Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, February 25, in the library and on Zoom at 11 for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Ruth Milkman, “The Home Care Labor Market: Contradictions and Challenges.”
Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD and MA in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and dual BAs from Brown University in Women in Society and Comparative Literature.
Milkman has been at the City College of New York’s Graduate Center since 2009. Prior to that she held appointments at UCLA, moving forward in rank to full professor, from 1988-2009. She has served as President of the American Sociological Association (2015-16), won the ASA Public Understanding of Sociology Award (2013) and been a fellow at Standford’s Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences (2018-19). Milkman is the author of eight books and numerous academic articles. Russell Sage has published two of her titles, 2006’s LA Story and 2014’s What Works for Workers. Her latest book is Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Wiley, 2020).
At RSF she has been working on a project with Heidi Gottfried which examines the complexities of the fast-growing U.S. home care labor market. They are comparing formal
employment in the Medicaid-funded market segment, formal employment in the privately paid segment, and the ‘gray market,’ in which clients hire home care workers through informal networks and pay them directly. The project draws on original interviews and survey data collected by Milkman and Gottfried.