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Call for Papers

Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture

Special Issue, Spring 2001.

Net_Work : the Politics of Work in an Information Age

Guest Editors: Mary Griffiths and Simon Cooper

Monash University

New communication technologies are transforming the nature of work. The economic and social ramifications of fast capitalism - rationalization, downsizing, and the collapse of boundaries between work and domestic spaces give rise to new ways of working and living. Networked technologies on the one hand provide flexibility to capital and labour - for some a culture of opportunity. However the same technologies can also generate an environment of transience and insecurity for those using information technologies, or redundancy for those who are displaced by them. .

These transformations force us to re-evaluate the more taken for granted notions of how we work and live. For instance, can the idea of 'the workplace' continue, given the mobile and transient nature of info-work? How can new ways of working be re-conceptualized? What can be said about the likely political and social effects on workers and their families? Are the social networks of shopfloor and corridors remade on-line? Is the end of 'organised labour' at hand? Is the individual worker more or less autonomous in the new environments? How is on-line work providing ways for net-workers to think of themselves? This special issue of Southern Review calls for articles on:

… telecommuting
… fast capitalism
… cyberwork
… industrial relations
… policy
… work subjectivities
… surveillance

The deadline for papers is the 31st of July. Papers should be approx. 4500 words. Under special circumstances longer papers will be considered.

Please send us 3 hard copies of your paper, double -spaced on white A4 paper, with your name and institutional affiliation on a separate sheet to facilitate anonymity in the evaluation process. An abstract (max. 100 words) is required, and a biographical note of no more than 50 words. Referencing should follow the MLA Style Manual (1988) 'works cited' form of documentation (for further details see www.bedfordbooks.com/rd/mla/cited.html). Discursive notes should be avoided. Full details of editorial policy are available on request.

You may submit electronically - please contact the editors for details.
Mary.Griffiths@arts.monash.edu.au
Simon.Cooper@arts.monash.edu.au