-Facing Nordic Working Life
The 7th Nordic Working Life Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, June 11-13 2014
The “Nordic model” and Nordic working life is often seen as unitary and grounded in very similar social democratic welfare state models. During the past decades the Nordic states, management and work organizations have encountered challenges and undergone changes. The Nordic working life research community has now shown a common interest to meet and discuss Nordic working life. In 2011 time was ripe for the first issue of the new Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies and in 2012 the Nordic Working Life Conference was reinstalled after a break of some 10 years. The Nordic Working Life Conference and the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies offer a grand possibility of mutual inspiration and cooperation. By arranging the conference we wish to make a forum to meet fellow researchers and to discuss Threats and Possibilities Facing Nordic Working Life.
Call for Streams, we want your insights
As a first step to find relevant problems and research areas to dig into and to discuss in the 7th Nordic Working Life Conference 2014 we invite YOU, who are researching Nordic working life, to suggest “Streams” for our next conference in Göteborg 2014. An interesting stream will gather fellow Nordic working life researchers to share and discuss relating research questions. Streams must include Nordic working life research. E-mail your suggestion of an interesting stream to the organization committee NWLC2014@gu.se. Deadline May 31th 2013, but you can send it today
Call for Keynote speakers, we want to share your experiences
The organization committee also wants to use crowd-sourcing to find interesting keynote speakers preferably from the Nordic countries but not necessarily. Do you have suggestions of interesting keynote speakers and their subject; e-mail the suggestion and a motivation to the organisation committee at NWLC2014@gu.se. Deadline May 15th 2013.
NWLC & FALF in cooperation
The 7th Nordic Working Life Conference 2014 in Göteborg is a joint venture between the Swedish working life research organisation Forum för arbetslivsforskning FALF and Nordic Working Life Conference NWLC.
Organising committee:
Tommy Isidorsson, Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg, convener.
Margareta Oudhuis, Associate Professor, University College of Borås,
Kristina Håkansson, Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg
Bernt Schiller, Professor, University of Gothenburg
Conference contact e-mail: NWLC2014@gu.se