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Precarious Transitions: How Precarious Employment Shapes Parental Coresidence among Young Adults
Oct. 16, 2024—Quan Mai, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University presents “Precarious Transitions: How Precarious Employment Shapes Parental Coresidence among Young Adults” Friday, October 25, 2024 200 Center Classroom The rise of precarious work generates important questions about how this mode of employment might affect young workers’ transition to adulthood, particularly their...
2024 Spring Award Graduate Recipients
May. 15, 2024—Sociology Grad Student Paper Awards Zhe Zhang 1st Place Paper Award: Table for One: “Does Being Single and Living Alone Protect or Hurt Health? Rachel Underwood 2nd Place Paper Award: “The Process and Significance of Identity Reclamation Among Sheltered Women Experiencing Homelessness”
2-part special issue of Work and Occupations on “Precarious Employment and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Apr. 5, 2023—A 2-part special issue of Work and Occupations on “Precarious Employment and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic”—co-guest edited by Quan Mai (Vanderbilt sociology PhD, 2018), Rutgers University and Vanderbilt sociology Professors Lijun Song and Rachel Donnelly—has been published in the February and May 2023 issues. Part I addresses “Market Conditions, Employment Quality, and Workplace Politics”...