The first issue of 2012 is ready for download
Four of the five articles in this issue are studying computer based work. Work which has went through major changes as a result of the technological development.
- Bente Rasmussen and Tove Håpnes examine the temporary character of present day knowledge work. They find that even though the work is more temporary, the quality of work is still very important for the employees and the opportunities to do a good job is crucial for staying or leaving the company.
- Anja Haapakorpi examines what happens with work and identity when new media industry transform from the pioneer phase to a well-established business. Also here the engagement in the work is crucial, and the transformation process poses serious challenges the motivation.
- Gunilla Olofsdotter examines how temporary work agencies are used for recruitment of employees to a call-centre. The agencies are supplying the company with new employees to the lowest step of the career staircase. From there the company selects employees for the next steps.
- Grosen, Holt and Lund are examining how gender segregation can be reproduced in a newly established and quite advanced work organization. They highlight the different and rather antagonistic discourses that give meaning and legitimacy to the reproduction of gender segregation.
- Jolkkonen, Koistinen and Kurvinen contribute to the very relevant research on re-employment after mass-layoffs. They have made a follow up study of 1.250 workers, who lost their work at the Perlos plant in the North Karelia in 2007 to find a pattern in the re-entering on the labour market.
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”Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies” will disseminate scientifically based knowledge and experience between Nordic countries and expand knowledge of Nordic working life to other countries. At the same time the Journal wants to create a network of researchers and professionals, who have a common interest in Nordic working life. The journal is monitored by an Editorial Board of 11 highly merited researchers from four Nordic countries. It is published from Roskilde University, Denmark, and is sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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Call for papers for special issue #1 in 2013 (Working in the Public Sector):
The public sector constitutes a large area of employment in the Nordic countries, major fields being care, health and education. Work in this sector is increasingly subjected to formal education and professionalization. Vocational commitment and a public ethos play an important role in the public sector. However work in this sector is dramatically changing both concerning financing and the ways organizing the delivery of services. Influenced by New Public Management thinking new managerialism, purchaser-provider models, user’s rights, privatisation and new control systems are introduced. In contrast to private health and care services in liberal economies, public services in the Nordic countries used to offer good jobs and often also careers for women in permanent full-time and part-time positions. E.g. in Norway this is being challenged by cost-cutting measures and the use of employment agency workers and a policy of hiring workers in (small) part-time jobs to create maximum flexibility at minimum costs. In this issue we will explore how these changes transform working conditions and employment relations in the public sector and how they influence
- • recognition, meaning and identity
- • commitment, cooperation and trust
- • resistance
- • relation between workers and citizens
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15. Maj 2012.
Deadline for full papers is 1. September 2012.
Editors:
Annette Kamp, Lene Gonäs and Lars Klemsdal
Call for papers for special issue #2 in 2013 (In search of Nordic Working Life Research Perspectives):
The Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies has decided to publish a special issue about the Nordic approach to research in working life. The reason for this initiative is the widespread assumption that working life research in the Nordic countries has particular perspectives distinguishing it from research in many other countries. The assumption is – although often implicit – the point of departure for many research projects in the Nordic countries. The assumption is also frequently questioned by and discussed with non-Nordic speaking researchers at international conferences but it is remarkable, when it comes to working life research, that rather little has been written about such an approach in English whereas the Nordic welfare society and labour market models such as flexicurity are more extensively described in the international literature.
The special issues will be published as the second issue in 2013 and the deadline for submission of abstracts is 15. May 2012. The deadline for submission of papers is 15. September 2012. Editors of the special issue are Ole Henning Sørensen ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) & Peter Hasle ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (guest editors) and Jan Karlsson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (editorial board). Further information can be obtained from the editors.
Read the full call for this special issue here.
