[URPE] Call for papers: "Strategic Decision-Making in Labor and Social Movement Organizations", UCLA, May 2010

[Chris Tilly]

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Call for Papers

 

“Strategic Decision-Making in Labor and Social Movement Organizations”

 

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Hosted by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)

and the UCLA Sociology Department’s Work, Labor, and Social Movements
Working Group

UCLA

Los Angeles, CA

May 28, 2010

 

The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) and the
Sociology Department’s Work, Labor, and Social Movements working group
invites 1-2 page proposals for an interdisciplinary graduate student
conference on strategic decision-making in labor and social movement
organizations. The conference aims to create a forum for discussion of the
historical and emerging forms of strategic decision-making in organizations
struggling to protect or advance the interests of their
constituents/members, and to highlight scholarship with important practical
implications. Discussants will include both scholars and activists. We are
especially interested in papers that analyze innovative strategies and
tactics. The conference seeks proposals from a wide range of scholarly
fields in the social sciences, including, but not limited to: sociology,
political science, anthropology, ethnic studies departments, and urban
planning. 

 

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

 

¨       The effect of different institutional sources of knowledge on
strategic decision-making

¨       Strategic decision-making in coalition movements

¨       Different “framing” strategies and how they affect resource
mobilization 

¨       The determinants of strategic and tactical innovation

¨       International and historical approaches to strategic decision-making

¨       Strategic decision-making in transnational labor and social movement
organizations 

 

 

Please send all proposals by March 29th 2010, to Anthony Ocampo:
anthony.ocampo at gmail.com

 

 

 

 

Chris Tilly

Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and Professor of
Urban Planning

IRLE

UCLA

10945 Le Conte Ave., Suite 2107

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1478

Phone 310-267-4738, Fax 310-794-6403

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