Kim Voss (born 1952) is a professor of

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. Her main topics of research include

social movements A social movement is either a loosely or carefully organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of ...

, the American

labor movement The labour movement is the collective organisation of working people to further their shared political and economic interests. It consists of the trade union or labour union movement, as well as political parties of labour. It can be considere ...

, inequality, and higher education.

Published works

Solely authored books

*''The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.'' Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Co-authored books

* Fischer, Claude; Hout, Michael; Jankowski, Martin Sanchez; Lucas, Samuel R.; Swidler, Ann; and Voss, Kim. '' Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth.'' Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. *Voss, Kim and Fantasia, Rick. ''Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement.'' Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Co-edited books

*Milkman, Ruth and Kim Voss, eds. ''Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement.'' Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004.

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Kim Voss, professor and chair, Dept. of Sociology, UC-BerkeleyKim Voss C.V.Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
{{DEFAULTSORT:Voss, Kim Writers from Berkeley, California University of California, Berkeley faculty Cornell University alumni Stanford University alumni Labor historians 21st-century American historians Historians of the United States American sociologists American women sociologists 1952 births Living people Catawba College alumni American women historians 21st-century American women writers Historians from California