Publications by Jeffrey Leiter

Refereed Journal Articles

  • "Perceived Teacher Autonomy and the Meaning of Organizational Control." The Sociological Quarterly 20:2 (Spring, 1981):225-239.
  • "Continuity and Change in the Legitimation of Authority in Southern Mill Towns." Social Problems 29:5 (June, 1982):540-550.
  • "Community Dissatisfaction and School Organizational Structures." American Educational Research Journal 20:1 (Spring, 1983):45-61.
  • "Classroom Composition and Achievement Gains." Sociology of Education 56:3 (July, 1983):126-32.
  • "Determinants of Elementary School Grading" (first author with James S. Brown). Sociology of Education 58:3 (July, 1985):166-80.
  • "Alienation among Textile Workers: Reassessing Blauner." Work and Occupations 12:4 (November, 1985):479-98.
  • "Reactions to Subordination: Attitudes of Southern Textile Workers." Social Forces 64:4 (June, 1986):948-74.
  • "The Organizational Context of Perceived Teacher Control Over Decision Making." Sociological Focus 19:3 (August, 1986):263-88.
  • "Prospects for Southern Textile Unionization." Labor Studies Journal 13:4 (Winter, 1988):13-21.
  • "Christmas in the Summertime: Reflections on Yardsales." Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 17:1 (May, 1989):25-7.
  • "Union Membership and Perceived Powerlessness in Southern Textiles" (second author with Rhonda Zingraff). The Sociological Review 41:1 (February, 1993):112-40.
  • "Child Maltreatment and Youthful Problem Behavior" (second author with Matthew T. Zingraff, Kristen A. Myers and Matthew C. Johnsen). Criminology 31:2 (May, 1993):173-202.
  • "The Wages of Aging: Time-Related Determinants of Earnings in the Southern Textile Context." Sociological Inquiry 64:1 (February, 1994):69-90.
  • "Child Maltreatment and School Performance" (first author with Matthew C. Johnsen). The American Journal of Education 102:2 (February, 1994):154-89.
  • "The Mediating Effect of Good School Performance on the Maltreatment-Delinquency Relationship Relationship" (second author with Matthew T. Zingraff, Matthew C. Johnsen and Kristen A. Myers). Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 31:1 (February, 1994):62-91.
  • "Substantiated and Unsubstantiated Reports of Child Maltreatment: Do Their Consequences Differ? (first author with Kristen A. Myers and Matthew T. Zingraff). Social Work Research 18:2 (June, 1994):67-82.
  • "Organizational Survey Nonresponse" (second author with Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Shealy Thompson). Administrative Science Quarterly 39:3 (September, 1994):439-57.
  • "Item Nonresponse in Organizational Surveys" (second author with Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Shealy Thompson). Sociological Methodology 25 (1995):77-110.
  • "Child Maltreatment and School Performance Declines: An Event-History Analysis" (first author with Matthew C. Johnsen). American Educational Research Journal 34:3 (Fall, 1997):563-89.
  • "Management of Pain in Terminally Ill Patients: Physician Reports of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior" (third author with Mina Levin and Joni Berry). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 15:1 (January, 1998):27-40.
  • "Leveling the Playing Field: An Orientation to Graduate Study in Sociology" (third author with Shannon N. Davis and Denise L. Bissler). Teaching Sociology 29 (October, 2001):454-62.
  • "Trinidad, Brazil, and Ghana: Three Melting Moments in the History of Cocoa" (first author with Sandra Harding). Journal of Rural Studies 20 (January, 2004):113-30.
  • "Structural Isomorphism in Australian Nonprofit Organizations." Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 16:1 (March, 2005):1-31.
  • "School Performance Trajectories after the Advent of Reported Maltreatment.”  Children and Youth Services Review 29:3 (March, 2007): 363-82.

  • “Nonprofit Isomorphism: An Australia-United States Comparison.” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organisations 19:1 (March, 2008): 67-91.

  • “Contingent Autonomy: Technology, Bureaucracy, and Relative Power in the Labor Process” (second author with Seunghee Choi and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey).  Work and Occupations 35:4 (November, 2008): 422-55.

Books and Book Chapters

  • Hanging By a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles (first editor with Michael Schulman and Rhonda Zingraff). Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press. 1991.
  • "Contested Puzzles and Continuing Paradoxes" (second author with Michael Schulman), pp. 3-18 in Hanging By a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles, edited by Jeffrey Leiter, Michael Schulman, and Rhonda Zingraff. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press. 1991.
  • "Employment Patterns in the British and U.S. Textile Industries: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Gender Changes" (second author with Roger Penn), pp. 139-62 in Hanging By a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles, edited by Jeffrey Leiter, Michael Schulman, and Rhonda Zingraff. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press. 1991.

Non-refereeed Articles

  • "The Dispossessed: Workers May Have to Decide Between Fatalism and Socialism." The Leader (March 17, 1988): 21.
  • "Hershey and Mars: The Surprising Differences and Similarities." Pp. 123-31 in 1999 Handbook of Business Strategy, edited by Pamela Goett. New York: Faulkner and Gray. 1998.
  • "Overcoming Ethnic Intolerance" (second author with Katie Hyde). The Journal of Common Sense 5:4 (Winter, 2000): 14-19.

[Last updated May, 2009]

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