Sanjay Pinto

Sanjay Pinto is a sociologist based in Brooklyn with a range of interests related to social inequality, social policy, and social movements. His current work focuses largely on understanding labor market inequality and studying and supporting efforts to build power and raise standards for low-wage workers.

Sanjay spent several years working for social and economic justice organizations. He wrote about white supremacist groups and hate activity for the Southern Poverty Law Center, and was a researcher for the AFL-CIO’s Center of Strategic Research and SEIU’s building services local in Northern California.

With an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard, Sanjay’s academic writing includes work on unions and collective bargaining institutions in the US and other economically advanced countries. He co-organized a special section of the journal Politics & Society on global economic governance, and co-edited a book, New Visions for Market Governance: Crisis and Renewal, which was published by Routledge in 2012.

After completing his PhD, Sanjay spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought. His recent work includes a report on the potential benefits of broad-based worker ownership written for the Surdna Foundation, and, for the Ms. Foundation for Women, a report on efforts to forge a more equitable childcare system in the US. Both will be released in the fall of 2015.

Sanjay’s research with The Worker Institute at Cornell focuses on understanding the impact of efforts to improve job quality for domestic workers in New York and elsewhere. He is also currently a fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations.