Dr. Cynthia Cranford
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Dr. Cynthia Cranford Ph.D., University of Southern California - 2001 |
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Biographical Overview: Dr. Cranford studies the intersection of economic change, gender and international migration. Cranford’s research uses multiple methods and bridges macro structural relations and micro-level practices and meanings. It focuses on the downgrading of employment through economic restructuring, how restructuring draws on social inequalities such as gender, class and race, and on different forms of worker resistance. Cranford has conducted both industry case studies and broader analyses of inequalities in labour markets in Canada and the U.S. |
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Recent Courses Taught: Doctoral Reserach Practicum, Sociology of Work in Global Perspective (Graduate), Sociology of Work and Occupations (Undergraduate), Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Work (Undergraduate), Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods (Undergraduate) |
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Selected Publications: Cranford, Cynthia. 2007. “’It’s Time to Leave Machismo Behind’: Challenging Gender Inequality in an Immigrant Union.” Gender & Society, 21,3:409; Cranford, Cynthia. 2007. “Constructing Union Motherhood: Gender and Social Reproduction in the Los Angeles Justice for Janitors Movement.” Qualitative Sociology, 30,3:361; Cranford, Cynthia, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. 2005. Self Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions. McGill-Queens University Press; Cranford, Cynthia, 2005. “Networks of Exploitation: Immigrant Labor and the Restructuring of the Los Angeles Janitorial Industry.” Social Problems 52,3:379; |
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Research Interests: Cranford is currently studying the changing organization of home care, and its implications, in Ontario and California. The first stage of this project, funded by a Connaught New Staff Matching Grant, uses secondary data, key informant interviews and policy documents to map the quality of work and care in different service models. The second stage, funded by SSHRC, uses in-depth interviews with personal care workers and recipients of services to examine how they negotiate the quality of work and care. |
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