Join us for our Presenter Symposium on "Work, Occupations, and Inequality" (Session 1066) on Monday, 7 August 2022 at 12:00 – 13:30pm, Hampton A (Sheraton).
This symposium brings together ongoing research projects on work, occupations, and inequality. Inequality is one of the grand challenges of our time. This symposium seeks to create new knowledge about how work and occupations contribute to patterns of inequality. The projects adopt qualitative and mixed methods and explore different "stages" of work and occupations, covering occupational emergence, access to established occupations, work allocation on the job, and how day-to-day work can unintentionally recreate patterns of inequality. Specifically, these projects discuss how pressures for occupational closure and inclusion can be managed during the professionalization process to maintain openness for different perspectives and practices; how class signals enable and constrain access to established occupations based on intersecting social group memberships; how the racialization of work affects task distribution within the workplace; and how managing tensions between competing imperatives can help individuals cope in their day-to-day work but unintentionally recreate inequality. This symposium, which is both relevant and topical, will yield interesting insights for researchers and practitioners looking to address patterns of social inequality. We hope that this symposium will provide a forum for discussion about what we can learn from these projects and provoke insights into future directions for research.
The Origination, Recognition, and Management of Intra-Occupational Practice Differences: The Nascent Occupation of Visual Practice
Chelsea Lei; Boston College
Curtis Kwinyen Chan; Boston College
Getting into Silicon Valley: The Interplay of Cultural Capital and Race in Big Tech Hiring
Sharon Koppman; U. of California, Irvine
Melissa Mazmanian; U. of California, Irvine
Christopher Bauman; U. of California, Irvine
Christopher James Lam; UC Irvine
Racialized Expectations of Equity Work and the Split Minority Identity
Sandra Portocarrero; Columbia Business School
To Care or To Cream: Leveraging Competing Imperatives in Reentry Work
Audrey Holm; HEC Paris
Kimberly Rocheville; Creighton U.
Discussant:
Melissa Mazmanian; U. of California, Irvine
Best regards,
Andrea Wessendorf
Symposium Organizer
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Andrea Wessendorf
Early Career Fellow
University of Edinburgh Business School
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