Turku Centre for Labour Studies TCLS - Events in 2015

What are Post-Fordist Wages? Simmel, Labour Money and the Problem of Value, 27.4.2015
  • Lisa Adkins, Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor
  • Organised in collaboration with the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship
Multicultural working life, 12.5.2015
  • Market Reasoning at the European Court of Justice and its Implications for Posted Worker Representation / University Lecturer Nathan Lillie, University of Jyväskylä
  • Comments: Dr. Paul Jonker-Hoffrén. Discussion
  • How marketisation policies challenge professionalism of care: Subservient past, subservient future for the care workforce? / Dr., Senior Lecturer Sirpa Wrede, University of Helsinki
  • Comments: Senior researcher Arja Haapakorpi. Discussion 
  • The multilingual workplace / Professor Rebecca Piekkari, Aalto- University
  • Chair: Professor Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, University of Turku
  • Organised in collaboration with MCNet
WORK2015 Conference - New Meanings of Work, 19.-21.8.2015

The theme for the WORK2015 Conference, New Meanings of Work sought its justification not only from the changes in work itself but from the global shifts both in the divisions and in the contents of the work. The ongoing turbulences of the post-recession economies at the global, regional and national levels shake also the work and its meanings. The on-going economic and societal changes are connected to forms and boundaries of work and to modes of working and ways of living that are yet to thoroughly mapped and explored. The recent transformations touch the very definition of what is work and call for rigorous explorations and new analyses.

Read more on WORK2015 website

Emerging fields and new jobs, 27.10.2015
  • Welcome! Senior research fellow Tuire Palonen, University of Turku 
  • Expertise development: On the gap between school and work/Professor Els Boshuizen, Open University The Neatherlands 
  • How emerging field challenges traditional forms of professional training and learning?/ Professor Erno Lehtinen, University of Turku 
  • Information technology as a force for change - How does it affect us, the society, work and education? Professor Jouni Isoaho, University of Turku 
  • Chair: Tuire Palonen 
  • Organised in collaboration with Faculty of Education