Research in the Sociology of Work

Editorial team

About the Editors

Editor-in-Chief

Rick Delbridge is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He has researched a wide range of issues in work, organization and management, including control, deception, gossip, new management practices, organized labour, resistance and workplace relations. His doctoral research was an ethnographic study of the shopfloor experiences of working in two factories operating under just-in-time and total quality management regimes and was published in Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing: The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the ‘Japanese’ Model (Oxford University Press). He has previously been an editor for Academy of Management Review and Organization, and was the founding co-editor of the JMSSays section of the Journal of Management Studies. He has been awarded best paper prizes by Academy of Management Review and Organization Studies.

Associate Editors

Andreas (Andi) Pekarek is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches courses on labour relations, HRM, stakeholder engagement, and the future of work. Andi is fascinated by how people work, and his research has focused on how collective action by workers and their allies can steer the world of work in a more sustainable direction, towards fairness and social justice. His recent projects have centred on work in the platform economy, unions and collective bargaining, workplace conflict resolution, and the HRM occupation. Andi has published in such journals as Industrial and Labor Relations Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and New Technology, Work and Employment.

Markus Helfen is a Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Professor in Strategic Management in the Management Department in the School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin. He does research in the fields of organization theory and employment relations with a focus on collective action and institutional work. Current topics and projects include labour standards in global supply chains, multi-employer work arrangements as well as sustainability studies. Markus has published in leading organization and industrial relations journals like Organization Studies, Human Relations, and the British Journal of Industrial Relations. He runs two blogs: #LIB_Labour Inspection Blog and UP:IT – Utopia Platform for Imagining Transformations.

Gretchen Purser is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her scholarship focuses broadly on the intersection between precarious work and the low-wage labor market and the reproduction and lived experience of urban poverty in the U.S. She uses ethnographic and/or community-based research methods to explore the changing nature of work and workers’ movements and the ground-level practices of neoliberal poverty management. Her articles have been published in journals such as Ethnography, Qualitative Sociology, Critical Sociology, and Anthropology of Work Review and have been recognized with a wide variety of publication awards, including from the American Sociological Association and the Working Class Studies Association. She is the editor-in-chief of the Marxist Sociology Blog and a commissioning editor for the public sociology blog Work In Progress.
 

Editorial Advisory Board

• Ifeoma Ajunwa, Cornell University
• Michel Anteby, Boston University
• Steve Barley, Stanford University
• David Courpasson, EMLYON (France)
• Liz Gorman, University of Virginia
• Bill Harley, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Heather Hofmeister, Goethe University
• Hajo Holst, University of Osnabrück
• Alexandra Kalev, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
• Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Erin Kelly, MIT
• Kate Kellogg, MIT
• Julie Kmec, Washington State University
• Marek Korczynski, University of Nottingham
• Anne Kovalainen, University of Turku (Finland)
• Robin Leidner, University of Pennsylvania
• Steve Lopez, Ohio State University
• Irene Padavic Florida State University
• Valeria Pulignano, the Catholic University, Leuven (Belgium)
• Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University
• Dee Royster, NYU
• Vinnie Roscigno, OSU
• Jeff Sallaz, University of Arizona
• Ofer Sharone, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Sheryl Skaggs, UT Dallas
• Don Tomaskovic-Devey UMASS Amherst
• Catherine Turco, MIT
• Steve Vallas, Northeastern University, USA
• Geert Van Hootegem, the Catholic University, Leuven (Belgium)
• Matt Vidal, Kings College London
• Chris Warhurst, University of Warwick (UK)
• Christine Williams, UT Austin
• George Wilson, University of Miami
• Adia Wingfield, Washington University, St Louis
• Patrizia Zanoni, Hasselt University (Belgium)
• Josh Healy, Newcastle Business School
• William Charles, Miami University