Ruth Milkman
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- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth Milkman is an American sociologist of labor and labor movements. She is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the director of research at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Between 1988 and 2009 Milkman taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she directed the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
Ruth Milkman's Published Works
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Published Works
- The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States, Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt. 1994. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY. 320 pages. ISBN: 0-87546-318-5(hc); 0-87546-319-3(pb). $45.00(hc); $18.95(pb) (1993) (565)
- Women's Quest for Economic Equality. (1989) (312)
- Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II (1988) (289)
- Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People (1995) (271)
- DIVIDED WE STAND (2006) (253)
- A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest (2017) (203)
- Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities (2009) (195)
- Rebuilding labor : organizing and organizers in the new union movement (2004) (187)
- Helots No More: A Case Study of the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles (1996) (171)
- Immigrants Are the Adrenalin of the Labor Movement: Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence: L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement (2007) (169)
- Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California (2002) (165)
- Leaves That Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences with Paid Family Leave in California (2011) (135)
- Miseducation (2018) (134)
- The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor (1998) (123)
- Women's Work and Economic Crisis: Some Lessons of the Great Depression (1976) (120)
- Algorithmic Control in Platform Food Delivery Work (2019) (118)
- Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles: Lessons from Three Rounds of Negotiations (2002) (104)
- Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1983) (85)
- Organizing immigrants : the challenge for unions in contemporary California (2001) (85)
- New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement (2014) (79)
- Reviving the American Labour Movement: Institutions and Mobilization (2003) (76)
- The New American Workplace: High Road or Low Road? (1998) (73)
- Women, Work, and Protest: A Century of U. S. Women's Labor History. (1986) (65)
- Back to the Future? US Labour in the New Gilded Age (2013) (62)
- Immigrant Workers, Precarious Work, and the US Labor Movement (2011) (56)
- Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy (2013) (54)
- Women's History and the Sears Case (1986) (53)
- Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century (1997) (53)
- Technological Change in an Auto Assembly Plant (1991) (52)
- Japan's California factories : labor relations and economic globalization (1993) (51)
- Immigrant Organizing and the New Labor Movement in Los Angeles (2000) (44)
- Working for justice : the L.A. model of organizing and advocacy (2017) (43)
- Wage Theft and Workplace Violations in Los Angeles: The Failure of Employment and Labor Law for Low-wage Workers (2010) (42)
- Redefining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry during World War II (1982) (41)
- Female Factory Labor and Industrial Structure: Control and Conflict over "Woman's Place" in Auto and Electrical Manufacturing (1983) (39)
- Gender At Work (1986) (37)
- Paid Family Leave in California: New Research Findings (2004) (35)
- Growing Apart: The "New Economy" and Job Polarization in California, 1992-2000 (2002) (34)
- Union Representation of Immigrant Janitors in Southern California: Economic and Legal Challenges (2000) (33)
- Discussion Forum I: Labour and the global financial crisis (2010) (30)
- Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform-Based Food Delivery (2020) (29)
- Millennial Movements: Occupy Wall Street and the Dreamers (2014) (26)
- "We Are the Ones Who Are Out in Front": Women's Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement (2012) (24)
- Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. By Claudia Goldin · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xi + 287 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $29.95 (1990) (23)
- Trade unions and the crisis: a lost opportunity? (2010) (23)
- The Genie's Out of the Bottle: Insiders' Perspectives on Occupy Wall Street (2013) (20)
- Where Is Labor Headed?@@@Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business.@@@Rights at Work: Employment Relations in the Post-Union Era. (1993) (19)
- The Impact of Foreign Investment on US Industral Relations: The Case of California's Japanese-owned Plants (1992) (18)
- Labor Organizing among Mexican-born Workers in the United States (2007) (15)
- Voices from the front lines : organizing immigrant workers in Los Angeles = Voces desde la lucha : la organización de los trabajadores immigrantes en Los Angeles (2000) (13)
- Union responses to workforce. Feminization in the United States (1994) (12)
- California Union Membership: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait (2003) (12)
- Women, Work and Protest: A Century of Women's Labor History (1986) (12)
- Before the "Mystique" (1999) (9)
- 3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movement (2017) (9)
- Introduction: Toward a New Labor Movement? Organizing New York City’s Precariat (2018) (9)
- Critical Mass: Latino Labor and Politics in California (2007) (8)
- Immigrant and Refugee Youth Organizing in Solidarity With the Movement for Black Lives (2021) (8)
- Organizing the Academic Precariat in the United States (2018) (7)
- Labor Unions and the Great Recession (2017) (7)
- Celebrating the Enduring Contribution of Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies (2016) (6)
- The Senior Precariat (2017) (5)
- 'Where I was a person': The Ladies' Auxiliary in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters' strikes (2013) (5)
- What Works for Workers?: Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers (2014) (5)
- Bread and roses revisited: Women's culture and working-class activism in the Lawrence strike of 1912 (2013) (4)
- The New Labor Movement: Possibilities and Limits (1998) (4)
- Book review: Maria Karamessini and Jill Rubery (eds), Women and Austerity: The Economic Crisis and the Future for Gender Equality (2014) (4)
- CHAPTER FIVE. Organizing Immigrant Workers (2018) (4)
- Immigrant Workers and the Labour Movement in the USA (2015) (4)
- New Unity for Labor (2005) (4)
- Book Review: Labor-Management Relations: Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream (2007) (3)
- Another look at the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: Women, industry structure and collective action (2013) (3)
- Women and the United Automobile Workers' Union in the 1950s (2013) (3)
- The women of the Colorado Fuel and Iron strike, 1913-14 (2013) (3)
- Labor Organizing among Mexican-Born Workers in the US: Recent Trends and Future Prospects (2006) (3)
- Union Decline And Labor Revival In The 21st Century United States (2020) (3)
- Los Angeles Exceptionalism and Beyond: A Response to the Critics (2007) (3)
- Under the Radar: Tracking the Violation of Labour Standards in Low-Wage Industries in the US (2012) (3)
- Economic Inequality among Women (1995) (3)
- TRUMP AND THE FUTURE OF U. S. LABOR: An Intersectional Perspective (2018) (3)
- Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky.@@@Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and Its Discontents. (1998) (3)
- Apartheid, Economic Growth, and United States Foreign Policy in South Africa (1977) (2)
- Unionized women in state and local government (2013) (2)
- 'I know which side I'm on': Southern women in the labor movement in the twentieth century (2013) (2)
- Immigrants Didn't Kill Your Union (2019) (2)
- Seven: Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles (2002) (2)
- Organizing the United Automobile Workers: Women workers at the Ternstedt General Motors parts plant (2013) (2)
- Women, Work and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History. (1986) (2)
- Exchange: ‘Natural Sociologist’ Snags Asa Honor (2008) (2)
- 4. Paid Family Leave and California Business (2013) (1)
- Kathleen M. Barry.Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants.:Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants.(Radical Perspectives.) (2008) (1)
- The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain.@@@Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II. (1988) (1)
- Low-Wage Worker Organizing and Advocacy in the USA: Comparing Domestic Workers and Day Laborers (2018) (1)
- David Montgomery's The Fall of the House of Labor. A Roundtable Symposium (1988) (1)
- What Works for Workers (2014) (1)
- Linking Research and Advocacy: The Case of Paid Family Leave (2006) (1)
- “Rights, Not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80. By Dennis A. Deslippe. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 288 pp. Index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-252-02519-9; paper 0-252-06834-3 (2000) (1)
- New Research in Women's Labor History (1993) (1)
- Problems of coalition-building: Women and trade unions in the 1920s (2013) (1)
- The legacy and lessons of the PATCO strike after 30 years: A dialogue (2013) (1)
- Labor organizing and female institution-building: The Chicago Women's Trade Union League, 1904—24 (2013) (1)
- The World We Have Lost: US Labor in the Obama Years (2018) (1)
- Changing The Subject: Occupy Wall Street's Achievements and Prospects In Comparative Perspective (2014) (1)
- Ruth Milkman (2014) (1)
- Chapter 7. Organizing the Wicked City: The 1992 Southern California Drywall Strike (2019) (1)
- Occupy-Type Protests in Comparative Perspective. Part II (2014) (0)
- 1. Introduction: The Case for Paid Family Leave (2017) (0)
- In Memoriam: Dan Clawson (1948-2019) (2019) (0)
- New Chips, Old Blocks (1987) (0)
- Power in the Workplace: The Politics of Production at AT&T.Steven Peter Vallas (1994) (0)
- 1 US Country Inventory of Informal Worker Organizing Janice Fine , Rutgers (0)
- 6. Conclusions and Future Challenges (2013) (0)
- Organizing From Below: A Commentary on Cranford, Ridzi, Sharone, and Linders and Kalander (2007) (0)
- Immigrants are not the cause of labour degradation (2018) (0)
- Commentary on Judith Stein's Pivotal Decade (2011) (0)
- 2. The Politics of Family Leave, Past and Present (2013) (0)
- Survival strategies among African—American women workers: A continuing process (2013) (0)
- Gender, Precarious Work, and Labor Organizing (2016) (0)
- Immigrants are not the cause of labour degradation (2018) (0)
- Justice forJanitors in Los Angeles: Lessons fromThree Rounds of Negotiations (2002) (0)
- Work Intensification in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2021) (0)
- Pleasure, Power, and Technology: Some Tales of nder, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace.Sally Hacker (1990) (0)
- American Enterprise in Japan.@@@Japan's California Factories: Labor Relations and Economic Globalization. (1993) (0)
- How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America (2021) (0)
- On Gender, Labor, and Inequality: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage (2016) (0)
- American Women and Industrial Unionism during World War II (2017) (0)
- Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights (2009) (0)
- The Amazon Labor Union's Historic Breakthrough (2022) (0)
- Consolidating the Spheres: Exploring the History of Twentieth-Century American Women@@@Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II.@@@Mothers and More: American Women in the 1950's. (1987) (0)
- Book Review: Wage-Earning Women; Rising Women (1982) (0)
- Taking Stock of Spectrum Sharing (2021) (0)
- Golden Bear Omnibus Survey 2007 (2016) (0)
- Labor History Symposium (2007) (0)
- Author index (1981) (0)
- Preface and Acknowledgments - eScholarship (2003) (0)
- Challenging the logic of neoliberalism: Labor-feminist coalitions and work-family policy campaigns (2012) (0)
- Kathleen M. Barry. Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. (Radical Perspectives.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 304. $22.95 (2008) (0)
- Perspectives on gender and trade unionism in the twentieth century U.S. (1988) (0)
- Response to reviews of On Gender, Labor, and Inequality (2017) (0)
- 5. The Reproduction of Inequality (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews (1988) (0)
- Golden Bear Omnibus Survey 2003 (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (1991) (0)
- A Dream Come True (1997) (0)
- Class Inequalities Among Women (2016) (0)
- Under the Radar: Workplace Violations in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York (2012) (0)
- The Pity of It All: Polarisation of Racial and Ethnic Relations.Leo Kuper (1980) (0)
- Precariat Organizing in India: A Politics of Recognition and Redistribution: Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India (2015) (0)
- Immigrants and the Road to Power (2012) (0)
- The Myth of Balance (2004) (0)
- U.S. Labor and the Neoliberal Turn (2019) (0)
- Research Panel: Wage Discrimination at Universities and Professional Schools (2018) (0)
- Challenges of Legislative Implementation (2013) (0)
- Xenophobia, Anti-Migrant Politics, and Workers’ Movements (2018) (0)
- Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940.Winifred D. WanderseeWartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II.Karen Anderson (1984) (0)
- Grocery Unions under the Gun in New York City and the Nation (2022) (0)
- Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home. Edited by Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels · Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. x + 299 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $12.95 (1989) (0)
- 7. The Double Game of Unions and the Labor Movement (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Labor-Management Relations: The Nissan Enigma: Flexibility at Work in a Local Economy (1994) (0)
- Preface:: Amazon and the Future of Work in the Global Economy (2020) (0)
- What Rosie Did (1987) (0)
- Golden Bear Omnibus Survey 2005 (2014) (0)
- Book Critic for Informal Labor, Formal Politics and Dignifying Discontent in India (2014) (0)
- Chapter 16 (2019) (0)
- Stratification Among In-Home Care Workers in the United States (2022) (0)
- Labor Movements and Gender (2001) (0)
- Time for Change? US Work-Family Policy in the Age of Obama (2009) (0)
- Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City’s Public Employee Unions by Richard Steier (review) (2016) (0)
- Labor's Future in the Global Economy@@@The Forgotten Link: Labor's Stake in International Economic Cooperation.@@@Democracy at Work: Changing World Markets and the Future of Labor Unions. (1992) (0)
- Book Review: Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. By Steven Greenhouse (2020) (0)
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