Papers

For op-eds and essays, visit the Other Writings page.

The Closeting of the American Dream

The Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)
Victor Tan Chen and Timothy Beryl Bland

After Covid, a New “New Economy”

Contexts (2022)
Katherine K. Chen and Victor Tan Chen
https://doi.org/10.1177/15365042221131082

Power, Populism, and a Policy of Grace: Moral Perspectives in The Tyranny of Merit and Cut Loose

Theory and Research in Education (2022)
Victor Tan Chen and Timothy Beryl Bland
https://doi.org/10.1177/14778785221109067

The Theatre of Entrepreneurship: Learning to Perform the Speculative Self in University Entrepreneurship Programs

Social Problems (2022)
Victor Tan Chen and Jesse Goldstein
https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac008

“What If” and “If Only” Futures Beyond Conventional Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Imagining Collectivist and Democratic Possibilities for Organizing

Research in the Sociology of Organizations (2021)
Katherine K. Chen and Victor Tan Chen
https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20210000072001

The Mirage of Meritocracy and the Morality of Grace

The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream (2021)
Victor Tan Chen

Class, Status, and Power

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2021)
Timothy Beryl Bland and Victor Tan Chen
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc053.pub2

Economic Dislocation and Trauma

Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies (2020)
Patrick Korte and Victor Tan Chen

  • Volume received the 2022 Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award from the Working-Class Studies Association.

Mobile Entrepreneurs (Book Review)

Contemporary Sociology (2020)
Victor Tan Chen
https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306120930218bb

An Economy of Grace

Religions (2017)
Victor Tan Chen
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel8030043

Varieties of Entrepreneurial Capitalism: The Culture of Entrepreneurship and Structural Inequalities of Work and Business Creation

Sociology Compass (2016)
Sean Doody, Victor Tan Chen, and Jesse Goldstein
https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12407

The Missing Class: The Near Poor

Poverty & Race (2007)
Victor Tan Chen and Katherine S. Newman
ProQuest

  • Anthologized in America’s Growing Inequality: The Impact of Poverty and Race, edited by Chester Hartman (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014).

Streetwise Economics

Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (2006)
Victor Tan Chen and Katherine S. Newman