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Home : Meetings : 2008 Thematic Sessions
   
 

2008 Thematic Sessions

Thematic Sessions


Thematic Sessions provide abundant opportunities to think in-depth about this year’s meeting theme, “Worlds of Work”. Over sixty sessions delve into the interconnections between work—broadly conceived—and society.

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Thematic Sessions Listing

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The “American Model” as Social Laboratory

The Changing Nature of Work in Higher Education

Citizenship, Immigration, and Work

Class and Work

Comparative Gender Theory: Power, Politics, and Work Transformation

Comparative Labor Movements

Comparative Perspectives on Work and Retirement

Contemporary Slavery

Crime as Work: The Craft of Street Crime

Disabled Persons at Work: The Theory and Practice of Inclusion, Rehabilitation and Discrimination

Discrimination Processes at Work

Displaced Workers: Coping With Job Loss

Diversifying STEM Fields: Challenges and Advances (co-sponsored by the ASA Section on Sociological Practice)

Diversity in the Workplace

Entrepreneurship in Comparative Context

From Welfare And Work to Work Not Welfare: How Poor Families Get By in the The Future of Work in Latin America

Post-Welfare Decade

Gender and the Organization of Professional Careers (co-sponsored by the ASA Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology)

Gender and Work: Global, Local, and Transnational Perspectives

Gendered Bodies at Work

Getting to Work: Cross-national Perspectives on Commuting and Relocation

Globalization and its Consequences

How Organizations Affect Society

Immigrants, Their Relationships, and Work

Incarceration and the Labor Market

Industry Studies and the Ever Changing World of Work

Informal Economy and Political Action

International Perspectives on Revitalizing Labor

Labor Environment Coalitions

Labor Standards

Labor Process Theory: Contemporary Debates and Issues

Law in the Workplace

Neoliberalism, Labor, and Labor Markets

Outsourcing in India and China

Over-work and Under-work

Paths of Resistance: Work Regimes and Global Protext

Policy Regimes and Gendered Labor Markets

Privatizing Public Services

Production and Consumption, Workers and Consumers: Rethinking Their Relationships

Race and the World of Work

Racial Ideologies, Reflexivity, and Care Work Research

Religion and Labor (co-sponsored by the Association for the Sociology of Religion)

Satisfaction with Work in Sociology

Scientists in Bureaucracies

The Second Bill of Rights Revisited (co-sponsored with Sociologists without Borders)

Social Inequality and Social Policy

Societal and Institutional Mechanisms Underlying the School-Work Transition

Technology and the Transformation of Work

Transforming the Employment Institutions Required to Sustain the American Dream: The Challenge to Our Nation's Schools of Industrial Relations and Human Resources

Upgrading Low Wage Work

Volunteer Work/Work in Civil Society

The “Wal-mart” Effect

Work and Inequality in Contemporary China

Work and Political Economy of Native Nations

Work and the Life Course

Work as Crime

Work Time, Work Rhythms, and Control

Work-Family Relations in State-Socialist Societies: Past and Present

The World of Care Work

The World of Fashion Modeling: Work, Bodies, and Images

The World of Household Work

Worlds of Work and Family: How Far Have We Come?

Worlds of Work and Welfare in Europe

The Worlds of Work in Africa: Pathway to Modernity or Global Shadow?

Worlds of Work in the Middle East

Worlds without Work: African Americans and the Crisis of Joblessness

Worlds without Work: Latina/os in Urban America




Please refer to the online Searchable Program for details on each Thematic Session.