Please come to the Labor and Labor Movements section reception in Montreal! 

Section members and friends are invited to get away from the conference for a few hours, enjoy good food and drink, and learn about and support immigrant and precarious worker organizing in Montreal. 

Our reception will be on Sunday, August 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Immigrant Workers Centre / Centre des Travailleiuses et Travailleurs Immigrants (IWC-CTI http://iwc-cti.ca/) at 4755 Avenue Van Horne, Office #110, near the Plamandon station on the Metro orange line to Cote - Vertu. It is easy to get there from the Place-d'Armes station near the Palais des Congres (see attached flyer with map). 

We will have food provided by Afghan Women's Catering, a project of the Afghan Women’s Centre of Montreal http://afghan-women-catering.com/.There will be speakers from both the IWC-CTI and Afghan Women's Catering to tell us about their work. 

Come and enjoy good food, good talk, and good company. We hope to see you there!

POSITION#: VPA-SOCI-2017-001

The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track position in the area of work, labour markets, and professions. The person appointed will demonstrate excellence in both teaching and research, and will have a strong record of scholarly achievement. The successful candidate will be prepared to teach undergraduate, honours and graduate students. Please forward a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a teaching dossier and the names and addresses of three persons who can supply a letter of reference, as well as two examples of written work (either published or unpublished, but at least one example single authored) to Dr. Karen Stanbridge, Head, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7; Phone (709) 864-7457; Fax (709) 864-2075; Email: sociology@mun.ca.

Memorial University (in Newfoundland, Canada) has a tenure-track position that we will be posting (start date July 2018) that your section members may be interested in. While we are not participating in the job fair at the ASA meetings, I will be attending, as will several other Memorial University Dept. members, should people want to be in touch with us to ask any questions about the position.

Ailsa

Ailsa Craig, PhD
Department Head,
Associate Professor,
Department of Sociology
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7

E-mail: acraig@mun.ca or akcraig@gmail.com
Phone: (709) 864-2686
Fax: (709) 864-2075
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The Department of Sociology and the School of Public Policy (SPP) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track, position at the Assistant Professor level with research and teaching in organizational sociology and public policy to begin in September 2018. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is the flagship campus and an R1 doctoral granting university with highest research activity. 

We seek a candidate whose research is informed by organizational studies/theory and relates to areas of interest within sociology, public policy, public management or nonprofit management. Successful candidates will be expected to complement existing strengths in sociology and public policy research; both units have particular strengths in the area of social inequality and social justice.

This is a joint tenure-track position in Public Policy and Sociology with the tenure home located in the Sociology Department. Teaching responsibilities will comprise graduate and undergraduate courses in the Sociology Department and the School of Public Policy, including SPP’s undergraduate and Master of Public Policy and Administration programs.

Candidates must demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching and research. A completed PhD in Sociology, Public Policy, Management, Organization Theory or a related discipline is required by the start of the appointment.  The University is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Because broad diversity is essential to an inclusive climate and critical to the University's goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will holistically assess the many qualifications of each applicant and favorably consider an individual's record working with students and colleagues with broadly diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds in educational, research or other work activities. We will also favorably consider experience overcoming or helping others overcome barriers to an academic degree and career.
 Please submit your application via Interview Exchange. Applicants should submit the following: (1) a cover letter describing current and future research plans, (2) a teaching statement describing your teaching philosophy and if available, sample syllabi and teaching ratings, (3) a curriculum vitae, (4) two writing samples and (5) contact information for three professional/academic references. To ensure full consideration, applications must be submitted by September 15, 2017.  Please direct questions concerning this position to Melissa Wooten, Search Committee Chair, mwooten@soc.umass.edu.

For the full position announcement including required qualifications and application instructions, please visit: http://umass.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=86213
 

SECTION PROGRAM – ASA ANNUAL MEETING, MONTRÉAL
SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2017
 
183. Paper Session. Open Topic
Palais des congrès de Montréal, 514B, 8:30-10:10am
Session Organizer: Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University
Presider: Erin E. Hatton, State University of New York at Buffalo
Development and Its Discontents. Adaner Usmani, New York University
The White Working Class, Authoritarianism, and Union Membership. J. Gregg Robinson, Grossmont College
Collective Inaction and the Plight of the Public Sector Professional Union. Lauren Benditt, YouGov
Organizing Dixie: How Well Does the Justice for Janitors Model Travel? Erica Dobbs, Swarthmore College
 
221. Paper Session. Global Labor Protest
Palais des congrès de Montréal, 512H, 10:30am-12:10pm
Session Organizer: Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University
Presider: Joel P. Stillerman, Grand Valley State University
Declining Rural Safety Net, Perceptions of Political Risk and Selective Radicalization of Labor Contention in China. Zheng Fu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Development, Proletarianization and the Association of Workers in Garment Industry in China. Shuwan Zhang, CASS; Lulu Fan, Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences
The Antinomies of Successful Mobilization: Inclusion and Exclusion among Bogota's Newly Organized Recyclers. Manuel Zimbalist Rosaldo, University of California at Berkeley
Varieties of Dockworker Unionism in Latin America: National Context, Local Strategy and International Connections. Caitlin R. Fox-Hodess, University of California, Berkeley
 
 
259. Refereed Roundtable Session
Palais des congrès de Montréal, 516C, 12:30-1:30pm
Session Organizer: Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University
 
Table 01. Agricultural Industry and Work
Table Presider: Todd E. Vachon, University of Connecticut
Seeds, Serfs and Society: Farmers on Trial. Nathan Russell Collins, The University of Kansas
We’re Losing Time: Laboring and Waiting Among Borderlands Agricultural Workers. Kathleen Ann Griesbach, Columbia University
 
Table 02. Restructuring Work: Professionals and Labor Intermediaries
Table Presider: Louise Birdsell Bauer, University of Toronto
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss? Restructuring in Corporate Law Associateships. Christine A Riordan, Institute for Work and Employment Research
Organizational Emergence and the Rise of Vendor Management Organizations. Laureen K. O'Brien, University of Arizona
 
 
Table 03. Manufacturing Workers in Comparative Perspective
Table Presider: Corey Pech
Workers’ Views on Plant Closures: The Global Context of Production. Norene Pupo, York University; Hart Walker
Rebuild Labor Associational Power in the Reactionary Structures. Changling Cai, Binghamton University; Ellen Friedman, National Education Association
 
 
Table 04. Wage and Income Policies
Table Presider: Erin Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Is Universal Basic Income a Disincentive to Work? An Empirical Review. Sarah Reibstein, Princeton University
Minimum Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction Among Low-Wage Employees. Adam Storer; Adam D. Reich, Columbia University
 
 
Table 05. U.S. Unions and Tactical Diversity
Table Presider: Tom Juravich, University of Massachusetts
A Varied Repertoire: Tactical Diversity in Former Labor Strongholds. Amanda Pullum, California State University-Monterey Bay
The Labor Union Gap: The Fear Factor and Digital Spaces. Jen Schradie, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
 
 
Table 06. Labor and Social Protection: The Case of Bangladesh
Table Presider: Chris Tilly, University of California Los Angeles
The Regulatory Experiment in Bangladesh: Legitimacy and Worker Safety in the Garment Industry. Youbin Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Organized Labor or Organized Donors: Who Shapes Social Welfare Programs in the Least Developed Nations? Md. Mahmudur Rahman Bhuiyan, Immigration Research West
 
 
Table 07. Resistance and Mobilization Across Race and Class
Table Presider: Eric S. Brown, University of Missouri
The Specter of the 'Black Scab': Strikebreaking and Racialized Class Politics in the Progressive Era. Amelia Fortunato, The Graduate Center, CUNY
The (Culinary) Arts of Resistance: Race and Labor Politics in a Food Service Training Program. Anna Wilcoxson, Loyola University Chicago; Kelly Moore, Loyola University Chicago
 
 
Table 08. Informal Labor Around the World
Table Presider: Lefeng Lin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Organizing at Temp Agencies: The Case of Montréal's Immigrant Workers Centre. Loïc Malhaire, Université de Montréal; Yanick Noiseux, Université de Montréal
Informed but Insecure: Working Conditions and Social Security among Paid Domestic Workers in Ecuador. Erynn Masi de Casanova, University of Cincinnati
 
 
Table 09. Labor Mobilization in the Developing World
Table Presider: Kim Scipes, Purdue University Northwest
Opportunity without Organization: Labour Mobilization in Egypt after the 25th January Revolution. Christopher Barrie; Neil Ketchley, King's College London
Bringing Labor into Development Studies. Kim Scipes, Purdue University Northwest
 
 
Table 10. Temporary and Contingent Workers: Blue and White Collar
Table Presider: Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University
Intersecting Inequalities and Temporary Employment: Explaining Earnings Inequality Among Inland Southern California’s Blue Collar Warehouse Workers. Ellen R. Reese, Univ of California-Riverside; Jason Y. Struna, University of Puget Sound; Joel S. Herrera, University of California-Los Angeles; Juliann Allison, UC-Riverside
Wall to Wall: Industrial Unionism at the City University of New York, 1972-2017. Luke Elliott-Negri
 
 
Table 11. Historical Cases: New York City and Puerto Rico
Table Presider: Michael Franklin Thompson, University of North Texas
Case Study of the Labor and Social History of the Land Administration Independent Employee Union Research. Nelson Arnaldo Vera Hernandez, University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla Campus
 
 
1:30 pm Membership Meeting
Section on Labor and Labor Movements Business Meeting
Palais des congrès de Montréal, 516C, 1:30-2:10pm
 
 
299. Paper Session. Challenges Facing Canadian Labour
Palais des congrès de Montréal, 512H, 2:30-4:10pm
Session Organizer: Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University
Presider: Barry Eidlin, McGill University
Precarious Professionals: Gender Relations in the Academic Profession and the Feminization of Employment Norms. Louise Birdsell Bauer, University of Toronto
The Rise of Precarious Work in Northern Ontario’s Mines: A Challenge to Canadian Labour. Reuben N. Roth, Laurentian University; Mercedes Steedman, Laurentian University; Shelley Condratto, Laurentian University
Work and Workers' Movements in Canada After the Great Recession. Mark Preston Thomas, York University; Stephanie Ross, McMaster University
Local Labour Councils in Québec: A Comparative Approach. Thomas Collombat, Université du Québec en Outaouais; Sophie Potvin, Université du Québec en Outaouais
 
6:30 – 8:30 Section Reception
Immigrant Worker Center / Centre des Travail-leiuses et Travailleurs Immigrants (IWC/CTI)
4755 Van Horne, Office #110 (Metro Plamandon) 

Dear all,

Our Summer 2017 section newsletter is coming! We hope to send it out before the ASA next month. Please send information about new books, other publications, announcements, or other news to me at <rhomberg@fordham.edu> by July 31. 

For the summer issue, we will have a special section for graduate students entering the job market. Send us a paragraph or two with a brief bio and research interests, dissertation title and chair/committee, contact info and links to any web pages you may have. 

Send your material to me as MS Word or pdf attachments, and please try to keep to a 300 word maximum. For book announcements, include a cover photo and link to your publisher's page. We look forward to hearing from you! 

Chris Rhomberg
Associate Professor of Sociology
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
https://www.fordham.edu/info/20855/faculty/5024/chris_rhomberg

Chair, section on Labor and Labor Movements, American Sociological Association

Dear all,

We have nearly made it! We currently have 383 members and need just 17 more to get to crucial threshold of 400. The end of July is a critical deadline in our efforts to sustain our Labor and Labor Movements section membership. Please take a moment to order gift section memberships for your students or colleagues.


As you know,  the ASA moved the deadline for providing gift section memberships to July 31. Now is the time to purchase them and it is easy to do. Go to the ASA website at http://www.asanet.org/, and LOGIN with your ASA membership credentials. Once in the MEMBER PORTAL you should see the screen shot below. Go to theContribute/Give menu and select Purchase a Gift Section Membership. Enter the person's name and purchase the gift and the system will send them an email confirming their acceptance. 

If your students have never before joined the ASA, they can join here: http://www.asanet.org/membership/renew-asa. Annual ASA dues for students are just $50 per year, and it's an essential resource especially for students on the job market. If they are previous members but didn't renew this year (and you are feeling especially generous) you can gift them an ASA membership clicking on Purchase a Gift Membership for a Student under the Contribute/Give menu.
Our membership level is important for lots of reasons, but one of them is that the ASA uses the count to determine how much money we receive from them and how many sessions we get for the annual meetings. If we can reach 400 we will get another session and it will help support the activities of the section. The LLM section is an important community for scholars working on issues related to labor and labor movements, and we appreciate your support. Best wishes and solidarity,

Chris

Chris Rhomberg
Associate Professor of Sociology
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 817-3861

Chair, section on Labor and Labor Movements, American Sociological Association

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Call for Papers:Non-union class struggles from below: Session of the ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 2018, Toronto. 
Organized by Marcel Paret (University of Utah and University of Johannesburg)

While many observers lament the declining significance and political power of organized labor, unions were never the only protagonists of resistance from below. Historical accounts include numerous examples of struggles by working classes and other economically marginalized groups. Similar examples of non-union resistance from below are rampant in the contemporary period of widespread economic insecurity. Groups that scholars consider to be especially “precarious” or even “surplus” to global capitalism – the unemployed, part-time and temporary workers, those eking out a living through “informal” activities, etc. – are prominent within these struggles. These struggles from below often connect economic demands to issues of citizenship, nationalism, and community.

This session will focus on class struggles from below, broadly defined but excluding struggles by capitalists and elites, that are taking place outside of formal union organizations. While maintaining emphasis on class-related demands and issues such as wages, land, and basic livelihood, relevant struggles may include significant or even dominant non-class dimensions (e.g. citizenship). Informal social networks, community-based organizations, political parties, or other non-union entities are also relevant. The goal is to highlight and contrast non-union class struggles in different parts of the globe, with attention to the influence of varying local, national, and regional contexts.

Relevant themes may include, but are not limited to:
--protests and riots by the urban poor;
--mobilization by, for, and against migrants;
--struggles by indigenous groups;
--class dimensions of nationalist movements;
--Occupy-type movements against austerity and economic inequality;
--middle class movements;
--peasant movements and/or struggles against land dispossession;
--organization by self-employed workers or independent contractors;
--political party mobilization;
--workplace resistance by non-unionized workers;
--worker centers and other community-based worker organizations.

To submit a paper to this session, please go to the following link: 
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session10931.html.

​Click the “Submit an Abstract to this Session” button to upload your submission. You will need to create an account with ISA if you do not have one already.
This session will be organized as a roundtable, and is listed in the program under "RC44 Roundtable". Please direct any questions to Marcel Paret at marcelparet@gmail.com.


For basic info on the Congress, see http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018. ​

Call for Abstracts: 2018 Southern Labor Studies Association. University of Georgia, Athens Georgia, May 17-19
​ttps://southernlaborstudies.org/2017/05/05/2018slsc/
 
Crises of Social Reproduction in the US South: Gender, Race, and the Precarities of Daily Life

Organizers: Jennifer Bickham Mendez, The College of William & Mary
Carrie Freshour, Cornell University

The relationship between paid and unpaid work has long been a site of critical inquiry for feminist theorists as a point of departure for analyzing the oppression of women within patriarchal, racist, capitalist systems. A generation of feminist theorists has also called into question a Western, bourgeois ideological construct of fixed, bounded domains of “home” and “work.” A legacy of such feminist theoretical projects, the concept of social reproduction continues to represent a useful analytical tool for capturing and rendering visible the undervalued, gendered and racialized labor, material social practices and forces that “sustai[n] production and social life in all its variations” (Katz 2008). Scholars have called for expanded, theoretically nuanced conceptualizations of social reproduction to capture more effectively the economic and social realities that have unfolded under neoliberal imperatives, including pronounced social disinvestment and restructuring of care alongside the dramatic intensification of state surveillance, policing, and militarization (Weeks 2015; Fraser 2016). As a contemporary locus for neoliberal restructuring, the US South presents a highly useful site for the critical examination of current crises of social reproduction. At the same time, the legacies of both the brutally oppressive, racialized and gendered labor regimes developed through the enslavement of Black Americans and a racialized system of mass incarceration (Winders and Smith 2015) along with the sustainment of what Clyde Woods (1998) theorizes as “plantation ideology” call for scholarly attention to the shifting dynamics of social reproduction in the region.

How have “crises of social reproduction” unfolded differently across various sites and historical time periods in the South? What do such contemporary and historical variations reveal about the dialectical relationship between production and the work of household and community maintenance? How are intersecting dynamics of race, gender, immigration status, and sexuality implicated in the precarious ways in which daily life has been engineered in the South?

The organizers seek papers that explore the intricacies of social reproduction in the context of the US South by addressing these and other questions. Of particular interest are papers that push the boundaries of theoretical conceptualizations of social reproduction. We welcome papers that examine diverse themes and draw on varied disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
Scholars interested in participating should please send a 250-word abstract and 100-word biographical statement to the organizers at: jbmend@wm.edu and crf64@cornell.edu.

Deadline for submission: July 15, 2017

Job Posting: Boston College: The Department of Sociology and the International Studies Program at Boston College invite applications for a tenure track assistant professor position. A successful candidate is one whose research, teaching, and advising are relevant to the consideration of global history, culture, and social structure, as well as to the social justice mission of the sociology department’s PhD program.  Scholars with expertise in any geographic area, or those who do transnational or international sociology, are invited to apply.  The tenure line will be located in the sociology department. The position, which begins in Fall 2018, entails half-time undergraduate teaching in International Studies and half-time graduate and undergraduate teaching in the Department of Sociology.  Preference will be given to entry-level applicants, but excellent candidates at the advanced Assistant Professor level will also be considered. 

Applicants should apply at https://apply.interfolio.com/42892.  Required documents include a cover letter describing relevant research, teaching accomplishments, and plans; a current CV; two pieces of recent scholarship; and a list of three references that will provide letters of recommendation for applicants that are shortlisted. The screening committee will begin reviewing applications on September 1, 2017, and will continue to review them until the position is filled.

All inquiries should be sent to Andrew Jorgenson, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Chair of the Search Committee, at jorgenan@bc.edu.   

Boston College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at http://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity.