Sociology journal call for papers: Sociology and the Global Economic Crisis

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Sociology
A journal of the British Sociological Association

Sociology and the Global Economic Crisis

Special Issue Call for Papers
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2013

Editorial Team:
Ana C. Dinerstein (University of Bath), Gregory Schwartz (University of Bath) and Graham Taylor (University of the West of England)

We hear it, see it, and read about it everywhere; yet, to what extent are we able to translate the quotidian reality of the global economic crisis into adequate forms of knowledge? Has the crisis highlighted important limits in our sociological imagination linked either to the subdivision of our discipline or, more fundamentally, questioned the contemporary relevance of sociology as a social science?

This Special Issue of Sociology, to be published in October 2014, invites contributions that will:

·         Explore how sociology can contribute to a better understanding of (the lived experience of) the global economic crisis; and/or
·         Reflect on how social processes and movements confronting the crisis can inspire a new sociological imagination.

And aims to bring together contributions that:
·         Bridge disciplines
·         Unsettle conventions
·         Cosmopolitanise epistemologies
·         Renew sociology

The Editors welcome contributions on relevant topics in any field of social science engaging with sociological research, from early career and established academics, and from those outside academia.

Queries: To discuss initial ideas or seek editorial advice, please contact the Special Issue Editors by email on sociology.specialissue.2014@gmail.com

Full Call for Papers can be viewed at

Management Theory Conference, September 2013, San Francisco

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The first Management Theory Conference will take place September 27-29, 2013 in San Francisco, California.

The mission of the conference is to facilitate, recognize, and reward the creation of new theories that advance our understanding of management and organizations. Submissions can be about any aspect of management and organizations, but submissions can only be new theory papers.

Submission deadline is Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 5:00 PM ET (New York time), due to popular request.

Awards to be given at the conference:

Wiley/Jossey-Bass Outstanding New Theory Award ($1,000).
Wiley/Jossey-Bass Outstanding Contribution to Management Theory Award ($1,500).

Keynote speakers include:

Roy Suddaby, editor, Academy of Management Review

For more information, and to submit a paper, please visit the Management Theory Conference website at http://events.trustevent.com/index.cfm?eid=1216

Sincerely,

Jeffrey Miles, Conference Chair
Management Theory Conference
Professor of Management
Eberhardt School of Business
University of the Pacific
Email: theoryconference@pacific.edu
Website: http://events.trustevent.com/index.cfm?eid=1216

Labor & Employment Relations Association Meeting Announcement and Call

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LERA (Labor & Employment Relations Association) 2014 Meeting in conjunction with ASSA/AEA
Jan. 3-5, 2014, Philadelphia, PA

“Growing Good Jobs and Connecting Workers to Them: Challenges and Opportunities for Theory and Action”

Eileen Appelbaum, LERA Program Chair and Past President; 
William Rodgers, LERA Program Co-Chair

Deadline: March 3, 2013

The LERA Program Committee has issued a call for symposia proposals and papers for stimulating, creative, and controversial symposia related to this theme as well as other proposals that deal with topics of current interest and the mission of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).

The LERA is filling slots for 27 academic symposia at the ASSA/AEA meetings in 2014, and the opportunities have never been better for academics and researchers. We especially encourage younger academics, or researchers engaged in applied research, or those who historically may not be represented at the ASSA/AEA meetings, to submit papers and proposals.

Submissions from the perspectives of multiple disciplines – including but not limited to economics, sociology, political science, labor and employment law, industrial relations, and human resource studies – and the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, including investors, managers, workers and unions, are encouraged.

Find complete information and submit a proposal or paper online at the LERA website:
http://leraweb.org/LERA-ASSA-call

Proposals must be submitted or reach the LERA Office no later than March 3, 2013. Contact LERAoffice@illinois.edu if you have any questions.

Program Committee:
Eileen Appelbaum, Chair, Center for Economic and Policy Research
William Rodgers, Co-Chair, Rutgers University
Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Sylvia Allegretto, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Berg, Michigan State University
Lonnie Golden, Penn State University-Abington
Elaine McCrate, University of Vermont
Jeannette Wicks-Lim, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Post-Doc Position of Interest to Work-Family Scholars

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The Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety & Health (CWFSSH) at Portland State University, under the direction of Dr. Leslie Hammer, is seeking a post-doc researcher for a one year appointment (March 2013-Feb 2014). This individual will work directly under Dr. Hammer but will also be part of the Work, Family & Health Network (WFHN), funded by the NIH and CDC. The WFHN designs, implements and evaluates randomized field experiments that involve workplace interventions to reduce work-family conflict and improve employee and family health. See http://www.pdx.edu/work-family-support/ and http://www.workfamilyhealthnetwork.org/ for more information on the project.   This individual will bear primary responsibility for data management and analysis, as well as writing results for grant-related papers, presentations and manuscripts.

Mini-Conference on Labor and Global Solidarity

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We would like to remind everyone about our exciting mini-conference in August and the upcoming deadline (Feb 15th) to submit abstracts.  Below is the full Call for Papers and description of the event. We’d really like to get a large number of submissions to make for a lively and engaging conference.

So please, submit your abstract today and please also share the announcement and submission request with your students, colleagues and wider networks.

Looking forward to seeing you all in NYC.

Best,

Steve McKay – smckay@ucsc.edu
Carolina Bank Munoz – carolinabm75@gmail.com
David Fasenfest – critical.sociology@gmail.com

CFP: Mini-Conference:
Labor and Global Solidarity – The US, China and Beyond
The Labor & Labor Movements Section of the ASA and the Society for the Study of Social Problems are pleased to announce a Mini-conference entitled Labor and Global Solidarity – The US, China and Beyond to be held concurrently with the ASA and SSSP meetings in New York City on Monday, August 12th, 2013.  The conference will be held at the Joseph A. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York (18th Floor, 25 West 43rd Street).
The conference is co-sponsored by: the Asia and Asian American Section of ASA; the Labor Studies Section of SSSP; the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at CUNY; the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education; the Manhattan College Labor Studies Program; Critical Sociology; the Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44) of the International Sociological Association; and the China Association of Work and Labor of the Chinese Sociological Association.
The one-day mini-conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to address the changing landscapes of work and labor organizing at multiple scales, from the local to the transnational.  Facing the global re-organization of production chains, the expansion of precarious work, hostile political climates, and the continued world-wide economic malaise, workers and their allies nonetheless continue to act, from escalating unrest across China, to new models of organizing in NYC, to greater cross-border solidarity, North-South and South-South.
To engage these developments and spark discussion, the conference will include panels on both local, global and transnational labor issues and organizing strategies.  We also seek a mix of activists and academics.  Finally, the mini-conference is an opportunity for international exchange as five labor scholars from China will be participating throughout the event and across the different panels.  Papers including the U.S. and China are especially welcome, but topics and evidence from all over the world are appropriate.
We invite submissions of abstracts (min. 300 words) or full papers on a broad range of topics related to local and global labor, but are particularly interested in submissions that address the following themes of the conference:

  • Labor in China
  • Insurgency and Institutions
  • Organizing (im)migrants – here, there and in the diaspora
  • South–South Solidarity
  • Transnational Labor Organizing – How & When does it Work
  • Informal work, informal worker organizing
  • Monitoring international supply chains from the shop floor(s)
  • Responses to global economic crisis

To submit an abstract or paper, please send it to the conference co-organizers:  Carolina Bank Munoz (carolinabm75@gmail.com), David Fasenfest (critical.sociology@gmail.com), and Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu).  Abstracts or papers are due February 15, 2013.  If submitting an abstract, full drafts of accepted papers are due June 30th, 2013.  Papers presented at the conference will also be considered for publication in a planned special issue of the journal Critical Sociology and/or in a separate edited book.  Conference participants will be responsible for covering their own travel and lodging expenses (though meals for participants on the program will be provided).  The conference will be free and open to the public.

Organization and Business Books Series: A Note from the Editor

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Dave Schulman writes: “I have accepted a position as editor of Transaction Publishers Organizations and Business book series. I plan to reinvigorate this book series by soliciting thoughtful and theoretically innovative manuscripts for consideration for publication. OOW members are clearly relevant to any publication efforts to advance organizational theory, and I would like to invite any interested members to consider the possibility of submitting book length manuscripts to the series. I welcome any inquiries.

My own background is in sociology. I am a Northwestern PhD from 1997 and I
work at Lafayette College. I write on deception in the workplace.”
Transaction Publishers, a major independent publisher of social science
books, seeks to expand offerings in its Organization and Business series.
The Organization and Business series seeks manuscripts that contribute in
creative ways to the scholarly study of organizations and business. The
series welcomes interdisciplinary work from across the social sciences and
humanities on a wide range of topics, including:

  • Business ethics and strategy
  • Leadership studies
  • Management and marketing theory
  • Occupational roles and stratification
  • Organizational behavior, culture, and theory
  • Social control in the workplace
  • Workplace change and innovation

Past books in the series can be viewed at the Transaction Publishers website. Please contact Professor David Shulman with any inquiries.

Please contact Professor David Shulman with any inquiries.

Work Within and Across Organizations

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The Structuring of Work within and across Organizations: Paper Development Workshop
Montreal, 6th and 7th July, 2013
Organizers: Diane Burton, Lisa Cohen, Michael Lounsbury
Sponsors: SSHRC, Desautels Faculty of Management, University of Alberta School of Business, Academy of Management OMT Division

Objective

The world of work is changing in many dramatic ways– globalization, economic meltdowns, technological development—with dramatic implications for societies, organizations, and individuals.  As organizations and organizing have become more complex and distributed, our theoretical tools and empirical evidence are not adequate to explain how and why organizations structure jobs and work in particular ways or the consequences that these structuring choices have for people and society.  To advance scholarship on these important issues, we are convening a paper development workshop immediately following the EGOS meeting in Montreal. We welcome both conceptual and empirical papers that examine aspects of the changing nature of jobs and work in organizations from multiple perspectives and multiple methodologies. We especially encourage submissions from advanced doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior (pre-tenure) scholars.

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Fall OOW Newsletter

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We’ve just posted the Fall OOW newsletter. This will be the last newsletter the section will be putting out this form. Beginning with the New Year, section announcements and certain articles that would have had a home in the newsletter will be featured here at oowsection.org. Other articles will be featured on the section’s blog – Work in Progress. We would like to take a moment to give huge “thank you” to Patti Giuffre, whose dedication to the section’s newsletter has been tremendous. Thanks, Patti!

PDF Version of Newsletter – OOW Work in Progress, Fall 2012

CCNY Job Posting

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Editor’s Note: The following ad is currently available online at the Chronicle of Higher Education and the ASA jobbank under id# 8931. It will also appear in the Nov. 30th print edition of the CHE.

Associate or Full Professor of Sociology

The Department of Sociology at The City College of New York (CCNY), City University of New York (CUNY) invites interested persons to apply for a full-time, tenured position for people currently at either the advanced Associate or Full Professor level to start at the beginning of the Fall 2013 semester. Substantive areas of interest are open, but preference will be given to candidates who specialize in areas that build upon the strengths of the department (see http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/socialsci/sociology/). The department has strong research and master’s and undergraduate programs. Successful candidates will be expected to exercise leadership in the department and programs, including a willingness to chair the department. Successful candidates, once hired, are also expected to fulfill the College’s requirements with regard to teaching, research, record of publications, and service to the institution.

Salaries are commensurate with experience.

Interested persons should send (mail) letters of application discussing their administrative experience, research and teaching interests, their Curriculum Vitae, names of three references with contact information, and two samples of written work to Prof. William Helmreich, Chair of the Search Committee, Dept. of Sociology, NAC 6/125, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10031. Inquiries should be sent to ccnysociologydept@gmail.com. The review of applications will begin Jan. 15, 2013 and continue until the position is filled.

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CFP: Mini-Conference: Labor and Global Solidarity – The US, China and Beyond

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Our colleagues from the Labor and Labor Movements section and SSSP are organizing a fascinating mini-conference in conjunction with ASA. Here’s the info:

The Labor & Labor Movements Section of the ASA and the Society for the Study of Social Problems are pleased to announce a Mini-conference entitled Labor and Global Solidarity – The US, China and Beyond  to be held concurrently with the ASA and SSSP meetings in New York City on Monday, August 12th, 2013.  The conference is co-sponsored by: the Asia and Asian American Section of ASA; the Labor Studies Section of SSSP; the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at CUNY; the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education; the Manhattan College Labor Studies Program; Critical Sociology; the Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44) of the International Sociological Association; and the China Association of Work and Labor of the Chinese Sociological Association.

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