Cameron Macdonald received her Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University. Prior to her employment at the University of Connecticut, Macdonald taught in Social Studies at Harvard University, and was a teaching assistant at Brandeis University and at the University of California Berkeley. Issues she will address in her April 9th workshop emerge from a participatory action research project among family child care providers in low-income communities of color in Seattle. These positions, combined with her previous work as a community organizer, inform her research interests which include the politics and economics of women's care work, social welfare policy, and women's grassroots political activism. Tuominen's current writing project is completion of her book manuscript under contract with Rutgers University Press.
Incomes are up and poverty is down.
A significant portion of the gain has come from the combination of more hours of work in a typical week and more weeks in which each worker puts in the usual number of hours. In plain English, American families are better off because families members are working more. Mike Hout is professor of sociology at Berkeley. He has also published over 60 articles in academic journals on topics that include inequality, education, politics, demography, and religion. He teaches courses on research methods and social inequality.