Vicki Smith

Research Interests

• Organizations, Work, and Corporations
• Gender and Inequality
• Field Methods

Current Research Projects

During my sabbatical year I will be working on several projects. In addition to preparing a number of articles from my Spencer-Foundation funded research on high school counselors in northern California, I am co-editor for a special issue of Academy of Management Review devoted to the topic, "Theorizing About Work and Working" (with Dave Lepak, Karen Lee Ashcraft, Kevin Steensma, Giuseppe Labianca, and Gerardo Okhuysen) and will edit a two-volume encyclopedia on the sociology of work, to be published with Sage. This volume will cover cutting-edge topics in the field and include over 300 contributors, many of the top scholars writing in the sociology of work and employment. Finally, I am beginning to collect data for a book tentatively entitled Pared to the Bone, which will analyze how paid labor and work tasks increasingly are being converted to unpaid labor borne by workers, consumers, and citizens.

Publications

• Smith, Vicki. 2011. Forthcoming. "Mediators of Opportunity: High School Counselors in the Twenty-First Century. Sociology Compass.
• Smith, Vicki. 2011. "Shiftwork and Multiple Time Zones: Some Implications of Contingent and Nonstandard Employment for Family Life." Pp. 30-42 in At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Concepts of Arlie Hochschild. Anita Ilta Garey and Karen V. Hansen (eds). Rutgers University Press.
• Smith, Vicki. 2010. "Enhancing Employability: Human, Social, and Cultural Capital in an Era of Turbulent Unpredictability." Human Relations 63 (2): 279-303.

• Smith, Vicki and Neuwirth, Esther B. 2008. The Good Temp. Ithaca:Cornell University/ILR Press.

• Smith, Vicki (ed). 2006. Research in the Sociology of Work: Worker Participation, Practices and Possibilities. Vol. 16. Amsterdam: Elsevier/JAI Press.
• Smith, Vicki. 2001. Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy. Ithaca:Cornell University/ILR Press.