RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA)

RC44's final newsletter for 2025 out now, feat. new books, chapters & articles - lots of holiday reading on labour movements, workers' rights, workplace politics & more - as well as calls for papers and new jobs. All best wishes and solidarity for the New Year from the RC44 Board🙏🙂✊

Our newsletter for October is out now! This month, we include news about a special journal issue that emerged directly from RC44 panels at the last ISA World Congress of #Sociology in Melbourne in 2023... and much more!!🙏✊🙂

Hybrid seminar: 'Migration Transition, Labour & Social Reproduction in Europe in the Time of Polycrisis', University of Wrocław, Poland, 10am-230pm local time. Invited spkrs incl. Mateusz Karolak, Irma Mačkinė, Adam Mrozowicki, Valeria Piro, Devi Sacchetto, Justyna Salamońska

🚨Our newsletter for Sept 2025 is out incl. info on the new issue of our flagship Global Labour Journal (incl. the exciting appt. of 4 new editors) as well as great new books, incl. Jennifer Chun & Judy Han's Against Abandonment (Stanford Univ. Press 2025) on politics & labor in S. Korea & more!!🙏🙂✊

🚨The latest issue of RC44's newsletter (July 2025) is out now, including announcements about the recent 5th ISA Forum of #Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, great new publications, and a major new job opportunity for #labour researchers in Hong Kong - check it out!!👀✊

The June newsletter of RC44 is out now, including important news about the 5th ISA Forum of #Sociology which starts on Sunday in Rabat, Morocco, incl. one from Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P) regarding solidarity at the Forum with the Palestinian people #freePalestine

Support the ranking of the Global Labour Journal! Dear RC 44 and GLU members, we are asking for your support to advocate for the inclusion of the Global Labour Journal in the Web of Science (WOS Clarivate) main catalogue. GLJ is currently included in...

The Global Labour Journal, the official journal of @labourrc44.bsky.social and @glu-network.bsky.social, has launched a petition demaning its inclusion in the World of Science main catalogue.

Please spread the word and sign!

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The May 2025 issue of RC44’s Monthly Newsletter is out now, including important calls about the forthcoming 5th ISA Forum of #Sociology in Morocco, as well as calls to support our flagship publication, Global #Labour Journal (including a call for junior editors to join the editorial board)🙂✊

🚨 🚨 Check out and share the new RC44 newsletter (March 2025 issue)!!✊😀 #labor #ISAforum25

Please read & share the February 2025 issue of RC44's February newsletter, including our call for action regarding the exclusion of RC44’s flagship publication, Global Labour Journal, from journal rankings by the multinational corporation, Clarivate #labour #workers

Are you going to the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco (6-11 July)? Did you know you can apply for a grant towards registration costs? If you're a labour researcher, you need to apply with RC44 before 31 January!! For more info, contact tom.barnes@acu.edu.au #labour #unions #ISAForum25

Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can. Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

Read Richard Hyman and Rebecca Cumbrell-McCormick's important new volume, 'Towards a European System of Industrial Relations', here reviewed in the ILR Review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Explore how justice perceptions are evolving in the era of algorithm-mediated transactions. Learn how platform-based food delivery couriers navigate issues of #proceduraljustice #OnlineFirst in Journal of Industrial Relations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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🚨⚠️Urgent Call for Applications from students & activists: LabourTransfer Summer School, a non-profit global event linked research, labor & society, June 2024, Sardinia (Italy), deadline: 15 JAN⚠️🚨!! – Facultad de Economía y Negocios (uahurtado.cl)

Free to access in the ILR Review: Important qualitative research on the potentials, but also the limits of trade unionism in Tunisia #labour #unions

Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa - Saerom Han, 2023 (sagepub.com)

A card reads: "Union Workers Back Contract Deals at 3 Big Automakers. The agreements raise the top wage for production workers 25%, to more than $40 over four and a half years, from $32."

Breaking News: Workers at the three big U.S. automakers — General Motors, Ford and Stellantis — backed new contracts that deliver hefty wage increases and other gains not seen in decades. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/b...

Work Employment & Society journal is calling for new Editorial Board members. Deadline for applying: 4 December 2023. For more info, see: www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

Call for Papers from Work Employment & Society journal - Special Issue: The organisation & mobilisation of ‘unusual suspects’: Precarious work, informalisation & labour - Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2024 organisations. For more info, see: t.co/luM0InAyNh

45 Years of Manufacturing Consent: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Spec...

Important Call for Papers from The Sociological Review - on 45 Years of Michael Burawoy's 'Manufacturing Consent'. For more info, see thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

45 Years of Manufacturing Consent: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Spec...

Given the resurgence in research interest on #labour regimes in recent years, this Call for Papers is especially timely and relevant for social scientists who work on labour, workplaces, unionism, etc t.co/R9GHQZVLbp