Anna Haley-Lock

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, studies workplace organizations as mechanisms for social stratification and social mobility for low-income workers. In her current research she is examining the role of workplace policies in structuring opportunities and supporting family care for low-skilled women workers. As a 2007-2008 Emerging Scholar, Anna Haley-Lock receives WCPC support for her research on the impact of minimum wage policies on employment in tipped restaurant jobs.

Major Research Projects:

• "Investigating State Minimum Wage Policy and Private Employer Influences on the Employment Experiences of Tipped Restaurant Workers," examines how state-level policy context and organizational context shape minimum wage workers’ income, benefits and work-life balance.
  
  
Read a working paper from the project, entitled "Waiting Tables in Two Chains and States: Investigating Front-Line Job Quality across Organizations and Policy Contexts" here.


• "Anticipating the impacts of a proposed ‘tip penalty’ on front-line workers in Washington State’s restaurant industry." A mixed-method investigation of geographic and organizational influences upon the compensation and other working conditions of tipped restaurant employees in Washington state. Anna Haley-Lock, P.I. Funded by the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.
  
  
• "Careers in callings." Anna Haley-Lock, P.I. A qualitative study of the career paths of 20 former human services workers – 10 in front-line positions, and 10 managers – and the influences of organizational conditions, family resources, and individual career aspirations upon these.

Sample Publications:

Haley-Lock, A, (In press), Happy doing good? How workers’ career orientations and job satisfaction relate in grassroots human services, Journal of Community Practice.

Haley-Lock, A. & Kruzich, J. (In press), Serving workers in the human services: The roles of organizational ownership, chain affiliation and professional leadership in front-line job benefits, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.


Haley-Lock, A. (2007), Up close and personal: Employee networks and job satisfaction in a human service context, Social Service Review, December: 683-707.


Haley-Lock, A. and Ford Shah, M. (2007), Protecting vulnerable workers: How public policy and private employers shape the contemporary low-wage work experience, Families in Society, 88(3): 485-95.


Haley-Lock, A. (2007), A workforce or workplace conflict?: Applying an organizational perspective to the study of human services employment, Administration in Social Work, 31(3): 41-62.

For a complete list of publications by Anna Haley-Lock with abstracts (where available), visit her page in the poverty research section of the website.

Relevant Courses:

• SW 512: Macro Practice I: Organization, Community and Policy Practice
• SW 550: Leadership and Program Development
• SW 556: The Contemporary U.S. Workplace: Social Welfare and Efficiency in Firm-Employee Relations

Contact Information:

Anna Haley-Lock
Email: annahl@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://depts.washington.edu/sswweb/directory/p.php?id=38
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