[INES Announce] Deadline Extended and Important Updates! LaborTech Awards Submissions, & Prize Money Update!
Sarah Appelhans
appelhas at lafayette.edu
Tue Jun 2 10:46:40 PDT 2026
Hi All,
For those whose work dovetails with technology and labor, it is award
season at LaborTech! Book Prize, Graduate Student Paper Prize and Social
Justice awards are detailed below.
Best,
Sarah
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The deadline for LaborTech’s Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social
Justice Awards has been EXTENDED! The new deadline is June 15.
Please Note These Updates:
1. Look for a Receipt Confirmation Email from Us: If you have already made
a submission, please look for a confirmation email of receipt. If you **did
not** receive one, **please submit again** to karina.alexis.ripley at gmail.com.
Due to a glitch with our email server, we may have missed some submission
emails. Many apologies for the inconvenience.
2. Upgraded Prize Money! For the first time since we started our awards,
we are finally able to provide a bit more in the way of prize money. This
is thanks to an Anonymous member of LaborTech who offered funds for this
purpose - we are so grateful to you! The prize is now $500 for each of
three awards.
Please tell your networks :)
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Labor Tech Research Network <https://www.labortechresearchnetwork.org>
(LaborTech) invites submissions for our fifth annual Book, Graduate Student
Paper, and Social Justice Awards.
*About Us*
LaborTech is an interdisciplinary and transnational group of over 700
experts concerned with the intersection of technology and labor. We aim to
reframe conversations about technology and labor towards issues of power,
inequality, and social justice, and incorporate themes of feminism,
anti-racism, and transnationalism. We also seek to foster an
interdisciplinary, cross-regional, and community-oriented space for
discussion, collaboration, and empowerment. For a deeper discussion of our
mission, please visit our webpage. For a list of our previous winners, click
here <https://labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards>.
*Call for Nominations*
As part of our mission to promote scholarship and activism towards more
equitable forms of labor and technology, LaborTech is announcing a call for
three awards -- Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice. These
will honor projects which:
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have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact;
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advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global society;
and
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address our core focus on labor and technology and which may
simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism.
*Eligibility*: Works from all disciplines and methodologies are eligible
for nomination. Nominations are open to members and non-members of
LaborTech. We welcome self-nominations especially, but also nominations
from publishers, colleagues, and others familiar with the projects. We
encourage submissions from women, people of color, queer communities, and
those from the global south. LaborTech executive board members and
committee chairs, as well as books published in our Labor and Technology
series with MIT Press, are ineligible for these awards.
*Prizes*: Winners receive $500 and a certificate. In addition, we will
promote visibility for your project by connecting with our
globally-dispersed expert membership. This includes making a video of
winners, to be distributed both in and out of our network, and hosting an
End of Year Showcase for enhancing public exposure and attention forf your
work. Winners will be announced in December.
*Deadline and Contact*: The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2026.
Send questions to awards at labortechresearchnetwork.org. See below for
separate criteria and instructions for the various awards.
CRITERIA AND SUBMISSION DETAILS*Book Award*
Criteria:
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Monographs only (no edited volumes or anthologies)
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Multiple authors accepted
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Published in the last three years (2024-26).
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If your book is not out by the deadline for this award, please send
proofs from the manuscript and a letter from the press editor confirmation
publication before the end of 2026.
Submission details:
Please submit the following items in English to
awards at labortechresearchnetwork.org:
1.
An electronic version in PDF format (contact us if only print form is
available for books)
2.
The author's contact email address
3.
A one-page nomination letter stating the significance and contribution
of the work
*Graduate Student Paper*
Criteria:
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Written by students currently enrolled in a graduate program or who have
graduated in 2025
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Single-authored pieces are preferred, but co-authored pieces will be
accepted with the above conditions in Submission Details
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If a co-authored piece, *the first author must be a graduate student.*
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Papers may be published within the last three years (2024-26) or
unpublished
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Page length: 25-40 pages, double-spaced
Submission details:
Please submit the following items in English to
awards at labortechresearchnetwork.org.
1.
Electronic version in PDF format
2.
The author's email address
3.
A one-page nomination letter stating:
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the significance and contribution of the work
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when the PhD was started and, if applicable, granted
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if the paper was published, then state when and in what journal
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if co-authored with faculty/advisors/other PhDs, please include a
paragraph attesting to the student's dominant role in generating
the paper
(such as working on its theoretical components, doing the research, and
writing it up). In addition, we ask that the cover letter is signed
(digitally, or otherwise) by all co-authors, so that they are
aware of this
submission.
*Social Justice Award*
Criteria:
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Those who are interfacing with technology in the course of their
organizing, or who are organizing against inequitable technologies, in the
context of labor, feminism, anti-racism, transnationalism struggles. This
may include:
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tech workers
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labor organizers, whether in unions or other workers' associations
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feminist, immigrant, community, and ethnic rights activists
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scholar-activists. For this, we are not looking for purely academic
work (i.e., scholars who are studying activism), but rather those who are
participating in activism themselves, or who are promoting collaborations
between activists and scholars.
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people creating design alternatives for social justice, like
engineers and designers
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Open to individuals, small groups, and if appropriate, organizations
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Focus will be on a particular campaign or project that is done with the
aim of social justice regarding labor and/or technology. These projects
may be broad (such as educating the public on a social justice issue) or
specific (such as organizing a protest for higher wages). They may use a
variety of strategies (e.g., art, design, social media, marches and
strikes, policy interventions, etc.). We'd like to honor activists who,
through these projects, have developed novel approaches or who are pioneers
in the fight for more equitable relations of technology and/or labor.
Submission details:
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Fill out this Google Form <https://forms.gle/BirfWfuyJtPwmmDF8>: It has
a few short questions regarding the significance and contribution of your
social justice activities
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Answers to this form should be a minimum 400 words each, in order to
give us enough understanding of the nominee's accomplishments. No single
sentence answers please :) Note: If you’re a busy activist, with little
time for filling out applications, feel free to find a willing colleague
who can speak to your activities and nominate on your behalf.
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Please submit all items in English. However, if you have a submission
in another language, contact us and we'll attempt to find a translator in
our group.
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