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Blog of the American Sociological Association; sociology on the economy, work and inequality. wipsociology.org

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Constructing Gender: How Online Job Platforms Reinforce Occupational Segregation โ€“ Work in Progress

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 circulateย gendered job criteria. Read more on Work In Progress:

27.10.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A New Body for Surveillance โ€“ 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:

16.10.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
One, True Occupational Ladder? โ€“ Work in Progress

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:

29.08.2025 21:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Why Getting Overlookedโ€”or Overrewardedโ€”Can Affect How You Evaluate Others โ€“ Work in Progress

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):

06.08.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Recapitalizing America Redux โ€“ Work in Progress

A post by โ€ชDonald Tomaskovic-Deveyโ€ฌ (@dont-d.bsky.socialโ€ฌ) on the newest edition of Recapitalizing America is now available on the Work In Progress blog:

04.07.2025 02:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Recapitalizing America Redux โ€“ Work in Progress

My 40 year old book, Recapitalizing America was reissued. Here is my reflection today. www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/r...

02.07.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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...

20.05.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Play, obey, submit: How Elon Muskโ€™s gamer brain conquered Silicon Valleyโ€”and now America โ€“ Work in Progress

How has Elon Musk's gamified mindset reprogrammed power in tech firmsโ€”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.

21.04.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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