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36th International Labour Process Conference

"Class and the labour process"

21 to 23 March, 2018

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Full programme

Room Title Authors Theme Session

WEDNESDAY

9:00 - 10:30

HU205

The temporary dock workers and union action: the case of northern Chile. Camila Álvarez

Labour Conflict and Union Strategies

Precarious and informal workers

organisation

‘The Times They Are A-Changin’: Collaborative Workers & Citizens Mobilisations. An interpretation through the Grey Zone of Employment

Christian Azaïs

“Successfully Organizing against Worker Misclassification: Port Trucking and Construction in the United States”

Michael Slone, Timothy Black, Alicia Smith-Tran

HU 206

Popular economies, cooperatives and commons: an ethnographic perspective on a selfmanaged textile cooperative in Buenos Aires

Alioscia Castronovo

Cooperation and self-organisation

The solidarity economy and workers self-

management I

Precarious labor in the fishing industry on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina Beverly Geesin, Simon Mollan

Beyond the rhetoric of ‘slave labor’: subaltern experiences of self-organization among precarious workers in Argentina.

Nicolás Fernández-Bravo

HU302

From Peasants to Workers: the Building of the Itaipú Dam in the Making of the Paraguayan Modern Working Class (1974-1989)

Carlos Gómez Florentín


Work in the primary sector

Extractive Industries and Changing Means of Rural Livelihood: History and Future of Soma Coal-Mining Community

Cosku Celik

Toil for Oil: A critical analysis of work and employment in the North Sea Oil Sector Jennifer O'Neil, Vaughan Ellis

HU303

Deal with precarious situations. The case of young retail workers. Francisco Favieri

Working lives and the labour

process

Dealing with precarity I

“It goes in one hand and out of the other – At the minute I’m just having to survive”. In-Work Poverty and Low-Paid Multiple Employment

Jo McBride, Andrew Smith

The relationship between work and health. Meanings and practices in supermarket workers Manuela Abarca

‘Just Trying to Keep My Customers Satisfied’?: Time Struggle and the Managerial Role of Customers in Adjunct Academic and Platform Delivery Work

Kathleen Griesbach

HU308

Opening Panel: Introducing the Hidden Abode and Labour Struggles in the Rural context Stream convenors Stream 2: Class

compositions and rural struggles

Hidden spaces of production I Capitalist territorialization of the COAMO agroindustrial cooperativa Raoni Azeredo

Rediscovering a struggle for the Commons: land problems in 21st century Scotland Brian Garvey

HU402

Disciplining women at the bottom of global value chains. Labour control and resistance within fields and households in Senegalese export horticulture

Elena Baglioni

Stream 3: Development and

Labour Process

Labour control regimes

Local Labour Control Regimes and Class Struggle among Informal Workers in South India Jonathan Pattenden

Integrating Theories on Labor Process and Collective Labor Action: The Case of Pension-driven Protests in China

Elaine Sio-ieng Hui

HU401

Innovative cooperation’s model in Europe: a solution to the growing uncertainty in the world of work

Francesca Martinelli Stream 5:

Precarious Work in Comparative

Perspective

Politics of precarity I Job Insecurity Among Young People in Europe: Between the Objective and Subjective Dimension

Valentina Goglio, Sonia Bertolini

Normalisation and resistance against precarity: Life strategies in the biographies of young workers in Poland and Germany

Alexandra Seehaus

HU400

The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: Restructuring work relations in Pakistan’s apparel industry

Hugh Willmott

Stream 6: HR Practice in

Labour Process and Workplace

Context

Supply chains and production networks

Company positionalities within the Scottish Spirits supply chain network and the effect on absence management

Pedro Mendonca, Anastasios Hadjisalomou, Kirsty Newsome, Dora Scholarios

Retaining and extending labour rights in global supply chains: a case of supply networks in Vietnam

Tony Dundon, Diane van den Broek

11:00 - 12:30

HU205

The role of the State in the precarization of the grape export sector in Chile and Brazil: movements and counter-movements

Claudia Cerda Becker Labour markets and employment

regulation

Labour markets and precarity

New Capitalism and Precarious Forms of Employment: A View from the Post-socialist Periphery

Mislav Zitko, Jelena Ostojic

Myth of the German Miracle: Precarity in Perspective Ravi Tripathi

HU206

Managing the Precarious Workplace: Wages, hegemony, and the minimum wage in U.S. Restaurants.

Marcel Knudsen


process

Dealing with precarity II

Towards political disenchantment and populism? Consequences of precarious working and living conditions in the case of young Germans

Alexandra Seehaus, Vera Trappmann, Jule-Marie Lorenzen, Denis Neumann

Young workers in flexible capitalism: a Brazilian experience

Fernando Ramalho Martins, Daniel Wintersberger, Aline Suelen Pires

HU302

Outsourcing as a strategy to contain labor conflict: a case study from the guild of private surveillance in Mexico City.

Laura Victoria Alvarado Aizpuru Labour markets

and employment regulation

Space, labor and precarity Impact of displacements costs on a spatially scattered labor market - A theoretical approach Aboulkacem el Mehdi

Accommodations at work and workers mobility. Perspectives from Europe Antonella Ceccagno, Devi Sacchetto

HU303

Exploring resilience in hybrid organization: the case of workers buyout in Italy Barbara Barbieri, Marco Zurru, Alessia Contu Cooperation and

self-organisation


management II The regulations of the work process in the recovered companies: 15 years after Natalia Bauni, Gabriel Fajn

HU203

Labour conflict, disciplining and repression in YPF La Plata (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1974-1980)

Andrea Copani


Souther Cone dictatorships and the

labour movement

Labour process and conflictivity, repression and corporate responsability in crimes against humanity in the factories of Fiat in Cordoba, 1974-1983

Marianela Galli

Control, consensus, resistance and creation. The Uruguayan trade union movement against the last dictatorial government (1973-1985).

Sabrina Alvarez

HU204

Collective bargaining and union strategies in contemporary Argentina Marticorena Clara Labour Conflict

and Union Strategies

Union revitalization debate and collective

bargaining

Post Troika Ireland – union revitalisation in firm level bargaining Eugene Hickland

Unions and the changing world of work: existential crisis or sustainable alternatives? Steve Davies, Helen Blakely

HU308 Production and Labor in the Brazilian Field: an analysis of data from the Agricultural Census 2006

Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior

Stream 2: Class compositions and

Hidden spaces of production II

Pesticides in the globalised Brazilian agribusiness: Seducing storytellers, viperish work , and parted peasantry.

Kendra Briken rural struggles

Sugar cane and oil palm. Flexible crops and labor exploitation of rural youth in Brazil and Colombia

Robinzon Piñeros Lizarazo

HU402

The politics of precarious hegemony in post-crisis Argentina: Precarious work and union strategies during the Kirchnerista era (and beyond)

Rodolfo Elbert


Labour Process Informal work

Heterogeneous forms of informal work and productive chains. The case of the garment industry in Argentina

Andres Matta

Paid Domestic Work as a Paradigmatic Form of Informal Work. A comparison between Argentina, Chile and Paraguay’s regulations.

Lorena Poblete

HU401

Mediation or Transmission? Innovation, Institutions, and the Problem of Precarity Nantina Vgontzas Stream 5: Precarious Work in Comparative

Perspective

The gig economy The Gig is Up: Predatory Digital Labor Markets and the Marginalized Worker Lauren Bridges

The Uberization of the Labor Market: A case study of Uber drivers in Monterrey, Mexico Mariana Manriquez

HU400

Manufactured Uncertainty and Contrived Competition; Understanding Managerial Job Insecurity in International Perspective

Jonathan Morris, John Hassard Stream 6: HR

Practice in Labour Process and Workplace

Context

Critical Perspectives on Management I

Mechanisms of managerial control and worker reactions: a case study of a large chilean company

Alejandro Castillo

HRM implementation in practice: Symbolism, decoupling and the substitution of HR practitioners during organizational reforms

Julia Brandl

13:30 - 15:00

HU203

Sweatshops dixit: Unfree labour and the accumulation dynamics of the clothing industry Jeronimo Montero Bressan

Work and labour process theories

Non-standard work and exploitation

Work unbounded? Rachel Cohen

Notes on twenty-first century informality and the reserve army of labour Ruth Felder, Viviana Patroni

HU204

Contributions of a materialist ontology to the critical knowledge of labour processes and workers struggles

Maria Ceci Misoczky, Rafael Kruter Flores

Class formation and identities

Measuring class in the 21st Century

Processes of class structuring and social stratification in Argentina (1955 - 2010) Adrián Piva

Researching women’s class position through work biographies: women and labour in Croatia

Valerija Barada, Jaka Primorac

Quantifying marxist variables for a more grounded interpretation of capitalism and the social relations of exploitation. The rate of surplus value from 1973 to 2012

Camila Brito Sabatini, Joaquin Farina

HU205

Individual worker reflections on involvement in a high profile strike: the BA dispute 2009-2011.

Iona byford, Robert Byford


process

The making and remaking of collective

identities

“We’re knackered and fed up”: attitudes towards work and trade union membership of junior NHS doctors following the disputed imposition of a new contract

Nicholas Jephson, Hugh Cook, Andy Charlwood

Biographies of kinship: the importance of the personal within the labour movement Helen Blakely, Steve Davies

HU206

De-specialization trend in Vocational Education and Training: labour process changes and the new international division of labour as determinations of technical secondary school reforms since 1970s

Dana Hirsch

Skills at work Skills at work 1 Deskilling of the cleaning work labour process: intersection between class and gender

Giorgio Boccardo, Cristóbal Moya, Nicolas Ratto y Felipe Ruiz

Labour process and schooling: an approach to the debate on the relation between technical change and skills.

Victoria Rio

HU302

The Social Bases of the Solidarity Economy Julian Rebon, José Itzigsohn

Cooperation and self-organisation


management III

Cooperatives, labour processes and the mobilization of the precarious – from injustice to strategic positioning in a “global world”?

Lee Pegler, Yannis Chourdakis

Precarization of work, the fallacy of entrepreneurship and solidary relations as resistance: scenes from the Brazilian context.

Leny Sato

HU303

Time-work and time-robbed institutions. The take-over effect of work Adrian Madden, Graham Symon


Care, worth and the value of work

Precarious Care: Labour Process, Care Work and Gender in the Context of Late Neoliberalism Donna Baines

Social organization of care as a driver of precarious situations of care workers in home-based elder care

Majda Hrženjak

Exploring the care penalties of the Argentinean parental leave on LGBTQI parents Lucía Cirmi Obón

HU401

Double Precarity in the Face of Urban Transformation: Intersections of Employment and Housing Insecurities Among Doorkeepers in Istanbul

Ladin Bayurgil


process

Work and urban vulnerability.

The precarious work of the Uber drivers: the vulnerabilities of the working class in Brazil and the need for a protection policy

Murilo Martins, Victor Hugo de Almeida

The frontline of street vending regulation in Belo Horizonte Tarcísio Perdigão Araújo Filho

HU308

The case of community supported agriculture: Re-producing class and ‘yuppie chow’ or the production of resistance?

David Watson


rural struggles

Hidden spaces of production III

Tracing the Class Relations in Turkey’s New Cooperativism: A Potantial Alternative to Market Relations?

Cagatay Edgucan Sahin, Elif Hacısalihoglu

Labour struggles within and without production. From value to valueless production Paul Stewart

HU107

Industrial Zoning in India's 'Corridors of Development': Towards a Comparative Labour Regime Analysis

Satoshi Miyamura


Labour Process

Political economy of work and

development

Neo-Developmentalism, Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Labour in the Global South: Lessons from the Argentine and Turkish Experiences, 2001-2017

Sumercan Bozkurt Gungen

Patrimonial relations or capitalist dynamics of control and contest? Case study of a state-owned joint venture firm in Saudi Arabia

Ayman Adham, Anita Hammer

HU400

University professors working conditions in the context of Higher Education globalization Cecilia Lusnich Stream 6: HR

Practice in Labour Process and Workplace

Context

Knowledge and skills Skills regulation and HRM: Theoretical discussion and some initial findings Steve Vincent

The Form and Content of Creative Labour: Management, Measurement and the Market in a Case Study of Creative Agencies in the UK and the Netherlands

Frederick Harry Pitts

15:30 - 17:00

HU203

Digital economy, distraction, and the formation of the “mindful self” at work Friedericke Hardering, Greta Wagner


Conceptualisations of labour

Material and immaterial labor in the early video game industry Maximiliano Tagliapietra

Platform Labour at Global Margins: Agency and Autonomy of Workers in the Global Gig Economy

Mohammad Amir Anwar, Mark Graham

HU204

Jobs vs Clean Air?": Unions and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Comparative Perspective" Allen Hyde, Todd Vachon


Unions, racial justice and the environment

Incorporating Racial Justice: Strategies for Overcoming Structural Constraints in American Labor Unions

Amelia Fortunato

Worker fragmentation and imagined solidarities: Swedish blue-collar trade unions and migrants in an age of neoliberalism and extreme-right wing populism

Anders Neergaard

HU205

Paul Thompson (Coordinator)

Symposium: Labour control regimes: Perspectives and Practices Elena Baglioni

Alessandra Mezzadri

Jonathan Pattenden

Alisson Droppa, Brasil (Coordinator)

Symposium: The labor reforms in a comparative approach: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico HU206

Andrea Del Bono, Argentina

Magda Barros Biavaschi, Brasil

Magdalena Echeverría, Chile

Luis Quintana Romero, México

Márcia de Paula Leite, Brasil

HU302

Victoria Basualdo (Coordinator)

Symposium: Workers and unions facing global economic and social change in the 1970s: transformations of productive relations, labor discipline, repressive policies and labor struggles in Latin America

Larissa Rosa Correa

Rodrigo Araya Gomez

Sabrina Álvarez

Carlos Gómez Florentín

18:00 - 20:00

Auditorio

Welcome and Keynote Conference

David Harvey

"Labour and the theory of value"

THURSDAY

9:00 - 10:30

SG206

Labour precarization and class boundaries in physicians of General Medicine, under the pacemaker of Evidence-Based Medicine

Agostina Loreley Gieco


process

The shaping of class boundaries

Managing Portfolio Lives: Flexibility and Privilege Amongst Upscale Restaurant Workers in Los Angeles

Eli Wilson

The proletarianisation of front line service management: an ethnography of retail managers Martin James

HU100

The problem of temporalities involved in contemporary labor conflicts: The strikes of 2011-2014 in the chilean docks""

Camilo Santibáñez


Strikes and protests

Reconstituting strike theory for the 21st century: forms and arenas of power in the employment relationship

Chris Rhomberg, Steven Lopez

Political culture of protest and reflectivity. Notes on a cycle of protests Fernando Aiziczon

Integrating Theories on Labor Process and Collective Labor Action: The Case of Pension-driven Protests in China

Elaine Sio-ieng Hui

HU102

Bringing Labor Rights Home: Contradictions and Challenges in Regulating the Domestic Sphere

Katherine Maich Stream 1: Productive and

reproductive labour:

implications for worker

organization

Reproductive labour processes and regulation of informality

Paid domestic work: time, space and mutual intersubjectivty

Karina Boggio, Lorena Funcasta, María Cantabrana, Virginia de León

Social policies and care work in Brazil: dynamics of politization and depoliticization in the global South

Isabel Georges

HU106

Labour analogous to slavery and the agribusiness in Bahia in the 21st century Aurelane Alves Santana


rural struggles

Hidden places of production IV

What about sugar cane cutters? (In)sustainability, paulista agroindustrial complex and false green jobs

Olivia Pasqualeto

Class culture, skills and work process: the case of agricultural machinery workers in Argentina and the United States

Juan Manuel Villulla

HU107

We Fight Against the Union!" Ethnography of Labor Relations in Mexican Automotive Industry"

Paolo Marinaro


Labour Process

Workers' strategies inside the factory

Industrial relocation and migrant labour resistance in Southwestern China: The case of the 2015 cross-factory strike in Chengdu's footwear industry

Daniel Fuchs

When and what to do for triumph? Worker’s strategies in the strikes and mobilization power against the firm in Chile.

Diego Velásquez

HU307

Employer control and working response in the age of the computerization: the case of companies of constant flow in Bolivia

Tania Aillón Stream 4: Artificial

Intelligence. A service

revolution?

Artificial intelligence: A service revolution?

I

Human-Computer Decision Making Philip Garnett

The Impact of AI and Robotics on Service and Knowledge Work: A Literature Review Donald Hislop

HU400

Entrepreneurship as assimilation processes: Recent experiences of Haitians in Tijuana, Mexico

Araceli Almaraz Stream 5:


Perspective

Precarious Work in Central and South

America Labour Practices and Precarization. The case of La Nombrada in Chilean Ports Hernan Cuevas

Precariousness comparisons between Brazil and Mexico: a macroeconomic and a micro-social analysis

Christian Caldeira

HU403

Sustainability in work organisations: A critical review, map and research agenda James Richards Stream 6: HR Practice in


Context

Managing ethically Victims, survivors and the experience of internal redeployment: exploring the impact on the 'inbetweeners' of employment restructuring

Chris McLachlan

Work–Family Balance Practices in the Malaysian context: a comparison of two oil companies Raffaella Valsecchi

11:00 - 12:30

Aula SG300

Keynote Conference

José Sergio Leite Lopes

"Memory, social conflict and the transformation of labour and social reproduction processes within the working classes"

13:30 - 15:00

SG206

A perfect match? Young blue-collar workers class origin and the exigencies of work Carina Altreiter, Jörg Flecker


Class and the LP The persistent relevance of the working class in Chile: new developments from class analysis and the labor process theory

Lucas Cifuentes, Pablo Pérez

Class and the labour process debate revisited Paul Thompson, Chris Smith

HU100

The production of shoes in Bogota, Colombia: Precarious lives, subjectivity and informality Hernan Camilo Pulido Martinez, Alba Luz Giraldo Tamayo


process

Intersections between formal and

informal labour Workers and Households Facing Precariousness and Informality in the Argentinean Car Industry

Johanna Sittel, Stefan Schmalz, Natalia Berti, Luciana Buffalo

Formal Business, Informal Work: Real Estate and the Labour Process in the Residential Real Estate Construction Industry in Mumbai, India

Rohan Dominic Mathews

HU400

Work and unión militancy: the role of delegates in drinking wáter supply. A study case in Argentina.

Carlos Galimberti


Labour conflicts in Argentina

Trade union revitalization and economic austerity: A comparative study of workplace occupation as labor struggle in a context of restrictive economic policies (Argentina 2015-2017)

Julieta Haidar, Agustina Miguel

The political-governmental influence on the evolution of the membership in the unions of the public sector. A case study in Argentina

Santiago Duhalde

Trade unions action in Macri's time: mechanisms of union representation from the change of government in Argentina

Tania Rodriguez

HU403

Digitalizing Agile: Ambivalences in governing new forms of work Manuel Nicklich, Stefan Sauer


process

Flexibility and Digitalisation in different sectors

The social regulation of audiovisual work in Argentina. Trade union strategies in highly flexible production contexts.

María Bulloni, Gabriela Pontoni

Working the gig economy: The use (or not) of digital platforms in photography Paula McDonald, Robyn Mayes, Penny Williams

HU102

Contesting the Nature of Community Organisations: Hopes and Challenges for the Collective Mobilisation of Migrant Workers

Joyce Jiang Stream 1:

Productive and reproductive

labour: implications for

worker organization

Mobility strategies: breaking the cage of

waged labour Development, Industrial Transformation and Internal Circular Migration of Labour in China Shuwan Zhang

EU freedom of movement as an exercise of labour mobility power: the case of Central Eastern European workers in the UK labour market

Zinovijus Ciupijus

HU106

The Everyday of Labour: Forms of Resistance and Subordination in four Volvo Plants Across the Global North and the Global South

Nora Rathzel


rural struggles

Hidden places of production V

Rethinking the work process. The brickwork workers in the need to improve their working conditions.

Federico Vocos

Work degradation in Brazilian slaughterhouses: on the systemic antagonism between capital and workers’ health

Fernando Heck

HU107

SOMISA-Siderar San Nicolas: a study from privatization to labor outsourcing (1990-2015). Julia Strada


Labour Process

Outsourcing and precarity

Time & The Sweatshop: The Multiple ‘Circulations’ & Temporalities of Exploitation Alessandra Mezzadri

Single Problem, Multiple Quests: Coping and Resistance Strategies in the Face of Current Precarity Experiences, The Case of Turkey

Elif Hacisalihoglu

HU307

Resisting AI: mapping early social conflict around AI Juan Grigera

Stream 4: Artificial

Intelligence. A service

revolution?

Artificial intelligence: A service revolution?

II

The future of self- and other-tracking at work: Affect and unseen labour Phoebe Moore

The Reorganisation of Processing in the Context of Automatisation and Artificial Intelligence - The Case of an Insurance Company

Johan Buchholz

Platform capitalism and online gig work: the labour process, resistance, and organising Jamie Woodcock

15:30 - 17:00

HU400

Agreeing on the Wage: the Imposition of Wage Systems in Chinese Factories Fuk Ying Tse Stream 6: HR Practice in


Context

Critical Perspectives on Management II

Theoretical considerations about Human Resource Management and its normative control mechanisms

Alejandro Castillo

Actor-Centred HRM: Workers’ Narratives of Technology Upgrading in two Chinese Multinationals

Yu Zheng

HU100

Dimensions of worth in work. Values from markets, performances and tasks Bengt Larsson, Ylva Ulfsdotter Erikkson, Petra Adolfsson Labour markets


The value of work A Critical Review of Meaningful Work Carolin Suedkamp

Activating the “inactive” - employment policies for disabled people in a comparative view Regina Konle-Seidl, Rauch Angela

SG206

The problem of labor exclusion in Argentina. Analysis of the intermediation policies María Eugenia Sconfienza Labour markets and employment

regulation Labour market trends

Availability to work and job search: inactivity as unemployment veil. An analysis of Spanish potential working force

Valentina Viego, Margarita Gallego Sanchez, Sofia Perez de Guzman Padron

A surplus of university graduates for capital in Argentina? An exploratory approach based on journalistic statements

Ricardo Donaire

HU102

The limits of higher education as a site of skill development, the cases of software engineers, laboratory scientists, financial analysts and press officers.

Gerbrand Tholen

Skills at work Skills at work 2 Disciplines and areas in lower secondary. Exploring the correspondence between changes in the materiality of labour and the transformation of secondary school.

Luisa Iñigo

Learning attitudes and emotions to work: vocational training in the area of aesthetics Millenaar Veronica

HU106

Julia Soul (Coordinator)

Symposium: Globalization, working class and international solidarity. Theoretical and political challenges

Oscar Martinez

Jorge Garcia Orgales

Katiuscia Galhera

HU107

Marge Unt (Coordinator)

Symposium: Young people between precarious work and social exclusion in Europe: a lost generation?

Michael Gebel

Sonia Bertolini

Valentina Goglio

Dirk Hofaecker

HU307

Agustín Nieto (Coordinator)

Symposium: Subjectivity and labor struggle in contemporary Argentina (2013-2017): general tendencies and local imprints

Patricia Collado

Susana Roitman

Erica Oliva

18:00 - 20:00

Aula SG300

Keynote Conference

Cinzia Arruzza

"Reflections on class, feminism and the work of social reproduction"

FRIDAY

9:00 - 10:30

HU103

“Maternity and labor identity experiences: a research of marginal, workers, and middle groups in Chile”.

Manuela Abarca, Catalina Arteaga, Belen Pozo


process Performing identities “Manning the seas”: The performance of masculinities by Filipino seafarers on-board

merchant vessels and ashore Nelson Turgo

The emergence of an instrumented worker subject in labor processes of public action Alan Valenzuela, Alvaro Soto Roy

HU106

Behind the beer: An examination of the labour process within the Scottish microbrewing industry

Vaughan Ellis, Jennifer O'Neil and James Richards


process

Labour process analysis in different

sectors

The modernization of the Retail industry in Chile: Changes in the productive model and precarization of the store workers

Antonio Stecher

Changes in education policy and teaching work due to the education crisis in Argentina. Reconfiguration and redefinition of state strategies.

Oscar Daniel Duarte, Natalia Fiori

HU201

International students work experience in irregular works in London Emine Acar

Migrant workers Migrants working

conditions Labour-migratory trajectories among Senegalese in Argentina. Luz Espiro

NAFTA’s southern frontier: Central American transborder migrant workers in Mexico Pablo Mateos

HU202

Socio-cultural reproduction of economic inequalities in independent cultural sector: fighting for the margins

Jaka Primorac, Valerija Barada, Edgar Burši Class formation

and identities

Class and inequality in the cultural

industries 'Raw talent' - classed constructions of inequality in the cultural industries Kate Oakley

HU204

Young people and pension savings in times of increasing employment uncertainty: A comparison of seven European welfare systems

Dirk Hofaecker, Sina Schadow, Janika Kletzing

Labour markets and employment

regulation

Labour reform and welfare systems Two waves of pensions’ financialization: The UK Case Jo Grady, Ian Clark

Poverty reduction as reproduction of capitalism: The role of CCTs in preserving capitalist work

Firat Durusan

HU305

Transformations of the labour process and its impact on workers' health Julio Cesar Neffa


process

Health and the labour process

Labour process and workers' health. The emergence and rise of psychosocial risks in the current regime of accumulation

Maria Laura Henry

Who cares about workers? Nanotechnology and invisible risks in the work environment Olivia Pasqualeto, , Gabriela Marcassa Thomaz de Aquino

HU308

The Organisation of Labour in Rio Grande, Brazil: productive and reproductive processes in the uprising and decay of shipbuilding industry

Guilherme Dornelas Camara, Diego D'Avila Rosa; Rogério Faé


The making and unmaking of the

working class

Labour struggle, dynamic of strikes and forms of worker organization in the wood industry of Buenos Aires city, 1890-1920

Walter Ludovico Koppmann

Connecting tasks, times and demands. Labour process and labor community in the Puerto de Buenos Aires (end of the 19th century - early 20th century)

Laura Caruso

HU400

Taking Time / Transaction Care in Nursing Homes Tamara Daly Stream 1:

Productive and reproductive

labour: implications for

worker organization

Spaces and times of working class

formation

Managing differences in segmented labour markets: Emerging spaces of work and their social relationships, an inquiry into logistics in France and Italy

Carlotta Benvegnù

New Working Class Consciousness, Place and Precarity in China Chris Smith

HU402

Exceptionality, Entrepreneurship and Exploitation: Postsocialist Transformation of Art Workers

Katja Praznik

Stream 5: Precarious Work in Comparative

Perspective

Politics of precarity II

The Legal Construction of Precarity: Lessons from the Construction Sector in Beijing and Delhi

Irene Pang

Whose voices get suppressed and why? Agnes Akkerman

Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour unions, precarious work, and the politics of institutional change in Europe

Valeria Pulignano

11:00 - 12:30

Aula SG300

Keynote Conference

Leo Panitch

"Rethinking class for the 21st Century"

13:30 - 15:00

HU103

Selective Enforcement of Labor Law in China: Evidence from Chinese General Social Surveys Hailong Jia, Mingwei Liu


regulation Labour law

Outsourcing in the Preliminary Draft Labour Reform in Argentina, A new setback in the protection of workers?

Jorge Afarian, Julieta Lobato

The labor reform approved in Brazil: a regressive attack on social rights and the public institutions that operate in the labor world

Magda Biavaschi

HU106

‘I always go with my compañeros’: Social Networks Among Borderlands Migrant Agricultural Workers

Kathleen Griesbach

Migrant workers Migrant workers'

strategies

Organizing Against Disposability: Latinx Immigrant Workers in the Pacific Northwest Lola Loustaunau

Migration and Precarious Work: Community Basis of Informal Textile Workshops in Argentina

María José Magliano, María Victoria Perissinotti

Au Pairs at work in Australia: temporary migration, gender and identity. Robyn Mayes

HU201

Self-Employment India’s Informal Sector: The Case of Handloom Enterprises in Assam Anamika Das


regulation

Self employment and precarity

Towards an employment precariousness based-typology of self employment in Chile Fernando Baeza, Alejandra Vives

Uberization: advanced stage of flexibilization of work relations

Rodrigo Bombonati de Souza Moraes, Marco Antonio Gonsales de Oliveira

HU202

Ruptures and continuities in matters of public employment policies in Argentina (1990-2015). The case of the Municipal Employment Offices.

Irene Provenzano


regulation

Labour market regulation

From shock absorber to institutional mediator: the evolving macro-regulatory functions of the temporary staffing industry in the United States

Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck

Manpower under Tripartism in Singapore Stephane Le Queux, Adrian T.H. Kuah, Chris Leggett

HU204

Towards a Marxist Dependency Theory Interpretation of Outsourcing in Latin America: overcoming the misplaced concept of precarization of labour in dependent countries

Paulo Ricardo Zilio Abdala, Fernando Nichterwitz Scherer Labour markets


The international political economy of

work Rate of profit and rate of surplus value. An international comparative study from input-output tables (1995-2011)

Santiago Capobianco, Joaquín Farina

The falling wage share: NIDL, deindustrialization, neoliberalism and beyond Juan Graña

HU400

Logistics workers. Labour market fragmentation and socio-cultural spaces David Gaborieau Stream 1: Productive and

reproductive labour:

implications for worker

organization

Space, territory and labour

Seniority, Wage and Indebtedness Patterns of Poor Chain Workers in Turkey: Case of Metal Sector

Ferit Serkan Öngel, Denizcan Kutlu

The capitalist company as territory. Territorial control as form of labour process control Domingo Pérez

HU308

Land energy, exploitation of labor and Struggles indigenous to the territory in Mexico Agustin Avila


rural struggles

Hidden spaces of production VI

'The Gaelic Spring’- the grassroots Irish language movement in the north of Ireland as an expression of a bottom-up decolonisation

Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh

Closing Panel: What agenda for the future? Stream convenors

HU400

“Fair skies”. Argentinian airport workers' union and the imagination of an alternative development.

Sandra Wolanski


Labour Process

Alternative forms of organising

An ethnographic perspective on the forms of union organisation within popular economy in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dolores Señorans

From Capitalist Firms to Worker Cooperatives: Democratizing the Labour Process and Transforming Communities via Argentina’s Worker-Recuperated Enterprises

Marcelo Vieta

HU402

Harvesting consent? Fairtrade certification and local regimes of labour control on tea plantations in South Asia

Karin Astrid Siegmann Stream 5: Precarious Work in Comparative

Perspective

Precarious work in Asia Lost in Translation? Challenging Precarity with Egalitarian Practice Transfer in a

Multinational Firm Ödül Bozkurt

State-sponsored precariousness in China: the case of agency workers Xiaojun Feng

HU403

Self-employment as horizon and precariousness as foundation: topics on Kirchner’s social policy

Brian Zeeb Cañizares Stream 6: HR Practice in


Context

Regulation at work Valuing work in wage policies and criteria Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson

Manpower under Tripartism in Singapore Adrian Kuah

15:30 - 17:00

HU103

The H2-A Program as Recruitment and Disciplining Tool for Baja’s Mexican Indigenous Farmworkers in the United States

Christian Zlolniski

Migrant workers Migration regulation Rural labor market in Mexico Mariana Salazar

The Multiplication of Precariousness: Migrants and Refugees in Germany Neva Loew, Mario Neumann

HU106

From the Führer to the sex toy. Humour and solidarity under the cybernetic regime. Simon Schaupp


Workers and unions against digitalization

‘Smart’ industrial relations in the making? Insights from the analysis of union responses to digitalisation in Italy and Spain

Stefano Gasparri, Arianna Tassinari

Digitalisation, Work and Works Councils in the German Manufacturing Sector Thomas Haipeter

HU201

The shift from early exit to active ageing in European societies: Towards a better integration of older workers or the re-emergence of old inequalities?

Dirk Hofaecker, Stefanie König, Moritz Hess


regulation

Notions of the active labour force

Challenging disability inequality constructed by ‘ableist’ recruitment processes Frederike Scholz

HU202

The Future of Right to Strike in Turkey in the Clamps of Bans, Restrictions -Finding New Strategies or Being Sisyphus?-

Berna Ozturk


Workers, labour law and regulations

The first attempt of labor regulation in Argentina: The “Ley Nacional del Trabajo” of 1904 and the reaction of working-class organizations

Lucas Poy

The everyday construction of strikes: the movement against reforms proposed by the Brazilian government at the end of 2016

Maria Ceci Misoczky, André Dias Mortari

HU204

Precarity as labour exploitation: the limits of job formalisation in the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil

Allan Souza Queiroz


regulation

Precarious work around the world

“Without schedule”. Intensification and flexibilization of the production facing the crisis of resources in the fishing sector. (Mar del Plata, Argentina.1990-2010)

Romina Cutuli

Flexicurity in labor markets in the Middle East and North Africa: a comparison between Tunisia and Lebanon

Sari Madi

HU305

Precarious Work in Chile. A typology of labour precarity for the South of Chile. Dasten Julian-Vejar, Osvaldo Blanco


Class and precarity Social class and precariousness": an alternative to neo-Marxist class measurement" Orielle Solar, Carles Muntaner, María José González, Natalia Sánchez

Reclaiming precariousness Iwona Wilkowska, Mike Healy

HU308

Between the strategic position and the political orientation. Elements to think about the union strategies in the workplace.

Lucila D'Urso


Structural power and union strategies

The Strike and the structural power in workplace. An analysis of labour strikes results in chilean private salaried area (2006-2016) Nicolás Ratto

Labour containment strategies and working class struggles in the neoliberal era: The case of Tekel workers in Turkey

Galip Yalman

HU400

Offshore service industry: their implications on work. Business services and film production service in Argentina

Andrea Del Bono, María Noel Bulloni


regulation

Work and global capital

Making the case for variegated capitalism in labour process analysis and political economy of work

Paul Brook, Christina Purcell

Labour Regimes and the Labour Problem in Asia Stephane Le Queux, Fang Lee Cooke, Anne Cox

HU402

Double precarity? Triple precarity? European Union migrants in the context of Brexit Benjamin Hopkins Stream 5:


Perspective

Migrant workers in the labour market

From precarious to ordinary work? – the case of work migration from Eastern Europe to Norway

Rolf Andersen

New forms of solidarity? Precarious work and temporary migrant workers in Australia Iain Campbell

HU403

Mobilised 'vulnerable actors' and research Ethics in UK universities Ana Dinerstein Doctoral Workshop: Doing research with vulnerable workers and communities: challenges for fieldwork and research ethics

Migrant domestic workers in London Joyce Jiang

Migrant farm laborers in the USA Christian Zlolniski

Agrotoxic, workers and communities Larissa Bombardi and Tito Maule

18:00 - 20:00

Aula

SG300

Closing Conference and Debate: The working class today

David Harvey, José Sergio Leite Lopes, Cinzia Arruzza and Leo Panitch

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