Erin Hatton
Visiting Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests: Work, Poverty, and Public Policy
Recent courses: Sociology of Work (Soc 332)
Bio: Erin's research examines the nexus of work, poverty, and public policy. Her current research looks at the rise of the temp industry and its effect on employment relations in the United States since World War II. She also has a project underway that examines the “poverty industries”—the diverse set of businesses that earn their profits by providing a range of services aimed at the poor, often at very high cost.
Representative publications:
Hatton, Erin. The Temp Industry and the Transformation of Work in America since World War II. Under consideration at Temple University Press.
Hatton, Erin. 2008. “The Making of the Kelly Girl: Gender and the Origins of the Temp Industry in Postwar America.” Journal of Historical Sociology March 21(1): 1-29.
Bernhardt, Annette, Laura Dresser, and Erin Hatton. 2003. “The Coffee Pot Wars: Unions and Firm Restructuring in the Hotel Industry.” Pp. 33-76 in Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace, edited by Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt, and Richard J. Murnane. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Bernhardt, Annette, Laura Dresser, and Erin Hatton. 2003. Moving Hotels to the High Road: Strategies That Help Workers and Firms Succeed. Madison, WI: Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Hatton, Erin, and Laura Dresser. 2003. Caring About Caregivers: Reducing Turnover of Frontline Health Care Workers in South Central Wisconsin. Madison, WI: Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Hatton, Erin, and Luis Carlos Arenas. 2003. “Can’t Afford to Lose a Bad Job”: Latino Workers in Dane County. Madison, WI: Center on Wisconsin Strategy.