Fordham Professor Chris Rhomberg Argues for the Importance of Strikes

Professor Chris Rhomberg

Last month Sociology Professor Chris Rhomberg was featured on CNN Opinion and on NPR’s Talk of the Nation with host Neal Conan arguing that America would be better off with more strikes. With Chicago public school teachers walking out of their classrooms and machinists at Caterpillar Inc. concluding their three-year strike with a settlement contract that concedes to the majority of the demands of the company one must ask—what has happened to the power of striking? Chris Rhomberg asserts that conservative federal court and NLRB decisions have contributed to the decline of striking.  Rhomberg notes that the number of strikes in America has dramatically decreased since the 1970’s and as a result the decline of unionization has contributed to the rise of economic inequality.

Professor E. Doyle McCarthy Presents at the Eastern Sociological Association on the Mediatization of Suffering

Professor E. Doyle McCarthy

Professor E. Doyle McCarthy is working with a group of scholars and sociologists of emotions studying the meaning of the many "mediatized" images of suffering. She is presenting a paper on this topic at the Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting in March. McCarthy's co-author is Dr. Stephanie Laudone, who received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Fordham in 2012 with a  dissertation entitled "Identity Work on Facebook."