OOW at ASA 2018

On April 25, 2018August 2, 2018 By Sarah MosseriIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia this August for the annual ASA meeting. Thank you to the Section Council, Committees and volunteers for your efforts in preparing an exciting program. This year, we have five section panels, and over twenty roundtables, scheduled for Saturday, August 11 and Sunday, August 12. There are 14 additional regular panels in Family and Work, Gender and Work, Jobs, Occupations and Professions, Labor Market, Labor/Labor Movements, Organizations and Work and the Workplace scheduled from Saturday, August 11 through Tuesday, August 14.

Also on Saturday, August 11, we invite you to attend the Section Business Meeting and announcement of Section awards in the morning. In the afternoon, we welcome you to attend the invited session on “Rethinking Organizational Power,” organized by OOW Chair, Elisabeth Clemons. Please also join us for our Reception from 6:30-8:10pm in the Pennsylvania Convention Center (Level 100, 103C).

Please see below for a list of Organization, Occupations and Work Panels.

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Call for Papers: Journal of Sociology special issue on inequalities in the gig economy

On March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 By Sarah MosseriIn Calls for Papers, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Special edition of the Journal of Sociology 2019 on inequalities in the gig economy era: gender and generation challenges edited by Brendan Churchill, Signe Ravn and Lyn Craig, University of Melbourne. The special edition will focus on the intersecting implications for gender and generational inequalities in the ‘gig economy’ era, a term which we use to describe the contemporary labour market characterised by precarious employment and new (digital) forms of job seeking and entrepreneurship that expose workers to greater financial risks, social insecurities and inequalities. It will also consider the gendered dimensions of educational participation outcomes in the light of these changed labour market conditions. Deadline for submission of a 300-word abstract for consideration: 8 April 2018. More details: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/e/gig-economy

Labor and Labor Movements ASA Panels of Interest

On December 26, 2017December 26, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Conferences, Philadelphia 2018, UncategorizedLeave a comment

OOW members are encouraged to submit to the following sections organized by the Labor and Labor Movements Section:

Race and labor and the 50^th anniversary of the Memphis Strike
In February 1968, 1,300 black Memphis sanitation workers struck for safer jobs, better pay, and union recognition, carrying signs that said “I am a man”. Rev. Martin Luther King visited Memphis repeatedly to support the strike, and on one of those visits, on April 4, 1968, he was assassinated. Despite vicious union-busting by the city government, the workers went on to win the strike.

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Job Posting: School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA)

On October 30, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Job Postings, UncategorizedLeave a comment

School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA)
Indiana University-Bloomington Campus
Full-Time, Open-Rank Lecturer or Clinical Faculty Position in Nonprofit Management

The School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, Bloomington campus, invites applications for a full-time, open-rank Lecturer or Clinical faculty position in the area of nonprofit management. Applicants with professional experience and the ability to teach in the areas of nonprofit management and leadership, nonprofit financial management and revenue planning, nonprofit marketing and communications, and/or social entrepreneurship are encouraged to apply. Applicants with experiences or interests in the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and its credential program are especially encouraged. Qualified candidates for either position will have an excellent academic record, including a graduate degree, professional experience in nonprofit management and/or social entrepreneurship, and a commitment to high quality teaching.

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EGOS 2018. The Impact of Organizational Practices on Career Outcomes

On September 22, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Conferences, UncategorizedLeave a comment

EGOS 2018 – Tallinn, Estonia
Subtheme 23: “The Impact of Organizational Practices on Career Outcomes”

We would like to bring to your attention the colloquium on “The Impact of Organizational Practices on Career Outcomes,” which we are convening as part of the European Group of Organization Studies’ (EGOS) 34^th annual conference in Tallinn, Estonia. The conference will take place on July 5-7, 2018.

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Marxist Section Membership – gift subscription to Monthly Review

On September 18, 2017September 18, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Announcements, UncategorizedLeave a comment

The Marxist Section of ASA is offering six-month gift subscriptions to Monthly Review for the next 14 people who sign up to become a Section Member before 30 September. Monthly Review is an independent socialist magazine covering economics, politics, inequality, race, gender and other issues from a global and Marxist perspective.

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New Book: Childress on the Historical Novel, Jarrettsville

On August 24, 2017August 24, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Congratulations to OOW member, Clayton Childress, for his recently published book with Princeton University Press. Details can be found below.

Book Description:
Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers. The subject is Jarrettsville, a historical novel by Cornelia Nixon, which was published in 2009 and based on an actual murder committed by an ancestor of Nixon’s in the postbellum South.

Clayton Childress takes you behind the scenes to examine how Jarrettsville was shepherded across three interdependent fields—authoring, publishing, and reading—and how it was transformed by its journey. Along the way, he covers all aspects of the life of a book, including the author’s creative process, the role of the literary agent, how editors decide which books to acquire, how publishers build lists and distinguish themselves from other publishers, how they sell a book to stores and publicize it, and how authors choose their next projects. Childress looks at how books get selected for the front tables in bookstores, why reviewers and readers can draw such different meanings from the same novel, and how book groups across the country make sense of a novel and what it means to them.

Drawing on original survey data, in-depth interviews, and groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork, Under the Cover reveals how decisions are made, inequalities are reproduced, and novels are built to travel in the creation, production, and consumption of culture.

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Call for Abstracts: Price, value and worth: Conceptualizing social practices of (e)valuation.

On August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Call for abstracts for panel entitled “Price, value and worth: Conceptualizing social practices of (e)valuation” at the International Sociological Association’s World Congress next summer in Toronto, Canada, 15-21 July 2018. This will be one of 13 sessions organized by Research Committee 35 Conceptual and Terminological Analysis, and one of 23 sessions organized by the Economy & Society research committee (RC02). Although the conference is next summer, the deadline for submitting abstracts is fast approaching: September 30, 2017, 24:00 GMT.

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Labor market and Economic perspectives on large-scale Migration in Sociology (LEMS)

On August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Calls for Papers, Calls for Proposals, Conferences, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Dates and location:
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) of the University of Mannheim on Friday, November 17 and Saturday, November 18, 2017.[1]

Theme:
Labor market and economic sociologists take notice of each other less often than common concerns might suggest. This ignorance is particularly troubling amid the large-scale influx of immigrants and refugees into established economies over the past few years in particular and the past decade in general. Among these changes, issues of employment and emergent economic activities, which both fields focus on, gain in significance and salience. Labor market sociologists demonstrate that unregulated labor markets are neither free nor fair, diminishing hopes for quick integration. A focus on the distribution of relevant worker characteristics over a range of social dimensions such as class, gender, and ethnicity allows labor market sociologists to develop more constructive views of labor market mechanisms. Economic sociologists scrutinize dynamics around the establishment of larger social objects such as industries and “informal economies”, some of which are dominated by immigrant ethnic groups. In more specific settings, economic sociologists have found evidence that ethnic diversity—an obvious consequence of migration—increases the resilience of common market mechanisms. The conference seeks to foster a dialogue between the two views in order to develop conceptual, analytical, and empirical strategies that help us study and understand the forces undergirding the recent developments and their consequences.

Submission:
Name, title, and abstract (250 words)
Deadline: September 10, 2017 (LEMS2017@mzes.uni-mannheim.de)
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Organizations, Occupations and Work

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