Ruth Milkman
PROFESSOR
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: 251A HAINES
Phone: 3102065215
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
milkman@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Gender, Industrial Sociology, Comparative/Historical Sociology
Research Interests
Research interests include the sociology of work, labor history, contemporary unionism, and the sociology of gender.
Selected Publications
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) See also http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/books/10/
FAREWELL TO THE FACTORY: AUTOMOBILE WORKERS IN THE LATE 20TH 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)
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.
(with Eileen Appelbaum) “Paid Family Leave in California: New Research Findings,” The State of California Labor 2004 (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 45-67.
(with Daisy Rooks) “California Union Membership: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait,” The State of California Labor 2003 (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 3-37.
(with Kent Wong) “Organizing Immigrant Workers: Case Studies from Southern California” 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.
(with Ellen Reese and Benita Roth) “The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor,” Work and Occupations, vol. 25, no. 4 (November 1998), pp. 483-510.
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