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
Labour Conflict and Union Strategies
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
Working lives and the labour
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
The solidarity economy and workers self-
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
Labour Conflict and Union Strategies
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
Stream 3: Development and
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
Working lives and the labour
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
The solidarity economy and workers self-
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
Work and labour process theories
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
Working lives and the labour
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
Stream 2: Class compositions and
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
Stream 3: Development and
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
Work and labour process theories
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
Labour Conflict and Union Strategies
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
Working lives and the labour
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
Labour Conflict and Union Strategies
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
Stream 2: Class compositions and
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
Stream 3: Development and
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:
Precarious Work in Comparative
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
Labour Process and Workplace
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
Work and labour process theories
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
Working lives and the labour
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 Conflict and Union Strategies
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
Working lives and the labour
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
Stream 2: Class compositions and
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
Stream 3: Development and
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
Labour Process and Workplace
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
and employment regulation
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
Working lives and the labour
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
Working lives and the labour
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
Working lives and the labour
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
Class formation and identities
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
Labour markets and employment
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
Labour markets and employment
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
Labour markets and employment
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
and employment regulation
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
Stream 2: Class compositions and
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
Stream 3: Development and
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
Labour Process and Workplace
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
Labour Conflict and Union Strategies
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
Labour markets and employment
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
Labour Conflict and Union Strategies
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
Labour markets and employment
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 formation and identities
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
Labour Conflict and Union Strategies
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
Labour markets and employment
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:
Precarious Work in Comparative
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