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Jeff Sallaz's interests lie at the crossroads of the sociology of work, economic sociology, and social theory. He is an ethnographer, which means he studies people in real time and space, often by living and working among them. His research projects have involved stints as an auto assembly worker, a casino croupier, a call center agent, and a corporate marketer. He has conducted research in the United States, South Africa, and the Philippines
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Courses
- SBSociology of the Body
- FOMField and Observational Methods
- WPWork and Professions
- WSWork and Society
- STSociological Theory
- PSPolitical Sociology
- ESEconomic Sociology
- SSTSources of Sociological Theory
Grants
- Interviewing Alaskans About the PFD Cash Transfer Program
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$16.2K
News
- UA Sociologist's Book Explores Ongoing Labor Crises
2013
- New Book Examines Growth of Casino Gambling
2010
- Davis Fellowhip Funds International Travel for Promising Profs
2010
Publications (59)
Recent
- Toward a Field of Labor Activism
2023
- Universal Cash-Transfers and Socioeconomic Disparities in Child Investments: A Qualitative Account
2022
- Classification Struggles: Lectures at the Collège de France (1981–82)
2020
- The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa by Lee, CK (2017)
2019
- Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World's Call Center Capital
2019
- Introduction: Pierre Bourdieu, a twentieth-century life
2018
- Working the phones: Control and resistance in call centres
2018
- The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu
2018
- Is a Bourdieusian Ethnography Possible
2018
- Can We Scale Up Goffman: From Las Vegas to the World Stage
2017
- Faith’s Wager: How Religion Deters Gambling
2017
- Faith's wager: How religion deters gambling
2017
- Can We Scale Up Goffman? From Vegas to the World Stage
2016
- Sumptuary Labor: How Liberal Market Economies Regulate Consumption
2016
- The Changing Landscapes of Risk Taking: Erving Goffman, Fatefulness, and the Bureaucratization of Everyday Life
2016
- Work: Four Worlds and Ways of Seeing
2015
- Permanent Pedagogy: How Post-Fordist Firms Manufacture Effort but not Consent.
2015
- Permanent Pedagogy: How Post-Fordist Firms Generate Effort but not Consent
2015
- Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: A System in Crisis
2015
- Organizations as Worlds of Work
2015
- Bridging Science and Religion: How Health Care Workers as Storytellers Construct Spiritual Meanings
2015
- Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing, by JK McCallum
2014
- Labor and Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Rereading Braverman Today
2014
- Gambling for Profit: Lotteries, Gaming Machines, and Casinos in Cross-National Focus
2014
- Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy
2013
- Your Paper Has Just Been Outsourced
2013
- Labor
2013
- Labor, economy, and society
2013
- Politics of Organizational Adornment: Evidence from Las Vegas and Beyond
2012
- Rethinking power in organizations, institutions, and markets: Classical perspectives, current research, and the future agenda
2012
- Politics of organizational adornment: Lessons from Las Vegas and beyond
2012
- Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places
2012
- Book Review: Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World
2011
- Raul Pertierra.(2010). The Anthropology of New Media in the Philippines. Quezon City: Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University
2011
- Service labor and symbolic power: On putting Bourdieu to work
2010
- Pathways to meaning: A new approach to studying emotions at work
2009
- Gambling with Development: Comparing Casino Legalization in South Africa with Indian Gambling in California
2009
- Talking Race, Marketing Culture: The Racial Habitus In and Out of Apartheid
2009
- who's counting?
2009
- 2. Silver State Casino: Entrepreneurs At Work
2009
- 3 Gambling with Development
2009
- Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism
2009
- The labor of luck: Casino capitalism in the United States and South Africa
2009
- Deep plays: A comparative ethnography of gambling contests in two post-colonies
2008
- From the margins to the mainstream. the curious convergence of Pierre Bourdieu and US Sociology
2008
- Labor and Luck in the New Economy
2007
- Bourdieu in American sociology, 1980–2004
2007
- Labor’s Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW and the Struggle for American Unionism
2007
- Goffman Unbound! A New Paradigm for Social Science
2007
- The making of the global gambling industry: An application and extension of field theory
2006
- Divergent worlds of work: Crafting the global casino in the United States and South Africa
2005
- “It's an empowerment thing”: An ethnography of colour bar conservation in a South African service industry
2005
- Divergent worlds of work: Crafting the global casino in the United States and South Africa (Nevada)
2004
- Manufacturing concessions: attritionary outsourcing at General Motor’s Lordstown, USA assembly plant
2004
- The house rules: Autonomy and interests among service workers in the contemporary casino industry
2002
- Gambling with development: Casino capitalism in South Africa and on Indian Lands in California
2001
- Gambling on Global Gaming: Corporate Lotteries and Casinos in South Africa
2001
- Pornography: The production and consumption of inequality
1997