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Symposium: “Workers of the World: Exploring global perspectives on labour from the 1950s to the present”

28.06.2017 at 15:00 - 30.06.2017 at 15:00

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How can we arrive at global perspectives on labour, which reach beyond teleologies of an all-encompassing “race to the top” (or “to the bottom”), but also beyond the notion of ever-increasing differentiation? This conference explores overarching trends in the political as well as corporate regulation and in the forms of collective organisation of labour. Such an exploration is understood as a precondition for an adequate analysis of the dynamics of current capitalism. It needs to be based on an examination of linkages and similarities, differences and unevenness, as well as of the wide variety of work constellations resulting from such trends in different parts of the world. Towards this aim, we hope to bring together scholars from the social and historical sciences who are prepared to leave the comfort zone of highly specialized area studies, in a common quest for transnational perspectives.

For more information, check out the symposium poster and the full program.

Registration: please use the homepage of the Volkswagen Foundation to register for the conference.
Schloss Herrenhausen

Details

Start:
28.06.2017 at 15:00
End:
30.06.2017 at 15:00
Website:
http://www.sofi-goettingen.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsdetails/news/workers-of-the-world/

Venue

Schloss Herrenhausen
Herrenhäuser Straße 5
Hannover, 30419 Germany

Organizer

Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI)
Phone:
+49 (0) 551-52205-0
Email:
sofi@sofi.uni-goettingen.de
Website:
http://www.sofi-goettingen.de/