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Subject: Precarious Work: Domination and Resistance in the US, China,
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Precarious Work: Domination and Resistance in the US, China, and the World

Friday 19 August 2016, Seattle, USA

Today precarious work presents perhaps the greatest global challenge
to worker well-being, and has become a major rallying point for worker
mobilization around the world. This conference focuses on analyzing
the growth of precarious employment and informal labor, its
consequences for workers and their families, the challenges it poses
to worker organizing and collective mobilization, and how workers and
other social actors are responding to precariousness. We seek to
understand the patterns of social and economic domination of labor
shaped by the state, capital, gender, class, age, ethnicity, skills,
and citizenship, and examine the manifestations of labor resistance
and acquiescence in their specific contexts.

The conference is initiated by the American Sociological Association
(ASA)’s Labor and Labor Movements Section, the International
Sociological Association (ISA)’s Research Committee on Labor Movements
(RC44), and the Chinese Sociological Association’s China Association
of Work and Labor (CAWL). It builds in part on an ongoing scholarly
exchange between the ASA Labor Section and the CAWL. The conference
program will focus on the United States and China, but will include a
range of global cases and perspectives. Interdisciplinary approaches
and innovative research methods are welcomed.

We invite original contributions from academics (including young
scholars, graduate students, post-docs, and early career researchers),
labor organizers, and other practitioners. Completed papers are
expected for the conference, and the selected papers will be
peer-reviewed for academic publications. Special issues may appear in:

    Critical Sociology

    Global Labour Journal

    International Journal of Comparative Sociology

    and an edited book series of Brill Publications

    The conference will take place on Friday 19 August 2016 (the day
before the ASA Annual Meeting), in a downtown Seattle location close
to the ASA site. It will run all day from 8:30am to 6:00pm. It is a
valuable opportunity for participants to present new research
projects, to find out about cutting edge scholarly work, and to
network with researchers at home and abroad.

    We encourage people to submit abstracts aimed at a number of
provisionally planned sessions:

    Planned panel session topics

    Precarious labor in the United States and Canada

    The organization of precarious work

    Resistance and mobilization in non-traditional workplaces and the
“gig economy”

    Informal worker organizing around the world

    State policy: Regulating or facilitating precarious work?

    Labor and broader sociopolitical mobilizations in a world of precarious
work

    Apart from the proposed session topics, we also encourage
participants to submit work that examines how precarious work is
supported, challenged, and complicated by other social categories,
processes, and lenses, such as:

    Cross-cutting themes

    Migration

    Gender, work, and social reproduction

    Identity in worker action

    New and old organizational forms

    Public policies to address precarious employment

    Race and ethnicity

    Y oung workers

    Global comparisons and contrasts

    Migrant labor, precarious work, and development in comparative
perspective: Lessons from China

    Countering precarious work: Labor activism, state policy, and
trade union reform in China

    Gender and sexuality in precarious work in China

    Global production networks and workers’ solidarity networks

The highlighted themes are in line with emergent and consequential
developments related to the organization and proliferation of
precarious work in the United States, China, and the world. Your
specific topics that fit the conference aims are also welcome.

Submission deadline

The deadline for abstract submission is 23:59 on 31 January 2016 (UTC
or Coordinated Universal Time, which is US Eastern Time + 5 or Beijing
Time - 8). Please write in English. Send your maximum 250-word
abstract (including title of session to which you would like to submit
it), full name, institution, and email contact to Brittney Lee at
blee at irle.ucla.edu

Results will be notified by email on 1 March 2016.

Paper submission

Each presenter should submit a maximum 9,000-word full paper,
including notes and references, by 15 July 2016.

Conference registration fee

No charge for conference registration.

Cosponsors

Initiators:
ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section
China Association of Work and Labor
International Sociological Association Research Committee on Labor
Movements (RC44)

Other sponsors

ASA Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section ASA
Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section ASA Political Economy of
the World System Section ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and
Mobility Critical Sociology Journal

Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington
Puffin Foundation
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Planning Committee Members

Jon Agnone, University of Washington
Jenny Chan, University of Oxford
Wilma Dunaway, Virginia Tech
David Fasenfest, Wayne State University
Elizabeth Ford, Seattle University
Andrew Hedden, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Jasmine
Kerrissey, UMass Amherst

Chun-Yi Lee, University of Nottingham
Manjusha Nair, National University of Singapore Amanda Pullum, Duke
University
Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University
Jennie Romich, University of Washington
Jeffrey Rothstein, Grand Valley State University Brian Serafini,
University of Washington
David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine
Chris Tilly, UCLA
Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, University of Washington Lu Zhang, Temple
University

For further information:
http://irle.ucla.edu/events/PrecariousWork.php or contact Chris Tilly,
tilly at ucla.edu 2
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