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Sanford Jacoby

Books

• The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States," Princeton University Press, 2004
• "Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal," Princeton University Press, 1998
• "The Workers of Nations Industrial Relations in a Global Economy," Oxford University Press, 1995
• "Masters to Managers," Columbia University Press, 1991
• "Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century," Psychology Press, 2004

Selected Articles and Essays

• "Convergence by Design: The Case of CalPERS in Japan," American Journal of Comparative Law, 2007
  
• "Corporate Governance in Comparative Perspective: Prospects for Convergence," Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal,
• "Business and Society in Japan and the United States," British Journal of Industrial Relations, December 2005 0007–1080 pp. 617–634
• "Principles and Agents: CalPERS and corporate governance in Japan," Corporate Governance, Volume 15, Number 1, January 2007 , pp. 5-15(11)
• "Corporate Organization in Japan and the United States: Is There Evidence of Convergence?," Social Science Japan Journal 8:43-67 (2005)

Working Papers

• "Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy," (May 6, 2008)

 

Miriam Golden

Books

• Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: The Political Economy of Inequality, Unions, and Social Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) (Paperback) by David Austen-Smith (Editor), Jeffry A. Frieden (Editor), Miriam A. Golden (Editor), Karl Ove Moene (Editor), Adam Przeworski (Editor); Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss (Cambridge University Press paperback, 1997)
• Bargaining for Change: Union Politics in North America and Europe (Miriam Golden (Editor) and Jonas Pontusson (Editor); Cornell University Press paperback, 1992)
• Labor Divided: Austerity and Working Class Politics in Contemporary Italy (Cornell University Press paperback, 1988)

Selected Articles

• "Centralization of Bargaining and Wage Inequality: A Correction of Wallerstein, " American Journal of Political Science, vol. 50 (January 2006), pp. 208-13. Co-authored with John B. Londregan.
• "Postwar Wage Setting in the Nordic Countries," in Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies, ed. Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson, and David Soskice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 107--37. With Michael Wallerstein.

 

Ching Kwan Lee

Books

• Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt; UC Press, 2007
• Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China (co-edited with Guobin Yang) Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Stanford University Press; 2007
• Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (edited); 2007
• Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women; UC Press; 1998

 

Ruth Milkman

Books

• L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement; Russell Sage Foundation, 2006
• Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement; (co-edited with Kim Voss) Cornell University Press, 2004
• Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California; (edited volume) Cornell University Press, 2000
• Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century; University of California Press, 1997
• Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II; University of Illinois Press, 1987

Selected Articles and Essays

• "Labor Organizing Among Mexican-Born Workers in the U.S.: Recent Trends and Future Prospects," Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 32, no.1 (2007), pp. 96-112
• "Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movement," in Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed., The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007)
• "Divided We Stand," New Labor Forum vol. 15, no. 1 (2006), pp. 38-46.
• "A More Perfect Union," New York Times (op-ed), June 30, 2005.
• "Win or Lose: Lessons from Two Contrasting Union Campaigns," Social Policy,vol. 35, no. 2(2004/05), pp. 43-47.
• "Paid Family Leave in California: New Research Findings," (with Eileen Appelbaum) The State of California Labor 2004; Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 45-67.
• "California Union Membership: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait," (with Daisy Rooks) The State of California Labor 2003 (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 3-37.
• "Organizing Immigrant Workers: Case Studies from Southern California" (with Kent Wong) in Lowell Turner, Harry Katz and Richard Hurd, eds., Rekindling the Movement: Labor’s Quest for 21st Century Relevance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), pp. 99-128.

 

Daniel J.B. Mitchell

Recent Publications

• "Something Different in the Air? The Collapse of the Schwarzenegger Health Plan in California," Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society , Vol. 11 (June 2008), pp. 199-218.
• "Monopsony as a metaphor for the emerging post-union labour market," (with Christopher L. Erickson) International Labour Review , Vol. 146, No. 3-4 (2007).
• "Earl Warren's Fight for California's Freeways, Setting a Path for the Nation," Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 88 (Summer 2006), pp. 205-238.
• "They Want to Destroy Me": How California's Fiscal Crisis Became A War on "Big Government Unions," WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 9  (March 2006), pp. 99-121.
• "Not yet dead at the fed: Unions, worker bargaining, and economy-wide wage determination," (with Christopher L. Erickson) Industrial Relations , Vol. 44 No. 4 (October 2005).
• "Impeding Earl Warren: California's Health Insurance Plan That Wasn't and What Might Have Been," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law , Vol. 27, No. 6 (December 2002).
• "Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society," M.E. Sharp. (2000).

 

Noah Zatz

Articles and Chapters

• "Working Beyond the Reach or Grasp of Employment Law" in The Gloves-Off Economy: Problems and Possibilities at the Bottom of America's Labor Market (edited by Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser, and Chris Tilly, Cornell University Press, 2008).
• "Working at the Boundaries of Markets: Prison Labor and the Economic Dimension of Employment Relationships" 61 Vanderbilt Law Review  857 (2008). 
• "What Welfare Requires from Work" 54 UCLA Law Review 373-464 (2006).
• "Welfare to What?", 57 Hastings Law Journal 1131-88 (2006).
• "Beyond the Zero-Sum Game: Toward Title VII Protection for Intergroup Solidarity" 77 Indiana Law Journal 63 (2002).
• "A Practical Legal Services Approach to Addressing Racial Discrimination in Employment" (with Sharon M. Dietrich), 36 Clearinghouse Review 39 (2002).
• Note, "Sidewalks in Cyberspace: Making Space for Public Forums in the Electronic Environment" 12 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 149 (1998).
• "Sex Work/Sex Act: Law, Labor, and Desire in Constructions of Prostitution" 22 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 277 (1997).

Other Publications

• A War on Community Service, Washington Post (April 12, 2008).
• Welfare Reform – What Really Works, Los Angeles Times (Aug. 23, 2006).

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