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Blog of the American Sociological Association; sociology on the economy, work and inequality.
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How do Chinese language job platforms in the U.S. recreate informal, offline labor-market norms online and reinforce occupational segregation in the ethnic economy? Anna Zhang's newest post examines how advertisements encode and circulate gendered job criteria. Read more on Work In Progress:
Constructing Gender: How Online Job Platforms Reinforce Occupational Segregation – Work in Progress
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October 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
How do Chinese language job platforms in the U.S. recreate informal, offline labor-market norms online and reinforce occupational segregation in the ethnic economy? Anna Zhang's newest post examines how advertisements encode and circulate gendered job criteria. Read more on Work In Progress:
How do class and race shape the aesthetics of surveillance for security guards in Mexico City? Eldad Levy's (eldadlevy.com) newest post on Work In Progress, "A New Body for Surveillance", examines the aesthetic labor involved in the production of vigilance. Read more at the Work In Progress blog:
A New Body for Surveillance – Work in Progress
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October 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
How do class and race shape the aesthetics of surveillance for security guards in Mexico City? Eldad Levy's (eldadlevy.com) newest post on Work In Progress, "A New Body for Surveillance", examines the aesthetic labor involved in the production of vigilance. Read more at the Work In Progress blog:
How do Americans really view the occupational hierarchy? A new article by Freda B. Lynn, Yongren Shi, and Kevin Kiley (@kkiley.bsky.social) finds less agreement on the status of occupations than estimates suggest. Read more on the Work In Progress blog:
One, True Occupational Ladder? – Work in Progress
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August 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
How do Americans really view the occupational hierarchy? A new article by Freda B. Lynn, Yongren Shi, and Kevin Kiley (@kkiley.bsky.social) finds less agreement on the status of occupations than estimates suggest. Read more on the Work In Progress blog:
How does being overlooked or overrewarded shape how people go on to evaluate others? Read the newest post on the Work In Progress blog by Mabel Abraham and Tristan Botelho (@tristanbotelho.bsky.social):
Why Getting Overlooked—or Overrewarded—Can Affect How You Evaluate Others – Work in Progress
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August 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
How does being overlooked or overrewarded shape how people go on to evaluate others? Read the newest post on the Work In Progress blog by Mabel Abraham and Tristan Botelho (@tristanbotelho.bsky.social):
A post by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (@dont-d.bsky.social) on the newest edition of Recapitalizing America is now available on the Work In Progress blog:
Recapitalizing America Redux – Work in Progress
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July 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A post by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (@dont-d.bsky.social) on the newest edition of Recapitalizing America is now available on the Work In Progress blog:
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My 40 year old book, Recapitalizing America was reissued. Here is my reflection today. www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/r...
Recapitalizing America Redux – Work in Progress
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July 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My 40 year old book, Recapitalizing America was reissued. Here is my reflection today. www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/r...
How do crowdworking platforms like TalentFinder control workers' behavior? Transcript of the Author Meets Critics session for Hatim Rahman's award-winning book "Inside the Invisible Cage" with Lindsey Cameron and Steven Vallas now available on the WIP blog at: www.wipsociology.org/2025/05/20/a...
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
How do crowdworking platforms like TalentFinder control workers' behavior? Transcript of the Author Meets Critics session for Hatim Rahman's award-winning book "Inside the Invisible Cage" with Lindsey Cameron and Steven Vallas now available on the WIP blog at: www.wipsociology.org/2025/05/20/a...
How has Elon Musk's gamified mindset reprogrammed power in tech firms—and now in the state itself? Sociologist Tongyu Wu draws on the framework of her new book, "Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm" to examine this phenomenon at the Work In Progress blog.
Play, obey, submit: How Elon Musk’s gamer brain conquered Silicon Valley—and now America – Work in Progress
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April 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
How has Elon Musk's gamified mindset reprogrammed power in tech firms—and now in the state itself? Sociologist Tongyu Wu draws on the framework of her new book, "Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm" to examine this phenomenon at the Work In Progress blog.