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Steven Lopez
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Sociology of work and the labor movement, political sociology, aging and health. Current research focuses on the dilemmas of contemporary service sector union organizing and on the organization of care work in nursing homes.
Recent Publications:
- Lopez, Steven (2004). Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Burawoy, Michael, Joseph Blum, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steven Lopez, Sean O’Riain, and Millie Thayer (2000). Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Lopez, Steven (forthcoming 2007). “Efficiency and the Fix Revisited: Informal Relations and Mock Routinization at a Nonprofit Nursing Home.” Qualitative Sociology.
- • Randy Hodson, Vincent Roscigno, and Steven Lopez (2006). “Chaos and the Abuse of Power: Workplace Bullying in Organizational and Interactional Context.” Work and Occupations 33 (4): 382-416.
- • Lopez, Steven (2006). “Emotional Labor and Emotional Care: Conceptualizing Nursing Home Care Work.” Work and Occupations 33 (2): 133-160.
- Lopez, Steven (2006). “Culture-Change Management in Long-Term Care: A Shop-Floor View.” Politics and Society 34 (1): 55-80.
