Call for participants: The politics of gender, work and value

Central European University, Budapest (March 7-8 2015)

This event will be the third meeting of the international Research Network, Women, Work and Value in postwar Europe, 1945-2015.

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Universities of Bristol and Glasgow, and the Central European University (Labor History Initiative).

Keynote speaker: Professor Eileen Boris (UC Santa Cruz)

This workshop will address women’s work as an object of political debate, as well as the gendered nature of work as a basis for collective action and mobilization, policy-setting, and social critique. We invite contributions on gender in the division of the labour market, of work (in)stability and of industrial conflict, political debates around women’s work and family policies, women's campaigning and critique, trade unions, equal pay and other legislation, the value of women’s work for the welfare state, the refusal to work, and migrant work and its impact on modern societies and economies. We hope that participants will come from a wide range of academic disciplines,and that their contributions will address the politics of gender, work and value in market as well as state-socialist societies. We particularly encourage contributions which address these issues through the lens of cultural representation.

We will be able to make a financial contribution towards participants’ travel costs and/or accommodation.
Conference participation

If you are interested in taking part, please send a single document, containing a short biography and a statement of your research interests, and with your name as the file name, to Hannah-Marie Chidwick (hc6198@bris.ac.uk) by January 11 2015.