In the new economy, with shrinking organizational supports and increased precarity for
professional workers, networking has intensified as an entrepreneurial career management …

In response to an era of transformation that deeply impacts workers and increased attention
to worker collective action in the United States, this article documents some definitional and …

This symposium issue of Work and Occupations on “The New Labor Activism” develops a
new generation of labor sociology research for comprehending and sustaining the …

This study addresses the role of reputation in the career building strategy of early-career
musicians in a transforming music industry. Drawing from interviews with 21 musicians, we …

With nonstandard work on the rise, workers are increasingly forced into bad jobs—jobs that
are low-paying, part-time, short-term, and dead-end. But some people, especially in cultural …

Arts school executives and faculty face the daunting, zero-sum challenge of packing more
and better preparation into over-taxed academic calendars and saturated students: major …

Expertise is a key currency in today's knowledge economy. Yet as experts increasingly move
across work contexts, how expertise translates across contexts is less well understood …

People pursuing careers outside organizations often face a career progression paradox:
they must develop expertise to find new work opportunities, but such expertise is largely …

The impact of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts sector resulted in acute,
drastic drops in employment, revenue, and events. Career maintenance and persistence in …

People in the early stages of their careers often face a trade-off between cultivating a closed
network that helps them secure the resources they need to survive or developing an open …