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Invitation to submit a manuscript for a special issue of Górnośląskie Studia Socjologiczne. Seria Nowa

The editorial team of  Górnośląskie Studia Socjologiczne. Seria Nowa cordially invites everyone interested to submit their manuscripts for the upcoming 2025 issue.

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The history of Górnośląskie Studia Socjologiczne  dates back to the 1960s, and since 2010, it has been published as part of a new publishing series, gaining increasing significance. Thanks to the editorial team’s efforts, this journal of the Silesian sociological community serves as an important communication tool not only for sociologists, allowing a wide readership to become acquainted with the research outcomes of various academic centres that take an interdisciplinary approach to social phenomena.

The publication is available in the BazHum database of the Polish History Museum in Warsaw. The journal is also available in electronic version at Central and Eastern European Online. Since 2016  Górnośląskie Studia Socjologiczne. Seria Nowa has been indexed in the ERIH+ database. Notably, in databases and libraries, the journal is regarded as a reissue and continuation of Górnośląskie Studia Socjologiczne originally published by the Silesian Institute of Science in Katowice. All articles published in our journal are assigned a digital identifier in the form of a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number and are made available free of charge under the Open Access system. The journal is listed in the ministerial register of academic journals.

The working title of the issue planned for 2025 is: Współczesne wyzwania podmiotowości i humanizacji pracy (Contemporary Challenges of Subjectivity and the Humanization of Work ).

The issue will be edited by Sławomira Kamińska-Berezowska, PhD, and Assoc. Prof. Rafał Muster from the Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

An essential context of this invitation includes critical and traditional approaches to the sociological understanding and study of work, with this invitation being directed both to researchers using qualitative and quantitative research methods, as well as to those conducting theoretical analyses.

The goal of the issue will be to examine the challenges of subjective treatment of employees of different categories, including those differentiated by gender, national origin, age, education, health status, physical ability, or income levels. The aim is to capture the multidimensionality of work, including its physical, intellectual, managerial, educational, or emotional aspects. In connection with the contemporary multitude of crises, primarily caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and, subsequently, the war in Ukraine, it seems very important to pay attention to the challenges of transformation and humanization of work, which increasingly is performed not only on-site but also remotely or in a hybrid model. In this latter context, the redefinition of work itself and the fluidity of its boundaries, especially when it is performed outside the company’s premises, appear to be very interesting issues.

Proposed topics in the issue planned for 2025

  • experiences of platform work from the employees’ perspective and the subjectivity of the individual and their labour rights,
  • critical studies on the neoliberal understanding of work,
  • challenges in fulfilling the promises of professional activation for people with disabilities,
  • inequality and discrimination in the workplace (ageism, mobbing, gender pay gap),
  • precarization of employed individuals,
  • emotional labour and resilience to negative emotions at work,
  • formal and informal caregiving work,
  • new ways of performing work and/or new job categories,
  • pandemic crisis and changes in the work model,
  • contexts of individual subjectivity at various stages of the recruitment process,
  • contemporary models and trajectories of professional development,
  • problems and challenges of integrating migrants and refugees into the labour market,
  • work-life balance – trend or necessity,
  • supporting employees during a mental health crisis,
  • outplacement – challenges, good practices,
  • relationships between employers, management, and trade unions in companies and the labour market,
  • digitalization of work processes, artificial intelligence, and the future of the labour market,
  • generations in the labour market (generational differences, cooperation among generationally diverse individuals).

The above issues are suggestions and should be treated as general guidelines for formulating the actual topic of the work.

We especially invite the participants of the conference Social Boundaries of Work. Critical Labour Studies in the Times of a Polycrisis  (Conference organized on October 16-18, 2024 in Wroclaw, Poland).

Abstracts in Polish or English (approx. 700 characters, including spaces) shall be sent to the editors of the Issue (slawomira.kaminska-berezowska@us.edu.pl; rafal.muster@us.edu.pl) by 30.11.2024 – use “GSS2025” as the subject line of the email. Abstracts shall include (in addition to the description of the work) the author’s name, affiliation, and email contact.

After the initial acceptance of abstracts by the editors of the Issue (by 15.12.2024), we will be waiting for your finished manuscripts. The author should register on the journal’s website or log in if they already have an account in the system.

Deadline for submitting finished manuscripts for publication is 28.02.2025. Manuscripts can be submitted in either Polish or English. We kindly ask you to submit the finished manuscripts via the journal’s editorial platform per the accepted editorial guidelines. More information can be found on the Information for Authors site (us.edu.pl).

The editors of the Issue and the Editor-in-Chief are responsible for making decisions regarding the selection of articles for publication from the manuscripts submitted to the journal. The editors are bound by the ethical and intellectual standards established for academic publications. The evaluation of submitted articles is solely based on their content. Each article is reviewed by two independent reviewers from outside the academic unit affiliated with the author of the publication, per the “double-blind review process” rule.

We cordially invite you to submit manuscript proposals!

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