2nd International Conference on Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work in a Changing World

London, 10-11 September 2012
Middlesex University Business School
Hendon campus, The Burroughs, NW4 4BT, London

Marco Biagi” Centre for International and Comparative Studies, ANMIL – The Italian National Association between Injured and Disabled Workers and Middlesex University, Business School are holding the 2nd International Conference on Vulnerable
Workers and Precarious Work in a Changing World.
This conference follows on from a successful conference held in London in 2010 on Vulnerable Workers, Health, Safety and Well-Being. The papers from that conference have now been published as an edited book (Vulnerable Workers; Health, Safety and Well-being
Gower Publishing 2011).

We wish to continue this theme but also widen it to take into consideration all issues related to vulnerable workers and precarious working such as: employment protection; job
exploitation; slavery; migrant workers; gender and race issues; particular groups of
vulnerable workers; domestic workers; the role of trade unions, NGOs and other interested
bodies; the work of the ILO and other international bodies as well as relevant national
organisations; decent work, contractual issues and turning precarious work into secure work.

This is not intended to be a closed list of topics and we welcome papers submitted on any
topic related to this wide field.

There will be the option to publish suitable papers from this conference in the E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, a new refereed international on-line journal edited by Adapt University Press.
More info at:
http://www.adaptinternational.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9

The working language will be English.

Contributors are invited to submit an abstract of not more than two pages (Times New Roman 12) by March 30 2012. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the subject matter with the research questions it intends to answer. Contributors will receive a response to their submission by April 27 2012.

Participation is free. Participants who would like to attend the conference without presenting a paper are highly welcome too.
Abstracts and/or registration should be submitted via the online collaboration area (Moodle area) dedicated to Adapt International events:
http://moodle.adapt.it/course/view.php?id=31
Please follow the instructions you find there.

For any information, please refer to helpdesk@adapttechnologies.it
If you already have an active profile on our Moodle, please refer to that profile.

Symposium proposals – we are also interested in proposals for symposia by groups of academics wishing to present a themed topic. If you are interested in making such a proposal, then please make contact with Professor Malcolm Sargeant on M.Sargeant@mdx.ac.uk

For further information contact the conference organisers:

Dr Maria Giovannone, Adapt Responsible for Occupational Health and Safety Research Unit, Member of the Editorial Board of the E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies maria.giovannone@adapt.it Professor Malcolm Sargeant, Managing editor of the E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies at M.Sargeant@mdx.ac.uk

*Malcolm Sargeant and Maria Giovannone (eds) Vulnerable Workers: health, safety and well-being 2011 Gower Publishing

Dear all,

We invite paper stream proposals for the 14th Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS) Conference to be held in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, from November 28-December 1, 2011.

Content: In the first instance please consider proposing a stream that addresses some feature of the overall conference theme: ‘Local Organizing/Organizations On Location’.

Such stream proposals might:
§ Explore Asia-Pacific traditions of organizational theorizing,
§ Investigate local and regional organizing practice and relations,
§ Examine local value chains/relations, contexts, identities, imaginaries in work and organizing processes.
§ Address relations between local organizing/organizations and their fields, sectors, authorities, ‘parents’, partners, users and customers.

Alternatively, please consider proposing a stream that addresses a current research theme, issue or problem in the organization studies literature. Such proposals might address:

§ Organizational dynamics of power, control, resistance, identity, diversity, gender, minorities, indigeneity, ethics, emotions or networks.
§ Contemporary issues such as the poverty, recession, financial crisis, new technologies, environmental sustainably, governance, branding, supply chain processes, risk and security as these relate to organizing and organizations.

Alternatively, stream proposals might critically engage with:
§ Traditional or classical management or organizational theory.
§ A domain of organizational practice e.g. consulting, accounting, information systems, marketing, operations management, industrial relations, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Format: Please set out your stream proposal as follows:
1) Title
2) The name, institution, email address, and phone number of three or four international stream co-organisers (for administrative purposes please identify one of the convenors as the lead convenor)
3) A description of the proposed stream (maximum 800 words) including key references.
4) Four key words that capture its essence
5) A short biographical sketch (up to 100 words) of each stream co-organizer.
Submission: Stream proposals should be submitted by Monday September 30, 2010 to:APROS14.NewZealand@massey.ac.nz

Decisions: Decisions on stream proposals will be made by the APROS 14 organizing committee and communicated to proposers by October 15, 2010. Stream proposals will be published on the conference website: http://www.apros.org as ‘Calls for Conference Papers’ as soon as these are accepted.

Expectations: Stream coordinators are expected to promote their streams and to close off submissions on March 30, 2011. A list of all accepted paper abstracts is to be submitted to the organizing committee by April 15, 2011. The length of these abstracts and the process of their evaluation is delegated to the stream co-organizers. Full papers for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings are due by October 30, 2011.

As in previous APROS conferences, convenors are encouraged to pursue publication of selections of papers from streams in journal special issues and edited collections.

Conference Location: The conference will be at on the Auckland University of Technology’s central city campus: http://alturl.com/v89cc

Conference Organizer: Craig Prichard (School of Management, Massey University)
Organizing committee: Todd Bridgeman (Victoria), Ella Henry (AUT), Deborah Jones (Victoria), Kate Kearins (AUT), Damian Ruth (Massey), Wayne Pihema (Victoria), Janet Sayers (Massey).

APROS14 is supported by the APROS Board currently comprising: Stewart Clegg (Honorary President), Subir Verma (India Pacific), Alicia Leung (China), Eduardo Ibarra & Anabella Davilla (Americas),  Craig Prichard (Aotearoa), Michael Muetzelfeldt & Edward Wray-Bliss (Australasia), Stephen Little (at large).

More details: If you have any enquires please contact us at:APROS14.NewZealand@massey.ac.nz

Related Conferences: APROS14 will be followed by the 2011 ANZAM (Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management) Conference to be held in Christchurch, December 6-9.

Value, Innovation and Partnership
11-13 April 2011, Dublin, Ireland

Special panel at IRSPM – Contemporary challenges for public sector human resource management

The panel will feed into a special issue of International Journal of Public Administration.

Full Call for Papers below

The New Zealand Work & Labour Market Institute of AUT University will host the 25th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australian and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference from 2-4 February 2011 in Auckland, New Zealand. The conference theme will be Dialogue downunder. The conference will be held at the Rendezvous hotel Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 February. The Postgraduate forum will be held on Tuesday 1 February at AUT Business School.

More information to follow.

Submitted by: Ann Williamson (ann.williamson@aut.ac.nz)

All papers from the 2009 AIRAANZ conference in Newcastle and the 2010 AIRAANZ conference in Sydney are now available on airaanz.org. Check out the Conferences section for details.