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44
Citations
9382
World Ranking
4105
National Ranking
1956

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

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

    Ruth Milkman;Eileen Appelbaum;Rosemary Batt

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

    Ruth Milkman

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

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

  • Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century

    Ruth Milkman

  • DIVIDED WE STAND

    Ruth Milkman

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

    Ruth Milkman

  • Algorithmic Control in Platform Food Delivery Work

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

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

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

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

    Ruth Milkman

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

    Eileen Appelbaum;Ruth Milkman

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

    Ruth Milkman

  • The macrosociology of paid domestic labor

    Ruth Milkman;Ellen Reese;Benita Roth

  • Organizing immigrants : the challenge for unions in contemporary California

    Ruth Milkman

  • Rebuilding labor : organizing and organizers in the new union movement

    Ruth Milkman;Kim Voss

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

    Ruth Milkman;Ed Ott

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

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

  • Japan's California factories : labor relations and economic globalization

    Ruth Milkman

  • Women's History and the Sears Case

    Ruth Milkman

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

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

  • Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California

    Michael Indergaard;Ruth Milkman

  • Women's Quest for Economic Equality.

    Claudia Goldin;Victor R. Fuchs

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas D. Heckathorn
Douglas D. Heckathorn Cornell University
Nik Theodore
Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley
Richard Florida
Richard Florida University of Toronto

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