[OPE] CFP, "Transformations of work after a financial and economic crisis"

> Research Committee on Sociology of Work RC30
>
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> Programme Coordinators
> Diane Gabrielle Tremblay, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada,
> tremblay.diane-gabrielle@teluq.uqam.ca
> Mariana Busso, LEST, France, mariana.busso@univmed.fr
>
>
> Call for PapersTransformations of work after a financial and economic
> crisis ?
> Paper proposals should be sent to the person responsible for the session,
> with copy to both Mariana Busso, LEST, France, mariana.busso@univmed.fr
> and Diane Gabrielle Tremblay, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada,
> tremblay.diane-gabrielle@teluq.uqam.ca, before May 15, 2009.
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> The world of work is being greatly transformed in the aftermath of the
> financial and economic crisis. There are many job losses, more precarious
> jobs, more social exclusion. Also, firms are transforming work
> organization, with new forms of work appearing, whether it is more
> precarious, nomadic or boundaryless careers, telework or work from home,
> self-employment. Also, there is continuing blurring of boundaries between
> work and personal or family life with information technologies
> facilitating work ?here, there and everywhere?, not to say anytime. Also
> the territorial dimension of work is evolving as more and more firms are
> bound into a network of relations, from the local level to the
> international level, often in industrial clusters. All these realities
> have evolved over recent years, and particularly in the aftermath of the
> financial and economic crisis. ?The RC 30 sessions in Goteborg would like
> to bring together research on these issues as they
> present themselves in different countries and regions and look at their
> impacts on work organization, working times and work contents.
> Amongst the sectors where important transformations are being seen are the
> service sectors, many of which have become part of a global value chain,
> as is the case in the banking, finance, consulting, software, apparel and
> tourism industries in particular. In many of these sectors, job losses and
> precarization have been observed. In many countries, industries are very
> footloose and have moved to other countries, transforming the job content
> in both zones, as is often the case in the apparel industry for example.
> Those are only a few examples of cases of interest, and all regions may
> have different views on the same processes related to globalization, value
> chains, delocalization, precarization, job losses, unemployment and the
> like.
> We would also particularly like to address the transformations that are
> observed to address the economic crisis and the way in which they impact
> on employment and work for different groups: migrant workers, women, young
> workers, aging workers, etc. and in different countries. Are some of these
> categories selected for specific forms of work? Are some excluded and is
> marginalization and precarization of some categories increasing in some
> countries or regions ? What are the impacts on the local and regional
> territories?
> Also, many colleagues have proposed specific thematic sessions and you can
> propose papers to them directly, as well as sending a copy to president
> and secretary of RC 30, whose emails are below:
>
> Proposed sessionsSession 1: Transformations in work after a financial and
> economic crisis
> Organizers: Diane Gabrielle Tremblay, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al,
> Canada, tremblay.diane-gabrielle@teluq.uqam.ca and Alfredo Hualde
> ahualde@dns.colef.mx
> Session 2: Social exclusion and labour precarization
> Organizers: Patrick Cuninghame pcuninghame@hotmail.com and Delphine
> Mercier, Universit? de la M?diterran?e, France,
> delphine.mercier@univmed.fr
> Session 3: Recent transformations in work-life? and working time issues
> Organizers: Diane Gabrielle Tremblay, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al,
> Canada, tremblay.diane-gabrielle@teluq.uqam.ca and Mariana Busso, LEST,
> France, mariana.busso@univmed.fr
> Session 4: Parental leave: International comparisons
> Joint Session of RC06 Family Research and RC30 Sociology of Work [host
> committee]
> Session 5: Innovation clusters: actors, promoters and incubators
> Organizers: Klaus Schmierl, ISF-M?nchen, Germany,
> klaus.schmierl@isf-muenchen.de and Diane Gabrielle Tremblay, Universit? du
> Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada, tremblay.diane-gabrielle@teluq.uqam.ca
> Session 6: New forms of collaborative vocational training (VET): "learning
> alliances" between companies in industrial districts
> Organizer:Klaus Schmierl, ISF-M?nchen, Germany,
> klaus.schmierl@isf-muenchen.de
> Session 7: Industrial relations, labor?movement and new ways of
> unionizing?in company networks
> Organizers: Klaus Schmierl, ISF-M?nchen, Germany,
> klaus.schmierl@isf-muenchen.de and Jose Ricardo Ramalho, Universidade
> Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, jricardoramalho@uol.com.br
> Session 8: Control and autonomy in company networks: the role of MNCs and
> SMEs
> Organizers: Alfredo Hualde, el Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico,
> ahualde@dns.colef.mx
> Session 9: Migrations and employment
> Organizers: Delphine Mercier, Universit? de la M?diterran?e, France,
> delphine.mercier@univmed.fr
> Session 10: Knowledge economy and the state
> Organizers: Prema Rajagopolan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
> India, prema@iitm.ac.in ?
> Session 11: Knowledge Economy and work after an economic crisis
> Organizers: Jose Ricardo Ramalho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
> Brazil, jricardoramalho@uol.com.br and Prema Rajagopolan, Indian Institute
> of Technology Madras, India, prema@iitm.ac.in ?
> Session 12: Closing factories: What to do to preserve the culture of work
> and the industrial heritage?
> Organizers: Juan Jos? Castillo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain,
> jjcastillo@cps.ucm.es
>
> Session 13: Business MeetingSession 14:Men, work and parenting
> Joint Session of RC06 Family Research [host committee] and RC30 Sociology
> of Work
> Session 15: Changes in work and leisure - Media and the public space
> Joint session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure, RC14 Sociology
> of?Communication, Knowledge and Culture [host committee] and RC30
> Sociology of Work

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