Nicholas Occhiuto
Biographic Data
| ID | 201394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Occhiuto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Occhiuto |
| SIGNATURE | OCCHIUTO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0620-929X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pause, Pivot, and Shift: Situational Human Capital and Responses to Sudden Job Loss
How, in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, do workers respond to rapid changes in the labor market? This paper mobilizes existing literature on occupational mobility and job loss to develop a theory of situational human capital in which some workers are better positioned to weather occupational transitions than others depending on the alignment between their skill sets, opportunities, and particular contexts. Previous literature looks at this in…
Enabling disruptive innovations: A comparative case study of Uber in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco
Much research on disruptive innovations has focused on firms that disrupt existing industries. Yet, regulators and lawmakers are instrumental in containing or enabling market disruption, in ways that are less understood. This article examines taxi industries in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco between 2010 and 2014 to better understand the role of regulators and lawmakers in enabling Uber to disrupt these industries. Relying on 142 interv…
Viscelli, S. (2016). The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Stand-in Labor and the Rising Economy of Self
Ghostwriters represent a form of labor aimed at producing someone else’s self, or what we label “stand-in labor.” This growing workforce sits at the intersection of critical developments in today’s neoliberal economy: the rise in self-branding, the growth in outsourcing of the self, and mounting income inequality. This article explores the experience of stand-in workers and its implication on the economy of self. Relying on 72 interviews with gho…
Investing in Independent Contract Work: The Significance of Schedule Control for Taxi Drivers
New York City 'yellow' taxi drivers work as independent contractors. Like many independent contract workers, taxi drivers engage in economically precarious work-or work that is economically uncertain, unpredictable, and risky. This article explores how taxi drivers make sense of the economic risks they face each workday. Drawing on 20 months of ethnographic data, it finds that taxi drivers made sense of their work by expressing a sense of control…
Social Networks and Macrosocial Change
Social networks are heavily implicated in large-scale social transformations. They are both transformed and transformative. We review the ways in which social networks act as agents of change in macrohistorical processes, stressing two distinct theoretical approaches. Formalism analyzes the structure of networks. Relationalism evaluates the linking properties of networks. Using these two approaches to organize the literature, we present the curre…
Investing in Independent Contract Work: The Significance of Schedule Control for Taxi Drivers
New York City 'yellow' taxi drivers work as independent contractors. Like many independent contract workers, taxi drivers engage in economically precarious work-or work that is economically uncertain, unpredictable, and risky. This article explores how taxi drivers make sense of the economic risks they face each workday. Drawing on 20 months of ethnographic data, it finds that taxi drivers made sense of their work by expressing a sense of control…
Social Networks and Macrosocial Change
Social networks are heavily implicated in large-scale social transformations. They are both transformed and transformative. We review the ways in which social networks act as agents of change in macrohistorical processes, stressing two distinct theoretical approaches. Formalism analyzes the structure of networks. Relationalism evaluates the linking properties of networks. Using these two approaches to organize the literature, we present the curre…
Enabling disruptive innovations: A comparative case study of Uber in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco
Much research on disruptive innovations has focused on firms that disrupt existing industries. Yet, regulators and lawmakers are instrumental in containing or enabling market disruption, in ways that are less understood. This article examines taxi industries in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco between 2010 and 2014 to better understand the role of regulators and lawmakers in enabling Uber to disrupt these industries. Relying on 142 interv…
Pause, Pivot, and Shift: Situational Human Capital and Responses to Sudden Job Loss
How, in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, do workers respond to rapid changes in the labor market? This paper mobilizes existing literature on occupational mobility and job loss to develop a theory of situational human capital in which some workers are better positioned to weather occupational transitions than others depending on the alignment between their skill sets, opportunities, and particular contexts. Previous literature looks at this in…
Investing in Independent Contract Work: The Significance of Schedule Control for Taxi Drivers
New York City 'yellow' taxi drivers work as independent contractors. Like many independent contract workers, taxi drivers engage in economically precarious work-or work that is economically uncertain, unpredictable, and risky. This article explores how taxi drivers make sense of the economic risks they face each workday. Drawing on 20 months of ethnographic data, it finds that taxi drivers made sense of their work by expressing a sense of control…
Social Networks and Macrosocial Change
Social networks are heavily implicated in large-scale social transformations. They are both transformed and transformative. We review the ways in which social networks act as agents of change in macrohistorical processes, stressing two distinct theoretical approaches. Formalism analyzes the structure of networks. Relationalism evaluates the linking properties of networks. Using these two approaches to organize the literature, we present the curre…
Stand-in Labor and the Rising Economy of Self
Ghostwriters represent a form of labor aimed at producing someone else’s self, or what we label “stand-in labor.” This growing workforce sits at the intersection of critical developments in today’s neoliberal economy: the rise in self-branding, the growth in outsourcing of the self, and mounting income inequality. This article explores the experience of stand-in workers and its implication on the economy of self. Relying on 72 interviews with gho…
Viscelli, S. (2016). The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Pause, Pivot, and Shift: Situational Human Capital and Responses to Sudden Job Loss
How, in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, do workers respond to rapid changes in the labor market? This paper mobilizes existing literature on occupational mobility and job loss to develop a theory of situational human capital in which some workers are better positioned to weather occupational transitions than others depending on the alignment between their skill sets, opportunities, and particular contexts. Previous literature looks at this in…
Enabling disruptive innovations: A comparative case study of Uber in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco
Much research on disruptive innovations has focused on firms that disrupt existing industries. Yet, regulators and lawmakers are instrumental in containing or enabling market disruption, in ways that are less understood. This article examines taxi industries in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco between 2010 and 2014 to better understand the role of regulators and lawmakers in enabling Uber to disrupt these industries. Relying on 142 interv…
Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Law (2 works)