Review of “Sociology Meets Memoir: An Exploration of Narrative and Method” By Margaret K. Nelson New York University Press, 2024, 208 pages, price: $89.00 (cloth) / $28.00 (paper) / $20.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479827329/sociology-meets-memoir/

Review of “Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry” By Laura Garbes Princeton University Press, 2025, 224 pages, price: $120.00 (cloth) / $29.95 (paper) /$29.95 (eBook). https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691257426/listeners-like-who

Review of “The Diversity of Morals” By Steven Lukes Princeton University Press, 2025, 256 pages, price: $29.95 (cloth) / $29.95 (eBook). https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691157191/the-diversity-of-morals

Review of “The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City” By Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, and Nicole Denier Russell Sage Foundation, 2025, 228 pages, price: $37.50 (paper). https://www.russellsage.org/publications/returned

Review of “Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers” By Utku Baris Balaban University of California Press, 2025, 334 pages, price: $95.00 (cloth) / $34.95 (paper) / $12.99 (eBook). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/industrial-islamism/paper

Review of “Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine” By Joanna Kempner, Grand Central Publishing, 2024, 384 pages, price: $32.00 (cloth) / $15.99 (eBook). https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joanna-kempner-phd/psychedelic-outlaws/9780306828942/?lens=grand-central-publishing

Review of “Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago” By Zophia Edwards Duke University Press, 2025, 336 pages, price: $119.95 (cloth) / $28.95 (paper). https://dukeupress.edu/fueling-development

Review of “Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail” By Sasha Davis University of Minnesota Press, 2025, 176 pages, price: $80.00 (cloth) / $19.95 (paper) / $19.95 (eBook). https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781452973760/replace-the-state/

Review of “Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges – And What It Costs Them” By Mara Casey Tieken, The University of Chicago Press, 2025, 224 pages, price: $115.00 (cloth) / $20.00 (paper) / $19.99 (eBook). https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo247751497.html

Review of “Canaries in the Code Mine: Precarity and the Future of Tech Work” By Max Papadantonakis Temple University Press, 2025, 154 pages, price: $79.50 (cloth) / $21.95 (paper) / $21.95 (e-book). https://tupress.temple.edu/books/canaries-in-the-code-mine

Review of “Birth Behind Bars: The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prison” By Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey New York University Press, 2025, 280 pages, price: $89.00 (cloth) / $30.00 (paper) / $30.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479815814/birth-behind-bars/

Review of “Bad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds” By Andrew McCumber The University of Chicago Press, 2025, 224 pages, price: $115.00 (cloth) / $27.50 (paper). https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo244056007.html

Review of “Remission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer” By Virginia Adams O'Connell Temple University Press, 2025, 232 pages, price: $99.50 (cloth) / $29.95 (paper) / $29.95 (eBook). https://tupress.temple.edu/books/remission-quest

Review of “Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation” By Jessica Vasquez-Tokos New York University Press, 2025, 328 pages, price: $99.00 (cloth) / $35.00 (paper) / $35.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479822324/burdens-of-belonging/

Review of “Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration” By Yasmin Y. Ortiga Stanford University Press, 2025. 202 pages, price: $105.00 (cloth) / $26.00 (paper) / $26.00 (eBook). https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/stuck-home

Review of “Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education” By Jose Eos Trinidad Oxford University Press, 2025, 240 pages, price: $99.00 (cloth) / $ 29.95 (paper). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/subtle-webs-9780197786093?lang=en&cc=us

This study advances sociological theories of motherhood-based workplace inequalities by examining how frontline managers shape mothers’ access to stable work schedules in the US service sector. Prior research has shown that mothers in the US service sector experience intense conflict between the time demands of motherhood and employers’ expectations that employees will be available to work unstable work schedules, yet little work has investigated sources of variation in mothers’ exposure to schedule instability. Building on and synthesizing theories of homophily, expectation states theory, and “queen bee” theories of women in management, I propose a model in which managers’ own gender and parenthood status structure their responses to their employees’ scheduling needs. Female managers who are mothers are theorized to exhibit homophily and produce motherhood scheduling advantages, while female managers without children are expected to penalize mothers. Analyses of survey and experimental data collected from a large national sample of US retail and food service workers support this theoretical synthesis, showing that motherhood advantages in scheduling appear under male managers and female managers who are mothers, but erode under female managers without children. By positioning motherhood—not gender alone—as the status dimension that most directly collides with ideal worker norms, this work highlights an important determinant of when women in management act as agents of change and when they reinforce inequality. More broadly, this study frames managerial discretion as a key mechanism linking status expectations, manager-employee relations, and organizational outcomes, advancing theory on the micro-foundations of workplace inequality.

Review of “Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy” By Diana Hernández and Jennifer Laird, Russell Sage Foundation, 2025, 280 pages, price: $45.00 (paper). https://www.russellsage.org/publications/powerless

Review of “We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big” By Eric Blanc University of California Press, 2025, 336 pages, price: $95.00 (cloth) / $24.95 (paper) / $24.95 (eBook). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/hardcover

Review of “Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests” By Ming-sho Ho Temple University Press, 2025, 258 pages, price: $110.50 (cloth) / $34.95 (paper) / $34.95 (eBook). https://tupress.temple.edu/books/be-water