CfP: Travail et emploi à l’ère du capitalisme de plateforme / Work and employment in an era of platform capitalism

The debate engendered by new forms of work and employment has grown considerably in recent times. In the eyes of many observers and journalists, western society is being uberised. This neologism derives from Uber, the now famous platform company that connects riders (customers requiring transport) to drivers (private vehicle owners). Indeed, Uber exemplifies the emergence of a platform capitalism which has shaken the foundations of collective organisation and traditional employment categories. Uber’s case reflects a new business model.

Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Fellowship

The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. We seek to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who propose to analyze the interconnections—cultural, economic, ecological, political and demographic—among world societies.

Farewell Lecture Marcel van der Linden

Big changes are often the unintendend consequences of attempts to keep things as they are. This paradoxical mechanism, first described by the paleontologist Alfred Romer, is of relevance in many research areas, including the study of social movements.

In his farewell lecture Walking Fish. How Conservative Behaviour Generates and Processes Radical Change Marcel van der Linden shows to which extent this theory can be applied to social and economic history.

CfP: Le travail en luttes. Résistances, conflictualités et actions collectives

 

Les XVIe journées internationales de sociologie du travail auront pour thème « Le travail en luttes. Résistances, conflictualités et actions collectives ». Cinquante ans après le mouvement de mai 68, ces journées offrent l'occasion de réinterroger d'une part la centralité du travail dans les luttes sociales et d'autre part les transformations des luttes et de leurs enjeux au travail. Cette édition organisée par le Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire pour la Sociologie Économique - Lise (UMR 3320, Cnam-CNRS) aura lieu au Cnam à Paris du 9 au 11 juillet 2018.

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