Conference on Work, Employment and Society
September 1-3, 2004
Manchester, England


This conference, like the journal it is associated with, provides a forum for the critical analysis of work and employment and their connections with wider social processes and social structures. Supported by the British Sociological Association, both the journal and the conference series are sociologically oriented but welcome contributions from many academic disciplines, including anthropology, labour economics, geography, history, industrial relations, management, organisational studies and politics.

Confirmed plenary speakers reinforce this wish for an inter-disciplinary dialogue. These are: Professor Jamie Peck, Departments of Geography and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Professor Paul Stewart, School of Human Resource Management, University of West of England; Dr Don Slater, Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics and; Professor Judy Wajcman, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

At WES 2004 in Manchester we want to build on the debates from the last conference as well as introduce other areas of interest. This is reflected in the themes we have identified. We invite papers addressed to the following themes:
·Working conditions and health; 
·Tackling inequalities in and beyond the workplace;
·Aesthetic and emotional labour;        
·Skills;
·New organisational forms (e.g. public-private partnerships, multi-employer workplaces);        
·Working Identities;
·Collective organisation, resistance and misbehaviour;  
·Third sector and informal forms of work
·Re-regulating the labour market 
        
For further information about: abstract submissions, the conference, plenary speakers, the venue, the cost and the city visit the conference website: http://www.umist.ac.uk/wes2004

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