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Overcoming Oligarchy: Culture and Agency in Social Movement Organizations (PDF) — Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 4 (December 2006), pp. 622-649.

"Labor Market Intermediaries in the Modern Labor Market" (PDF) — Robert P. Giloth (ed.), Workforce Intermediaries for the Twenty-first Century, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, published in association with The American Assembly, Columbia University, 2004, pp. 155-169.

"Employers in the Low-Wage/Low-Skill Labor Market" (PDF) — Richard Kazis and Marc S. Miller (eds.), Low-Wage Workers in the New Economy, Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 2001, pp. 67-87.

"Work Reorganization in an Era of Restructuring:  Trends in Diffusion and Effects on Employee Welfare" (PDF) — Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 53, No. 2 (January 2000), pp. 179-196.

"Project QUEST:  A Report to the Ford Foundation" (PDF) — coauthor with Brenda A. Lautsch (January 1996).

"Skill, Training, and Work Organization in American Establishments" (PDF) — Industrial Relations, Vol. 34, No. 2 (April 1995), pp. 125-146.

"Work/Family Programs and the Employment Relationship" (PDF) — Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 40 (1995), pp. 681-700.

"Internal Labor Markets:  Theory and Change" (PDF) — Clark Kerr and Paul D. Staudohar (eds.), Labor Economics and Industrial Relations:  Markets and Institutions, Cambridge, MA and London:  Harvard University Press, 1994, pp. 303-339.

"How Common Is Workplace Transformation and Who Adopts It?" (PDF) — Industrial and Labor Relations Revew, Vol. 47, No. 2 (January 1994), pp. 173-188.

"Employer-Centered Training for International Competitiveness:  Lessons from State Programs" (PDF) — Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 12, No. 3 (1993), pp. 456-477.

"Choice of Employment Systems in Internal Labor Markets" (PDF) — Industrial Relations, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Winter 1987), pp. 46-67.