Profile: Joan S. M. Meyers

Postdoctoral Associate

Faculty

Joan S. M. Meyers is a sociologist who studies workplace gender, ethnoracial, and class inequality, and the bureaucratic practices that can reproduce or remedy inequality. Much of her work is focused on companies that are owned and operated by their employees, and on the links between economic performance, democratic practices, and degrees and types of inequality outcomes.

  • Courses Taught

    Working Women in American Society

    Women and Work

    Dynamics of Work & Work Organization

    Diversity in the Workplace

  • Education

    Ph.D., M.A., University of California, Davis

    M.A., California State University, San Francisco

    B.A., Cornell University

  • Publications

    Meyers, J. S. M. (2011). Employee Ownership, Democratic Control, and Working-Class Empowerment. In E. J. Carberry (Ed.), Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism: New Directions in Research (pp. 113-145). Champaign, IL: Labor and Employement Relations Association.
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