Call For Papers: Gender and Labour in New Times

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call-for-papersAbstracts are sought for the stream “Gender and Labour in New Times” for the Gender, Work and Organization Conference 2014.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, considerations of:
• The financialization of women’s work (both paid and unpaid)
• The shifting temporal dimensions of women’s labour
• New forms of the productivity of women’s labour
• The measurement and valuation of women’s labour in post-Fordism • women’s work in a time of austerity
• indebted labour and social provisioning
• the limits of current feminist engagements with labour regulation • the rationales and boundaries of legal engagements with emerging processes of value creation
• socio-legal theories of social reproduction.
• the role of legal technicalities in laboring processes
• the entanglement of non-human actors in labour regulation
• the enrolment of forms of labour regulation in the production of value.

Prospective presenters should refer to the full call for papers available on the web. Abstracts of approximately 500 words (ONE page, Word document NOT PDF, single spaced, excluding references, no header, footers or track changes) are invited by 1st November 2013 with decisions on acceptance to be made by stream leaders within one month.

All abstracts will be peer reviewed. New and young scholars with ‘work in progress’ papers are welcomed. Papers can be theoretical or theoretically informed empirical work. In the case of co-authored papers, ONE person should be identified as the corresponding author. Due to restrictions of space on the conference schedule, multiple submissions by the same author will not be timetabled.

Abstracts should be emailed to: lisa.adkins@newcastle.edu.au
Abstracts should include FULL contact details, including your name, department, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. State the title of the stream to which you are submitting your abstract. Note that no funding, fee waiver, travel or other bursaries are offered for attendance at GWO2014.

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