Erin Hatton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Hatton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatton |
| SIGNATURE | HATTON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York at Buffalo, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1219-356X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Teaching Sociology through Violence? The Pedagogical Use and Misuse of Violence in Soc 101 Textbooks
In this article, we examine violence in introductory sociology textbooks. To what extent are students exposed to violence in sociology textbooks, we ask, and how much of this violence is necessary for textbooks’ instructional content? To answer these questions, we conducted a line-by-line content analysis of 22 popular introductory sociology textbooks, identifying every case of violence and analyzing its pedagogical utility. We find that sociolog…
Working for Rehab: Labor Expropriation as Treatment for Addiction
This article draws on in-depth interviews with 40 people who attended Salvation Army addiction programs, which deploy 'work therapy' as their primary form of addiction treatment. For this 'therapy,' rehab residents must work at least 40 h a week without pay. Their labor fuels the Salvation Army's multimillion-dollar thrift store enterprise, while the workers themselves are construed as unproductive objects of charity. Yet most of the informants i…
Nobody Becomes a Criminal to Work 9 to 5: Unpaid Labor, Stigma, and Hegemony in Addiction Treatment
Is compulsory unpaid labor essential 'therapy' or unjust exploitation? The informants of this study do not agree, but most believe the former: that the 40 hours a week they worked without pay for the Salvation Army's multimillion-dollar thrift store enterprise was not unjustly exploitative. Yet how can such seemingly overt exploitation be justified in this way? The answer, this article argues, is stigma. This study's 40 informants were residents …
Work Therapy: Extractive Labour as Therapeutic Intervention
This article examines 'work therapy' in the US, a sprawling but overlooked realm of work in which people are put to work-usually without pay and employment rights-in the name of 'therapy'. For whom is work constructed as 'therapy', this article asks, what is deemed therapeutic about labour, and what are its consequences? Through content analysis of organisational documents, this article finds 'work therapy' to be a mechanism for disciplining and …
Legal 'Locker Room Talk: Essentialist Discourses of Masculinity in Law
In this article, I examine how legal actors construct masculinity in law, even in cases that have seemingly little to do with gender. I analyze 118 recent cases in which lawyers, witnesses, and/or judges use gendered expressions, such as 'locker room talk,' as a key element of their legal strategy, testimony, or decision-making. By identifying the specific behaviors to which these legal actors refer when they describe something as 'locker room ta…
Labor and Punishment: Work in and Out of Prison
We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America
Robert T. Chase's We Are Not Slaves provides a vivid—indeed, haunting—portrayal of life behind bars in the Texas prison system in the years after World War II. Contrary to claims by the Texas Department of Corrections that the state's postwar prison system was a model of modernity, Chase shows it to be a particularly brutal model of what David R. Roediger and Elizabeth D. Esch call “race management”: a time-honored system of control predicated on…
Gig Work: All Hustle and Little Gain
Either You Do It or You're Going to the Box: Coerced Labor in Contemporary America
In recent years the problem of precarity has become the primary focus of both popular and academic accounts of work. Yet precarity is not the only troublesome feature of the contemporary economy. In this article I show that coercion-rather than precarity-is central to an array of work relations in the US, including prison labor, workfare, foreign guestwork, undocumented labor, and more. Through ground-level case studies of prison labor and workfa…
Vinel symposium: The Employee, A Political History , by Jean-Christian Vinel
In his thought-provoking and meticulously researched book The Employee: A Political History, Jean-Christian Vinel draws on archival documents from U.S. business leaders, union officials, legislator
When work is punishment: Penal subjectivities in punitive labor regimes
Scholars have persuasively argued that U.S. penal and welfare institutions comprise a single policy regime that has taken a punitive turn with carceral expansion and welfare contraction. Less recognized, however, is the centrality of labor to this regime. Not only has labor been the lynchpin of welfare reform with the expansion of workfare, it has also been an important yet overlooked dimension of mass incarceration, as most able-bodied American …
Mechanisms of invisibility: Rethinking the Concept of Invisible Work
In the mid-1980s, Daniels coined the term 'invisible work' to characterize those types of women's unpaid labour - housework and volunteer work - which had been culturally and economically devalued. Scholars have since applied this term to many types of labour, yet there is little clarity or consensus as to what 'invisibility' means and what mechanisms produce it. Through an in-depth analysis of this far-reaching literature, the present article se…
Work beyond the bounds: A Boundary Analysis of the Fragmentation of Work
Scholars have examined many different types of labour, including 'nonmarket', 'informal' and 'underground' work. Such studies elucidate the conditions and consequences for workers in these jobs, while also generally accepting as unproblematic the basic distinctions between such categories of labour and 'market' work. Yet such distinctions should be a central point of interrogation. This article probes these distinctions by analysing the overlappi…
Temporary Weapons: Employers' Use of Temps against Organized Labor
Since the 1970s, U.S. employers have restructured their relationship to the labor market. This restructuring has included their rising use of nonstandard workers, particularly agency temps, and their systematic attacks on labor unions. These two trends are generally understood to be related but separate facets of a broader restructuring of the employment relationship. In this article, the author shows where and how these trends intersect by analy…
Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Mechanisms of gendering: Gender Typing and the Ideal Worker Norm in the Temporary Help Industry, 1946-1979
Work and organizations are gendered through the complex interaction of organizational structure, culture, and worker agency. Two specific mechanisms that accomplish this process of organizational gendering are (1) occupational gender typing and (2) the ideal worker norm. These mechanisms are usually considered in isolation but, in fact, they operate together in the gendering of work and organizations. In this article, through a content analysis o…
What Workers Want Depends: Legal Knowledge and the Desire for Workplace Change among Day Laborers
In this article, we identify legal knowledge as a key difference between workers who desire workplace change and those who do not. Based on surveys with 121 day laborers, we find that not all day laborers are equally dissatisfied with their jobs, despite uniformly difficult working conditions. Some day laborers do not want to make any real changes to the day labor industry, while others desire a range of industry changes, from higher wages to gre…
Images of powerful women in the age of 'choice feminism
A number of scholars and journalists have argued that Western culture has become 'sexualized'. Both women and men, they maintain, are highly sexualized in popular media. At the same time, scholars have examined the sexualization of women as part of a broader cultural 'backlash' against the gains of second-wave feminism and women's increasing power in society. We contribute to both of these fields with a longitudinal content analysis of four decad…
Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone
The Making of the Kelly Girl: Gender and the Origins of the Temp Industry in Postwar America
This article examines how temp industry leaders exploited notions of "women's work" in the postwar era to create a new category of "respectable" but marginal employment. Although they employed substantial numbers of men, postwar industry leaders publicly cast temp work as "women's work," constructing the iconic image of the "Kelly Girl." In doing so, they entered the postwar cultural debate about women and work, encouraging housewives to get jobs…
Mechanisms of invisibility: Rethinking the Concept of Invisible Work
In the mid-1980s, Daniels coined the term 'invisible work' to characterize those types of women's unpaid labour - housework and volunteer work - which had been culturally and economically devalued. Scholars have since applied this term to many types of labour, yet there is little clarity or consensus as to what 'invisibility' means and what mechanisms produce it. Through an in-depth analysis of this far-reaching literature, the present article se…
Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone
When work is punishment: Penal subjectivities in punitive labor regimes
Scholars have persuasively argued that U.S. penal and welfare institutions comprise a single policy regime that has taken a punitive turn with carceral expansion and welfare contraction. Less recognized, however, is the centrality of labor to this regime. Not only has labor been the lynchpin of welfare reform with the expansion of workfare, it has also been an important yet overlooked dimension of mass incarceration, as most able-bodied American …
Work beyond the bounds: A Boundary Analysis of the Fragmentation of Work
Scholars have examined many different types of labour, including 'nonmarket', 'informal' and 'underground' work. Such studies elucidate the conditions and consequences for workers in these jobs, while also generally accepting as unproblematic the basic distinctions between such categories of labour and 'market' work. Yet such distinctions should be a central point of interrogation. This article probes these distinctions by analysing the overlappi…
Work Therapy: Extractive Labour as Therapeutic Intervention
This article examines 'work therapy' in the US, a sprawling but overlooked realm of work in which people are put to work-usually without pay and employment rights-in the name of 'therapy'. For whom is work constructed as 'therapy', this article asks, what is deemed therapeutic about labour, and what are its consequences? Through content analysis of organisational documents, this article finds 'work therapy' to be a mechanism for disciplining and …
Images of powerful women in the age of 'choice feminism
A number of scholars and journalists have argued that Western culture has become 'sexualized'. Both women and men, they maintain, are highly sexualized in popular media. At the same time, scholars have examined the sexualization of women as part of a broader cultural 'backlash' against the gains of second-wave feminism and women's increasing power in society. We contribute to both of these fields with a longitudinal content analysis of four decad…
The Making of the Kelly Girl: Gender and the Origins of the Temp Industry in Postwar America
This article examines how temp industry leaders exploited notions of "women's work" in the postwar era to create a new category of "respectable" but marginal employment. Although they employed substantial numbers of men, postwar industry leaders publicly cast temp work as "women's work," constructing the iconic image of the "Kelly Girl." In doing so, they entered the postwar cultural debate about women and work, encouraging housewives to get jobs…
Temporary Weapons: Employers' Use of Temps against Organized Labor
Since the 1970s, U.S. employers have restructured their relationship to the labor market. This restructuring has included their rising use of nonstandard workers, particularly agency temps, and their systematic attacks on labor unions. These two trends are generally understood to be related but separate facets of a broader restructuring of the employment relationship. In this article, the author shows where and how these trends intersect by analy…
What Workers Want Depends: Legal Knowledge and the Desire for Workplace Change among Day Laborers
In this article, we identify legal knowledge as a key difference between workers who desire workplace change and those who do not. Based on surveys with 121 day laborers, we find that not all day laborers are equally dissatisfied with their jobs, despite uniformly difficult working conditions. Some day laborers do not want to make any real changes to the day labor industry, while others desire a range of industry changes, from higher wages to gre…
Either You Do It or You're Going to the Box: Coerced Labor in Contemporary America
In recent years the problem of precarity has become the primary focus of both popular and academic accounts of work. Yet precarity is not the only troublesome feature of the contemporary economy. In this article I show that coercion-rather than precarity-is central to an array of work relations in the US, including prison labor, workfare, foreign guestwork, undocumented labor, and more. Through ground-level case studies of prison labor and workfa…
Legal 'Locker Room Talk: Essentialist Discourses of Masculinity in Law
In this article, I examine how legal actors construct masculinity in law, even in cases that have seemingly little to do with gender. I analyze 118 recent cases in which lawyers, witnesses, and/or judges use gendered expressions, such as 'locker room talk,' as a key element of their legal strategy, testimony, or decision-making. By identifying the specific behaviors to which these legal actors refer when they describe something as 'locker room ta…
Mechanisms of gendering: Gender Typing and the Ideal Worker Norm in the Temporary Help Industry, 1946-1979
Work and organizations are gendered through the complex interaction of organizational structure, culture, and worker agency. Two specific mechanisms that accomplish this process of organizational gendering are (1) occupational gender typing and (2) the ideal worker norm. These mechanisms are usually considered in isolation but, in fact, they operate together in the gendering of work and organizations. In this article, through a content analysis o…
Working for Rehab: Labor Expropriation as Treatment for Addiction
This article draws on in-depth interviews with 40 people who attended Salvation Army addiction programs, which deploy 'work therapy' as their primary form of addiction treatment. For this 'therapy,' rehab residents must work at least 40 h a week without pay. Their labor fuels the Salvation Army's multimillion-dollar thrift store enterprise, while the workers themselves are construed as unproductive objects of charity. Yet most of the informants i…
Gig Work: All Hustle and Little Gain
The Making of the Kelly Girl: Gender and the Origins of the Temp Industry in Postwar America
This article examines how temp industry leaders exploited notions of "women's work" in the postwar era to create a new category of "respectable" but marginal employment. Although they employed substantial numbers of men, postwar industry leaders publicly cast temp work as "women's work," constructing the iconic image of the "Kelly Girl." In doing so, they entered the postwar cultural debate about women and work, encouraging housewives to get jobs…
Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone
What Workers Want Depends: Legal Knowledge and the Desire for Workplace Change among Day Laborers
In this article, we identify legal knowledge as a key difference between workers who desire workplace change and those who do not. Based on surveys with 121 day laborers, we find that not all day laborers are equally dissatisfied with their jobs, despite uniformly difficult working conditions. Some day laborers do not want to make any real changes to the day labor industry, while others desire a range of industry changes, from higher wages to gre…
Images of powerful women in the age of 'choice feminism
A number of scholars and journalists have argued that Western culture has become 'sexualized'. Both women and men, they maintain, are highly sexualized in popular media. At the same time, scholars have examined the sexualization of women as part of a broader cultural 'backlash' against the gains of second-wave feminism and women's increasing power in society. We contribute to both of these fields with a longitudinal content analysis of four decad…
Temporary Weapons: Employers' Use of Temps against Organized Labor
Since the 1970s, U.S. employers have restructured their relationship to the labor market. This restructuring has included their rising use of nonstandard workers, particularly agency temps, and their systematic attacks on labor unions. These two trends are generally understood to be related but separate facets of a broader restructuring of the employment relationship. In this article, the author shows where and how these trends intersect by analy…
Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Mechanisms of gendering: Gender Typing and the Ideal Worker Norm in the Temporary Help Industry, 1946-1979
Work and organizations are gendered through the complex interaction of organizational structure, culture, and worker agency. Two specific mechanisms that accomplish this process of organizational gendering are (1) occupational gender typing and (2) the ideal worker norm. These mechanisms are usually considered in isolation but, in fact, they operate together in the gendering of work and organizations. In this article, through a content analysis o…
Work beyond the bounds: A Boundary Analysis of the Fragmentation of Work
Scholars have examined many different types of labour, including 'nonmarket', 'informal' and 'underground' work. Such studies elucidate the conditions and consequences for workers in these jobs, while also generally accepting as unproblematic the basic distinctions between such categories of labour and 'market' work. Yet such distinctions should be a central point of interrogation. This article probes these distinctions by analysing the overlappi…
When work is punishment: Penal subjectivities in punitive labor regimes
Scholars have persuasively argued that U.S. penal and welfare institutions comprise a single policy regime that has taken a punitive turn with carceral expansion and welfare contraction. Less recognized, however, is the centrality of labor to this regime. Not only has labor been the lynchpin of welfare reform with the expansion of workfare, it has also been an important yet overlooked dimension of mass incarceration, as most able-bodied American …
Mechanisms of invisibility: Rethinking the Concept of Invisible Work
In the mid-1980s, Daniels coined the term 'invisible work' to characterize those types of women's unpaid labour - housework and volunteer work - which had been culturally and economically devalued. Scholars have since applied this term to many types of labour, yet there is little clarity or consensus as to what 'invisibility' means and what mechanisms produce it. Through an in-depth analysis of this far-reaching literature, the present article se…
Vinel symposium: The Employee, A Political History , by Jean-Christian Vinel
In his thought-provoking and meticulously researched book The Employee: A Political History, Jean-Christian Vinel draws on archival documents from U.S. business leaders, union officials, legislator
Either You Do It or You're Going to the Box: Coerced Labor in Contemporary America
In recent years the problem of precarity has become the primary focus of both popular and academic accounts of work. Yet precarity is not the only troublesome feature of the contemporary economy. In this article I show that coercion-rather than precarity-is central to an array of work relations in the US, including prison labor, workfare, foreign guestwork, undocumented labor, and more. Through ground-level case studies of prison labor and workfa…
Gig Work: All Hustle and Little Gain
Labor and Punishment: Work in and Out of Prison
We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America
Robert T. Chase's We Are Not Slaves provides a vivid—indeed, haunting—portrayal of life behind bars in the Texas prison system in the years after World War II. Contrary to claims by the Texas Department of Corrections that the state's postwar prison system was a model of modernity, Chase shows it to be a particularly brutal model of what David R. Roediger and Elizabeth D. Esch call “race management”: a time-honored system of control predicated on…
Legal 'Locker Room Talk: Essentialist Discourses of Masculinity in Law
In this article, I examine how legal actors construct masculinity in law, even in cases that have seemingly little to do with gender. I analyze 118 recent cases in which lawyers, witnesses, and/or judges use gendered expressions, such as 'locker room talk,' as a key element of their legal strategy, testimony, or decision-making. By identifying the specific behaviors to which these legal actors refer when they describe something as 'locker room ta…
Work Therapy: Extractive Labour as Therapeutic Intervention
This article examines 'work therapy' in the US, a sprawling but overlooked realm of work in which people are put to work-usually without pay and employment rights-in the name of 'therapy'. For whom is work constructed as 'therapy', this article asks, what is deemed therapeutic about labour, and what are its consequences? Through content analysis of organisational documents, this article finds 'work therapy' to be a mechanism for disciplining and …
Teaching Sociology through Violence? The Pedagogical Use and Misuse of Violence in Soc 101 Textbooks
In this article, we examine violence in introductory sociology textbooks. To what extent are students exposed to violence in sociology textbooks, we ask, and how much of this violence is necessary for textbooks’ instructional content? To answer these questions, we conducted a line-by-line content analysis of 22 popular introductory sociology textbooks, identifying every case of violence and analyzing its pedagogical utility. We find that sociolog…
Working for Rehab: Labor Expropriation as Treatment for Addiction
This article draws on in-depth interviews with 40 people who attended Salvation Army addiction programs, which deploy 'work therapy' as their primary form of addiction treatment. For this 'therapy,' rehab residents must work at least 40 h a week without pay. Their labor fuels the Salvation Army's multimillion-dollar thrift store enterprise, while the workers themselves are construed as unproductive objects of charity. Yet most of the informants i…
Nobody Becomes a Criminal to Work 9 to 5: Unpaid Labor, Stigma, and Hegemony in Addiction Treatment
Is compulsory unpaid labor essential 'therapy' or unjust exploitation? The informants of this study do not agree, but most believe the former: that the 40 hours a week they worked without pay for the Salvation Army's multimillion-dollar thrift store enterprise was not unjustly exploitative. Yet how can such seemingly overt exploitation be justified in this way? The answer, this article argues, is stigma. This study's 40 informants were residents …
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)