Work in the Global Economy is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that promotes understanding of work, and connections to work, in all forms and dimensions. This can mean a focus on labour processes, labour markets, labour organising and labour reproduction. The editors welcome wide-ranging contributions that extend and deepen connections between all aspects of the division of labour: from the production networks that underpin the global economy, to the gendered and racial divides that shape how work is allocated and organised. Read more about Work in the Global Economy.
Frequency: May and November
Gender and Justice is open for submissions!
Gender and Justice is open for submissions!
Aims and scope
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
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Work in the Global Economy is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that promotes understanding of work, and connections to work, in all forms and dimensions. This can mean a focus on labour processes, labour markets, labour organising and labour reproduction. The editors welcome wide-ranging contributions that extend and deepen connections between all aspects of the division of labour: from the production networks that underpin the global economy, to the gendered and racial divides that shape how work is allocated and organised.
The journal is associated with, and rooted in, the traditions of the International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) which was established in 1983. The labour process tradition reflects certain priorities, including analysis of the pathways between capitalist political economy and the changing workplace; the centrality of work and its management and regulation to economy and society; and the development of a variety of materialist understandings of those principals.
However, like the conference, the journal adopts a pluralist approach to theory, method and discipline. We also encourage contributions from both emerging and existing scholars. Foregrounding the diverse interests that compose labour and capital in the Global South and North, the journal promotes interdisciplinary and international agendas that have broad appeal to scholars and students of the sociology of work, employment relations and human resource management, organisational studies, political economy, labour geography, labour history and development studies.
We recognise that the journal is being launched at a time of profound change in economy and society that impact on work and employment. Consequently, Work in the Global Economy will be at the forefront of analytical and policy debates exploring issues such as digitalisation, automation, climate change and global health crisis as sites of contestation and transformation.
The journal has an independent editorial structure that reflects geographic, disciplinary and social diversity. We are committed to delivering an intellectually rigorous, supportive and fair reviewing process that can strengthen the vitality and engagement of academic communities.
Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statement outlines the ways in which we seek to ensure that equity, diversity and inclusion are integral to all aspects of our publishing, and how we might encourage and drive positive change.
“Amid the resurgence of interest in work and labour around the world, this new journal, with its impressive editorial team, is a promising addition to the field.”
Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA
“The future of work in the global economy is a very hot topic that needs the serious scholarship, grounded in the nature of work and the labour process, that this new journal will provide.”
Jill Rubery, Professor of Comparative Employment Systems, University of Manchester, UK
“At last! A much-needed high-quality, interdisciplinary, international and critical journal covering all aspects of labouring in the global economy.”
Neil Martin Coe, Professor of Economic Geography, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Editorial team: editors.workintheglobaleconomy@gmail.com
Bristol University Press: bup-journals@bristol.ac.uk
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The journal aims to publish original contributions that broaden our understanding of ‘work in the global economy’ (please see the journal's aims and scope for a fuller discussion). Work in the Global Economy welcomes the following contributions:
Supporting Early Career Researchers: Particular attention will be placed on supporting Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to secure publication in the journal (subject to the normal reviewing process). We ask ECRs to indicate their status upon submission to facilitate this. We define ECRs as an individual within eight years of the award of their PhD or within six years of their first academic appointment.
Promoting diversity: We expect authors to problematise race, ethnicity and gender and to reflect diversity in terms of citations and references.
All submissions should be made online at the Work in the Global Economy Editorial Manager website: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wge/default.aspx.
Please ensure you follow the below anonymisation and formatting guidelines.
Initial manuscript submission via Editorial Manager
Manuscripts must be in Word or Rich Text Format (not pdf). New users should first create an account, specify their areas of interest and provide full contact details.
Preparing your anonymised manuscript
Your initial submission must consist of the following separate files:
For help submitting an article via Editorial Manager, please view our online tutorial.
Once a submission has been conditionally accepted, you will be invited to submit a final, non-anonymised version via Editorial Manager.
Checklist: what to include in your final non-anonymised manuscript:
A cover page including:
The main manuscript including:
Editorial review process
All submissions are first desk-reviewed by the editor(s) who will assess whether the manuscript fits the aims and scope as well as the quality standards of the journal. Research articles that are selected to be sent out for review will be evaluated through double anonymous peer review by at least two referees. Work in the Global Economy aims to return the reviews along with an initial decision within two months of submission.
Please also see our Journals editorial policies.
At Bristol University Press we are committed to upholding the highest standards of review and publication ethics in our journals. Bristol Univeristy Press is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE), and will take appropriate action in cases of possible misconduct in line with COPE guidelines.
Find out more about our ethical guidelines.
Work in the Global Economy is published by Bristol University Press. Articles are considered for publication on the understanding that on acceptance the author(s) grant(s) Bristol University Press the exclusive right and licence to publish the article. Copyright remains with the author(s) or other original copyright owners and we will acknowledge this in the copyright line that appears on the published article.
Authors will be asked to sign a journal contributor agreement to this effect, which should be submitted online along with the final manuscript. All authors should agree to the agreement. For jointly authored articles the corresponding author may sign on behalf of co-authors provided that they have obtained the co-authors' consent. The journal contributor agreement can be downloaded here.
Where copyright is not owned by the author(s), the corresponding author is responsible for obtaining the consent of the copyright holder. This includes figures, tables and excerpts. Evidence of this permission should be provided to Bristol University Press. General information on rights and permissions can be found here.
To request permission to reproduce any part of articles published in Work in the Global Economy, please email: bup-permissions@bristol.ac.uk.
For information on what is permissible use for different versions of your article, please see our policy on self archiving and institutional repositories.
In order to improve our accessibility for people with visual impairments, we are now required to ask authors to provide a brief description known as alt text to describe any visual content such as photos, illustrations or figures. It will not be visible in the article but is embedded into the images so a PDF reader can read out the descriptions. See our guidance on writing alt-text.
Download the Endnote output style for Policy Press and Bristol University Press Journals.
Policy Press uses a custom version of the Harvard system of referencing:
Examples
Book:
Bengtson, V.L. and Lowenstein, A. (2003) Global Aging and its Challenge to Families, New Jersey, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Darling, D. (2010) Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, Bristol: Policy Press.
Book with editor:
Bengtson, V.L. and Lowenstein, A. (eds) (2003) Global Aging and its Challenge to Families, 5th edn, New Jersey, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Chapter in book or in multi-authored publication:
Bengtson, V.L. and Lowenstein, A. (2003) Citizenship in action: the lived experiences of citizens with dementia who campaign for social change, in R. Smith, R. Means and K. Keegan (eds) Global Aging and its Challenge to Families, New Jersey, NJ: Transaction Publishers, pp 305–26.
Journal reference:
Williamson, E. and Abrahams, H. A. (2014) A review of the provision of intervention programmes for female victims and survivors of domestic abuse in the UK, Journal of Women and Social Work, 29(1): 178-191. doi: doi.org/10.1177/0886109913516452
Jeffrey, C., Williams, E., de Araujo, P., Fortin-Rochberg, R., O'Malley, T., Hill, A-M., et al (2009) The challenge of politics, Policy & Politics, 36(4): 545–57. doi: doi.org/10.1177/0886108913516454
Website reference:
Womensaid (2016) What is domestic abuse?, https://www.womensaid.org.uk/information-support/what-is-domestic-abuse/.
Giorgos Gouzoulis, Co-Editor in Chief, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Jean Jenkins, Co-Editor in Chief, Cardiff University, UK
Martin Krzywdzinski, Co-Editor in Chief, WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany
Donna Baines, Associate Editor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Paul Brook, Associate Editor, University of Leicester, UK
Rachel Cohen, Associate Editor, City St George’s, University of London, UK
Paul Thompson, Consulting Editor, University of Stirling, UK
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, California State University, Long Beach, US
Mark Anner, Penn State University, US
Maurizio Atzeni, CONICET Center for Labor Studies and Research, Argentina
Stephen Bouquin, Sociology Laboratory of the University of Evry, Paris-Saclay, France
Kendra Briken, University of Strathclyde, UK
Minjie Cai University of Birmingham, UK
Chris Chan, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Gabriella Cioce, Sheffield University Management School, UK
Neil Coe, University of Sydney, Australia
Virginia Doellgast, Cornell Univeristy, US
Tony Dundon, University of Limerick, Ireland
Anita Hammer, King's College London, UK
Bill Harley,University of Melbourne, Australia
Katy Fox-Hodess, Sheffield University, UK
Johanna Hoffbauer, University of Vienna, Austria
Marta Kahancová, Central European Labour Studies Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
Anne Kovalainen, University of Turku, Finland
Bridget Kenny, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University, US
Paula McDonald, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Siobhan McGrath, Clark University, US
Alessandra Mezzadri, SOAS University of London, UK
Sian Moore, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Kirsty Newsome, University of Sheffield, UK
Pun Ngai, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Florence Palpacuer, University of Montpellier, France
Harry Pitts, University of Bristol, UK
Seppo Poutanen, University of Turku, Finland
Phil Taylor, University of Strathclyde, UK
Steven Vallas, Northeastern University, US
Alex Wood, University of Birmingham, UK
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