Call for paper: Intersectionality and Power: Examining Gendered Structures, Agency, and Resistance in Labour Markets

Intersectionality and Power: Examining Gendered Structures, Agency, and Resistance in Labour Markets

Power operates through intersecting systems of oppression and privilege (Avelino, 2021), shaping lived experiences, institutional structures, and social change processes (Bourdieu, 1991, 1993). This special issue focuses on how female (migrant and non-migrant) individuals or individuals perceived as women navigate and contest power within these intersecting structures, with a particular emphasis on their labour market integration (Schieckoff et al., 2021) including entrepreneurial activities (David et al., 2024).

We invite contributions that explore intersectionality and power with a particular focus on female (migrant and non-migrant) experiences in labour markets (dependent and self-employment) across different disciplines, including but not limited to sociology, political science, organisational studies, labour economics, law, and cultural studies.

We especially welcome work that moves beyond theoretical discussions to empirically investigate how women experience and challenge power structures in employment, policies, movements, and everyday life.

List of topic areas

We welcome submissions to this special issue. Topics covered include (but are not limited to):

Institutional Power and Women’s Intersectional Experiences: How do gendered and racialised policies, legal frameworks, and workplace structures reinforce or challenge inequalities?
Labour Market Integration and Intersectionality: What structural barriers and opportunities shape women’s employment trajectories, particularly for migrant and racialised women?
Power imbalance in entrepreneurial ecosystems: What power mechanisms shape the business realities of women in entrepreneurial environments?
Global Perspectives on Women and Power: How do colonial legacies, migration, and geopolitical power shifts shape intersectional oppression and resistance among women?
Economic Power and Women’s Work: How do race, gender, class, and disability intersect in shaping women’s employment, entrepreneurship, and financial autonomy?
Precarity and Informal Labour: How do intersecting inequalities push women into precarious work, informal economies, and exploitative labour conditions?
Feminist Activism and Resistance: How do intersectional feminist movements navigate and contest power structures, and what strategies have been effective?
Health, Well-being, and Intersectional Inequalities: How do workplace conditions, healthcare systems, and reproductive rights affect women differently across intersecting identities?
Methodological Innovations in Studying Women and Power: How can research methods be adapted to better capture intersectional gendered power dynamics in labour market research?

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here.

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see here.

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to ““Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.