Deborah A. Harris and Patti Giuffre. Forthcoming (2015). Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen. New York: Rutgers University Press.
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A Special Themed Section on Marxist Studies of Organization has now been published in Organization Studies.
When Organization Studies Turns to Societal Problems: The Contribution of Marxist Grand Theory
Matt Vidal, Paul Adler, and Rick Delbridge
Organizational Learning: Bringing the Forces of Production Back In
Jonas A. Ingvaldsen
Community and Innovation: From Tönnies to Marx
Paul S. Adler
Free Labour, Social Media, Management: Challenging Marxist Organization Studies
Armin Beverungen, Steffen Böhm, and Chris Land
Giuliano Maielli
Do-It-Yourself Democracy: The Rise of the Public Engagement Industry
Caroline W. Lee
In Do-It-Yourself Democracy, sociologist Caroline W. Lee examines how participatory innovations have reshaped American civic life over the past two decades. Lee looks at the public engagement industry that emerged to serve government, corporate, and nonprofit clients seeking to gain a handle on the increasingly noisy demands of their constituents and stakeholders. New technologies and deliberative practices have democratized the ways in which organizations operate, but Lee argues that they have also been marketed and sold as tools to facilitate cost-cutting, profitability, and other management goals – and that public deliberation has burdened everyday people with new responsibilities without delivering on its promises of empowerment.
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Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation (2015, NYU Press)
Edited by Caroline W. Lee, Michael McQuarrie, and Edward T. Walker
Foreword by Craig Calhoun
Contributors: Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Emily Cummins, Ernesto Ganuza, Nina Eliasoph, J. Matthew Judge, Daniel Kreiss, Caroline Lee, Isaac Martin, Michael McQuarrie, David Meyer, Aaron Panofsky, Francesca Polletta, Amanda Pullum, David Schielfer, Steven Vallas, Edward Walker
Opportunities to “have your say,” “get involved,” and “join the conversation” are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive policymaking context, we now hold the keys to large-scale democratic revitalization. Democratizing Inequalities shows that the equation may not be so simple. Modern societies face a variety of structural problems that limit potentials for true democratization, as well as vast inequalities in political action and voice that are not easily resolved by participatory solutions. Popular participation may even reinforce elite power in unexpected ways. Resisting an oversimplified account of participation as empowerment, this collection of essays brings together a diverse range of leading scholars to reveal surprising insights into how dilemmas of the new public participation play out in politics and organizations. Through investigations including fights over the authenticity of business-sponsored public participation, the surge of the Tea Party, the role of corporations in electoral campaigns, and participatory budgeting practices in Brazil, Democratizing Inequalities seeks to refresh our understanding of public participation and trace the reshaping of authority in today’s political environment.
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The OOW section has seven sessions this year.
1-3. Three open submission, open-topic sessions, organized by Heather Haveman and Phyllis Moen:
The Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section welcomes submissions on any topic relevant to the section’s mission, from very micro (individual worker) to very macro (interorganizational fields). The organizers, Phyllis Moen and Heather Haveman, will sift through the submissions and create three coherent sessions.
Dear Section Members,
We are writing because we have learned that a significant number of members in this section also are members of the social psychology section. Effective August 1, 2014, we became the new coeditors of Social Psychology Quarterly. In an effort to expand the breadth of the journal, we are reaching out to you to encourage you to consider submitting your work to SPQ. We would like to attract more contributions to the journal from a broad base of researchers who use social psychological approaches. We think that for many in this section, this would include your work.
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Dear Colleague,
With the beginning of the new academic year, I would like to kindly draw your attention to the Economic Sociology and Political Economy online academic community.
The ES/PE community’s goal is to disseminate the insights of socio-political research of the economy to the public and academics; and to serve as a platform on which our members (already more than 23,000 researchers, students, practitioners and activists from 90 countries) share relevant information, exchange ideas and create collaborations (generating about 50,000 monthly website visits)
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Hi everyone – we are working on a new delivery system for our section announcements. This will involve a few test posts over the next day or so. Sorry for cluttering your inbox – we’re looking forward to rolling out the new listserve system. Thanks for your patience!
From Andrew Jorgenson:
We are pleased to announce that the new journal Sociology of Development (published by University of California Press) is ready for manuscript submissions! The journal webpage, which includes manuscript preparation information, is here. The manuscript submission webpage is here.
Sociology of Development is a new venue for scholarly work that addresses issues of development, broadly considered. Areas of interest include economic development and well-being, gender, health, inequality, poverty, environment and sustainability, political economy, conflict, and social movements, to mention only a few. Basic as well as policy-oriented research is welcome. The journal further recognizes the interdisciplinary scope of development studies and encourages submissions from related fields, including (but not limited to) political science, economics, geography, anthropology, and health sciences. A foundational principle of this journal is the promotion and encouragement of intellectual diversity within the study of development. As such, the journal encourages submissions from all scholars of development sociology, regardless of theoretical orientation, methodological preference, region of investigation, or historical period of study.
Best wishes,
Andrew Jorgenson and Jeffrey Kentor, Co-Editors
Organizations, Occupations and Work 