2020 Section Annual Report for Agenda: Call to Order Awards

2020 Section Annual Report for [Enter Section Name Here]

This annual report covers the period of section activity from September 2019 to August 2020 and a fiscal year from January 2020 to December 2020.

Section Governance Provide details of your section’s governance activity during the period between September 2019 and August 2020.

Business Meeting Copy and paste below (or attach separately) the agenda and draft/approved meeting minutes from the section business meeting which include a count of members present and summary of decisions made at this meeting.

American Sociological Association Section on Labor & Labor Movements Business Meeting Minutes (by Kate Maich) August 8, 2020 Agenda: Call to order Awards Awards committees for 2021 Programming for 2021 Mentorship discussion Membership report Treasurer’s report

I. Call to Order (Tom Juravich) a. Welcome to all, virtually! b. 28 people in attendance, via Zoom a. Process issues: using the chat, making a stack c. Thanks to outgoing Chair Gay Seidman for a great job for our Section d. Welcome to incoming council member, Rocio Rosales, and incoming graduate student representative, Sarah Mason e. Welcome (back) to Jeff Rothstein, Chair Elect

II. Awards a. Distinguished Scholarly Book Award i. Erynn Masi de Casanova, Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador, ILR Press, 2019 ii. Presented by Jasmine Kerrissey, Chair b. Distinguished Scholarly Paper Award

i. Gretchen Purser, “Day Labor Agencies, Backdoor Hires and the Spread of Unfree Labor,” Anthropology of Work Review ii. Honorable Mention: Manuel Rosaldo, “The Antinomies of Successful Mobilization: Colombian Recyclers Manoeuvre between Dispossession and Exploitation,” Development and Change, 2019 iii. Presented by Vanesa Ribas, Chair c. Distinguished Student Paper Award i. Yewon Andrea Lee, “Organizing Workers Beyond the Factory Walls: Self-Employed Tenant Shopkeepers in Seoul Subverting Urban Spaces for Workers’ Power” ii. Presented by Lu Zhang, Chair

III. Asking for Volunteers for Committees (Revised versions, 8/20) a. Best Graduate Student Paper i. Rocio Rosales, Chair ii. Yewon Lee iii. Martha Ecker iv. Amanda Pullman b. Best Article Award i. Lu Zhang, Chair ii. Barry Eidlin iii. Jeff Sallaz iv. Jeff Stilley c. Best Book Award i. Vanesa Ribas, Chair ii. Paolo Marinaro iii. Mary Ann Clawson iv. Sara Mason d. Program Committee i. Tom Juravich, Chair ii. Ruth Milkman iii. Kate Maich iv. Jeff Rothstein e. Nominations Committee i. Gay Seidman f. Membership Committee i. Gay Sideman, Chair ii. Tom Juravich iii. Jeff Rothstein iv. Belinda Lum v. Vanesa Ribas vi. Lu Zhang vii. Rocio Rosales

IV. Dan Clawson Award Committee a. Belinda Lum, Chair

i. Split up into two parts: 1. Writing up the specifics of the Award: Scholar/Activist and Lifetime Achievement Award a. Really acknowledging that Dan inspired us to be responsible for our communities and stand up for justice 2. Serve on the Inaugural Committee, in the Spring a. Calls for Nominations in November, Decisions in the Spring

V. Special/New Committees: a. Writing up the Draft of the Dan Clawson Award Announcement i. Belinda Lum, Chair ii. Carolina Bank Muñoz iii. Jasmine Kerrissey iv. Mary Ann Clawson b. Committee to Evaluate Submissions for Dan Clawson Award i. Belinda Lum, Chair ii. Gay Seidman iii. Chris Tilly iv. Gretchen Purser c. Mentoring i. Chris Tilly ii. Erynn Casanova

VI. Programming for 2021 (Tom Juravich) a. Proposing Labor Sections and a Mini-Conference i. Sharing the Draft, edits by Tom Juravich, Gay Seidman, Ruth Milkman and Kate Maich ii. Discussion of how the ongoing virus will continue to shape research, and research won’t necessarily be ready to present soon iii. Framing things broadly, thinking about participation (Barry Eidlin) 1. Not just on Covid! (Ruth Milkman) iv. ILO Framework around the Future of Work idea (Erin Hatton) v. Social Movements and Labor (Chris Tilly) vi. Doing something with the labor movement in downtown Chicago

VII. Mentoring (Tom Juravich) a. Now is the time for mentoring for emerging new scholars b. Idea to run Zoom sessions in October, November, December when the dust settles, and discuss various topics in break-out rooms c. It will be tough, but we can do some work to be of assistance d. Can be about the job market, but also earlier research and labor angles (Vanesa Ribas)

VIII. Membership Report (Kate Maich ) a. YTD Numbers = 324 in August

b. Need to get to 400 for next ASA

IX. Treasurer’s Report (Kate Maich) a. Current balance of $3,073 b. We donated our reception budget to the ASA Minority Fellowship Fund

X. Meeting Adjourned—and starting the Labor and Labor Movement Roundtable Sessions! (Kate Maich sending participants off into break-out rooms)

Council Meeting Copy and paste below (or attach separately) the agenda and draft/approved meeting minutes of all council meetings. Minutes must include a list of council members present and a summary of decisions made. Minutes are not a transcript of proceedings but a listing of what discussions took place and official actions taken.

American Sociological Association Section on Labor & Labor Movements Council Meeting Minutes (by Kate Maich) August 6, 2020 4-5 pm https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/95272061465

Present: Tom Juravich (Incoming Chair); Gay Seidman (Outgoing Chair); Jeffrey Rothstein (Chair Elect); Kate Maich (Secretary/Treasurer); Belina Lum (Former Chair); Vanesa Ribas (Council Member); Rocio Rosales (Incoming Council Member); Lu Zhang (Council Member); Sarah Mason (Incoming Graduate Student Representative)

Council Members Not Present: Jasmine Kerrissey (Council Member); Amelia Fortunato (Outgoing Graduate Student Representative)

I. Introduction of New Council Members: a. New Council Members: Rocio Rosales (Incoming Council Member) and Sarah Mason (Incoming Graduate Student Representative)

II. Membership Report a. YTD Numbers = 354 i. Low Income: 20 ii. Student: 123 iii. Regular: 211 b. Final Date to join section was September 30 c. Needed 400 for three section panels in 2021

III. Treasurer’s Report (Kate Maich)

a. Current balance of $3,111 b. Reminder that we decided to donate our reception balance to support the ASA Minority Fellowship, as did many other sections

IV. Discussion on Honoring Dan Clawson (All) a. Something in honor of a person who is a scholar/activist b. Somewhat like a lifetime achievement award? c. Should this be limited to section members, or sociologists? d. Defining labor more broadly e. Belinda Lum will chair that process and get a committee

V. Discussion on Mentoring (Tom Juravich) a. In our “new normal”, what should mentoring look like? i. Not sure this will work, faculty are overwhelmed with their own students (Gay Seidman) ii. Especially given the market and fewer jobs (All) b. Informal Encounters idea through Zoom Idea, Month to Month i. Faculty can offer ideas without a long-term commitment to mentorship ii. Somewhat similar to 2008-09 recession, practical strategy sessions iii. Can also discuss R-1 positions and beyond, think about public teaching colleges, etc.

VI. Mini-Conference Content Discussion a. How much is too much focus on Covid-19? b. Adding teachers into the mix c. Comparative historical examples i. How do we define who is essential, etc? ii. Recognizing people of color being severely impacted d. Global production, supply chain track idea e. Disaster capitalism idea, open to theorizing

VII. Logistics of Mini-Conference a. Labor events will be on Sunday i. Mini-conference on Friday, the first day? (Jeff Rothstein) b. Involving other sections? (Social Movements, OOW) c. Location: Jane Addams’ house co-sponsored us previously i. Bob Bruno at U of I Chicago—great partner for us ii. DePaul has lots of space

VIII. Committees a. Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Chair b. Distinguished Scholarly Article Award Chair c. Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award d. Formation of other Committees to be discussed at Business Meeting

IX. Meeting Adjourned

Awards Provide a list of section awards and awardees conferred in the past year.

Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award

• Winner: Francoise Carre and Chris Tilly, Where Bad Jobs are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies. Russel Sage Foundation. 2017. • Honorable Mention: Adam Reich and Peter Bearman. Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart(The Middle Range Series). Columbia University Press. 2018.

Distinguished Scholarly Article Award

• Winner: Diana Fu (2017) “Fragmented Control: Governing Contentious Labor Organizations in China.” Governance. Vol. 30, No. 3. 445-462

LLM and Critical Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award

• Winner: Madison Van Oort, "The Emotional Labor of Surveillance: Digital Control in the Fast Fashion Retail" • Honorable Mention: Kathleen Griesbach, "Dioquis: Being Without Doing in the Migrant Agricultural Labor Process"

2020 Finances Provide a narrative on how the 2020 budget matched with actual expenses and income from 2020. Please account for any substantive differences.

There was only one major change between the 2020 budget and the section’s actual expenses. Because the meeting was held remotely, the section did not fund a reception. Instead, like many other sections, the council unanimously agreed to donate the funds that had been allocated for a reception to the ASA’s Minority Fellowship Fund.