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Please find the first call for papers for the 2004 Work, Employment
and Society conference.


Bests

Kevin Ward


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(WES) CONFERENCE 2004 </center>

<center></bold><smaller>Wednesday 1st – Friday 3rd September 2004, in Manchester,
UK</center>


<center><bold>First Call for papers</center>

<flushboth></bold>The <italic>Work, Employment and Society</italic> 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. Confirmed plenary speakers so far reinforce this wish
for an inter-disciplinary dialogue. These are: 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, Professor Judy Wajcman, Research School of Social
Sciences, Australian National University.</flushboth>


<flushboth>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:</flushboth>


<flushboth><bold><smaller>Working conditions and health</flushboth>

<flushboth>Tackling inequalities in and beyond the workplace </flushboth>

<flushboth></color>Aesthetic and emotional labour</flushboth>

<flushboth>Skills</flushboth>

<flushboth>New organisational forms (e.g. public-private partnerships,
multi-employer workplaces)</flushboth>

<flushboth>Working identities</flushboth>

<flushboth>Collective organisation, resistance and misbehaviour</flushboth>

<flushboth>Third sector and informal forms of work <color><param>0100,0100,0100</param></flushboth>

<flushboth></color>Re-regulating the labour market </flushboth>


<flushboth><bigger>Abstract submission form available from:
{ HYPERLINK "http://www.umist.ac.uk/wes2004" }<underline><color><param>0000,0000,FF00</param>http://www.umist.ac.uk/wes2004</underline></color></flushboth>


<flushboth></bold>Abstracts for presentations should be submitted for review
by <underline>February 1st 2004</underline> by email attachment to
{ HYPERLINK "mailto:[log in to unmask]" }<underline><color><param>0000,0000,FF00</param>[log in to unmask]</underline></color>. Abstracts will be refereed and
contributors will be notified as to whether their abstract has
been accepted by the 1st March 2004.</flushboth>


<flushboth>Further information about abstract submissions, the
conference, plenary speakers, the venue and the city visit the
conference website:</flushboth>

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<flushboth>Important dates:</flushboth>

<flushboth>February 1 2004: Last date for submission of abstracts</flushboth>

<flushboth>March 1 2004:        Contributors are notified of their paper’s
acceptance/rejection</flushboth>

<flushboth>April 30 2004:       Last date of registration for presenters</flushboth>

<flushboth>May 31 2004: Last date of registration for non-presenting
delegates</flushboth>


<flushboth>Colette Fagan, Irena Grugulis, Mark Smith and Kevin Ward
(<italic>WES 2004 Organising Committee</italic>)</flushboth>







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Kevin Ward
School of Geography
University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel.: +44 (0) 161 275 7877 (direct)
      +44 (0) 161 275 7878 (fax)