Oct 17, 2024

Introducing the new Editors of Work in the Global Economy

We are pleased to introduce the new Co-Editors in Chief of Work in the Global Economy (WGE); Giorgios Gouzoulis, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Jean Jenkins, Cardiff University, UK; and Martin Krzywdzinski, WZB Berlin Social Science Centre and Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. WGE is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that promotes understanding of work, and connections to work, in all forms and dimensions. This can mean a focus on labour processes, labour markets, labour organising and labour reproduction. The journal publishes wide-ranging contributions that extend and deepen connections between all aspects of the division of labour: from the production networks that underpin the global economy, to the gendered and racial divides that shape how work is allocated and organised. WGE is published in association with the International Labour Process Conference. 

“As the new Editorial Team for WGE we would first like to thank Sian Moore and Kirsty Newsome for their sterling work as the Editors in Chief who, in the past three years, have brought the journal to a place where it is flourishing. We hope to continue the work they have begun in establishing the journal as a forum for discussions on labour control, agency and resistance as central themes of labour process theory while at the same time opening up these discussions and introducing new perspectives. To this end, the journal will welcome contributions that draw on discourse traditions from different regions of the world, as well as different disciplines, such as labour sociology, political economy, labour geography and development studies, and will also value innovative empirical contributions that advance our understanding of the realities of work at sites of globally dispersed production.”

Giorgios Gouzoulis, Jean Jenkins and Martin Krzywdzinski, incoming Co-Editors in Chief.

We at Bristol University Press echo the incoming team's thanks to Founding Editors in Chief Sian Moore, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and Kirsty Newsome, University of Sheffield, UK. Their vision and dedication have been key to establishing WGE as a new journal at a time of profound economic and social change that impacts on work and employment. We would also like to thank Abigail Marks, Newcastle University, UK; Safak Tartanoglu-Bennett, University of Sheffield, UK; and Paul Thompson, University of Stirling, UK, for their significant contributions to the journal’s early development.