• Title: Mutating employment identities: considering vulnerability at work
• Editors: Amparo Serrano Pascual (UCM), Carlota Carretero García (UCM) y Maria Medina-Vicent (UJI).
• Deadline for proposals: 31 August 2026.
• Publication date: 1 October 2027
• Languages:English, Spanish. Valencian
• Number: 32(2).

 

In a context characterised by widespread transformations in the world of work—seen in increasing automation, rising precarity and an expanding platform economy, among other aspects—the expectations articulated by labour subjectivities have been intensely reconfigured in recent decades. This monograph explores how these mutations in the subjective orders addressed to workers impact on the ways people relate to themselves and to work, give meaning to their employment experiences and consider questions related to vulnerability and social problems. Likewise, these ways of thinking about vulnerability or inequality can also condition the ways such groups organise and respond to these new demands.

The monograph takes an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to combine contributions from sociology, social psychology, anthropology or philosophy to explore transformations in the ways in which employment vulnerability (and vulnerability in life more generally) takes shape, and the semantic reformulations to which this signifier has been subjected. It aims to compile research focused on recent transformations in the world of work and how they are linked to changes in the ways of experiencing and making sense of vulnerability in this context, as well as new forms of collective organisation arising from these transformations. How are subjects organising themselves? What role does the union movement play in the platform economy? What spaces are emerging to demand recognition for employment and social rights?

 

Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi invites researchers to submit papers reflecting on this issue with an interdisciplinary perspective from critical sociology, feminist and queer theory, anthropology, political philosophy, applied ethics and other ethnographic approaches from the humanities and social sciences more broadly. Contributions on these issues developed through a feminist lens are especially welcome.  

The main themes of this call for papers are:

• Labour subjectivities: neoliberalism, entrepreneurialisation of the subject, etc.
• Gender and work: gender identities in the world of work, work-life balance, etc.
• Psychosocial vulnerability: mental health, economic precarity, etc.
• Impact of technology in the workplace: remote and hybrid working, geographical and political implications, polarisation of qualifications.
• Automation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management.
• Resistance to employment mutations: unionism and social movements.
• New forms of collective representation for new models of employment.