Vern Baxter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vern Baxter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vern |
| FAMILY NAME | Baxter |
| SIGNATURE | BAXTER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sunbelt
The Sunbelt is a contested construct adopted by scholars in the late 1970s from journalistic accounts of industrial relocation and shifts in population and political power to the southern and western regions of the United States after World War II. The Sunbelt is defined by juxtaposing rapid economic growth and the rise of conservative politics in the South and West with economic collapse and political liberalism in the Northeast and Midwest (Fro…
Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—…
Rent, Real Estate, and Flood Mitigation in New Orleans East
This paper presents results from a study of environmental harm created in the collision of real estate speculation and the political process that governed extension of the urban frontier of New Orleans into its eastern wetlands. Near term concerns of rent‐seeking real estate capital and the contested politics of urban infrastructure expansion challenged a fragmented state charged with regulatory oversight and protection of investments in land and…
Prosperity, Immigration, and Neighborhood Change in Silicon Valley: 1990–2000
This article uses panel data collected at the block group level from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census to explore neighborhood change in the Silicon Valley region of Northern California. This was a period of rapid economic expansion and displacement of the white majority by immigrants of Asian and Hispanic descent. The argument that economic prosperity promotes ethnic group assimilation is confronted by mixed findings that ethnic residential segregat…
Honor, Self and Social Reproduction
Honor is a difficult field of inquiry that deserves systematic attention from social scientists. Honor is an internalized concern for recognition and approval that links reputation with conduct and helps sustain existing patterns of social selection and evaluation. The paper argues that scholars are remiss that consider the field of honor obsolete or a residual category left over from the transition to modern forms of social organization. A moder…
An Expression of Appreciation
Cultural meaning and hip-hop fashion in the African-American male youth subculture of New Orleans
This paper reports results from an ethnographic study of African-American youth subculture in a New Orleans high school. The paper contends that youth subculture remains an important construct to situate stylistic resistance among subaltern groups like urban black youth that confront demands for conformity from representatives of institutional authority with alternative cultural solutions. The core argument is that resistance to demands for confo…
Normalizing the Workplace Nap: Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Space and Time
Napping at work was typically a fugitive behaviour, a small act of resistance against the goals of management and the workplace clock. Increasingly, however, employers are encouraging employees to sleep at the worksite. Indeed, some actively encourage this once deviant behaviour, promoting its restorative features and its relationship to increased productivity. This article examines the emergence of the management organized workplace nap in the U…
An investigation of the time between mortgage default and foreclosure
This paper evaluates the speed at which lender's enter the mortgage foreclosure process, interpreting slower rates as evidence of forbearance. A telephone survey was conducted to evaluate the presence of lender discrimination in defaults that lead to foreclosure in New Orleans, Louisiana between 1985 and 1990. These data are used to estimate the independent effects of race and neighbourhood characteristics on the extent of lender assistance durin…
The Elusive Pursuit of Dignity
Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times
Socialist Project 2.Persistent Memories: Jewish Activists and the German Revolution of 1919 3.Confronting Nationalism 4.The Sickness Unto Death :International Communism Before the Deluge 5.Looking Backwards: 1968 Thirty Years After Part II: Words and Needs 1.Red Dreams and the New Millennium: Remarks on Rosa Luxemborg 2.The Limits of Metatheory: Political Reflections on the Dialectics of Enlightenment 3.Foundations for a Spirit of Resistance:the …
Honor, Status, and Aggression in Economic Exchange
The concept of honor links reputation and self-esteem with interaction in social groups and provides a promising way to approach questions about the release of aggression in economic exchange. While the internalization of conventional honor codes offers the hope of peaceful, if not just, exchange, competing codes of honor coexist within various aspects of the self and among members of various status groups. When a person's sense of individual or …
The Impact of Financial Restructuring and Changes in Corporate Control on Investment and Employment in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
This article investigates the effects of changes in market conditions and the financial structure of domestic petroleum firms on employment and investment in offshore oil leases. Important theoretical issues include the extent to which managerial power in firms has been challenged by intervention from financial markets and institutional investors and the effects of changes in financial control on employment and inventory investment. A pooled cros…
Residential Mortgage Foreclosure and Racial Transition in New Orleans
In this article, the authors explore residential mortgage foreclosure as a mechanism that links economic shocks and the process of racial transition (Lauria 1998). Their analysis indicates that housing foreclosures added momentum to an ongoing process of racial transition, net of the effects of exogenous economic shocks and such other variables as median income of residents, change in the value of owner-occupied housing, and the existing racial d…
The Effects of Industry Governance on Offshore Oil Development in the Gulf of Mexico
This article presents an historical analysis of the way governance arrangements in the petroleum industry have affected development of offshore oil resources in the Gulf of Mexico. Global competition over differential rents and natural value available from petroleum extraction were instrumental in the construction of oil prices high enough to support profitable investment offshore. Attention to the social construction of oil prices illustrates ho…
Competition, Legitimation, and the Regulation of Intercollegiate Athletics
This article uses data on sanctions against member schools of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1952 to 1990 to examine density of competition and legitimacy of rules as regulatory dynamics in a relatively stable population of organizations. The NCAA regulates athletic competition through enforcement of rules that mediate between various definitions of legitimate conduct. Schools in less densely competitive environments are…
Assaultive Violence in the U.S. Post Office
This article suggests that a plausible theoretical link exists between the management of change and recent killings in the U.S. Postal Service. The degradation of labor associated with the scientific management of technological change produces stress and frustration that weaken employee integration and undermine existing forms of social control. Certain employees reject prevailing definitions of situations provided by those in power and develop a…
Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service
The Survival and Revival of Nonwage Labour in a Global Economy
Competing Rationalities and the Politics of Interorganizational Regulation
This article reports results of an analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) regulatory activity from 1952 to 1986. Support is found for a synthesis of resource dependence and institutional theories of interorganizational regulation. Regulation maintains stable competitive relationships by tying competing orientations to resource exchange and the institutional norms that bind member organizations and legitimate their activities.…
The differential effects of technology, individual attributes, and perceived job rewards on job satisfaction
Researchers disagree on the effects of mechanization technology on job rewards and job satisfaction, and on the importance of a good fit between skills, education, and job satisfaction in the computerized workplace. Data from a national survey of manual clerks, machine operators, and maintenance employees in the U.S. Postal Service were used to examine the relationship between perceived job rewards, individual attributes, and job satisfaction for…
The Meaning of Crisis
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Governance of Higher Education
This research investigate the contradictory role of the National Collogiate Athletic Athletic Association (NCAA) as the linkng-pin organization within the economic and educational network of intercollegiate athletic organizations. The NCAA is posited as an institutional structure that developed from struggles over the legitimate definition and practice of intercollegiate athletics within the system of higher education in the U.S. It regulates ath…
The Process of Change in Public Organizations
The facts and myths of changes in technology and authority structure in public organizations are investigated using data from a case study of structural reorganization and the mechanization and automation of mail processing in the United States Postal Service. External political pressure and internal labor-management conflict combined to cause changes that were legitimated by an institutional logic of scientific management and technical progress.…
A Case-Study Method for Teaching Industrial Sociology
An exciting trend in the sociology of organizations is the revitalization of the discipline of industrial sociology. Instead of taking prevailing social arrangements in organizations for granted, the approach of the new industrial sociology is to investigate the origins of the division of labor and to treat as problematic the issues of legitimacy and motivation to work. The goal of the industrial sociology course discussed in this paper is to hel…
Residential Mortgage Foreclosure and Racial Transition in New Orleans
In this article, the authors explore residential mortgage foreclosure as a mechanism that links economic shocks and the process of racial transition (Lauria 1998). Their analysis indicates that housing foreclosures added momentum to an ongoing process of racial transition, net of the effects of exogenous economic shocks and such other variables as median income of residents, change in the value of owner-occupied housing, and the existing racial d…
Normalizing the Workplace Nap: Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Space and Time
Napping at work was typically a fugitive behaviour, a small act of resistance against the goals of management and the workplace clock. Increasingly, however, employers are encouraging employees to sleep at the worksite. Indeed, some actively encourage this once deviant behaviour, promoting its restorative features and its relationship to increased productivity. This article examines the emergence of the management organized workplace nap in the U…
The Survival and Revival of Nonwage Labour in a Global Economy
Honor, Status, and Aggression in Economic Exchange
The concept of honor links reputation and self-esteem with interaction in social groups and provides a promising way to approach questions about the release of aggression in economic exchange. While the internalization of conventional honor codes offers the hope of peaceful, if not just, exchange, competing codes of honor coexist within various aspects of the self and among members of various status groups. When a person's sense of individual or …
Rent, Real Estate, and Flood Mitigation in New Orleans East
This paper presents results from a study of environmental harm created in the collision of real estate speculation and the political process that governed extension of the urban frontier of New Orleans into its eastern wetlands. Near term concerns of rent‐seeking real estate capital and the contested politics of urban infrastructure expansion challenged a fragmented state charged with regulatory oversight and protection of investments in land and…
Cultural meaning and hip-hop fashion in the African-American male youth subculture of New Orleans
This paper reports results from an ethnographic study of African-American youth subculture in a New Orleans high school. The paper contends that youth subculture remains an important construct to situate stylistic resistance among subaltern groups like urban black youth that confront demands for conformity from representatives of institutional authority with alternative cultural solutions. The core argument is that resistance to demands for confo…
The Process of Change in Public Organizations
The facts and myths of changes in technology and authority structure in public organizations are investigated using data from a case study of structural reorganization and the mechanization and automation of mail processing in the United States Postal Service. External political pressure and internal labor-management conflict combined to cause changes that were legitimated by an institutional logic of scientific management and technical progress.…
Honor, Self and Social Reproduction
Honor is a difficult field of inquiry that deserves systematic attention from social scientists. Honor is an internalized concern for recognition and approval that links reputation with conduct and helps sustain existing patterns of social selection and evaluation. The paper argues that scholars are remiss that consider the field of honor obsolete or a residual category left over from the transition to modern forms of social organization. A moder…
The Effects of Industry Governance on Offshore Oil Development in the Gulf of Mexico
This article presents an historical analysis of the way governance arrangements in the petroleum industry have affected development of offshore oil resources in the Gulf of Mexico. Global competition over differential rents and natural value available from petroleum extraction were instrumental in the construction of oil prices high enough to support profitable investment offshore. Attention to the social construction of oil prices illustrates ho…
Competition, Legitimation, and the Regulation of Intercollegiate Athletics
This article uses data on sanctions against member schools of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1952 to 1990 to examine density of competition and legitimacy of rules as regulatory dynamics in a relatively stable population of organizations. The NCAA regulates athletic competition through enforcement of rules that mediate between various definitions of legitimate conduct. Schools in less densely competitive environments are…
Assaultive Violence in the U.S. Post Office
This article suggests that a plausible theoretical link exists between the management of change and recent killings in the U.S. Postal Service. The degradation of labor associated with the scientific management of technological change produces stress and frustration that weaken employee integration and undermine existing forms of social control. Certain employees reject prevailing definitions of situations provided by those in power and develop a…
Prosperity, Immigration, and Neighborhood Change in Silicon Valley: 1990–2000
This article uses panel data collected at the block group level from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census to explore neighborhood change in the Silicon Valley region of Northern California. This was a period of rapid economic expansion and displacement of the white majority by immigrants of Asian and Hispanic descent. The argument that economic prosperity promotes ethnic group assimilation is confronted by mixed findings that ethnic residential segregat…
An investigation of the time between mortgage default and foreclosure
This paper evaluates the speed at which lender's enter the mortgage foreclosure process, interpreting slower rates as evidence of forbearance. A telephone survey was conducted to evaluate the presence of lender discrimination in defaults that lead to foreclosure in New Orleans, Louisiana between 1985 and 1990. These data are used to estimate the independent effects of race and neighbourhood characteristics on the extent of lender assistance durin…
The Impact of Financial Restructuring and Changes in Corporate Control on Investment and Employment in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
This article investigates the effects of changes in market conditions and the financial structure of domestic petroleum firms on employment and investment in offshore oil leases. Important theoretical issues include the extent to which managerial power in firms has been challenged by intervention from financial markets and institutional investors and the effects of changes in financial control on employment and inventory investment. A pooled cros…
Competing Rationalities and the Politics of Interorganizational Regulation
This article reports results of an analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) regulatory activity from 1952 to 1986. Support is found for a synthesis of resource dependence and institutional theories of interorganizational regulation. Regulation maintains stable competitive relationships by tying competing orientations to resource exchange and the institutional norms that bind member organizations and legitimate their activities.…
The differential effects of technology, individual attributes, and perceived job rewards on job satisfaction
Researchers disagree on the effects of mechanization technology on job rewards and job satisfaction, and on the importance of a good fit between skills, education, and job satisfaction in the computerized workplace. Data from a national survey of manual clerks, machine operators, and maintenance employees in the U.S. Postal Service were used to examine the relationship between perceived job rewards, individual attributes, and job satisfaction for…
The Reorganization of the Post Office in Historical Perspective
A Case-Study Method for Teaching Industrial Sociology
An exciting trend in the sociology of organizations is the revitalization of the discipline of industrial sociology. Instead of taking prevailing social arrangements in organizations for granted, the approach of the new industrial sociology is to investigate the origins of the division of labor and to treat as problematic the issues of legitimacy and motivation to work. The goal of the industrial sociology course discussed in this paper is to hel…
The Process of Change in Public Organizations
The facts and myths of changes in technology and authority structure in public organizations are investigated using data from a case study of structural reorganization and the mechanization and automation of mail processing in the United States Postal Service. External political pressure and internal labor-management conflict combined to cause changes that were legitimated by an institutional logic of scientific management and technical progress.…
The differential effects of technology, individual attributes, and perceived job rewards on job satisfaction
Researchers disagree on the effects of mechanization technology on job rewards and job satisfaction, and on the importance of a good fit between skills, education, and job satisfaction in the computerized workplace. Data from a national survey of manual clerks, machine operators, and maintenance employees in the U.S. Postal Service were used to examine the relationship between perceived job rewards, individual attributes, and job satisfaction for…
The Meaning of Crisis
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Governance of Higher Education
This research investigate the contradictory role of the National Collogiate Athletic Athletic Association (NCAA) as the linkng-pin organization within the economic and educational network of intercollegiate athletic organizations. The NCAA is posited as an institutional structure that developed from struggles over the legitimate definition and practice of intercollegiate athletics within the system of higher education in the U.S. It regulates ath…
Competing Rationalities and the Politics of Interorganizational Regulation
This article reports results of an analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) regulatory activity from 1952 to 1986. Support is found for a synthesis of resource dependence and institutional theories of interorganizational regulation. Regulation maintains stable competitive relationships by tying competing orientations to resource exchange and the institutional norms that bind member organizations and legitimate their activities.…
The Survival and Revival of Nonwage Labour in a Global Economy
Competition, Legitimation, and the Regulation of Intercollegiate Athletics
This article uses data on sanctions against member schools of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1952 to 1990 to examine density of competition and legitimacy of rules as regulatory dynamics in a relatively stable population of organizations. The NCAA regulates athletic competition through enforcement of rules that mediate between various definitions of legitimate conduct. Schools in less densely competitive environments are…
Assaultive Violence in the U.S. Post Office
This article suggests that a plausible theoretical link exists between the management of change and recent killings in the U.S. Postal Service. The degradation of labor associated with the scientific management of technological change produces stress and frustration that weaken employee integration and undermine existing forms of social control. Certain employees reject prevailing definitions of situations provided by those in power and develop a…
Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service
The Effects of Industry Governance on Offshore Oil Development in the Gulf of Mexico
This article presents an historical analysis of the way governance arrangements in the petroleum industry have affected development of offshore oil resources in the Gulf of Mexico. Global competition over differential rents and natural value available from petroleum extraction were instrumental in the construction of oil prices high enough to support profitable investment offshore. Attention to the social construction of oil prices illustrates ho…
The Impact of Financial Restructuring and Changes in Corporate Control on Investment and Employment in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
This article investigates the effects of changes in market conditions and the financial structure of domestic petroleum firms on employment and investment in offshore oil leases. Important theoretical issues include the extent to which managerial power in firms has been challenged by intervention from financial markets and institutional investors and the effects of changes in financial control on employment and inventory investment. A pooled cros…
Residential Mortgage Foreclosure and Racial Transition in New Orleans
In this article, the authors explore residential mortgage foreclosure as a mechanism that links economic shocks and the process of racial transition (Lauria 1998). Their analysis indicates that housing foreclosures added momentum to an ongoing process of racial transition, net of the effects of exogenous economic shocks and such other variables as median income of residents, change in the value of owner-occupied housing, and the existing racial d…
Honor, Status, and Aggression in Economic Exchange
The concept of honor links reputation and self-esteem with interaction in social groups and provides a promising way to approach questions about the release of aggression in economic exchange. While the internalization of conventional honor codes offers the hope of peaceful, if not just, exchange, competing codes of honor coexist within various aspects of the self and among members of various status groups. When a person's sense of individual or …
Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times
Socialist Project 2.Persistent Memories: Jewish Activists and the German Revolution of 1919 3.Confronting Nationalism 4.The Sickness Unto Death :International Communism Before the Deluge 5.Looking Backwards: 1968 Thirty Years After Part II: Words and Needs 1.Red Dreams and the New Millennium: Remarks on Rosa Luxemborg 2.The Limits of Metatheory: Political Reflections on the Dialectics of Enlightenment 3.Foundations for a Spirit of Resistance:the …
An investigation of the time between mortgage default and foreclosure
This paper evaluates the speed at which lender's enter the mortgage foreclosure process, interpreting slower rates as evidence of forbearance. A telephone survey was conducted to evaluate the presence of lender discrimination in defaults that lead to foreclosure in New Orleans, Louisiana between 1985 and 1990. These data are used to estimate the independent effects of race and neighbourhood characteristics on the extent of lender assistance durin…
The Elusive Pursuit of Dignity
Normalizing the Workplace Nap: Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Space and Time
Napping at work was typically a fugitive behaviour, a small act of resistance against the goals of management and the workplace clock. Increasingly, however, employers are encouraging employees to sleep at the worksite. Indeed, some actively encourage this once deviant behaviour, promoting its restorative features and its relationship to increased productivity. This article examines the emergence of the management organized workplace nap in the U…
Cultural meaning and hip-hop fashion in the African-American male youth subculture of New Orleans
This paper reports results from an ethnographic study of African-American youth subculture in a New Orleans high school. The paper contends that youth subculture remains an important construct to situate stylistic resistance among subaltern groups like urban black youth that confront demands for conformity from representatives of institutional authority with alternative cultural solutions. The core argument is that resistance to demands for confo…
An Expression of Appreciation
Prosperity, Immigration, and Neighborhood Change in Silicon Valley: 1990–2000
This article uses panel data collected at the block group level from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census to explore neighborhood change in the Silicon Valley region of Northern California. This was a period of rapid economic expansion and displacement of the white majority by immigrants of Asian and Hispanic descent. The argument that economic prosperity promotes ethnic group assimilation is confronted by mixed findings that ethnic residential segregat…
Honor, Self and Social Reproduction
Honor is a difficult field of inquiry that deserves systematic attention from social scientists. Honor is an internalized concern for recognition and approval that links reputation with conduct and helps sustain existing patterns of social selection and evaluation. The paper argues that scholars are remiss that consider the field of honor obsolete or a residual category left over from the transition to modern forms of social organization. A moder…
Rent, Real Estate, and Flood Mitigation in New Orleans East
This paper presents results from a study of environmental harm created in the collision of real estate speculation and the political process that governed extension of the urban frontier of New Orleans into its eastern wetlands. Near term concerns of rent‐seeking real estate capital and the contested politics of urban infrastructure expansion challenged a fragmented state charged with regulatory oversight and protection of investments in land and…
Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—…
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