Welcome from the Chair.
Welcome to the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association!
I am your new chair, Cedric de Leon, from the UMass Amherst Labor Center. I have three objectives for the coming year. First, I want to recruit more women and people of color to the section to reflect the diversity of the workforce and the labor movement. We are doing this through our programming and nominations committees, but we should do more across the section, and I look forward to your ideas and help with this goal. As of now we are hosting a section session at the 2023 ASA annual meeting in Philly on “Race, Gender and Labor” that I hope will signal to ASA members that the section is an intellectual and political home for all people who work in or on labor and labor movements. We are also actively recruiting a diverse leadership slate to run for office.
Second, I want to highlight, and urge coordination across, the many eclectic organizations that make up the U.S. labor movement. These include unions, worker centers, community groups organizing around racial and gender equity and immigrant rights, third parties, cooperatives, and public intellectuals. To that end the programming committee is hosting a second session on the labor movement’s resurgence that I hope will put our members in touch with labor activists in Philly across a variety of different organizations.
Finally, in an effort to increase regular communication and feature our members’ research and political work, I am working with the media committee to start a new Twitter account, better maintain our Facebook page, update our website, and increase our interaction with the Work in Progress blog.
Thank you for being a member of the Labor and Labor Movements section. I look forward to working with you.
In Solidarity,
Cedric
Cedric de Leon
Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Proud member of the MSP/MTA/NEA
Pronouns: he/him/his
I am your new chair, Cedric de Leon, from the UMass Amherst Labor Center. I have three objectives for the coming year. First, I want to recruit more women and people of color to the section to reflect the diversity of the workforce and the labor movement. We are doing this through our programming and nominations committees, but we should do more across the section, and I look forward to your ideas and help with this goal. As of now we are hosting a section session at the 2023 ASA annual meeting in Philly on “Race, Gender and Labor” that I hope will signal to ASA members that the section is an intellectual and political home for all people who work in or on labor and labor movements. We are also actively recruiting a diverse leadership slate to run for office.
Second, I want to highlight, and urge coordination across, the many eclectic organizations that make up the U.S. labor movement. These include unions, worker centers, community groups organizing around racial and gender equity and immigrant rights, third parties, cooperatives, and public intellectuals. To that end the programming committee is hosting a second session on the labor movement’s resurgence that I hope will put our members in touch with labor activists in Philly across a variety of different organizations.
Finally, in an effort to increase regular communication and feature our members’ research and political work, I am working with the media committee to start a new Twitter account, better maintain our Facebook page, update our website, and increase our interaction with the Work in Progress blog.
Thank you for being a member of the Labor and Labor Movements section. I look forward to working with you.
In Solidarity,
Cedric
Cedric de Leon
Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Proud member of the MSP/MTA/NEA
Pronouns: he/him/his
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