Jeff Sallaz

Research Interests

Jeff Sallaz's interests lie at the crossroads of the sociology of work, economic sociology, political sociology, deviance, and social theory. He is an ethnographer, which means he studies people in real time and space, often by living and working among them. His research projects have involved stints as an auto assembly worker, a casino croupier, and a corporate marketer. Currently he is finishing a book about the global diffusion of Vegas-style gambling industries (under contract with the University of California Press), and thinking about how to use the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu to advance our understanding of new forms of work in the service economy.