• American Sociological Association, 1972-present (elected President in June 2008)
• Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1976-present (served as President, 1998-1999)
• Sociologists for Women in Society, 1983-present (served as Feminist Lecturer for Outstanding Sociology, 2008)
• Pacific Sociological Association
• Council on Contemporary Families
• Massachusetts Sociological Association (President, 1979-80)
• Association for Asian American Studies

• 2007 Sociologists for Women in Society, Feminist Lecturer for Outstanding Feminist Sociology
• 2005 Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association "in recognition of outstanding scholarship that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society".
• 2004 Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian Americans, for Unequal Freedom.
• 2004 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association, for Unequal Freedom.
• 2003 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, for Unequal Freedom.
• 2003 Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class, for Unequal Freedom.
• 2001 Visiting Scholar, The Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 1994 Outstanding Alumna Award, Japanese Women Alumnae of the University of California
• 1994 Nikei of the Bienniaum Award for Contributions to Education, Japanese American Citizens League
• 1993 Association of Black Women Historians, Leititia Woods Brown Memorial Article Prize for "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor."

Books

• Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America, Harvard University Press, 2010.
• Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters (ed.) Stanford University Press, 2009.
• Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
• Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, Evelyn N. Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda Forcey (eds), New York: Routledge, 1994.
• Issei, Nisei, Warbride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
• Hidden Aspects of Women's Work, Christine Bose, Roslyn Feldberg, and Natalie Sokoloff, with the Women and Work Research Group (eds), New York: Praeger, 1987.

Recent Articles

• "Caring and Inequality" in Sharon Harley et al. (eds), Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices, Rutgers University Press, 2007.
• "Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks, But Who Is Listening?" in Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, Douglas L. Anderton and Michael Burawoy (eds), Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
• "Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Hawai'i," in Donna Gabaccia and Vicki Ruiz (eds.) American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
• "Race, Labor and Citizenship in Hawai'i," in Donna R. Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz (eds.) American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006).
• "Citizenship and Inequality," in Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Anderson (eds.), Race and Ethnic in Society: The Changing Landscape (Wadsworth, 2006).

• "Citizenship and Inequality: Historical and Global Perspectives" in A. Kathryn Stout, Richard A. Dellobuono, William Cambliss (eds), Social Problems, Law, and Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).