The pre-crisis
socio-economic model has failed. Unemployment -
particularly youth unemployment - is destructively
high, precarious work is expanding, growing numbers
of workers are found among the working poor, and
an evolving awareness of inequality has galvanised
policy debates across the globe. Yet the reforms
in policies and institutions that would counteract
these trends have yet to materialise. This policy
failure has triggered a broader unease about the
future of work. To design policies that could transform
this future, however, demands further investigation
of complex and intersecting issues that include
the role of labour regulation in development strategies;
the disproportionate presence of vulnerable workers
(e.g. youth, women, minorities, migrant workers)
in unacceptable forms of work (UFW); the most effective
strategies for protecting workers in fragmented
labour markets, curbing income inequality and reducing
informality; and the long-run impact of austerity
policies.
The 4th RDW Conference will investigate key dimensions
of the future of work. Papers are invited that focus
on four thematic issues:
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Worker protection:
wages, hours, and the employment relationship;
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Income security
in the era of widening inequality – labour income,
social protection, and well-being;
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Labour market
regulation and development – political economy
of policy reforms and their outcomes; and
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Reaching out
to vulnerable workers: voice, actions, and the
role of collective labour relations.
The Conference will be held in
the International Labour Office, Geneva, from 8-10
July 2015. It is co-hosted by the University of Amsterdam
Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), the
University of Melbourne Centre for Employment and
Labour Relations Law (CELRL), the University of Manchester
Fairness at Work Research Centre (FairWRC), and the
University of Duisburg-Essen Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
(IAQ). Researchers from all regions are welcome. Continuing
in the multidisciplinary tradition of RDW, it is hoped
that participants will examine the Conference themes
from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives
(e.g. economics, industrial relations, labour law,
political economy, sociology etc.).
DEADLINES
Abstract submission (RDW Fellowship applicants) 31
December 2014
Abstract submission (general) 31
January 2015
Communicating acceptance (fellowship applicants) 28
February 2015
Communicating acceptance (general) 31
March 2015
Full paper submission 31
May 2015
Please
read the attached document for submission here.
January 28, 2015.
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