dear Kevin,

thanks for publishing this announcement as well!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: peter waterman <peterwaterman1936@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:01 PM
Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: Call for Papers - special issue on the Precariousness of Knowledge Workers
To: "CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES@jiscmail.ac.uk" <CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES@jiscmail.ac.uk>, "<networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org>" <networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org>, p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org>



  1. MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "snuproject.wordpress.com" claiming to be 2015/1987. The Old Internationalism and the New: On Labour, Social Movements and Internationalism. (A Reader). http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/1987-e-reader-ed-by-pete...
  2. 2014. From Coldwar Communism to the Global Justice Movement: Itinerary of a Long-Distance Internationalist. http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/from_coldwar_communism _to_the_global_emancipatory_movement/ (Free).
  3. 2014. Interface Journal Special (Co-Editor), December 2014. 'Social Movement Internationalisms'. (Free).
  4. 2014. 'The Networked Internationalism of Labour's Others', in Jai Sen (ed), Peter Waterman (co-ed), The Movement of Movements: Struggles for Other Worlds  (Part I). (10 Euros).
  5. 2012. EBook: Recovering Internationalism.  [A compilation of papers from the new millenium. Now free in two download formats]
  6. 2013. EBook (co-editor), February 2013: World Social Forum: Critical Explorations http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/world_social_forum/
  7. 2012. Interface Journal Special (co-editor), November 2012: For the Global Emancipation of Labour 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Analytica Publications <info@analyticapublications.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:05 AM
Subject: Call for Papers - special issue on the Precariousness of Knowledge Workers
To: "peterwaterman1936@gmail.com" <peterwaterman1936@gmail.com>


View this email in your browser
You are receiving this email because of your relationship with Analytica Publications. Please reconfirm your interest in receiving emails from us. If you do not wish to receive any more emails, you can unsubscribe here.


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - The Precariousness of Knowledge Workers
Volume 10 No 2 of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation will be a special themed issue on The Precariousness of Knowledge Workers: hybridisation, marketisation and subjectification in global value chains

The notion of 'knowledge worker' has become the focus of a rich range of debates in a variety of scientific approaches and disciplines, from sociology to economics, from political science to neomarxism, all offering their own particular conceptual tools and perspectives.Unlike the traditional professions that were consolidated in the last century, 21st knowledge work is undergoing a process of  hybridisation. With a growing variety of different types of work contract, knowledge workers constitute a type of professional work that is
increasingly exposed to the logic of the market and are increasingly required to auto-activate their own resources, empathy and individual autonomy (Gorz, 2003; Morini, Fumagalli, 2010). The ambivalences embedded in these forms of production – in which new forms of exploitation and control and new sense constructions coexist at the same time (Rullani, 2004; Bologna, 2011) – show
the double face of  contemporary capitalism, which urges subjects to put their own lives into production but also leaves room for passion and creative capacities (Boltansky, Chiappello, 1999; Marazzi, 2010; Karppi et al., 2014). Following this perspective, global capitalism can continue to accumulate but can also overflow, spreading pervasivelyr through different (technological) devices, while simultaneously opening up a multitude of times and spaces (Thrift, 2005) in which subjects struggle to find their position.

In knowledge based industries, work is circumscribed by the cognitive frames of creativity the imagery of subjects, but simultaenously demands adaptability, in a context in which deregulation and individualisation are now normal. The ethics of self-activation are therefore inextricably intertwined with the demands of intensification, neostandardisation and self-commodification. In this framework, the organisation of knowledge work is increasingly subordinated to the disciplines imposed by global production chains (Berger, 2008; Huws,
2014) leading not only to the intension of work and the transformation of the capabilities required of workers, but also to the creation of new forms of affective labour (Hochschild, 1983; Hardt, 1999; Hesmondhalgh, Baker, 2008) which blur the boundaries of work (Gill, Pratt, 2008; McRobbie, 2011).
The aim of this Special Issue is to develop a critical discussion on knowledge workers' conditions and subjectivities in the new global division of labour. We welcome paper submissions from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives on the following themes:
  • representations and experiences of knowledge workers in the global tertiarised societies;
  • mechanisms of subjectivation and strategies to seek to avoid and to resist them;
  • risks of precariousness and proletarisation that might derive from a professionalisation driven by global and glocal markets;
  • knowledge workers' collective practices, with particular attention to new forms of collaboration, sociality and social features of welfare and their limitations and potentialities.

Submission guidelines can be found here.

This issue will be edited by:
Annalisa Murgia, University of Trento, Italy contact
Lara Maestripieri, Fondazione Feltrinelli, Italy contact
Emiliana Armano, University of Milan, Italy contact

The editors are happy to discuss abstracts prior to submission. 
Please submit to the editor contact
by July 28th, 2015
ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation is an independent, international inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal, founded in 2006.
Since January 2015, it has been published by Pluto Journals
with online distribution by JSTOR.

More information about the aims of the journal, its editorial board and the contents of past issues is available at MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "analyticapublications.bmetrack.com" claiming to be www.analyticapublications.co.uk
Journal content can now be accessed online here
 

OPEN CALL FOR
ARTICLES FOR
UNTHEMED ISSUES

Every alternate issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation is unthemed. Articles may be submitted at any time.
submit
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "analyticapublications.bmetrack.com" claiming to be www.analyticapublications.co.uk


2 John Campbell Road, London, N16 8JZ, United Kingdom



_______________________________________________
NetworkedLabour mailing list
NetworkedLabour@lists.contrast.org
http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour




--