{"id":19079,"date":"2026-02-19T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?p=19079"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:06:42","slug":"visiting-scholar-seminar-february-25-ruth-milkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?p=19079","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Scholar Seminar, February 25: Ruth Milkman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" data-attachment-id=\"19076\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?attachment_id=19076\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/milkman_300px.jpg?fit=300%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"milkman_300px\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/milkman_300px.jpg?fit=300%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/milkman_300px.jpg?resize=300%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19076\" style=\"width:254px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/milkman_300px.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/milkman_300px.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear RSF:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us next Wednesday,&nbsp;February 25, in the library and on Zoom at 11 for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Ruth Milkman, &#8220;The Home Care Labor Market: Contradictions and Challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Milkman has been at the City College of New York&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellsage.org\/publications\/book\/la-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LA Story<\/a>\u00a0and 2014&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellsage.org\/publications\/book\/what-works-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Works for Workers<\/a>. Her latest book is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Immigrant+Labor+and+the+New+Precariat-p-9780745692012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat<\/a>\u00a0(Wiley, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">employment in the Medicaid-funded market segment, formal employment in the privately paid segment, and the &#8216;gray market,&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday,&nbsp;February 25, in the library and on Zoom at 11 for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Ruth Milkman, &#8220;The Home Care Labor Market: Contradictions and Challenges.&#8221; Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD and MA in Sociology from the University of California,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?p=19079\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visiting Scholar Seminar, February 25: Ruth Milkman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19079"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19086,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079\/revisions\/19086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}