<div dir="ltr">Hi All, <div><br></div><div>LaborTech is seeking nominations for its upcoming book and graduate student paper awards. There is also a social justice award for those who are actively involved in labor organizing. If you know of anyone's work published in the last three years on the topic of labor and technology, please submit a nomination! Details below!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Sarah<br><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Karina Rider</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:karina.rider19@gmail.com">karina.rider19@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM<br>Subject: [Labor Tech] LaborTech Call for Nominations: Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards 2025<br>To: <a href="mailto:labor-tech@googlegroups.com">labor-tech@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:labor-tech@googlegroups.com">labor-tech@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">Labor Tech Research Network (<a href="https://www.labortechresearchnetwork.org/" target="_blank">LaborTech</a>) invites submissions for our fourth annual
Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards!<br>
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*<strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">About Us*</span></strong><br>
LaborTech is an interdisciplinary and transnational group of over 700 experts concerned with the intersection of technology and labor. We aim to reframe conversations about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social justice, and incorporate
themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism. We also seek to foster an interdisciplinary, cross-regional, and community-oriented space for discussion, collaboration, and empowerment. For a deeper discussion of our mission, please visit our webpage.
For a list of our previous winners, <a href="https://labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards" target="_blank">
click here</a>.<br>
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*<strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Call for Nominations*</span></strong><br>
As part of our mission to promote scholarship and activism towards more equitable forms of labor and technology, LaborTech is announcing a call for three awards: Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice. These will honor projects which:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global society; and<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">address our core focus on labor and technology and which may simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">*<em><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Eligibility*</span></em>: Works from all disciplines and methodologies are eligible for nomination.
Nominations are open to members and non-members of LaborTech. We welcome self-nominations especially, but also nominations from publishers, colleagues, and others familiar with the projects. We encourage submissions from women, people of color, queer communities,
and those from the global south. LaborTech executive board members and committee chairs, as well as books published in our Labor and Technology series with MIT Press, are ineligible for these awards.<br>
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*<em><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Prizes*</span></em>: Winners receive a small cash award and a certificate (which we hope to expand further in years ahead, as we are still a growing nonprofit organization :). In addition, we offer our infrastructural
supports at LaborTech to promote visibility of your projects: by connecting with our globally dispersed expert members; by making a video of winners and distributing it both in and outside of our network to enhance public attention and exposure; and by creating
a space and opportunity for sharing your work at out end of year virtual celebration. Winners will be announced in December.<br>
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*<em><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Deadline and Contact*</span></em>: The deadline for submissions is <strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">June 1, 2025.</span></strong> Send questions to <a href="mailto:labortechresearchnetwork@gmail.com" target="_blank">labortechresearchnetwork@gmail.com</a>.
See below for separate criteria and instructions for the various awards.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">CRITERIA AND SUBMISSION DETAILS<u></u><u></u></span></h1>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">*Book Award*</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">Criteria:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Monographs only (no edited volumes or anthologies)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Multiple authors accepted<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Published in the last three years (2023-25).<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">If your book is not out by the deadline for this award, please send proofs from the manuscript and a letter from the press editor confirmation publication before the end of 2025.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">Submission details:<br>
Please submit the following items in English to <a href="mailto:labortechresearchnetwork@gmail.com" target="_blank">labortechresearchnetwork@gmail.com</a>:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">An electronic version in PDF format (contact us if only print form is available for books)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The author's contact email address<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">A one-page nomination letter stating the significance and contribution of the work<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">*</span></em><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">Graduate Student Paper*</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">Criteria:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Written by students currently enrolled in a graduate program or who have graduated in 2024<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Single-authored pieces are preferred, but co-authored pieces will be accepted with the above conditions in Submission Details<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">If a co-authored piece,
<u>the first author must be a graduate student.</u><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Papers may be published within the last three years (2023-25) or unpublished<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Page length: 25-40 pages, double-spaced<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">Submission details:<br>
Please submit the following items in English to <a href="mailto:labortechresearchnetwork@gmail.com" target="_blank">labortechresearchnetwork@gmail.com</a>:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Electronic version in PDF format<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The author's email address<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">A one-page nomination letter stating:<u></u><u></u></span></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">the significance and contribution of the work<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">when the PhD was started and, if applicable, granted<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">if the paper was published, then state when and in what journal<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">if co-authored with faculty/advisors/other PhDs, please include a paragraph attesting to the student's dominant role in generating the paper (such as working on its theoretical components, doing the
research, and writing it up). In addition, we ask that the cover letter is signed (digitally, or otherwise) by all co-authors, so that they are aware of this submission.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e">*Social Justice Award*</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#2b373e"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Those who are interfacing with technology in the course of their organizing, or who are organizing against inequitable technologies, in the context of labor, feminism, anti-racism, transnationalism
struggles. This may include:<u></u><u></u></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">tech workers<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">labor organizers, whether in unions or other workers' associations<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">feminist, immigrant, community, and ethnic rights activists<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">scholar-activists. For this, we are not looking for purely academic work (i.e., scholars who are studying activism), but rather those who are participating in activism themselves, or who are promoting
collaborations between activists and scholars.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">people creating design alternatives for social justice, like engineers and designers <u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Open to individuals, small groups, and if appropriate, organizations<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Focus will be on a particular campaign or project that is done with the aim of social justice regarding labor and/or technology. These projects may be broad (such as educating the public on a social
justice issue) or specific (such as organizing a protest for higher wages). They may use a variety of strategies (e.g., art, design, social media, marches and strikes, policy interventions, etc.). We'd like to honor activists who, through these projects,
have developed novel approaches or who are pioneers in the fight for more equitable relations of technology and/or labor.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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Submission details:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2rjrKiOp6sUqRvSE5EIXcV5dGyibnky6V0bU5O2cnSqCFAw/viewform?usp=sharing" target="_blank">this Google Form</a>: It has a few short questions
regarding the significance and contribution of your social justice activities<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Answers to this form should be a <strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">minimum 400 words each</span></strong>, in order to give us enough understanding of the nominee's accomplishments.
No single sentence answers please!<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:#2b373e;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Please submit all items in English. However, if you have a submission in another language, contact us and we'll attempt to find a translator in our group.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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