CRIMT’s Network K will once again engage in its activities during the upcoming annual SASE meeting, scheduled to be held in Montreal, Canada, from July 9 to July 12, 2025. This event will be conducted in person.
The call for proposals is now open, with a hard deadline set for December 16, 2024.
Network K organizers are especially keen on case studies of experimentation, focusing on the documentation, comparison, and contrast of ongoing experimental processes initiated by world-of-work actors in response to the diverse crises and disruptions affecting work and employment. These studies may include an analysis of the strategies utilized by stakeholders engaged in the re-regulation of work and employment, as well as an evaluation of the impact of these experiments on better or worse work.
We invite a diverse range of case studies and analyses on these topics. This includes research exploring the positive, negative, and mixed effects of experimentation on working conditions— including, but not limited to, studies addressing precarious work, health and safety concerns, demographic shifts, political transitions, and responses to technological and environmental challenges. We are also interested in papers and sessions that explore new actor strategies and action repertoires, social innovation, sustainable development goals, global supply chains, and efforts to improve work and employment in emerging economies. Contributions that examine theoretical frameworks for experimentation and the re-regulation of work and employment, as well as methodological approaches for assessing work quality, are also welcomed. We also encourage submissions that, while engaging with these issues, incorporate gender, race, intersectionality, and citizenship status into the analysis of experimentation and re-regulation.
SASE uses Oxford Abstracts for its submissions. See full details on how to submit individual papers or sessions on SASE’s website : (https://sase.org/event/2025-montreal/#submission-guidelines). If you already have an account, you can use it to submit. If not, you will be prompted to create an account.
Attention to some key guidelines: Abstract requirement for Network K is 500 words. No author may present more than two papers, regardless of whether the papers have co-authors; no paper may be submitted twice to different networks; you need to be a member of SASE to participate in the conference (https://sase.org/join-sase/). As per SASE guidelines, please keep in mind that we welcome individual submissions and panels in various formats (round-table discussion panels, pre-formed panels with multiple papers, and authors-meet-critics sessions).
We strongly encourage you to submit your work to Network K, which is renowned for the high caliber and dedication of its members, as well as the substantial engagement during sessions and the quality of feedback and discussions around the various contributions. To date, Network K has successfully organized in-person meetings in cities including Lyon, Berkeley, Kyoto, New York, Amsterdam, and Limerick, in addition to online meetings held in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. The gathering in Limerick last year witnessed remarkable participation. Our goal is to cultivate a similar level of enthusiasm this year in Montreal. Furthermore, for those who attended, we view this event as an excellent opportunity to continue the productive discussions that began during this October’s CRIMT international conference, also hosted in Montreal.
We look forward to seeing you at our next Network K meetings within the SASE Conference framework.
The SASE Network K Coordinators
Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, Peter Fairbrother, Isabelle Ferreras, Maria Gonzalez, Christian Lévesque, Gregor Murray, Nicolas Roby
