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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1. Exploring Links between the Law and the Workplace

Description: This session seeks papers that address ways in which the law impacts work organizations.  Papers might consider the following legal areas:  civil rights, safety, and employment (e.g., minimum wage laws, laws regulating work hours).  Papers can address topics such as, but not limited to, the way laws shape employer behavior, the impact courts have on employment practices, the manner by which employers respond to legal regulation, and the implication laws have for workers’ experiences.

Session Organizer Name: Julie Kmec

Session Organizer Affiliation: Washington State University

Session Organizer Email Address: jkmec@wsu.edu

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Please share nominations (including self-nominations) with Heather Haveman (haveman@berkeley.edu), who is chairing the nominations committee. Other members are Catherine Turco (MIT) and Vernon Woodely (Eastern Illinois).

As we noted on our Facebook page two weeks ago, we are rolling out some big changes to oowsection.org. The site was originally started with two goals – to serve as a homepage for the American Sociological Assocation’s Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section and as a public sociology blog dedicated to the Section’s areas of interest.

As we have grown over the past year, it has become apparent to us that we needed to better delineate between our two goals. To that end, we are spinning off the blog functions to a separate but related site named Work in Progress. If you follow us here because of our blog, please head over to the new site and join us there!

Beginning this week, this site (oowsection.org) will be rededicated towards our first goal – as a home for members of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the ASA. We will be posting information that may be of interest to our membership, including notes about conferences, calls of papers, jobs, and other announcements. If you are a member of our section, please continue to follow us here as well. If you are not a member, check out our membership page and consider joining!

Over the next few days and weeks, we will continue to make design and content changes to the site. We will also begin posting announcements for our members. Again, if you wish to continue to follow the blog, please visit Work in Progress at workinprogress.oowsection.org. We appreciate your readership and your patience during our transition.

– The OOW / Work in Progress Blog Team