>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 12:14:38 -0400 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Phil Kraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Labor Research and Action Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Conference: Work, Difference and Social Change >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > >**** Apologies for Cross Postings! **** > >Conference May 8-10, 1998 > >Work, Difference and Social Change: >New Perspectives on Work and Workers >Two Decades after Braverman's_Labor and Monopoly Capital_ > >State University of New York at Binghamton >Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 >USA > >**** Apologies for Cross Postings! **** > >Conference May 8-10, 1998 > >Work, Difference and Social Change: >New Perspectives on Work and Workers >Two Decades after Braverman's_Labor and Monopoly Capital_ > >SUNY-Binghamton >Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 >USA > > >All, > >The final Conference Announcement and Call for Papers will go out the >end of this month. If you'd like a paper announcement, let me know and >I'll add your name to our mailing list. In the meantime, you can visit >our web page, which has a printable registration form: > > http://sociology.adm.binghamton.edu/work > >The page is regularly updated. It will list the final program schedule >and paper titles by late March. > >There have been a few changes since the preliminary announcement: > > - We have extended our deadline for paper submissions until January. >We are doing this to accommodate requests we've had from authors outside >the US. > > - Also in response to several requests, we have decided to accept >submissions in French, Spanish and German. Accepted papers will be >printed in the Proceedings with an extended English abstract. The >conference presentation must still be in English. > > - We are happy to announce a special panel by the editors of Monthly >Review -- Harry Magdoff, Paul Sweezy and Ellen Meiksins Wood. MR Press >will announce the 25th Anniversary Edition of _Labor and Monopoly >Capital_ at the Conference. > > - There will exhibits and editorial representative from labor-friendly >presses. > > - Continental Airlines, which provided service to Newark, will no >longer serve the Binghamton airport after December. The other New York >airports and major US cities are served by US Airways (formerly USAir), >Northwestern, and United. We expect another airline to begin service to >Newark before the conference. The Syracuse, New York, airport is about >an hour further away and is served by a larger number of carriers. It's >an easy drive, and week-end car rentals are cheap, especially for >several persons traveling together. > > - And we have a new conference phone -- (607) 777-6844 -- complete with >annoying voicemail message in case no one is around to answer it. Our >email address remains [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send faxes to (607) >777-4197, attention Conference Committee. > >We have been pleased by the early response to our first announcement -- >more than pleased. Although the deadline is still three months away, we >have already received a remarkable number of papers . The early >submissions are very good and range broadly: the creation of class >consciousness among 19th century US industrialists; gendered divisions >of labor; work time; commodified images of work; case studies of >"participation" schemes; and more. On the basis of the papers already in >hand, Braverman +20 will be more international, more activist and more >wide-ranging than the first one. And this time we will have a band. > >Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions. > >For the conference committee, > >Phil Kraft > >Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: Card for Philip Kraft >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" > >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:vcard.vcf 1 (TEXT/ttxt) (00010A7D)
