Dear colleagues,

You are invited to a colloquium of interest to COR community….

Friday, November 16, 2018
10:30-12:00pm
Lyman Porter Colloquium Room (SB1 5200)

Speaker: Sam Friedman, Associate Professor of Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology

Title: The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged

Abstract: The hidden barriers, or ‘glass ceilings’, preventing women and minority ethnic groups from getting to the top are well documented. Yet questions of social class – and specifically class origin – have been curiously absent from these debates. In this talk I begin by drawing on new data from Britain’s largest employment survey, The Labour Force Survey, to demonstrate that a powerful and previously unrecognised “class pay gap” exists in Britain’s higher professional and managerial
occupations. I then switch focus to ask why this pay gap exists. This analysis demonstrates that the class ceiling can only be very partially attributed to conventional measures of ‘merit’. Instead, drawing on 175 interviews across four occupational case studies – television, accountancy, architecture, and acting – I show that more powerful drivers are rooted in the misrecognition of classed self-presentation as ‘talent’, work cultures historically shaped by the privileged, the affordances of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, and sponsored mobility premised on class-cultural homophily.

Dear colleagues,

You are invited to the colloquium of interest to COR community….

Tuesday, November 13, 2018
1:00-2:30pm
SB1 5200

Speaker: Nicholas Occhiuto, Yale University

“Market Actions and Non-Market Consequences: How Transportation Network
Companies Influenced Regulation in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco”

Abstract:
A long line of research has examined how firms attempt to shape regulation and government policy in ways favorable to the firm. Existing research on non-market strategy has largely focused on how firm actions in the non-market environment influence both economic regulation and public policy. Recent research suggests, however, that firms actions in the market environment may also gain regulatory and policy influence.  Nevertheless, because most of this work has largely focused on the market actions of existing firms, it remains unclear whether and how the market actions of startups may also help them gain regulatory and policy influence. This paper adds to our understanding of non-market strategy by showing that startups may use market actions to build constituencies, which can function as important assets in influencing their non-market environments. Drawing on 128 interviews, ethnographic observations, and content analysis of primary source documents collected across New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco, this paper will show how Transportation Network Companies used market actions (i.e., contracting with drivers, registering passengers, and securing venture capital investment) to make displays of worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment of their emerging market to both regulators and policy makers. As a result, these market actions influenced regulators and policy makers to produce regulations that were favorable to the firms. This article also highlights city-level variation of regulation in the context of global market emergence. It will show how this same market actions initiated two different types of non-market outcomes: formal and interpretive change.

California Theory Workshop on Organizations and Organizing
(CalO2) 2018
University of California, Irvine
Social Sciences Gateway Building 1517
October 26-27, 2018

Schedule

 

Thursday, October 25
6:00 pm	Optional dinner: True Food Kitchen
Friday, October 26
8:00-8:30am	Continental breakfast
8:30-8:45	Welcome
8:45-9:30	Provocateurs Lynne Zucker and Janet Vertesi will stimulate conversation around the organizational components of big science
9:30-11:00	Roundtables
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-12:30pm	Plenary Discussion
12:30-1:30pm	Lunch and informal conversation
1:30-2:15pm	Provocateur Chris Bauman will inspire reflection on the antecedents of morality/ethics from a macro perspective and the malleability of ethical beliefs – through the lens of the #metoo era
2:15-4:15pm	Roundtables
4:15-4:45pm	Break
4:45-5:30pm	Plenary discussion
5:30-6:30	Social hour with wine and beer
6:30-9:30pm	Dinner under the stars – Courtyard outside 1517
Saturday, October 27
8:00-8:30am	Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:15am	Provocateur Pam Hinds will get us thinking about automation and the future of work
9:15-10:45	Roundtables
10:45-11:15	Break
11:15-11:45pm	Plenary discussion
11:45-12:00pm	What’s next for CalO2?
12:00pm	End of Conference – Boxed Lunches available

 

Dear COR colleagues,

You are invited to the colloquium by Prof. Barry Eidlin, McGill
University

“Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada”

Date: Friday, October 26, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Location: SSPB, Room 4250

ABSTRACT: Why are unions weaker in the U.S. than in Canada, despite the
two countries’ socio-economic similarities? Many view this cross-border
difference as a byproduct of long-standing differences in political
cultures and institutions. But using detailed archival and statistical
data, I find this divergence is relatively recent, resulting from
different ruling party responses to working class upsurge in both
countries during the Great Depression and World War II. In Canada, an
initially more hostile state response ended up embedding “the class
idea”—the idea of class as a salient, legitimate political category—more
deeply in policies, policies, and practices than in the U.S., where
class interests were reduced to “special interests.” I illustrate this
through comparative studies of party-class relations, postwar Red
scares, and divergence in labor policy between the two countries.

BIOGRAPHY: Barry Eidlin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill
University. He is a comparative historical sociologist interested in the
study of class, politics, social movements, and social change. His book,
Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada was published
by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Other research has been published
in the American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Sociology
Compass, and Labor History, among other venues. He also comments
regularly in various media outlets on labor politics and policy.