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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear list,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Also in the spirit of extending
some of the conference conversations, I noticed a desire in the closing
discussion to hear and foster more international work about labour theory and
practice. I realized afterwards it might have been useful to share information
about another conference I am helping organize in June next year in Hong Kong, with
the Association for Cultural Studies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2010
will feature a number of plenary speakers with labour as their focus, including
Sandro Mezzadra, Andrew Ross, Katherine Gibson and Pun Ngai (who wrote “Made
in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace”). See outlines of
their talks here: <a href="http://www.crossroads2010.org/invited_speakers.html">http://www.crossroads2010.org/invited_speakers.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>On the digital dimension, I am
also chairing a “spotlight session” featuring new research into
labour and work which includes Jack Linchuan Qiu. Jack’s amazing research
on grey collar workers and the information “have-less” in urban
China is published in <i>Working-Class Network Society</i> – a book that also
develops the distinction between “programmable” and “self-programmable”
labour that I mentioned a few times at the conference. This seems to me one particularly
useful way to appreciate the hierarchies that exist in digital labour when
considered across regions (as an Australian, for instance, I find terms like “global
South” always have jarring and complicated effects). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jack’s latest research is conducting
interviews in the workers’ hospitals for iPhone factories, quantifying
the injuries to hands, fingers etc. Obviously this puts a whole new spin on digital
labour…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Anyway, the Hong Kong conference
would be another opportunity to get together in between the New School meet-ups
to advance our common interests. So, I hope some of you will consider coming
along (proposals close at the end of December).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Meanwhile, thanks to everyone
who made this week’s conference such a unique and memorable event,
especially Trebor and the team of faculty and students who were such generous
hosts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Melissa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'><br>
Dr Melissa Gregg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Department of
Gender and Cultural Studies<br>
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry<br>
Quadrangle Building A14<br>
University of Sydney NSW 2006<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml"><span
style='color:blue'>http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://homecookedtheory.com">http://homecookedtheory.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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