BOOKS PUBLISHED

Critical Issues in the Study of Work and Industry, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, forthcoming.

Contested Terrain: Power, Politics and Participation in Suburbia, Editor (with Martin Melkonian), New York: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Exploring Social Issues, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1992

Under Construction: Work and Alienation in the Building Trades, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1986.

ARTICLES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Review of Herbert Applebaum Construction Workers, U.S.A." Contemporary Sociology 2001, 30: 4, 355-357.

"Review of William Sonnenstuhl Working Sober: The Transformation of an Occupational Drinking Culture" Contemporary Sociology 1997, 26:2, 249.

"Suburban Housing: Toward an Alternative Policy@, in M. Silver and M. Melkonian (eds.), Contested Terrain: Power, Politics, and Participation in Suburbia, Greenwood Press, 1995.

"Computers in the Classroom: Assessing the Connection Between Computer-Aided-Instruction and Pedagogy in the Social Sciences." Social Science Computer Review, June, 1992.

"M.A.P., MicroCase Analysis Program", Teaching Sociology, June 1991.

"Rethinking Craft Administration: Managerial Position, Work Autonomy and Employment Security in the Building Trades". Sociological Forum, 1990, 5: 241-260.

"Housing Production: Market-Structure and Market-Process Perspectives." in Barbara Kelly (Editor) Suburbia Re-Examined, Greenwood Press, 1989

"Comment on Under Construction". Contemporary Sociology, 1988 17: 275-276.

"Review of David Gartman, Autoslavery: The Labor Process in the American Automobile Industry 1897-1950." Social Forces, 66:850-851, 1988.

"Review of Michael Poole, Theories of Trade Unionism." Work and Occupations, 9, 1982.

"The Structure of Craft Work: The Construction Industry." In Phyllis Stewart and Muriel Cantor (Editors), The Varieties of Work, Sage, 1982.

"Worker Management: A Power-Dialectic Framework." Work and Occupations, 8, 1981.


PAPERS AND CONFERENCES

"Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination in the Workplace: An Empirical Analysis of a Local Labor Market". Presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 2001.

Conference Co-Director: "Contested Terrain: Power, Politics and Participation in Suburbia", Hofstra University, March 1993

"The Limitations of Market Strategies for Providing Housing". Invited paper for New Visions Conference, Hofstra University, December 1992.

"Segregation and the Housing Market: Where Do We Go From Here?" Invited paper for the Suffolk Housing Services Annual Fair Housing Conference, Melville, New York, April 1991.

"Teaching Statistics, Methods and Computer Applications: Avoiding the 'Calculator Syndrome' and Other Pitfalls." Presented at the Annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA March 1990.

"The Dimensions of Suburban Housing: Toward an Alternative Strategy". Presented at the Annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Berkeley, CA, August 1989.

"The Computer and the Classroom: Is Computer Assisted Instruction 'Value-neutral'?" Presented at the Annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Berkelely, CA, August 1989.

"The Effect of Community Racial Composition on Residential Prices in the Local Housing Market: A Longitudinal Analysis." Presented at the Annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, GA, August 1988.

Chair and Discussant, "Challenges and Contexts of Education" Educational Problems Session, Annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, GA, August 1988.

"Class, Race and Homelessness: The Political Economy of Housing." Presented at the Conference on Housing and the Homeless, Touro College School of Law, Huntington, NY, March 1988.

Chair and Discussant, Educational Problems Session, Annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago Illinois, August 1987.

"Producing the Housing Shortage: Market Process and Market Structure Perspectives." Presented at the Suburbia Revisited Conference, Hofstra University, June 1987.

"Gentrification and Displacement: A Contextual Analysis" (with Joseph M. Conforti) Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA May 1987.

Discussant, Professionalism and Occupations Session, Annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA May 1987.

"Crisis in Construction". Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York City, NY March 1986.

"The Effects of Managerial Location on Autonomy, Employment and Alienation in the Construction Industry." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD April 1983.

"Social Background, Parental Predisposition and Delinquent Behavior: An Examination of the Effect of Family Socialization." (with Ora Simcha-Fagan). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology." Chicago, Ill, October 1982.

"Craft Relations of Production: Quality of Employment in the Construction Industry." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York City, NY March 1981.

"Craft Production: Work and Alienation in the Construction Industry." Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University, Department of Sociology, 1981.

 

TECHNICAL REPORTS

Consumer Shopping Patterns and Retail Development in East Meadow, for the Department of Planning and Community Development, Town of Hempstead, NY, July 2000.

"Consumer Patterns in Valley Stream", for the Department of Planning and Community Development, Town of Hempstead, NY, July 1998

"Consumer Shopping Patterns and Retail Development: Roosevelt, NY: Final Report", for the Department of Planning and Community Development, Town of Hempstead, NY., January 1998.

"Consumer Shopping Patterns and Retail Development: Roosevelt, NY: Preliminary Report", for the Department of Planning and Community Development, Town of Hempstead, NY., December, 1997.

"Economic Redevelopment and Job Creation in Hempstead, NY", for the Hempstead Neighborhood Advisory Council, December, 1996.

"Project on the International Civil Service: Report on ESCAP." Office of Project Planning and Coordination, United Nations, 1981.

"Project on the International Civil Service: Results of the Pilot Study." Office of Project Planning and Coordination, United Nations, 1981.

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