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Call for abstracts to WORK2019

Welcome to the fourth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Research on Work and Working life held 14-16 August 2019, in Helsinki, Finland. The 2019 conference will look forward with the theme ‘Real Work in the Virtual World’.

We cordially invite you to submit an individual abstract to the streams linked below. Submission of abstracts is now open on the conference webpage www.work2019.fi.

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2019.

WORK2019 Theme ‘Real Work in the Virtual World’

The theme for the Conference, ‘Real Work in the Virtual World’ addresses the changing contents of work and upheavals in current and future work, as well as the changing nature of work across occupations, industries and countries. Work is currently being reorganized globally, with consequences that reinforce some global trends and divisions, and give rise to new ones. Current features of e.g. digitalization concern not only the contents of work, and the modes and ways of doing work, but also the future of labour. What kind of society will we create through the changes? How to think about work and its value? The theme for WORK2019 calls for bold analyses of the contours and boundaries of work and working in ways, which demand new understandings, both theoretically and empirically.

The conference is organized by TCLS, the SWiPE Research Consortium, Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

The first three conferences on research on work, WORK2013, followed by WORK2015 and WORK2017 were organized in Turku, Finland, and each brought together nearly 400 participants from all over the world with excellent keynote and paper sessions. WORK2017 dealt with the interdisciplinary theme of the Digital Future. The theme for WORK2019 ‘Real Work in the Virtual World’ extends the themes of spatial and virtual work into the changing landscape of global work and labour.

We look forward to seeing you in Helsinki in August 2019!

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Anne Kovalainen
Chair
Professor
University of Turku
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