[Air-l] constructing workers

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY on "Constructing Workers"

"Constructing Workers": A special issue focused on efforts to  
organize workers in contingent labor contracts who are often not  
considered employees. Increasing numbers of workers fit this  
description, and both unions and community organizations have sought,  
in various efforts, to help
them organize for rights and benefits due workers with employee  
status. How do these groups organize? With what models? With what  
resources? How do they construct "workers" in such a way as to make  
contingent workers and contingent work less contingent? How do  
workers see themselves and their work? We would be interested in  
articles dealing with any of the following topics, or other related  
ones.

* migrant and day labor * domestic worker organizing * sex worker  
organizing * workfare organizing * sweatshop organizing * worker  
centers * unemployed workers * retail worker organizing * organizing  
in industries that have become or are becoming more contingent *  
transnational labor identities (i.e., transposition of labor politics  
from home to host countries by immigrant laborers) * gender, race,  
ethnicity, and their intersections with organizing appeals * the  
negotiation of union-community relations * contingent workers'  
encounters with the state
Deadline: JANUARY 10, 2006
Manuscript submission guidelines available at: WWW.SPRINGERONLINE.COM

Send papers to:

John Krinsky, GUEST EDITOR
Department of Political Science, NAC 4/126
City College, City University of New York
Convent Avenue at 138th Street
New York, NY 10031
jkrinsky at ccny.cuny.edu
212 650-5236


jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu
jeremy.tmttlt.com
www.tmttlt.com

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