Calls & Announcements

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BJIR - Regulation of Occupations- Call for Papers
BJIR is calling for papers for a special edition of the Journal devoted to the regulation of occupations. The objective is to examine the extent and influence of occupational regulation in advanced industrialized nations. A selection of papers will be chosen for presentation at a special conference to be held at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, UK on the 12th and 13th of March, 2009. The papers presented at the conference will be included, subject to BJIR's refereeing process, in a special issue of the journal which will be published in 2009 or 2010. Those interested in submitting papers or discussing a proposed paper, read More information

Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award -The Sloan Industry Studies Program invites submission for its annual dissertation award competition for 2008. The goal of the award is to recognize and reward outstanding doctoral research in the area of industry studies. Industry studies research includes research that demonstrates significant personal investment in developing an understanding of the markets, firms and institutions of an industry and frequently involves the integration of direct observation with appropriate theory and analysis. The Sloan Industry Studies Program is dedicated to promoting academic research that is grounded in a deep knowledge of a particular industry or industries. The award is accompanied by a $1500 honorarium for first prize and a $750 honorarium for second prize. More information

Call for Papers from the Journal of Labor Research. We are inviting submissions examining various topics related to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act 1959. More information

Call for Papers: International Industrial Relations Association 15th World Congress 2009We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the 15th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association is now open. The 15th IIRA World Congress is being held in Sydney, Australia from August 24th to 27th, 2009.

The theme for the 2009 World Congress is “the new world of work, employment and organizations”. We invite submissions of extended abstracts (of no more than 1000 words) for papers that address one the following five themes around which the congress is to be organised:

Track 1- Management, Work and Organisation
Track 2 – Voice and Representation at Work
Track 3 – Work, Family and Community
Track 4 – Institutions, Processes and Outcomes
Track 5 – New Forms of Work and Employment

Details about these themes and more information about the congress can be found at www.iceaustralia.com/iira2009 . More information on Call for Papers

Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS Dissertation Prize Announcement
The Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS awards a prize for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation OR (air traffic management OR and airline OR). The winner will receive a plaque and an honorarium of five hundred dollars. Finalists will receive an honorable mention and a certificate. Doctoral dissertations meeting the following criteria are eligible for consideration:

•     The dissertation must be completed and submitted after June 1 of the previous year and before May 31 of the current year
•    The dissertation must be in an area relevant to aviation research or practice

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Call for Papers - Research in the Sociology of Work
Research in the Sociology of Work is accepting manuscripts for Volume 19, focusing on the "Economic Sociology of Work" (expected publication date March 2009).

We invite manuscripts that address issues of work broadly defined, such as paid and non-paid activities in business and non-profit organizations, in formal and informal economies, entrepreneurship, labor markets, income inequality, social organization of work in cross-national and global contexts. In particular, we welcome articles from sociologists, organizational scholars and economists that analyze these substantive topics by employing conceptual tools of economic sociology and highlight the network, institutional, political and cultural embeddedness of economic activity. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is May 1, 2008.

Submit manuscripts/inquiries to Nina Bandelj (Editor, Volume 19), University of California, Irvine, Department of Sociology, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697. Electronic submissions to nbandelj@uci.edu preferred.

For more information on Research in Sociology of Work (Lisa Keister, Series Editor) see: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/series/rsw

Applications Now Being Accepted for NPELRA Foundation Scholarships
The NPELRA Foundation, a subsidiary of the National Public Employer Labor Relations Association, has announced that it will award its ninth round of Anthony C. Russo Scholarships this fall.

Human resource, labor and industrial relations, public administration or political science graduate students with an interest in labor and employee relations and the public sector are encouraged to apply. Foundation President Dema Harris said, "this year we will be awarding scholarships in the amount of $3,000.” She added, “since it's inception in 1996, The NPELRA Foundation has awarded fifteen (15) $2,000 and thirteen (13) $3,000 scholarships. NPELRA members seeking graduate degrees are eligible.

Applications must be postmarked no later than September 26, 2008. The application can be obtained from the NPELRA website ( http://npelra.org ). Questions should be addressed to foundation@npelra.org .

Ongoing Calls and Announcements

The Korean Journal of Industrial Relations (CALL FOR PAPERS)
The Korean Journal of Industrial Relations (KJIR) is published by the Korean Industrial Relations Association. The scope of the journal includes all fields of Industrial relations, both theoretical and empirical.

The journal is published twice a year, in June and in December. Articles can be in Korean or in English. Submitted papers should make an original contribution to scholarship. Work that has been previously published or that is under submission for publication elsewhere will not be considered.

Each year the best article will be selected among the articles that are published in the KJIR and will be awarded with the prize scholarship of USD 5,000 (5 million Korean won). More

Pew Hispanic Center provides access to Latino survey data set
The Pew Hispanic Center is making available the data set of the Pew Hispanic Center/Kaiser Family Foundation 2002 National Survey of Latinos. This survey was designed to explore the attitudes and experiences of Latinos on a wide variety of topics. The data set contains perceptions about identity, views about life in the United States, experiences with discrimination, both from within the Hispanic community, and from non-Hispanic groups, language abilities and preferences, economic and financial conditions, and experiences with the health care system. The survey also explored differences in the attitudes and experiences of Latinos from various places of origin including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Colombians. 

The survey was conducted by telephone between April 4 and June 11, 2002, among a nationally representative sample of adults, 18 years and older, who were selected at random. Observations include 2,929 Latinos and 1,284 non-Latinos. Amongst the non-Latinos were 1,008 non-Latino white adults, and 171 non-Latino African American adults. Representatives of the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation worked together to develop the survey questionnaire and analyze the results. International Communications Research of Media, Pennsylvania conducted the fieldwork in either English or Spanish, based on the respondent's preference.

The data set is available upon written request. Please follow this link http://www.pewhispanic.org/page.jsp?page=National%20Survey%20Data  for additional details and instructions on how to obtain the data.

The Kaiser Family Foundation, based in Menlo Park, California, is a non- profit, independent national health care philanthropy and is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries. 

The Pew Hispanic Center, based in Washington, DC, is a non-partisan research organization supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia. The Center is a project of the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication.
Deadline: Ongoing

CALL FOR PAPERS: Work and Occupations
Work and Occupations invites you to submit your manuscripts for peer review and possible publication.  WO is a scholarly, sociological quarterly that publishes original research in the sociology of work, employment, labor, and social inequality in the workplace, labor force, and labor market.  Consult the latest issue of WO for manuscript formatting and submission instructions. Manuscripts will not be returned.  Send three copies of your paper to: Daniel B. Cornfield, Editor, Work and Occupations, Box 1811, Station B, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235.  E-mail inquiries may be directed to the Editor at this address: daniel.b.cornfield@vanderbilt.edu
Deadline: Ongoing

Call for Papers: Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy Paper Series
The Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy invites the submission of proposed or completed papers for consideration in SIPP's Public Policy Paper Series publication.

The Institute has a mandate to inform the debate on public-policy issues through the distribution of timely research results. In addition to publishing papers from SIPP staff and associates, the Institute makes its distribution channels available to others who are interested in contributing to the improvement of public policy. More information.
Deadline: Ongoing

LERA Annual Meeting Calls:

LERA Refereed Paper Competition Entries—Due April 2008 - CALL CLOSED
The LERA Editorial Committee has issued a call for individual papers for the 2008 Annual Refereed Papers Competition. Papers up to 25 pages in length are invited to be submitted to the competitive review process. Authors of winning papers will be invited to present at the LERA 60th Annual Meeting in San Francisco in January 2009 and to be published in the LERA 2009 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting .

Several sessions will be organized around the following broad topic areas of the LERA sections: Employment and Labor Relations Law, Dispute Resolution, Human Resource Management, International and Comparative Industrial Relations, Labor Economics and Labor Markets, Labor-Management Relations, Labor Studies/Labor Unions, and Globalization, Investment, and Trade. Individual refereed papers are selected on the basis of blind review. Guidelines for the LERA Refereed Papers Competition are as follows: paper length should not exceed 25 typed, double-spaced pages in a 12-point font (the page limit includes endnotes, references, tables, and figures—a full-page table is considered one full page of text).

Authors wishing to participate in the refereed papers competition need to submit a cover letter or sheet with full contact information and an electronic copy of their paper via email to the National Office, in Champaign, Illinois, on or before the April 7 , 2008, deadline .To ensure anonymity in the judging process, the author's name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and affiliation should only appear in the cover letter or sheet, not on the paper itself. Acceptance decisions and notifications will be made by the early summer of 2008

LERA Poster Session - Due May 1, 2008
The 2009 Annual Meeting in San Francisco will feature the Annual LERA Poster Session. This session attracts a wide audience and encourages feedback on work in progress or that is recently completed. Abstracts and displays on topics of interest to the membership are posted on boards and may be distributed during the session, but are not orally presented. Authors are present to discuss.

Members interested in participating in the 2009 LERA Poster Session should a two-page abstract no later than May 1, 2008, to the Poster Session Chair Robert Hoell.

AILR/LERA Best Papers Competion Abstracts/Paper Proposals - Due May 15, 2008
David Lewin and Bruce Kaufman, editors of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations ( AILR ), published by Elsevier, have announced a May 15, 2008 deadline for the submission of abstract/paper proposals for the 12th Annual AILR/LERA Best Papers Competition. Abstract type proposals should be no longer than 3 pages. Winning papers will be presented in a joint symposium at the 2009 LERA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Accepted papers must be submitted in complete form by October 15, 2008. Winning entries will be expeditiously refereed for publication in Volume #18 of AILR . Papers may deal with any IR topic and can be up to 50 pages in length (inclusive). Further information on submission is available from AILR Editors David Lewin and Bruce Kaufman

These letters of nomination should indicate why an individual should be considered for an award and provide support for the nomination. Individuals who are nominated will be asked to submit additional materials in support of their nomination. Specifically, they will be asked to outline their teaching philosophy and provide supporting material aimed at showing how this philosophy is carried out in practice and the impact it has on students. The term "teaching" is used in its broadest sense and includes activities conducted beyond the traditional classroom setting. Among the materials the nominees might wish to present in support of their nominations are syllabi, classroom handouts, evaluations, examples of innovative use of technology, examples of teaching impact in informal as well as formal outreach settings.

Winners will be notified on or about November 1, 2008, and the awards will be presented to recipients at the January 2009 LERA meeting in San Francisco.

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