WORKS - Work Organisation and Restructuring in the Knowledge Society - is a pan-European research project which aims at improving our understanding of the major changes in work. Taking account of the global forces and of the regional diversity within Europe, the project will investigate the evolving division of labour within and between organisations and the related changes at the workplace.

Updated: 19 May 2006

Topics

The core themes are:

		Conceptualising a global knowledge economy
		Global corporate restructuring
		Organisational restructuring and flexibilisation strategies
		Social dialogue, worker organisation and representation
		Impacts on the quality of life
		The gender dimension
		The restructuring of global value chains
		The view from the South

Each topic will include:

		WORKS results
		Theoretical and conceptual reflections
		Methodological contributions
		Policy views

Presented by outstanding experts and stakeholders.

The conference language is English.

Conference proceedings of abstracts will be published on the conference website.

A collection of edited papers will also be published in book form and distributed as a special issue of a journal as well as a stand-alone volume.