Friday Roundup

Happy Friday, Sociologists! This will be our last #FridayRoundup for Volume 2. When we we return in two weeks, we’ll also be returning to a weekly posting schedule. In the meantime, enjoy a short selection of what we’ve been reading the last few weeks.

Gender in the Workplace

• Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions (Harvard Business Review)
• ‘We need a call to action’: Stacey Cunningham, the NYSE’s first female president (The Guardian)

Immigration

• See America’s New Ellis Island: A South Texas Bus Terminal (New York Times)
• Jeff Sessions Has Been Targeting Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Domestic Violence. It’s Been “Devastating.” (Mother Jones)
• “Hidden in Plain Sight”: Hundreds of Immigrant Children and Teens Housed in Opaque Network of Chicago-Area Shelters (ProPublica)

Gentrification

• ‘No land for love or money’: how gentrification hit the Mennonites (The Guardian)
• Welcome to suburbia: the millennials done with city life – and city prices (The Guardian)

Labor

• US watchdog uncovers violence against pro-union workers at Indian factory (The Guardian)

On Campus

• Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Alarm Academia (New York Times)
• Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities (ProPublica)
• What Is Academic Freedom? Statement That Alarmed Professors at U. of Texas Sets Off Debate (The Chronicle)

Happy Friday! Here are some of the stories we’ve been reading this week.

Immigration

• For Europe, Cutting the Flow of Migrants Challenges Basic Ideals (New York Times)
• ‘An all-American city that speaks Spanish’: Immigration isn’t a problem for this Texas town — it’s a way of life (Washington Post)
• Army Quietly Discharges Immigrant Recruits Once Promised A Path To Citizenship (WBUR)

Trade

• Around the World in Trade Disputes (The Atlantic)
• The Iowa farmers on the frontline of Trump’s trade war with China (The Guardian)
• A Sign of Future Recession (WNYC)

Work

• Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not compared with the rest of the developed world. (Washington Post)
• Say Hello to Full Employment (The Atlantic)
• The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy (The Atlantic)
• ‘It’s a huge subsidy’: the $4.8bn gamble to lure Foxconn to America (The Guardian)

Policing in America

• Black Oregon Lawmaker Says Police Were Called As She Knocked On Constituents’ Doors
• His Brother’s Keeper (The Atlantic)
• L.A. gangs stockpile untraceable ‘ghost guns’ that members make themselves (L.A. Times)

On Campus

• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Scientist? (New York Times Magazine)
• Hands-on learning is a necessary part of college, but here’s what it doesn’t teach students (Washington Post)
• International medical schools have a bad reputation. That needs to change, for the good of U.S. patients. (Washington Post)
• Wisconsin Court Sides With Professor Who Was Suspended After Blogging About a Student (The Chronicle)
• The Trump Administration Just Rescinded Obama-Era Guidance on Race-Conscious Admissions Policies. So What? (The Chronicle)

Happy Friday, sociologists! Like many of you, we’ve been following the immigration news closely. Here are some of the latest updates and a smattering of other news we’ve managed to catch this week.

Immigration

• ‘Going through hell’ at the border: parents split from children tell of anguish (The Guardian)
• 16 and Alone, Inside a Center for Separated Children in New York (New York Times)
• The story behind the girl begging for aunt after separation from mother (Washington Post)
• Where Migrant Children Are Being Held Across the U.S. (New York Times)
• ‘No one’s going to separate us again’: U.S. returns 7-year-old Guatemalan boy taken from his mother (Washington Post)
• Americans vastly overestimate the number of immigrants. But what if it doesn’t matter? (Washington Post)
• Why it’s legal for Border Patrol to have checkpoints in the US (Vox.com)
• US family separation crisis – in pictures (The Guardian)
• Who Is Dolly Gee, the Judge Deciding the Fate of Trump’s Executive Order? (New York Times)

Immigration and the Media

• Watch: Sinclair forced its TV stations to air pro-Trump propaganda on family separation (Vox.com)
• Time magazine’s cover isn’t bold or brave. It’s exploitative. (Vox.com)

Scaling Back the Safety Net

• Behind Trump’s Plan to Overhaul the Government: Scaling Back the Safety Net (New York Times)
• Nikki Haley attacks damning UN report on US poverty under Trump (The Guardian)

Gender

• ‘It Was 11 Guys on a Bus, and Then Me’: Women on the Warped Tour (New York Times)
• Intel C.E.O. Brian Krzanich Resigns After Relationship With Employee (New York Times)
• When Children Say They’re Trans (The Atlantic)

Labor

• These places will pay U.S. workers thousands of dollars to move there (Washington Post)
• The Overlooked Children Working America’s Tobacco Fields (The Atlantic)

Happy Friday, sociologists! Here are a few of the articles and essays we’ve been reading this past week.

Immigration

• The Trump administration’s separation of families at the border, explained (Vox.com)
• Extinguishing the Beacon of America (The Atlantic)
• Trump to reject immigration proposal protecting families separated at border (The Guardian)
• The House GOP says their new bill bans separating families at the border. That’s a lie. (Vox.com)
• It’s not just cruel to separate a breastfeeding baby from a mom. It’s medically dangerous. (Vox.com)

Gender

• The Terrible Stereotypes of Mother’s and Father’s Day Cards (The Atlantic)
• Today’s Masculinity Is Stifling (The Atlantic)
• The Feminist Future of Modesty (The New Republic)

Indigenous Issues

• US army to return remains of Native American children a century after their deaths (The Guardian)
• First Nations look to buy equity in pipeline to have say in project’s future (The Guardian)

The Gig Economy

• Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All (New York Times)

On Campus

• Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits, Lawsuit Says (New York Times)
• Woke 101: If Starbucks struggled to teach about race, can universities’ diversity curriculums do better? (Washington Post)
• Do Unions Help Adjuncts? (The Chronicle)
• How the Great Recession changed the job market forever for college grads (Washington Post)
• GPAs don’t really show what students learned. Here’s why. (Washington Post)
• Colleges and State Laws Are Clamping Down on Fraternities (New York Times)
• Colleges Grapple With Where — or Whether — to Draw the Line on Free Speech (New York Times)

Happy jobs report Friday, sociologists! Here is watch we’ve been reading and watching this week.

Gender

• N.F.L.’s Alternate ‘Cheerleaders’ Don’t Cheer or Dance (New York Times)
• Here’s Why British Firms Say Their Boards Lack Women. Prepare to Cringe. (New York Times)
• The historically low birthrate, explained in 3 charts (Vox)

Sex

• Sex workers cannot solve the problem of angry, misogynistic men (Vox)
• It’s International Whores’ Day. Let’s talk about why strippers need better labor laws. (Vox)
• Mutually Nonconsensual Sex (The Atlantic)

Prisons and Policing

• The Prisoners Who Care for the Dying and Get Another Chance at Life (New York Times)
• Black defendants receive longer prison terms from Republican-appointed judges, study finds (Washington Post)
• How a Tiny Website Became the Police’s Go-To Genealogy Database

Trade Wars

• The places in America most exposed to a trade war (Washington Post)
• Why Trump’s Intense Focus on the Trade Deficit Could Cost the Economy in the Long Run (New York Times)

Immigration

• How Liberals Got Lost on the Story of Missing Children at the Border (New York Times)

Work

• The Death of a Gig Worker (The Atlantic)
• The black unemployment rate has never been closer to the white unemployment rate (Washington Post)
• U.S. economy extends its hiring spree, with a better than expected 223,000 new jobs in May (Washington Post)
• America has a massive truck driver shortage. Here’s why few want an $80,000 job. (Washington Post)

Inequality

• UN: US inequality reaching a dangerous level due to Trump’s ‘cruel’ measures (The Guardian)
• ‘We’re being pushed out’: the displacement of black Oakland (The Guardian)

On Campus

• It’s Time to End College Majors as We Know Them (The Chronicle)
• Another Sign of a Tough Job Market: Grad Students Feel Bigger Push to Publish (The Chronicle)
• Reject the Con: Education Is Infrastructure (Inside Higher Ed)

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)

Happy Friday, sociologists! Here are a few of the things we’ve been watching and reading this week.

A Trade War?

• Trump’s Latest Tariff Strategy: Less Trade War, and More Let’s Make a Deal (New York Times)
• Little Evidence Supports Trump’s Claims Against China on Tariffs and Trade (New York Times)
• Trump’s steel tariffs are mere political theater (The Guardian)

Race in America

• How to Kill a Revolution: The Whitewashing of King’s Assassination (The Atlantic)
• A Provision Hidden in the Banking Bill Could Hurt Black Homeowners (The Atlantic)

Infrastructure

• Flint and America’s Corroded Trust (Mother Jones)
• How America’s clean coal dream unravelled (The Guardian)

Automation

• Bricklayers Think They’re Safe From Robots. Decide for Yourself. (New York Times)
• Most Americans See Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Jobs (Just Not Theirs) (New York Times)
• Ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick reveals new project: a ‘job creation’ fund (The Guardian)

We’re very happy to be back with the second edition of the Friday News Roundup this year, and we hope you enjoy the things we’ve been reading and watching!

Labor Actions

• WV Senate considers putting pay raise toward PEIA as teacher strike continues (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
• ‘I Live Paycheck to Paycheck’: A West Virginia Teacher Explains Why She’s on Strike (New York Times)
• Universities strike blamed on vote by Oxbridge colleges (The Guardian)
• USS strike: is time to nationalise university pensions? (Times Higher Education)

Environmental Issues

• The hidden costs of cobalt mining (Washington Post)
• The future of climate policy is being decided in the Pacific Northwest (Vox)
• Spring has arrived early for much of the US. It’s gorgeous — and concerning. (Vox)
• Making America Toxic Again (Mother Jones)
• How America’s clean coal dream unravelled (The Guardian)

Nationalism

• Northern Ireland is in crisis because of a squabble over language (Washington Post)
• Theda Skocpol’s new work on anti-Trump activists (The Economist)
• Spain has violated Carles Puigdemont’s political rights, UN told (The Guardian)

At Work

• Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers (New York Times)
• A Horrifying Path to America for Hotel Workers (The Atlantic)
• Crafting a Life (1843 Magazine)

Policing in America

• How Chicago Ticket Debt Sends Black Motorists Into Bankruptcy (ProPublica)
• The High Cost of Unlicensed Bail Bonds (The Atlantic)

On Campus

• New England colleges have one big worry: 2025 (Boston Globe)
• Why governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education (The Economist)
• The Case for Inclusive Teaching (The Chronicle)

Happy Friday, Sociologists! We’ve been on hiatus for about a month while we took some time off and launched our new site. We hope you’re enjoying the new look, and that your semesters, if you are a student or a faculty member, are off to excellent starts. We have a lot of links built up from the last few weeks, and a moving video up top from the New York Times about gender, parenting, and transiting. We hope you enjoy!

#metoo

• Universities have a sexual harassment problem. Can they fix it? (Vox)
• Women and Men in STEM Often at Odds Over Workplace Equity (Pew)
• Long Before #MeToo, Researchers Saw Troubling Trends for Women at Work – An Interview with Paula England (Slate)
• Lunches, hugs, and break-room banter: Where are the new boundaries at work? (Washington Post)

Poverty in America

• On the border of hope and despair (Washington Post)
• The 100-year capitalist experiment that keeps Appalachia poor, sick, and stuck on coal (Quartz)
• Families flooding LA’s homeless system at five times the rate of last year (Southern California Public Radio)
• Why it costs so much to be poor in America (Washington Post)
• Millions of Americans as destitute as the world’s poorest? Don’t believe it. (Vox)

Spatial Inequality

• America’s forgotten towns: Can they be saved or should people just leave? (Washington Post)
• What city bus systems can tell us about race, poverty and us (Washington Post)
• Urban killings rise in clusters as many areas grow safer (AP)
• What Happens When the Richest U.S. Cities Turn to the World? (New York Times)

Space, Work, and Retail

• What to Do With Dead Malls? (Wall Street Journal)
• How to Rebuild After the Retail Apocalypse (The Atlantic)

Policing

• Can Cops Unlearn Their Unconscious Biases? (The Atlantic)
• In New York, Crime Falls Along With Police Stops (ProPublica)

Big Tech

• Google, YouTube and the future of the American worker (NBC)
• How Tech Companies Could Keep the Workforce Alive (The Atlantic)
• Big Tech: The New Predatory Capitalism (American Prospect)

Working in America

• Freelanced: The Rise Of The Contract Workforce (WBUR)
• Trump says he deserves credit for the lowest black unemployment rate in decades. He doesn’t. (Vox)
• Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (New York Times)
• Carrier plant layoffs: Worker thought Trump would save her job. She was wrong. (NBC)
• Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories (New York Times Magazine)
• As Labor Pool Shrinks, Prison Time Is Less of a Hiring Hurdle (New York Times)
• Boston-Area Companies Push For Robot Workers In Warehouses Under Holiday Crunch (WBUR)
• ‘I hope I can quit working in a few years’: A preview of the U.S. without pensions (Washington Post)

On Campus

• The Peril of Taxing Elite Higher Education (New York Times)
• The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students (Washington Post)
• As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting (New York Times)
• The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone (The Atlantic)
• The Biggest Problem for State Higher-Ed Policy? Federal Higher-Ed Policy (The Chronicle)
• Less Is More (Inside Higher Ed)
• Hypothetical ‘Shark Tank’ Session Sets Off Real Worries at U. of Baltimore (The Chronicle)

Happy Friday! This is our final post of the year, and we’ve got a big 2018 planned for Work in Progress so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are the stories that we’ve been reading this week.

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