Todd E Vachon
Biographic Data
| ID | 267275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd E Vachon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd E |
| FAMILY NAME | Vachon |
| SIGNATURE | VACHON T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1073-1184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Neoliberalism and labor's long decline: Financialization, precaritization, and union density in the American states, 1964–2023
Should We be Teaching Political Economy to Workers
Negotiating just transitions: Power and Interest Dynamics in Insurgent Sustainability Coalitions
Politics and power are increasingly central to the study of sustainability transitions, including just transitions. One line of research differentiates between incumbent coalitions that resist and insurgent coalitions that promote these transitions. More recently, there has been attention on the politics and power within these coalitions and the implications of who participates and how for the kinds of policy preferences that emerge. Here, we foc…
Working for a Just Transition: The State of Labor-Climate Action in the United States
Building the Future of Work Today - A Labor Studies Perspective
What can labor studies contribute to ongoing debates about the future of work? In a recent edited volume, Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future (Schulze-Cleven and Vachon 2021), we put forward a set of propositions that have sparked lively discussions at academic conferences over the past two years. This essay introduces a symposium on "Labor Studies and the Future of Work" that extends these earlier conversations and ma…
Too Much of a Good Thing? Testing the Curvilinear Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Outcomes in Elementary School
Most scholars, parents, and educators agree that parental involvement is beneficial for children's academic and developmental outcomes. However, a small but growing body of scholarship suggests that intensive parental involvement may potentially hinder children's development. In this study, we examine the 'more is less' assumption in parental involvement research and formally test the argument of parental overinvolvement. Using nationally represe…
Unions, democracy, and Trump: Deconstructing the Covid-19 vaccination crisis of 2021
The Future of Work and Workers: Insights from US Labour Studies
The rollout of sophisticated digital tools -including advanced robotics, data analytics, machine learning and the Internet of Things -threatens to disrupt the distribution, role and nature of work in society. Raising the spectre of mass unemployment and social instability, researchers predict that technological progress will soon allow for the rapid automation of many tasks that are currently performed by humans. Already the pace of change appear…
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US
Running with or against the treadmill? Labor unions, institutional contexts, and greenhouse gas emissions in a comparative perspective
In this paper, we examine one institution that has received less attention in scholarly debates about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite its inherent connection to economic activity and political activism: labor unions. For some, unions represent particularistic interest groups that pursue the economic interests of their members at the expense of the environment. For others, they represent the organized political voice of a working class dem…
Red state, blue state: Neoliberalism, politics and public sector union membership in the US states
Theories of Neoliberalism have acknowledged cross-national variations in Neoliberal trajectories but have been remiss in identifying subnational variations in the Neoliberal agenda. To explore this subnational variation, we examine the multifaceted Neoliberal attack on public sector unions in the 50 US states during the Tea Party era. We undertake a qualitative case study of four states as well as a quantitative historical study of all 50 states …
A Big Win in Smalltown: Demanding Dignity in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity
This article explores the concepts of dignity at work and worker voice in the public workplace during a period of surging neoliberal austerity intended to reduce taxes, government regulations, and public services. I ask how the changing landscape of public employment in the neoliberal era has created new and exacerbated existing threats to dignity at work and how workers have responded to such threats. The question is answered by exploring how an…
National Income, Political Freedom, and Investments in R&D and Education: A Comparative Analysis of the Second Digital Divide Among 15-Year-Old Students
Financialization, Income Inequality, and Redistribution in 18 Affluent Democracies, 1981–2011
In recent decades, the growth of finance and rising income inequality has become a pervasive feature of the political economies in affluent capitalist democracies. This study investigates the long-run effects of financialization on three measures of income inequality—market-generated income inequality, redistribution, and state-mediated income inequality—in 18 affluent capitalist democracies from 1981 to 2011. We focus on three aspects of financi…
Are Union Members More or Less Likely to Be Environmentalists? Some Evidence from Two National Surveys
This study examines the relationship between unionization and environmental attitudes and behaviors in two national surveys. We begin by comparing the responses of union versus nonunion respondents to sixteen environmental questions in the General Social Survey for various years between 1993 and 2010. Overall, union members are, on average, slightly more likely than the general population to display pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors—havin…
Union Decline in a Neoliberal Age: Globalization, Financialization, European Integration, and Union Density in 18 Affluent Democracies
This paper examines the long-run effects of globalization, financialization, and European integration on union density in 18 affluent capitalist democracies between 1981 and 2010. After appropriate controls, imports from developing and imports from advanced countries and financialization negatively affect, and capital mobility positively affects, unionization. Immigration has no consistent effect on unionization. Also, European integration-measur…
Residential segregation: The mitigating effects of past military experience
Tout sujet, se constitue une vie intrapsychique intime, a partir d'un contexte familial prive, lui-meme soumis a un espace public. Ces modalites de subjectivations intime, privee, publique, se presentent comme les instances d'un processus, sans idee de hierarchie, en interdependance, que nous appelons la dialectique IPP. Nous sommes amenes, en tant que therapeute familial, a recevoir des familles ou les liens tisses mettent a mal la vie intime de…
Bargaining for Success: Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Unions and Student Achievement
While many previous studies have identified a positive relationship between teachers unions and student achievement on standardized tests, little research to date has explored the channels through which unions might actually affect achievement. Utilizing multilevel random intercept models, we examine the effects of two categories of items commonly negotiated in teacher contracts—“industrial union” items and “professional union” items—on individua…
Unionism, Public Sector
Union Decline in a Neoliberal Age: Globalization, Financialization, European Integration, and Union Density in 18 Affluent Democracies
This paper examines the long-run effects of globalization, financialization, and European integration on union density in 18 affluent capitalist democracies between 1981 and 2010. After appropriate controls, imports from developing and imports from advanced countries and financialization negatively affect, and capital mobility positively affects, unionization. Immigration has no consistent effect on unionization. Also, European integration-measur…
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US
Bargaining for Success: Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Unions and Student Achievement
While many previous studies have identified a positive relationship between teachers unions and student achievement on standardized tests, little research to date has explored the channels through which unions might actually affect achievement. Utilizing multilevel random intercept models, we examine the effects of two categories of items commonly negotiated in teacher contracts—“industrial union” items and “professional union” items—on individua…
Too Much of a Good Thing? Testing the Curvilinear Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Outcomes in Elementary School
Most scholars, parents, and educators agree that parental involvement is beneficial for children's academic and developmental outcomes. However, a small but growing body of scholarship suggests that intensive parental involvement may potentially hinder children's development. In this study, we examine the 'more is less' assumption in parental involvement research and formally test the argument of parental overinvolvement. Using nationally represe…
Running with or against the treadmill? Labor unions, institutional contexts, and greenhouse gas emissions in a comparative perspective
In this paper, we examine one institution that has received less attention in scholarly debates about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite its inherent connection to economic activity and political activism: labor unions. For some, unions represent particularistic interest groups that pursue the economic interests of their members at the expense of the environment. For others, they represent the organized political voice of a working class dem…
Financialization, Income Inequality, and Redistribution in 18 Affluent Democracies, 1981–2011
In recent decades, the growth of finance and rising income inequality has become a pervasive feature of the political economies in affluent capitalist democracies. This study investigates the long-run effects of financialization on three measures of income inequality—market-generated income inequality, redistribution, and state-mediated income inequality—in 18 affluent capitalist democracies from 1981 to 2011. We focus on three aspects of financi…
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950
Red state, blue state: Neoliberalism, politics and public sector union membership in the US states
Theories of Neoliberalism have acknowledged cross-national variations in Neoliberal trajectories but have been remiss in identifying subnational variations in the Neoliberal agenda. To explore this subnational variation, we examine the multifaceted Neoliberal attack on public sector unions in the 50 US states during the Tea Party era. We undertake a qualitative case study of four states as well as a quantitative historical study of all 50 states …
National Income, Political Freedom, and Investments in R&D and Education: A Comparative Analysis of the Second Digital Divide Among 15-Year-Old Students
Are Union Members More or Less Likely to Be Environmentalists? Some Evidence from Two National Surveys
This study examines the relationship between unionization and environmental attitudes and behaviors in two national surveys. We begin by comparing the responses of union versus nonunion respondents to sixteen environmental questions in the General Social Survey for various years between 1993 and 2010. Overall, union members are, on average, slightly more likely than the general population to display pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors—havin…
Unions, democracy, and Trump: Deconstructing the Covid-19 vaccination crisis of 2021
Residential segregation: The mitigating effects of past military experience
Tout sujet, se constitue une vie intrapsychique intime, a partir d'un contexte familial prive, lui-meme soumis a un espace public. Ces modalites de subjectivations intime, privee, publique, se presentent comme les instances d'un processus, sans idee de hierarchie, en interdependance, que nous appelons la dialectique IPP. Nous sommes amenes, en tant que therapeute familial, a recevoir des familles ou les liens tisses mettent a mal la vie intime de…
Unionism, Public Sector
Bargaining for Success: Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Unions and Student Achievement
While many previous studies have identified a positive relationship between teachers unions and student achievement on standardized tests, little research to date has explored the channels through which unions might actually affect achievement. Utilizing multilevel random intercept models, we examine the effects of two categories of items commonly negotiated in teacher contracts—“industrial union” items and “professional union” items—on individua…
Are Union Members More or Less Likely to Be Environmentalists? Some Evidence from Two National Surveys
This study examines the relationship between unionization and environmental attitudes and behaviors in two national surveys. We begin by comparing the responses of union versus nonunion respondents to sixteen environmental questions in the General Social Survey for various years between 1993 and 2010. Overall, union members are, on average, slightly more likely than the general population to display pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors—havin…
Union Decline in a Neoliberal Age: Globalization, Financialization, European Integration, and Union Density in 18 Affluent Democracies
This paper examines the long-run effects of globalization, financialization, and European integration on union density in 18 affluent capitalist democracies between 1981 and 2010. After appropriate controls, imports from developing and imports from advanced countries and financialization negatively affect, and capital mobility positively affects, unionization. Immigration has no consistent effect on unionization. Also, European integration-measur…
Residential segregation: The mitigating effects of past military experience
Tout sujet, se constitue une vie intrapsychique intime, a partir d'un contexte familial prive, lui-meme soumis a un espace public. Ces modalites de subjectivations intime, privee, publique, se presentent comme les instances d'un processus, sans idee de hierarchie, en interdependance, que nous appelons la dialectique IPP. Nous sommes amenes, en tant que therapeute familial, a recevoir des familles ou les liens tisses mettent a mal la vie intime de…
Financialization, Income Inequality, and Redistribution in 18 Affluent Democracies, 1981–2011
In recent decades, the growth of finance and rising income inequality has become a pervasive feature of the political economies in affluent capitalist democracies. This study investigates the long-run effects of financialization on three measures of income inequality—market-generated income inequality, redistribution, and state-mediated income inequality—in 18 affluent capitalist democracies from 1981 to 2011. We focus on three aspects of financi…
Running with or against the treadmill? Labor unions, institutional contexts, and greenhouse gas emissions in a comparative perspective
In this paper, we examine one institution that has received less attention in scholarly debates about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite its inherent connection to economic activity and political activism: labor unions. For some, unions represent particularistic interest groups that pursue the economic interests of their members at the expense of the environment. For others, they represent the organized political voice of a working class dem…
Red state, blue state: Neoliberalism, politics and public sector union membership in the US states
Theories of Neoliberalism have acknowledged cross-national variations in Neoliberal trajectories but have been remiss in identifying subnational variations in the Neoliberal agenda. To explore this subnational variation, we examine the multifaceted Neoliberal attack on public sector unions in the 50 US states during the Tea Party era. We undertake a qualitative case study of four states as well as a quantitative historical study of all 50 states …
A Big Win in Smalltown: Demanding Dignity in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity
This article explores the concepts of dignity at work and worker voice in the public workplace during a period of surging neoliberal austerity intended to reduce taxes, government regulations, and public services. I ask how the changing landscape of public employment in the neoliberal era has created new and exacerbated existing threats to dignity at work and how workers have responded to such threats. The question is answered by exploring how an…
National Income, Political Freedom, and Investments in R&D and Education: A Comparative Analysis of the Second Digital Divide Among 15-Year-Old Students
The Future of Work and Workers: Insights from US Labour Studies
The rollout of sophisticated digital tools -including advanced robotics, data analytics, machine learning and the Internet of Things -threatens to disrupt the distribution, role and nature of work in society. Raising the spectre of mass unemployment and social instability, researchers predict that technological progress will soon allow for the rapid automation of many tasks that are currently performed by humans. Already the pace of change appear…
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US
Building the Future of Work Today - A Labor Studies Perspective
What can labor studies contribute to ongoing debates about the future of work? In a recent edited volume, Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future (Schulze-Cleven and Vachon 2021), we put forward a set of propositions that have sparked lively discussions at academic conferences over the past two years. This essay introduces a symposium on "Labor Studies and the Future of Work" that extends these earlier conversations and ma…
Too Much of a Good Thing? Testing the Curvilinear Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Outcomes in Elementary School
Most scholars, parents, and educators agree that parental involvement is beneficial for children's academic and developmental outcomes. However, a small but growing body of scholarship suggests that intensive parental involvement may potentially hinder children's development. In this study, we examine the 'more is less' assumption in parental involvement research and formally test the argument of parental overinvolvement. Using nationally represe…
Unions, democracy, and Trump: Deconstructing the Covid-19 vaccination crisis of 2021
Working for a Just Transition: The State of Labor-Climate Action in the United States
Neoliberalism and labor's long decline: Financialization, precaritization, and union density in the American states, 1964–2023
Should We be Teaching Political Economy to Workers
Negotiating just transitions: Power and Interest Dynamics in Insurgent Sustainability Coalitions
Politics and power are increasingly central to the study of sustainability transitions, including just transitions. One line of research differentiates between incumbent coalitions that resist and insurgent coalitions that promote these transitions. More recently, there has been attention on the politics and power within these coalitions and the implications of who participates and how for the kinds of policy preferences that emerge. Here, we foc…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works)