Happy Friday, sociologists! Friday Roundups have been few and far between this semester, but we’re on summer time now and we’ll be ramping them back up. Here are a few of the things we’ve been watching and reading over the past few weeks.
Labor
- The emerging plan to save the American labor movement (Vox)
- When Professionals Rise Up, More Than Money Is at Stake (New York Times)
- How Domestic Workers Wager Safety In The Platform Economy (FastCompany)
- A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash (New York Times)
- Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class (New York Times)
- A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? (New York Times)
Changing Economies
- In The Coal Counties of Central Appalachia, Will Trump’s Promises Come True? (WBUR)
- Editor’s Note: this is part of a series by the Embedded Podcast on coal country
- ‘It’s Factory North America,’ but Trump Could Hobble It (New York Times)
- America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning (Bloomberg)
Immigration
- Crossing the US border – in pictures (The Guardian)
- Donald Trump’s ICE Is Tearing Families Apart (The New Yorker)
- Pregnant And Detained (NPR)
- Federal officials lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children (AZ Central)
Gender
- The Gender Pay Gap: Trying to Narrow It (New York Times)
- The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap (New York Times)
- No Sweatpants in Public: Inside the Rule Books for N.F.L. Cheerleaders (New York Times)
Health Care
- How Tech Can Turn Doctors Into Clerical Workers (New York Times Magazine)
- The Disappearing Doctor: How Mega-Mergers Are Changing the Business of Medical Care (New York Times)
On Campus
- This Software Millionaire Is Building the Low-Tech College of His Dreams (The Chronicle)
- For small, private colleges, fewer students means more worries (Boston Globe)
- Relying on Women, Not Rewarding Them (Inside Higher Ed)
- Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Colleges (New York Times)
- Hunger And Homelessness Are Widespread Among College Students, Study Finds (NPR)
- The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here’s what’s next. (The Atlantic)
- Are You in a BS Job? In Academe, You’re Hardly Alone (The Chronicle)
- The higher education divide: The ‘haves’ keep getting richer. Other schools? Not so much. (Washington Post)
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