Category: Articles

Recent articles published by faculty, students, and alumni.

Daeshin Hayden Ju, Karen Okigbo, Sejung Sage Yim, and Jessica Halliday Hardie – Ethnic and generational differences in partnership patterns among Asians in the United States

Posted on July 25, 2020 by - Articles, Recent Publications

Daeshin Hayden Ju, Karen Okigbo, Sejung Sage Yim, and Jessica Halliday Hardie (Faculty) 

Co-published an article titled “Ethnic and generational differences in partnership patterns among Asians in the United States” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (online: June 2020)

ABSTRACT

Despite extensive research on the changes in partnership formation patterns in the United States over the past few decades, we know relatively little about how Asians are approaching marriage and cohabitation in early adulthood. Using the 2014–2018 American Community Survey, we examine whether Asians are delaying marriage and whether their postponement of marriage is offset by a rise in cohabitation. When doing so, we pay close attention to variations by ethnicity and immigrant generational status. We find that there is a substantial generational decline in marriage among Asians, accompanied by a relatively small increase in cohabitation. Thus, it is likely that 1.5-generation and U.S.-born Asians are waiting longer to enter coresidential partnerships than Asians who immigrated to the U.S. after age 12 and U.S.-born whites. Also, there are ethnic variations: cohabitation is rare among Indians whereas it is more common for Japanese and Filipino/as. The distinct patterns of 1.5-generation and U.S.-born Asians suggest that they are selectively acculturating. Overall, our findings demonstrate that Asians should not be treated as a monolithic group when studying their demographic and social patterns.

Joseph Van Der Naald – A Different Set of Rules? NLRB Proposed Rule Making and Student Worker Unionization Rights

Posted on April 21, 2020 by - Articles, Recent Publications

Joseph Van Der Naald published an article with William Herbert

Herbert William A. and Joseph Van Der Naald. 2020. “A Different Set of Rules? NLRB Proposed Rule Making and Student Worker Unionization Rights.” Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy. 11 (1).

Abstract

This article presents data, precedent, and empirical evidence relevant to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposal to issue a new rule to exclude graduate assistants and other student employees from coverage under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The analysis in three parts. First, the authors show through an analysis of information from other federal agencies that the adoption of the proposed NLRB rule would exclude over 81,000 graduate assistants on private campuses from the right to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. Second, the article presents a legal history from the past half-century about unionization of student employees at private and public sector institutions of higher education, including the NLRB’s oscillation on the question of whether student employees are protected under the NLRA. The inconsistencies of the NLRB is in stark contrast to state and Canadian provincial precedent during the same period.. Lastly, the authors analyze the terms of 42 current collective bargaining agreements covering student workers, including 10 at the private sector institutions. The empirical evidence from five decades of relevant collective bargaining history, precedent, and contracts demonstrates consistent economic relationships between student employees and their institutions.

Cody R. Melcher – The Political Economy of ‘White Identity Politics: Economic Self-Interest and Perceptions of Immigration

Posted on April 20, 2020 by - Articles, Recent Publications

Cody R. Melcher published an article titled “ The Political Economy of ‘White Identity Politics: Economic Self-Interest and Perceptions of Immigration” in Ethnic and Racial Studies (February 25, 2020)

ABSTRACT

This article challenges the prevailing contention that economic self-interest does not affect public attitudes toward immigration. Through an in-depth re-analysis of the data and findings of Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics (2019), it is argued, first, that a number of variables that are characterized as status-based or sociotropic can plausibly be interpreted as measuring economic self-interest. Second, and more importantly, it is argued that the variables that are often used to measure economic self-interest do not follow from the theoretical claims that are meant to inform their interpretation. Third, it is shown that limiting one’s analysis to white respondents – a trend which has become typical, especially since the 2016 US presidential election – severely limits one’s capacity to make convincing explanatory claims. I conclude by arguing that a more appropriate measure of economic self-interest is a measure of perceived job (in)security and a more nuanced measure of employment status.

Cody also published
Melcher, Cody R. 2019. “First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: WEB Du Bois, Left-Wing Radicalism, and the Problem of Interracial Unionism.” Critical Sociology 
Melcher, Cody R. & Michael Goldfield. 2019. “The Failure of Labor Unionism in the US South.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
Melcher, Cody R. & Michael Goldfield. 2019. “The Myth of Section 7(a): Worker Militancy, Progressive Labor Legislation, and the Coal Miners.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 14.4: 49-66.