Feminisms, work and trade union action: dialogues between Europe and Latin America

 Feminisms, work and trade union action: dialogues between Europe and Latin America

CALL FOR ESSAYS

REGISTRATION CLOSES: JULY 17, 2023

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COMPETITION

El Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), along with the Institute of Social Studies in Contexts of Inequalities of the National University of José C. Paz (IESCODE – UNPAZ), el University Institute for Women's Studies of the University of Valencia and the CLACSO Working Group “What work for what future?” They organize Call for essays “Feminisms, work and trade union action: dialogues between Europe and Latin America” with the purpose of encouraging research and critical reflection on dynamics, demands and regulatory frameworks resulting from the confluence of feminist ideas and practices in the labor and union sphere.

Starting at Given the issues and themes outlined in the title of this competition, we invite the submission of essays that address one of these topics:

  • Labor standards, or regulatory proposals, that incorporate proposals from the feminist movement, at the state or supranational level.
  • Effectiveness of regulatory frameworks aimed at recognizing care work in the context of paid employment.
  • Connections between the feminist movement and the trade union movement in the fight to reduce gender gaps in paid work environments: wage gap, segmentation, labor regulations, or others
  • Experiences of joint work between unions from different countries on the issues mentioned above.

The Call has the collaboration and support of: Fredrich Ebert Foundation (Argentina); May 1st Foundation (Spain); Peace and Solidarity Foundation (Basque Country) and the Pau i Solidaritat Foundation (Valencian Country).

Feminisms, work and union action

  • Applicants must be researchers and/or members of social organizations and unions. Preference will be given to those affiliated with one of the CLACSO network member centers. Consult the list of member centers at: clacso.org.ar/clacso/centros_miembros_clacso/inicio.php
  • Each applicant may only participate with one essay in this call.
  • Essays authored individually or collectively with up to three authors will be accepted. In the case of collective essays, at least one of the authors must be affiliated with one of the member centers of the CLACSO network.
  • If it is a collective authorship, gender parity must be respected and one of the members must be selected as responsible for registering the essay.
  • The essays must be an original and unpublished work by the author(s) and must not have been previously submitted to any publisher or call for publication.
  • Provisional versions and works that have already been published or that have received any local, national or international award will not be accepted.
  • Members of the Steering Committee or staff of CLACSO, as well as the management of the University Institute of Women's Studies of the University of Valencia or IESCODE - UNPAZ, may not apply.
  • Submissions will not be accepted from individuals who are currently participating in research calls or who have won awards in research competitions organized by CLACSO in the last 3 years.
  • Applications from individuals who have previously received scholarships or awards will be accepted, provided that at least two (2) years have passed since the delivery of the revised version of the final report and all contractual obligations duly undertaken have been fulfilled.
  • Essays should have a maximum length of 80.000 (eighty thousand) characters including spaces and footnotes. They must be written in Times New Roman 12-point font, single-spaced, and adhere to CLACSO's editorial guidelines, as well as APA + GENDER style.
  • The essay format will be free, respecting the conventions of presenting an academic and publishable text.
  • They must be signed with a pseudonym and the name of the authors will not be included anywhere in the essay, including footnotes.
  • Once the winning essays have been selected, the organizing bodies may request the authors to make the necessary adjustments and changes for publication.
  • Final essays written in Spanish and Portuguese will be accepted.
  • The academic evaluation of the essays will be carried out by an Evaluation Committee of five people, coordinated by professors Nora Goren and Adoración Guamán and made up of those designated by CLACSO, IESCODE – UNPAZ and the Institute of Women's Studies-UVEG.
  • Applications will be reviewed for their formal and administrative aspects to ensure compliance with the call for proposals. Proposals that do not meet the established requirements will not proceed to the content evaluation by the Committee.
  • In evaluating and selecting the winning essays for this call, consideration will be given not only to the quality of the essays submitted and their consistency with the objectives and standards established herein, but also to gender equity and the diversity of regional representation.
  • The Committee will draft and publish the opinion, which is final and cannot be appealed.
  • All situations not covered in this document will be resolved by the Committee.
  • The competition will award a prize to each of the 10 best-rated essays, consisting of:
    • The winning essay will receive a prize equivalent to 500 US dollars.[1]One author of this winning essay will receive support to participate in an international seminar.
    • The next four selected essays will each receive a prize equivalent to 250 US dollars.[2].
    • The following five selected essays will also participate in the publication of a collective printed and digital book, as will the other five winners.
  • The winning essays will be published in print and digital media, giving them wide publicity and dissemination.
  • The authors will assign to CLACSO the original publication rights of the works.

 

[1] The final amounts will be those resulting from the deduction of transfer costs and relevant taxes, as well as the exchange rates in force in each country.

[2] The final amounts will be those resulting from the deduction of transfer costs and relevant taxes, as well as the exchange rates in force in each country.

It is mandatory that the submission be made through the online registration system provided by CLACSO. Printed submissions and submissions sent by email will not be accepted. It is recommended to access the online system to review the registration form. 

                    

  1. Access the CLACSO website clacso.org.
  2. Register in the CLACSO Single Registration System (SUIC). The generated username and password will be required each time you wish to access the system to consult, modify, add, or submit information for this or any other CLACSO activity. Applicants who are part of collective proposals must open a single form This will include all researchers on the team. One of the authors must also be designated as responsible for registration. This same person will receive the monetary award if the trial is selected by the Evaluation Committee.
  3. Identify the essay by indicating its title and the pseudonym(s) of the applicant(s). Submissions with pseudonyms that correspond to the applicant's first and/or last name(s) will not be accepted. Once the corresponding fields are completed, the system will enable the upload of the following data.
  4. Applicants must complete the sworn statement on the registration form indicating their affiliation with a CLACSO Member Center. The list of member centers can be found at: www.clacso.org.ar/clacso/centros_miembros_clacso/inicio.php.
  5. Complete the personal and academic data form and attach your resume in free format; a digital copy of your identity document, passport or ID card and a photograph.
  6. The essay must be attached to the form.
  7. Once registration is closed, the system will produce an electronic certificate of receipt that will serve as proof.

IMPORTANT DATES AND WORK SCHEDULE
Call for applications valid until: July 17, 2023
Registration form opens: February 18, 2023
Winners announced: September 10, 2023
Book publication: end of 2023.
Presentation of the work: end of 2023.

The results will be published on the CLACSO website.

The winners will be contacted by email.

Queries: [email protected]


OPINION – Feminisms, work and trade union action: dialogues between Europe and Latin America

The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), together with the Institute of Social Studies in Contexts of Inequalities of the National University of José C. Paz (IESCODE – UNPAZ), the University Institute of Women's Studies of the University of Valencia and the CLACSO Working Group “What work for what future?” presents the results of the call for essays “Feminisms, work and trade union action: dialogues between Europe and Latin America”, organized jointly.


The Call has the collaboration and support of the Fredrich Ebert Foundation (Argentina); May 1st Foundation (Spain); Peace and Solidarity Foundation (Basque Country) and the Pau i Solidaritat Foundation (Valencian Country).

Based on the problems and themes that motivated this Call for Submissions, essays were invited that dealt with one of these topics:

• Labor standards, or regulatory proposals, that incorporate proposals from the feminist movement, at the state or supranational level.
• Effectiveness of regulatory frameworks aimed at recognizing care work in the context of paid employment.
• Connections between the feminist movement and the trade union movement in the fight to reduce gender gaps in paid work environments: wage gap, segmentation, labor regulations, or others
• Experiences of joint work between unions from different countries on the issues mentioned above.

The 10 proposals received were deemed suitable for evaluation by the International Committee. The Committee considered the quality, relevance, coherence, and timeliness of the proposals, in accordance with the Call for Proposals guidelines.


The evaluation process was carried out by an International Committee made up of the following experts: Andrea Andújar (Argentina), Beatriz Plaza (Spain), Marcela Hernández (Mexico) and Mónica Sladogna (Argentina).
The evaluation, based on anonymized work, assessed the quality of the essay proposals submitted, as well as their soundness and intellectual contribution to the issues addressed in the Call for Papers.

The winning essay is presented below. In addition to publication in the digital book, it will receive a prize equivalent to US$500, and one of its authors will receive support to participate in an international seminar.

Researchers

CLACSO Member Center Institution

Central country that endorses

Essay title

Camila Sapp – Manuela Fernández Bocco – María Cecilia Bustos Moreschi

Research Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities – National University of Córdoba

Argentina

Unionization around care work: Crossings of transoceanic experiences 

The list of the next 4 selected essays, each of which will be supported with a prize equivalent to 250 US dollars and will also be included in the digital book, is as follows:

Researchers

CLACSO Member Center Institution

Central country that endorses

Essay title

Cecilia Isaí Silva Zárate

Center for Sociological, Economic, Political and Anthropological Research – Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Peru

Between discipline and flexibility: The alliances of the Workers' Union and
Domestic Workers of the Lima Region (SINTTRAHOL) during the period 2015-2021

Janeth Paola Cortes Piraquive

Institute of Political Studies and International Relations – National University of Colombia

Colombia

Care, precarity and the effectiveness of the norm: between the communal movement in Colombia and the association of domestic and care workers in Spain

Beatriz Bustos-Torres

University Center for Social Sciences and Humanities – University of Guadalajara

Mexico

Paid domestic work: recognition and redistribution? Trends before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Francy Angelica Riveros Santa

Institute for Educational Research and Pedagogical Development 

Colombia

The Gender Roundtable
A space for collective bargaining and the construction of public policies?

 

This ruling is irrevocable and cannot be appealed.

Buenos Aires, October 11, 2023.