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The 39th International Labour
Process Conference
12th Programme
– 14th April 2021
Theme: Security in Work? The workplace after COVID-19.
Hosted by the University of GreenwichMonday 12th April 2021
Pre-Conference Event- PhD/ECR Workshop
9:00 - 12:00
Chaired by Irena Grugulis.
Opening Plenary – The impact of Covid-19 on work.
12:00 - 13:30
Speakers: Allyson Pollock, Emmanuel Ogbona, Kate Bell, David Mccoy.
13:40 - 15:10 Parallel Paper Sessions:
General Stream: 1. Rosie Harrison : General 1. Linda Clarke, Melahat Sahin-Dikmen:
Care work Stream:
‘You’re a guest in someone’s home’: An exploration of how Climate Crisis A just and green transition to a carbon-neutral society: trade
Chaired by Sian issues of space influence the labour process of care work. union strategies at global level and their local
implementation.
Moore 2. Ivana Jugović, Jaka Primorac,Valerija Barada: Chaired by Leroi
Henry 2. Todd Vachon, Allen Hyde:
Employment and class do not matter. Gender Differences in
Housework and Care Work in Croatia. Blue and Green? How Union Membership and the Social
Relations of Production Shape Environmental Attitudes of
3. Doug Young, Ian Cunningham:
Workers in 35 Countries.
“I went to college for this?” Responses to degradation and
3. Jo Cutter, Vera Trappmann, Jack Daly, Felix Schulz:
intensification in voluntary sector social care.
Working on climate change: organised labour and climate
4. Anita Hammer, Madhusree Jana:
mitigation strategies in context.
Reproductive Work in the Global South: Labour relations
and power dynamics in Commercial Surrogacy in India.Monday 12th April 2021
General Stream: 1. Maryia Ivancheva: General 1. Ian Hill:
Education Unbundling academic practice: a new gendered frontier of Stream: Contradictions in the software labour process.
exclusion and enclosure in higher education? Labour Process
Chaired by Wim 2. Darren McGuire, Knut Laaser:
Vandekerckhove 2. Ruth Ballardie, Nataliya Runyantseva, Ratnesvary Alahakone: Chaired by Jane Under state control: The labour process in Uzbekistan’s
Power and resistance in post-1992 and Russell group Lethbridge cotton industry.
universities: new technologies, lecture capture and the Covid-
3. I-Chang Kuo:
related shift to online teaching.
Locating labour process in its place: the male-domination of
3. Melanie Simms, Benjamin Hopkins:
jobs within a Chinese nickel refinery site in Papua New
Devolved public sector employment relations in times of Guinea.
austerity: Education and local authorities in Wales.
4. Justin Vinton:
Principals as Middle Managers and a Middle-Out Approach to
Labour-Management Partnership in Education.
General Stream: 1. Anukriti Dixit, Patricia Purtschert, Ankur Sarin:
Gender Problematizing Sexual Harassment at Workplaces (SHW): A context of anti SHW policies in India.
Chaired by Scott 2. Laura William, Birgit Pauksztat:
Tindal Intersectional Discrimination: Strategy or Truth?
3. Stefan Sauer, Amelie Tihlarik:
New management approaches between female empowerment and gender stereotypes.Monday 12th April 2021
13:50 – 15:20 Special Stream Sessions:
Precarity, 1. Swati Chintala: Value and 1. Patrizia Zanoni, Harry Pitts:
Changing Work Mechanisms of Control in Gig Work in India: New Boss, Same Labour Process Reconnecting Value and Antagonisms: Marx, Value Theory,
and the Platform as the Old Boss? Theory- and the Labour Process.
Economy revisited
2. Kim Loyens: 2. Maja Breznik:
Chaired by The normalization of labour exploitation: discursive practices in Chaired by Theory of value and variations in the subordination of labour
Valeria Pulignano street-level inspection work Kendra Briken to capital.
3. Sigurd Oppegaard: 3. Jean Cushen:
Formal and real subsumption in the gig and platform economy. Framing labours’ value to capital market stakeholders.
4. Milena Franke, Lander Vermeerbergen, Valeria Pulignano,
Markieta Domecka, Claudia Marà:
Structuring the ‘triangle’: An analysis of control and coping
behaviour within platform work.
Younger and 1. Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday, Ernesto Noronha, Premilla D'Cruz: Covid-19-Work, 1. Philip Taylor:
Older workers in Being ‘young’: Learning and slogging practices among Indian IT Employment, Call Centre Labour Process and Workers Experience of Covid-
Contemporary sector workers. and the Labour 19.
Labour Markets Process
2. Lin Rouvroye, Harry van Dalen, Kène Henkens, Joop Schippers: 2. Isabel Roque:
Chaired by Flexible employment contracts and younger workers: the Chaired by Phil Pandemic precarious and unhealthy working conditions in
Kathleen Riach employers’ perspective. Taylor Portuguese call centers.
3. Edward Yates: 3. Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese:
Achieving decent work outcomes for young people: a labour Surveilling Amazon’s Essential Warehouse Workers: Race,
process analysis of a UK city-region’s local economy. Retaliation, and Worker Resistance Amidst the COVID-19
Pandemic.
4. David Lain:
The freedom to be marginalised? Older workers in a UK local
authority.Monday 12th April 2021
15:30 – 17:00 Parallel Paper Sessions:
General Stream: 1. Gabriella Cioce: General 1. Angarika Rakshit:
Organising Solidarity as a weapon: an ethnographic account of migrant Stream: Global Firm size and employment growth in India’s manufacturing
Migrant/Informal workers’ struggles in the Italian logistics sector. South sector; 2000-01 to 2015-16.
worker
2. Asadullah Memon: Chaired by 2. Nadji Khaoua:
Chaired by Kirsty Organizing in the Informal Economy: Challenges and Successes Steve Vincent
Work & employment in a developing resources rich country,
Newsome from A Pakistan Agriculture and Fishing Trade Union
Algeria.
Perspective.
3. Cheng Li:
3. Anne Lisa Carstensen:
Transformations of China’s labour market after 2008.
Social Conflict About and Within Labour Migration. Theoretical
Insights from Conflict Theory.
General Stream:
Global South/HR 1. Ruth Mubanga:
An analysis of Austerity HRM Practices employed by Organisations and Survival Strategies adopted by Workers in the Zimbabwean Manufacturing Sector.
Chaired by
Graham Symon 2. Jean Jenkins, Helen Blakely, Rhys Davies, Rekha Chakravarthi:
HRM – First Line of Oppression? The case of the Indian Garment Sector.
3. Sawlat Zaman,Jean Jenkins:
Revisiting the Rhetorics and Reality of Human Resource Management in New Contexts: The case of the Bangladesh Apparel Sector.
4. Yvonne Rueckert, Tony Royle, Hamid Foroughi, Bengt Furaker:
Organizational narratives and the promotion of employee voice and values across borders – The case of IKEA.Monday 12th April 2021
15:40 – 17:10 Special Stream Sessions:
Precarity, 1. Cheolki Yoon: Value and 1. Olusegun Oladeinde:
Changing Work Organizing the unorganizable: a group of live-in caregivers, Labour Process Neo-Liberal Workplace and Labour Process Analysis:
and the Platform being organized, facing the immigration system change in Theory- resilience of Dialectics in Understanding Consent and
Economy Quebec. revisited Resistance in the Workplace.
2. Joanna Octavia: 2. Nahuel Aranda:
Chaired by Steve Chaired by
Vallas Organising and mobilising informal workers in the digital age: Robert Technological change, labour process reorganization and
platform-based motorcycle taxi drivers in Indonesia. Mackenzie composition of the working force in an Argentine factory: re-
connecting labour and valorisation process.
3. Lilith Brouwers:
3. John Luhman:
Using mobility power to navigate precarity: the experiences of
full service sex workers in England. Contested Exchange Theory, Organizational Behavior, and
Labor Process Theory.
Younger and 1. Aviad Tur-Sinai, Ariela Lowenstein, Ruth Katz, Shosh Covid-19-Work, 1. Safak Tartanoglu Bennett, Scott Tindall, Minjie Cai, Alexandra
Older workers in Shahrabani, Dafna Halperin: Employment, Stroleny:
the Factors Explaining the Process of Early and Late Retirement: A and the Labour Between ‘mundane’ and ‘extreme’ work: Supermarket
Contemporary Welfare Regime Analysis. Process employees’ experiences during COVID-19 outbreak.
Labour Markets
2. Gadi Nissim: 2. Wil Hunt, Jacqueline O'Reilly:
Chaired by Phil
Chaired by Unions and the Generational Challenge. The Case of the Israeli Taylor Rapid Recruitment in Retail: How AI was used in response to
Melanie Simms Social Workers Union. increased labour demand during the coronavirus pandemic.
3. Luciana Zorzoli: 3. Abbie Winton:
Male workers clashing. An analysis of the tensions between The value of labour: Covid and the case of British
Uber and taxi drivers in Buenos Aires. supermarkets.
4. Anastasios Hadjisolomou:
Customer abuse in the era of COVID-19: A comparative
analysis between the UK and Cyprus food retail sector.Monday 12th April 2021
17:20 – 18:50 Parallel Paper Sessions:
General Stream: 1. Carolin Mauritz, Stefanie Hürtgen : General Stream: 1. Marcelo Maia, Isabella Sturzeneker
Interns/ Student Isn‘t it works yet? Volunteering from a labour process theory Co-ops and MLB: A social movement toward class-consciousness.
Labour framework. Social
Movements 2. Viviana Patroni, Ruth Felder:
2. Adrienne Eaton, Paula Voos, Seonghoon Hong, Sean Rogers,
Chaired by Phil Beyond Formality: Workers Struggles and Right Wing Politics
Phela Townsend:
Taylor Chaired by Vera in Argentina.
Students, Apprentices, Workers? Graduate Student Employees Weghmann 3. Marcelo Vieta:
Self Perceptions.
Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-
3. Yu Zheng, Chris Smith:
liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives,
Student labour in the logistics sector. and Recuperating Autogestión.
General Stream: 1. Muhammad Ayaz, Muhammad Junaid Ashraf: General Stream: 1. Phumzile Xulu:
Global Value Accounting, Global Value Chains and Female Workers. Precarious Using environmental rights to extend workplace protection
Chains Work/Global for informal workers: A case study of waste pickers in
2. Safak Tartanoglu Bennett, Nikolaus Hammer, Jean Jenkins: South Durban, South Africa.
Chaired by Joerg Winning the Battle but Losing the War? The Limitations of
2. Rohini Tyagi:
Flecker Mobilisation and Solidarity in the International Garment Chaired by Wim
Sector. Vandekerckhove Drawn and Withdrawn: The Labour of Waste-picking
Community.
3. Giovanna Fullin:
3. Gotte Om Anirudh:
Institutions as beneficial constraints preventing de-skilling and
work instability? Comparing Milan and New York workers’ Sustenance of Handloom Artisans: The Padmasalis of
experiences in chain stores. Telangana (1980s-2019).Monday 12th April 2021
17:30 – 19:00 Special Stream Sessions:
Precarity, 1. Lindsey Cameron, Bobbi Thomason, Nick Occhiuto: Value and 1. Huw Thomas:
Changing Work The Platform is Not Neutral: Navigating Worker Conflicts in Labour Process Fertile ground for exploitation: Disarticulation, dispossession
and the Platform App-Based Work, a Multi-National Comparative Ethnography Theory- and the palm oil production network.
Economy of the RideHailing Industry. revisited
2. Mariano Féliz:
2. Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka, Lander Vermeerbergen,
Chaired by Steve Milena Franke, Claudia Mara:
Chaired by Marxian dependency theory, value theory and the
Vallas Harry Pitts labour process. A new reading for critical analysis of
Segmentation Regimes and the Platform Economy. dependent capitalism in Argentina.
3. Jing Yang: 3. Gerardo Iraci:
Platform Workers’ Protection in China: Actions of leading Labour process analysis meets the critique of political
companies and local governments. economy in economic geography. Reflections on a case study
4. Donna Baines, Doug Young: in Argentina.
Austerity, Personalised Funding and the Degradation of Care 4. Ania Plomien, Gregory Schwartz:
Work: Comparing Scotland’s Self-Directed Support Policy and A social reproduction, gender, and transnational mobility lens
Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme. on value formation in the labour process.
Younger and 1. Ella Fegitz: Covid-19-Work, 1. Valeria Piro, Anne-Iris Romens:
Older workers in The old entrepreneurial woman as the preferred subject of Employment, Trade unions and remotisation of work: Bargaining for 'smart
the neoliberalism under recession. and the Labour workers' in Northern Italy.
Contemporary Process
2. Marija Šarić, Valerija Barada: 2. Daina Bellido de Luna:
Labour Markets
Olders caring for the elderly: circular migration of older women Chaired by Trade union renewal in Chile at the workplace: the influence
Chaired by as an alternative strategy to unemployment or retirement. Anastasios of COVID-19 on revitalization strategies in company-level
Kathleen Riach Hadjisolomou trade unions.
3. Michelle Trottier:
3. Sian Moore, Chris Ball, Matt Flynn, Ken Mulkearn, Minjie Cai:
Can communities of practice enhance the perceived
employability of low socio-economic background students? The role of health and safety representatives in the COVID-19
pandemic.
4. Laura Airey, Jakov Jandric, Wendy Loretto, Sarah Vickerstaff:
Understanding older workers’ experiences: exploring life
course influences of class, gendered social roles and health
upon later-life employment.Tuesday 13th April 2021
10:00 - 11:30 Parallel Paper Sessions:
General Stream: 1. Vijayta Doshi: General Stream: 1. Ian Greer, Charles Umney:
Precarious Rural to Urban Migrants in Precarious Urban Employment in Public sector Marketization: How capitalist exchange subverts democracy
Work/Migration India. workers and disciplines workers.
2. Kunal Munjal, Ishaan Bamba: 2. Vera Weghmann, Emanuele Lobina:
Chaired by Chaired by Ruth
Santanu Sarkar Migration, Vulnerability and Protection: An Enquiry into the Ballardie The struggle for public water in Berlin. Lessons learnt in the
Changing Labour Regimes in Contemporary India. fight for re-municipalisation.
3. Bridget Kenny, Edward Webster: 3. Kyla Sankey:
The Return of the Labour Process: Race, skill and technology in Public sector union power under austerity: the case of
South African labour studies. Transport for London workers.
General Stream: 1. Johanna Hofbauer, Dominik Klaus: General Stream: 1. Chris Smith, Yu Zheng:
Service work More Money or More Work? The Struggle for Decent Service Labour and Technology and the labour process this time around.
Prices in the Field of Virtual Personal Assistance. Technology
Chaired by Sian 2. Gabriella Alberti, Simon Joyce:
2. Lena Schulz, Birgit Apitzsch, Ronny Ehlen, Caroline Ruiner,
Moore Chaired by Anita New and emergent organizational forms among platform
Maximiliane Wilkesmann:
Hammer workers? Union, non-unions and mutualist actors across gig
External Workers in Highly Skilled Service Work – New and freelance labour.
Cleavages or Solidarity?
3. Nicholas Martindale, Alex Wood, Vili Lehdonvirta:
3. Philip Schoerpf, Franz Astleithner, Joerg Flecker, Annika
Schoenauer: Platform labour and structured antagonism: a quantitative
approach to understanding the origins of protest in the
Digitalisation in the service sector. Of hyped technologies and remote gig economy.
creeping changes.Tuesday 13th April 2021
10:10 - 11:40 Special Stream Sessions:
Precarity, 1. Rachel Verdin, Jacqueline O'Reilly: Precarity, 1. Amanda Thompson:
Changing Work The Gender Agenda for the Future of Work in a Digital Age of Changing Work 'The trade-off trap’: men’s experiences of part-time work.
and the Platform Pandemics. and the
Economy I Platform 2. Eva Herman:
2. Graziella Aghilone:
Economy II Gendering of precarious work: An investigation of contracts
Chaired by Comparative perspective of atypical contracts in European and hours in the hospitality and care sectors.
Valeria Pulignano market labour. Chaired by 3. Simon Schaupp:
3. Anne Kovalainen, Seppo Poutanen: Markieta
Algorithmic integration and cybernetic (dis)obedience. On
Domecka
The politics of learning-at-work and reality of gig and platform the co-constitution of migration regime and workplace
workers. regime in digitalised production and logistics.
Value and Labour 1. Benjamin Ferschli: Younger and 1. Angela Knox, Susan Ainsworth:
Process Theory- Value, Automation and Artificial Intelligence: A topography of Older workers in The future of precarious work: Policy-making and its
revisited the Economic Functions of Technology under the Capitalist the implications for younger and older workers.
Mode of Production. Contemporary
2. Vera Trappmann, Chris Mclachlan, Charles Umney, Laura
Chaired by Labour Markets
2. Mirela Ivanova, Felix Nickel: Cartwright, Alexandra Seehaus:
Patrizia Zanoni
Rank Page One or Perish – Labour and Value in Search-Engine Chaired by How is precarious work normalised among young people?
Optimization. David Lain Evidence from the UK.
3. Simon Schaupp: 3. Alysia Blackham:
Cybernetic proletarianisation. Spirals of devaluation and Organising to address age discrimination at work: moving
conflict in digitalized production. beyond intergenerational tensions?
4. Sabine Pfeiffer:
From Value Generation to Value Realization – Current
Digitalization as a Phenomenon of Distributive Capitalism.Tuesday 13th April 2021
11:50 – 13:20 Parallel Paper Sessions:
General Stream: 1. Marcos Roberto Pina: General Stream: 1. Priya Singh:
Self-Employment Tá patrão: a study on the artists of the funk ostentação music Social Security Home-Based Workers and their Access to Social Protection in
genre in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. India.
Chaired by Chaired by
2. Holly Patrick: 2. Esra Gulec:
Abigail Marks Graham Symon
Don’t Work for Free: Creative professionals and the use of Transformation of Waitering Work in Istanbul.
social media as a tool of resistance.
3. Tatenda Nyanhete
3. Ngozi Ibeji, Eghosa Igudia, Bamidele Oshinowo, Michael
Labour broking practice, banning or flexible regulation?
Machokoto, Chijioke Uba:
Perceptions of selected trade unions and employers in
Theorising the self-employed and small business owner’s Zimbabwe.
retirement planning: evidence from a developing country
study.
General Stream: 1. Santanu Sarkar:
Collective Change in Union Density in Divergent National Contexts After Major Economic Crisis.
Bargaining
2. Richard Gough, Ruth Ballardie, Jamie Doughney:
Chaired by Losing Labour Share: Monopoly capitalism and union bargaining power in the Australian mining and finance industries.
Sterling Rauseo 3. Gregoris Ioannou
The communicative power of trade unionism: labour law, political opportunity structure and social movement strategy.Tuesday 13th April 2021
11:55 – 13:25 Special Stream Sessions:
Covid-19-Work, 1. Sara Cufré, Anne Engelhardt: Precarity, 1. Tony Bennett, Gemma Wibberley:
Employment, and The pandemic before COVID19: Of precarious cabin crew Changing Work Domestic abuse as a misunderstood performance management
the Labour workers and labouring bodies in aviation. and the issue increasing precarity.
Process Platform
2. Xanthe Whittaker, Gabriella Alberti, Louise Winton 2. Michelle Crosby, Julianna Faludi:
Economy
Schreuders, Liz Oliver:
Chaired by Minjie Exploring gender effects of basic income in context of the digital
Cai Casualisation and the Covid-19 crisis: a comparative Chaired by revolution of work.
analysis of workers experiences and industrial relations in Markieta 3. Esra Aras:
a Higher Education sector institution. Domecka
A Route for Claiming the "Decent" World of Work: Embedding the
3. Karol Muszyński, Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka,
Struggle for Prevention of Violence/Harassment into Labor
Adam Mrozowicki:
Process.
Coping with precarity during COVID-19: a study on
platform workers in Poland.
Younger and 1. Alysia Blackham: Covid-19-Work, 1. Francesco Campolongo, Francesco E. Iannuzzi, Devi Sacchetto:
Older workers in Organising to address age discrimination at work: moving Employment, Control and autonomy in remote work: Transferring or
the beyond intergenerational tensions? and the Labour transforming managerial practices when working at a distance?
Contemporary 2. Kirsteen Grant, Valerie Egdell, Diane Vincent: Process
Labour Markets 2. Alessandro Gandini, Emma Garavaglia:
Young people’s expectations of work, and readiness of
Chaired by Phil “Best of both worlds”? A labour process analysis of remote work
the workplace: Two sides of the same coin?
Chaired by David Taylor practices in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lain 3. Jacqueline Roulston:
3. Jennifer O'Neil, Britta Heidl:
Turning points across the life course and their impact on
attitudes in later working life. "All Zoomed out!" A critical analysis of new technology and remote
working for practitioner counsellors during the Covid 19 pandemic.
4. Hanna Danilovich, Natalia Makouskaya:
4. Ebru Isikli:
Multi-generational workplace ageism in Belarus.
The results of a quantitative study on engineers' working
conditions and demands during Covid-19 pandemic second wave.
13:30 – 14:30 Journal Launch-Work in the Global Economy: Meet the Editors
Chaired by Sian Moore and Kirsty NewsomeTuesday 13th April 2021
14:40 – 16:10 Parallel Paper Sessions:
General Stream: 1. Iona Byford: General 1. Valeria Piro, Devi Sacchetto:
Organising Emotions, social identity and industrial conflict: an Stream: The production of difference in meat processing plants in Italy.
Perspectives analysis of recent UK strikes. Race and
Gender 2. Vivian Shalla, Liz Cherry:
2. Chris McLachlan, Robert MacKenzie, Roland Ahlstrand,
Chaired by Walking the Talk: Gender (In)equality in the United Steelworkers
Alexis Rydell, Mark Stuart, Jennifer Hobbins:
Johanna Chaired by Jane Union.
Hofbauer Collectivism after collectivism: Varying orientations to Lethbridge 3. Sazzad Parwez:
collectivism in the wake of steel industry restructuring in
the UK and Sweden. This study is based on archival evidences and tries to understand
role played by women workers in trade union movement.
3. Grace Whitfield:
4. Myrtle Emmanuel, Sterling Rauseo:
Activism or unpaid labour? Evaluating the ‘organising
model’ of trade unionism in social care. A socio-cultural, gendered, historical and race perspective of the
working lives of Windrush Nurses in post-war Britain.
General Stream: 1. Armanda Cetrulo, Dario Guarascio, Maria Enrica Virgillito: General 1. Rachael Barrow:
Knowledge and Anatomy of the Italian occupational structure: Stream: Exploring Spatiality: A Case Study of Previously Home-schooled
Skills concentrated power and distributed knowledge. Learning and Individuals.
Skills
2. Falk Eckert: 2. Bo-Yi Lee:
Chaired by Scott
Hurrell The liberal Script under Pressure: The broken promise of The Variations in Employees Training in the Taiwanese ICT
meritocracy? Findings of a qualitative inquiry regarding
Chaired by Chris Industry: A Perspective from the Theory of Institutional Logics.
the German middle class. Smith
3. Magdalena Soffia, Brendan Burchell, Alex Wood: 3. Irena Grugulis:
Alienation is not ‘Bullshit’: an empirical critique of Remembering to Remember and Learning to Forget: unlearning in
Graeber's theory of BS jobs. the UK Fire and Rescue Service.Tuesday 13th April 2021
14:45 – 16:15 Special Stream Sessions
Precarity, 4. Heiner Heiland: Precarity, 1. Surhan Cam, Serap Palaz:
Changing Work The Social Construction of Algorithms. Influence of and Changing Work Managerial Jacobinism and Performance in the Private Sector:
and the Platform Influence on Algorithmic Management. and the Evidence from the Turkish Shipyards for a Vertical Frame.
Economy I Platform
5. SuMin Park: 2. Vera Weghmann:
Economy II
Chaired by Comparing Different Algorithmic Control Models and its There is power in (new) unions! Independent trade unions as a
Valeria Pulignano Consequences in Platform-based Food Delivery Work in Chaired by political strategy.
Korea. Steve Vallas 3. Erik Valestrand:
6. Kanikka Sersia:
Traditional solidarity in new surroundings?
Platform Economy: Developing Labour Process Analysis
4. Marti Lopez-Andreu, Charlie Sutton:
The price of bogus self-employment: the impact of the
individualisation of risks on working lives.
Covid-19-Work, 1. Anne-Iris Romens:
Employment, and Care, remote work and lockdown: (re)distributing the burden within couples or increasing inequalities?
the Labour
Process 2. Debora Zuin, Alessandra Diniz, Odemir Baeta, Victor Moreira:
3. The boundaries of homeworking: perceptions of administrative assistants from a public organisation in Brazil/
Chaired by Phil 4. Branka Andjelkovic, Tanja Jakobi:
Taylor
The Elusive World of Remote Work: The Case of Serbia.
5. Abigail Marks, Lila Skountridaki, Oliver Mallett, Danny Zscholmer:
Zooming through the working day-Mass homeworking and COVID measures, a lesson in future problems with the pace of work.Tuesday 13th April 2021
16:25 -17:55 Parallel Paper Sessions:
General Stream: 1. Scott Hurrell, Steve Vincent: General 1. Mengyi Xu:
Automation/AI Accounting for variance in the digital evolution of work: A Stream: The problematics of work-life management: evidence from
theoretically derived typology. Flexibilisation Chinese employees.
Chaired by Paula
2. Robert Koepp: 2. Alicja Bobek:
Voos Chaired by
How does automation affect consent in the workplace? Graham Symon Flexibilisation of work: causes and consequences. Case study
Evidence from two case studies in logistics labour. of non-standard employment in Ireland.
3. Martin Krzywdzinski: 3. James Richards, Toma Pustelnikovaite, Vaughan Ellis, Jesus
Canduela:
Wearable computing in the workplace.
The “normalisation of overwork”: A study of Leaveism and
4. Bhumika Chauhan:
key findings.
Automating the Automator and Control Over Work: The Global
4. Adrian Wright, Dorota Marsh:
Labor Process in a Transnational Software Firm.
Coworking and collective solidarities.
General Stream: 1. Merve Kayaduvar, Çağla Ünlütürk Ulutaş: General 1. Hong Yu Liu:
Healthcare Is it better to be big? The effects of spatial transformation of Stream: Algorithmic management by human managers: investigating
hospitals on health labour. Digital the de-humanisation effect of workplace technologies on
Chaired by Taylorism Chinese tech workers.
2. Elizabeth Cotton:
Alexandra
2. Tobias Ritter, Judith Neumer:
Stroleny UberTherapy: working in the therapy factory. Chaired by Leroi
Henry Digitally Networked Work at the ‚Limit of Permanent Mental
3. Elena Shulzhenko:
Stress’.
The effects of new organisational forms on healthcare
3. Sarah Nies, Wolfgang Menz:
professionals: the role of medical specialties.
Corporate Strategies of Digitalisation and the Many Faces of
Domination: Reviewing the Narrative of Digital Taylorism.
4. Falk Eckert:
The meaning of feelings and affects in the practical labor
process. Findings in manufacturing and IT.Tuesday 13th April 2021
16:30 – 18:00 Special Stream Sessions:
Precarity, Precarity, 4. Moment Bhebhe:
Changing Work 1. Karol Muszyński, Valeria Pulignano, Lander Vermeerbergen, Changing Work Strategies and Challenges in addressing the precariousness
and the Platform Milena Franke, Claudia Marà: and the facing non-standard employees within the Private Security
Economy I Platform Industry in Zimbabwe. Employers’ Association viewpoint.
Product and labour market regulation within platform work. A
Economy II
comparison between platforms in Belgium, Italy, the 5. Afreen Faridi:
Chaired by Netherlands, and Poland.
Valeria Pulignano Chaired by The Violence of Informal Work: Adverse Inclusion of Tribes in
2. Mariana Fernandez Massi, Julieta Longo, María Darricades: Steve Vallas a state of Conflict.
Worktime arrangements for platform workers: a comparative 6. Mouna Maaroufi:
study.
The logistics of temporary work for refugees: Navigating and
3. Steve Rolf, Jacqueline O'Reilly: negotiating contingency within and beyond the labour
process.
The rise of privatised social and employment protection in the
platform economy: evidence from the UK courier sector.
Covid-19-Work, 1. Marco Briziarelli, Emiliana Armano: Covid-19-Work, 1. Flávia Ferreira Ribeiro, Marco Túlio de Melo Vieira, Marcela
Employment, and Employment, Mendes Sales:
Subsumptive Fixes: Notes on the Covid-19 Crisis and the Rise of
the Labour Digital Abstract Space and Domesticated Subjectivities. and the Labour Covid-19 pandemic and changes in labor relations:
Process I Process II precarization on the Brazilian steel industry.
2. Ana Lopes, Steve Vincent, Andrew Kozhevnikov, Nosheen Khan,
Julie Monroe: 2. Marcella Soares Piccoli, Carlos Diehl:
Chaired by Phil Chaired by
Taylor Worker precarity and the gendered impacts of the Covid-19 Minje Cai The new world of construction industry: measures adopted
crisis in the UK context. to prevent the spread of covid among operational labour.
3. Xanthe Whittaker, Katie Cruz, Jennifer Tomlinson, Camille 3. Rabiya Firoz:
Barbagallo:
Covid-19 - Digitalization of Working Process in Bangladesh.
Childcare during Covid: the contradictions of capitalist social
4. Francisca Gutiérrez, Maurizio Atzeni:
reproduction and the implications for labour process theory.
From misbehaviour to solidarity: the pandemic and delivery
workers in Chile and Argentina labour regimes.
18:00 – 19:40 Book Launch followed by Social Event- The Political Economy of Work in the Global South.
Chaired by Chris Smith and Anita HammerWednesday 14th April 2021
10:00 – 11:30 Parallel Paper Sessions:
General Stream: 1. Petra Sauer, Judith Derndorfer, Johanna Hofbauer, Karin General Stream: 1. Chandrima Roy:
Digitalisation I Heitzmann, Vanessa Lechinger: Digitalisation II New digital technologies and work experiences of
New Forms of Digitally-based Self-employed Work: Assessing frontline employees in Indian BPO: Case of a global third
Chaired by Alex the Evidence and Identifying Information Gaps. Chaired by Sian party service provider.
Wood Moore
2. Riani Rachmawati: 2. Esme Terry:
Working but unemployed: evaluating working conditions of ‘It’s about legal services, not about “being a lawyer”’:
online 'ojek' riders in Indonesia. responses (and resistance) to digitalisation and the
contemporary professional labour process.
3. Falk Eckert:
3. Sana Ahmad:
Prospective digital work design as an instrument of digital
transformation in SMEs. Guardians of the Internet: Content Moderators and
their mobility across a growing business process in
India’s service economy.
4. Nidhi Bisht, Clive Trusson, Juliana Siwale:
Reframing ‘Job Quality’ from multiple perspectives: A
case study of Indian Microfinance Institutions following
the introduction of digital work practices.
General Stream: 1. Joséphine Lapointe: General Stream: 1. Annette van den Berg, Yolanda Grift:
Migration The Workplace Integration of Working Holiday Makers in Industrial Involvement of works councils in company decision-
Canada: Expectations versus Experience Relations Systems making: the mediating role of trust
Chaired by Irena
2. Andrew Kozhevnikov: 2. Joern Janssen:
Grugulis Chaired by Laura
Social capital in skilled migrants’ careers: The reasons for William Consolidating the Civil Status of the Worker.
(dis)engagement.
3. Eugene Hickland, Sophia Katharina Zimmer:
3. Tingchien Chen:
The growth of employment regulations and the
Migrant Labor Regime and Labor Market Intermediaries in the challenge to voluntarism in Ireland.
Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry in Global production
4. Secki Jose:
networks.
The State and the Labour Process: Work and its
Regulation in the Indian IT Industry.Wednesday 14th April 2021
10:10 – 11:40 Special Stream Sessions:
Precarity, Changing 1. Claudia Marà, Valeria Pulignano, Paul Stewart: Precarity, 1. David Öborn Regin, Robert MacKenzie:
Work and the Framing workers’ voice and discontent within food delivery Changing Work Getting on or getting out; gigger platform relations in
Platform Economy platform work organisational models. and the Platform Swedish digital mediated basic service work.
I Economy II
2. Lee Stringer: 2. Tarcísio Araújo Filho, Isabel Georges:
Chaired by Valeria Online freelancers, digital labour platforms and clients: A study Chaired by Managing work and life in the global South:
Pulignano of the challenges and tensions. Markieta Domecka "entrepreneurship", gender, and class:
3. Ioulia Bessa, Simon Joyce, Denis Neumann, Mark Stuart, Vera 3. Adrian Wright, Gemma Wibberley, Emma Ball, Douglas
Trappmann, Charles Umney: Martin:
A global perspective on worker protest in the platform Re-entering Precarity - The Precarious Nature of Work
economy. for ‘Returners’.
4. Yiluyi Zeng: 4. Perfect Moyo:
Is a contract a starting or end point of negotiation? —A Precariousness of men and women’s jobs in The Hotel
comparative study on freelance contracts. and Catering Industry of Zimbabwe.
Covid-19-Work, 1. Nigel Carter: Covid-19-Work, 1. Wayne Lewchuk, Stephanie Ross, Peter Graefe,
Employment, and Employment, and Mohammad Ferdosi:
Promoting BAME Health & Wellbeing during Covid-19: in the
the Labour Process workplace and in the community. the Labour Process The experience of workers under COVID in Canada.
I II
2. Neda Deneva-Faje: 2. Maurizio Atzeni, Lucas Cifuentes:
Chaired by Minje Essential workers or dangerous bodies: Eastern European Chaired by Phil Deepening precarity and the ‘informalisation of the
Cai labour migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taylor formal’: the model for COVID post crisis labour relations
in Argentina and Chile?
3. Stefanie Hürtgen:
3. Hans Stephan:
Heroes or Workers? “Systemic relevance”, the critique of the
labor process and the Question of Industrial Citizenship. The impact of COVID-19 on the labour process and
power-relations in Saxonian warehouses.
4. Eva Herman:
How employers never let a good crisis go to waste: the re-
commodification under Covid of hourly paid workers’
employment.Wednesday 14th April 2021
11:50 – 12:50 Stream Closing Sessions
Precarity, Changing Work and the Platform Economy Value and Labour Process Theory- Revisited
Chaired by Valeira Pulignano Chaired by Harry Pitts
Younger and Older workers in the Contemporary Labour Markets Covid-19-Work, Employment and the Labour Process
Chaired by Melanie Simms Chaired by Phil Taylor
13:00 – 14:30 Symposium-1 Extending and Debating Workplace Regimes for the 21st Century.
Alex Wood University of Birmingham; Kirsty Newsome University of Sheffield, Paul Thompson University of Stirling
13:00 – 14:30 Symposium-2 Los debates sobre el proceso de trabajo en America Latina- Debating the Labour Process in Latin America
Chaired by Maurizio Atzeni Francisca Gutierrez Crocco, Pablo Miguez and Paolo Marinaro
14:45 – 16:30 Closing Plenary- Do Black Lives Matter in the Workplace- Conference Closing.
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