Editorial: Book review symposium

Abstract

This issue marks the launch of our new Book Review Symposia initiative. Through this initiative we aim to identify and review newly published texts that we expect to have a significant impact on the field of the sociology of work and employment. Each Book Review Symposium will run alongside our other review options of single and joint book reviews and review essays. We expect to publish three review symposia each year. The format will typically involve three scholars reviewing a recent book with a response from the author or authors. It is somewhat like the author meets critics sessions found at many international conferences, but journal style. Scholars from different countries and disciplines are invited to participate, and we will invite junior colleagues as well as mid career and established academics to contribute. We hope that by including a response from the authors, each review symposium will facilitate dialogue and debate between reviewers and authors, and provide insight into the evolution of core propositions, theoretical innovations and empirical contributions located within the featured text. The series begins with Professor Guy Standing’s The Precariat, featuring reviews by Professor Arne Kalleberg, Dr Hazel Conley and Dr David Spencer. Published in