J L Collins

Datos Biográficos

ID22900
NOMBREJ L Collins
NOMBRESJ L
APELLIDOCollins
FIRMACOLLINS J L
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
ORCID0000-0003-3565-8761
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS62
TOTAL DE CITAS314
TOTAL COMO AUTOR62
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1949
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H11

  • The vulnerability fix

    Open AccessAnnabel Ipsen, J L CollinsARTICLECritical Sociology2026

    This article draws together political economic theories of labor market precarity and theories about the role of difference in structuring labor market inequality to develop the concept of vulnerability fix. We argue that employers and the state have co-constructed a complicated set of programs and policies that have institutionalized unfreedom for a significant subsection of the workforce. At the bottom of the labor market, they have created cat…

  • The semi-proletarian lifestyle in the twenty-first century

    Open AccessJ L CollinsARTICLEDialectical Anthropology2025

    Multiple jobholding has been growing in the United States (and many European countries) for several decades, with growth accelerating after the economic crisis of 2008. While the trend was interrupted briefly by the COVID-19 pandemic, it continued afterward, despite a strong labor market. Drawing on official data sources, and focusing on the U.S. case, the paper shows that multiple jobholding is especially common among young people and, while not…

  • Reading Leacock’s “Interpreting the origins of gender inequality” fifty years later

    Open AccessJ L CollinsARTICLEDialectical Anthropology2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    This article considers the contributions of Eleanor Leacock’s Dialectical Anthropology article of 1983, in which she lays out a pathbreaking position on how we can study the origins of gender inequality. It shows how her previous work led up to this article and considers its reception in its own time and its enduring legacy

  • Revaluing work after Covid-19

    Open AccessJ L CollinsARTICLEAnthropology of Work Review2023Citada por: 9Referencias: 20

    The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath instigated a series of debates about economic value. From early discussions about "who counts as an essential worker" to post-pandemic arguments about what constitutes the "infrastructure" needed to rebuild the economy, the pandemic led to reexaminations of the kinds of investments and activities necessary for the continuity of our social system. This article examines these debates through the lens of the l…

  • State Phobia, Then and Now

    Open AccessJ L Collins, H Jacob CarlsonARTICLESocial Science History2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 15

    While state legislative rollbacks of public-sector workers’ collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin and other US states in 2011 appeared to signal an unprecedented wave of hostility toward the public sector, such episodes have a long history. Drawing on recent work on “governance repertoires,” this article compares antistate initiatives in Wisconsin in 2011 to two previous periods of conflict over the size and shape of government: the 1930s and…

  • Unseasonal Migrations

    J L CollinsBOOKUnseasonal Migrations2017

    The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

  • Expanding the labor theory of value

    Open AccessJ L CollinsARTICLEDialectical Anthropology2016

  • The hijacking of a new corporate form? Benefit corporations and corporate personhood

    J L Collins, Walker N KahnARTICLEEconomy and Society2016Citada por: 4Referencias: 15

    Benefit corporations are a new type of corporate entity developed to remedy antisocial corporate behaviour by enabling mission-driven investors, managers and entrepreneurs to prioritize social values and contest the idea that profits are the only and best measure of corporate performance. To resocialize the corporate entity, the benefit corporation movement built enabling discourses and evaluation practices into the dominant model of corporate go…

  • Transformative Coalition in Wisconsin

    J L Collins, Jane CollinsARTICLEAnthropology Now2014

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsJane CollinsJane Collins is professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Her research on gender and labor has focused on family farms in Peru, the commercial agricultural sector in Brazil, the apparel industry in the United States and Mexico and the low-wage service sector in the United States. Her books include Both Hands Tied: Welfare R…

  • The urban public sector as commons

    Open AccessJ L Collins, Jane CollinsARTICLEFocaal2013

    Susser and Tonnelat's article on the three urban commons is both visionary and heartening. Its counterpastoral polemic glorifies urban modes of sociality and the forms of common property fostered by urban life. The authors find in cities communities of experience that cross class lines and create inadvertent coalitions around shared problems. They argue that specific components of what has been called "the right to the city" need to be understood…

  • Theorizing Wisconsin's 2011 protests

    Open AccessJ L Collins, Jane CollinsARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2012Citada por: 41Referencias: 18

    Recent waves of social-movement protest in Wisconsin challenge conventional understandings of labor activism, as they have responded not only to rollbacks of labor rights but also to privatization of state programs and resources and budget cuts that target poor and working families. Drawing from participant-observation, I explore the question of whether the movements that arose in Wisconsin in early 2011 represented an expansion of union-based ac…

  • What Difference Does Financial Expansion Make? A Response to Gavin Smith's Paper

    J L CollinsARTICLEIdentities2011Citada por: 4Referencias: 6

  • Wal-Mart, American consumer citizenship, and the 2008 recession

    Open AccessJ L Collins, Jane CollinsARTICLEFocaal2011

    This article explores dominant ideological framings of the economic crisis that began in 2008, by examining shifting meanings of consumer citizenship in the US. The consumer citizen was a central figure in Keynesian ideology-one that encapsulated important assumptions about the proper relationship between production and consumption and the appropriate arenas for citizen engagement with the economy. Taking Wal-Mart as a case-study example, the art…

  • Both Hands Tied

    J L Collins, Jane L Collins et al.BOOKBoth Hands Tied2010

  • Globalization in Rural Mexico

    Open AccessJ L CollinsARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2009

  • Problem Gambling and Intimate Partner Violence

    Open AccessLorne M Korman, Lorne Korman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gambling Studies2008

  • Reforming Global Sweatshop Reform

    J L Collins, Jane Collins et al.ARTICLENew Labor Forum2008

  • The Rise of a Global Garment Industry and the Reimagination of Worker Solidarity

    Open AccessJ L Collins, Jane CollinsARTICLECritique of Anthropology2007Citada por: 5Referencias: 12

    In 1996, Bill Roseberry published an article in American Anthropologist entitled `The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States'. In it, he explored the connections that linked the rise of specialty coffees marketed at Zabars and Starbucks to new class configurations of consumerism in the US and to new production arrangements in the coffee-producing countries. The article seeks to apply this approach to the analys…

  • Redefining the Boundaries of Work

    J L Collins, Jane CollinsARTICLEIdentities2006

    This article focuses on new forms of community unionism that are being developed by apparel workers. Based on ethnographic research in Mexico and the United States, it argues that because so many apparel workers are women, because women have been excluded from unions in many contexts, because the relationship of apparel workers to their employers is “flexible” and unstable, and because the high turnover rates associated with low wages and poor wo…

  • Globalizing Firms and Small Communities

    Open AccessJ L Collins, Amy Quark et al.ARTICLERural Sociology2006Citada por: 8Referencias: 11

    This paper explores changing relationships between apparel firms and rural labor markets in Wisconsin over the last decade. Mainstream explanations of recent changes in the apparel industry suggest that rural communities will lose tedious or physically demanding, low-skilled apparel manufacturing jobs but will gain more information-intensive and desirable "apparel service" employment. Through case studies of apparel firms located in two Wisconsin…

  • The Social Economy of Single Motherhood

    Open AccessJ L Collins, Jane CollinsARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2006Referencias: 2

  • Genders in Production

    Open AccessJ L CollinsARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2004Citada por: 7

  • Threads

    J L CollinsBOOKThreads2003

  • Deterritorialization and workplace culture

    Open AccessJ L CollinsARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2002Citada por: 17Referencias: 23

    In this article, I ask what happens to the moral economies and rhetorical frameworks that govern employment relations when labor markets become global. In particular, I examine the argument that globalization undermines the institutions and practices that govern local labor markets-eroding "locality." I present the results offieldwork in knitwear firms in southern Virginia and Mexico and argue that globalization eroded the old ways that workers c…

  • Mapping a Global Labor Market

    Open AccessJ L CollinsARTICLEGender & Society2002Citada por: 11Referencias: 10

    This article examines the ways that managers in a rapidly globalizing industry use gendered discourses of skill to justify and frame their search for inexperienced workers in low-wage regions, using a case of a U.S.-based apparel firm that relocated and subcontracted its sewing operations in the 1990s. It uses feminist theory to examine managers' claims that women's sewing skills in the United States were disappearing and that they needed to seek…