Review of “Cosmopolitan Scientists: How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became Japanese” By Nahoko Kameo Stanford University Press, 2024, 182 pages, price: $100.00 (cloth) / $25.00 (paper). https://www.sup.org/books/precart/?id=30791

Despite recent increases in females entering male-typed job domains, women are more likely to exit these jobs than men, leading to a “leaky-pipeline” phenomenon and contributing to continued occupational gender segregation. Extant work has demonstrated that women are less likely to reapply to employers who previously rejected them for jobs in male-typed job domains. However, these studies leave unexamined whether women will reapply to other employers in those job domains and, if so, whether this pattern differs in female-typed job domains, hampering our confidence in the contribution of these patterns to gender segregation. This paper investigates whether employer rejection dampens women’s job-seeking persistence more than men’s for all employers and across male versus female job domains. Regression analyses of more than 700,000 applications for over 200,000 job postings by roughly 70,000 freelancers in an online contract labor market demonstrate that women are more likely than men to reduce job-seeking activity from all employers following rejections in the male-typed IT and programming job domain. Women are also more likely than men to seek jobs in other domains outside IT and programming following job-seeking rejection. By contrast, female freelancers in female-typed writing and translation jobs do not exhibit similar gendered behavior patterns. Implications for research on gender segregation, careers, and hiring are discussed.

Review of “Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World” By Daniel Drewski and Jürgen Gerhards Oxford University Press, 2024, 320 pages, price: $115.00 (cloth). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/framing-refugees-9780198904724?cc=us&lang=en&

Review of “Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle” By Amín Pérez Polity Press, 2024, 202 Pages, price: $69.95 (cloth) / $26.95 (paper) / $22.00 (ebook). https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=bourdieu-and-sayad-against-empire-forging-sociology-in-anticolonial-struggle-9781509557851

Review of “Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems” By Francine Banner University of California Press, 2024, 272 pages, price: $85.00 (cloth) / $29.95 (paper) / $29.95 (ebook). https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520399464/beyond-complicity

Review of “Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career” By Ruth Horowitz Stanford University Press, 2024, 324 pages, price: $130.00 (cloth) / $32.00 (paper). https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/passionate-work

Review of “Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm” By Tongyu Wu Temple University Press, 2024, 246 pages, price: $99.50 (cloth) / $30.95 (paper) / $30.95 (eBook). https://tupress.temple.edu/books/play-to-submission

Review of “From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy” By Mariana Craciun The University of Chicago Press, 2024, 252 pages. price: $115.00 (cloth) / $30.00 (paper) / $29.99 (eBook), https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo215859800.html

Review of “Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning” By Georg Rilinger The University of Chicago Press, 2024, 320 pages, price: $115.00 (cloth) / $32.50 (paper) / $31.99 (ebook). https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo219240583.html

Review of “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State” By Yingyao Wang Columbia University Press, 2024, 291 pages, price: $140.00 (cloth) / $35.00 (paper) / $34.99 (eBook). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/markets-with-bureaucratic-characteristics/9780231560467

The rapid growth of income inequality in the United States has unfolded unevenly across the country. Levels of, and changes in, income inequality within local economies have been spatially and temporally heterogeneous. While previous research has identified correlates of subnational inequality, it has given less attention to the contribution of compositional changes. Drawing on commuting zone (CZ)-level estimates produced from U.S. Census and American Community Survey data, we extend the literature on subnational income inequality by addressing four main objectives. First, we track changes in the prevalence of five sets of inequality risk factors. Second, we measure the associations between these factors and within-CZ income inequality in 1980 and 2019 and describe changes in these relationships over time. Third, we decompose changes in within-CZ income inequality (1980–2019) into components attributable to changes in composition and coefficients. Fourth, we compare the South to other regions to explore relevant patterns of socioeconomic change unique to the former. We find substantively large shifts in the prevalence of all five sets of risk factors and significant changes in the effects of many factors, especially the age and industrial structures of CZs. Coefficient effects explain the largest overall share of changing inequality between 1980 and 2019, but these overall effects mask considerable heterogeneity in the strength and direction of both composition and coefficient effects of individual blocks of variables. We also find significant regional variation in the size of coefficient effects and the relative contributions of composition and coefficient effects.

Review of “God’s Resistance: Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants” By Brad Christerson, Alexia Salvatierra, Robert Chao Romero, Nancy Wang Yuen New York University Press, 2023, 192 pages, price: $89.00 (cloth) / $28.00 (paper) / $28.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479816422/gods-resistance/

Review of “The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth” By George Lipsitz University of California Press, 2024, 328 pages, price: $95.00 (cloth) / $29.95 (paper) / $29.95 (ebook). https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520404403/the-danger-zone-is-everywhere

Review of “The Ordinal Society” By Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy Harvard University Press, 2024, 384 pages, price: $45.00 (cloth). https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674971141

Review of “Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism” By Emily K. Carian New York University Press, 2024, 272 pages, price: $89.00 (cloth) / $30.00 (paper) / $30.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479821013/good-guys-bad-guys/

In the 1920s, the Moscow-based Comintern began to promote a Black Communist movement, with specific emphasis on the United States and South Africa. Despite this common point of departure, the United States and South African Communist parties followed opposite trajectories. By the mid-20th century, the former dwindled as it grew increasingly detached from Black movements, while the latter developed a close relationship with the African National Congress, setting the stage for the party’s explosive growth in the post-apartheid period. To explain this divergence, we focus on what we call movement politics: the dynamic interaction among movements as they pursue particular political orientations and strategies. In the instances examined here, movement politics takes the form of a triangular relationship among three sets of actors: the international Communist movement, Black movements, and national Communist parties. We examine this dynamic interaction in two key conjunctures: first, during World War II, when loyalty to the Soviet Union proved to be an asset for the CPSA and a liability for the CPUSA; and second, during the Cold War, when South African Communists and Black movements converged on a politics of national liberation, while in the United States, Black movements turned to Third World liberation or anti-Communism as two alternatives to the CPUSA. These divergent trajectories reveal the period considered here, 1939 to 1969, as a critical juncture when American Communists became alienated from Black movements, while their counterparts in South Africa developed a lasting alliance with Black movements that persists to this day.

Review of “Seeing Others How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World” By Michèle Lamont Simon & Schuster, 2023, 272 pages, price: $28.00 (cloth) / $18.99 (paper) / $14.99 (eBook). https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Seeing-Others/Michele-Lamont/9781982153786

Review of “Beyond Policing” By Philip V. McHarris Legacy Lit, 2024, 320 pages, price: $30.00 (cloth) / $15.99 (eBook). https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/philip-v-mcharris/beyond-policing/9781538725689/

Review of “Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi” By Anson Au Routledge, 2023, 166 pages, price: $108.00 (cloth) / $54.99 (eBook). https://www.routledge.com/Chinese-Social-Networks-in-an-Age-of-Digitalization-Liquid-Guanxi/Au/p/book/9781032522906

Review of “Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer” By Eli Revelle Yano Wilson University of California Press, 2024, 256 pages, price: $95.00 (cloth) / $29.95 (paper) / $29.95 (eBook). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/handcrafted-careers/epub-pdf