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From: Phoebe Moore <<a href="mailto:pvm.doc@gmail.com">pvm.doc@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: 16 November 2015 at 12:28<br>
Subject: Precarious Work: Domination and Resistance in the US, China,<br>
and the World<br>
To: <a href="mailto:CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES@jiscmail.ac.uk">CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES@jiscmail.ac.uk</a><br>
<br>
<br>
CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
Precarious Work: Domination and Resistance in the US, China, and the World<br>
<br>
Friday 19 August 2016, Seattle, USA<br>
<br>
Today precarious work presents perhaps the greatest global challenge<br>
to worker well-being, and has become a major rallying point for worker<br>
mobilization around the world. This conference focuses on analyzing<br>
the growth of precarious employment and informal labor, its<br>
consequences for workers and their families, the challenges it poses<br>
to worker organizing and collective mobilization, and how workers and<br>
other social actors are responding to precariousness. We seek to<br>
understand the patterns of social and economic domination of labor<br>
shaped by the state, capital, gender, class, age, ethnicity, skills,<br>
and citizenship, and examine the manifestations of labor resistance<br>
and acquiescence in their specific contexts.<br>
<br>
The conference is initiated by the American Sociological Association<br>
(ASA)’s Labor and Labor Movements Section, the International<br>
Sociological Association (ISA)’s Research Committee on Labor Movements<br>
(RC44), and the Chinese Sociological Association’s China Association<br>
of Work and Labor (CAWL). It builds in part on an ongoing scholarly<br>
exchange between the ASA Labor Section and the CAWL. The conference<br>
program will focus on the United States and China, but will include a<br>
range of global cases and perspectives. Interdisciplinary approaches<br>
and innovative research methods are welcomed.<br>
<br>
We invite original contributions from academics (including young<br>
scholars, graduate students, post-docs, and early career researchers),<br>
labor organizers, and other practitioners. Completed papers are<br>
expected for the conference, and the selected papers will be<br>
peer-reviewed for academic publications. Special issues may appear in:<br>
<br>
Critical Sociology<br>
<br>
Global Labour Journal<br>
<br>
International Journal of Comparative Sociology<br>
<br>
and an edited book series of Brill Publications<br>
<br>
The conference will take place on Friday 19 August 2016 (the day<br>
before the ASA Annual Meeting), in a downtown Seattle location close<br>
to the ASA site. It will run all day from 8:30am to 6:00pm. It is a<br>
valuable opportunity for participants to present new research<br>
projects, to find out about cutting edge scholarly work, and to<br>
network with researchers at home and abroad.<br>
<br>
We encourage people to submit abstracts aimed at a number of<br>
provisionally planned sessions:<br>
<br>
Planned panel session topics<br>
<br>
Precarious labor in the United States and Canada<br>
<br>
The organization of precarious work<br>
<br>
Resistance and mobilization in non-traditional workplaces and the<br>
“gig economy”<br>
<br>
Informal worker organizing around the world<br>
<br>
State policy: Regulating or facilitating precarious work?<br>
<br>
Labor and broader sociopolitical mobilizations in a world of precarious work<br>
<br>
Apart from the proposed session topics, we also encourage<br>
participants to submit work that examines how precarious work is<br>
supported, challenged, and complicated by other social categories,<br>
processes, and lenses, such as:<br>
<br>
Cross-cutting themes<br>
<br>
Migration<br>
<br>
Gender, work, and social reproduction<br>
<br>
Identity in worker action<br>
<br>
New and old organizational forms<br>
<br>
Public policies to address precarious employment<br>
<br>
Race and ethnicity<br>
<br>
Y oung workers<br>
<br>
Global comparisons and contrasts<br>
<br>
Migrant labor, precarious work, and development in comparative<br>
perspective: Lessons from China<br>
<br>
Countering precarious work: Labor activism, state policy, and<br>
trade union reform in China<br>
<br>
Gender and sexuality in precarious work in China<br>
<br>
Global production networks and workers’ solidarity networks<br>
<br>
The highlighted themes are in line with emergent and consequential<br>
developments related to the organization and proliferation of<br>
precarious work in the United States, China, and the world. Your<br>
specific topics that fit the conference aims are also welcome.<br>
<br>
Submission deadline<br>
<br>
The deadline for abstract submission is 23:59 on 31 January 2016 (UTC<br>
or Coordinated Universal Time, which is US Eastern Time + 5 or Beijing<br>
Time - 8). Please write in English. Send your maximum 250-word<br>
abstract (including title of session to which you would like to submit<br>
it), full name, institution, and email contact to Brittney Lee at<br>
<a href="mailto:blee@irle.ucla.edu">blee@irle.ucla.edu</a><br>
<br>
Results will be notified by email on 1 March 2016.<br>
<br>
Paper submission<br>
<br>
Each presenter should submit a maximum 9,000-word full paper,<br>
including notes and references, by 15 July 2016.<br>
<br>
Conference registration fee<br>
<br>
No charge for conference registration.<br>
<br>
Cosponsors<br>
<br>
Initiators:<br>
ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section<br>
China Association of Work and Labor<br>
International Sociological Association Research Committee on Labor<br>
Movements (RC44)<br>
<br>
Other sponsors<br>
<br>
ASA Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section ASA<br>
Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section ASA Political Economy of<br>
the World System Section ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and<br>
Mobility Critical Sociology Journal<br>
<br>
Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington<br>
Puffin Foundation<br>
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)<br>
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment<br>
<br>
Planning Committee Members<br>
<br>
Jon Agnone, University of Washington<br>
Jenny Chan, University of Oxford<br>
Wilma Dunaway, Virginia Tech<br>
David Fasenfest, Wayne State University<br>
Elizabeth Ford, Seattle University<br>
Andrew Hedden, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Jasmine<br>
Kerrissey, UMass Amherst<br>
<br>
Chun-Yi Lee, University of Nottingham<br>
Manjusha Nair, National University of Singapore Amanda Pullum, Duke University<br>
Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University<br>
Jennie Romich, University of Washington<br>
Jeffrey Rothstein, Grand Valley State University Brian Serafini,<br>
University of Washington<br>
David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine<br>
Chris Tilly, UCLA<br>
Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, University of Washington Lu Zhang, Temple University<br>
<br>
For further information:<br>
<a href="http://irle.ucla.edu/events/PrecariousWork.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://irle.ucla.edu/events/PrecariousWork.php</a> or contact Chris Tilly,<br>
<a href="mailto:tilly@ucla.edu">tilly@ucla.edu</a> 2<br>
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