Labor Studies Division Fall 2018 Newsletter Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley, Chair Melanie Borstad, Editor ELECTION The Division will be electing a new Chair to serve for the 2019-2021 term. Additionally, at the Division Meeting in August 2018, members agreed to try as an experiment establishing a Vice-Chair who would serve as a general assistant to the Chair and would be selected from among active members who are graduate or post-graduate students. Our attempt here is both to provide more support for the administration of the Division and to allow for the Division to participate in the mentoring of new members. Nominations are now open for these positions. Eligible nominees must be members of the Division and their names should be submitted or you should submit your name (self-nominations are always strongly encouraged) to Gillian ?Jill? Niebrugge-Brantley, the outgoing Chair, by December 31, 2018 (niebran@attglobal.net). Please feel free to write or call Jill (301-920-0723) if you might be interested in either position. OPPORTUNITIES The 2019 Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) national conference will be held˙Wednesday, June 12 and Thursday, June 13 at Case Western Reserve University.˙Scholars, labor practitioners, and activists from across the country will convene in Cleveland, Ohio to share new ideas, research and best practices, and to identify points of connection and collaboration. This conference is an opportunity to develop proactive strategies to create healthy and prosperous futures for all workers in the face of political, economic, and technological changes, and to learn about organizing and research in the Midwest, including active campaigns in Ohio. This year?s conference will examine˙The Future of Workers˙and LRAN invites participants from universities, unions, worker centers, and policy centers to submit proposals for on one or more of the following themes: ? new and revitalized approaches to organizing in a financialized economy and under a repressive labor law regime; ? the impact of technology on work and organizing; ? the intersection of work, workers, and climate change; ? organizing under authoritarian and/or white supremacist and fascist-like conditions; ? organizing and policy campaigns in the Midwest and those international in scope. This year?s LRAN conference is planned in coordination with the Labor Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting, to be held June 13-16 in Cleveland. This year?s LERA meeting is on the theme of technology and the new workforce. Proposals for papers, workshops, and/or posters are due Friday, March 15th Full conference flyer attached at the end of this newsletter Visit˙https://lranetwork.org/forums/topic/lran-2019-conference-call-for-proposals/ for more information PROGRAM FOR ANNUAL MEETING 2019 Please share word about our program and encourage submissions?reach out to students, colleagues, and people you would like to get know and see participate in SSSP and Labor Studies. Contact Jill Niebrugge-Brantley niebran@attglobal.net Division of Labor Studies SSSP Annual Meeting 2019 Program SESSION TITLE SESSION TYPE SPONSORSHIP ORGANIZER Illuminating Power Effects in Labor Relations Thematic Labor Studies Kyla Walters kylahays@gmail.com Eli Wilson eli.revelle.wilson@gmail.com The Future of Work in the Digital Age Regular Labor Studies Jacqueline M. Zalewski JZalewski@wcupa.edu Emily Coombes coombes@unlv.nevada.edu #MeToo in the Workplace Critical Dialogues Labor Studies Jenny Lendrum jenny.lendrum@gmail.com Tracy Lynn Vargas tlpeterc@syr.edu Organizing Labor Regular Labor Studies and Conflict, Social Action and Change Erin Evans evansem1@beloit.edu Disability and Labor Regular Labor Studies and Disability Alison Fisher (Alison_Fisher@edu.yorku.ca) Jen Brooks, Syracuse, jdbro100@syr.edu Doron Dorfman, Stanford, ddorfman@stanford.edu Labor in Families Regular Labor Studies and Family Jennifer Haskin jhaskin5@asu.edu Neoliberalism and Globalized Labor Critical Dialogue Labor Studies and Global Noreen Sugrue nsugrue@illinois.edu Green Jobs Regular Session Labor Studies and Environment and Technology Todd Vachon dj_mayday@hotmail.com Environment, Health and Labor Regular Session Labor Studies, Environment and Technology, and Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Erin Robinson (robinso5@canisius.edu) Changes in Workers? Rights Regular Session Labor Studies and Law and Society Melanie R. Borstad, mborsta@calstatela.edu Cassandra Engeman cassandra.engeman@sofi.su.se A PRODUCTIVE YEAR FOR LABOR STUDIES DIVISION MEMBERS In a time when capitalism all too frequently erodes scholarship with the demand for quantity over quality, Labor Studies Division members have been not only ?busy? but genuinely productive, doing studies and that speak to major labor issues of our time and making career changes that position them to do more and better work. Career Moves: Melanie Borstad is the new editor of The Labor Studies Division Newsletter. She is currently completing her Master?s thesis on technology and labor at California State University Los Angeles and is applying for PhD programs in Economic Sociology throughout the Midwest and Northeast. Valerie Adrian, the previous editor, has completed her Ph.D. and taken a new job: Policy, Performance, and Research Analyst, Clackamas County Community Corrections, Oregon City, Oregon. Todd E. Vachon completed his PhD at the University of Connecticut and has started a new job as a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University˙ Documentary Film: Two members of the Division?Jessica Cook and George Gonos have been working with film producer David Sarios whose new documentary A Day?s Work is a study of the temp industry. We are hoping to arrange a screening of this for the Annual Meeting. Public Sociology: Corey Doglon has had great success scheduling performances of his SSSP-grant sponsored Singing Lecture In Search of One Big Union; he has performed at or scheduled performances at: Grand Valley State University under the faculty sponsorship of Jeffrey Rothstein; John Jay College, faculty sponsor Louis Kontos; Ball State University, faculty sponsor Melinda Messineo; and Coastal Carolina University, faculty sponsor Deborah Perkins. An announcement about the Singing Lecture series is available on the Division website. If you would be interested in a program by Corey in the coming year, please let Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley know (niebran@attglobal.net) as we are considering re-applying for SSSP sponsorship and would be helped if we knew that there was a waiting audience for this performance. Todd Vachon wrote an editorial for the New Jersey Star Ledger: ?Workers, Unions Must Take the Lead on Climate Change.?˙Star Ledger, November 2. ˙https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/10/how_workers_unions_can_take_the_lead_on_climate_ch.html Publications?Articles and Chapters: Carolyn C. Perrucci, Purdue University, reports two journal articles and two chapter contributions: Robert Perrucci, Mangala Subramaniam, and Carolyn C. Perrucci, ?Who Publishes in Leading Sociology Journals, 1965-2010?? Pages 77-86 in Earl Wright II and Thomas C. Calhoun (eds.), What to Expect and How to Respond: Distress and Success in Academia. Rowman and Littlefield. Robert Perrucci, Carolyn C. Perrucci, and Mangala Subramaniam, ?From Little Science to Big Science: Were Women and Non-Elites Left Out?? Archives of Psychology, Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2017:41-45. Carolyn C. Perrucci and Robert Perrucci, ?New Economy,? in George Ritzer (ed.) Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, April 2018. John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, UK. Richard Hogan and Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, ?We Know about Reagan, but Was There a Clinton Effect? Earnings by Race, Gender, Marital and Family Status, 1993 and 2000.? Critical Sociology (Online First) First Published October 4, 2018. https://doi-org.exproxy.lib.purdue.edu/10.1177/0896920518798081 Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University, published an essay on the 2018 strike wave among public school teachers in Z˘calo Public Square, an online journal of news and ideas, on October 26. Todd E. Vachon had three journal articles and a book chapter: 2018. ?A Big Win in Smalltown: Demanding Dignity in an Era of˙Neoliberal Austerity.?˙Qualitative Sociology Review˙14:46-66. __________ and Michael Wallace. 2018. ?Red State, Blue State: Neoliberalism, Politics,˙and Public Sector Union Membership in the U.S. States.?˙Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society˙11:519-39. Hyde, Allen and Todd E. Vachon. 2018. ?Running with or against the Treadmill? Unions, Institutional Contexts, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Comparative Perspective.?˙Environmental Sociology˙ Vachon, Todd E. and Sean Sweeney. 2018. ?Energy Democracy: A Just Transition for Social,˙Economic, and Climate Justice.? Pp. 63-72 in Glen Muschert et al. (Eds)˙Agenda for Social˙Justice: Global Solutions.˙Bristol, UK: Policy Press. Publications?BOOKS Melanie Bush edited a collection of essays in honor of her late husband: Rod Bush: Lessons from a Radical Black Scholar on Liberation, Love, and Justice Belmont, MA: Ahead Publishing House. This anthology provides deep reflections on the question of how one can live radical principles in contemporary times. What does it mean to be human? How does one embed love and justice in one?s worldview and daily practice? Rod Bush, partner, colleague, teacher, mentor, comrade, and friend, was well known as an activist scholar who incorporated his values into his teaching, mentorship and everyday interactions. Therefore, his theoretical interests and practical involvements in movements are intimately linked and simultaneous. This volume is ideal for a wide range of courses and community settings. Contributors include: Robin D. G. Kelley (Foreword),˙Angelo Taiwo Bush,˙Chriss Sneed,˙Daniel Douglas,˙Godfrey Vincent, Matthew Birkhold,˙Loretta Chin,˙Latoya A. Lee, Tatiana Chichester, A. Kia Sinclair,˙Moj£b…ol£ Oluf£nk‚ Okome,˙Natalie P. Byfield, Komozi Woodard, Bob Barber, Rodney D. Coates, Charles ?Cappy? Pinderhughes, Jr., James V. Fenelon, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerome Scott,˙Rose M. Brewer, Robert Newby, Roderick D. Bush, and Melanie E. L. Bush. The anthology is a volume (XII, 2019) in the Edited Collection Series of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, edited by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi. Jacqueline M. Zalewski published her study Working Lives and in-House Outsourcing: Chewed Up By Two Masters New York NY: Routledge. This book offers a sociological account of the process by which companies instituted and continue to institute outsourcing in their organization. Drawing on qualitative data, it examines the ways in which inte rnal outsourcing in the information technologies and human resources professions negatively affects workers, their work conditions, and working relationships. With attention to the deleterious influence of outsourcing on relationships and the strong tendency of market organisations to produce social conflict in interactions ? itself a considerable ?transaction cost? ? the author challenges both the ideology that markets, rather than hierarchies, produce more efficient and less costly economic outcomes for companies, and the idea that outsourcing generates benefits for professional workers in the form of greater opportunity. A demonstration of the social conflict created between employees working for two separate, proprietary companies, Working Lives and in-House Outsourcing will be of interest to scholars with interests in the sociology of work and organizations and the sociology of professions, as well as those working in the fields of business management and human resources. The publisher has offered a 20% discount code, which Jackie will be happy to share upon request. Contact Jackie Zalewski at JZalewski@wcupa.edu. PLEASE SEND US YOUR UPDATES FOR THE NEXT NEWSLETTER WE LOVE RECOGNIZING OUR MEMBER?S ACHIEVEMENTS!! Visit us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/sssplaborstudies/ And on Twitter @SSSPLaborStudies LRAN 2019 Conference Call for Papers June 12, 2019 @ 8:00 am - June 13, 2019 @ 5:00 pm EDT The 2019 Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) national conference will be held˙Wednesday, June 12 and Thursday, June 13 at Case Western Reserve University.˙Scholars, labor practitioners, and activists from across the country will convene in Cleveland, Ohio to share new ideas, research and best practices, and to identify points of connection and collaboration. This conference is an opportunity to develop proactive strategies to create healthy and prosperous futures for all workers in the face of political, economic, and technological changes, and to learn about organizing and research in the Midwest, including active campaigns in Ohio. This year?s conference will examine˙The Future of Workers˙and LRAN invites participants from universities, unions, worker centers, and policy centers to submit proposals for on one or more of the following themes: ? new and revitalized approaches to organizing in a financialized economy and under a repressive labor law regime; ? the impact of technology on work and organizing; ? the intersection of work, workers, and climate change; ? organizing under authoritarian and/or white supremacist and fascist-like conditions; ? organizing and policy campaigns in the Midwest and those international in scope. ˙ Workshop submissions are due by˙Friday March 15th. Proposals are being collected through this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdA_-n867RupKXScxPEx7Sf9bEyKg8NlFaQCqsjkBpmAuYvew/viewform This year?s LRAN conference is planned in coordination with the Labor Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting, to be held June 13-16 in Cleveland. This year?s LERA meeting is on the theme of technology and the new workforce. 2019 LRAN Conference Planning Committee:˙Harriet Applegate (North Shore AFL-CIO), Jessica Cook (DePaul University Labor Education Center), Vonda Daniels (Nashville CLC), Eric Dirnbach (LIUNA), Julie Farb (AFL-CIO), John Flores (Case Western Reserve Univ.), Erin Johansson (Jobs With Justice), Adam Kader (ARISE), Michael Callahan Kapoor (Nashville CLC), Deb Kline (Cleveland JWJ), Lisa Kollins (Case Western Reserve Univ.), Chris Lamberti (Independent Researcher), Tami Lee (Rutgers University), Mariah Montgomery (Partnership for Working Families), Cassandra Ogren (Teamsters), Emily Smith (LERA), Ben Woods (Jobs with Justice) Translation can be provided for non-English speakers. Details Start: June 12, 2019 @ 8:00 am End: June 13, 2019 @ 5:00 pm Organizer Labor Research & Action Network Email: ben@jwj.org Venue Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH United States