Labor Project

Susan Kang, skang@jjay.cuny.edu (CUNY, John Jay College)
Susan A. Orr, sorr@brockport.edu (SUNY, Brockport)

The APSA Labor Project promotes scholarship on labor related issues. 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, voting and elections, immigration, normative theory, gender, race, ethnicity, history, and law. We also encourage papers and panels from all methodological approaches – quantitative, qualitative, normative and empirical. Given that the theme of the 2012 annual meeting is “Representation and Renewal,” we would be especially interested in papers that could become part of a theme panel on the representation of workers in the politics, and/or the renewal of organized labor.