Please join us on Friday, August 7 from 8:00am to 10:00am at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC for a Professional Development Workshop: Being There/Being Them: The Intersection of Organizational and Occupational Ethnography. Our panelists include: Steve Barley (Stanford University); Lisa Cohen (McGill University); Emily Heaphy (Boston University); and Gerardo Okhuysen (UC Irvine).
Call for Applications: Early Career Work and Family Fellowships
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for 2016 Early Career Work and Family Fellowships. The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes, as well as connect them to the WFRN community. Fifteen scholars will be selected for the program. Fellows receive a one year membership in the WFRN, conference registration, and $500 to help defer expenses to attend the 2016 WFRN Conference (to be held June 23-25 in Washington DC). At the conference, special events will be targeted to serve interests of fellows, including networking opportunities with senior scholars and teaching/research workshops. In addition, fellows will be connected with one another in periodic encounters beyond the conference, intended to facilitate collaboration and peer-mentorship. To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorate in 2013 or later and have yet to progress into tenured or secure senior level positions. Eligibility is not restricted on the basis of national location. Information about the program and application materials can be found at https://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/content/early-career-fellowship-program. The deadline for receipt of applications is September 15, 2015. Questions about the program can be addressed to the program director, Stephen Sweet at SSWEET@ITHACA.EDU.
Mini-symposium on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A mini-symposium was on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was recently published in Historical Materialism (Volume 23, Issue 1). The mini-symposium consisted of the following:
- Capital (It Fails Us Now): Introduction to a Mini-symposium on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Alberto Toscano
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty: ‘Wealth of Data, Poverty of Theory’ by Michel Husson
- Thomas Piketty and the Search for r by Michael Roberts
- A General Theory for Our Times: On Piketty by Geoff Mann
New Edited Volume: Advancing Women in Science
A new edited volume entitled Advancing Women in Science: An International Perspective has recently been released. The volume is edited by Willie Pearson, Jr., Lisa M. Frehill, and Connie L. McNeely
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OOW Section award recipients announced
Below are the OOW Section’s 2015 award recipients for outstanding scholarship in the areas of organizations, occupations, and/or work:
- Max Weber Award (for best book): Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel (both of University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules (Russell Sage Foundation).
- An honorable mention was awarded to Nancy DiTomaso (Rutgers University), for The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism(also Russell Sage Foundation).
- W. Richard Scott Award (for best article): Andras Tilcsik (University of Toronto), “Imprint-Environment Fit and Performance: How Organizational Munificence at Time-of-Hire Affects Subsequent Job Performance,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 2014, 59: 639-668.
- An honorable mention was awarded to Christina Mora (University of California, Berkeley), for “Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990,” American Sociological Review, 2014, 79: 183-210.
- James D. Thompson Award (for best paper by a graduate student): Brad R. Fulton (Duke University), “Bridging and Bonding: How Social Diversity Influences Organizational Performance.”
Announcement: OOW member, Nicole Marwell, accepts a new position
OOW member, Nicole Marwell, will join the University of Chicago as Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration beginning July 1st. Congratulations!
Call for Submissions: Research in the Sociology of Work
Research in the Sociology of Work has been a widely respected research annual since 1988.
Beginning in 2016, RSW will appear twice annually, the better to represent the best and most provocative sociological thinking being done on work, organizations, and the employment relationship. Submissions are invited for possible inclusion in RSW volume 28, no. 2 (Fall, 2016). All manuscripts will be subject to peer review, with timely feedback provided to authors. Articles can address any of a wide range of topics and themes, including but not limited to the following:
- Control and Resistance at Work
- Precarious employment
- “Dirty” Work
- Work and Family
- Knowledge Work
- “Diversity” Management
- Intersectionality at Work
- Work and Social Movements
- Gender, Work, and Neo-liberalism
- Work and the State
- Emotional labor and Service Work
- Sex work
- Professional work
- Immigrants at Work
- Globalization and Work
- New meanings of work
Articles intended for v. 28, no. 2 should be submitted no later than November 1, 2015. Queries and submissions should be sent to Steven Vallas at s.vallas@neu.edu
Funding Opportunity: National Service and Civic Engagement Research Competition (due July 16)
The Corporation for National and Community Service today released a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) of up to $800,000 for the 2015 National Service and Civic Engagement Research Competition.
The broad objectives of the competition are to:
- Promote research on national service, civic engagement, and volunteering among researchers and practitioners
- Broaden the evidence base for programs using national service and volunteering
- Increase the availability of innovative research methods used to study to national service and volunteering
The deadline for applications is July 16, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Successful applicants will receive awards of between $30,000 and $300,000 per year for 3 years. During the 2015 fiscal year, CNCS plans to award approximately $800,000 in awards to institutions of higher education.
Conferences: Upcoming Global STS Conference in Leuven
Don’t Forget the Global STS Conference in Leuven!
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The STS Roundtable invites you to join us on September 9 -11th during the Festival of Connections and the STS Global Conference. The European Learning Network on Workplace Innovation (EUWIN) is holding its third large scale event in Leuven (Belgium). We have public sessions, panel sessions, smaller and larger discussions, and we are even planning bus trips to some remarkable companies in Leuven. Remember, Leuven not only has one of the oldest (and most vibrant!) universities in the world, it is home to the largest (and best?) beer producing company of the world ANBEV (better known as Stella Artois). EUWIN would not be a truly learning experience if it did not learn from its previous conferences. Our Brussels event (2013) in the European Parliament was overbooked; some people at our London event (2013) at the Microsoft building could not find a chair to sit on; our regional event in Rouen (2014) was supposed to inform 60 persons, but 400 eager workplace innovators visited the event. So, we now welcome all of you. Our Belgian partner network, with Flanders Synergy and the University of Leuven, have major experience in making you feel welcome. They even organised two spin-off events to give you even more insight into what workplace innovation can do for you and make your trip to Belgium even more worthwhile. Look at the Festival of Connection!
Please click here and register for the event!
Another reminder, if you haven’t renewed your membership or desire to start a membership to STS Roundtable please click here. If you experience any problems with either page for registration please don’t hesitate to contact one of the stewards. We look forward to seeing you all in Leuven come September!
Bert Painter (President): gpainter@telus.net
Jose Martinez (Secretary): jmartinez@ufw.org
Joe Norton (Treasurer): docsnorton@bellsouth.net
Jean Fuller: jeanfuller@workdesign.ca
Pierre van Amelsvoort: pierrevanamelsvoort@ziggo.nl
Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor Position at the University of Toledo
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The University of Toledo invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Sociology at the assistant professor level to begin August 2015. We seek a candidate with expertise in urban sociology. The successful applicant will have an interdisciplinary vision in order to contribute to programs on campus, such as Urban Studies and the Urban Affairs Center. Applicants should demonstrate strong commitment to research, as well as teaching and service. The department offers a BA and MA in Sociology.
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Organizations, Occupations and Work 