Books
More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn’t Working (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Anthropologies of Unemployment: The Changing Study of Work and Its Absence (ILR Press / Cornell University Press, 2016)
A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment (ILR Press / Cornell University Press, 2011)
Recent Chapters & Articles
“The Jobs We’ve Had: An Introduction,” Exertions
“The Work of Getting Organized,” Anthropology News
“The Work of Care, Caring at Work: Introduction to Special Issue,” Anthropology of Work Review
“Gig Work Doesn’t Have to
Be Isolating and Unstable,” Harvard Business
Review
“Unemployed Tech Workers’ Ambivalent Embrace of the Flexible Ideal,” Beyond the Cubicle: Insecurity Culture and the Flexible Self, Allison Pugh, ed.
“The Self-Assembled Career,” The Hedgehog Review
“Man Enough to Let My Wife Support Me: Gender
and Unemployment among Middle-Class U.S. Tech Workers,” The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader, Dorothy Hodgson, ed.
“How to Be a Professional Organizer in the United States,” A World of Work: Imagined Manuals for Real Jobs, Ilana Gershon, ed.
