IVth RLDWL Congress
Transnational Co-operation on Social Regulation
University of Durban Westville
25-29 February 2004
Workshop 8
Social regulation of work and the question of gender
Final call for papers
(abstracts accepted until December 15th, 2003)
Dear friends,
We are pleased to send the following call for papers.
Submission deadline is December 15, 2003. All abstracts will be reviewed by our committee and notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail by December 23.
The organisation is not able to cover participation costs for all meeting attendees. Financial support to attend IVth RLDWL Congress is available for a limited number of scholars and experts coming from Africa, Asia, South America. Information to obtain financial contribution will be provided upon request...
Information on the conference can be had by referring to the conference website:
http://www.ipielle.emr.it/rldwl/
Call for papers
The proposed workshops will represent an open space for discussion, presentation and proposal of field-based experiences on women and work, along the following four lines:
1. Work and women's everyday life:
What specific effects does work have on women's organisation of their everyday lives, especially in relation to the times and spaces of women's lives. Which forms of mediation and adaptation between work and care (family, children, elderly, home management)
2. Transformations in the forms of women's work:
What types of effects do new and more flexible forms of work organisation produce? New forms of autonomy and independence, or new forms of insecurity and dependence? In particular we wish to study new forms of work, both typical and atypical, in communication, information and new media (information centers and all other experiences in converging old and new media, both run by women and targeting women)
3. Women's work and sustainability:
Here the focus will be on alternative projects which promote and demonstrate sustainability on three levels:
- economic (autonomy and economic sustainability, microbusiness etc.)
- social (reconstitution of social networks, especially those regarding women's interpersonal and social relationships)
- environmental (experiences which demonstrate the combination of women's work with environmental sustainability)
4. Women's work and civic and political participation
Here the focus will be on women's work experiences which promote and augment civic participation and the public presence of women in trade unions and other traditional forms, as well as in new forms of gender empowering.
Associazione Orlando
Organization committee
Elda Guerra, Fernanda Minuz, Annamaria Tagliavini, Patrizia Violi, Cinzia Bavieri, Elena Maggio
Abstracts can be sent to:
Dott.ssa Cinzia Bavieri
Associazione Orlando Via de' Pignattari, 1 - 40124 Bologna
tel. +39 051 233863/239788 - fax +39 051 263460 - e-mail: bavieri@women.it