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Welcome from the Chair.
I am pleased to welcome you to the website of the section on Labor and Labor Movements. I became involved in the labor section because its research, conference sessions, and general outlook are oriented to integrating academic research and real-world action. Our members are scholars, practitioners and activists (sometimes simultaneously!). We also have a high level of graduate student participation. All of this creates a vibrant and dynamic section that is focused on understanding the world, but also changing it. We had an exciting meeting at the 2011 sociology meetings in Las Vegas (including an inspiring reception with the Culinary, the union that has done tremendous organizing of casino workers) and we are busily preparing the program for next year.
Denver promises to be an exciting meeting. The overall theme of Real Utopias will include many sessions with labor-related content. Our own sessions will include two thematic sessions, on “Worker-Owned Cooperatives” and “Workers’ Search for Utopias,” plus regular sessions on “U.S. Labor and Politics” and “Transnational Capital and Labor” and our usual multi-faceted Roundtable Session. Once more, we plan a reception with local labor activists (organizations of day laborers, domestics, and others). We hope that you will be able to participate!
In addition to organizing these terrific sessions in Denver, we have a number of important projects this year. We seek to initiate an exchange program with our Chinese counterpart organization, the China Association for Work and Labor. We are continuing our graduate student mentoring program, matching interested graduate students up with senior scholars in Denver. In addition to this new and improved website, we have launched a Facebook page (friend us!). If you are interested in participating in any of these programs please contact me.
Our section welcomes scholars (including graduate students) from all disciplines, activists, and practitioners who are interested in any aspect of labor, work or organizing. I hope that you will join us!
Chris Tilly, 2011-2012 Chair
ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements
Denver promises to be an exciting meeting. The overall theme of Real Utopias will include many sessions with labor-related content. Our own sessions will include two thematic sessions, on “Worker-Owned Cooperatives” and “Workers’ Search for Utopias,” plus regular sessions on “U.S. Labor and Politics” and “Transnational Capital and Labor” and our usual multi-faceted Roundtable Session. Once more, we plan a reception with local labor activists (organizations of day laborers, domestics, and others). We hope that you will be able to participate!
In addition to organizing these terrific sessions in Denver, we have a number of important projects this year. We seek to initiate an exchange program with our Chinese counterpart organization, the China Association for Work and Labor. We are continuing our graduate student mentoring program, matching interested graduate students up with senior scholars in Denver. In addition to this new and improved website, we have launched a Facebook page (friend us!). If you are interested in participating in any of these programs please contact me.
Our section welcomes scholars (including graduate students) from all disciplines, activists, and practitioners who are interested in any aspect of labor, work or organizing. I hope that you will join us!
Chris Tilly, 2011-2012 Chair
ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements
