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Winning and Losing in the New Economy

From David Ladipo (David.Ladipo@nottingham.ac.uk)

I am hoping you will be willing to publicize the upcoming Work, Employment and Society Conference which takes place at the University of Nottingham on September 11-13, 2001. Plenary papers - addressing the theme of "Winning and Losing in the New Economy" - will be given by Naomi Klein, Theo Nichols, Kate Purcell and Richard Sennett. Sub-themes will address issues relating to:

• Inequalities of wealth and power
• Emotional labour
• The historical meanings of work
• Working (up a) class identity
• Risk, flexibility, insecurity
• Stress and work intensification
• Re-regulating the labour market
• Slavery - old and new

Papers addressing other themes will also be welcome. If you would like to present a paper, please send a short abstract (300 words max) to the conference organisers by April 20th, 2001. Registration forms can be found at the conference website: www.nottingham.ac.uk/wes2001.

For more details, please contact linda.poxon@nottingham.ac.uk or call +44 (0) 115 951 5407