying the Illusion of Factory Work in Contemporary Japan”
2010: Jennifer Seminatore, “The Consequences of Collective Action: The Blue-Green Coalition and the Emergence of a Polanyian Social Movement”
2009: Anna Wetterburg, University of California, Berkeley, “Codes, Coercion and Culture: Explaining Labor Self- Regulation in the Apparel Industry”
2007: Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, University of Wisconsin, “Sewing Resistance: Transnational Organizing, Anti-Sweatshop Activism, and Labor Rights in the US-Caribbean Basin Apparel Industry (1990-2005)”
2006: Barry Eidlin, University of California, Berkeley, “State Coersion and the Rise of U.S. Business Unionism: The Counterfactual Case of Minneapolis Teamsters”
2005: David Fitzgerald, University of California, Los Angeles, “Mexican State Responses to Labor Emigration, 1900-2004”
2004: Jeffrey Sallaz, “Manufacturing Concessions: Attritionary Outsourcing at GM’s Lordstown, USA Assembly Plant,” Work, Employment and Society 18(4):687-708. 2004.
2004 Honorable Mention: Teresa Sharpe, “Union Democracy and Successful Campaigns”
2004 Honorable Mention: Jason Moore, “Remaking Work, Remaking Space, Spaces of Production and Accumulation in the Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1865-1920,” Antipode 34(2):176-204. 2002.
The Section on Labor and Labor Movements’ Distinguished Scholarly Article Award
2024: Pablo Gastón, University of Michigan, “Moralizing the Strike: Nurses Associations and the Justification of Workplace Conflict in California Hospitals.” American Journal of Sociology. 2022.
2024: Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, “The Right to Work and American Inequality.” American Sociological Review. 2023.
2023: Yige Dong, University at Buffalo, “The Dilemma of Foxconn Moms: Social Reproduction and the Rise of ‘Gig Manufacturing’ in China.” Critical Sociology. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Larry Isaac, Vanderbilt University, Quan D. Mai, Rutgers University, Jonathan S. Coley, Oklahoma State University, and Anna W. Jacobs, Vanderbilt University, “Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes.” American Journal of Sociology, 127(5): 1602–1663. 2022.
2022: Andy Scott Chang, Singapore Management University, “Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia.” Social Problems, Vol.68(4): 903–924. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Quan D Mai, Rutgers University, “Unclear Signals, Uncertain Prospects: The Labor Market Consequences of Freelancing in the New Economy.” Social Forces, Vol. 99(3): 895–920. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Eric Blanc, Rutgers University, “How Digitized Strategy Impacts Movement Outcomes: Social Media, Mobilizing, and Organizing in the 2018 Teachers’ Strikes.” Politics & Society. 2021.
2021: Tom VanHeuvelen, “The Right to Work, Power Resources, and Economic Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology
2021 Honorable Mention: Elaine Sio-ieng Hui, “Labor-related Civil Society Actors in China: A Gramscian Analysis.” Theory and Society 49:49–74.
2020: Gretchen Purser, “Day Labor Agencies, Backdoor Hires and the Spread of Unfree Labor”, Anthropology of Work Review.
2020 Honorable Mention: Manuel Rosaldo, “The Antinomies of Successful Mobilization: Colombian Recyclers Manoeuvre between Dispossession and Exploitation,” Development and Change.
2019: Diana Fu, “Fragmented Control: Governing Contentious Labor Organizations in China.” Governance. Vol. 30, No. 3. 445-462
2018: Katy Fox-Hodess, “(Re-)Locating the Local and National in the Global: Multi-Scalar Political Alignment in Transnational European Dockworker Union Campaigns,” British Journal of Industrial Relations 55(3):626-654. 2017
2018 Honorable Mention: Hae Yeon Choo, “In the Shadow of Working Men: Gendered Labor and Migrant Rights in South Korea,” Qualitative Sociology 39(4):353-373. 2016.
2017: Barry Eidlin, “Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? Political Articulation and the Canadian Comparison, 1932 to 1948,” American Sociological Review 81(3):488 –516. 2016.
2016: Daniel Scheider and Adam Reich, “Marrying Ain’t Hard When You Got a Union Card? Labor Union Membership and First Marriage,” Social Problems 61(4):625-643. 2014.
2015: Jeffrey J. Sallaz, “Permanent Pedagogy: How Post-Fordist Firms Generate Effort but Not Consent,” Work and Occupations 42(1):3-34. 2015.
2013: Jake Rosenfeld and Meredith Kleykamp, “Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States,” American Journal of Sociology 117(5):1460-1502. 2012.
2012: Heather Thompson, Temple University, “Rethinking Working-Class Struggle through the Lens of the Carceral State: Toward a Labor History of Inmates and Guards,” Labor: Working Class Studies of the Americas 8(3):15-45. 2011.
2010: Larry Isaac, Vanderbilt University, “Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change: Making the American Labor Problem Novel.” American Sociological Review 74: 938-965. 2009.
2009: Paul Almeida, Texas A&M University, “The Sequencing of Success: Organizing Templates and Neoliberal Policy Outcomes,” Mobilization: The International Quarterly 13(2):165-187.
2006: Tamara Kay, Harvard University, “Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance: the Impact of NAFTA on Transnational Labor Relationships in North America,” American Journal of Sociology 111(3):715-756. 2005.
2006 Honorable Mention: Ben Cornwell and Jill Harrison, “Union Members and Voluntary Associations: Membership Overlap and a Case of Organizational Embeddedness,” American Sociological Review 69(6):862-881. 2004.
2005: Steven Henry Lopez, The Ohio State University, Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement. University of California Press. 2004.
2005 Honorable Mention: Chun Soonok, They Are Not Machines: Korean Women Workers and Their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s. Ashgate Publishing. 2003.
2005 Honorable Mention: Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University, Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870. Cambridge University Press. 2003.
2004: Rick Fantasia, “Dictatorship OVER the Proletariat: Deprivations of Work and Labor in the United States,”Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 138:3-18. 2001.
2004 Honorable Mention: Moon-Kie Jung, “Interracialism: The Ideological Transformation of Hawaii’s Working Class,” American Sociological Review 68(3):373-400. 2003.
2004 Honorable Mention: Marc Dixon and Vincent Roscigno, “Status, Networks, and Social Movement Participation: The Case of Striking Workers,” American Journal of Sociology 108(6):1292-1327. 2003.
Section on Labor and Labor Movements Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
2024: Judith Stepan-Norris, University of California, Irvine, and Jasmine Kerrissey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement. Oxford University Press. 2023.
2023: Michael Gibson-Light, University of Denver, Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison. Oxford University Press. 2023.
2023 Honorable Mention: Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University, The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration. Oxford University Press. 2022.
2022: Natasha N Iskander, New York University, Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond. Princeton University Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Josh Seim, University of Southern California, Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering. University of California Press. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Michael L. Siciliano, Queen’s University, Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries. Columbia University Press.2021.
2021: Julia Chuang, Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2020.
2021: Cynthia J. Cranford, Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press. 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Sallaz, Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World’s Call Center Capital. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2019.
2020: Erynn Masi de Casanova, Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador, ILR Press, 2019
2019: Francoise Carre and Chris Tilly, Where Bad Jobs are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies. Russel Sage Foundation. 2017.
2019 Honorable Mention: Adam Reich and Peter Bearman. Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart (The Middle Range Series). Columbia University Press. 2018.
2018: Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa. University of Chicago Press. 2018.
2018 Honorable Mention: John Krinsky and Maud Simone, Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City, University of Chicago Press, 2017
2018 Honorable Mention: Michael McCarthy, Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal, ILR Press, 2017
2017: Chad Broughton, Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities. Oxford University Press. 2015.
2017: Steve Viscelli, Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream. University of California Press. 2016.
2016: Vanesa Ribas, On the Line: Slaughterhouse Live and the Making of the New South. University of California Press. 2015.
2015: Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel, Unequal Time: Gender, Class and Family in Employment Schedules. Russell Sage Foundation. 2014.
2014: Jamie K. McCallum, Middlebury College, Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing. Cornell University Press. 2013.
2013: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table. Russell Sage Foundation. 2012.
2012: Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo. Stanford University Press. 2011.
2011: Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer, Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-Wage Labor Market. University of Chicago Press. 2010.
2010: Jefferey Salaz, Labor of Luck: Casino Capitalism in the United States and South Africa. University of California Press. 2009.
2010: Jeffrey Haydu, Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916. Cornell University Press. 2008.
2009: Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand, Rob Lambert, University of Western Australia, Andries Bezuidenhout, University of the Witwatersrand, Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity. Blackwell Press. 2008.
2008: Ching Kwan Lee, University of Michigan, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt. University of California Press. 2007.
2007: Steven McKay, Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines. Cornell University Press. 2006.
Section on Labor and Labor Movements Dan Clawson Activist-Scholar Award
2024: Edward Orozco Flores, University of California, Merced
2023: Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles
2022: Carolina Bank-Muñoz, Brooklyn College, CUNY
2022: Nancy Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M University
