We offer two different memberships.  Please click on the appropriate membership that you're interested in to find out more.

How to join the ISA & RC44? Via the ISA website: http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/

Benefits of joining ISA

• Receive International Sociology (the official journal of the ISA)
• ISA Bulletin (the ISA newsletter) and the Directory of Members
• A discount subscription to the other ISA journal, Current Sociology
• Reduction in registration fees at ISA World Congress, Durban, South Africa 2006
• Over 60 years of age – you qualify for life membership of the ISA. Send a copy of identity documentation showing your birth date. Submit an electronic ISA membership form http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/formisa.htm indicating your mailing address (and mark the gap Life members). It costs 300 USD and you will never have to renew ISA membership (only Research Committees).

What is RC 44?
It is the Research Committee on Labour Movements of the International Sociological Association (ISA), the largest academic forum for those engaged with sociologically related issues of enquiry.

Mission of RC44: To encourage international research on labour movements, with a focus on their role both in industrial relations and in the political arena.

Membership is open to any person engaged in research into Labour Movements or in Labour Movement activities.

Benefits of joining RC44

• An opportunity to engage with interdisciplinary academics with similar interests. Current membership includes international academics from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, Oceania and Asia.
• Regular newsletter featuring international articles on labour, reviews of new books, profiles of research units, conference proceedings, comments on recent publications on cutting edge research, conference and doctoral programme announcements, call for papers and more…
• Opportunity to participate in the planning of the RC44 session programme and to present  at the next ISA World Congress in Durban, South Africa in 2006.
• Cost: 20 US Dollars for four years

For more information on RC44 continue to browse this web site (https://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/cms/socsci/rc44/) OR e-mail: antheam@yebo.co.za, Anthea Metcalfe – Newsletter and Membership Coordinator

We invite any person engaged in research into labour movements or in labour movement activities to join our growing global network. We are ‘genuinely’ global in that we have active contributing members in both the North and South. We share a scholarly interest in the actions and organisational forms that working people are developing in response to the new work order whether they be trade unions, labour service organisations, new social movements, as well as conventional institutions in the workplace, namely bargaining councils, mediation services, labour courts and of course political parties/groupings that have links with labour.

We produce a regular Newsletter (three times a year) based in Cape Town, South Africa, and will be holding workshops over the next twelve months in Canada, Brazil and Korea. These workshops are designed to share research findings and prepare a research and programme agenda for the next ISA World Congress in Durban in July 2006. Here we plan to launch our new journal on International and Comparative Labour. In response to demands from potential members who want to join the network but not the International Sociological Association, we have designed a special category of membership at $20 for a four-year period. I hope you will join and I look forward to hearing more about your research activities.

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