Blue Collar Popular Culture
M. Keith Booker is soliciting brief proposals (title and synopsis) for essays to be included in an upcoming three-volume collection of essays (under contract to Praeger Publishers. The essays will focus on works of popular culture that either represent the working class or that seem to be aimed largely at working-class audiences. Essays should be 6000-7000 words in length and will be due in January, 2011. The three volumes will focus on (1) film; (2) television; and (3) sports, music, and everyday culture. All relevant proposals will be considered, though proposals that match items on the attached table of contents will receive special consideration (items with a contributor name following the title have already been assigned to that contributor.) Contact Professor M. Keith Booker.
Work, Employment, and Society 2010 conference
The triennial WES conference, to be held this year at the University of Brighton September 7-9, 2010, provides a major international focus for discussion and research on the sociology of work and employment. We would particularly like to draw your attention to a number of aspects of the conference:
Open Streams:
WES invites papers on all relevant sociology of work and employment topics. In addition to designated streams the Conference will have an open stream which seeks to attract papers on all of the issues, developments and debates with which the Work, Employment and Society journal is concerned (http://wes.sagepub.com/). Although primarily sociological, the Conference welcomes contributions from other disciplines and fields of study that contribute to the sociological understanding of work and employment.
Participants who would like their paper to be considered for an award of Best Papers are encouraged to submit a full draft of their paper by Friday, May 21, 2010.
Travel Awards for non-EU-15 and non-North Americans:
Travel awards for up to five participants will be made available for outstanding full paper contributions. Candidates must be from a university of research institute outside the EU-15 or North America. These will be decided on by the organising team and the WES editors on the basis of a full paper submitted by email by applicants before Friday, May 21, 2010.
Santander Universities Financial Support:
Brighton University is part of the Santander Universities Group. This includes a very large number of universities across the globe. If your university belongs to this group, you may well be entitled to apply to their mobility funds to allow you to attend the conference. Contact your research support at your University for information.
Postgraduate Student Workshop:
The postgraduate workshop will be held at the University of Brighton before the conference, on September 6, 2010. The event will be provided free of charge (although you will need to pay student-rate fees for the conference itself and to cover accommodation costs).
The Work, Employment and Society Conference is a triennial Conference, previously held at the Universities of Aberdeen, Manchester and Nottingham.
Radical Footnotes
Radical Footnotes is an independent typographic space engaged in bringing forward the printed expression of the Working-Class. You are invited to submit papers addressing problems, analyze developments, points of contention, methodologies, approaches and insights concerning the role of working-class publishing and allied industries during capitalist economic recovery.
Proposals: The area of contention is the present economic crisis, an inevitable cyclic fluctuation of the Capitalist mode of production and the exclusion of the Working-Class from the wealth it creates.
Rationale: Original contributions offering fresh theoretical and historical understanding of the Working-Class imprint. Critical approaches and perspectives on international, national, regional and varied cultural context of the complex of problems related to class-consciousness as manifested in the printed word.
Scope: The study of the forms, methods and praxis in the development of Working-Class publishing and allied industries. Comprehending all aspects, all periods and all languages of the transmission, dissemination, reception and recovery of the printed word. From the great democratic and revolutionary tradition of the Enlightenment to the present struggles against Imperialism (Globalization) in five continents.
Form of contributions: Studies, research, historiographic invention and bibliographic construction.
Length: from 500 to 800 words.
Languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Submissions are required to adopt the semantic convention outlined in the ‘Author Briefing,’ available from the publisher.
Submit a preliminary letter of intent to the publisher with a sae:
Carl Slienger Specialist Publisher & Antiquarian Bookseller
P.O. Box 4ST London W1A 4ST United Kingdom
radicalfootnotes@Gmail.com
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