[Commlist] LaborTech Call for Nominations: Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards

LaborTech Call for Nominations: Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social 
Justice Awards

Labor Tech Research Network 
<https://www.labortechresearchnetwork.org/> (LaborTech) invites 
submissions for our second annual Book and Graduate Student Paper 
Awards, and first annual Social Justice Award.

*About Us*
LaborTech is an interdisciplinary and transnational group of 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 see the 'About Us' 
<http://labortechresearchnetwork.org/index.php/about-us/> page on our 
website as well as examples of topics in our decade-long Speaker Series 
<http://labortechresearchnetwork.org/index.php/speaker-series/>.

*Call for Nominations*
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:
- have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact;
- advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global 
society; and
- address our core focus on labor and technology and which may 
simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism.

/Eligibility/:  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.

/Prizes/:  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 400+ 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.

/Deadline and Contact/:  The deadline for submissions is *July 1, 
2023.*  Send questions to (labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com)>.  See below for separate 
criteria and instructions for the various awards.


  *Book and Graduate Student Paper Awards*

*Submission Details:*
Please submit the following items in English to 
(labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com)>:
1. An electronic version in PDF format (contact us if only print form is 
available for books)
2. The author's contact email address
3.  A one-page nomination letter stating the significance and 
contribution of the work
4.  For Graduate Student Paper, please also include in the cover letter:
a) when the PhD was started and, if applicable, granted
b) if the paper was published, then state when and in what journal*
*c) 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.

*Book Award Criteria:*
- Monographs only (no edited volumes or anthologies)
- Multiple authors accepted
- Published in the last three years (2021-23)
/
/*Graduate Student Paper Award Criteria:*
- Written by students currently enrolled in a graduate program or who 
have graduated in 2023
- Single-authored pieces are preferred, but co-authored pieces will be 
accepted with the above conditions in Submission Details
- Papers may be published within the last three years (2021-23) or 
unpublished
- Page length: 25-40 pages, double-spaced


  *Social Justice Award *

*Submission details:*
- Fill out this online form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdq_wJIthm5mbq05UVrzIGN6wYARoogkTOkwzTR3n6NLR67Cw/viewform>, 
which includes a few short questions of 400-700 words each,regarding the 
significance and contribution of your social justice activities
- Please submit all items in English.  If you have a submission in 
another language, contact us and we'll attempt to find a translator in 
our group.

*Criteria:*
- 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:

  * tech workers
  * labor organizers, whether in unions or other workers' associations
  * feminist, immigrant, community, and ethnic rights activists
  * 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.
  * people creating design alternatives for social justice, like
    engineers and designers
- Open to individuals, small groups, and if appropriate, organizations

- 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.
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