2022 ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section Awards 

For information on the 2023 Section Awards and nominations, please visit the Committees page for further information. To get information on awards for all ASA sections, you can visit ASA's Section Award Nominations Call page.
Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award
  • Winner: Natasha N Iskander. 2021. Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond. Princeton University Press. 
  • Honorable Mention: Josh Seim. 2020. Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering. University of California Press.
  • Honorable Mention: Michael L. Siciliano. 2021. Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries. Columbia University Press.

Distinguished Scholarly Article Award 
  • Winner: Chang, Andy Scott. 2021. "Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia." Social Problems 68(4):903–924. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spab002
  • Honorable Mention: Mai, Quan D. 2021. "Unclear Signals, Uncertain Prospects: The Labor Market Consequences of Freelancing in the New Economy." Social Forces 99(3):895–920. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa043
  • Honorable Mention: Blanc, Eric. 2021. "How Digitized Strategy Impacts Movement Outcomes: Social Media, Mobilizing, and Organizing in the 2018 Teachers’ Strikes." Politics & Society 50(3):485–518. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292211039953

LLM and Critical Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award 
  • Co-winner: Blanc, Eric. 2021. "How Digitized Strategy Impacts Movement Outcomes: Social Media, Mobilizing, and Organizing in the 2018 Teachers’ Strikes." Politics & Society 50(3):485–518. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292211039953
  • Co-winner: Trongone, Sara Gia. "A New Collective Bargain? A Multi-Case Comparison of U.S. Labor Union Strategy” (unpublished manuscript)

Dan Clawson Activist-Scholar Award (this was the inaugural year)
  • Co-winner: Nancy Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M University
  • Co-winner: Carolina Bank-Muñoz, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Past Winners
​For Association Awards, you can find more information about each one below.