Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy (Sociology for a New Century Series)
Stephen Sweetis Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Ithaca College and formerly the associate director of the Cornell Careers Institute, a Sloan Center for the Study of Working Families. He has written a number of articles on the challenges confronting working families, focusing on the issues of concern to dual career couples across the life course. His studies have appeared in a variety of publications, including theNew Directions in Life Course Research,Journal of Vocational Behavior,Journal of Marriage and the Family,Innovative Higher Education,The International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters,Journal of College Student Development, andCommunity, Work, and Family. Stephen’s other book with SAGE isThe Work-Family Interface. He has also publishedThe Handbook of Work and Familywith co-authors Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Ellen Ernst Kossek;  Managing Careers in the New Risk Economy, with co-investigator Phyllis Moen;College and Society: An Introduction to the Sociological Imagination,andData Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics.Stephen has been the recipient of a Sloan Officers Grant to study the effects of corporate downsizing on dual earner couples.Peter Meiksinsis a Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University. He is the author of many articles on the sociology of work, including studies of the work experiences of engineers and part-time work in professional technical occupations and essays on labor process theory, professional work in comparative perspective, and contemporary labor relations. His work has appeared in a variety of journals, includingWork and Occupations,Theory and Society,Economic and Industrial Democracy,Work, Employment and Society, andSociological Quarterly. He is the author ofPutting Work in Its Place: A Quiet Revolution(with Peter Whalley) and ofEngineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective(with Chris Smith). Peter’s other books areRethinking the Labor Process(with Mark Wardell and Tom Steiger) andRising From the Ashes: Labor in the Age of Global Capitalism(with Ellen Wood and Michael Yates). He and co-investigator Peter Whalley received a major grant from the Sloan Foundation to study “Flexible Work for Technical Professionals.” Peter’s current research concerns the sociology of design work (a study of the work of graphic designers, industrial designers and interior designers). This research has been supported by a Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline grant from the American Sociological Foundation.