Stephen Sweet is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ithaca College and editor of the journal Teaching Sociology. His studies of work and its impact on and off the job have appeared in a variety of publications, including Work and Occupations; Sex Roles; Research in the Sociology of Work; Family Relations; New Directions in Life Course Research; Journal of Vocational Behavior; Journal of Marriage and the Family; Generations; and Community, Work, & Family. His books, The Work-Family Interface (2014), College and Society: An Introduction to the Sociological Imagination (2001)and Data Analysis With SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics (2012)have been extensively adopted in sociology courses. He has edited and coedited publications including the Work and Family Handbook: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Methods, and Approaches (2006), The Work and Family Encyclopedia(2008-2011), and special issues of the journals Teaching Sociology and Community, Work & Family. His current research focuses on the factors that lead people to embrace work as part of their identity and the ways that organizations integrate flexible work practices. In his job at home, he provides support to (and receives support from) his wife Jai (a college administrator) and children Arjun and Nisha. Peter Meiksins is Professor of Sociology and Vice-Provost for Academic Programs at Cleveland State University. He has published widely on the sociology of work, particularly the sociology of technical work and of the professions, in journals such as Work and Occupations; Sociological Quarterly; Work, Employment & Society; Theory and Society; Technology and Culture; and Labor Studies Journal.

He has coedited several books on work and labor and is the coauthor of two books: Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective and Putting Work in its Place: A Quiet Revolution. His current research focuses on engineers, the environment and the state, and gender and engineering. He has a daughter in university and he does all the cooking at home (he likes to cook; his wife doesn't); his wife barbecues and fixes the car.