Edited by Steven Vallas, Northeastern University, USA

The Changing Field of Workplace Sociology: An Introduction to Volume 29 PART I: IDENTITY WORK Work Identity Without Steady Work: Lessons from Stage Actors - Robin Leidner “I’m a Teacher, Not a Babysitter”: Workers’ Strategies for Managing Identity-Related Denials of Dignity in the Early Childhood Workplace - Jennifer L. Nelson and Amanda E. Lewis PART II: AUTHORITY AND CONTROL AT WORK Job Authority and Stratification Beliefs - George Wilson and Vincent J. Roscigno Matching Up: Producing Proximal Service in a Los Angeles Restaurant - Eli Wilson Control from on High: Cloud-Computing, Skill, and Acute Frustration Among Analytics Workers in the Digital Publishing Industry - Michael L. Siciliano The Limits of Control in Service Work: Interactive Routines and Interactional Competence - Brian Ott PART III: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND PRECARITY The Walk-In Closet: Between “Gayfriendly” and “Post-Closeted” Work - David Orzechowicz Workplace Regulation of Sexual Harassment and Federal and State-Level Legal Environments - Julie A. Kmec, C. Elizabeth Hirsh and Sheryl Skaggs Job Insecurity and Substance Use in the United States: Stress, Strain, and the Gendering of Precarious Employment - Andrew S. Fullerton, Michael A. Long and Kathryn Freeman Anderson