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Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward on to any interested parties. Call for papers Developing Theoretical Approaches in Labour Geography Department of Geography, University of Liverpool 11-12th June 2009 Following the success of the 'Theoretical Approaches to Labour Geography' conference held in Oslo, May 2008 in collaboration with IGU Commission on the dynamics of economic spaces; the University of Liverpool hopes to build upon the issues discussed by further developing understandings of the 'missing links' in labour geography and how these can be (and are being) challenged, whilst further developing the interaction of academics and members of the labour movement thus enabling theoretical approaches to be situated in a real life context. Academics at any stage of their research are invited and we also welcome postgraduate students to attend and present papers. We invite papers that address the theorising of labour geographies in different empirical and geographical contexts. These could engage with the following themes: · The relations between labour and the geographies of neo-liberalisation · Environmental politics and the labour movement · Labour internationalism · Theorising workers' identity and agency · Promoting union organising at the grassroots · Relationships between academia and the labour movement · Community Unionism · Unionising the informal sector · International migration and labour market change · Ethical production and consumption · Labour responses to CSR · Organising in the third sector Abstracts One page abstracts submitted by 31st March 2009. Please submit to Rebecca Ryland [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Papers Written papers submitted in advance will be circulated on the conference website and considered for publication in a journal special issue. FURTHER DETAILS ON REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION FEE TO FOLLOW Rebecca Ryland Postgraduate Researcher Department of Geography University of Liverpool Roxby Building Liverpool L69 7ZT T 0151 794 2863 E [log in to unmask]