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