(a) BOOKS:
2009 Vallas, Steven Peter, William Finlay, and Amy S.
Wharton. The Sociology of
Work: Structures and Inequalities. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press.
2002 Finlay, William and James E. Coverdill. Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor
Market. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
(Paperback edition with a new Afterword published in 2007.)
1988 Finlay, William. Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power
and Technological Change in a West Coast Port.
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
(b) CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
2006 Desmet, Christy, Robert Cummings, Alexis Hart,
and William Finlay. “Pedagogical Performances in the Online Writing
Class.” Pp. 21-45 in Role
Play: Essays on Distance Education, edited by Jonathan Alexander
and Marcia Dickson. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
(c) ARTICLES:
2006 Coverdill, James E., William Finlay, Gina L.
Adrales, John D. Mellinger, Kimberly D. Anderson, Bruce W. Bonnell,
Joseph B. Cofer, Douglas B. Dorner,
Carl Haisch, Kristi L. Harold, Paula M. Termuhlen, and Alexandra L. B.
Webb. "Duty-Hour Restrictions and the Work of
Surgical Faculty: Results of a Multi-Institutional Study." Academic
Medicine 81: 50-56.
2006 Coverdill, James E., Gina L. Adrales, William
Finlay, John D. Mellinger, Kimberly D. Anderson, Bruce W. Bonnell,
Joseph B. Cofer, Douglas B. Dorner,
Carl Haisch, Kristi L. Harold, Paula M. Termuhlen, Alexandra L. B.
Webb. "How Surgical Faculty and Residents
Assess the First Year of the ACGME
Duty-Hour Restrictions: Results of a Multi-Institutional Study."
American Journal of Surgery 191: 11-16.
2005 Mears, Ashley and William Finlay. “Not Just a Paper Doll: How Models Manage Bodily
Capital and Why They Perform Emotional Labor.” Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography, 34 (June): 317-343. Reprinted in Kathleen J.
Ferraro, Women’s Lives (Allyn and Bacon, 2008) and in Peter Adler and
Patricia Adler (eds.), Sociological Odyssey: Contemporary Readings in
Introductory Sociology (Wadsworth Cengage, 2009).
2004 Finlay, William, Christy Desmet, and
Lorraine Evans. “Is it the Technology or the
Teacher? A Comparison of Online and Traditional English Composition
Classes.” Journal of Educational Computing Research, 31 (2):
163-180.
2000 Finlay, William and James E. Coverdill. "Risk, Opportunism, and Structural Holes: How
Headhunters Manage Clients and Earn Fees." Work and Occupations, 27
(August): 377-405.
1999 Priessle, Judith Linda Grant, Josephine
Beoku-Betts, William Finlay, and Gary Alan Fine. "Fieldwork
in Familiar Places: The UGA Workshop in Fieldwork Methods."
Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 30 (Spring): 238-248.
1999 Finlay, William and James E. Coverdill. "The Search Game: Organizational Conflicts and
the Use of Headhunters.” The Sociological Quarterly, 40 (Winter):
11-30.
1998 Coverdill, James E. and William Finlay. "Fit and Skill in Employee Selection: Insights from a
Study of Headhunters." Qualitative Sociology, 21 (Spring): 105-127.
1995 Coverdill, James E. and William Finlay. "Understanding Mills via Mill Type Methods: An
Application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis to a Study of Labor
Management in Southern Textile Manufacturing." Qualitative
Sociology, 18 (Winter): 457-478.
1995 Finlay, William Jack K. Martin, Paul M. Roman,
and Terry C. Blum. "Organizational Structure and Job Satisfaction: Do
Bureaucratic Organizations Produce More Satisfied Employees?"
Administration & Society, 27 (November): 427-450.
1994 Finlay, William and Jack K. Martin. "What Do
Employers Want and Why? A Comparative Analysis of Hiring
Practices in Textile and Electrical Plants." Research in Social
Stratification and Mobility, 13: 147-173.
1994 Coverdill, James E., William Finlay, and Jack K.
Martin. "Labor Management in the Southern
Textile Industry:
Comparing Qualitative, Quantitative, and Qualitative-Comparative
Analyses." Sociological Methods and Research, 23 (August): 54-85.
1993 Finlay, William. "Culture
as Control: Work and Self in Modern Organizations."
Qualitative Sociology, 16 (Winter): 445-453.
1991 Finlay, William, Elizabeth J. Mutran, Rodney R.
Zeitler, and Christina S. Randall. "Experience, Attitudes, and Plans:
Determinants of the Productivity of Medical Residents in a Primary Care
Clinic." Work and Occupations, 18 (November): 447-458.
1990 Finlay, William and Matthew J. Clarke.
"New Technology and the Modern Workplace: The Prospects for Industrial
Accord." Economic Development Quarterly, 4 (November): 383-391.
1990 Finlay, William, Elizabeth J. Mutran, Rodney R.
Zeitler, and Christina S. Randall. "Queues
and Care: How Medical Residents Organize their Work in a Busy
Clinic." Journal of Health and Social Behavior," 31
(September): 292-305.
1990 Finlay, William. "Hoarding and
Fragmenting: The Politics of Job Classification in Two Work
Settings." The Sociological Quarterly, 31 (Fall): 389-402.
1990 Finlay, William Elizabeth J. Mutran, Rodney R.
Zeitler, and Christina S. Randall. "Patient Age, Visit Purpose,
and the Ordering of Consultations in a Primary Care Clinic."
Journal of Aging and Health, 2 (May): 261-281.
1988 Finlay, William. "Commitment and the Company:
Manager-Worker Relations in the Absence of Internal Labor Markets."
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 7: 163-187.
1987 Finlay, William. "Industrial
Relations and Firm Behavior: Informal Labor Practices in the West Coast
Longshore Industry." Administrative Science Quarterly, 32 (March):
49-67.
1986 Schroeder, Sandra J. and William Finlay. "Internal Labor Markets, Professional Domination,
and Gender: A Comparison of Laboratory Employees in Hospitals and
Chemical/Oil Firms." Social Science Quarterly, 67 (December):
827-840.
1983 Finlay, William. "One Occupation, Two Labor Markets: The Case of
Longshore Crane Operators." American Sociological Review, 48
(June): 306-315.
1982 Finlay, William. "Workers' Control and Control of Workers: The
Case of West Coast Longshoremen." The Insurgent Sociologist, 11
(Spring): 51-61.
(d) Book Reviews:
2009 Review of Getting the
Goods: Ports, Labor, and
the Logistics Revolution (Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson).
Contemporary Sociology. 38 (January).
2002 Review of Dignity at Work (Randy Hodson).
Industrial & Labor Relations Review. 56 (October).
2001 Review of Manufacturing Advantage: Why
High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off (Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey,
Peter Berg, and Arne L. Kalleberg). Administrative Science
Quarterly, 46 (December).
2000 Review of Organizational Participation: Myth and
Reality (Frank Heller, Eugen Pusic, George Strauss, and Bernhard
Wilpert). Administrative Science Quarterly, 45 (September).
1997 Review of The Ownership of
Enterprise (Henry
Hansmann). Contemporary Sociology, 26 (November).
1996 "Inside ESA."
Review of Launching Europe:
An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science (Stacia E.
Zabusky). Science, 272 (April 12).
1996 Review of The Union Makes
Us Strong: Radical
Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront (David Wellman).
Contemporary Sociology, 25 (March).
1995 Review of Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal
Service (Vern K. Baxter). Work and Occupations, 22 (November).
1993 Review of Getting Work: Philadelphia,
1840-1950 (Walter Licht). American Journal of Sociology, 99 (September).
1992 Review of Dishing it Out: Waitresses and
Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (Dorothy Sue Cobble).
American Journal of Sociology, 98 (September).
1992 Review of The American
Merchant Seaman and His
Industry: Struggle and Stigma (Craig J. Forsyth).
Contemporary Sociology, 21 (May).
1992 Review of Hanging by a
Thread: Social
Change in Southern Textiles (Jeffrey Leiter, Michael D. Shulman,
and
Rhonda Zingraff, editors). Contemporary Sociology, 21 (March).
1991 "Revelations Reassessed."
Review of Manufacturing Knowledge (Richard Gillespie). Science,
254 (December 20).
1989 Review of Workers
on the Waterfront
(Bruce Nelson). Contemporary Sociology, 18 (May).
1989 Review of Sociology of Occupations and
Professions (Ronald M. Pavalko). Teaching Sociology, 17 (April).
1989 Review of
Decisions in Organizations
(Frank Heller, Pieter Drenth, Paul Koopman, and Veljko Rus).
Contemporary Sociology, 18 (March).
1988 "Responses to
Automation." Review
of Workers, Managers, and Technological Change (Daniel B. Cornfield,
editor). Science, 240 (May 20).
1987 Review of Challenges and Choices
Facing American Labor (Thomas A. Kochan, editor). Work &
Occupations, 14 (February).
1986 Review of
The Miners of Decazeville
(Donald Reid). Contemporary Sociology, 15 (September).
1986 Review of
Chaos on the Shop Floor
(Tom Juravich). Contemporary Sociology, 15 (July).
1984 Review of The
Social Organization
of Industrial Conflict (P. K. Edwards and Hugh Scullion).
Contemporary
Sociology, 13 (July)