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Call for proposals to add questions to the 2022 GSS

12/7/2020

 
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

Ethics and BLM Research

7/2/2020

 
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.

​

Our Newest Newsletter Has Landed!

8/7/2019

 
Please make sure to check out our brand new newsletter!
It has a listing of:
  • The section schedule with all panels, roundtables, and meetings
  • Chair Belinda Lum's outgoing message
  • Ruth Milkman's eulogy of Dan Clawson
  • A celebration of Erik Olin Wright's life
  • Information on the tour of Activist New York
  • Section election results and award winners
  • Some calls for papers/abstracts, job postings, and other announcements including new publications from some of our section members!
So, please head on over to the Newsletters page where you can access our brand new newsletter (as well as the prior ones).

Special Issue of Work and Occupations on “Young Workers and the Renewal of the Labor Movement, a Cross-National Perspective.”

7/19/2018

 
​I am pleased to announce the pre-publication release of a new special issue of Work and Occupations on “Young Workers and the Renewal of the Labor Movement, a Cross-National Perspective.”   The special issue is guest-edited by Maite Tapia, Michigan State University, and Lowell Turner, Cornell University and can be accessed on-line at this website: http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/woxb/0/0   It is scheduled to appear as the November 2018 issue of Work and Occupations.
 
Here’s the table of contents with links to the pre-publication on-line articles.  Please feel free to share with your colleagues, students and networks:  
 
“Young Workers and the Renewal of the Labor Movement, a Cross-National Perspective” 
 
Guest-Edited by Maite Tapia, Michigan State University, and Lowell Turner, Cornell University
 
Renewed Activism for the Labor Movement: The Urgency of Young Worker Engagement
Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner
https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888418785657  

Call for participation in a survey on appointment procedures at universities

7/14/2017

 
Dear Colleagues,
As part of the research project “The many faces of academic success” at the Technical University of Munich(funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF), we are conducting a survey on appointment procedures at universities.
The purpose of the survey is to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of appointment decisions. In particular, we are interested in the question of whether there are similarities and differences in appointment preferences among countries and scientific fields as well as between junior and senior scholars.
In the course of the survey, you will take part in a hypothetical appointment procedure for a tenured professorship. You assume the role of a member of an appointment committee and state your preferences for different candidates.

Participation in the survey will take approximately 15-20 minutes.  
Please, click on the following link to access the survey (or copy the link into your browser):
https://faces.sawtoothsoftware.com
We would greatly appreciate it if you could take part in our survey and express your personal opinion on appointment procedures at universities. All participants have the opportunity to win an Apple Watch Series 2 or a pair of Bose QuietControl 30 wireless headphones. In addition, we will be happy to send you a summary of the results of the survey.
Of course, the collected data will be treated in strict confidence and used only for research purposes.
If you have any questions about the survey or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us (laura.graf@tum.de).
Best regards, and thank you very much in advance for your help,
Laura Graf, Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim, Isabell M. Welpe


Dipl.-Psych. Laura Graf
Research associate / Doctoral candidate
Technical University of Munich · TUM School of Management
Arcisstrasse 21 · 80333 Munich · Germany
T: +49 (0)89 289 24837 · F: +49 (0)89 289 24805
​E: laura.graf@tum.de

Visitors: Corner Luisen-/Theresienstr. · Main campus · Building 0505 · 2nd floor

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age, ed. by Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis (Cornell University Press, 2017)

6/29/2017

 
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age, ed. by Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis (Cornell University Press, 2017)
 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100001820
At a moment when national politics across the globe indicate the failure of neoliberal policies and governance, cities have emerged as limited but vital laboratories for progressive change, and as the emblematic site of contentious politics and protest for the twenty-first century. From the streets of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park, the contributors to this volume argue that the city is becoming like the factory of old: a site of production and profit-making as well as new forms of solidarity, resistance, and social reimagining. The City is the Factory provides both theoretical analysis, and empirical overview, of the varied efforts of urban workers and citizens to attain their “right to the city” and from there, a more just world.
We see examples of the city as factory in new place-based political alliances, as workers and the unemployed find common cause with community-based struggles.  Some efforts are limited to individual cities, while others engage coalitional urban politics that cross states and national boundaries. The case studies and essays in The City Is the Factory profile the work lives and organizing efforts of street vendors, retail workers, port truckers, and day laborers, as well as “right to the city” campaigns focused on environmental justice, immigrant rights, and fair employment, among others.  Together, they provide descriptions and analysis of the form, substance, limits, and possibilities of these timely urban struggles.

UMass Amherst Labor Center has opened applications for their new, accelerated master's degree in Labor Studies

3/26/2017

 

The UMass Amherst Labor Center is accepting applications for our new, accelerated master’s degree in Labor Studies. Beginning in Fall 2017, students can complete the program with only one year of residency. 

For over fifty years, we have built one of the premiere graduate programs in Labor Studies in the United States. With a near 100% placement record, our graduates join over 1,000 alumni in key positions in the labor movement and other social justice organizations.

We are delighted to report that the overwhelming support by our allies has strengthened our program and we are now fortunate to offer up to 10 teaching assistantships and internships for the Fall. These positions cover tuition costs and provide a stipend. Students with assistantships and internships are members of the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2322.

Earning your master’s degree in Labor Studies at the UMass Labor Center puts you right at the center of the issues and debates around labor, work, and social justice. Labor is changing. As the attacks on labor have intensified, unions have been taking bold new directions. They have also combined efforts with a wide variety of alt-labor organizations, building strong connections with new social movements in broad-based coalitions for justice.

Become one of our graduates who is at the forefront of many of these exciting developments to build justice and dignity in the workplace and the community, here and abroad.
We would appreciate if you could circulate this message widely and help us to find the next group of activists for our incoming class in September.

More information on the program is available at www.umass.edu/lrrc/graduate, or you may contact me directly at juravich@lrrc.umass.edu or 413-545-5986.
​
Thank you,
Tom Juravich, Interim Director
UMass Labor Center
University of Massachusetts Amherst

LAWCHA Statement on Collective Bargaining for All Faculty

1/9/2017

 
The Executive Committee, after consultation with the LAWCHA Board of Directors, has approved the following statement encouraging ALL FACULTY to exercise their right to collective bargaining. The statement was drafted by the Contingent Faculty Committee in response to the recent statement by the Organization of American Historians recommending collective bargaining for adjunct and contingent faculty. The full LAWCHA statement with supporting appendices is here: http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2016/12/17/lawcha-statement-collective-bargaining-faculty/. Please circulate.


LAWCHA Statement on Collective Bargaining for All Faculty

The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) applauds and endorses the Organization of American Historians (OAH) “Statement on Collective Bargaining and Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent History Faculty.”

According to the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and in the Professions, roughly 25 percent of all college and university faculty in the United States were represented by labor unions in 2011. Studies of faculty collective bargaining agreements, and testimony from faculty who belong to labor unions, indicate that both tenure track and non-tenure track faculty benefit from participating in collective bargaining.

Collective bargaining improves shared governance for all faculty by increasing budget transparency, and by creating agreements over faculty salaries and working conditions that tend to be more specific and legally binding than faculty codes. (See Appendix)

The material benefits of collective bargaining are also significant. A 2012 survey by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce found that contingent faculty represented by labor unions have a median wage that is 25 percent higher than their non-union peers, as well as substantially increased access to health benefits, retirement plans, seniority rights and paid service. In addition, a study of collective bargaining’s impact on part-time lecturers has shown that it creates “better working conditions that structurally support educational quality.”

THEREFORE LAWCHA strongly encourages all faculty to exercise their right to bargain collectively with their employers, encourages other professional associations to support this right, and encourages colleges and universities to remain neutral when faculty discuss whether to join labor unions and which unions to join.*

APPROVED by LAWCHA Executive Committee December 11, 2016 after consultation with the Board of Directors


James N. Gregory
---------------------
Professor, Department of History
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3560
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj

President, Labor and Working Class History Association http://lawcha.org/

PEWS Survey

11/28/2016

 
Dear ASA member,

The Political Economy of the World-System section (PEWS) is conducting a study to help us improve our section. As a part of that, we are distributing a survey to ASA members who may have substantive interests that are congruent with those of our section. We would appreciate and value your honest evaluation of our section. The survey is brief and should only take you about 5 minutes to complete. Your answers will be strictly anonymous and confidential. Please respond by December 15. Here is the link to the survey:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.surveymonkey.com_r_P98TMVJ&d=DgIFAg&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=gtVALUGiv0dhddZOM7RSmMt4iymJ15dGAkFG4EU_hcI&m=vGiNtCctdJNs5gVi7KT374A7g93DNi4-vMWusgS5Z64&s=jxA7A_mF48QwE21EVQeatCpZ1UVoiVXyuy-7lpoE8JM&e=

Thank you in advance for your time and attention. I apologize for any cross-postings.
John


John M. Talbot
Chair, Political Economy of the World System section
of the American Sociological Association

Politics and Labour Network -  Workshop 2017

11/28/2016

 
Beverly Silver has kindly accepted our invitation to attend the P&L October Workshop of 2017 as our keynote speaker (remember that we are not having a workshop this year). The workshop will be held in Naples at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II on Wednesday 18th, Thursday 19th, and Friday 20th October.

The local organisers are Enrica Morlicchio and Fortunato Musella, who have busied themselves (bless them) with booking rooms, findings funds to cover Beverly’s plane and accommodation and some accommodation for the out-of-towners. With luck we might find a tad more money -- and if you know where, let me know. They are also organising a visit to the Officina Gomitoli, a local intercultural centre that has been occupied with newly arriving refugees.

The broad and tentative outline of the workshop program is:

Tuesday (17th): Arrival.
Wednesday: Keynote session with Silver; “P&L chats with Silver;” Visit to the Officina Gomitoli.
Thursday: All day session: “War, Migrations, & Labour.”
Friday: All day session: “Mezzogiorni”
Saturday (21st): Departure.

Please note that some members from outside Italy have already expressed their intention to come. They include Roland Erne, Doro Bohle, Johan De Deken, Alan Stoleroff, Marco Lisi.

I ask you to please continue to let me know if you are hoping to come (whether from Italy or outside), as this will help us estimate the accommodation costs. Please also remember that we cannot cover travel costs.
 
Antonina Gentile
antonina.gentile@gmail.com
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