Daisy Rooks

 

Faculty Image  Office Location: Social Science 319
 Office Telephone: 243-2852
 E-mail: daisy.rooks@mso.umt.edu

Current Position:

Assistant Professor

Current Semester Office Hours:

Tuesdays 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Thursdays 12:40 pm - 1:40 pm

& by appointment

Field Of Study:

Labor and labor movements, social movements and collective action, sociology of education and sociology of work.

Courses:

Fall Semester

SOCI 220: Race, Gender and Class

SOCI 325: Sociology of Work

 

Spring Semester

SOCI 325: Social Stratification

SOCI 442: Inequality and Social Justice Service-Learning: Hunger and Homelessness

SOCI 561: Qualitative Methods

Education:

Ph.D. Sociology. University of California – Los Angeles. December 2007.

M.A. Sociology. University of California – Los Angeles. 2001.

B.A. Urban Studies. Smith College. 1997.

Selected Publications:

Rooks, Daisy and Celia Winkler. 2012. “Learning Interdisciplinarity: Service Learning and the Promise of Interdisciplinary Teaching.” Teaching Sociology. 40(1): 2-20.

 

Rooks, Daisy. 2004. “Sticking it Out or Packing it In?: Organizer Retention in the New Labor Movement.” Pp. 195-224. Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement.  Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss editors. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

 

Rooks, Daisy. 2003. “The Cowboy Mentality: Organizers and Occupational Commitment in the New Labor Movement.” Labor Studies Journal. 28 (3): 33-62.

 

Milkman, Ruth and Daisy Rooks. 2003. “California Union Membership: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait.” The State of California Labor. Berkeley: UC Press. 3: 3-37.


Publications:

Manuscripts Under Review

Rooks, Daisy and Carolina Bank-Munoz. “Brilliant, Bored or Badly-Behaved?: Racial-Class Projects in Media Coverage of the Charter School Debate.”  Under review at Teachers College Record.

 

Rooks, Daisy and Robert A. Penney. “Becoming a ‘Pusher’: Leadership and Personal Transformation During Union Recognition Campaigns.” Under review at Labor Studies Journal.

 

Rooks, Daisy and Robert A. Penney. “Organizing Consent: ‘Outsiders,’ Mezzo Leadership and Union Recognition Campaigns.” Under review at Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

 

Book Manuscript in Progress

Venture Activism: Social Entrepreneurship, Institutional Change and the Future of Social Movements in the U.S. Book manuscript in progress.