Announcements

• Diversity in working organizations within the Nordic model: perspectives and potential

  2021-11-09

  This special issue has deadline for abstracts March 1. 2022. The issue is expected to be published in May 2023. See the timetable below.

  In this special issue, we draw attention to how Nordic employers conceptualize diversity management and the consequences diversity management has for the organization’s performance on a wide range of indicators. We seek contributions with an emphasis on ethnic diversity, either as a single dimension or as one of multiple intersecting dimensions of diversity.

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• Nordic Working Life and Social Dialogue in Times of Crisis

  2021-02-16

  Deadline for abstracts is July 1st 2021. Deadline for full papers is December 1st 2021. The issue is expected to be published ultimo 2022.

  With this special issue, we would like to invite scholars to contribute to the issue of the future of Nordic working life during times of crisis. Papers can be either theoretical or empirical, historical, quantitative or qualitative as well as comparative or single-country studies. However, all papers must be situated in the literature on Nordic working life and labour markets

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• Unpacking the gendered Nordic Model of Security Work

  2020-09-15

  This special issue has deadline for full papers 31. May 2021 (was extended from 15. May). The issue is expected to be published by the January/February 2022.

  We hereby call for contributions for an upcoming special issue of NJWLS which aims to examine the connections between gender, diversity and work within security organizations in a Nordic context. More specifically, the special sets out to unpack what might be considered a gendered Nordic model of security work; a model in which gender equality and diversity are portrayed as increasingly important, both on a policy level and in everyday security work. 

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