2026 Ruth Milkman: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	44	4104	3790	1956	1774	177	9382

Ruth Milkman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ruth Milkman sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 177 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Ruth Milkman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ruth Milkman sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Ruth Milkman is affiliated with The Graduate Center, CUNY in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, including subfields such as sociology and political science, general health professions, marketing, safety research, and demography.

Their scholarly work centers on topics related to employment and welfare studies, digital economy and work transformation, sharing economy and platforms, youth development and social support, community health and development, participatory visual research methods, and migration and labor dynamics.

Milkman has published multiple papers in respected academic venues. Recent publications include:

Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform-Based Food Delivery, 2020, Critical Sociology
Immigrant and Refugee Youth Organizing in Solidarity With the Movement for Black Lives, 2021, Gender & Society
Stratification Among In-Home Care Workers in the United States, 2022, Critical Sociology
The Case for Public Investment in Higher Pay for New York State Home Care Workers: Estimated Costs and Savings, 2021, CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York)
How the Hart-Celler Act Changed America, 2021, Dissent

Frequent publication venues for Milkman include:

Critical Sociology
Dissent
Gender & Society
CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York)
New Labor Forum

Collaborations have featured several coauthors, with repeated partnership in multiple works. Frequent co-authors include:

Deepak Bhargava
Penny Lewis
Luke Elliott-Negri
Kathleen Griesbach
Adam Reich

Milkman has been recognized with the Public Understanding of Sociology Award from the American Sociological Association in 2013.

Best Publications

Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II

Ruth Milkman

1071
Citations
The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States.

Ruth Milkman;Eileen Appelbaum;Rosemary Batt

711
Citations
A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest:

Ruth Milkman

447
Citations
Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities

Annette Bernhardt;Ruth Milkman;Nik Theodore;Douglas D. Heckathorn

428
Citations
Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century

Ruth Milkman

410
Citations
DIVIDED WE STAND

Ruth Milkman

385
Citations
Women's Work and Economic Crisis: Some Lessons of the Great Depression

Ruth Milkman

356
Citations
Algorithmic Control in Platform Food Delivery Work

Kathleen Griesbach;Adam Reich;Luke Elliott-Negri;Ruth Milkman

338
Citations
Helots No More: A Case Study of the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles

Roger D Waldinger;Chris Erickson;Ruth Milkman;Daniel Mitchell

301
Citations
Women, Work and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History

Ruth Milkman

273
Citations
Leaves That Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences with Paid Family Leave in California

Eileen Appelbaum;Ruth Milkman

268
Citations
L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement

Ruth Milkman

247
Citations
The macrosociology of paid domestic labor

Ruth Milkman;Ellen Reese;Benita Roth

215
Citations
Organizing immigrants : the challenge for unions in contemporary California

Ruth Milkman

204
Citations
Rebuilding labor : organizing and organizers in the new union movement

Ruth Milkman;Kim Voss

201
Citations
New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement

Ruth Milkman;Ed Ott

199
Citations
Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles: Lessons from three rounds of negotiations

Christopher L. Erickson;Catherine L. Fisk;Ruth Milkman;Daniel J. B. Mitchell

189
Citations
Japan's California factories : labor relations and economic globalization

Ruth Milkman

159
Citations
Women's History and the Sears Case

Ruth Milkman

131
Citations
Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform-Based Food Delivery:

Ruth Milkman;Luke Elliott-Negri;Kathleen Griesbach;Adam Reich

128
Citations
Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California

Michael Indergaard;Ruth Milkman

57
Citations
Women's Quest for Economic Equality.

Claudia Goldin;Victor R. Fuchs

2
Citations
Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities - eScholarship

Annette Bernhardt;Ruth Milkman;Nik Theodore;Douglas D. Heckathorn

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas D. Heckathorn Cornell University

Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago

Roger Waldinger University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley

Richard Florida University of Toronto

Victor R. Fuchs Stanford University

Rosemary Batt Cornell University

External Links

Personal website of Ruth Milkman Google Scholar page

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