HI! [apologies for x-posting and to my former department for still
using their e-mail address]
I AM ORGANISING SEVERAL PANEL SESSIONS ON POSSIBLE LINKS AND TENSIONS
BETWEEN ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS AND SOCIAL INCLUSION/COHESION/CAPITAL
AT THE URBAN AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN BOSTON [MARCH
20-24 2002] http://www.udel.edu/uaa/2002anmtgcall.html
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING OR THINK ONE OF YOUR
STUDENTS/COLLEAGUES MIGHT BE THEN PLEASE READ ON
ABSTRACTS SO FAR ACCEPTED FOR THE PANELS INCLUDE:
1. Social Regulation in the Restructuring of Amsterdam’s Historic
Core: Central-Local Perspectives
2. Institutional Design and Social Interactions in Downtown
Revitalization
3. Slow-Growth Cities and Devolved Immigration Policy: Developments in
Winnipeg
4. Competitiveness in the Inner City: The UK Inner City 100 Project
5. What Ya Know or Who Ya Know? Low-Skill Workers’ Job Search
Experiences in Silicon Valley
6. Business Competitiveness and the Social Fabric in London
7. Civic Inclusion and ‘Urban Revitalization’: The
‘Renaissance’ in Newark, New Jersey
8. Local Governance, Public-Private Partnership and Participation in
the Redevelopment of Distressed US Public Housing: The Federal Hope IV
Program
THERE’S ROOM FOR A FEW MORE – THE FOLLOWING ARE SUGGESTIONS !
BUSINESS NETWORKS
· Benefits of trust ties & knowledge flows to local economic success
· Exclusivity of networks
· Balancing strong local ties with the need for new ideas and
information
· Economic benefits of in-migration versus possible
community/identity tensions
· Benefits and dis-benefits of network exclusivity
· Use of the social fabric in city marketing efforts
· Problems of marketing a poor social environment?
· Spill-over gains from inter-firm worker movement versus possible
weakening of trust relationships between firms.
LABOUR MARKET NETWORKS
· Trust ties & knowledge flows
· Potential exclusivity of labour market networks
· Policies to offset inequalities in access to labour market networks
and/or employment opportunities
WORK AND WORK–LIFE
· Occupational mobility versus binding community ties
· Ways in which poor pay may be improved/diluted by rich/poor
dependants, respectively
· Effects of work hours/pay on social activity [joining, political
activity, social networks etc.]
· The value of informal (mutual-aid / social economy) work to the
social fabric
· The competitiveness of co-operative and other mutual forms of
economic activity
· Social impacts of concentrated long-term unemployment ·
Labour/class activism and use of social networks to strengthen this
protest
· Labour/class activism in areas of high economic embeddedness
EDUCATION AND BUSINESS
· The direct/indirect importance of urban school system (and
educational inclusion) to businesses
· The effects of school provision on the residential location of
mobile workers
· Balancing social/racial mix in schools with mobile workers’
locational preferences
· (Managing) tensions between housing teachers (and other key
workers) versus private sector workers in high-growth areas
CORPORATE–COMMUNITY ISSUES
· Crime / order and their impacts upon business success
· Benefits of corporate-community engagement
· Geographical unevenness and displacement effects of some forms of
engagement
· Banking opportunities in inner cities versus financial exclusion
Papers are particularly welcome that:
· offer new philosophical/methodological/conceptual takes
· offer (temporally or spatially) comparative perspectives
· discuss the importance of the city as the appropriate scale of
concern for these issues
· that discuss federal/national/local public policy for addressing
these issues
HOPE YOU’RE INTERESTED AND TO HEAR FROM YOU ASAP WITH YOUR SUGGESTED
PAPER ABSTRACT [NOT > 300 WORDS, NOT < 100]. I WILL RESPOND
IMMEDIATELY.
Best wishes, Gareth
Dr. Gareth Potts
New Economics Foundation http://www.neweconomics.org Inner City 100
Project’ http://www.theinnercity100.org
Formerly ‘London: Economic Competitiveness, Social Cohesion and the
Policy Environment’
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/london/econcomp/index.htm
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