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Steve McKay

Steve McKay   
Steve McKay
    Title:  Assistant Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Email:  smckay@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 502-7331 Office
(831) 459-3518 Fax
    Office:  College 8, 318
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Tues and Thurs 10-11:30am (not teaching this quarter)

Courses Taught 
Socy 15 Global Society
Socy 167A Work and Inequality
Socy 188A Social Change in Global Economy
Socy 220 Global Transformation: Macrosociological Perspectives
Socy 229 Work and Labor Market in Global Economy

Research Focus 
Labor and labor markets, political sociology, globalization and social change, migration and racial formation, Southeast Asia.

Education History 
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
M.A., Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison
B.A., Political Economy of Industrial Societies, University of California - Berkeley

Selected Publications 
Book
Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines, Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006 (co-published in the Philippines by Ateneo de Manila University Press)

Articles
“Filipino Sea Men: Constructing Masculinities in an Ethnic Labour Niche,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies vol. 33 no. 2, May 2007: 617-633; revised and expanded version in Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Lok Siu (eds) Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions, Stanford University Press, 2007: 63-83

“The Scalar Strategies of Capital, State and Labor in Evolving Philippine Economic Zones,” Journal of Comparative Asian Development vol. 5 no. 2, Fall 2006: 203-227

“Hard Drives and Glass Ceilings: Gender Stratification in High-Tech Production,” Gender & Society vol. 20 no. 2, April 2006: 207-235

“The Squeaky Wheel's Dilemma: New Forms of Labor Organizing in the Philippines,” Labor Studies Journal vol. 30 no. 4, Winter 2005: 41-63

“Securing Commitment in an Insecure World: Workers in Multinational High-Tech Subsidiaries,” Economic and Industrial Democracy vol. 25 no. 3, August 2004: 375-410

“Zones of Regulation: Restructuring Labor Control in Privatized Export Zones,” Politics & Society vol. 33 no. 2, June 2004: 171-202

“Regular Employment but Flexible Arrangements,” Philippine Journal of Labor and Industrial Relations vol. XIX-XX (1999-2000): 25-74 (published in 2001)

Curriculum Vitae 
 
Steve McKay's Curriculum Vitae File Type:PDF (140.58 KB)