Dear Labor and Labor Movements Section Members:

I hope you are all having a great summer.
I am pleased to announce this year's section awards:

Section on Labor and Labor Movement Distinguished Scholarly Book Award 
 
WINNER
Clawson, Dan and  Naomi Gerstel. 2014. Unequal Time: Gender, Class and Family in Employment Schedules. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 

HONORABLE MENTION(S)
1) Zhang. Lu. 2015. Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance.  New York: Cambridge University Press.  
2) Rosenfeld, Jake. 2014. What Unions No Longer Do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.   

Section on Labor and Labor Movements Distinguished Scholarly Article Award
Sallaz, Jeffrey J. 2014. “Permanent Pedagogy: How Post-Fordist Firms Generate Effort but Not Consent.” Work and Occupations, 10/20/14.  Online First
http://wox.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/14/0730888414551207.abstract

Section on Labor and Labor Movements / Critical Sociology Best Student Paper Competition

"The Crisis of New Labor and Alinsky’s Legacy," by Jane McAlevey, PhD candidate at CUNY Graduate Center.

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Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to the committee members for their service.

I hope you will all join us at the business meeting and reception to celebrate these and other achievements!

Section on Labor and Labor Movements Reception 
(Offsite; ROC United/Food Chain Workers Alliance Offices, 77 W. Washington, Suite 1507, Chicago, IL 60602)
Mon, August 24, 6:30 to 8:30pm, TBA

Section on Labor and Labor Movements Business Meeting
Tue, August 25, 11:30am to 12:10pm, TBA

ALSO -- we are still seeking a new NEWSLETTER EDITOR.  This awesome person would be responsible for coordinating our section newsletter, which will be published TWICE a year, once in the Fall (December) and once in the Spring (May).

Please let me know ASAP if you or any of your graduate students may be interested!

See you in Chicago

Shannon Gleeson, Associate Professor
Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History
379 Ives Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-3901
smg338@cornell.edu