Jeffrey Stephen Rothstein

Curriculum Vitae

 

Address & Contact Information:      Grand Valley State University, Department of Sociology,

2162 Au Sable Hall, Allendale, MI 49401

(616)331-3710

rothstej@gvsu.edu

 

Education:

PhD (2005)      University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Sociology

Dissertation Title:  Driven to Compete: Workers, Unions, and General Motors’ Global Manufacturing System in Mexico and Wisconsin

 

MS (1997)       University of Wisconsin-Madison, Industrial Relations Research Institute

                        Thesis Topic:  Cross-Border Union Collaborations and NAFTA.

 

BS (1990)        University of London:  London School of Economics and Political Science,

Department of Industrial Relations

                        Senior Thesis:  The Causes of Union Membership Decline in the United States

 

Employment:

Grand Valley State University

Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2007-

Areas of Specialization:  Work & Organizations; Globalization & Development; Comparative Sociology; Political Sociology; Labor; Economic Sociology

 

United Auto Workers-General Motors National Paid Educational Leave Program

Instructor (3 hour session on “lean production;” 4 times per annum), 2006-

 

Brown University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2006-07

 

Wayne State University, Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues

Research Fellow, 2005-06

 

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lecturer, Social Problems (Sociology 130), Fall 2004

Lecturer, Industrial Relations in Developing Countries (Industrial Relations/Economics 552), Spring 2001

 

Peer Reviewed Publications:

“Selective Participation: Controlling Workers’ Input at General Motors,” Research in the Sociology of Work 16, (2006): 151-175.

 

“Economic Development Policymaking Down the Global Commodity Chain: Attracting an Auto Industry to Silao, Mexico,” Social Forces 84, 1 (September 2005): 49-69.

 

“Creating Lean Industrial Relations: General Motors in Silao, Mexico,” Competition & Change 8, 3 (September 2004): 203-221.

 

(with David Trubek and Jim Mosher) “Transnationalism in the Regulation of Labor Relations:  International Regimes & Transnational Advocacy Networks,” Law & Social Inquiry: 25, 4 (Fall, 2000): 1187-1211.

Republished in: Guilherme Jose Purvin de Figueiredo, ed., Temas Atuars de Direito do Trabalho e Direito Processual do Trabalho, Sao Paulo, Instituto Brasileiro de Advocacia Publica, 2001.

 

Other Articles and Chapters

“The Uncertain Future of the American Auto Industry,” New Labor Forum 15,2 (Summer 2006): 65-73.

 

(with David Trubek) “Transnational Regimes and Advocacy in Industrial Relations:  A “Cure” for Globalization?” in: Vincenzo Ferrari, Paola Ronfani, and Silvia Stabile, eds., Conflitti e Diritti Nella Societa Transnazionale, Milan, Franco Angeli (2001).

 

“The European Works Councils Directive:  A First Step or the Final Word?” published in the Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, January 4-6, 2007.

 

Book Reviews: 

Clawson, Dan:  The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements.  Contemporary Sociology 35,3 (2006): 290-292.

 

Hathaway, Dale:  Allies Across the Border.  Industrial & Labor Relations Review 55, 3 (2002).

 

Work Forthcoming & In Progress

“Lean Times: UAW Concessions in the New Auto Industry Labor Agreement” forthcoming in New Labor Forum, May 2008.

 

“Does Employee Participation Necessarily Matter?: Evidence from Three GM Plants,” article being prepared for journal submission.

 

Driven to Compete: Autoworkers in the Global Economy, book manuscript based on dissertation and additional fieldwork.

 

Conference Papers:

“In Need of Common Cause: Obstacles to Cross-Border Union Collaboration.” Presented at the international conference on Global Companies – Global Unions, Global Research – Global Campaigns, February 2006.

 

“Opportunity or Threat?: Autoworker Union Approaches to Globalization in Mexico and the Midwest.”  Presented at the American Sociological Association Mini-Conference on Global Labor, August 2005.

 

“Globalization and the Politics of Production:  General Motors’ ‘Global Manufacturing System’ in Mexico and Wisconsin.”  Presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work Refereed Roundtables, August 2004.

 

“Inter-firm Lean Production in Mexico:  Coordinated Industrial Relations in General Motors’ Silao Supply Chain.”  Presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Political Economy of the World System Refereed Roundtables, August 2003.

 

“Globalizing Away the Producer Driven Chain:  General Motors’ Newest Mexican Supply Chain and its Implications for Commodity Chain Theory.”  Presented at the annual fellows conference of the Social Science Research Council’s program on the Corporation as a Social Institution, June 2002.

 

“Economic Development in an Assembler Driven Commodity Chain:  Industrial Relations in General Motors’ Silao Supply Chain.”  Presented at the Conference on Supply Chain Governance in the Global Economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2002.

 

Fellowships and other honors:

Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy Research Assistantship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004-2005.

 

Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) – Global Research/Curriculum Development Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003.

 

Social Science Research Council - Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution, 2001.

 

Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program Field Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.

 

Social Science Research Council International Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Program, 1998.

 

MacArthur Foundation Global Studies Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998.     

 

Membership in Professional Associations and Professional Service:

American Sociological Association; sections on Political Economy of the World System (PEWS), Organization, Occupations & Work (OOW), and Labor & Labor Movements

 

Labor and Employment Relations Association

 

Latin American Studies Association

 

Journal Reviewing for: American Journal of Sociology; Social Forces; Contemporary Sociology; Environment and Planning A; Industrial & Labor Relations Review