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Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) is accepting chapter submissions on a rolling basis. See the call for submissions tab for details.
RSW is also open to receiving full volume proposals from prospective Guest Editors.
Guidelines for guest editors
Guest editors should have a publication track record in the relevant field, and editorial experience is highly desirable. We recommend a team of at least three guest editors and in addition we will appoint one or more of our editors to the editorial team for the volume.
Guest editor responsibilities
Guest editors will:
If you are interested in submitting to the series or have any questions, please reach out to the editorial team at [email protected]
Rick Delbridge is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He has researched a wide range of issues in work, organization and management, including control, deception, gossip, new management practices, organized labour, resistance and workplace relations. His doctoral research was an ethnographic study of the shopfloor experiences of working in two factories operating under just-in-time and total quality management regimes and was published in Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing: The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the ‘Japanese’ Model (Oxford University Press). He has previously been an editor for Academy of Management Review and Organization, and was the founding co-editor of the JMSSays section of the Journal of Management Studies. He has been awarded best paper prizes by Academy of Management Review and Organization Studies.
Andreas (Andi) Pekarek is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches courses on labour relations, HRM, stakeholder engagement, and the future of work. Andi is fascinated by how people work, and his research has focused on how collective action by workers and their allies can steer the world of work in a more sustainable direction, towards fairness and social justice. His recent projects have centred on work in the platform economy, unions and collective bargaining, workplace conflict resolution, and the HRM occupation. Andi has published in such journals as Industrial and Labor Relations Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and New Technology, Work and Employment.
Markus Helfen is a Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Professor in Strategic Management in the Management Department in the School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin. He does research in the fields of organization theory and employment relations with a focus on collective action and institutional work. Current topics and projects include labour standards in global supply chains, multi-employer work arrangements as well as sustainability studies. Markus has published in leading organization and industrial relations journals like Organization Studies, Human Relations, and the British Journal of Industrial Relations. He runs two blogs: #LIB_Labour Inspection Blog and UP:IT – Utopia Platform for Imagining Transformations.
Gretchen Purser is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her scholarship focuses broadly on the intersection between precarious work and the low-wage labor market and the reproduction and lived experience of urban poverty in the U.S. She uses ethnographic and/or community-based research methods to explore the changing nature of work and workers’ movements and the ground-level practices of neoliberal poverty management. Her articles have been published in journals such as Ethnography, Qualitative Sociology, Critical Sociology, and Anthropology of Work Review and have been recognized with a wide variety of publication awards, including from the American Sociological Association and the Working Class Studies Association. She is the editor-in-chief of the Marxist Sociology Blog and a commissioning editor for the public sociology blog Work In Progress.
Research in the Sociology of Work is accepting chapter submissions on a rolling basis around thematic calls. See the current open calls below.
RSW is also open to receiving full volume proposals from prospective Guest Editors.
Current thematic calls for chapters
Work, Rest, and Play: examining work and labour relations in arts, sports, and entertainment
Rolling Spotlight on Ethnography
Ethnographic studies provide unrivalled insights into the ‘hidden’ social worlds and places of work, enabling analyses of the experiences of work, its nature and context, and the impacts of contemporary developments. Such research gives voice to the under-represented and disenfranchised of society while exploring and exposing the characteristics and consequences of the nature of contemporary capitalism in and through work.
Building on these premises, at RSW we are keen to promote ethnographic research and welcome submissions of such scholarship. Alongside the regular series of thematic issues, we invite contributions on an ongoing basis to a section called “Spotlight on Ethnography.” Submissions to “Spotlight on Ethnography” may include:
Extended empirical papers should be based on ethnographic research and include an in-depth discussion of empirical findings. These may run up to 20,000 words in length (inclusive) to allow for an extended presentation of novel and significant research findings. We are seeking to regularly showcase the rich contribution of research in the ethnographic tradition.
Standard papers which develop new insights into work through empirical analysis or examine methodological aspects of ethnography are also welcome. These papers should be a maximum of 12,000 words.
Short commentaries or provocations are contributions that provide a personal insight or comment on current debates in ways that are not possible in the conventional paper form. These may address any issue related to the ethnographic study of work and should be no longer than 3,000 words in length.
Extended reviews are contributions that review one or more monographs that feature ethnographic research. These might be recently published books or entail the revisiting of previously published work in ways that reflect on its contemporary significance. These contributions should be no longer than 5,000 words.
Submissions are invited for contributions of all types and may be made at any time. Please submit your manuscript to [email protected] and include Ethnography in the subject line.
We encourage prospective authors to contact us if you would like to discuss your idea for a submission, particularly if you are considering submitting a ‘non-standard’ paper.
Research in the Sociology of Work is accepting chapter submissions on a rolling basis around thematic calls. See the current open calls below.
RSW is also open to receiving full volume proposals from prospective Guest Editors.
Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) is a comprehensive collection of research focused on the social, economic, political and cultural aspects of work and labour. Books in the series examine current issues related to the nature of work, the places and spaces of work, the experiences of workers, and the forces that shape the context of work.
Established in 1988, Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) publishes the best and most provocative sociological thinking being conducted on work, organizations, and the employment relationship.
With contributions ranging from sociology, business science, economics, politics, history, and anthropology, RSW offers cutting edge analyses of the social factors at play in today's contemporary world of work.
Books in the series cover topics including but not limited to:
The RSW series, as a whole, features research into the social, economic, political and cultural aspects of work and labour.
If you are interested in submitting to the series or have any questions, please reach out to the editorial team at [email protected]
We are passionate about working with researchers globally to deliver a fairer, more inclusive society. This perhaps has never been more important than in today’s divided world.