EDUCATION

• Ph.D., in Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1980.

• M.A., in Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1976.

• A.B., Sociology, Columbia University, 1974.

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1989

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Sociology of Work

• Sociological Theory 

• Race, Class and Gender

• Inequality, Class and Poverty

• Science, Technology and Society

COURSES CURRENTLY OFFERED   (2004-05)

• Soc 201 - Race, Class and Gender

  Soc 388 - Sociology of Work

  Soc 352 - Sociological theory

• Soc 280H - Science, Technology and Society  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Sociology of Technical Work

  Sociology of Design

• Work and Inequality

ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

• "Designing People."  Research on the sociology of design work, with Peter Whalley, Loyola University Chicago.  Funded ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant.

• "Work in the Old and New Economies," book manuscript, with Steven Sweet, Ithaca College.  Under contract, Pine Forge Press.

PUBLICATIONS

     Books

• Putting Work In Its Place:  A Quiet Revolution,With Peter Whalley.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 2002.

  Rethinking the Labor Process, co-edited with Mark Wardell and Thomas Steiger.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 1999.

  Rising From the Ashes?  Labor in the Age of Global Capitalism, co-edited with Ellen M. Wood and Michael Yates.  New York:  Monthly Review Press, 1998.

• Engineering Labour:  Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective, with Chris Smith, London: Verso Books, 1996

     Recent Articles 

• "Whither Labor Studies?  Lessons from Two Recent Studies."  Labor Studies Journal 27:2 (Summer):7-20, 2002.

    Selected Book Chapters

• "Controlling Technical Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements:  Rethinking the Work Contract" (with Peter Whalley).  Pp., 236-57 in The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology, and Global Production, eds. Rick Baldoz, Phil Kraft and Chuck Koeber (Philadelphia:  Temple University Press), 2001.

  "The Myth of Technocracy: The Social Philosophy of American Engineers in the 1930s," in States and Societies:  Essays Presented to Neal Wood, special issue of History of Political Thought XXI:3, edited by Maurice Goldsmith and John Morrow, Imprint Academic, pp. 501-23, 2000.

  "Confronting the Time Bind:  Work, Family and Capitalism", Monthly Review, 49:9, pp. 1-13, 1998.

• 'Same As It Ever Was?  The Structure of the Working Class', Monthly Review 49:3, pp. 31-45  (Revised version reprinted in Rising From the Ashes?  Labor in the Age of Global Capitalism," co-edited by Ellen M. Wood, Peter Meiksins, and Michael Yates.  New York:  Monthly Review Press, 1998)

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

• "Reshaping Identit(ies):  Women and the New Politics of Time," (with Peter Whalley), paper to be presented to the Academy of Management Meetings, New Orleans, August, 2004.

  "Gender, Identity and Time"  (with Peter Whalley), paper  presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Meetings, New York, February, 2004.

  "Unmaking the Working Day", Paper presented to the 9^th ERC/METU International Conference in Economics, Ankara, Turkey, September, 2003.

  "Part-Time Work for Technical Professionals:  Myths and Realities", with Peter Whalley.  Paper to be presented to the Society of Women Engineers' National Conference, Detroit, MI, October, 2002.

  "Why Do We Need Both to Work and To Care?  Lessons From Part-time Technical Professionals," with Peter Whalley.  Paper presented to Third Annual Carework Conference, Chicago IL, August, 2002.

  "I'd Rather Do It Myself:  Attitudes to Parenting and Daycare and Technical Professionals' Decisions to Work Part Time", with Peter Whalley.  Paper presented at BPW Conference on Persons, Processes and Places:  Research on Families, Workplaces and Communities, San Francisco, February 2002.

• "Author Meets Critic:  Howard Kimeldorf, Battling for American Labor and C.K. Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, co-winners of 2001 Braverman Award, SSSP Meetings, Anaheim CA, August, 2001.     /span>

• "When Are You Coming Back To Work?", (with Peter Whalley).  Paper presented to the conference on "Work and Family", San Francisco, CA, March, 2000.

• "Part Time All the Time?", with Peter Whalley.  Paper presented to the Society for the Study of Social Problems Meetings, Chicago, IL, August, 1999.

FUNDED PROJECTS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

• "Designing People", (with Peter Whalley), American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline ($6492), 2002.

  "Flexible Employment for Technical Workers:  An Ethnography of a Flexible Labor Market," (with Peter Whalley), Grant from The Sloan Foundation ($223,050.50), 1994.

  National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, "Engineering Ethics:  A Social Historical View", 1991.

  National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, "The Rise of Engineering Professionalism", 1984.

• S.U.N.Y. Research Foundation, Summer Stipend and Grant-in-Aid, "The Rise of Engineering Professionalism"

SERVICE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS

• Session Organizer, "Careers and Scaling Back Work", Eastern Sociological Society, 2004.

• Session Organizer, "Sociology of Work," North Central Sociological Association, 2004. Chair, Nominations Committee, ASA Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, 2003 - 2004.

  Chair, American Sociological Association, Task Force on the Implications of Assessing Faculty Productivity and Teaching Effectiveness, 1999-2002.

  Chair, Elections Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2002.

  Chair, Distinguished Publication Award Committee, SSSP Labor Studies Division, 2000.

  Council member, ASA section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, 1998-2001.

  Chair, Distinguished Publication Award Committee, SSSP Labor Studies Division, 1997-8.

  Member, Lee Founders Award Committee, SSSP (chair, 1998-99), 1996-99.

  Member, Mail Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipends Program, 1996-98.

  Member, Co-Chair, American Sociological Association, Committee on Freedom in Research and Teaching, 1993-95.

  Member, SSSP, C. Wright Mills Award Committee, 1994-95.

• Chair, SSSP Labor Studies Division, 1991-93.