Labour, Globalisation and The New Economy

Call for Papers and First Announcement for the 
Third International Congress of the Work and Labour Network,
Osnabrück, Germany: 22-25 May 2002

The third congress will take place in the City of Osnabrück, in the Northwest of Germany. Osnabrück is the German environmental capital and City of Peace (Westphalian Peace Treaty from 1648; www.osnabrueck.de)

First draft for the programme

Wednesday, 22 May 2002

Morning: Factory visits including discussions with management and works council

Afternoon: Opening, general presentations and introduction into the working groups

Evening: Reception at the City Hall

Thursday, 23 May 2002

Working Groups

Late afternoon: General Assembly

Cultural evening

Friday, 24 May 2002

Morning: Report from the working groups

Afternoon: Final panel, conclusions, further activities, next congress

Saturday, 25 May 2002

Sightseeing

Working Groups:

1. New economy and Labour
   (Contacts: Francesco Garibaldo, IpL Bologna/Italy: f.garibaldo@ipielle.emr.it and György Széll gszell@uos.de)

2. New forms of economic activities
   (Contact: Gian Primo Cella, IpL Bologna/Italy: gianprimo.cella@unimi.it)

3. The Role of institutions in the process of local and regional development
   (Contact: Rainer Zoll, University of Bremen/Germany: zoll@uni-bremen.de)

4. Intermediate Structures and Regional Development in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
   (Contact: Wolfgang Potratz, Institute for Work and Technology, Gelsenkirchen/Germany: potratz@iatge.de)

5. Building an Early Warning Business Development Network
   (Contact: Dan Swinney, Center for Labor and Community Research, Chicago/USA: dswinney@igc.org)

6. Transnational social regulation
   (Contact: Volker Telljohann, IpL Bologna/Italy: v.telljohann@ipielle.emr.it)

We will apply to the European Commission and other institutions to sponsor the conference, so that travel grants will hopefully be available. All communication should be addressed to the organiser:

György Széll
University of Osnabrück
Department of Social Sciences
D 49069 Osnabrück/Germany
Tel. +49 541 969 4614
Fax +49 541 969 4600
email: gszell@uos.de

or to the Secretariat of the International Network of Regional and Local Development of Work and Labour (more information on the network at www.ipielle.emr.it):

Volker Telljohann
Institute for Labour Foundation
Via Marconi 8
I 40122 Bologna
Italy
Phone: +39 051 6564211
Fax: +39 051 6565425
email: v.telljohann@ipielle.emr.it