D B Cornfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 23238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D B Cornfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | D B |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornfield |
| SIGNATURE | CORNFIELD D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2959-7264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
In Pursuit of Cultural Equity: DEI Grantmaking Practices of U.S. Local Arts Agencies in Community Context
As grantmaking intermediary organizations, local arts agencies (LAAs) play an important but under-researched role in realizing cultural equity—the incorporation of underrepresented groups and counternarratives into democratic discourse—in thousands of local communities throughout the United States. In deploying their diversity, equity, and inclusion grantmaking practices, LAAs vary in the degree to which they proactively encourage the artistic ex…
The New Labor Activism, a New Labor Sociology
This symposium issue of Work and Occupations on 'The New Labor Activism' develops a new generation of labor sociology research for comprehending and sustaining the contemporary labor mobilization in the U.S., the largest labor mobilization since the 1930s. The symposium responds to the question raised in the June, 2022 report of the Worker Empowerment Research Network about the sustainability of the new labor activism. The symposium essays focus …
Social movements as schooling for careers: Career consequences of the Nashville civil rights movement
Scholarship on social movement schools shows that movements often facilitate the schooling of their participants, while scholarship on the biographical consequences of social movements demonstrates that movements influence their participants’ subsequent careers. To date, however, few studies consider whether and how the schooling functions of social movements shape participants’ later careers. In this article, through a qualitative comparative an…
The Making of a Movement: An Intergenerational Mobilization Model of the Nonviolent Nashville Civil Rights Movement
The 1960s-era, Nashville nonviolent civil rights movement—with its iconic lunch counter sit-ins—was not only an exemplary local movement that dismantled Jim Crow in downtown public accommodations. It was by design the chief vehicle for the intergenerational mentoring and training of activists that led to a dialogical diffusion of nonviolence praxis throughout the Southern civil rights movement of this period. In this article, we empirically deriv…
Pathways to Modes of Movement Participation: Micromobilization in the Nashville Civil Rights Movement
We employ a unique sample of participants in the early 1960s Nashville civil rights movement to examine within-movement micromobilization processes. Rather than assuming movement micromobilization and participation is internally homogeneous, we extend the literature by identifying distinct types of pathways (entry and preparation) and distinct types (or modes) of movement participation. Pathways into the Nashville movement are largely structured …
Preparation Pathways and Movement Participation: Insurgent Schooling and Nonviolent Direct Action in the Nashville Civil Rights Movement
Employing a unique sample of participants in the early Nashville civil rights movement, we extend the micromobilization literature by conceptualizing “preparation pathways” (or schooling channels) through which activists acquire insurgent consciousness and capital so crucial for committed, effective, high-risk activism. We identify two key pathways in which activists were “schooled” in nonviolent praxis—experience in nonviolent direct action prio…
Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, this book looks at artist activists—those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a…
Rallying for Immigrant Rights
Immigrants and Education in the U.S. Interior: Integrating and Segmenting Tendencies in Nashville, Tennessee
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), recent global immigration to the U.S. interior compels local education systems that are relatively inexperienced with immigration to address new integrating and segmenting tendencies expressed by the growing and diversifying number of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The authors discern 4 patterns of integrating and segmenting tendencies from self-procl…
Working in Restructured Workplaces: Challenges and New Directions for the Sociology of Work
Preface Working in Restructured Workplaces: An Introduction - D.B. Cornfield, et al PART I. RECONFIGURING WORKPLACES STATUS HIERARCHIES 1. Teamwork vs. Tempwork: Managers and the Dualisms of Workplace Restructuring - V. Smith 2. Flexible Production, Rigid Jobs: Lessons From the Clothing Industry - I.M. Taplin 3. The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations: Theoretical Notes From the Case of Abdominal Su…
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
Work and Family: Research Informing Policy
PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE Work and Family in Women's Lives in the German Democratic Republic - H Trapp Public Opinion and Congressional Action on Work, Family and Gender - P Burstein and S Wierzbicki PART TWO: THE JUGGLING ACT Do Americans Feel Overworked? Comparing Ideal and Actual Working Time - J A Jacobs and K Gerson Nonstandard Employment Schedules among American Mothers - A G Cox and H B Presser The Relevance of the Marital Stature Effect…
Social Support and Career Optimism: Examining the Effectiveness of Network Groups Among Black Managers
As companies look for better ways to manage diversity, one of the approaches that is emerging is the use of female and minority network groups. These groups are not well understood, and there has been no quantitative analysis of their impact on minority employees. Social network theory suggests that network groups should enhance the social resources available to women and minorities and in that way enhance their chance of career success, but some…
"Institutional Constraints on Social Movement "Frame Extension: Shifts in the Legislative Agenda of the American Federation of Labor, 1881-1955
Journal Article Institutional Constraints on Social Movement “Frame Extension”: Shifts in the Legislative Agenda of the American Federation of Labor, 1881–1955 Get access Daniel B. Cornfield, Daniel B. Cornfield Vanderbilt University Direct correspondence to Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bill Fletc…
The U.S. Labor Movement: References and Resources
Labor Transnationalism: An Editorial Introduction to “Labor in the Americas
Segmentation and Standardization of Income Determination in Developing Nations: An Analysis of Urban-Rural Differences in Income Determinants in Sri Lanka
The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States
Automobile Workers and the American Dream
Socioeconomic Status and Unionization Attitudes in the United States
Unions and Economic Competitiveness
Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers
Becoming a Mighty Voice: Conflict and Change in the United Furniture Workers of America
Explaining Organizational Leadership
Governing the Workplace: The Future of Labor and Employment Law
Labor lawyer Paul Weiler examines the social and economic changes that have profoundly altered the legal framework of the employment relationship. He not only discusses a wide range of issues, from wrongful dismissal to mandatory drug testing and pay equity, but he also develops a blueprint for the reconstruction of the law of the workplace, especially designed to give American workers more effective representation
The US Labor Movement: Its Development and Impact on Social Inequality and Politics
The proliferation of research on the US labor movement has created opportunities for the development of theory on labor action. Such theory would account for variations in the development, structure, ideology, goals, functions, social composition, and societal impact of labor unions and, more generally, the labor movement. This review of recent sociological research focuses on two sets of enduring questions to which this research has been address…
Social Support and Career Optimism: Examining the Effectiveness of Network Groups Among Black Managers
As companies look for better ways to manage diversity, one of the approaches that is emerging is the use of female and minority network groups. These groups are not well understood, and there has been no quantitative analysis of their impact on minority employees. Social network theory suggests that network groups should enhance the social resources available to women and minorities and in that way enhance their chance of career success, but some…
The New Labor Activism, a New Labor Sociology
This symposium issue of Work and Occupations on 'The New Labor Activism' develops a new generation of labor sociology research for comprehending and sustaining the contemporary labor mobilization in the U.S., the largest labor mobilization since the 1930s. The symposium responds to the question raised in the June, 2022 report of the Worker Empowerment Research Network about the sustainability of the new labor activism. The symposium essays focus …
Declining Union Membership in the Post-World War II Era: The United Furniture Workers of America, 1939-1982
An organizational explanation of post-World War II declining union membership, termed the "replenishment thesis," is developed to compensate for the deemphasis on decline in Marxian, functional, and economic theories of unionization. Since 1945, large nonunion corporations have stabilized their work forces by providing private employee welfare plans, and unions have consequently been most successful in organizing employees of small establishments…
Preparation Pathways and Movement Participation: Insurgent Schooling and Nonviolent Direct Action in the Nashville Civil Rights Movement
Employing a unique sample of participants in the early Nashville civil rights movement, we extend the micromobilization literature by conceptualizing “preparation pathways” (or schooling channels) through which activists acquire insurgent consciousness and capital so crucial for committed, effective, high-risk activism. We identify two key pathways in which activists were “schooled” in nonviolent praxis—experience in nonviolent direct action prio…
"Institutional Constraints on Social Movement "Frame Extension: Shifts in the Legislative Agenda of the American Federation of Labor, 1881-1955
Journal Article Institutional Constraints on Social Movement “Frame Extension”: Shifts in the Legislative Agenda of the American Federation of Labor, 1881–1955 Get access Daniel B. Cornfield, Daniel B. Cornfield Vanderbilt University Direct correspondence to Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bill Fletc…
Social movements as schooling for careers: Career consequences of the Nashville civil rights movement
Scholarship on social movement schools shows that movements often facilitate the schooling of their participants, while scholarship on the biographical consequences of social movements demonstrates that movements influence their participants’ subsequent careers. To date, however, few studies consider whether and how the schooling functions of social movements shape participants’ later careers. In this article, through a qualitative comparative an…
Household, Work, and Labor Activism: Gender Differences in the Determinants of Union Membership Participation
With union-corporation competition for worker allegiances and declining union membership during the post-World War II era, unions have increasingly sought to replenish their sagging memberships from the growing ranks of women workers. Consequently, unions have entered into a competition with households for the allegiances of women workers, given the persistence of traditionalism in gender roles. This article addresses household constraints on ind…
The Attitude of Employee Association Members toward Union Mergers: The Effect of Socioeconomic Status
The results of this analysis of data from a 1986 survey of members of the Tennessee State Employees Association suggest that employee association members were more likely to favor a merger of their association into a labor union the lower their socioeconomic status and opportunities for upward mobility. Lower-status employee association members appear to have been more favorably disposed to a merger largely because they were more desirous of an e…
Labor Unions, Corporations, and Families: Institutional Competition in the Provision of Social Welfare
No abstract available for this article
Union Decline and the Political Demands of Organized Labor
With the acceleration in the rate of U.S. union membership decline since 1970, organized labor has issued legislative demands for redistributing wealth and for protecting unions as organizations. Yet research on labor political action has de-emphasized not only the development of labor's legislative agenda, but also the forces, such as socioeconomic status and class conflict, which cause diverse occupational and industrial sectors of unions to is…
The Making of a Movement: An Intergenerational Mobilization Model of the Nonviolent Nashville Civil Rights Movement
The 1960s-era, Nashville nonviolent civil rights movement—with its iconic lunch counter sit-ins—was not only an exemplary local movement that dismantled Jim Crow in downtown public accommodations. It was by design the chief vehicle for the intergenerational mentoring and training of activists that led to a dialogical diffusion of nonviolence praxis throughout the Southern civil rights movement of this period. In this article, we empirically deriv…
Socioeconomic Status and Unionization Attitudes in the United States
Plant Shutdowns and Union Decline: The United Furniture Workers of America, 1963-1981
The unprecedented secular decline in U.S. unionization has been attributed to plant shutdowns stemming from capital mobility out of the unionized Northern industrial regions to the 'Sunbelt.' The effects of local union environment and structure on local union turnover and aging-increasing mean local union age-are examined with a study of 168 local labor unions of the United Furniture Workers between 1963 and 1981. The results suggest that local u…
In Pursuit of Cultural Equity: DEI Grantmaking Practices of U.S. Local Arts Agencies in Community Context
As grantmaking intermediary organizations, local arts agencies (LAAs) play an important but under-researched role in realizing cultural equity—the incorporation of underrepresented groups and counternarratives into democratic discourse—in thousands of local communities throughout the United States. In deploying their diversity, equity, and inclusion grantmaking practices, LAAs vary in the degree to which they proactively encourage the artistic ex…
Labor Transnationalism: An Editorial Introduction to “Labor in the Americas
The United States Labor-Movement: Its Development And Impact On Social Inequality And Politics
The proliferation of research on the US labor movement has created opportunities for the development of theory on labor action. Such theory would account for variations in the development, structure, ideology, goals, functions, social composition, and societal impact of labor unions and, more generally, the labor movement. This review of recent sociological research focuses on two sets of enduring questions to which this research has been address…
Downgrading Computer Workers: Evidence from Occupational and Industrial Redistribution
The growth of computers has led to contradictory expectations about the downgrading of the computer labor force. This article tests three implications of the downgrading argument using data from Public Use Samples: the changing mix of computer occupations between professional/technical and clerical jobs; the changing prestige distinctions among computer workers; and the mobility among higher and lower skilled categories. The findings show that in…
Union Rule in the Schools: Big-City Politics in Transformation. William J. Grimshaw
Fieldwork in the Oligopoly: Protecting the Corporate Subject
Social scientists have discussed at length the protection of individual subjects but have paid little attention to collective subjects (for example, see Sjoberg 1967; Wax 1971; Diener and Crandall 1978). However, if researchers are to study the corporation and the corporate elite (Useem 1979), and if they are to bring the firm back into the mainstream of organizational research (Baron and Bielby 1980), they must also consider the protection of co…
Theories of Trade Unionism: A Sociology of Industrial Relations.Michael Poole
Authority and Participation in Industry
Organization in a Changing Environment: Unionization of Welfare Employees
Declining Union Membership in the Post-World War II Era: The United Furniture Workers of America, 1939-1982
An organizational explanation of post-World War II declining union membership, termed the "replenishment thesis," is developed to compensate for the deemphasis on decline in Marxian, functional, and economic theories of unionization. Since 1945, large nonunion corporations have stabilized their work forces by providing private employee welfare plans, and unions have consequently been most successful in organizing employees of small establishments…
Political Consequences of Economic Segmentation
Plant Shutdowns and Union Decline: The United Furniture Workers of America, 1963-1981
The unprecedented secular decline in U.S. unionization has been attributed to plant shutdowns stemming from capital mobility out of the unionized Northern industrial regions to the 'Sunbelt.' The effects of local union environment and structure on local union turnover and aging-increasing mean local union age-are examined with a study of 168 local labor unions of the United Furniture Workers between 1963 and 1981. The results suggest that local u…
City Unions: Managing Discontent in New York City
Workers, Managers, and Technological Change: Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations
I. Introduction.- 1 Workers, Managers, and Technological Change.- I. Introduction.- II. The Growing Concern with Control.- III. Labor's Changing Responses to Technological Change.- A. From Provider to Advocate: The Changing Role of the Unionin Responding to Technological Change.- B. Labor's Measures for Preventing TechnologicalUnemployment.- C. Relief for the Displaced Worker.- IV. Plan of the Book.- II. Toward Unilateral Managerial Control?.- 2 …
Workers, Managers and Technological Change: Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations
History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Vol. 8: Postwar Struggles, 1918-1920
Union Decline and the Political Demands of Organized Labor
With the acceleration in the rate of U.S. union membership decline since 1970, organized labor has issued legislative demands for redistributing wealth and for protecting unions as organizations. Yet research on labor political action has de-emphasized not only the development of labor's legislative agenda, but also the forces, such as socioeconomic status and class conflict, which cause diverse occupational and industrial sectors of unions to is…
Labor Unions, Corporations, and Families: Institutional Competition in the Provision of Social Welfare
No abstract available for this article
Household, Work, and Labor Activism: Gender Differences in the Determinants of Union Membership Participation
With union-corporation competition for worker allegiances and declining union membership during the post-World War II era, unions have increasingly sought to replenish their sagging memberships from the growing ranks of women workers. Consequently, unions have entered into a competition with households for the allegiances of women workers, given the persistence of traditionalism in gender roles. This article addresses household constraints on ind…
Explaining Organizational Leadership
Governing the Workplace: The Future of Labor and Employment Law
Labor lawyer Paul Weiler examines the social and economic changes that have profoundly altered the legal framework of the employment relationship. He not only discusses a wide range of issues, from wrongful dismissal to mandatory drug testing and pay equity, but he also develops a blueprint for the reconstruction of the law of the workplace, especially designed to give American workers more effective representation
Becoming a Mighty Voice: Conflict and Change in the United Furniture Workers of America
Journal Article Becoming a Mighty Voice: Conflict and Change in the United Furniture Workers of America. By Daniel B. Cornfield. (New York: Sage, 1989. xii + 292 pp. $35.00.) Get access Walter Galenson Walter Galenson Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 373–374, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078218 Published: 01 June 1991
The Attitude of Employee Association Members toward Union Mergers: The Effect of Socioeconomic Status
The results of this analysis of data from a 1986 survey of members of the Tennessee State Employees Association suggest that employee association members were more likely to favor a merger of their association into a labor union the lower their socioeconomic status and opportunities for upward mobility. Lower-status employee association members appear to have been more favorably disposed to a merger largely because they were more desirous of an e…
Becoming a Mighty Voice: Conflict and Change in the United Furniture Workers of America
Workers, Managers, and Technological Change
On Strike! Capital Cities and the Wilkes-Barre Newspaper Unions
The United States Labor-Movement: Its Development And Impact On Social Inequality And Politics
The proliferation of research on the US labor movement has created opportunities for the development of theory on labor action. Such theory would account for variations in the development, structure, ideology, goals, functions, social composition, and societal impact of labor unions and, more generally, the labor movement. This review of recent sociological research focuses on two sets of enduring questions to which this research has been address…
The US Labor Movement: Its Development and Impact on Social Inequality and Politics
The proliferation of research on the US labor movement has created opportunities for the development of theory on labor action. Such theory would account for variations in the development, structure, ideology, goals, functions, social composition, and societal impact of labor unions and, more generally, the labor movement. This review of recent sociological research focuses on two sets of enduring questions to which this research has been address…
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