RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS FROM THE
WORKPLACE ETHNOGRAPHY PROJECT

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BOOKS

2001    Hodson, Randy.  Dignity at Work.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

1999    Hodson, Randy.  Analyzing Documentary Accounts.  Sage Series on Quantitative Applications
            in the Social Sciences, #128. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

DISSERTATONS

Lindsey Joyce Chamberlain, Ph.D., 2009, Ohio State University, Sociology, “Emotions and Emotion Management at Work.”

Martha Crowley, Ph.D., 2006, Ohio State University, Sociology, “Consent and Compliance in Professional and Service Settings.”

Sandy Welsh, Ph.D., 1994, Indiana University, Sociology, "Cultures of Harassment in the Workplace:  The Organizational Context of Sexual Harassment and the Creation of Resistance."

MASTERS’ THESES

Lindsey Joyce Chamberlain, M.S., 2002, Ohio State University, Sociology, "The Experience and Consequences of Marginality in the Workplace."

John Bastian, M.S., 1993, Indiana University, Sociology, "Perceptions of Workplace Justice.”

Andrew Jones, M.S., 1993, 
Indiana University, Sociology, "The Effects of Academic and Technical Education on Worker Compliance and Resistance."

Roberta Bell, M.S., 1992, 
Indiana University, Sociology, "Autonomy and Gender:  An Analysis of The Ethnographic Data."

Daniel Brakewood, M.S., 1992, 
Indiana University, Sociology, "The Effects of Required Learning Time on Hourly Earnings and the Male-Female Earnings Gap."

HONORS THESES

Sean Christopher Wright, B.S., 2009, Flroida State University, Sociology, "Exploring the Determinants of Job Satisfaction," Daniel Tope advisor.

SYMPOSIUMS

2004    Symposium on Dignity at Work (Randy Hodson, Cambridge University Press, 2001).
            Contemporary Sociology 33,1 (January): 4-20.

2003    Symposium on Dignity at Work (Randy Hodson, Cambridge University Press, 2001) in       
            "Author Meets Critics Session" at Southern Sociological Society Meetings, New Orleans, March 2003.

ARTICLES

Lopez, Steven H., Randy Hodson, and Vincent Roscigno.  2009.  “Workplace Harassment and the Abuse of Power.”  Sociological Quarterly 50,1 (Winter): 3-27.

Hodson, Randy.  2008.  “The Ethnographic Contribution to Understanding Coworker Relations.” British Journal of Industrial Relations 46, 1 (March): 169-192.

Hodson, Randy. 2007.  “The Consequences of Management Competence for Working with Dignity:  A Cross-Methods Validation.”  Pp. 109-133 in Sharon C. Bolton, Dimensions of Dignity at Work.  Oxford:  Butterfield Heinemann.

 Hodson, Randy, Vincent J. Roscigno, and Steven H. Lopez.  2006.  “Chaos and the Abuse of Power:  Workplace Bullying in Organizational and Interactional Context.”  Work and Occupations 33,4 (November): 382-416.


Tope, Daniel, Lindey Joyce Chamberlain, Martha Crowley and Randy Hodson.  2005.  
The Benefits of Being
There:  Evidence from the Literature on Work.
 Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 34, 4 (March): 470-493.

Hodson, Randy.  2005.  “Management Behaviour as Social Capital:  A Systematic Analysis of Organizational
Ethnographies.”   British Journal of Industrial Relations 43, 1 (March): 41-65.


Hodson, Randy and Vincent J. Roscigno.  2004.  "Organizational Success and Worker Dignity:  Complimentary
or Contradictory?"  American Journal of Sociology 110,3 (November): 672-708.


Dixon, Marc, Vincent J. Roscigno, and Randy Hodson.  2004.  "Unions, Solidarity, and Worker Protest."
Social Forces 83,1 (September): 3-33.


Hodson, Randy.  2004.  "Organizational Trustworthiness:  Findings from the Population of Organizational
Ethnographies."  Organization Science 15,4 (July-August): 432-445.


Hodson, Randy.  2004.  “Worklife and Social Fulfillment:  Does Social Affiliation at Work Reflect a Carrot or
a Stick?”  Social Science Quarterly 85,2 (June): 221-239.

Roscigno, Vincent J. and Randy Hodson. 
2004.  
"The Organizational and Social Foundations of Worker Resistance."
American Sociological Review 69,1 (February): 14-39.

Hodson, Randy.  2004.  "A Meta-Ethnography of Employee Attitudes and Behaviors."  Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography
33,1 (February): 4-38.


Hodson, Randy.  2002.  "Worker Participation and Teams:  New Evidence from Analyzing Organizational Ethnographies."
Economic and Industrial Democracy 23,4 (November): 491-528.


Hodson, Randy.  2002.  "Demography or Respect?  Work Group Demography Versus Organizational Dynamics as
Determinants of Meaning and Satisfaction at Work."  British Journal of Sociology 53,2 (June):291-317.


Hodson, Randy.  2002.  "Management Citizenship Behavior and Its Consequences." Work and Occupations 29,1
(February):64-96.


Hodson, Randy.  2001.  "Disorganized, Unilateral and Participative Organizations:  New Insights from the Ethnographic
Literature."  Industrial Relations 40,2 (April):204-230.


Hodson, Randy.  1999.  "Management Citizenship Behavior:  A New Concept and an Empirical Test."  Social Problems
46,3 (August): 460-478.

            Reprinted as: "Management Citizenship Behavior:  A New Concept and an Empirical Test."
            In Kathleen Tiemann (editor), Crossroads:  Readings in Social Problems.  Boston:  Pearson,
            2001.

Hodson, Randy.  1999.  "Organizational Anomie and Worker Consent."  Work and Occupations 26,3 (August):
292-323.


Hodson, Randy.  1998.  "Pride in Task Completion and of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour:  Evidence from the
Ethnographic Literature."  Work and Stress (United Kingdom) 12,4 (December): 1-15.

Hodson, Randy.  1998.  "Organizational Ethnographies:  An Underutilized Resource in the Sociology of Work."
Social Forces 76,4 (June): 1173-1208.


Hodson, Randy. 
1997.  "Group Relations at Work:  Coworker Solidarity, Conflict, and Relations with Management."
Work and Occupations 24,4 (November):426-452.

            Reprinted as:  "Group Relations at Work:  Coworker Solidarity, Conflict, and Relations with
            Management."  Pp. 267-285 in Working in Restructured Workplaces: Challenges and New
            Directions for the Sociology of Work
, edited by Daniel B. Cornfield, Karen E. Campbell, and
            Holly J. McCammon.  Thousand Oaks, California:  Sage, 2001.

Hodson, Randy.  1997.  "Individual Voice on the Shopfloor:  The Role of Unions."  Social Forces
75,4 (June): 1183-1212.


Hodson, Randy.  1996.  "Dignity in the Workplace under Participative Management:  Alienation and Freedom Revisited."
American Sociological Review 61,5 (October): 719-738.


            Recipient of the 1999 Max Weber Award for Outstanding Scholarship by the Organizations, Occupations,
            and Work Section of the American Sociological Association.

            Reprinted as:  "Dignity in the Workplace under Participative Management:  Alienation and
            Freedom Revisited."  Pp. 385-388 in The Changing Nature of Work, edited by Frank
            Ackerman, Neva R. Goodwin, Laurie Dougherty, and Kevin Gallagher, 1998.  Washington,
            D.C.:  Island Press.

Hodson, Randy.  1995.  "Participation Effects on Workplace Attitudes."  Management Research News
(UK) 18,10/11: 1-12.

Hodson, Randy.  1995.  "Worker Resistance:  An Underdeveloped Concept in the Sociology of Work."
Economic and Industrial Democracy 16,1 (February): 79-110.

Hodson, Randy.  1995.  "Cohesion or Conflict?  Race, Solidarity, and Resistance in the Workplace."
Pp. 135-159 in Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 5:  The Meaning of Work, edited by
Richard L. Simpson and Ida Harper Simpson.  Greenwich,Connecticut:  JAI.

Hodson, Randy.  1994.  "Do Racially Mixed Work Forces Undermine Worker Solidarity and Resistance?"
Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association: 239-246.

Hodson, Randy, Sean Creighton, Cheryl Sorenson Jamison, Sabine Rieble, and Sandy Welsh. 1994.
"Loyalty to Whom?  Workplace Participation and the Development of Consent."  Human Relations
(London, Tavistock Institute) 47,8 (August): 895-909.

Hodson, Randy, Sandy Welsh, Sabine Rieble, Cheryl Sorenson Jamison, and Sean Creighton.  1993.
"Is Worker Solidarity Undermined by Autonomy and Participation?  Patterns from the Ethnographic Literature."
American Sociological Review 58,3 (June): 398-416.