SSSP Labor Studies Business Meeting Minutes
7/7/22 via Zoom

Attendance
Todd Vachon (chair), Emily Yen (Vice Chair), Louis Esparza, Salvador Rangel, Sue Sherifali, Aizham Shom, Noreen Sugrue, Tracy Vargas, Jackie Zalewski

Agenda 
Call to Order at 1:05pm EST
Welcome from Division Chair
Introductions
Reminder to Submit Summer Newsletter Items 
Remarks from SSSP President, Noreen Sugrue
	-Op-Ed Writing Workshops
	-Sociologists in the Public Square
Discussion of Session Ideas for 2023 conference 
       -see below for list of ideas
Adjourned at 1:55pm EST

Session Ideas for 2023 Conference
Session Name
Co-Sponsor (or solo)
Organizer(s)
 Contingent Work Issues
maybe institutional ethnography 
Jackie Zalewski + Seth Khan, other?
 Youth and Work
maybe youth/aging division
Aizham Shom
 Low Wage Labor and Corporate Responses 
maybe poverty/class/inequality and/or law & society 
Tracy Vargas
 Labor and Covid
maybe health division
Noreen Sugrue
 Exodus from Academic Work
maybe educational problems 
Salvador Rangel
 Challenges of Organizing in the “New Normal”
maybe community research and development 
Sue Sherifali
A Practitioner Panel TBD 
SOLO
Emily Yen
 Labor in Global South
maybe global
Louis Esparza
 Gender and Work 
maybe Gender 
Tracy Vargas
 Employment and wellbeing/mental health
maybe mental health division
Aizham Shom

Other Ideas:
Digitization of labor markets
Roe v Wade and Work