Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers
2nd Global Conference
Monday 31st October – Wednesday 2nd November 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme
Monday, 31st October 2011
From 12.30
Conference registration
13.30
Welcome and opening Remarks
Paul James
14.00
Session 1: Understanding the Significance and Meaning of Work
Chair: Paul James
Managerial Implosion: The Working Body in Cognitive Capitalism
Artur Szarecki
Moving Image of Multitude in Porous Society
Heidi Meriläinen
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 2: Understanding the Significance and Meaning of Work
Chair: Umut Omay
How “Sex + Work” and “Sex Work” are Problematic
Rhéa Jean
The Impact of the Demographic Change on Working Life
Georg Friedrich Simet
17.30
Notices and announcements
17.40
Wine reception
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
9:00
Session 3: Portrayals of Work
Chair: Rita Borges das Neves
The Work of Memory and the Memory of Work: Conceptualising Labour and Diasporic Memories in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt
Nanthanoot Udomlamun
Play and Profession: Discourses of Masculinity and Violence
Sara M. Cole
The Help: Domestic Labor as a Representation of Gender, Racial and Class Oppression
Arlene Haddon
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4: Contextual Effects of Work
Chair: Chantal Epie
Precarious Work or Flexicurity? The Differential Effects of Part-Time Work on Worker Insecurity among Women and Men
Jeffrey Dixon
Work as an Instrument of Consumerism
Esma Gultuvın Gur
12:30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: Work and Leisure
Chair: Bernadette Moorhead
The Leisure Time Illusion: A Theoretical Analysis for the Reciprocal Connection Between Work and Leisure Time
Umut Omay
Youths Issues and Religion and Work.
Ali Abdulqader Abbas
The Realities of Working from Home
Tony Stuart
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 6: Inclusive Work
Chair: Georg Friedrich Simet
Unemployment was the best thing that happened to me”: Significance of Paid Work and its Relationship with Wellbeing Among Middle Age Unemployed Men.
Rita Borges das Neves
The Self-Management as Option to Unemployment and the Trade Union Stimulus: The Brazilian Particularities
Raquel Duaibs
How Self-organizing Systems Embody Motivation to Work
Madeline Finnerty
17.30
Sessions end
Wednesday 2nd November 2011
09:00
Session 7 Healthy Work
Chair: Donna Patterson
Work-FAMILY Conflict and Cultural Values: A Case Study of Nigerian Dual-Earner Couple
Chantal Epie
The Projectization of Work: From the Viewpoint of Care and Gender
Iiris Lehto
Employment and Mental Illness
Mary Ditton
10.30
Coffee
11:00
Session 8: Healthy Work
Chair: Artur Szarecki
Classifying Work-Hazards: Its Meaning and Gravity in the Jharia Coalfields, 1895-1975
Dhiraj Kr. Nite
Well-Being and Meaning-Making in the Workplace: Expect What?
Bernadette Moorhead
Emotions and Organizations; What is Healthy (Audio Presentation)
Shirley Mayton
12:30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Excellence at Work
Chair: Jeffrey Dixon
Teaching as Ethical Generosity
Donna Patterson
Spirituality and the Dignity of Work as Self- development and Service to Society
Imelda Wallace
15.00
Coffee
15.30
Session 10: Flourishing Work
Chair: Sara M. Cole
The Transnational Meanings of Work & Consumption in the Vietnamese Diaspora
Hung Cam Thai
Formative Experiences and Flourishing at Work
Paul James
16.30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks
17.00
Conference ends
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12.30 pm to 2.00 pm |
Conference registration |
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2.00 pm to 2.20 pm |
Conference welcome Paul James and Rob Fisher |
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2.20 pm to 3.20 pm |
Session 1: Understanding the significance and meaning of work |
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Managerial Implosion: The Working Body in Cognitive Capitalism Artur Szarecki |
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Moving image of multitude in porous society, Heidi Meriläinen |
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3.20 pm to 4.00 pm |
Coffee |
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4.00 pm to 5.30 pm |
Session 2: Understanding the significance and meaning of work |
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How “sex + work” and “sex work” are problematic Rhéa Jean |
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The Impact of the demographic Change on working Life Georg Friedrich Simet |
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5.30 to 5.40 pm |
Notices and announcements |
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5.40 to 6.30 |
Wine reception |
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6.30 pm |
Dinner TBA |
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Tuesday, 1 November 2010 |
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8.50 am |
Pre-session assembly |
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9:00 am to 10.30 am |
Session 3: Portrayals of work |
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The Work of Memory and the Memory of Work: Conceptualising Labour and Diasporic Memories in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt Nanthanoot Udomlamun |
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Play and Profession: Discourses of Masculinity and Violence Sara M. Cole |
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The Help: Domestic Labor as a Representation of Gender, Racial and Class Oppression Arlene Haddon |
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10.30 am to 11.15 am |
Coffee |
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11.15 am to 12.30 pm
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Session 4: Contextual effects of work |
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Precarious Work or Flexicurity? The Differential Effects of Part-Time Work on Worker Insecurity among Women and Men Jeffrey Dixon |
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Work as an Instrument of Consumerism Esma Gultuvın Gur |
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12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
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Lunch |
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2.00 pm to 3.15 pm |
Session 5: Work and Leisure |
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The Leisure Time Illusion: A Theoretical Analysis for the Reciprocal Connection Between Work and Leisure Time Umut Omay |
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Youths Issues and religion and work. Ali Abdulqader Abbas |
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The realities of working from home Tony Stuart |
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3.15 pm to 3.45 pm |
Coffee |
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3.45 pm to 5.40 pm |
Session 6: Inclusive Work |
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Unemployment was the best thing that happened to me”: significance of paid work and its relationship with wellbeing among middle age unemployed men. Rita Borges das Neves |
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The Self-Management as Option to Unemployment and the Trade Union Stimulus: The Brazilian Particularities Raquel DUAIBS |
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How Self-organizing Systems Embody Motivation to Work Madeline Finnerty |
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5.40 pm |
Sessions end |
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Wednesday, 2 November 2010 |
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8.50 am |
Pre-session assembly |
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9:00 am to 10.30 am |
Session 7 Healthy Work |
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Work-FAMILY Conflict and Cultural Values: A Case Study of Nigerian Dual-Earner Couple Chantal Epie |
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The projectization of work: From the viewpoint of care and gender Iiris Lehto |
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Employment and mental illness Mary Ditton |
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10.30 am to 11.00 am |
Coffee |
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11:00 pm to 12:30 pm |
Session 8: Healthy Work |
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Classifying Work-hazards: Its meaning and gravity in the Jharia Coalfields, 1895-1975 Dhiraj Kr. Nite |
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Well-being and meaning-making in the workplace: Expect what? Bernadette Moorhead |
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Emotions and Organizations; What is Healthy (Audio Presentation) Shirley Mayton |
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12:30 pm to 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
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2.00 pm to 3.00 pm |
Session 9: Excellence at Work |
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Teaching as Ethical Generosity Donna Patterson |
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Spirituality and the Dignity of Work as self- development and service to society Imelda Wallace |
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3.00 pm to 3.30 pm |
Coffee |
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3.30 pm to 4.20 pm |
Session 10: Flourishing work |
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The Transnational Meanings of Work & Consumption in the Vietnamese Diaspora Hung Cam Thai
Formative Experiences and Flourishing at Work Paul James |
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4.20 to 4.30 |
Closing Remarks Paul James |
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4.30 pm |
Conference ends |
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