<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.3in .4in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">CALL FOR PAPERS  – Contesting Neoliberal Configurations
of Labor Value</span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.3in .4in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
AAA 2016, November 16-20, Minneapolis, MN<br>
<br>
Organizers: Lauren Hayes (University of Arizona) and Megan Sheehan (Lehigh
University)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.3in .4in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.3in .4in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>In the contemporary late capitalist
labor market, </span>workers appear to have less control over the time,
location, duration, and permanence of their work—structures of production that are
often attributed to the faultless and abstract market (Ho 2009). Temporary work
and unpredictable work schedules persist as many of the institutional
protections afforded workers, such as unions, are disappearing or declining globally<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">These neoliberal changes favor more
flexible engagements with labor (Ong 2006), and workers are forced to keep up
with </span><span style="mso-no-proof:yes">constant cycles of long-term
unemployment, re-skilling, and career re-definition (Dunk 2002).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.5in"><span style="mso-no-proof:yes"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span></span>At the same time, the
organization of production relations in many workplaces from factory floors to
corporate offices seems to suggest that even an entry-level workforce now enjoys
the social benefits of a more independent and egalitarian work environment. Such
relations manifest in various ways: in the ordinary line worker who is called a
“team member” and asked to think of themselves as an innovative problem solver,
or among professionals who sit in “open offices”—supervisors and managers
alongside interns.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.5in"><span style="mso-no-proof:yes"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span></span>These neoliberal
configurations of labor value promise feelings of empowerment, greater
satisfaction with work, access to global markets and consumer goods, freedom
from rigid hierarchies, and even more power over the production process through
the cultivation of responsibility. This panel draws on case studies that
explore the relationship between economic, temporal, and hierarchical precarity
and the apparent social power that frames the neoliberal workplace: what
Nikolas Rose has referred to as a contradiction between companies’ pursuit of
profit and assumptions about the “humanization of work” (1990). Papers on this
panel will explore this contradiction through examinations of the way that
workers across all sites conceptualize, resist, or consent to such
postionality. They will highlight the complexities of worker adaptation to
neoliberal economic conditions, such as the ways that workers may espouse neoliberal
ideologies while undermining the material conditions these ideologies
naturalize through informal economic strategies (Prentice 2015), or the ways
that ties of kinship may be relied upon to make sense of privatization schemes
(Shever 2008).</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.3in .4in">Papers that explore (but are not
limited to) the following themes and questions are invited to submit a 250 word
abstract to Lauren Hayes (<a href="mailto:lahayes@email.arizona.edu">lahayes@email.arizona.edu</a>) or Megan Sheehan (<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="mailto:mes715@lehigh.edu">mes715@lehigh.edu</a>)</span>
on or before Monday, April 11^thfor notification by the end of the
day on Tuesday, April 12^th.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.3in .4in"><span style="color:green"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">How is consent
to neoliberal projects of work obtained?</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">What are the
affective dimensions associated with work policies that claim to empower
workers and promote egalitarianism?</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">How do
neoliberal configurations of labor value shape gendered subjects?</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">How do workers
who enact ideal neoliberal subjectivities come up against established
organizational hierarchies?</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">How is the
transformation of the workplace and labor value conceptualized
cross-culturally?</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.3in .4in"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">Have
discussions of growing income inequality given workers the tools to articulate
work precarity and make claims to collective identity or collective power?</p><br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Lauren A. Hayes<br>Ph.D. Candidate<br>School of Anthropology<br>University of Arizona</div>
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