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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. Please make sure to check out our brand new newsletter!
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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 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)
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. 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.
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/ 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 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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