Steven Vallas

Biographic Data

ID9306431
NAMESteven Vallas
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEVallas
SIGNATUREVALLAS S
AFFILIATIONSNortheastern University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS427
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX6

  • Delivering difference

    Open AccessH Johnston, Yana Mommadova et al.ARTICLECambridge Journal of Regions…2023Cited by: 6References: 26

    This paper explores a neglected aspect of platform work: how the spatial mobility that app-based couriers must perform requires them to violate taken-for-granted assumptions that define who belongs where. By assigning tasks during atypical hours and requiring gig workers to use their personal clothing, tools and vehicles, platforms strip delivery workers of signifiers that legitimate their presence in consumers’ neighbourhoods. The result is a co…

  • Realities of the Sharing Economy

    Open AccessSteven Peter Valla, Steven VallasARTICLESociological Forum2020

  • What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy

    Steven Peter Valla, Steven Valla et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Sociology2020Cited by: 355References: 64

    The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. Platforms are seen as entrepreneurial incubators, digital cages, accelerants of precarity, and chameleons adapting to their environments. Each of these devices has limitations, which leads us to intro…

  • Workers without Borders

    Open AccessSteven Peter Valla, Steven Valla et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2019

    Secure and stable forms of employment are besieged across much of the developed world. Because this development adversely affects millions of workers, while also fueling ethno-nationalist and anti-immigrant movements in many quarters, systematic research is badly needed on the structural dynamics that generate such shifts in labor market institutions. Ines Wagner’s Workers without Borders provides a good example of the kind of scholarship which t…

  • Precarious Work

    Steven Vallas, Arne L Kalleberg et al.BOOKPrecarious Work2017

  • Research in the Sociology of Work

    Steven P Vallas, Steven VallasBOOKResearch in the Sociology of Work2016

  • Gedenkschrift to Randy Hodson

    Lisa A Keister, Steven Vallas et al.BOOKGedenkschrift to Randy Hodson2016

  • The Sage Handbook of Resistance

    David Courpasson, Steven Peter Valla et al.BOOKThe Sage Handbook of Resistance2016

  • The Causes of Structural Unemployment

    Open AccessSteven Peter Valla, Steven Valla et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2016

  • Democratizing Inequalities

    Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Craig Calhoun et al.BOOKDemocratizing Inequalities2015

    Opportunities to “have your say,” “get involved,” and “join the conversation” are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive polic…

  • Accounting for Precarity

    Open AccessSteven Peter Valla, Steven Valla et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2015Cited by: 9References: 10

  • Relational Models of Organizational Inequalities

    Open AccessSteven Peter Valla, Steven Valla et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2014Cited by: 13References: 70

    In recent years, theorists of social inequality have increasingly rejected analytic models using the individual as the unit of analysis, favoring "relational" models centered on the dynamic, group-level interactions that can account for disparities in the distribution of job rewards. In this article we scrutinize three distinct strands of relational thinking: categorical theories, analysis of symbolic boundaries, and theories of intersectionality…

  • Dualism, Job Polarization, and the Social Construction of Precarious Work

    Open AccessSteven Peter Valla, Steven Valla et al.ARTICLEWork and Occupations2012Cited by: 37References: 22

    Publication of Arne Kalleberg's Good Jobs, Bad Jobs provides a welcome opportunity to re-examine the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that scholars bring to bear on precarious employment. An exemplar of what was once called the 'new structuralism,' Kalleberg's book provides a rigorous, multidimensional analysis of the changes impinging on job stability and security. Although it identifies a vitally important trend toward a growing polarizati…

  • The Transformation of Work

    Open AccessSteven P Vallas, Steven VallasEDITORBOOKThe transformation of work2001

  • Manufacturing Knowledge

    Open AccessSteven Peter Valla, Steven VallasARTICLESocial Science Computer Review1998Cited by: 7References: 8

    Research on the restructuring of work has tended to neglect the autonomous effects that symbolic or cultural influences can have on the utilization of new technologies. This article draws on fieldwork conducted in three pulp and paper mills to explore the symbolic boundaries that occupational groups bring to bear on workplace automation. As sophisticated technologies and management methods were introduced, process engineers engaged in subtle yet …