OOW Council has decided to add an OOW Referendum for your consideration on the Spring ASA ballot.  You may vote Yes or No.

If passed, the Referendum would change our existing practice of selecting our Student Council member.  We currently appoint the Thompson best paper awardee to the position of Student Council member.  Those members have served us well.  However, this practice precludes us from recruiting and selecting from some of the other very active and able students interested in serving the Section.   If passed, the Referendum would change the practice to electing one of two Students running for this position.  As another policy matter, the Council will set up – on a trial basis – a larger Student Affairs committee to help lead the Section’s efforts of serving the graduate student community, student involvement in Section activities, and increasing student recruitment.

2014 New Year and Renewed Memberships:  Please renew your membership in the ASA and the OOW Section:  http://www.asanet.org/members/joinasa.cfm

Vicki Smith’s Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, (Sage 2013) has been named one of Choice magazine’s “Outstanding Academic Titles” of 2013.

Congratulations, Vicki!

The submission site for the 2014 Annual Meeting has opened; the deadline is January 8, 2014:  http://www.asanet.org/am2014/am2014.cfm  The Call for Papers includes seven submission-based sessions from the OOW Section:

·         Getting a Job – 40 Years Later: Advances in Labor Markets and Networks Research (co-sponsored with Section on Economic Sociology). ·         Changes in Employment Relations and Their Consequences ·         Organizations and Social Inequality ·         Work and Family: New Challenges, New Directions ·         Work and Occupations Inside Organizations ·         Work, Careers, Organizations, and Labor Markets in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Fields ·         Roundtables

The OOW Section encourages nominations and self-nominations for our leadership positions: Chair Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, and Council.  By December 9, please forward names to the Chair of the Nominations Committee, Martin Ruef(Duke) at mr231@duke.edu.  The other committee members are Emily Barman, Erin Leahey, and Woody Powell. 

STANDING WORKING GROUP (SWG) 7
VISUALIZING INSTITUTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE
SUB-THEME FOR THE 30TH EGOS COLLOQUIUM IN ROTTERDAM, JULY 3-5, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS
 

Markus A. Höllerer, University of New South Wales, Australia
markus.hoellerer@unsw.edu.au

Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, USA
woodyp@stanford.edu

Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
tammar.zilber@mail.huji.ac.il

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See the Special Issue in Work and Occupations on “Artistic Careers” in Work and Occupations, Nov. 2013.  http://wox.sagepub.com/content/40/4.toc and the podcast interview of special-issue contributor Kristin Thomson, Co-Director of the Future of Music Coalition’s “Artist Revenue Streams project”:   http://wox.sagepub.com/site/misc/Index/Podcasts.xhtml

Three conferences:

1. Call for Papers: 16th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference

2. INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGISTS (INAS) CONFERENCE, June 6 and 7, 2014 in Mannheim.

3. 2014 Junior Theorists Symposium, Berkeley, CA 15 August 2014.  Submission Deadline: 15 February 2014

More details below.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Section on Organizations, Occupation, and Work at ASA, San Francisco 2014.  http://www.asanet.org/meetings/Call_for_Papers.cfm  Online Paper Submission System will open on December 6, 2013. The deadline for submission is January 8, 2014 at 3:00pm EST

OOW membership now exceeds 1,000 –  we earned additional session at ASA 2014!

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Presidential Doctoral Research Fellowship in Sociology

State Policy, Migration & Gender

Utah State University

The Sociology graduate program at Utah State University seeks applicants for a Presidential Doctoral Research Fellowship who have research interests in state policy, migration and gender. The Presidential Fellow will receive an annual stipend of $20,000 for four years. We are soliciting applications from those with a master’s in sociology or a related field or those with a bachelor’s degree who are committed to pursuit of a PhD. Additional qualifications include GRE scores above the 70^th percentile and a cumulative GPA above 3.5. The Presidential Fellow will work closely with sociology faculty on one of several on-going research projects related to policy, migration and gender. To learn more about these projects, go to http://sociology.usu.edu/presidentialfellow.aspx.  Information about the Sociology graduate program is available at http://sociology.usu.edu/socgrad.aspx.

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