Topic Title: LRAN 2020 Conference Call for Proposals
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The 2020 Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) National Conference will be held March 12th at Morehouse College, co-hosted by the Morehouse College International Comparative Labor Studies Department. On March 13th, the Jobs With Justice National Conference, located at the Atlanta Convention Center, will include an LRAN track of workshops. Scholars, labor practitioners, and activists from across the country will converge in Atlanta, GA to share new ideas and lessons learned, and connect around research and campaign work. As we gather in the space of an historically black college and university in the South, we hope this conference is an opportunity to develop a proactive strategy that amplifies voices that have historically not had a place or priority at the table. We hope to learn from the unique challenges faced by organizers and researchers in the South and in Right-to-Work states, including from active campaigns in the Atlanta area.
In light of the 100th Anniversary of industrial labor relations in the United States, LRAN invites participants from universities, unions, worker centers, and policy centers across the U.S. to submit workshop proposals that focus especially on:

• ‘What do we want? When do we want it?’ Who is included in labor and what is the future of work after 100 Years of the field of Industrial Relations
• ‘Ain’t I A Worker:’ Confronting Systemic Identity Erasure and Exclusion in Building Intersectional Solidarities
• Activism and the Labor Movement: New Labor Energy and Whole-Worker Organizing
• Workplace Democracy: Comparative models for worker voice and participation
• Labor policy and labor law reform in our current political atmosphere
• Expanded bargaining – bargaining in vertically disintegrated workplaces

LRAN conferences have always included a broad range of workshops proposed and organized by attendees from labor, NGOs, and academia. Past workshops have included the topics of privatization, racial and gender justice, worker power in the logistics supply chain, strikes and power, the gig economy, coalition building, the public sector, and more. Proposals that include a range of participants from different fields or perspectives (i.e., academics and union activists and organizers), and that clearly detail a focus on research-to-action case studies or new research skills will be prioritized. Past workshop formats have included: panel presentations, trainings, paper presentations, video showings/discussion, and moderated roundtable discussions.
Workshop submissions are due by January 3rd, 2020. Proposals are being collected through this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ETIC-YhCO-H3JlHE-UHR0jYG0_Aasjcc23v5LMbyEZ0/viewform?edit_requested=true
LRAN conference attendees are encouraged to join the Jobs With Justice National Conference, which will be held March 13th-15th at the Atlanta Convention Center. The 13th will include LRAN workshops. Registration for the JWJ conference requires an additional fee. Please indicate in the form if you are only able to attend the LRAN conference on the 12th.

​Capitalism and Contention

Keynote speaker: Vivek Chibber (New York University), "Movements and the Many Lives of Capitalism" 


Where: New York University, Department of Sociology, New York City (in the historic Puck Building, Houston Street @ Lafayette)

When: March 13-15 (Friday, March 13, 5 to 7 pm; Saturday, March 14, 9 am to 6 pm; Sunday, March 15, 9 am to 1 pm)


Conference organizers: Jeff Goodwin (NYU) and Nada Matta(Drexel)

The goal of this conference is to facilitate dialogue and debate among scholars and students who are working at the intersection of political economy and social movement studies.

We are calling for papers which address the following questions: How have capitalism and capitalist states catalyzed, but also constrained, workplace resistance, labor movements, "identity movements," environmental movements, rebellions, revolutions, and other forms of political contention around the globe over the past century? How and to what extent have these various forms ofcontention shaped capitalism and capitalist states in turn? Also, how have recent transformations of capitalism, and of class relations, altered the possibilities for and the nature of contentious collective action in the contemporary period? How have, and should, social movements relate to political parties and elections in pursuit of their goals? What are the prospects for radical change in contemporary capitalist societies? To what extent does social movement theory help us answer these questions, and to what extent does it need to be recast, perhaps radically?

Abstracts (300-400 words) are due on December 31, 2019. They should be sent to capitalismandcontention@gmail.com. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the conference will by notified by January 7. Conference papers are due on March 1.