>From: "Colette Fagan" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Work, Employment and Society Conference 2004
>Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:05:20 +0100
>
>Dear All,
>
>The next Work, Employment and Society Conference will take place
>Second call for papers on September 1-3 2004 in Manchester, UK. Full details
>are included in the attached flier, and also pasted below and are also on
>the conference website: http://www.umist.ac.uk/wes2004
>
>We hope you will attend.
>
>Colette Fagan, Irena Grugulis, Mark Smith and Kevin Ward (WES 2004
>Organising Committee)
>
>* * * * * * * *
>WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE SERIES
>The Work, Employment and Society conference, like the journal it is
>associated with, provides a forum for the critical analysis of work and
>employment and their connections with wider social processes and social
>structures. Supported by the British Sociological Association, both the
>journal and the conference series are sociologically oriented but welcome
>contributions from many academic disciplines, including anthropology, labour
>economics, geography, history, industrial relations, management,
>organisational studies and politics.
>
>PLENARY SPEAKERS
>Professor Jamie Peck, Departments of Geography and Sociology, University of
>Wisconsin-Madison; Professor Paul Stewart, School of Human Resource
>Management, University of West of England; Dr Don Slater, Reader in
>Sociology at the London School of Economics and; Professor Judy Wajcman,
>Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
>
>THEMES
>At WES 2004 in Manchester we want to build on the debates from the last
>conference (WES 2001, Nottingham), as well as introduce other areas of
>interest, and this is reflected in the themes we have identified. We invite
>papers addressed to the following themes:
>
>· Working conditions and health;
>· Tackling inequalities in and beyond the workplace;
>· Aesthetic and emotional labour;
>· Skills;
>· New organisational forms (e.g. public-private partnerships,
>multi-employer
>workplaces);
>· Working Identities;
>· Collective organisation, resistance and misbehaviour;
>· Third sector and informal forms of work
>· Re-regulating the labour market
>
>Abstract submission form available from http://www.umist.ac.uk/wes2004
>Abstracts for presentations should be submitted for review by February 1st
>2004 by email attachment to [log in to unmask] Abstracts will be refereed
>and contributors will be notified as to whether their abstract has been
>accepted by the 1st March 2004.
>
>Costs: £140 for BSA student members; £240 for BSA members and £290 for
>non-BSA members. All rates include attendance at the conference, lunch,
>dinner and refreshments during breaks.
>
>Important dates:
>February 1 2004 Last date for submission of abstracts
>April 30 2004 Last date of registration for presenters
>May 31 2004 Last date of registration for non-presenting delegates
>
>For further information about: abstract submissions, the conference, plenary
>speakers, the venue, the cost and the city visit the conference website:
>http://www.umist.ac.uk/wes2004
>
>Dr Colette Fagan
>Senior Lecturer
>Department of Sociology
>University of Manchester
>Oxford Road
>Manchester M13 9PL
>http://les1.man.ac.uk/sociology/
>
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