Our Future is Now in Higher Education
Annual Conference of National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions

April 3-5
Hunter College, CUNY

A preliminary listing of plenary sessions, panels and workshiops is available here: CB in Higher Ed Conference sessions
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For other information visit their website at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/ncscbhep

Re-energizing Communities: Building Worker Solidarity and Social Justice
2016 Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies annual conference

June 1-2, 2016
University of Calgary

The Congress theme, “Energizing Communities” seeks to engage our collective interest in how communities are organized, how they respond to social change and how we build alliances with like-minded groups. In both the developed and developing worlds, “energizing communities” includes examining workers in the commodity sectors, the role of the environment within the class struggle, and how labour builds alliances with other groups, including Indigenous communities

See Call for Proposals here: CAWLS Call for Proposals.

HOW CLASS WORKS - 2016 A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook

June 9-11, 2016

The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class Works – 2016 Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 9-11, 2016. Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 9, 2015, according to the guidelines below.  For more information, visit our Web site at www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass.

Submit proposals as an e-mail attachment to or as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works  - 2016 Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384.

Proposals must be received by December 9, 2015.

Precarious Work: Domination and Resistance in the US, China, and the World

Friday 19 August 2016, Seattle, USA

Today precarious work presents perhaps the greatest global challenge to worker well-being, and has become a major rallying point for worker mobilization around the world.  This conference focuses on analyzing the growth of precarious employment and informal labor, its consequences for workers and their families, the challenges it poses to worker organizing and collective mobilization, and how workers and other social actors are responding to precariousness… The conference is initiated by the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s Labor and Labor Movements Section, the International Sociological Association (ISA)’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (RC44), and the Chinese Sociological Association’s China Association of Work and Labor (CAWL).

See Call for Papers at http://irle.ucla.edu/events/PrecariousWork.php

Deadline for submissions: January 31