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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OOW Program for 2013 Meetings – all open submission sessions

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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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Exciting Changes @ oowsection.org

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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