Virginia Parks and Leslie Panyanouvong (2023). Housing and Food Insecurity among Resort Food Service Workers in Orange County, CA: Results from a Worker Survey. UC Irvine Labor Center.
Virginia Parks and Youjin Kim (2023). “Orange County Jobs and Worker Profile 2023” Report for the Orange County Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) High Road Transition Collaborative. UCI Labor Center.
Parks, Virginia, and Ian Baran. 2023. “Fossil Fuel Layoff: The economic and employment effects of a refinery closure on workers in the Bay Area.” Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley Labor Center. https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/fossil-fuel-layoff/.
Virginia Parks and Ian Baran (2021). ‘They Made a Path for Us’: A Survey of Participants in the Los Angeles Utility Pre-Craft Training Program. UC Irvine Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy.
Virginia Parks, Douglas Houston, Paul Ong, and Youjin B. Kim (2020). Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis in Orange County, California: Neighborhood Gaps in Unemployment-Insurance Coverage. UC Irvine Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy.
Virginia Parks with Xiang Gao, Mouleshri Vyas, and Hyemee Kim (2019). “Migration, Work, and Changing Ecosystems.” In Social Exclusion in Cross-national Perspective: Actors, Action, and Impacts from Above and Below, eds. Robert J. Chaskin, Bong Joo Lee, and Surinder Jaswal, 111-136. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Virginia Parks. (2016). “Rosa Parks Redux: Racial Inequality on the Journey to Work” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 106(2):292-299.
Virginia Parks. (2015). “The urban imperative of labor and employment policy in the Age of Obama.” Journal of Urban Affairs 37(1):62-65.
Virginia Parks. (2014). “Enclaves of rights: Workplace enforcement, union contracts, and the uneven regulatory geography of immigration policy.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(2):329-337.
Virginia Parks, Sung Geun Park, Jeannette Park Lee. 2014. “Low-wage Work Across U.S. Cities: A Multilevel Analysis.” Unpublished manuscript. Chicago, IL.
Virginia Parks and Dorian Warren (2012). “Contesting the racial division of labor from below: Representation and union organizing among African-American and immigrant workers.” Du Bois Review 9(2):395-417.
Virginia Parks (2012). “The uneven geography of racial and ethnic wage inequality: Specifying local labor market effects.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(3):700-725.
Sites, William, Robert J. Chaskin, and Virginia Parks (2012). Reframing community practice for the 21st century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges. In The Community Development Reader, 2nd ed., J. DeFilippis and S. Saegert, eds. New York: Routledge.
William Sites and Virginia Parks (2011). “What do we really know about racial inequality? Labor markets, politics, and the historical basis of black economic fortunes.” Politics & Society 39(1): 40-73.
Virginia Parks (2011). “Revisiting shibboleths of race and urban economy: Black employment in manufacturing and the public sector compared, Chicago 1950-2000.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(1): 110-129.
Richard Wright, Mark Ellis, and Virginia Parks (2010). “Immigrant niches and the intrametropolitan spatial division of labour.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(7): 1033-1059.
Virginia Parks (2010). “Gendering job competition: Immigration and African American employment in Chicago, 1990-2000.” Urban Geography 31(1): 59-89.
Virginia Parks and Dorian Warren (2009). “The politics and practice of economic justice: Community benefits agreements as tactic of the new accountable development movement.” Journal of Community Practice 17(1&2): 88-106.
William Sites, Robert Chaskin, and Virginia Parks (2007). “Reframing community practice for the 21stcentury: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges.” Journal of Urban Affairs 29(5): 519-541.
Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, and Virginia Parks (2007). “Geography and the immigrant division of labor.” Economic Geography 83(3): 255-281.
Virginia Parks (2006). “Race, immigration, and the global city: Lessons from Chicago’s hotel housekeepers” in Chicago’s Geographies: Metropolis for the 21st Century, ed. by Richard P. Greene, Mark J. Bouman, and Dennis Grammenos. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, pp. 129-142.
Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, and Virginia Parks (2006). “The immigrant household and spatial assimilation: Partnership, nativity, and neighborhood location.” Urban Geography 27(1): 1-19.
Virginia Parks (2005). The Geography of Immigrant Labor Markets: Space, Networks, and Gender. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC. Selected as part of the research-based immigration book series, “The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society,” edited by Steven J. Gold and Rubén G. Rumbaut.
Richard Wright, Mark Ellis, and Virginia Parks (2005). “Re-placing whiteness in spatial assimilation research.” City & Community 4(2): 111-135.
Virginia Parks (2004). “Access to work: The effects of spatial and social accessibility on unemployment for native-born black and immigrant women in Los Angeles.” Economic Geography 80(2): 141-172.
Virginia Parks (2004). “The gendered connection between ethnic residential and labor-market segregation in Los Angeles.” Urban Geography 25(7): 589-630.
Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, and Virginia Parks (2004). “Work together, live apart? Geographies of racial and ethnic segregation at home and at work” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(3): 620-637.