International Labour Process Conference 15-17 March 2010

The Heldrich hotel is now fully booked.  Please make your reservation at the Hyatt hotel in New Brunswick which is just a few blocks by foot to the conference location. You can make your reservation by visiting the website below.  The rate at the Hyatt is $139.00 per night.

https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=2498193
 

For all those who have had abstracts accepted for the ILPC please upload your final paper as soon as possible.  To do this:

• Login to the web site
• Click 'view your submissions & upload final papers'
• Click 'view and upload papers' against the relevant abstract
• Click 'upload paper' then follow the instructions given

Travelers need advanced ESTA authorization to travel to the US.  Please visit the ESTA site well in advance of your travel plans:

https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov

To Register to attend the ILPC conference you must sign into this site then follow the Conference Registration page for all further details.

The deadline for abstract submissions is October 30th!

In addition to general papers the 2010 Conference will have the following special streams:

• Worker Power and the Labour Process, Past and Present
• Are bad jobs inevitable?
• Accounting, the financial crisis and the labour process
• The economy of feelings: emotional labour, ‘soft’ skills and emotional intelligence at work
• Representations and Realities of Women’s Work
• Alternative Work Organisations
• Skill Creation Systems and the Restructuring of the Global Economy

EGOS stream ("sub-theme") of Marxist organization studies at the 2010 meeting in Lisbon (June 30 - July 2). We are hoping some supporters of the ILPC will join us. 

The goal of this sub-theme is to bring together people who share an interest in building on Marx's ideas to move organization studies forward. Organization studies draws inspiration from many theoretical traditions, but the Marxist tradition has not been very visible in recent years. Given the 2010 theme of "globalization," and given the major contributions by Marxists to the study of globalization, the 2010 EGOS meeting seems like a particularly appropriate time to spotlight Marxist research in organization studies.

We invite Marxist submissions on this globalization theme; we also encourage contributions on any of the other dimensions of organization studies where a Marxist approach might be fruitful, such as (but not limited to):

• globalization, imperialism, domination, war; epistemology: dialectical materialism, critical realism; labor process and the organization of work; historical perspective on crisis; financialization in its various dimensions; changing structure of the ruling class; the role of the state and state power in its various forms; contemporary culture and the consumer society; the emergence of new social categories; the role of academics as public intellectuals; the university in contemporary capitalism; subjectivity and agency; the reproduction sphere; capitalism, environment, and the metabolic rift; the transitions of capitalism, then and now; 

We are not dogmatic in an attachment to any specific kind of Marxism. All kinds are welcome. In selecting papers, the conveners will give priority to those that either (a) enrich our understanding of the empirical world of organizations based on strong Marxist theoretical foundations, or (b) enrich Marxist theory in a way that promises deeper understanding of that world.

We will be following the EGOS tradition, where participants (rather than author) present the paper and offer their (constructive... comradely) feedback, and where participants are expected to have read all the other participants' papers beforehand so we can engage fruitful discussion and debate. If you have, or will have, a paper you would like to discuss, you need to submit a "short paper" summary of it (up to 3000 words, all inclusive). Submission of short papers is via the Colloquium website (see URL below) and opens on December 1, 2009, with a deadline of January 10, 2010. If the short paper is accepted by the convenors, the full paper will need to be posted on the Colloquium website by May 31.

More Details here.

The ILPC Steering Group is now inviting expressions of interest from academic organising teams who would like to host the Spring 2011 Conference. The conference should attract papers related to all of the issues and debates with which the conference is concerned, in addition to special streams and themes of relevance to the time and venue.  For further information download more details.

Most abstracts of potential papers are submitted to the general conference, addressing themes outlined in the Call for Papers (see below). However, this is supplemented by a number of specialist streams that change each year.

The specialist streams for the 28th International Labour Process Conference in 2010 will be:

• Worker Power and the Labor Process Past and Present
• Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?
• Accounting, the financial crisis and the labor process
• The economy of feelings: emotional labour, 'soft' skills and emotional intelligence at work
• Representations and Realities of Women’s Work
• Alternative Work Organisations

Further details of all conference streams

View and download latest call for papers & call for streams documents.

Some photos from the Edinburgh conference have been added to the site.  Click on image below for more, available to registered users only.

Both the outline of the overall programme and the details of paper sessions and symposia are now available on the ILPC2009 Programme page.  Download both pdf documents for full details. We have allocated a number of people to Chair sessions.... Sorry for not asking first but we're hoping that it is ok!

Outline Conference Programme (pdf)

Detail Timetable of Sessions (pdf) Final version 3rd April

Both the Apex International and the Jurys Inn have extended the deadline for special conference deals to Friday 13 March. There are only a few places left at the Apex, so this is your last chance.

An outline version of the programme for the International Labour Process Conference 2009 is now available to help you plan your time at the conference.  More details will be made available to members shortly.

Download Outline Programme

There are only 5 rooms left at the Apex International so please book before the 1st March. After this date there will no longer be rooms available at the conference rate.

Also, please make sure that you get the right Apex Hotel!! There are three Apex hotels in Edinburgh. The conference is to be held at the Apex International in the Grassmarket. Not the Apex City (also in the Grassmarket) nor the Apex European (Haymarket). Sorry for any confusion!!

We’ve had a few glitches with the new website, but it is now possible to upload your papers. There is no absolute requirement to do this, but aside from helping discussion at the conference, it will inform stream convenors and publication group discussions about the possibility of journal special issues and new books. Doctoral papers will also be considered for a best paper prize. Deadline for the latter is Thursday 5^th March.

To upload a papers:

1. log on to the www.ilpc.org.uk site,
2. go to 'ILPC 2009 – My Submissions'
3. click on ‘view/upload’ beside the abstract in question
4. follow the onscreen instructions.

The paper should be between 5,000 and 10,000 words, single spaced and only MS Word documents can be accepted (.doc or .docx).  Also, only one document can be associated with each abstract so if you want to update the paper at a later stage, simply repeat the same process and the original will be overwritten.

Paul Thompson 
For Edinburgh Organising Group

At the end of the early bird registration we still have a few places left on the whisky tasting on the 5th April. If anyone who has registered would like to join then it is possible to pay on the evening. If you wish to join the event you can email interest to ilpc2009@ilpc.org.uk and put 'Whisky Tasting' in the title of your email. The cost of the event is £26

http://www.palgrave.com/business/cpwe.asp

The deadline for submissions has now past and we have received a very large number of abstracts. Decisions will be being emailed to participants in the next few days. We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh 

Abigail Marks, for Organising Group

Dr Abigail Marks, Heriot-Watt University
Prof Paul Thompson, Strathclyde University
Dr Vaughan Ellis, Napier University
Prof Alan McKinlay, University of St Andrews

The 2009 Conference is a new way of organising the annual conference of the Association. For full details download the call for papers (pdf)

Click on each link to download PDF
Stream 1, Reclaiming Resistance
Stream 2, Service Work in Hospitality and Care Industries
Stream 3, Identity and the Workplace
Stream 4, Work Relations and Restructuring in the Voluntary Sector
Stream 5, Retail Work

ILPC 2009 "Work Matters"

All the conference details, and call for papers information

To apply to be a contributor to ILPC 2009:

First you need to Sign Up to this site, then complete the online form under the 'ILPC2009' menu.

All abstracts (500-700 words) are externally refereed and papers must not have been previously published or presented elsewhere.  Abstract contents should enable the referees to determine what issue, development or problem is being investigated, how it is investigated, what any findings are and what contribution is being made to understanding in this field.

The deadline for abstract submission is 30 October 2008, decisions on acceptance will be made by end of November 2008.  If you have any questions about this process contact the Conference Organiser, Dr Abigail Marks (ilpc2009@ilpc.org.uk)

For the first time, in 2009 the International Labour Process Conference will also be open to proposals for symposia on any of the above or other relevant themes. These should be submitted in the same way, outlining the objectives of the session and speakers in 350-500 words.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (AT.IN.E.R.)3^rd International Sociology Conference,

Athens11-14th May 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sociology of Work Special Interest Stream:

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON VULNERABLE WORKERS

While the distribution, technologies and locations of work may be changing, the nature of work that is to be done in our world, and the associated vulnerabilities of such work, remains largely unchanged. Many reports tell us of work that is miserable, toxic, soul destroying, inadequately rewarded, and at times dangerous as we hear of people working on non-standard contracts who face mounting insecurities, front line service workers (mainly women) who work in call centres, retail and hospitality facing the emotional pressures and the health risks involved in the new ‘clean jobs’, and food packers and circuit board assemblers who suffer the continual pressure to push costs down an ever lengthening supply chain as large companies squeeze smaller companies into agreeing impossible contract terms, which are then reflected in the pay and conditions of workers. And this is not simply a reality for the private sector, as the public sector and even the domestic realm adopts the business model. The conclusion is that worldwide there is a deficit of decent work and increasing numbers of vulnerable workers. Fundamentally this revolves around core issues of pay, equity, security and dignity. It is these core issues and how they impact upon the lives of workers that this special stream wishes to address. 

In the spirit of the inter-disciplinary nature of ATINER’s conferences we welcome papers drawing on a range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks and a variety of methodologies.  However, we particularly welcome ethnographic and case study research that is able to reveal the realities of the day-to-day working lives of a range of vulnerable workers. Research that is able to capture the pleasures and pains of working lives of different occupational and social groups within different socio-economic contexts. 

Please send 500 words abstract marked clearly ‘special interest stream’ to the stream organisers no later than December 20, 2008:

·         Dr Sharon Bolton, Professor of Organisational Analysis, Strathclyde Business School and Academic member of ATINER.  sharon.bolton@atiner.gr

AND

·         Dr Gregory Katsas, Associate Professor of Sociology, The American College of Greece and Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER. gak@atiner.gr

Abstracts will be reviewed and decisions relayed to authors no later than January 20, 2009

Please refer to main Sociology Conference Call for conference details www.atiner.gr/docs/Sociology.htm

General conference enquiries to Dr Gregory Katsas: atiner@atiner.gr