[1] For example, in 2012, he and Kevin Stainback published the book Documenting Desegregation, in which they noted, among other things, that workplace segregation was ubiquitous in the United States prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
Mechanisms are contained in organizational inequality regimes and conditioned by human tendencies to view categories of people (e.g. races, educational credentials) within status hierarchies.
In 2023 Tomaskovic-Devey was selected for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work.
[3][11] He received the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2014,[1] the Samuel F. Conti Fellowship from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2016, and the Otto Mønsteds Gæsteprofessorat [1], Copenhagen Business School in 2022.
His papers and books have won multiple awards from the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility and Organizations, Occupations, and Work sections of the American Sociological Association.