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.
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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
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:
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.
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.
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.
We are pleased to announce that the 11th edition of the Ethnography Workshop will be hosted by ESADE Business School, on May 6 and 7, 2024, in Barcelona, Spain.
This workshop, created in 2013, is designed as a convivial space where you can share the peripeties of your ethnographic journey and think both through and beyond your observation with an interdisciplinary group of scholars (e.g., Management, Sociology, Anthropology, Entrepreneurship).
The workshop aims to foster a space for experimentation, play, and critique to engage ethnographically on a wide variety of topics. Discussing empirics, reflexive matters, issues of engagement and relationships with the field, are central to our conversations.
Participation is free of charge, and refreshments and meals are provided but participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses. Three emlyon Ethnography Institute grants of 500 euros are available to support participants with limited funding.
More info here: https://oce.em-lyon.com/2023/06/19/ethnoworkshop/
Due: Tuesday, January 9, 2024, 23:59:59 CET [Central European Time]
In this sub-theme we take an eco-systems approach to studying shifting state-organization-profession-user (inter)dependencies and their consequences on policy, organization and practice levels. We seek to contribute to the reinvention of professionalism as an increasingly political and economic endeavour, discussing (amongst others) the micro-political practices of priority setting, data-driven surveillance and modelling, economic rationing and repair work, as well as the (conflicting) valuations and accountability regimes these involve. At the same time, we acknowledge that the micro-political dynamics of organising professional work are both constitutive of and framed by wider institutional, ideological and macro-political rationalities.
We invite contributions that address the following themes and questions, but we are also interested in related contributions exploring a new politics of professionalism under pressure:
Further information: https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1662944489704&subtheme_id=1669874219503
Short papers should focus on the main ideas of the paper, this means, they should explain the purpose of the paper, theoretical background, the research gap that is addressed, the approach taken, the methods of analysis (in empirical papers), main findings, and contributions. In addition, it is useful to indicate clearly how the paper links with the sub-theme and the overall theme of the Colloquium, although not all papers need to focus on the overall theme. Creativity, innovativeness, theoretical grounding, and critical thinking are typical characteristics of EGOS papers.
Your short paper should comprise 3,000 words (incl. references, appendices and other material). Please take note of the Guidelines and criteria for the submission of short papers at EGOS Colloquia.
See the attached call for contributions to the book Debating Workplace Democracy
Editor: Chris Mathieu, Department of Sociology, Lund University
christopher.mathieu@soc.lu.se
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (expected publication first half of 2025)
Book series: Palgrave Debates in Business and Management
https://link.springer.com/series/16112
Series editor: Anders Örtenblad
Call for submissions: SASE Network H: Markets, Firms and Institutions
2024 SASE conference in Limerick, 27-29 June 2024
Hard deadline: 19 January 2024
Network H focuses on the interrelationships between markets, firms, and institutions. We welcome a wide range of theoretical perspectives (e.g. political economy, economic sociology, management studies, neo-institutionalism, and comparative institutional analysis).
Welcome topics include but are not limited to: financial systems and financialization; markets and marketization; strategy, corporate governance, employment relations, and the labor process; varieties of capitalism and growth models/accumulation regimes; institutions and institutional change; internationalization and regional integration.
Network H will be organizing 2 virtual sessions in the week prior to the conference, for those who cannot be present in Limerick. No hybrid option is possible. There are limited virtual spots available, and this option is only meant for those who would not be able to attend the conference at all otherwise. These sessions will be included in the program, and those presenting virtually will be required to pay SASE membership (but not registration fees).
SASE accepts 2 types of submissions: abstracts and panels. There are three possible types of panels you can submit – a pre-formed panel with multiple paper presentations, a roundtable discussion panel, or a Book Salon (see here for some examples; these panels include a book author and 2-4 discussants).
To submit: https://sase.org/event/2024-limerick/#submissions
Network H: https://sase.org/network-h-markets-firms-and-institutions/
Melike Arslan melikearslan2020@u.northwestern.edu
Tristan Auvray tristan.auvray@univ-paris13.fr
Olivier Butzbach olivier.butzbach@gmail.com
Matt Vidal M.Vidal@lboro.ac.uk
