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Call for Papers: International Conference on New Global Workforces and
Virtual Workplaces:  Connections, Culture, and Control

The National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, is
organising an international conference on ‘New Global Workforces and
Virtual Workplaces:  Connections, Culture, and Control’, on August
12-13, 2005. The conference, funded by the Indo-Dutch Programme on
Alternatives in Development, aims to bring together scholars from
different countries (especially in Asia) who are engaged in research on
the new forms of work and categories of global workers that are emerging
in the ‘new’ economy, specifically in the information technology (IT)
and IT Enabled Services (ITES) sectors. The organisers invite papers
that are based on original research and that fall into any of the
sub-themes listed below, or which raise related issues:

1) Sourcing and social structuring of the new global workforce
2) Corporate culture in the new global workplace
3) Work culture and the work process
4) Skills, deskilling and threat of obsolescence
5) Disciplinary regimes and resistance
6) Work, culture and identity
7) Mobility and social security
8) Ancillary services for the processing of ‘new economy’ workers
9) Class, consumption and urban social transformations
10) Nations, borders, and cross-border flows

Those interested in attending the conference may write to the address
below for more details. Tentative titles and abstracts should be
submitted by December 1, 2004. Travel and accommodation for authors of
accepted papers will be covered by the organisers.

Carol Upadhya (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus
Bangalore 560 012  India
cupadhya at vsnl.com
niasssa at yahoo.co.in




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