Please remember to upload submissions for Labor Section panels by January 29.

Labor Panels for ASA 2020

“Labor’s new challenges”

• Organizer: Barry Eidlin, McGill University
• As most labor scholars today acknowledge, the past three decades have posed stark new challenges for labor movements; deregulation combined with changing labor processes and an  increasingly global economy have weakened unions in much of the world, both in terms of protecting union members and representing broader community interests. This panel invites papers that examine labor’s new challenges across sectors and contexts, and discussing activists’ varied responses to those challenges.​

“New strategies for labor”

• Organizer: Jeffrey  Rothstein, Grand Valley State University
  
• Over the past decade, labor activists around the world have pursued new strategies for mobilizing and representing workers. This panel seeks papers that describe new organizing strategies for labor, whether in sectors or communities lacking well-established unions, where previously-established unions have been prompted to explore new strategies, or in places where workers lack the right to form their own unions. From workers’ centers and minimum wage campaigns, to efforts to mobilize broad community support “for the common good” and to otherwise gain a voice for workers in the workplace and the economy, the panel will highlight and explore innovative labor strategies in the 21st century.

 
Labor Roundtables

• Organizer: Gay Seidman, University of Wisoncin-Madison

2020 Labor and Labor Movement awards 

a) Distinguished Scholarly Book Award DEADLINE: 2/1/2020
The LLM’s section's Distinguished Scholarly Book Award goes to what is judged by the award committee to be the best book based on original research published in the sociology of work, the labor process, the working class, labor unions, or working class movements. To qualify, the book must have been published between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. No more than one book nomination per person is allowed. Section members are strongly urged to nominate books for the prize. Self-nominations are welcome. In order to be considered by the committee, the author (or authors) must join or be members of the Labor section. Please send your nomination to the committee chair Jasmine Kerrissey, at jasmine@soc.umass.edu no later than February 1, 2020. Upon receipt of your email nomination, you will be provided with the mailing addresses of the award committee members. Nominators/Nominees/Publishers will have until March 1, 2020 to send hard-copies to the committee members.

b) Distinguished Scholarly Article Award DEADLINE: 3/01/2020
The LLM section’s Distinguished Scholarly Article Award goes to what is judged by the award committee to be the best article in the sociology of work, the labor process, the working class, labor unions, or working class movements published between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. Articles based on qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies are welcome. Research may be U.S. based, international, or global in scope. Section members are strongly urged to nominate articles for the prize. Self-nominations are welcome. In order to be considered by the committee, the author (or authors) must join or be members of the Labor section. Nominations must include an electronic copy of (or link to) the article, and all nominations must be received no later than March 1, 2020. Please send all nominations to the chair of the award committee, Vanesa Ribas, at vribas@ucsd.edu.

c) Student Paper Award DEADLINE: 3/01/2020
The LLM section’s Distinguished Student Paper Award goes to what is judged by the award committee to be the best paper written by a graduate student on the sociology of work, the labor process, the working class, labor unions, or working class movements between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. Papers based on qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies are welcome. Research may be U.S. based, international, or global in scope. Published papers, papers under review, and unpublished article-length manuscripts are eligible. Authors must be enrolled students at the time the paper was written and cannot have won the student paper award in the previous 3 years. In addition, authors must be members of the LLM section at the time of submission. The winner receives $250. Section members may self-nominate, and faculty should encourage graduate students to submit promising work. Nominations must include an electronic copy of the paper and must be submitted no later than March 1, 2020 to the Distinguished Student Paper Award committee chair, Lu Zhang at lu.zhang1@temple.edu.