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Monday, February 09, 2004
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUGS AT WORK
February 16-17, 2004, in New York City
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/smithers/conferences/ilo.html
Background
Drug and alcohol abuse spares no country and no workplace is immune. There are well over 50 million drug-dependent persons in the world, and between 12 to 15 per cent of adults are reported to drink at levels hazardous to themselves and others. In the workplace, substance abuse
contributes to accidents, absenteeism, health problems, theft, lowered productivity and job losses. Studies indicate that absenteeism is two to three times higher for drug and alcohol abusers than for other employees; some 10 per cent of accidents at work involve intoxicated workers; over 10
per cent of on-the-job fatalities are linked to drugs and alcohol; employees with drug and alcohol problems claim three times as many sickness benefits and file five times as many compensation claims.
In response, government agencies, employers’ and workers’ organizations and enterprises have launched a wide range of prevention, education and intervention strategies to address the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. The range of good practices has not been well documented, disseminated
or replicated. Therefore, there is a need for establishing and recognizing a mechanism for the sharing of best practices among researchers and practitioners.
Objective
The objective of the proposed ILOCornell conference is to bring together knowledgeable researchers and practitioners from around the world to begin the process of creating such an international inventory, explore mechanisms for linking research to action in dealing with the growing problem of alcohol abuse in the workplace, and to explore related adjacent programs that
will strengthen the effectiveness of alcohol programs.
Participants [LIMITED, by invitation]
Participants in this conference will be representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations as well as universities and research institutions from around the world includingb practitioners in the alcohol abuse prevention and treatment fi elds from both public and privatesector
organizations.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN EDITED VOLUME:
Occupational Safety and Health in a Neoliberal World
For an edited volume to be published by M.E. Sharpe, I seek contributions in the form of case studies or critical essays from several disciplines, including, but not limited to: political science, labor studies, sociology, economics, history, environmental studies, women's studies that illuminate and explain the political nature of occupational safety and health issues faced by workers both here and abroad. Interdisciplinary studies are also welcome.
Contributors should submit an abstract to vmogensen@kingsborough.edu of no more than 250 words by December 31, 2003. Please send as an attachment using MS Word. I will choose the abstracts that will form a coherent volume and ask that the completed papers be submitted by May 1, 2004.
Vernon Mogensen, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of History and Political Science
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
2001 Oriental Boulevard
Brooklyn, NY 11235-2398
718-368-5624 [IIR Library Weblog]
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Friday, September 12, 2003
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Conference on Work, Employment and Society
September 1-3, 2004
Manchester, England
This conference, like the journal it is associated with, provides a forum for the critical analysis of work and employment and their connections with wider social processes and social structures. Supported by the British Sociological Association, both the journal and the conference series are sociologically oriented but welcome contributions from many academic disciplines, including anthropology, labour economics, geography, history, industrial relations, management, organisational studies and politics.
Confirmed plenary speakers reinforce this wish for an inter-disciplinary dialogue. These are: Professor Jamie Peck, Departments of Geography and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Professor Paul Stewart, School of Human Resource Management, University of West of England; Dr Don Slater, Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics and; Professor Judy Wajcman, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
At WES 2004 in Manchester we want to build on the debates from the last conference as well as introduce other areas of interest. This is reflected in the themes we have identified. We invite papers addressed to the following themes:
·Working conditions and health;
·Tackling inequalities in and beyond the workplace;
·Aesthetic and emotional labour;
·Skills;
·New organisational forms (e.g. public-private partnerships, multi-employer workplaces);
·Working Identities;
·Collective organisation, resistance and misbehaviour;
·Third sector and informal forms of work
·Re-regulating the labour market
For further information about: abstract submissions, the conference, plenary speakers, the venue, the cost and the city visit the conference website: http://www.umist.ac.uk/wes2004
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