A Sociologist Behind the Tables
The House Rules: Autonomy and Interests among Contemporary Casino Croupiers. 2002 Work and Occupations 29(4): 394-427.
Preface to The Labor of Luck (book, University of California Press).
On Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu in American Sociology, 1980-2005. 2007 Annual Review of Sociology 33: 21-41 (with Jane Zavisca).
The Making of the Global Gambling Industry: An Application and Extension of Field Theory. 2006 Theory and Society 35(3): 265-297.
From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Unlikely Convergence of Pierre Bourdieu and US Sociology. Sociologica 2 (with Jane Zavisca).
Pierre Bourdieu versus Michael Burawoy: Two Theories of Power at Work. (Working Paper).
On Culture
Deep Plays: A Comparative Ethnography of Gambling Contests in two Post-Colonies. 2008 Ethnography 9(1): 5-33.
Adorning, Adoring, Abhorring Las Vegas: A Politico-Performative Approach to Form as Identity. (Working paper).
Who's Counting: Pleasure, Profit, and Vegas in American Cinema. 2009. Contexts 8(1): 66-8.
On Erving Goffman
Is All the World a Stage? The Relevance of Erving Goffman for Theories of Globalization. (Talk given at the 2006 meeting of the American Sociological Association, Special Session on Goffman's Legacy).
Book Review of Thomas Scheff's Goffman Unbound!: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences. American Journal of Sociology 113(2).
On Work and Politics
Notes from the Front Line of the New Service Economy. 2008 Perspectives on Work.
Civil Rights and Employment Equity in Las Vegas: The Failed Enforcement of the Casino Consent Decree, 1971-1986. 2004 Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 47(4): 283-302.
Book Review of Jonathan Cutler's Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism. American Journal of Sociology 113(1).
On Outsourcing
Manufacturing Concessions: Attritionary Outsourcing at GM’s Lordstown Assembly Plant. 2004 Work, Employment and Society 18(4): 687-708.
Outsourcing. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Thomson/Gale, 2007.
On South Africa
“It’s an Empowerment Thing": Affirmative Action and Labor Despotism in a New South African Service Industry. 2005 Society in Transition: The Journal of the South African Sociological Association 36(1): 38-56.
Talking Race, Marketing Culture: Consumers and Producers in the New South Africa. (Working Paper).