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Robin Leidner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology

Professor Robin Leidner

Office:
276 McNeil Building
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Telephone: (215) 898-7667
Fax: (215) 573-2081
Email: rleidner@sas.upenn.edu
Full CV

Education:

1980  A.B.,  Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Boston, MA

1983  M.A.,  Northwestern University

1988  Ph.D., Northwestern University

Research:

  • Sociology of Work
  • Sociology of Gender
  • Parenting
  • Feminist Movement Organizations

Selected Publications:

2004 Forthcoming "Identity and Work." In Social Theory at Work, edited by Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, and Paul K. Edwards. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2002 "Fast-food work in the United States." In Labour Relations in the Global Fast-Food Industry , edited by Tony Royle and Brian Towers. London: Routledge, 8-29.

2001 "On Whose Behalf? Feminist Ideology and Dilemmas of Constituency." In Identity Politics in the Women's Movement, edited by Barbara Ryan. NY: New York University Press, 47-56.

1999 "Emotional Labor in Service Work." Annals, AAPSS: 561, 81-95, January 1999.

1993 Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life, University of California Press.

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