For op-eds and essays, visit the Other Writings page.
The Experience of Unemployment, in Context
Handbook on Unemployment and Society (2026)
Victor Tan Chen, Sabina Pultz, and Ofer Sharone
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886834.00008
Beyond “Good” and “Bad” Jobs: A Field Theory of Power at Work
Handbook on Unemployment and Society (2026)
Victor Tan Chen and Erin Hatton
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886834.00035
Meritocracy
Encyclopedia of Diversity (2026)
Timothy Beryl Bland and Victor Tan Chen
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95454-3_339-1
The Richmond People’s Budget: Evaluation Report
Phase 1 (2025) | Phase 2 (2025)
Brittany Keegan, Victor Tan Chen, and Adelaide Alexander
Side-Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times (Book Review)
ILR Review (2025)
Victor Tan Chen
https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939241293638
The Closeting of the American Dream
The Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)
Victor Tan Chen and Timothy Beryl Bland
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52269-2_39-1
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
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003020028-5
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
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315200842-19
- Volume received the 2022 Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award from the Working-Class Studies Association.
Mobile Entrepreneurs: An Ethnographic Study of the Migration of the Highly Skilled (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
- 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
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