We at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) would be grateful if you would kindly distribute our call for submissions to our 32nd Annual Conference, Development Today: Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution, to members of the ASA section Labor and Labor Markets. This year's conference will be held at the University of Amsterdam (Roeterseiland Campus) from 18-20 July 2020. We believe that you and members of your section would find SASE's international and interdisciplinary conferences to be a promising venue for fruitful exchange. If you would like to know more about SASE, please visitsase.org. We would also be more than happy to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you very much for your help. We hope to see you in Amsterdam, or at another SASE conference in the near future.

Best regards,
Martha Zuber
Executive Director

SASE’s 32nd Annual Meeting
Development Today: Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution
University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
July 18-20, 2020
www.sase.org

Submissions and registration are now open for SASE's 32nd Annual Conference,Development Today; Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution, hosted byThe University of Amsterdam from 18-20 July 2020.

Once logged into sase.org, simply click on the green "Submit A Paper" button in the top right-hand corner of the SASE website to begin the submission process. If you need tocreate an online profile for the first time, click the Join SASE Now button. Detailed submission instructions here.

Early Bird registration fees will be available until 1 April 2020, but: 
The deadline for submissions is 10 January 2020

In the meantime, be sure to renew your membership to stay up-to-date with Socio-Economic Review (now with an online-only option) 

We hope you'll join us in Amsterdam!  

Very best wishes,
The SASE Team

SASE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization organized under US law domiciled in Maryland, USA.

The ASA has  opened the 'submission' links for next summer's meeting. LLM will host two open panels, plus roundtables.     Please note that the session themes parallel the themes for the LLM miniconference. We hope that any papers that aren't accommodated in the regular section panels will be submitted for the miniconference, planned for August 7th in the Bay Area (the day before the ASA conference opens in San Francisco)..More details coming soon.
“New Challenges for Labor”
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: Jeff 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 Wisconsin-Madison

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.

Hunter College's National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions has issued a Call for Papers inviting scholars and practitioners to submit abstracts of proposed papers, panels, and interactive workshops for our 46th annual labor-management conference on April 7-9, 2019 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.  We are particularly interested in proposals related to unionization and collective bargaining in a post-Janus world.

Those interested in presenting their work should upload an abstract by September 7, 2018 to 2019 Abstract Dropbox  that includes a description of the proposed paper, panel or interactive workshop and a list of invited participants including their titles and affiliations. Questions concerning the call for papers should be emailed to 2019 National Center Annual Conference.

ILR Review: CALL FOR PAPERS Conference and Special Issue on Federalism in US Work Regulation
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The Industrial and Labor Relations Review is calling for papers for a conference and subsequent special issue devoted to the emergence (or reemergence) of Federalism in US work regulation. Janice Fine (jrfine@smlr.rutgers.edu) and Michael Piore (mpiore@mit.edu) will be guest editors of the special issue.

Scholars interested in participating should submit an abstract to the Journal by June 1, 2018. The abstract should be about three pages long and contain a description of the problem addressed and the argument that will be advanced, as well as the methodology and sources of data to be used. If possible, the nature of the arguments and findings should be previewed.

Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be invited to a conference jointly sponsored by the ILR School at Cornell and the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations during the fall of 2018. Conference expenses will be partially subsidized. Papers presented at this conference should be suitable for immediate submission to external reviewers. Based on the reviewers’ recommendations, discussions at the conference, and fit with the issue, a subset of authors will be asked to submit their papers to the ILR Review with the expectation that their papers will be published in a special issue if they pass the external review process. Papers that reviewers deem of good quality but are not selected for the special issue will be considered for publication in a regular issue of the journal.

Overview and Submission Procedures
The symposium is in response to a sharp increase in labor regulation at lower levels of government. Over the course of the past 10 years, 33 states and 16 cities and counties have adopted minimum wage laws higher than the federal level; 5 states, 23 cities, and 1 county have enacted paid sick leave laws; 6 states have passed domestic workers bills of rights; and 100 cities and counties have “banned the box,” removing conviction history questions on job applications. Efforts are also underway to create local policies to tackle unfair scheduling practices and to expand paid family leave. In addition, there is a longer tradition of decentralization and federalism in health and safety regulation, of particular interest because it predates the pressures that are producing federalism today. Washington State has mandated health and safety committees since 1943. In recent years, these issues have also arisen in other domains, in particular immigration policy, as state and local officials have begun to pursue policies distinct from those of the federal government, either to moderate the impact of aggressive enforcement or to amplify it.

These developments represent a reversal of patterns established in the 1930s, when labor and work regulation began to be driven by the federal government. But they also reflect a much broader approach in regulatory policy and have parallels in a variety of other policy domains including federal health insurance, environmental regulation, income support programs, and social services. Decentralization of authority, as well as responsibility, has been advocated by conservatives opposed to government regulation in general. But it has also been supported by liberals and progressives, as substantive federal policy has been blocked in recent years by political impasse and the ideological turn against regulation, trends that are accelerating under the Trump administration and the Republican congress.

While action on policy has shifted from the federal to the state and local levels, with the exception of a few cities that have been establishing offices of labor standards enforcement, there has been relatively little innovation in the area of enforcement strategy by state agencies. Paradoxically, at the federal level, while standards themselves have atrophied, there have been important developments in enforcement strategy. At the US Department of Labor, strategic enforcement, which targets highly non-compliant industries and takes advantage of industry- specific dynamics and structures to affect networks of interconnected employers, became a significant programmatic focus during the Obama administration. 

These developments raise a number of topics about the nature of the system that appears to be emerging, its impact, and its operation. Topics include: 

1. The diffusion of substantive standards, enforcement strategies, and administrative structures across jurisdictions;
2. The variation in administrative procedures across jurisdictions and its impact on prevailing working conditions and upon economic conditions;
3. Coordination across state and local jurisdictions and between lower level jurisdictions and federal agencies;
4. The variation in practice across different types of labor standards and the relationship between practices and procedures for the promulgation of labor standards and other standards and practices in other regulatory domains (e.g., building codes, environmental standards, consumer products, and so forth);
5. Comparison of local regimes across different standards;
6. Emergent conflicts between immigration and labor regulation and enforcement regimes;
7. The relationship between government standards, union organization, and collective bargaining as well as other types of worker organizations;
8. Whether shifts in enforcement authority affect business strategy or compliance;
9. What kinds of additional tools are available at the local level (e.g., bonding, restaurant licensing, building permits, and so forth); and
10. Whether and how the total funding for enforcement activity is affected by decentralization of power and authority, for example, whether the federal enforcement budget is reduced or state and local budgets expand as authority shifts to lower ​government jurisdiction. 

The symposium also aims to link these emergent themes to earlier research traditions. One tradition in legal scholarship is about conflicts of law. The other is in industrial relations scholarship about the appropriate level of collective bargaining given conflicts between labor and management, between labor and the state, and within the labor movement itself. 

We encourage submissions from all social science disciplines—anthropology, economics, history, industrial relations, law, sociology, and political science. We particularly encourage perspectives that recognize the different cultures of government agencies and seek to understand their impact on labor standards. 

The 2018 Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) national conference will be held Thursday, May 31st and Friday, June 1st at Vanderbilt University. 
 
Scholars, labor practitioners, and activists from across the country will convene in Nashville, TN to share new ideas and lessons learned, and connect around research and campaign work. We hope this conference is an opportunity to develop an offensive strategy in the changed political climate nationwide, and 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 Nashville area. LRAN invites those interested to submit ideas that fit within at least one of the following tracks. We encourage proposals that illustrate the role of research in illuminating these issues and informing campaigns. We also encourage a range of speakers, including those directly impacted by the issues raised in the tracks. A wide range of formats is accepted, including panels, workshops, training's, film showings and strategy sessions.

Workshop submissions are due by Friday March 16th.
Proposals are being collected through this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_8JNrji3dfnWNN8HKCtypt6n9glNlQm4bcSq49XMVw4/edit. 
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LRAN Website:
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Our program committee has put together an incredible set of panels that we hope will be the centerpiece of a vibrant 2018 program in Philadelphia. Please submit your own work and/or spread the word far and wide about these panels and the call for submissions:
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Section on Labor and Labor Movements (http://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2018/2018-call-submissions-information )
 
Panel 1: Citizenship and Labor
This panel invites papers that investigate citizenship and labor in domestic and/or international contexts. Labor has played a mixed role in relationship to citizenship. For example, the AFL-CIO did not embrace new immigrants until 1995, and some unions continue to be exclusionary. However, the Labor Movement has played a historically important role in bringing immigrants into its ranks as witnessed in the garment and textile industries. This panel is especially interested in how labor organizations (unions, worker centers, and other worker organizations) engage in practices that expand or enhance understandings of citizenship, Citizenship is broadly defined to include topics related to belonging and nation-state, the exercising of human and civil rights, civic engagement, or political mobilization.
Organizers: Belinda Lum, Sacramento City College (bclum1974@gmail.com), Carolina Bank Muñoz, Brooklyn College  (carolinabm75@gmail.com)
 
Panel 2: Labor, Labor Movements and the Right
From the neoliberal onslaught against labor in the 1980s and 1990s to the ascendant right wing populisms of the 2000s, there is an urgent need for sociological investigations into the roles of labor and labor movements amidst this rightward lurch of politics. In the Global North, protectionist and xenophobic currents are seen in the right’s engagement with workers. In the Global South, the right’s prominence in several countries parallels development of new economic capacities and growing integration into the global political economy. In all cases, right-wing governments have administered (or at least promised) redistribution to some sections of the working poor through social assistance and welfare programs, while others face social dislocation as they dismantle earlier social compacts. As a result, growing income inequality, polarization and violence along racial, ethnic and religious lines have accompanied the rise of the right, exacerbating divisions among workers.
 
This session invites papers that address the varied interactions between the Right, labor and labor movements across different country contexts. Papers may address questions such as: What tactics are deployed by the right to garner support, obstruct or repress labor and labor movements? How does this compare with past periods of right wing growth? How are workers and labor movements resisting these efforts, but also how might they be participating in or facilitating certain types of right-wing politics? What new unities, divisions, and capacities are arising in workers’ movements in the face of these challenges?
Organizers: Smriti Upadhyay, John Hopkins University (smriti.n.upadhyay@gmail.com), Rina Agarwala, John Hopkins University (agarwala@jhu.edu)
 
Panel 3: Race and Labor and the 50th Anniversary of the Memphis Strike
In February 1968, 1,300 black Memphis sanitation workers struck for safer jobs, better pay, and union recognition, carrying signs that said “I am a man”. Rev. Martin Luther King visited Memphis repeatedly to support the strike, and on one of those visits, on April 4, 1968, he was assassinated. Despite vicious union-busting by the city government, the workers went on to win the strike.
 
Fifty years later, race and racism remain divisive issues among US workers, especially in the US South, where racial divisions have undermined recent organizing drives. Though migration has reconfigured the racial-ethnic mix of the country, the color line described by Dubois remains strong, as the Black Lives Matter movement and the election of Donald Trump have spotlighted. As we meet on the 50th anniversary of the Memphis strike, this session will be an opportunity to reflect on race and labor in the United States, and how and why their relationship has changed—and not changed—over the last 50 years. The session invites both historical and contemporary papers. We welcome a wide range of race-related papers including those that address organized labor (unions and other labor organization forms), cross movement collaborations, working-class communities and neighborhoods, and the impact of and challenges to racial hierarchies in the workplace (including processes of discrimination and struggles around affirmative action). We also welcome research that explore intersections of race with gender, ethnicity, class, and other social categories in the world of work.
Organizers: Chris Tilly, University of California Los Angeles (tilly@ucla.edu)
 
Panel 4: Section on Labor and Labor Movements Refereed Roundtables (1 hour)
Sarah Swider (University of Copenhagen)
sswider@gmail.com
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