How do Americans really view the occupational hierarchy? A new article by Freda B. Lynn, Yongren Shi, and Kevin Kiley (@kkiley.bsky.social) finds less agreement on the status of occupations than estimates suggest. Read more on the Work In Progress blog:

How does being overlooked or overrewarded shape how people go on to evaluate others? Read the newest post on the Work In Progress blog by Mabel Abraham and Tristan Botelho (@tristanbotelho.bsky.social):

A post by ‪Donald Tomaskovic-Devey‬ (@dont-d.bsky.social‬) on the newest edition of Recapitalizing America is now available on the Work In Progress blog:

My 40 year old book, Recapitalizing America was reissued. Here is my reflection today. www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/r...

How do crowdworking platforms like TalentFinder control workers' behavior? Transcript of the Author Meets Critics session for Hatim Rahman's award-winning book "Inside the Invisible Cage" with Lindsey Cameron and Steven Vallas now available on the WIP blog at: www.wipsociology.org/2025/05/20/a...

How has Elon Musk's gamified mindset reprogrammed power in tech firms—and now in the state itself? Sociologist Tongyu Wu draws on the framework of her new book, "Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm" to examine this phenomenon at the Work In Progress blog.