Books

Megan Tobias Neely. 2022. Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Award: 2023 Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Reviews: British Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Economic Sociology, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal. Press: TIME, New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, Inside Higher Ed, The List, Current Affairs, Finans Magazine (Danish), Stanford University’s Gender News

Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely. 2020. Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Award: Finalist, Robert W. Hamilton Book Award Reviews: American Journal of Sociology, Harvard Business Review, Contemporary Sociology, College de France’s Books & Ideas, Business Ethics Quarterly Press: Harvard Business Review, , The New Republic

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Collins, Caitlyn, Megan Tobias Neely, and Shamus Khan (equal authorship). Forthcoming. “Case Selection in Qualitative Interviews and Participant Observation.” Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 50, September.

Megan Tobias Neely, Patrick Sheehan, and Christine Williams. Forthcoming. “Inequality in High Tech.” Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 49, September 2023.

Megan Tobias Neely and Donna Carmichael. 2021. “Profiting on Crisis: How Predatory Financial Investors Have Worsened Inequality in the Coronavirus Crisis.” American Behavioral Scientist 65(12): 1649–1670.

Press: Jacobin, AJ+

Megan Tobias Neely. 2020. “The Portfolio Ideal Worker: Insecurity and Inequality in the New Economy.” Qualitative Sociology 43: 271–296.

Reprinted excerpt: 2022. Working in America, 5th edition, ed. Amy Wharton. Abingdon, England: Taylor and Francis. Press: BBC World News

Megan Tobias Neely and Aliya Hamid Rao (Equal authorship). 2019. “What’s Love Got To Do with It? Passion and Inequality at Work.” Sociology Compass 13(12): 1–14.

Press: BBC World News

Megan Tobias Neely. 2018. “Fit To Be King: How Patrimonialism on Wall Street Leads to Inequality.” Socio-Economic Review 16(2): 365–385.

Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely. 2017. “Gender, Parental Status, and the Wage Premium for Working in Finance.” Social Currents 4(6): 535–555.

Book Chapters and Essays

Megan Tobias Neely. 2024. “Gaslighted in the Risk Economy: How Crises Impact Inequality in the Workplace.” Review Essay on Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists by Christine Williams. Contemporary Sociology.

Megan Tobias Neely. 2022. “Keep It in the Family: Inequality in Access to Capital on Wall Street.” Pp. 62-79 in Between Fault Lines and Front Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World. Edited by Katja Hujo and Maggie Carter. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Megan Tobias Neely. 2022. “What Will U.S. Labor Protections Look Like After Coronavirus?” Coronavirus: Leadership and Recovery. Edited by Martin Reeves, Nancy Koehn, Tsedal Neeley, Scott Berinato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.

Christine Williams and Megan Tobias Neely. 2018. “ Gender Inequality and Feminism in the New Economy .” Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research. Edited by James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner, and Raewyn Connell. New York: New York University Press.

Christine Williams and Megan Tobias Neely. 2015. “Gender and Work: Precariousness and Inequality.” Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Edited by Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn. New York: Sage.

Manuscripts in Progress

Megan Tobias Neely, Shannon Gilmartin, Caroline Simard, JoAnne Wehner, Aliya Rao, and Sofia Kennedy. “The Lifecycle of a Stretch Assignment: Projects, Careers, and Gender Inequality in the New Economy.” Under Review.

Megan Tobias Neely, “The Wager: Race, Gender, and Value in Elite Firms.” Working paper available by request.

Book Reviews

Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite by Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen. Acta Sociologica, 2022 Read the review here..

Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China. By Kimberly Chong. Contemporary Sociology, 2021. Read the review here.

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and How to Fix It). By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. Men and Masculinities, 2019. Read the review here.

Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change. Edited by Leela Fernandes. Contemporary Sociology, 2019. Read the review here.

Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent. By Brooke Harrington. New Labor Forum 26(3): 95–98. Read the review here.

Inequality, Uncertainty, and Opportunity: The Varied and Growing Role of Finance in Labor Relations. Edited by Christian E. Weller. Work and Occupations 44(2): 238–240. Read the review here.