Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK.
E-mail: ias@lancaster.ac.uk
Workshop: Work and the Knowledge-Based Economy
12-13 July 2006
Please note, this research programme has now concluded and these pages are maintained here as a record of the activities of the Institute for Advanced Studies.
Co-ordinator: Steve Fleetwood
The role of knowledge and information coupled with the increasing use of information technology in production and consumption, globalisation and the increasing importance of the service industry constitute key features of the Knowledge Based Economy (KBE). These changes allegedly demand different forms of organisation, working and management practices, and usher in new power relations. The workforce in the KBE is (must be?) flexible in a variety of ways, highly skilled, highly paid, high value-adding and is, therefore, central to the economic fortunes of firms, industries, regions and national economies.
This workshop was dedicated to exploring these claims and the nature of the work, employment, labour process, industrial relations, and so forth in the KBE. The remit was deliberately open-ended and in-keeping with the IAS’s aim to provide distinguished scholars with ‘time to think’ on crucial contemporary issues in a rich and supportive interdisciplinary environment. The emphasis was on thinking and dialogue rather than presentation of finished work.
- Donald Hislop, Sheffield University, Reconceptualizing the Knowledge Skill Relationship in Work
- Chris Warhurst, University of Strathclyde, Towards More Inclusive Knowledge-Driven Workplaces: Transforming Routine Work and Employment
- Roger Penn, Lancaster University, Knowledge Workers and Skill: paradoxes Within the Contemporary Division of Labour
- Jason Ferdinand, Liverpool University, Working the KBE
- Ruth Rikowski, London South Bank University, The Impossibility of Determining the Length of the Working Day for Intellectual Labour
- Ann Bergman, University of Karlstad, Inequality in the KBE
- Duska Rosenberg, Royal Holloway, London, New Ways of Working: An Empirical Study of Social Change
- Melissa Fisher, Georgetown University, Washington, USA, Navigating the Wall Street Women’s Networks in the KBE
- Phoebe Moore, University of Lincoln, Open Source and the Knowledge Based Economy: Firm Foundations or Workers’ Freedom?
- Sandra Jones, University of Melbourne, Back to the Future: The Challenge of Ideologies in Australian Industrial
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