scholarly journals Solidarities In and Through Work in an Age of Extremes

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Vanessa Beck ◽  
Paul Brook
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Social Factory ◽  
American Police ◽  
Dock Workers ◽  
International Social

This article introduces a special issue of Work, Employment and Society on solidarities in and through the experience of work in an age of austerity and political polarisation. It commences by discussing the renaissance of studies of solidarity in the workplace – and beyond. Debates on solidarity as a concept are reviewed in relation to moral economy, labour organising-mobilisation, emotional labour and public sociology. Each of the special issue articles assess the value of the solidarity concept under contemporary conditions. Between them they explore solidarity among gig economy delivery riders (Italy and UK), special needs teachers (England), volunteer lifeboat crews (UK and Ireland) and international ‘social factory’ activists. Two articles examine solidarity within organised labour: first, internationalism among dock workers and second, North American police unions’ construction of a divisive ‘blue solidarity’. The article concludes by calling for continued study of different forms of solidarity in and through work, especially among migrants and individualised workers.

scholarly journals Occupations and Professionalism in Art and Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart G. Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Art And Culture

The article introduces the topic of this special issue on artists and professionalism from the perspective of the sociology of the arts and culture, in order to demonstrate how the contributions significantly develop studies of professions in general. Some theoretical concepts are defined and discussed: culture, arts, occupations, professions, status, field, symbolic and social capital, emotional labour, and reversed economy. An illustration is used to demonstrate pricing in arts and what may explain it. There is a focus on the field of art with a brief comparison to the academic field. In this issue we find studies on artists, authors, and theatre actors, which provide significant contributions to these themes in theories and studies of professions.Keywords: creative industries, creative occupations, professions, status, field, symbolic and social capital 

International perspectives on social justice: Introduction to the special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Sally L. Grapin ◽  
David Shriberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
School Psychology ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Training ◽  
International Social

The concept of social justice has become increasingly prominent in school psychology practice, research, and training. While the literature in this area has burgeoned over the last decade, relatively less scholarship has synthesized global perspectives on social justice. This article provides a brief introduction to the special issue, International Perspectives on Social Justice. In particular, we describe contributions of each of the issue’s four articles to the social justice literature in school and educational psychology as well as identify prominent themes. Finally, we describe potential directions for advancing an international social justice agenda in school psychology.

scholarly journals Unidentical twins: recent social policy developments in Canada and the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Béland ◽  
Alex Waddan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Fiscal Federalism ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Family Benefits ◽  
International Social

AbstractThere is a vast social policy literature on how Canada and the United States share key characteristics associated with the liberal welfare regime such as significant reliance on both social assistance and tax-subsidized private benefits and services. Yet, a closer look at these two countries points to key differences in areas such as fiscal federalism, health care, old-age pensions, and family benefits. This special issue of the Journal of Comparative and International Social Policy looks at recent social policy developments in Canada and the United States in ways that further illustrate the broad similarities, but also the key cross-national differences in policy design and real-world consequences, between these two countries. This Introduction explains why Canada and the United States are “unidentical twins” in social policy before discussing the contributions comprising this special issue.

scholarly journals Labour process theory and the gig economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 1039-1056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Gandini
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Marxist Approach ◽  
And Control

What are the distinctive traits that characterize work(ing) through (and for) a digital platform? In the burgeoning debate on the ‘gig economy’, a critical examination that comprehensively addresses this issue beyond specific examples or case studies is currently missing. This article uses labour process theory – an important Marxist approach in the study of relations of production in industrial capitalism – to address this gap. Supported by empirical illustrations from existing research, the article discusses the notions of ‘point of production’, emotional labour and control in the gig economy to argue that labour process theory offers a unique set of tools to expand our understanding of the way in which labour power comes to be transformed into a commodity in a context where the encounter between supply and demand of work is mediated by a digital platform, and where feedback, ranking and rating systems serve purposes of managerialization and monitoring of workers.

The organisation and experience of work in the gig economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Kaine ◽  
Emmanuel Josserand
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Introductory Overview ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Labour Regulation

The gig economy has captured public and policy interest and is growing as an area of academic inquiry, prompting debate about the future of work, labour regulation, and the impact of technology and job quality. This special issue provides a timely intervention into that debate with this article providing an introductory overview, positioning the articles within a comprehensive literature review of existing scholarship on the gig economy. These articles add to our understanding of the organisation and experience of work in the digitally enabled gig economy in a variety of national settings. They explore aspects such as job quality, forms of collectivity, identity development, and algorithmic management and control. This article also delineates avenues for further research regarding conditions for gig workers, the impact of gig work and information, technology and gig work.

scholarly journals Mapping the Social Space of Opinion: Public Sociology and the Op-Ed in Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Kowalchuk ◽  
Neil McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Going Public ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The U.S

This special issue of CJS illustrates the international spread of an empassioned debate among sociologists about the future direction of their discipline ignited by Michael Burawoy’s call to elevate the presence and status of public sociology. Burawoy’s program entails a greater engagement by sociologists with civil society (non-governmental organizations, communities, movements) in the development of their research agenda, and the production of research outputs that are more accessible, relevant, and useful to non-academic audiences. Burawoy and his supporters see the emphasis on public sociology as a way to revitalize the discipline, in particular, to solve several inter-related problems that it faces, at least in the U.S: a lack of internal coherence, declining public legitimacy, public misapprehension of what sociologists do, and minimal influence on policy-making (Burawoy 2004a, Turner 2006, Boyns and Fletcher 2005). Skeptics and critics within the discipline, conversely, argue that “going public” will only hurt sociology’s public legitimacy, insofar as it constitutes a kind of left-liberal moralizing that is out of sync with majority currents of opinion.

Statistical Learning: How it Relates to Speech-Language Pathology

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3S) ◽  
pp. 631-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Alt
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Statistical Learning ◽  
Special Populations ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Reading And Spelling

Purpose The purpose of this special issue is to introduce speech-language pathologists to the topic of statistical learning and how this is relevant to their practice. In the following articles, the concept of statistical learning will be explained, and readers will find (a) research studies showing how children with special needs can use statistical learning to learn language; (b) tutorials that show why statistical learning is meaningful for special populations; and (c) tutorials that show how statistical learning is involved in language, reading, and spelling.

scholarly journals Intimate Uncertainties

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. v-xv ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Strasser ◽  
Luisa Piart
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Major Transitions

For this special issue we are bringing together six ethnographic cases of intimate uncertainties that are situated within different regimes of reproduction, healthcare and borders in and beyond Europe. These ethnographic inquiries exemplify unprecedented settings of moral ir/responsibility shaping the intimate on different scales and in various sites of power (agencies, clinics, borderlands). These uncertainties in times of major transitions from old to new moral orders, from industrial to postindustrial, from welfare to austerity spark off a renewed debate on moral economy. The authors of these contributions all focus the theoretical lens of moral economy squarely onto the intimate.

scholarly journals The Moral Economy of Solidarity: A Longitudinal Study of Special Needs Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Sharon C Bolton ◽  
Knut Laaser
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Norms And Values

Based on a longitudinal study of a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) in England for children excluded from mainstream schools and utilising a moral economy lens, this article explores how solidarity is created and maintained in a very particular community of teachers and learning support assistants (LSAs). A moral economy approach highlights the centrality of people’s moral norms and values for understanding the multi-layered dimensions of solidarity in organisations and how it changes in the context of transformations in the labour process. The article illustrates how teachers and LSAs rely on mutuality, underpinned by moral norms of justice, and values of care, dignity and recognition, to cope with physically and emotionally demanding work that is under-resourced and undervalued. The analysis reveals that solidarity is not only against unjust workplace regimes, but also for connectivity and a humanised labour process.

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