This special issue for Labour Economics examines labour market dynamics and challenges in the context of global inequality. The collection seeks contributions that explore how inequality shapes labour market outcomes and structures across different economies and regions.

Appel publié par Labour Economics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• January 31, 2027: Submission deadline

Amanda Peticca-Harris, Grenoble Ecole de Management

Annalisa Murgia, University of Milan

Julieta Haidar, Workers' Innovation Centre-CONICET

This special issue examines how digital platforms function as systems that organise and reinforce inequality rather than simply producing it as an outcome. Platform labour operates as survival work for those already positioned within broader structures of inequality, including migrants, workers excluded from formal employment, and women managing care responsibilities. The issue seeks work that connects domains often treated separately—such as legal status, gender, and labour stratification—and explores how these intersect in shaping platform participation across geographical contexts.

Contributors are encouraged to examine how livelihoods are assembled through platformisation across labour, migration, and everyday life, with particular attention to care work and social reproduction. The issue also welcomes research on how workers navigate, adapt to, and contest platform-mediated inequalities through resistance, collective organising, and everyday survival strategies, recognising that agency emerges within the systems that organise inequality itself.

Appel publié par New Technology Work and Employment. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• To what extent do platform-based systems depend on inequality? How do they organise it?
• In what ways are insecurity and risk embedded within platform-based systems?
• How is labour supply structured through marginalised populations within platform economies?
• How are visibility, ratings, access to work, and valuation differentially organised across workers and contexts?
• How are platform systems becoming embedded across domains such as mobility, food, care, logistics, and urban life?
• In what ways do platform arrangements rely on, reproduce, and organise gendered, racialised, classed, generational, ableist, or otherwise undervalued forms of labour?
• How are livelihoods assembled through platform work across contexts shaped by migration, informality, and low incomes?
• How do workers combine multiple income streams, care responsibilities, and relational resources to sustain everyday life?
• What forms of agency, everyday tactics, informal solidarities, survival strategies, resistance, or adaptation emerge in response to inequalities embedded within platform-based systems?
• What methodological approaches can make visible the unequal, relational, embodied, and infrastructural dimensions of platform-mediated work and livelihood?

Timeline

• May 31, 2027: Full-length paper submission deadline

Georgia Allen-Baker, Northumbria University

Philiipa Velija, University of Roehampton

This special issue explores the purpose and meaning of leisure in the early years of child development, from birth to five years, and its role in family wellbeing and social-emotional development. The special issue recognizes leisure practices during this period as foundational yet understudied, shaped by economic resources, cultural norms, gender roles, policy environments, and access to spaces and services.

The call welcomes research examining diverse leisure practices including play, cultural activities, outdoor engagement, travel, and digital leisure across different global contexts. Submissions should critically examine the structural conditions that influence participation and access, considering intersectional inequalities and representation in leisure provision.

Contributions from various theoretical and methodological perspectives are encouraged, including qualitative and quantitative research, with particular interest in interdisciplinary work from sociology, education, public health, psychology, geography, and childhood studies.

Appel publié par Leisure Studies. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Parental values, motivations, and decision-making in leisure for young children
• Negotiation of family time, work-life balance, and leisure priorities
• Intergenerational transmission of leisure preferences and behaviours
• Availability and accessibility of leisure opportunities for early years children
• Urban/rural differences and spatial inequalities
• Role of public, private, and community spaces (parks, museums, libraries, play centres)
• Intersectional inequalities in early years leisure
• Policy and institutional factors shaping access to enrichment
• Inclusion and representation in leisure marketing, programming, and policy
• Comparative and cross-cultural studies of early years leisure practices
• Global leisure trends and cultural transfer in early years programming
• Indigenous and alternative approaches to play and early learning through leisure
• The role of structured and informal enrichment activities in supporting cognitive, social, and emotional development in early childhood
• The balance between adult-led and child-led experiences
• Links between leisure, play, and early childhood development
• Family leisure as a site for bonding, resilience, and wellbeing
• Tensions between structured enrichment and child-led play
• The rise of digital and screen-based leisure for young children
• Parental mediation and digital inequalities
• Sustainability, environmental consciousness, and nature-based leisure in the early years
• Participatory, creative, and ethnographic methods for studying early years leisure
• Conceptual frameworks connecting leisure studies with early childhood education, sociology of family, or critical policy analysis

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Expected publication
• July 16, 2026: Expression of Interest Due
• July 17, 2026: Abstract deadline
• August 13, 2026: Notification of Outcome
• January 4, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Appel publié par Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• September 1, 2026: Submission deadline