Peer-Reviewed Articles
van der Naald, Joseph, Sarah K. Bruch, and Janet C. Gornick. In press. “Poverty Disparities and the Reconfiguration of Social Provisioning: White, Black, and Latino Single-Mother Families, 1996-2018.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.
Melcher, Cody R., Joseph van der Naald, Christopher Torres, and Spencer C. Lindsay. 2025. “Class, the Welfare State, and Redistributive Attitudes: A Methodological Intervention.” The Social Science Journal. [Link]
Herbert, William A., Joseph van der Naald, and Jacob Apkarian. 2025. “Every Grain of Sand: 2024 Changes to the Scope of Higher Education Unionization.” Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy 16(1). [Link]
Melcher, Cody R., and Joseph van der Naald. 2024. “The Centrality of the Workplace and Class Consciousness in the US South: The New Orleans Community Studies.” Journal of Labor and Society 28(2): 254-274. [Link] [Pre-print]
Bruch, Sarah K., Joseph van der Naald, Janet C. Gornick. 2023. “Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation Over Time and Across the U.S. States.” Social Service Review 97(2): 270–319. [Link] [Post-print]
Steele, Liza G., Joseph N. Cohen, and Joseph van der Naald. 2022. “Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 Countries.” Social Science Research 108. [Link] [Pre-print]
Herbert, William A. and Joseph van der Naald. 2020. “A Different Set of Rules? NLRB Proposed Rule Making and Student Worker Unionization Rights.” Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy 11(1). [Link]
Book Chapters
Herbert, William A. and Joseph van der Naald. 2024. “Contingent Faculty and Bargaining Unit Composition: So Many Roads, So Much at Stake.” Pp. 179-191 in Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History, edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. [Link] [Post-print]
Bruch, Sarah K., Janet C. Gornick, and Joseph van der Naald. 2022. “Geographic Inequality in Social Provision: Variation Across the US States.” Pp. 499-528 in Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth, edited by R. Chetty, J. N. Friedman, J. C. Gornick, B. Johnson, and A. Kennickell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Link]
Cited in The New York Times
Herbert, William A. and Joseph van der Naald. 2021. “Graduate Student Employee Unionization in the Second Gilded Age.” Pp. 221-46 in Labor and Employment Relations Association Series, Revaluing Work(ers): Toward Democratic and Sustainable Prosperity, edited by T. Schulze-Cleven and T. E. Vachon. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [Post-print]
Mentioned in Science
Reports
van der Naald, Joseph and Kevin Van Meter. 2026. The State of the Unions: Organized Labor in Maine, 2022-2024. Portland: Dr. Charles A. Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education, University of Southern Maine. [Link]
Mentioned on the Maine AFL-CIO Blog.
Milkman, Ruth and Joseph van der Naald. 2025. State of the Unions 2025: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States. New York: CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. [Link]
Featured in DocumentedNY, The Chief, WNY Labor Today
Herbert, William, Jacob Apkarian, and Joseph van der Naald. 2024. 2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions of Higher Education. New York: National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. [Link]
Featured in The Guardian, Science, Inside Higher Ed
Milkman, Ruth and Joseph van der Naald. 2024. State of the Unions 2024: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States. New York: CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. [Link]
Featured in The New Republic, The Chief, The City
van der Naald, Joseph and Todd Vachon. 2024. The State of Labor in New Jersey, 2021-2023: A Profile of Organized Labor in the Garden State. New Brunswick: Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. [Link]
Milkman, Ruth and Joseph van der Naald. 2023. State of the Unions 2023: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States. New York: CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. [Link]
Featured in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The City, Women in Higher Education; Mentioned in Science
Special section: Herbert, William A., Jacob Apkarian, and Joseph van der Naald. “Union Organizing and Strikes in Higher Education: The 2022-2023 Upsurge in Historical Perspective.” [Link]
Milkman, Ruth and Joseph van der Naald. 2022. State of the Unions 2022: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States. New York: CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. [Link]
Featured in Stacker, The City, The Gothamist, The Chief, City & State, NYCity NewsService
Herbert, William, Jacob Apkarian, and Joseph van der Naald. 2020. Supplementary Directory of New Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions of Higher Education, 2013-2019. New York: National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. [Link]
Mentioned in The New York Times, Bloomberg Law
Book Reviews
van der Naald, Joseph. 2019. “Book Review: Theory for the Working Sociologist.” Teaching Sociology 47(1):65-67. [Post-print]