Jasmine Kerrissey
Professor and Director of the Labor Center
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California–Irvine, 2012
B.S., Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2000
Research Areas
Labor Movements, Inequality, Work, Political Sociology, Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Race and Gender
Selected Publications
Books
Stepan-Norris, Judith and Jasmine Kerrissey. 2023. Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement. Oxford University Press.
- Awarded 2024 Distinguished Book Award for the Labor and Labor Movement Section of the American Sociological Association
- Here is the data repository for Union Booms and Busts.
Kerrissey, Jasmine, Eve Weinbaum, Clare Hammonds, Tom Juravich, and Dan Clawson, eds. 2020. Labor in the Time of Trump. Cornell University Press.
Articles and Reports
Tomaskovic-Devey, Jasmine Kerrissey, and Yifan Li. 2025. “Job Level Status Intersections and Earnings: A Relational Inequalities Model” Social Forces
Kerrissey, Jasmine and Victoria Coon. 2025. “Labor and Transitions” in the Oxford Handbook of Climate Action, edited by Paul Almeida. University of Oxford Press.
Wicks-Lim, Jeanette and Jasmine Kerrissey. 2024. “Potential Impacts of a Full Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Massachusetts” Published jointly with the UMass Labor Center Working Paper Series and the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI).
Hammond, Clare and Jasmine Kerrissey. 2022. "At Work in a Pandemic: Black Workers' Experiences of Safety on the Job" Labor Studies Journal
- Awarded 2023 Best Paper for United Association for Labor Education (UALE)
Kerrissey, Jasmine and Nathan Meyers. 2021. “Race, Gender and Earnings: The Role of Unions in the Public Sector” Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Kerrissey, Jasmine, Tiamba Wilkerson, Nathan Meyers. 2020. “The Political and Civic Lives of Public Sector Workers: Unions and Public Service Motivation” Sociological Forum 36(1): 92-110.
Kerrissey, Jasmine, and Evan Schofer. 2018. "Labor Unions and Political Participation in Comparative Perspective" Social Forces 97(1): 427-464.
Kerrissey, Jasmine and Jeff Schuhrke. 2016. “Life Chances: Worker Fatalities in Less Developed Countries” Social Forces 95(1): 191-216.
Kerrissey, Jasmine. 2015. “Income Inequality and Collective Labor Rights” American Sociological Review 80(3): 626-653.
- Awarded 2016 Scoville Best International Paper Award, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
Kerrissey, Jasmine and Evan Schofer. 2013. “Unions and Political Participation in the U.S.” Social Forces. 91(3): 895-928.