CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY on "Constructing Workers" "Constructing Workers": A special issue focused on efforts to organize workers in contingent labor contracts who are often not considered employees. Increasing numbers of workers fit this description, and both unions and community organizations have sought, in various efforts, to help them organize for rights and benefits due workers with employee status. How do these groups organize? With what models? With what resources? How do they construct "workers" in such a way as to make contingent workers and contingent work less contingent? How do workers see themselves and their work? We would be interested in articles dealing with any of the following topics, or other related ones. * migrant and day labor * domestic worker organizing * sex worker organizing * workfare organizing * sweatshop organizing * worker centers * unemployed workers * retail worker organizing * organizing in industries that have become or are becoming more contingent * transnational labor identities (i.e., transposition of labor politics from home to host countries by immigrant laborers) * gender, race, ethnicity, and their intersections with organizing appeals * the negotiation of union-community relations * contingent workers' encounters with the state Deadline: JANUARY 10, 2006 Manuscript submission guidelines available at: WWW.SPRINGERONLINE.COM Send papers to: John Krinsky, GUEST EDITOR Department of Political Science, NAC 4/126 City College, City University of New York Convent Avenue at 138th Street New York, NY 10031 jkrinsky@ccny.cuny.edu 212 650-5236 jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Associatiion of Internet Researchers