Labor Project Related Groups Call for Papers

Deadline:  December 30, 2007

The APSA Labor Project promotes scholarship on labor related issues.  To this end, the 2008 theme of the annual meeting “Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities” is highly relevant.  We invite papers and panels to be submitted on any theme related to labor, work, unions, and employment.  We encourage diverse perspectives on these topics from any range of academic specialties including, but not limited to human rights, political economy, public policy, interest groups and social movements, comparative politics, state politics, immigration, theory, gender, race, ethnicity, history, and law.

We would like to see relevant issues such as the role and influence of organized labor in the 2008 elections, Iraq reconstruction, federal whistle-blowing laws, local and state U.S. political representation of workers, neoliberalism, guestworker programs, advocacy efforts, new union strategies, court decisions affecting work, federal policies regarding employment, changes in union politics, political organizations, and labor, work, and employment issues.

Please send appropriate abstracts of your paper or panel proposal, with your name, address, academic affiliation, and e-mail address by December 30th to Margaret Gray at gray5@adelphi.edu.

If you are also submitting your paper or panel to any APSA organized sections, please let us know so we can try for co-sponsorship.