Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: New teachers are valuable yet fragile resources. Their retention depends on the quality of preparation in both pre-service and in-service. The session describes an induction program collaboration between support providers.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This manuscript analyzes emerging forms of resistance to corporate-driven global capitalism. It explores some of the unique strategies and organizing tools activists are employing to enhance network-building and information sharing across local, national, and international levels. By undertaking an in-depth analysis of a successful worker strike against the New Era Corporation in upstate New York, this research sheds light on how the struggle for workers’ rights is interconnected across the global North and South.
To carry out this research I interviewed the leader of the local union and the area director of the national union that represented the workers, as well as the directors of key NGOs and community groups that worked in solidarity with the Derby plant labor force. Internal documents and memos were made available to me by the area director of the national union. An exploration into the tactics used in the struggle, strategies for coordination and networking, and the motivation for the participants involved gives us a better understanding of how New Social Movements (NSMs) operate.

The literature on new social movements (NSMs) provides a way to examine how power dynamics in the contemporary global economic system can be contested at the local level. While much of the research on NSMs draws attention to the need to build solidarity among various groups, the real specifics regarding how these networks are formed and maintained is often underreported. Also, while much has been written on transnational struggles to support workers in the apparel and footwear industries in the global South, struggles in the North have not received much attention (most likely in part because of the decreasing importance of industrial capitalism in the North). This research, therefore, attempts to go beyond previous studies by focusing on workers in the global North, and investigating in greater detail the dynamics of grassroots organizing around the issue of global capitalism.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Recent immigration from the Caribbean, Africa and Europe has been overshadowed by immigration from Asia and Latin America, but these newcomers are of particular theoretical importance because they represent the immigrant analogs of the two most disparate and diametrically opposed American racial groups—Black and White Americans. This study employs data from the Current Population Survey (1996-2002) to compare patterns of educational and occupational achievement and mobility among Black and White immigrants. It is found that while the adult children of immigrants, irrespective of race, are doing significantly better than the immigrants themselves, racial disparities do exist. Upward mobility is, on some measures, more pronounced in the White immigrant population. While Black and White immigrants are practically identical in terms of educational attainment, the adult children of White immigrants have completed, on average, more years of education and are significantly more likely to have graduated high school than their Black counterparts. Patterns of occupational mobility seem to favor Black immigrants—particularly second generation Black women.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper will discuss findings that suggest job satisfaction can be used to understand patterns of mobility among new lawyers.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This article analyzes a unique new set of data (compiled
originally by the Bush White House) using mail written to President
Bush from members of Congress during the 101st and 102nd Congresses to
explore interbranch lobbying. We argue that this data illuminates the
relationship between the president and Congress in a new and
informative way. We find that a large portion of the mail which
strictly conveys information to the president addresses issues of
domestic policy (most frequently environmental policy), and a large
proportion of the mail urging specific presidential action concerns
matters of foreign policy, confirming theories about Congressional
attention to domestic issues and recasting theories about Congressional
action and foreign policy. We also find that legislators with more
resources are more likely to write the president, meaning that although
letter-writing may incur a small cost, that cost is not negligible to
legislators. Similarly, Committee Chairs or Party Leaders, who have
more power and connection in Congress, are also more likely to write
the President than rank and file members. Finally, those Members who
are ideologically furthest away from the President tend to write to
convey information and urge specific action more frequently than those
closer to the President.