Alice Reich
Biographic Data
| ID | 110435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Reich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Reich |
| SIGNATURE | REICH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8398-3599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Science of Blackness
In recent years, scholars have argued that biological ideas about Black people have returned to both the biomedical and social sciences. In this article, we extend such research by broadening its scope across time and disciplinary space, examining—through citation network, semantic, and qualitative content analyses—more than 50,000 articles about Black people in scholarly journals between 1900 and 2020. In so doing, we make two core contributions…
From Hard Labor to Market Discipline
A long sociological tradition has examined how state coercion undergirds the "free market" for labor. In the contemporary prison, however, there are signs this relationship has been turned on its head. Whereas in the past, state coercion helped prisons generate profit for private markets, today market ideas are increasingly used within prisons to facilitate state control. I draw on an analysis of seven waves of the Survey of Inmates in State Corr…
Criminogenic risk assessment
A vast body of research underlies the ascendancy of criminogenic risk assessment, which was developed to predict recidivism. It is unclear, however, whether the empirical evidence supports its expansion across the criminal legal system. This meta-review thus attempts to answer the following questions: 1) How well does criminogenic risk assessment differentiate people who are at high risk of recidivism from those at low risk of recidivism? 2) How …
Quantitative Data Tools for Service Sector Organizing
Losing My Raise
Policymakers concerned with economic inequality regularly advocate for laws to increase the minimum wage. The impact of such laws on low-wage employment levels has been studied extensively within the field of labor economics. Yet, the vast majority of this literature has failed to explore how changes in the minimum wage impact the actual experience of low-wage work. We first discuss qualitative evidence that Walmart, the largest low-wage employer…
Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy
Drawing on original survey and interview data on platform-based food delivery workers, we deploy an intersectional lens to analyze the ways in which the white working-class women who predominate in this sector of the gig economy interpret their work experience. With a focus on the gender-class nexus, we explore the reasons why these workers, especially mothers and other caregivers, self-select into this sector. These include: scheduling flexibili…
Collective Action and Customer Service in Retail
This article examines the relationship between workplace collective action at a large retail employer and customers' perceptions of service. The authors show that increases in workplace collective action, as measured by signed labor organization membership cards, are associated with lower customer ratings of service, as measured by Yelp reviews. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 80 workers, the authors discuss several possible explanations f…
Can we avoid reductionism in risk reduction
Risk assessment and risk reduction have become increasingly central to criminal justice policy and practice in the last 25 years. Yet there remains a lack of consensus both on the theoretical and methodological foundations of risk and on its social and practical implications. Some proponents see risk assessment and reduction as solutions to the inefficiencies and injustices of contemporary mass incarceration. Some critics see actuarial risk as be…
The Organizational Trace of an Insurgent Moment
The relationship between social movements and formal organizations has long been a concern to scholars of collective action. Many have argued that social movement organizations (SMOs) provide resources that facilitate movement emergence, while others have highlighted the ways in which SMOs institutionalize or coopt movement goals. Through an examination of the relationship between Occupy Wall Street and the field of SMOs in New York City, this ar…
Labor at the Crossroads
Conflicted Health Care
Marrying Ain't Hard When You Got A Union Card? Labor Union Membership and First Marriage
Over the past five decades, marriage has changed dramatically, as young people began marrying later or never getting married at all. Scholars have shown how this decline is less a result of changing cultural definitions of marriage, and more a result of men’s changing access to social and economic prerequisites for marriage. Specifically, men’s current economic standing and men’s future economic security have been shown to affect their marriageab…
Disciplined doctors
Hidden TruthYoung Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison
This book takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity. The author, who worked with inmates to produce a newspaper, writes about the young men he came to know, and in the process extends theories of masculinity, crime, and social reproduction into a provocative new paradigm. The book suggests that young men's participation in …
Film Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women . 1983. Produced by Thomas C. Goodwin, Dorothy McGhee , and Gerardine Wurzburg. Coalmining Women . 1983. A film by Elizabeth Barret
Pheoby's hungry listening
(1986). Pheoby's hungry listening. Women's Studies: Vol. 13, The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic, pp. 163-169
P4w
Daisy
Metropolitan Avenue . 1984. A film by Christine Noschese
Clotheslines. 1982. Produced by Roberta Cantow
Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy
Drawing on original survey and interview data on platform-based food delivery workers, we deploy an intersectional lens to analyze the ways in which the white working-class women who predominate in this sector of the gig economy interpret their work experience. With a focus on the gender-class nexus, we explore the reasons why these workers, especially mothers and other caregivers, self-select into this sector. These include: scheduling flexibili…
Marrying Ain't Hard When You Got A Union Card? Labor Union Membership and First Marriage
Over the past five decades, marriage has changed dramatically, as young people began marrying later or never getting married at all. Scholars have shown how this decline is less a result of changing cultural definitions of marriage, and more a result of men’s changing access to social and economic prerequisites for marriage. Specifically, men’s current economic standing and men’s future economic security have been shown to affect their marriageab…
Disciplined doctors
From Hard Labor to Market Discipline
A long sociological tradition has examined how state coercion undergirds the "free market" for labor. In the contemporary prison, however, there are signs this relationship has been turned on its head. Whereas in the past, state coercion helped prisons generate profit for private markets, today market ideas are increasingly used within prisons to facilitate state control. I draw on an analysis of seven waves of the Survey of Inmates in State Corr…
Criminogenic risk assessment
A vast body of research underlies the ascendancy of criminogenic risk assessment, which was developed to predict recidivism. It is unclear, however, whether the empirical evidence supports its expansion across the criminal legal system. This meta-review thus attempts to answer the following questions: 1) How well does criminogenic risk assessment differentiate people who are at high risk of recidivism from those at low risk of recidivism? 2) How …
Losing My Raise
Policymakers concerned with economic inequality regularly advocate for laws to increase the minimum wage. The impact of such laws on low-wage employment levels has been studied extensively within the field of labor economics. Yet, the vast majority of this literature has failed to explore how changes in the minimum wage impact the actual experience of low-wage work. We first discuss qualitative evidence that Walmart, the largest low-wage employer…
The Organizational Trace of an Insurgent Moment
The relationship between social movements and formal organizations has long been a concern to scholars of collective action. Many have argued that social movement organizations (SMOs) provide resources that facilitate movement emergence, while others have highlighted the ways in which SMOs institutionalize or coopt movement goals. Through an examination of the relationship between Occupy Wall Street and the field of SMOs in New York City, this ar…
Collective Action and Customer Service in Retail
This article examines the relationship between workplace collective action at a large retail employer and customers' perceptions of service. The authors show that increases in workplace collective action, as measured by signed labor organization membership cards, are associated with lower customer ratings of service, as measured by Yelp reviews. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 80 workers, the authors discuss several possible explanations f…
Can we avoid reductionism in risk reduction
Risk assessment and risk reduction have become increasingly central to criminal justice policy and practice in the last 25 years. Yet there remains a lack of consensus both on the theoretical and methodological foundations of risk and on its social and practical implications. Some proponents see risk assessment and reduction as solutions to the inefficiencies and injustices of contemporary mass incarceration. Some critics see actuarial risk as be…
Film Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women . 1983. Produced by Thomas C. Goodwin, Dorothy McGhee , and Gerardine Wurzburg. Coalmining Women . 1983. A film by Elizabeth Barret
Pheoby's hungry listening
(1986). Pheoby's hungry listening. Women's Studies: Vol. 13, The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic, pp. 163-169
P4w
Daisy
Metropolitan Avenue . 1984. A film by Christine Noschese
Clotheslines. 1982. Produced by Roberta Cantow
Hidden TruthYoung Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison
This book takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity. The author, who worked with inmates to produce a newspaper, writes about the young men he came to know, and in the process extends theories of masculinity, crime, and social reproduction into a provocative new paradigm. The book suggests that young men's participation in …
Disciplined doctors
Marrying Ain't Hard When You Got A Union Card? Labor Union Membership and First Marriage
Over the past five decades, marriage has changed dramatically, as young people began marrying later or never getting married at all. Scholars have shown how this decline is less a result of changing cultural definitions of marriage, and more a result of men’s changing access to social and economic prerequisites for marriage. Specifically, men’s current economic standing and men’s future economic security have been shown to affect their marriageab…
Labor at the Crossroads
Conflicted Health Care
Can we avoid reductionism in risk reduction
Risk assessment and risk reduction have become increasingly central to criminal justice policy and practice in the last 25 years. Yet there remains a lack of consensus both on the theoretical and methodological foundations of risk and on its social and practical implications. Some proponents see risk assessment and reduction as solutions to the inefficiencies and injustices of contemporary mass incarceration. Some critics see actuarial risk as be…
The Organizational Trace of an Insurgent Moment
The relationship between social movements and formal organizations has long been a concern to scholars of collective action. Many have argued that social movement organizations (SMOs) provide resources that facilitate movement emergence, while others have highlighted the ways in which SMOs institutionalize or coopt movement goals. Through an examination of the relationship between Occupy Wall Street and the field of SMOs in New York City, this ar…
Collective Action and Customer Service in Retail
This article examines the relationship between workplace collective action at a large retail employer and customers' perceptions of service. The authors show that increases in workplace collective action, as measured by signed labor organization membership cards, are associated with lower customer ratings of service, as measured by Yelp reviews. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 80 workers, the authors discuss several possible explanations f…
Criminogenic risk assessment
A vast body of research underlies the ascendancy of criminogenic risk assessment, which was developed to predict recidivism. It is unclear, however, whether the empirical evidence supports its expansion across the criminal legal system. This meta-review thus attempts to answer the following questions: 1) How well does criminogenic risk assessment differentiate people who are at high risk of recidivism from those at low risk of recidivism? 2) How …
Quantitative Data Tools for Service Sector Organizing
Losing My Raise
Policymakers concerned with economic inequality regularly advocate for laws to increase the minimum wage. The impact of such laws on low-wage employment levels has been studied extensively within the field of labor economics. Yet, the vast majority of this literature has failed to explore how changes in the minimum wage impact the actual experience of low-wage work. We first discuss qualitative evidence that Walmart, the largest low-wage employer…
Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy
Drawing on original survey and interview data on platform-based food delivery workers, we deploy an intersectional lens to analyze the ways in which the white working-class women who predominate in this sector of the gig economy interpret their work experience. With a focus on the gender-class nexus, we explore the reasons why these workers, especially mothers and other caregivers, self-select into this sector. These include: scheduling flexibili…
From Hard Labor to Market Discipline
A long sociological tradition has examined how state coercion undergirds the "free market" for labor. In the contemporary prison, however, there are signs this relationship has been turned on its head. Whereas in the past, state coercion helped prisons generate profit for private markets, today market ideas are increasingly used within prisons to facilitate state control. I draw on an analysis of seven waves of the Survey of Inmates in State Corr…
The Science of Blackness
In recent years, scholars have argued that biological ideas about Black people have returned to both the biomedical and social sciences. In this article, we extend such research by broadening its scope across time and disciplinary space, examining—through citation network, semantic, and qualitative content analyses—more than 50,000 articles about Black people in scholarly journals between 1900 and 2020. In so doing, we make two core contributions…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works)