Job Posting:TT Assistant Professor Position at Washington University in St. Louis

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The Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis strives to understand the origins and reproduction of social inequality. Our particular areas of focus include race/ethnicity, gender, the sociology of work and the workplace, immigration, social movements, and economic inequality. In keeping with this mission, we invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position from candidates with interests in social inequality broadly defined, including its various dimensions and consequences, mechanisms of reproduction and change, and political responses. As we work to develop a new Ph.D. program, we are especially interested in candidates whose research methods will contribute to a rigorous and methodologically diverse graduate curriculum.

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Job Posting: The School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University

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The School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University invites applications for an Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor with a specialization in sustainable food systems. We seek candidates from the social sciences with a focused line of research on food system development and evolution. Applicant’s background should bridge the nexus of food, community development, and sustainability, and ideally would have an analytical background in social-ecological systems. We are particularly interested in candidates studying food systems within a U.S. context that possess mixed-methods research skills or systems modeling ability.  We are also interested in candidates who work across disciplines with a record of interdisciplinary collaboration. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an extramurally-supported research program. Candidates may be appointed at the rank of assistant or associate professor. Appointment at the full professor level may be possible for a candidate with an exceptional research record in the specified areas of expertise. 

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Call for Nominations: The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Book Award

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SASE invites nominations for its inaugural Book Award for an outstanding scholarly book that breaks new ground in the study of economic behavior and/or its policy implications with regard to societal, institutional, historical, philosophical, psychological, and ethical factors. Eligible books must have a 2017 or 2018 first edition publication date and cannot be edited volumes. Authors are welcome to nominate their own work. To nominate a book, please send a hard copy to all three (3) committee members listed below by January 15, 2019.
Letters of nomination are not required from SASE members. Publishers and non-members who wish to submit a book for consideration must include a nomination letter that states how the book contributes to SASE’s intellectual mission. All books/submissions must be in English. Please direct any inquiries to Chair Mari Sako, sasebookaward@gmail.com.

Invited Essay: The Wage Gap Is Getting Worse, Now What?

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As part of our September newsletter, Sharla Alegria comments on the growth of the gender wage gap amidst changing employment structures.  Alegria is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced.  Her research investigates race, class and gender inequalities within contexts that disavow discrimination. 

Over the last few years, I have been forced to the realization that neither the gender pay gap, nor the race pay gap have improved since before I learned the meaning of the word pay. Not only did the gender pay gap nearly stop narrowing in the mid-1990s, even the modest improvement since then is from older workers, who had the largest gap, retiring (Campbell and Pearlman 2013). Meanwhile, the pay gap between all black and white men is now on par with 1950s levels (Bayer and Charles 2018).

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Message from the Chair

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By Emily Barman

Welcome to the new academic year; as the new semester either approaches or has already begun for many of you, ASA begins quickly to seem like a distant and hopefully fond memory.  Before too much time elapses, I want to take this opportunity to provide an overview of where our Section is and some of the decisions we likely face moving forward.

First, to quickly recap our time at the ASA, I want to thank you all for a series of exciting and energetic sessions at this year’s conference in Philadelphia, including those convened by the Program Committee (composed of myself, Tarun Banerjee, Erin Kelly, Ming Leung, Polly Rizova, Klaus Weber) and by the OOW Roundtable organizers (Eric Dahlin, Nicole Denier, and Ken-Hou Lin), and the Chair’s Choice session on “Revisiting Organizations and Power,” as well as the papers presented in other sessions by our members.    Continue reading “Message from the Chair” →

Job Posting: The Questrom School of Business at Boston University

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The Questrom School of Business at Boston University invites applications for a tenured Full or Associate Professor with a focus on people analytics and a deep emphasis on Human Resources topics.  Pending provost budgetary approval the anticipated start date for this faculty position is July 1, 2019 or January 1, 2020.

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Call for Papers: The Second Global Carework Summit

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The Second Global Carework Summit
June 9-11, 2019
Toronto, Ontario

The Carework Network is organizing a three-day conference to bring together carework researchers from across disciplines and across the globe.

The Carework Network is an international organization of scholars and advocates who focus on the caring work of individuals, families, communities, paid caregivers, social service agencies and state bureaucracies. Care needs are shifting globally with changing demographics, disability movements, and climate change driven environmental crises. Our mission is to address critical issues related to carework, such as how identities influence carework; how inequality structures carework; how caring work is recognized and compensated; how state policies influence the distribution of care; working conditions of care; and whether and to what extent citizens have a right to receive, and a right to provide, care. Scholars and advocates working on issues related to elder care, child care, health care, social work, education, political theory of care, social reproduction, work/family, disability studies, careworker health and safety, and related issues are encouraged to submit proposals.

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Job Posting:University of California, Berkeley — Haas School of Business

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Associate/Full Professor and Faculty Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact – Haas School of Business

The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a tenured faculty position in any field related to business & public policy, economic analysis & policy, finance, management of organizations, operations and information technology management, or real estate and urban economics, with an expected start date of July 1, 2019. The incumbent will serve a three to five year term (renewable) as the Faculty Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact in lieu of 50% of his/her teaching obligation for this duration.

Application submissions will be accepted through October 24, 2018.

For more information about the position including required qualifications and application materials and to apply, please visit: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF01843

If you have questions, please contact us at facultyrecruitment@haas.berkeley.edu. UC Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer.

Call for Papers: Consequences of Change in Healthcare for Organizations, Workers and Patients Mini-Conference

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Call for Papers: 

Consequences of Change in Healthcare for Organizations, Workers, and Patients 
A Mini-Conference and Avenue for Peer-Reviewed Publication

deadline extended to September 1st, 2018 

This call invites papers for a conference and subsequent special issue of Work & Occupations devoted to the consequences of change in healthcare for organizations, workers, and patients. Scholars interested in participating should submit a completed paper to the conference organizers and special issue co-editors Ariel C. Avgar (Cornell), Adrienne E. Eaton (Rutgers), Rebecca Givan (Rutgers), and Adam Seth Litwin (Cornell) by September 1st, 2018. Authors whose papers are accepted will be invited to a conference sponsored by the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University to be held in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on January 9-11, 2019.

Papers presented at this conference should be suitable for submission to external reviewers. Based on the organizers’ recommendations, discussions at the conference, and fit with the special issue, a subset of authors will be asked to submit their papers to Work & Occupations with the expectation that their papers will be published in the special issue once they pass the external review process. Papers that reviewers deem of good quality that are not selected for the special issue will be considered for publication in a regular issue of Work & Occupations.

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Job Posting: TT-Position in Strategic Management at the University of Toronto

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Assistant Professor – Strategic Management – 1803398 
Job Field: Tenure Stream
Faculty / Division: Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
Department: Rotman School of Management
Campus: St. George (downtown Toronto)
Job Posting: Aug 3, 2018
Job Closing: October 15, 2018, 11:59pm

Description
The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream appointment in the Strategic Management area. The Appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will commence on July 1, 2019.

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