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Welcome from the Chair.
Welcome to the ASA’s Labor and Labor Movements section website! For nearly 20 years, the LLM Section has been a space where sociologists can share their research and ideas, and explore new questions and challenges facing labor.
I am honored to be serving as the section’s current chair, and grateful to past section officers – especially outgoing Secretary-Treasurer Jeffrey Rothstein, council member Penny Lewis, and past chair Sarah Swider for all they have done during the past three years.
As last year’s section chair, Belinda Lum organized a wonderful array of panels and events at the ASA’s 2019 annual meeting. Perhaps even more importantly, Belinda coordinated a moving memorial for Dan Clawson, a founding member of the LLM section, and a friend, mentor and colleague to many of its members. The memorial reminded us of Dan’s warmth, energy and wisdom, but I hope it also showed that though we will miss him, the vibrant intellectual community he helped to build will continue.
Continuing in that tradition, we agreed at the section’s business meeting that before the ASA’s 2020 San Francisco meeting, the section will host a mini-conference on “Labor’s New Challenges.” We hope to hold it on August 7, 2020, the day before the main ASA conference starts, and we hope it will provide a space for section members to present work-in-progress, and to hear from labor activists as well as sociologists.
Over the next few months, please keep an eye out for the section’s newsletter, which should contain more details as we flesh out our plans – and please plan to join us for the mini-conference on August 7th, 2020.
Gay W. Seidman
Martindale Bascom Professor of Sociology,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
I am honored to be serving as the section’s current chair, and grateful to past section officers – especially outgoing Secretary-Treasurer Jeffrey Rothstein, council member Penny Lewis, and past chair Sarah Swider for all they have done during the past three years.
As last year’s section chair, Belinda Lum organized a wonderful array of panels and events at the ASA’s 2019 annual meeting. Perhaps even more importantly, Belinda coordinated a moving memorial for Dan Clawson, a founding member of the LLM section, and a friend, mentor and colleague to many of its members. The memorial reminded us of Dan’s warmth, energy and wisdom, but I hope it also showed that though we will miss him, the vibrant intellectual community he helped to build will continue.
Continuing in that tradition, we agreed at the section’s business meeting that before the ASA’s 2020 San Francisco meeting, the section will host a mini-conference on “Labor’s New Challenges.” We hope to hold it on August 7, 2020, the day before the main ASA conference starts, and we hope it will provide a space for section members to present work-in-progress, and to hear from labor activists as well as sociologists.
Over the next few months, please keep an eye out for the section’s newsletter, which should contain more details as we flesh out our plans – and please plan to join us for the mini-conference on August 7th, 2020.
Gay W. Seidman
Martindale Bascom Professor of Sociology,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
