​The Department of Sociology at Georgetown University invites applications for a tenured full professor. The successful candidate will also serve as chair of the Department of Sociology upon appointment for at least one renewable three-year term. The department has strengths in urban sociology, cultural sociology, and race and ethnicity, however, areas of specialization are open to any area of sociology for this appointment. Faculty in the sociology department are committed to teaching and scholarship that supports a range of research methods, theoretical approaches, and substantive areas. The department affirms its commitment to diversity, equity, and social justice through a wide array of teaching, educational events, and its own organizational practices.
 
The next chair will be an established scholar who can continue to build on the record for scholarly and instructional excellence that the department has established since its inception, while also being strategic about the department’s opportunities for future growth and development. The qualifications of the candidate should be consistent with a tenured appointment at the level of full professor, with a Ph.D. in sociology or a related field. We seek a scholar and administrative leader committed to supporting innovative research and scholarship, engaged learning, and community outreach and service. The chair should be supportive of partnerships and collaborative work both inside and outside the college and university, and willing to work to facilitate inter-unit collaborations with the Department of Sociology and its faculty.
 
The chair is responsible for providing leadership and oversight of the department’s academic programs and budgets. The chair will also work with the department’s administrative manager to ensure a workplace that is supportive of faculty, staff, and students. In fulfilling these responsibilities, the chair will work in close collaboration with department faculty, department staff, and the college dean. The ideal candidate will help create an environment of collaboration, transparency, and shared governance. The new chair will also lead university efforts to expand the size and reach of the department. Candidates should expect to describe their potential contributions to diversity and inclusion at Georgetown. Additionally, candidates should demonstrate how their work fits into the university’s tradition of placing people in the service of others and the institutional legacy of “cura personalis” (care of the whole person).
 
Founded in 1789, Georgetown University is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Today, Georgetown is a major international, student-centered research university of 17,000 students that embodies a commitment to intellectual openness, as well as justice and the common good. The Department of Sociology draws engaged students from across the U.S. and the world and the undergraduate program is growing. Our majors earn a Bachelor of Science in the liberal arts from Georgetown College and develop research skills through the completion of independent research projects. The Department of Sociology is an active contributor to Georgetown University’s broader mission. Our faculty includes research-active scholars with a deep commitment to high-quality, undergraduate-focused instruction. Faculty members have won awards for both their teaching and research, and are actively engaged in efforts to bring sociological insight to public discourse and policy debates. Faculty in the department are also connected to the robust interdisciplinary research and education initiatives on the Georgetown campus (the Georgetown Environment Initiative, the Global Health Initiative, the Georgetown Initiative on Tech & Society, the Gender Justice Initiative, the Racial Justice Institute, and the Prisons and Justice Initiative). The Chair will play a key role in ensuring the department features in campus-wide research and educational initiatives.
 
To apply, please visit https://apply.interfolio.com/91087 to submit (1) a cover letter describing your professional experience, including your research and interests; (2) a curriculum vitae (CV); (3) names and contact information for three references who will provide letters upon request from the search committee. We actively seek to create a diverse and inclusive departmental culture. Candidates are welcome to share a separate statement that outlines the ways that they hope to contribute to enriching the diversity of perspectives and people at Georgetown. Review of applications will begin September 15, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled. The appointment begins with the fall term of 2022 with an anticipated start date of August 2022. If you have any questions about the position, please contact Corey D. Fields at corey.fields@georgetown.edu.
 
Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse faculty and staff. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation), disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Georgetown is committed to hiring faculty who share its commitment to caring for the whole person.
 
If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please click here  for more information, or contact the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity & Affirmative Action (IDEAA) at (202) 687-4798.

Hi Labor and Labor Movements Section members,
 
I hope you are well in this craziest of times.  I have a quick request that I hope you can help me with. 
 
The section puts out our newsletter In Critical Solidarity, twice a year, and we would like to issue the next edition in late December. To do this we need to hear from our members. 

Please take a few minutes and send me information on your new books, articles and other publications that have come out recently.  Given all the activity around Blacks Lives Matter and the worker fightbacks around the pandemic, please also include any public sociology projects that you might have been involved in.
 
Especially given that we are constrained in this online world, we’d love to hear from you so we can assemble all the vital works that our section members are involved in. It would be great if we could hear back from you by December 11, so that we can get the issue out by the end of the month.
 
Regards and Solidarity,
 
Tom
Tom Juravich
Professor of Labor Studies and Sociology
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair, Labor and Labor Movements Section
American Sociological Association

The jobs are:

• Assistant Specialist
  • https://aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01052
• Junior Specialist
  • ​https://aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01051
    

The General Social Survey invites proposals to add questions to its 2022 survey. Proposals will be accepted on the basis of scientific quality and scholarly interest; outside funding is not necessary. The deadline for submissions is March 5th, 2021.    Please share this call with others. 

https://gss.norc.org/Documents/other/GSS%202022%20Module%20Competition.pdf

I am happy to forward a thoughtful reminder, with permission from its authors.

As BLM protests are ongoing in the United States and around the world, many of us in sociology are looking at these protests not only as opportunities to push for social change, but also as opportunities to better understand how social movements work. Given the emergent nature of these protests, it is tempting to rely on students to collect data at these protests.

We should be careful not to ask students to put their bodies at risk for the sake of a faculty member's research. The risk for these students is two-fold: the risk of COVID transmission and the risk of police brutality at the protests. Police use of force, chemical weapons, and tactics like kettling and arrests are still common, and their deployment is unpredictable. For students of color, the risks of suffering targeted police violence are even greater.

While IRBs are in place to ensure ethical treatment of research subjects, we don’t have the same guidelines for ethical treatment of student researchers. The risks and costs we ask students to bear must be proportional to the benefits they receive in terms of payment or academic compensation, such as co-authorship. Graduate students may feel pressured to do this kind of research to maintain good relationships with their faculty advisors and mentors. We need to remain aware of the power relationships in our graduate training programs. Let’s not add our research projects to the list of structural inequalities our students face. Our students deserve better.

​

Lefeng (Frank) Lin, a member of our section, is guest-editing a special issue on Chinese labor and work for the Journal of Chinese Sociology. He asked that we circulate this call, and encourages LLM members to submit relevant work. 

Please note that the deadline is July 31, 2020.

Lefeng writes:
Labor relations in transitional China have been a core issue in contemporary Chinese and global sociology. Since the early 2000s, sociologists around the world have studied Chinese working conditions and labor process, workers’ organizations and culture, and labor-rights protection when China was becoming the world factory. Recently, however, significant changes have taken place in both Chinese and international political economy, such as industrial upgrading and restructuring, technological innovation, and the seeming de-globalization, all of which are leading to a new chapter for studying China’s work and labor. In response to those new structural changes, the Journal of Chinese Sociology (JCS), sponsored by the Institute of Sociology, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is hoping  sociologists and social scientists at home and abroad will submit their papers for consideration.

Theme: China's Work and Labor in the Era of Industrial Transition and Globalization Crisis

We are looking for papers on the following topics (including but not limited to):

1. Employment and labor issues caused by industrial relocation to other countries and Chinese inland
2. Manufacturing employment and labor issues raised by technological changes such as artificial intelligence, robot, and the Internet
3. Organization and labor of traditional, emerging, and atypical service jobs against the background of the digital economy
4. Work and labor issues closely related to minority groups, international migrants, and gender in China
5. Employment and labor issues in Chinese rural and urbanized rural areas
6. The responses of human resources/labor market organizations to the labor demand caused by technological changes and industrial restructuring
7. The role and behavior of the local government in regulating labor relations, such as job upgrading and creation, employment outsourcing, labor legislation and inspection, and labor-rights protection
8. Participation of mass organizations, social organizations, and workers in labor relations governance in the new context of industrial upgrading
9. Problems in the social reproduction of labor caused by changes in employment and work, such as family and housing, education and upbringing, mental and physical health, social interaction and networking, and subcultural formation
10. Scholars who are interested in submitting articles need to send the title and abstract (both Chinese and English are acceptable, less than 1500 words) to meixiao@cass.org.cn before July 31, 2020.

The Journal of Chinese Sociology (JCS) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal sponsored by the Institute of Sociology, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and published by the world-renowned publisher Springer Nature. As Chinese mainland's first English-language journal in sociology, JCS strives to build a first-rate international platform for academic exchange and collaboration between Chinese sociologist and their oversea peers.

By May, 2020, the Journal had published 117 articles. It has attracted a truly international community of authors and readers. Researchers from more than 20 countries around the world, including China, the US, Canada, UK, Czech Republic, Poland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Mexico, etc., submitted their works to JCS. The number of downloads of published articles increased from 1404 in 2014 to 98,838 in 2019.Here is the link:
https://journalofchinesesociology.springeropen.com/call-for-papers--china-s-work-and-labor-in-the-era-of-industrial

Best,
Frank

Lefeng (Frank) Lin, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of China Studies
​Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Pronouns: He/Him/His

The  LLM section’s July newsletter  will feature a forum on the labor movement during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. We are still looking for short pieces (around 800 words long) on any of the following topics:

• How unions of frontline workers in healthcare, transportation, food service and processing, etc. have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic
  
• Mobilization and collective action during the pandemic
  
• The future of the labor movement post-COVID-19 and the challenges facing unions ahead

We welcome contributions from union organizers and rank-and-file union members as well as from ASA members.

​If you would like to contribute to this forum, or know someone who would be interested, please email the newsletter editor,  Joey van der Naald (jvandernaald@gradcenter.cuny.edu) by July 10.

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.

Our most recent newsletter, In Critical Solidarity, is now available. Thanks to newsletter editor Joseph van der Naald on getting all of this together. 

You can find the current newsletter, and our earlier ones, on our Newsletter page.