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\u00a0<\/span>Call for Abstracts DL\u00a0<\/span>15 February 2017<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The deadline for abstract submission has ended.
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The theme for the Conference, Work and Labour in the Digital Future<\/em> addresses the digitalization of the work and the upheavals of current and future work, as well as the changing nature of work across occupations, industries and countries. Digitalization concerns not only the contents of work, the modes and ways of doing work, but also the future of labour and what kind of society will we create through digitalization.<\/p>\n

The gig economy and platform economy put into question the ways work is currently organized. Jobs created through technological progress have been to large extent restricted to skilled workers and the number of new jobs created through digitalization and new technologies has been relatively small. We can justifiably ask if the digital revolution can provide real and rising incomes with reasonable levels of equality, or will it create new and unforeseen divisions in societies.<\/p>\n

How to think about work and labour in the digital future? The theme for WORK2017 calls for bold analyses of the contours and boundaries of work and working in ways which demand new understanding, both theoretically and empirically. These changes include, but are by no means limited to:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shifting meanings of work, employment, underemployment and unemployment
\n\u2022 New forms of work; self-employment, entrepreneurship; precarious employment
\n\u2022 Work in the gig economy and platform economy
\n\u2022 Technological development and changing work
\n\u2022 Unemployment in the platform economy
\n\u2022 Skills, capabilities and future of work
\n\u2022 Shifts in work and working life patterns
\n\u2022 Education and work
\n\u2022 Job crafting
\n\u2022 Technology and future of jobs
\n\u2022 Labour, work and money
\n\u2022 Global economy and work
\n\u2022 Work and time and working time; temporality of work
\n\u2022 Health and wellbeing at work
\n\u2022 Theorising work in the platform economy
\n\u2022 Future of work and welfare society
\n\u2022 Legal aspects of work, employment and unemployment<\/p>\n

The questions outlined above concern the changing role and place of work and labour. The questions include also those relating to the very definition of work as well as its meanings and contents in the digital era.<\/p>\n

It is against this background that this conference seeks to explore Work and Labour in the Digital Future<\/em>. It does so from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary approaches, including interdisciplinary approaches associated with critical labour studies, new economic sociology, feminist theory, post-colonial studies, social and cultural theory, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, critical health studies and gender studies.<\/p>\n

The Conference will host over 20 streams on work including new streams proposed by participants. Find\u00a0a more detailed description of the streams\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We look forward to seeing you in Turku in August 2017!
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\nOn behalf of the organizing committee,<\/p>\n

Anne Kovalainen, chair
\nProfessor
\nUniversity of Turku
\nwork2017@utu.fi<\/a><\/p>\n

The first conference on research on work, <\/em>WORK2013<\/em><\/a>, followed by the second conference, WORK2015<\/a> in Turku, Finland brought over 400 participants from all over the world with excellent keynote and paper sessions. WORK2017 will stand out with the interdisciplinary theme of digital future.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/i>Love<\/span>0<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/i> <\/i>

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