The 8th Nordic Working Life Conference will take place in Tampere 2–4
November 2016.

The organizers would like to thank those who have submitted their
abstracts already. However, due to several requests the call for
papers submission deadline has been extended to 31 March.
(http://www.uta.fi/yky/NWLC2016/cfp.html).

Thematic sessions will be organised around the following topics.
1) Employment, unemployment and labour market policies
2) Working with technologies in the service sector
3) Practice-Based Approaches to Working Life Studies
4) Changing patterns of labour migration in Nordic working life
5) New wave of knowledge work – challenge or a chance?
6) Emergent segments of precarious workers in the Nordic countries
7) Sustainability and human resource management
8) Having a hard time retiring? The role of working life in the
retirement process
9) Improving The Psycho-Social Working Environment: Policy, regulation
and programmes
10) Coping with Ignorance in the Non-Knowledge Society
11) Longitudinal analysis in working life research
12) Wicked Times in Health and Social Care: Who cares for workers of care?
13) Alternative careers as responses to transformations of working life
14) Age and Life Course at Work
15) The effects of New Public Management on higher education
16) Within and beyond emotional work
17) Workers, Employers and State in the making of the Nordic Models
18) Work-life dynamics
19) Learning and development in supporting renewal, productivity and
well-being at work
20) Organisation, technology and work – strategy, negotiation and application
21) Health, work ability, functional capacity and exclusion from working
22) Flexibility and Security in Post-Industrial Labour Markets
23) Performance and quality of working life
24) Open session

The main theme of the conference is “Hard Times?” The discussions will
be facilitated by the distinguished keynote speakers: Carin Håkansta
(SWE), Arne L. Kalleberg (USA), Peer Hull Kristensen (DEN), Anna-Maija
Lehto (FIN) and Stefán Ólafsson (ISL) (more:
http://www.uta.fi/yky/NWLC2016/keynotes.html).

See you in Tampere!

On behalf of the organizers,

Antti Saloniemi, Prof.
Chair of organizing committee
University of Tampere
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
mobile: +358 (0) 50 462 7394
email: antti.saloniemi@uta.fi