We invite paper proposals to be submitted for the RC44 sessions during the XIX ISA World Congress in Toronto, 15-21.07.2018. The full list of sessions is available on the Congress website:
The topics of the RC44 sessions include:
- International Labour Solidarity in the Americas: Exploring New Research and Developments
- Labour Movements Under Rekindled Nationalism
- Academic Labour in Times of Authoritarianism, Violence and Injustice
- Assessing the Supranational Strategies of International Labour Movement Organizations
- Authors Meet Critics
- China’s Labor in Global Services and Transnational Production
- Connections Between Indigenous Peoples’ Movements and Labour Movements
- Free Trade, Labour Movements and the Search for Alternatives
- Informal and Precarious Worker Organizing Under Global Capitalism
- Labour and Populism: Trajectories, Dilemmas, and Opportunities
- Labour and the Forces of Nature: Prospects, Paradoxes and Perspectives
- Learning from Migrant Labour Struggles: Innovative Initiatives of Precarious Workers
- Organizing in a Gig Economy: Atomized Work and the Labor Movement
- Precarious Labour, Life and Urban StruggleRC44 Roundtable
- The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario (Joint Session with RC44 Labour Movements)
- Trade Unions in Transformation: Acquiring and Applying Power Resources
- Xenophobia, Anti-Migrant Politics, and Workers’ Movements
Participants must submit abstracts on-line from April 25, 11:00 GMT through September 30, 2017, 24:00 GMT. The detailed instructions are available on the ISA website.
The RC44 Program Coordinator is Bridget KENNY, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa: [email protected]