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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 23h
Our September newsletter is out now, including a 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 call for abstracts for the International Sociological Association's World Congress of #Sociology in Gwangju, South Korea July 2027 - the deadline is 14 October, no extensions!! #ISAWCS27 Also, check out info about the latest issue of our flagshi
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RC44's August 2026 Newsletter is out now, with a reminder about submitting abstracts for the XXI World Congress of Sociology in Gwangju, South Korea (4-7 July 2027), new books on labour studies in China, Amazon, and much more!
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Our July 2026 newsletter is out now, including info about the call for abstracts for the XXI World Congress of Sociology in Gwangju, South Korea (4-7 July 2027), three exciting new books on labour studies, numerous articles and special issues, events, job opportunities, and more
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our June 2026 newsletter is out now, including a forthcoming book about the politics of Harry Cleaver, the latest issue of our flagship Global Labour Journal, dozens of new articles on labour issues, an exciting global conference in Sydney Australia, and much more #labour #sociology
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our May 2026 Newsletter is OUT NOW. This month's news includes the ISA's Call for Sessions for next year’s World Congress of Sociology in South Korea, plus the brand-new issue of our flagship Global Labour Journal... and much more😀✊🙏
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Michele Ford @profmicheleford.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our new article on union-member engagement in Cambodia's construction sector is now out! @labourrc44.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
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Union–Member Engagement in Cambodia's Construction Sector
This article argues for the concept of adaptive unionism as a useful way to explore the pragmatic, often short-term approach that unions adopt just to survive in many parts of the Global South, explo...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Excellent, new Global Labour Journal issue is now available online at mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour... @labourrc44.bsky.social
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Vol. 16 No. 3 (2025): September | Global Labour Journal
The Global Labour Journal is a proudly open-access venue for research on global labour studies. The Journal needs support to continue its work and to preserve its open-access status. Your support will help keep important research and debates freely available to academics and labour activists throughout the world regardless of finances or institutional affiliation. Thank you!
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Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Nicolas Pons-Vignon has reviewed my book 'Exiting the Factory' for the Global Labour Journal, the official journal of @labourrc44.bsky.social. mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour...
Exiting the Factory is an important contribution that seeks not only to interpret contemporary labour struggles, but to clarify the conditions under which they may once again acquire transformative force. Gallas’s sober yet sympathetic analysis of service-sector strikes avoids both nostalgia for Fordist class politics and speculative searches for substitute political subjects. Instead,
it foregrounds actually existing forms of resistance and the contingent processes through which class formation may still occur. In doing so, the book makes a compelling case for global labour studies as a space where empirical inquiry, strategic reflection, and political imagination can productively intersect — and where the question of working-class agency remains both open and central to any serious thinking about social change.
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our May 2026 Newsletter is OUT NOW. This month's news includes the ISA's Call for Sessions for next year’s World Congress of Sociology in South Korea, plus the brand-new issue of our flagship Global Labour Journal... and much more😀✊🙏
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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🙏🙂✊
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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!!🙏✊🙂
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨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!!🙏🙂✊
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
🚨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!!👀✊
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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
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Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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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...
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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)🙂✊
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🚨 🚨 Check out and share the new RC44 newsletter (March 2025 issue)!!✊😀 #labor #ISAforum25
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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...
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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.
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
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/...
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
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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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
🚨⚠️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)
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UAH - Universidad Alberto Hurtado | Universidad para el bien común
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
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)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/11/2023
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...
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."
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
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
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Nominations
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
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
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RC44 Research Committee for Labour Movements (ISA) @labourrc44.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Important Call for Papers from The Sociological Review - on 45 Years of Michael Burawoy's 'Manufacturing Consent'. For more info, see thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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45 Years of Manufacturing Consent: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Spec...
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Tom Barnes @drtombarnes.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
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
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45 Years of Manufacturing Consent: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Spec...
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