Dear Devorah Kalekin for coming at the congress on the session Alienation Theory and Research: New Directions of the congress that will be held in July 7-11 in Beijing, organized in collaboration with the International Institute of Sociology. I need of an official letter of invitation. I would like to speak about the following issue " The changing of way to generate alienation in the transformation between industrial society in the world wide incoming knowledge society." See for example my recent paper on Job Insecurity and Continuous Training. see in : http://www.chim1.unifi.it/group/education/pin/tasti3/progetto_forco.htm see also in : http://www.edscuola.it/lre.html My bedst regards and having a good succesful and happy new 2004. Paolo Manzelli -- PAOLO MANZELLI Director of LRE/EGO-CreaNet – University of Florence Via Maragliano 77 – 50144 Firenze – Italy Phone: +39/055332549 Mobile: +39/335-6760004 E-mail: LRE@unifi.it ; manzelli@invisibilmente.it http://www.chim1.unifi.it/group/education/index.html