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Articles – Katherine Sobering
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†equal authorship; *graduate student co-author

PUBLICATIONS | Refereed Articles & Book Chapters

Stitt, Mary Ellen, Katherine Sobering, and Javier Auyero. 2024. “Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets.” Social Problems. Online Firms.

Stitt, Mary Ellen, Katherine Sobering, and Javier Auyero. 2024. “The Clandestine Hands of the State: Dissecting Police Collusion in the Drug Trade.” Social Forces. Online First.

Perez, Marcos and Katherine Sobering.† 2023. “The Persistent Influence of December 2001: Collective Action in Twenty-First Century Argentina.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 42(3): 323-340.

Scarborough, William, Katherine Sobering, Ronald Kwon, and Mehr Mumtaz.* 2023. “The Costs of Occupational Gender Segregation in the Innovation Economy.” Socio-Economic Review 21(1): 643-664.

Sobering, Katherine and Pablo Lapegna.† 2023. “Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires, Argentina.” Social Problems 70(1): 126-142.

Sobering, Katherine. 2021. “Survival Finance and the Politics of Equal Pay.” British Journal of Sociology 72(3):742-756.

Sobering, Katherine. 2021. “Working for Justice in Argentina.” Contexts. Special Issue on “New Ethnographies of the Global South,” edited by Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido.

Sobering, Katherine. 2021. “The Emotional Dynamics of Workplace Democracy: Emotional Labor, Collective Effervescence, and Commitment at Work.” Pp. 31-54 in Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy. Vol. 73, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, edited by Katherine K. Chen and Victor T. Chen. Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Sobering, Katherine. 2019. “The Relational Production of Workplace Equality: the Case of Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Argentina.” Qualitative Sociology 42(4):543-565.

  • LASA Labor Studies, Best Article Award, Honorable Mention
  • Post print available here.

Sobering, Katherine. 2019. “Watercooler Democracy: Rumors and Transparency in a Cooperative Workplace.” Work and Occupations. 46(4):411-440.

Sobering, Katherine and Javier Auyero. 2019. “Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins.” Latin American Research Review 54(1):222-236.

Auyero, Javier and Katherine Sobering. 2017. “Violence, the State, and the Poor: A View from the South.” Sociological Forum. 32(S1):1018-1031.

Sobering, Katherine. 2016. “Producing and Reducing Gender Inequality in a Worker-Recovered Cooperative.” The Sociological Quarterly 57(1):129-151.

Sobering, Katherine. 2015. “Ethan: A Product of the Service Industry.” Pp. 162-183 in Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City. Edited by Javier Auyero. Austin, TX: UT Press.

Sobering, Katherine. 2015. “Teaching and Learning Guide for ‘Gender In/equality in Worker-Owned Businesses.’” Sociology Compass 9(5):412-421

Sobering, Katherine, Jessica Thomas and Christine L. Williams. 2014. “Gender In/equality in Worker-Owned Businesses.” Sociology Compass 8(22):1242-1255.