Category: Calls for Papers

Paper Development Workshop on the Experience of Illegality | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland | Apr 1–2, 2026 | Abstracts Due Dec 15, 2025

On By Neha JangetiIn Announcements, Calls for Abstracts, Calls for Papers, WorkshopsLeave a comment

PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (PDW)

The Experience of Illegality
Bodies, identities, moralities

April 1 & 2, 2026, Institute of Sociology, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Organizing committee
Loïc Pignolo, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Guillaume Dumont, Ethnographic Institute, Emlyon Business School, France.

Abstract submission
Please send an abstract of 300 words and a short biographical note to gdumont@em-lyon.com and loic.pignolo@unisg.ch by December 15, 2025. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15, 2026. Papers must be submitted by March 15, 2026.

There is no registration fee, and we will cover the lunch on both days and the dinner on the first day. Additionally, partial grants for travel and accommodation can be provided to a small number of participants with limited resources. Please indicate if you require financial support.

Participation in the workshop is open to all upon registration.
For any additional details please visit: https://www.guillaumedumont.eu/illegality-pdw

Purpose and format
This PDW aims to provide guidance to researchers from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, criminology, and organizational studies) at different stages of their careers, offering support in developing their papers. Invited discussants will help participants consider novel ways to utilize their data to craft a compelling narrative and to create a theoretical contribution based on these data in a collegial manner. The PDW will be structured as a two-day interactive workshop. Each author will be given 10 minutes to present the paper and 35 minutes for discussion. Two discussants will review each paper and provide developmental feedback to strengthen and improve the authors’ work. Furthermore, all authors must also commit to reading two selected papers before the workshop to provide additional feedback. 

We do not expect the papers to be polished and well-finished. Still, they should be sufficiently advanced to be reviewed by the discussants, build upon a strong empirical foundation, and demonstrate the potential to contribute to developing a broader understanding of the experience of illegality. Given the workshop’s aim, published papers will not be accepted.

Theme
Popular perceptions of illegality often stem from sensationalist portrayals in the media, movies, or TV shows. These accounts depict, at times, dangerous criminals, mafia-like and cartel organizations, and crime-ridden neighborhoods where simply visiting could lead to one’s demise. Likewise, they associate illegality with individuals who strive to stay under the radar, bending the rules for their own personal gain, disregarding laws, moral norms, or ethical considerations for themselves or others. Such accounts render illegality inherent to specific practices, activities, and individuals through their naturalization, for instance, due to personal traits, lifestyles, life trajectories, or the characteristics of a particular area. 

The ethnography of the daily experience of illegality, however, offers a very different picture, one that foregrounds the socio-cultural, as well as economic and political construction of illegality (Flores and Schachter 2018) and its multi-layered consequences for those subjected to these regimes. As migration studies demonstrated, illegality is “a form of juridical status, a sociopolitical condition, and a way of being-in-the-world” (Willen 2019:47). Illegality, in that sense, not only shapes the social world of individuals subjected to illegalization processes (e.g. Sigona 2012) but also has a profound impact on their inward parts. It is an eminently embodied, temporal, and subjective experience (Garza 2018; Gutiérrez-Cueli et al. 2024)—a construct that must be analyzed rather than reified or naturalized.

This call for papers takes as its structuring theme how illegality is experienced by people in the daily conduct of their lives. Specifically, we invite papers that focus on the intricacies between illegality and the bodies, identities, and moralities of those involved in illegal activities across illegal or legal markets. Methodologically, then, we expect contributors to employ ethnographic or, more broadly, qualitative research methods. This combination, we believe, is uniquely positioned to reveal the penetration of illegality in many aspects of the lives of workers, clients, consumers, or managers are subjected to it in ways that are most often invisible to external outsiders. We also expect these accounts of micro-level field dynamics to connect with broader, structural trends, as illegality, despite being experienced subjectively, is a socio-cultural, economic, and political construction with concrete implications. We further structure our inquiry into the experience of illegality around three main areas—bodies, identities, and moralities—to be explored either in relation to one another or independently, as well as across contexts: 

Bodies: We are interested in the embodiment of illegalization. Illegality, indeed, is not a mere label applied to people and, thus, external to them. Instead, it is profoundly embodied and enacted (Holmes 2023), as well as reacted to (Gonzales and Chavez 2012). Resultingly, we expect papers that address how illegality and illegalization shape the body, for instance, through imposing circumstances for life and work on people. Likewise, we are also interested in papers examining how the body can be played out and potentially instrumentalized due to this imposed condition, for instance, through specific bodily practices that derive from the illegalization or aim to avoid detection (Perrin 2018). Overall, we welcome proposals that address the embodiment of illegality in its various forms.

Identities: In a context where the legal is usually viewed as legitimate, illegality and illegalization carry consequences for individual and collective identities. Accordingly, we are interested in papers looking at questions such as how illegalization impacts self-representation across different spheres of life (e.g., work, leisure), how individuals gain respect and establish themselves through alternative means when navigating circumstances of illegality (Erickson, Hochstetler, and Copes 2019; Estrada and Hondagneu-Sotelo 2011), which coping mechanisms they develop to address illegalization, how the association of illegality with specific groups shapes the construction of collective identities, and how illegality nurture specific uncertain future that are imagined and enacted through these identities. 

Moralities: Illegality and illegalization are typically motivated and justified based on broader moral principles (Fassin 2012), over which governmental institutions have a monopoly and the power to enforce (Weber 1946). Given the multiplicity of moral orders (Boltanski and Thévenot 1991), we invite papers that examine how individuals and groups navigate the existence of multiple, coexisting moralities that may conflict due to illegality. We also expect papers examining how people contest the imposition of a broader moral order (Hübschle 2017; Paul Mmahi and Usman 2020), as well as how they negotiate among different moralities and express their discontent, for instance, through the emergence of advocacy groups contesting the banning of activities or reclaiming social justice (De Rond, 2025).

For any additional details please visit: https://www.guillaumedumont.eu/illegality-pdw

Announcement: Call for Papers and Sessions for the 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference

On By Neha JangetiIn Announcements, Calls for Papers, ConferencesLeave a comment

Call for Papers and Sessions for the 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference

Submissions are now open for the Work and Family Researchers Network 8th Biennial Conference, June 17-20, 2026, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. More than 400 scholars are anticipated to attend. The conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course. 

Submission deadline is October 1, 2025.
Upon request, submissions received by September 1, 2025, will be expedited to facilitate Canadian visa approval.

To submit your paper, poster, or session proposal, follow this link: https://wfrn26.mymeetingsavvy.net/. 

For more information on the 2026 conference and travel to Canada, visit the conference webpage: https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/

Call for Papers, Special Issue of ILR Review: Employee Ownership in the Contemporary Economy: Taking the High, Middle, or Low Road for Workers, Firms, and Society?

On By Neha JangetiIn Announcements, Calls for PapersLeave a comment

Call for Papers, Special Issue of ILR Review: Employee Ownership in the Contemporary Economy: Taking the High, Middle, or Low Road for Workers, Firms, and Society?

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2025

Special Issue Co-editors:
Edward J. Carberry (University of Massachusetts Boston), edward.carberry@umb.edu
Douglas Kruse (Rutgers University), dkruse@rutgers.edu
Andrew Pendleton (University of New South Wales), a.pendleton@unsw.edu.au

We invite submissions that deepen our understanding of the impacts of employee ownership on workers; job quality; management–labor relations; organizational structures and cultures; firm performance; and broader economic, social, and political outcomes. We welcome papers from all disciplines that use any methodological approach, focusing on any form of employee ownership within any context.

See the full Call for Papers here: http://shorturl.at/0Zjsn

Call for Submissions

On By JY LinIn Calls for Abstracts, Calls for PapersLeave a comment

2025 ASA Thematic Roundtable on Organizing Informal Workers (Development Section)

Katherine Maich and Chris Tilly are organizing a Thematic Roundtable on Organizing Informal Workers at ASA 2025, as one roundtable within Sociology of Development. Mobilizations of informal workers, those lacking the legal and social insurance protections of standard workers, have become increasingly important, especially as more of the world of work informalizes. What does this mean for the future of work overall? We welcome empirical and theoretical, qualitative and quantitative work from any region of the world. Contributions from PhD students and junior scholars are particularly welcome.

To submit a paper, please do both of the following: (1) submit a paper or extended abstract to the Sociology of Development Roundtables through the regular ASA portal ahead of the February 26 deadline; (2) at the same time, email the paper or abstract to Kate at kmaich@tamu.edu. For any questions, please contact kmaich@tamu.edu.

Special Issue Call for Papers OOW

On By Neha JangetiIn Announcements, Calls for PapersLeave a comment

Special Issue: The Precarity of Work and Life: How Insecurity Equalizes and Stratifies People’s Experiences

Submission deadline: Tuesday, September 2, 2025

In 2023, an opinion piece in the New York Times posed a question: “why does everyone feel so insecure?” As the article delineates, “insecurity” is frequently described as the defining characteristic of our contemporary lives. However, despite the wide use of this concept in public debates as well as in the social sciences, socio-economic insecurity — and, to a lesser extent, its close cousin, “precarity” — have been subjected to very little theoretical conceptualization and/or dedicated research that seeks to systematize and concretize insecurity as a field of study. Our special issue aims to resolve this absence, with a particular focus on how socio-economic insecurity relates to the maintenance, reconfiguration, or legitimation of inequality.

Insecurity sets up an important puzzle for the social sciences: on the one hand, insecurity is felt by “everybody,” as Astra Taylor suggests in the New York Times, or at least a large and growing portion of the population. On the other, insecurity and precarity are the products of an economy that is increasingly unequal. In order to solve this puzzle, sociologists need to further investigate how experiences of insecurity vary and the ways in which economic and cultural factors shape different varieties of insecurity. We ask: Is everyone really experiencing insecurity? How is insecurity related to people’s structural conditions?

In order to address this puzzle, we welcome articles that address all aspects of socio-economic insecurity that go beyond orthodox economic framings and that can lead to empirical advancements, as well as theoretical developments, in how we understand insecurity vis-à-vis inequality. We invite submissions that use diverse methodological approaches, e.g. that explore subjective experiences of insecurity through in-depth qualitative or ethnographic research, that investigate generalizable or cross-national trends through quantitative data-based analyses, or that engage with mixed methodologies. We are particularly interested in sociological studies that address the following aspects of insecurity:

Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:

·  Research on insecurity that moves beyond a limited conceptualization of insecurity and precarity as primarily related to employment to one that engages with the financial aspects of people’s instability, the relationship between employment and finances, as well as the unequal ways in how people negotiate socioeconomic uncertainty in their lives overall. What are the connections between work precarity and insecurity in livelihoods? How do the manifestations of insecurity differ nationally and globally in various spheres of individuals’ lives (e.g. housing, food consumption, debt and finance)? How is insecurity related to intersectional inequalities pertaining to class, gender, race/ethnicity and sexual identity?

·  Studies that employ an understanding of socio-economic insecurity that goes beyond a purely (macro)economic focus or the use of “objective” economic measures. We aim to deepen the focus on the subjective experiences of insecurity that are often linked to the decline in social status of previously secure social strata (e.g. the squeezed middle classes). What is the relationship between the objective and subjective insecurity experienced by individuals? What is the temporal construction of insecurity and how is present insecurity shaped by past experiences and projections/expectations of future conditions? How does insecurity contribute to redefining class positions and class boundaries? How do increases and decreases in insecurity influence social status threat or social status gains across the globe?

Guest Editors:
Dr. Lorenza Antonucci
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom

Dr. Elena Ayala-Hurtado
Princeton University
United States

CfP: Special Issue on Offshore Finance in Socio-Economic Review

On By JY LinIn Calls for PapersLeave a comment

Dear section members,

We’re pleased to share a Call for Papers for a special issue of Socio-Economic Review on the topic of offshore finance. The deadline for first submissions is May 15, 2025.

This special issue will be co-edited by Brooke Harrington (Dartmouth College), Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of Chicago), and Vanessa Ogle (Yale University). For more details about the call and submission guidelines, please visit: https://academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cfp-offshore-finance.

OOW

Call for Papers: Workshop “Bringing Politics Back to Work”; ECPR Joint Sessions, May 20-23, 2025, at Charles University, Prague

On By Neha JangetiIn Announcements, Calls for Abstracts, Calls for PapersLeave a comment

Call for Papers: Workshop “Bringing Politics Back to Work”
ECPR Joint Sessions, May 20-23, 2025, at Charles University, Prague

Workshop details and paper submission
Deadline for abstracts: November 21, 2024

The organization of work has undergone tremendous change in recent decades, yet we know little about how this has impacted the political outlook of the employed. We ask: How does the changing organization of work, how do well-being and social relations at the workplace, and how do job quality and job satisfaction impact political conflict in advanced democracies? Linking established literature in political economy and political science with that in the sociology of work and organization, this workshop aims to set an agenda for studying the political implications of what happens at the heart of the economy: at work.

An extensive literature in political economy shows that globalization, automatization and sectoral change have impacted labor markets and occupational class structure, what in return has reshaped political conflict in advanced democracies. This literature has left surprisingly untouched, however, the blackbox of what happens at work, i.e., inside enterprises or public organizations. Work organization, management practices, job quality, and well-being at work are, in return, subject to an extensive literature in sociology, psychology, and economics – which, however, rarely establishes connections with outcomes at the political level.

This missing link is surprising, as work is a site where people spend much of their awake time, experience intergroup contact and collaboration, authority, and conflict about entitlements. It is a site where we gain a sense of social status and recognition, of efficacy, security, and fairness –or, on the contrary, experience powerlessness, insecurity, and injustice. This has a formative impact on political outlooks, including on major phenomena of our time such as preferences for redistribution, political populism, or affective polarization.

“Bringing politics back to work”, we aim to shed light on mechanisms that link work and politics. We are looking forward to receiving paper proposals that contribute to the following questions by the deadline of 21st November 2024:

▪ 1: How do the organization of work, wellbeing at work, job quality, or contact/ conflict at the workplace inform individual political preferences in advanced democracies?

▪ 2: How does this relationship between work and politics vary by groups and context (countries, sectors, occupations, gender, age)?

▪ 3: How do political actors such as parties or unions address and politicize contemporary experiences at work?

▪ 4: How do social policies and welfare state arrangements influence these dynamics?

Organizers:
Paulus Wagner, European University Institute, paulus.wagner@eui.eu
Bruno Palier, Sciences Po Paris, bruno.palier@sciencespo.fr

Endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Political Economy and Welfare State Politics

Call for Papers: Journal of Professions and Organizations Special Issue- “Money professionals: How professionals in economics, finance, tax, and law gain and practice expertise and authority.”

On By Dilan ErenIn Calls for PapersLeave a comment

Economic power continues to transform our societies in new ways, and professional groups seek authority in the competition for control over ‘money’ in the form of credit, finance, investment, tax, and legal-economic relations. Economists, business lawyers, tax consultants, fund managers and finance managers may all be considered money professionals mobilising expertise and organisational resources to gain authority and influence distribution of resources. Their relationships underpin who is permitted access to money in the form of credit and debt (Simmel, 1978; Muldrew, 1998; Ingham, 2004). There are a range of researchers interested in these money professionals although they work in research streams and are often not aware of each other. There are researchers within economic sociology, the sociology of professions, sociology of expertise, sociology of law, sociology of money, sociology of the state—as well as researchers in political economy or public administration—that study professional groups working with ‘money’. These scholars may use quantitative or qualitative approaches of various sorts, different theoretical approaches, but have in common an interest in understanding how such money professionals operate, how they interact with or distinguish from other professional groups, what kind of authority they mobilise, or the ways in which they exert power in society.

With this JPO special issue, we wish to foster a dialogue across sub-fields, as well as across methodological and theoretical approaches, to get betters insight into the role and power of professionals or experts working with ‘money’, broadly conceived. We consider a variety of approaches to money professionals as a fruitful ground for questioning and developing theories of professions and organizations, especially given challenges like rising global and workplace inequalities (Ashley et al., 2023). By calling for contributions from researchers from such a diversity of backgrounds, we seek a better understanding of questions such as:

  • What are the sources of authority that allows money professionals to exert influence and control?
  • How do jurisdictional struggles play out among those working with money?
  • How do professional logics play out in internationalised or transnationalized areas such as finance, business law, wealth management or tax counselling? 
  • To what extent do we need to develop theories of professions to grasp the struggles over influence and privilege in these areas?
  • What is the role of national professional institutions and organizations in a globalised economy?
  • What can studies of professionals working with money teach us about the relationship between public and private sector, or between political and economic power?

Timeline

August 15 2024 – deadline for 250 word abstracts to be sent to Marte Mangset (marte.mangset@sosgeo.uio.no) and Len Seabrooke (lse.ioa@cbs.dk).

September 15 2024 —Mangset and Seabrooke will notify the authors who will be invited to submit full submissions.

March 15 2025 — deadline submission of full manuscripts.

See more information here.

CFP: Work and Occupations Special Issue

On By Julia DessauerIn Calls for PapersLeave a comment

Work and Occupations Special Issue: Working for Social Change

Guest Editors: Jonathan S. Coley, Oklahoma State University

Jessica L. Schachle-Gordon, Stephen F. Austin State University

An emerging body of literature on occupational activism sheds light on how some workers creatively enact their jobs in ways that promote (or resist) social change. Although labor sociologists have long taken workers seriously as agents of change (Cornfield, 2023), as when workers band together through labor unions or “alt-labor” organizations to seek higher pay and better working conditions, the broader concept of occupational activism draws our attention to how the way one performs one’s prescribed job responsibilities can contribute to social transformation.

Emerging scholarship has sought to identify pathways into occupational activism. A common finding is that, due to their prior participation in social movements, many workers carry oppositional consciousness into the workplace, select into socially conscious jobs, and perform their jobs in transformative ways. Scholars have shown, for example, how some environmental activists have taken on jobs as sustainability managers at colleges and universities (Augustine and King, 2022); how graduates of the Nashville civil rights movement entered into jobs as organizers, managers, expressive workers, and governance workers, and subsequently worked to promote the desegregationist values and nonviolence praxis associated with the civil rights movement (Coley et al., 2022; Cornfield et al., 2019); and how participants in teacher walkouts have gone on to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their classrooms (Coley and Schachle, 2023).

Scholarship has also identified various “modes” of occupational activism. Occupational activism can be directed at one’s own workplace, as when workers marginalized on the basis of gender identity take redressive action to counter discrimination and promote norms of nondiscrimination in the workplace (Hutchinson et al., 2024). However, occupational activism can also promote values that emanate out of the workplace and into the broader society, as when medical practitioners work to promote and diffuse nonstigmatizing, weight-inclusive healthcare practices (Gomez, 2024).

Because the literature on occupational activism is still in its infancy, there is still much more we need to know about the reasons for, constraints on, and outcomes of workers’ occupational activism. This special issue of Work and Occupations will feature theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous research on occupational activism in and around workplaces and occupational communities. We welcome the use of theoretical frameworks from a variety of sociological subfields, as well as quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches.

Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

– Pathways into occupational activism
– Characteristics of industries and workplaces that facilitate or stymie occupational activism
– Constraints on (or possibilities for) occupational activism based on workers’ race, class, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, nationality, etc.
– Constraints on (or possibilities for) occupational activism based on occupational role (worker, manager, etc.)
– Impact of broader political context on occupational activism
– Types or “modes” of occupational activism
– Analyses of the occupational role of organizer
– Outcomes of occupational activism
– Explanations for differential success of occupational activism
– Measurement of occupational activism

Interested contributors should take note of the following timeline and submission instructions:

– Paper proposal. Submit a proposal article title and extended abstract (up to 500 words) by e- mail to wox.special.issue@gmail.com by September 1, 2024.
– Abstract acceptance. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by September 15, 2024. Note that abstract acceptance does not constitute a guarantee of publication.

– Paper submission. Complete manuscript drafts are due by December 31, 2024.
– Peer review. The editors will send papers out for external review during the Spring 2025 semester. Contingent on reviews, authors will be given up to 3 months to revise their papers. – Publication. Articles will appear online first after acceptance and will subsequently be published in a special issue of 4-to-5 articles in late 2025 or early 2026.

Call for Papers: British Journal of Industrial Relations Special Issue—Technological Change, Power and Work

On By Dilan ErenIn Calls for Papers, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Aim and Scope

This British Journal of Industrial Relations Special Issue invites contributions that apply comparative perspectives on Technological Change, Power, and Work, with a focus on Europe and North America (specifically the USA and Canada). The Special Issue is based upon two workshop sessions organized by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven) and Chris Tilly (UCLA) at the ILERA/LERA World Congress26- 30 June 2024.

Research in sociology and political economy from socio-economic and socio-political traditions on industrial relations and work have broadly investigated the challenges posed by technological change in workplaces, sectors, and countries alike. These topics have been the subject of great interest within the tradition of labour, industrial, and employment relations studies, especially since the work of Braverman (1974). In contrast to the dominant functionalist view, which simplifies and limits the understanding of technical development by assuming that a society’s technology only advances based on its internal efficiency-driven logic (Dunlop, 1958), while also influencing the development of social structure and cultural values to make all industrial societies more similar (Kerr et al., 1973[1960]), studies in the tradition of labour process theories, industrial sociology, and political economy have widely acknowledged that ‘technology is not deterministic and neutral’ (Bélanger and Edwards, 2007: 717), and that industrial relations institutions can play a key role in mediating the effects of such technology. At the same time, these studies have appreciated that technology can ‘offer a more or less favourable ground for job autonomy, control over work, and power’ (Bélanger, 2006: 336) by demonstrating how patterns of management control, worker effort and workplace conflict are tied to the labour process (e.g., Burawoy, 1985), and how much of this control is exercised through the ‘technical and the human organization of work’ (Thompson, 1989: 19). In so doing, these studies have facilitated a deeper understanding of the workers’ experiences of autonomy and the alienating conditions of their work (Blauner, 1964). Such perspectives, therefore, have the potential to explain how the design and implementation of a given technology is likely to shape the balance of power, coercion and legitimation used by management to govern labour in a way that reflects the social context (and the nature of the employment relationship) in which technologies are embedded.

The role of technology is especially topical in our current time of digital transformation that is (re)shaping the traditional way work is organized, the employment relationship is governed, and labour is monitored within (and across) different workplaces, industries, and countries. These changes will doubtless produce new ways of working that in turn potentially reconfigure existing ‘occupations’ by fostering the emergence of new ‘digital talents’, the regulation and governance of which will be informed both by old and new ideas of power and work.

We invite contributions that explore both the theoretical and empirical aspects of different and emerging technologies that are currently transforming workplaces, including both traditional technological tools

like automation and new ones like digitalization, robotization and AI, with particular attention to the technologies affecting frontline workers. Our main focus is on understanding how these technologies are socially integrated within particular sectors and workplaces. We need to consider the power dynamics that drive how work is reorganized and assess their effects on labour, such as work intensification, industrial democracy, and workers’ autonomy and discretion in the workplace. Power is a central interest, and we welcome articles that explore the power of employers, forms of individual and collective resistance and influence by workers and trade unions to negotiate technological change, and interventions by states at both national and supra-national levels. We welcome articles that explore the opportunities and resources available for organised labour to mobilise in countering some of the more deleterious effects of technological change. We also welcome analyses that seek to understand the ways race, gender, immigration status and other demographic and identity attributes affect experiences of, and responses to, the use of these emerging technologies. Accordingly, the Special Issue invites contributions that limit attention to frontline workers in Europe, the USA, and Canada in order to facilitate comparison of these changes across jobs that are at least somewhat similar and economies with relatively similar levels of wealth but very distinct sets of institutions. To further facilitate comparison, we are specifically seeking theoretically driven, empirically rich and policy relevant articles.

We are especially interested in rich empirical contributions that carefully study the processes and dynamics underpinning the social embeddedness of new and old technologies within (and across) contemporary workplaces and sectors. This can involve examining the ideational perspectives and viewpoints. IR literature has widely illustrated how ideas can function as instruments to mobilize and garner public support for the less privileged individuals or groups without established institutional authority (Frege, 2005; Hauptmeier and Heery, 2014; Morgan and Hauptmeier, 2021). We are also interested in theoretical contributions that enable us to advance toward a coherent framework of how and when power dynamics around work matter for identified outcomes around technology at work.

Brief outline of process

Interested contributors will first submit a long abstract (max. 1,000 words, excluding references). The abstract should clearly outline the research question(s) or purpose of the proposed paper, as well as how the paper advances the study of technological change, power, and work in the field of employment and industrial relations. Include a brief description of the empirical analysis used and/or an illustration of the theoretical model to be developed. The deadline for submitting the long abstract is the end of July 2024.

Long abstracts should be sent via email to the Guest Editor (peter.turnbull@bristol.ac.uk). The Guest Editor will evaluate the abstracts and invite full papers from a subset of authors. The deadline for submission of full papers will be 28 February 2025. All full papers will undergo double-blind review. Based on the blind reviews and editors’ choice, a subset of invited papers will be selected for the Special Issue.

Abstracts are due by 31 July 2024.

Complete papers will be due by 28 February 2025.