Jane L. Collins is Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies and Chair of the Gender & Women’s Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin.  Her research on gender and labor in the Americas has focused on family farms in Peru, the commercial agricultural sector in Brazil, the apparel industry in the U.S. and Mexico and the low wage service sector in the U.S.  She is the author of Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low Wage Labor Market (with Victoria Mayer); Threads: Gender, Labor and Power in the Global Apparel Industry; Unseasonal Migrations: The Effects of Rural Labor Scarcity in Peru;the co-editor of New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America; and Work Without Wages.  Her work in the sociology of culture includes Reading National Geographic (co-authored with Catherine Lutz).  Her research has been funded by a number of National Science Foundation grants and she is the author of more than 50 scholarly articles. 

Email: jcollins@ssc.wisc.edu