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International Labour Process Conference 2017

University of Sheffield

Reconnecting Work and Political Economy

Tuesday 4th April

10.00-11.00 Registration

11.00-12.30 Conference Opening and Welcome. Jason Heyes and Kirsty Newsome.

Room City Suite A and B

Opening Plenary: Work, Labour and the Global Economy

Professor Ruth Milkman (City University, New York) ‘U.S. labor and the triumph of Donald Trump’

Professor Nicola Phillips (Sheffield University) ‘Power, labour and inequality in a ‘global value chain world’

Chair: Kirsty Newsome

12.30-13.30 Lunch

Tuesday 13.30-15.00 Parallel Sessions

Global Value Chains. Chair: Kirsty Newsome Mercure Executive Board Women’s status in China: the impact of global supply chain trade. Shireen Kanji, Limin Wang, Shikha Jha, and Mieke Meurs

Financialisation. Chair: Chris Smith Room Mercure City A Making connections in a disconnected world: financialisation, flexibility and strategic HRM. Stephen Procter and Stephen Ackroyd

From precarious to decent work in textiles value chains: walking a tightrope in South Africa and Brazil. Pauline Dibben Geoffrey Wood, Phil Johnson, Juliana Meira, Debby Bonnin, Gareth Crockett and Caroline Linhares The political and economic influence of the Cambodian garment sector employers: old controls, old battles, new battlegrounds. Jean Jenkins

Re-connecting work, political economy, pensions and precarity: the appropriation of pension contributions under finance-led capitalism. Jo Grady and Ian Clark A failure of organizational control? The unintended consequences of ambiguity in retail financial services. Matthew Brannan

Young Workers. Chair: Steve Vincent Mercure Meeting Room 1 ‘It’s something you see that adults do’: understanding the relationship between trade unions and young people in the UK. Andy Hodder Singing from the same hymn sheet? Unpacking policy across the UK to reduce the number of young people who are NEET. Sue Maguire, Ewart Keep, Ken Mayhew, Craig Holmes and Emily Murphy The role of employers in young people’s labour market transitions. Melanie Simms, David Wilson and Arlene Robertson

Restructuring Europe. Chair: Steve Shelley Mercure Meeting Room 2 Demographic change and labour shortages in Eastern Germany: the limits of precariousness as a disciplinary regime? Ingo Singe, Stefan Schmalz, Anne Göttert, Sarah Hinz and Daniel Meyer From solutions to commodities and back again? Restructuring in the European telecom and IT sector and trade unions’ strategies of coping with it. Ursula Holtgrewe and Philip Schörpf Reinforced fragmentation or coherent cooperation? The impact of the representativeness reform on local union strategy in the French automobile industry. Ruth Reaney and Niall Cullinane

Gender and Diversity. Chair: Abigail Marks Mercure Meeting Room 3 Turkish women as impediments to 'modern' production for Japanese market. Emine Erdogan Gender and consent on the shop floor. The case of a lean automobile factory in Russia. Martin Krzywdzinski, Grzegorz Lechowski and Valentina Mählmeyer Minority integration into the workforce and the creation of a false equality. Jonathan Preminger

Care. Chair: Sian Moore Mercure Meeting Room 4 Financialised innovation and long-term residential elder care. Diane Burns, Joe Earl, Karel Williams and Zachary Ward-Perkins Austerity and the Living Wage: the case of care workers in England. Julie Prowse, Peter Prowse and Jereme Snook ‘Uncaring capital’ in care homes; the influence of financialisation on employment relations within the English care home context from the perspective of ‘employee voice’. Albert Atom

Green. Chair: Linda Clarke Mercure Meeting Room 5 Slow green: climate literacy and the labour movement. Carla Lipsig Mummé

Digital Labour. Chair Alessandro Gandini and Xanthe Whittaker Mercure Meeting Room 6

Just transition in a neoliberal context: the contradictions of labour-market policy in post-petro-state Canada. Chris Roberts, Donald Lafleur Contesting just transition: a sufficient challenge to capitalist labour processes? Ewan Kerr

Online labour index: measuring the online gig economy for policy and research. Otto Kässi and Vili Lehdonvirta A new 'leading industry'? Theorising worker resistance and labour unrest in the platform economy. Simon Joyce The sharing economy in Norway: size and challenges for labor regulations. Kristin Jesnes, Beate Sletvold Øistad and Kristin Alsos

Tuesday 15.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions

Informality and Precarious work. Chair: Fredrik Movitz Mercure Executive Board The everyday resistance and the interaction in rapidly changing hawkers’ management policies in China – a case study of JingXi hawker market. Jing Wang, Huang Liying and Leung Chi Yuen The role of institutions in poverty reduction and inclusive growth: a case study of the (street hawkers in) Lagos state informal economy. Eghosa Igudia Making entrepreneurs: bogus self-employment in the Irish construction industry. James Wickham and Alicja Bobek

Restructuring and Labour Process. Chair: Jo Grady Mercure Meeting Room 1 Financialisation and labour in contemporary Turkish political economy: notes on debt, discipline and resistance. Mehmet Erman Erol Putting labour in patrimonial capitalism: state, firms and labour in Saudi capitalism. Ayman Adham and Anita Hammer A heterodox economic approach for studying the labour process in a corporate restructuring. A case study in the Swiss machinery industry. Aris Martinelli

Trade Unions. Chair: Adrienne Eaton Mercure Meeting Room 2 A critical realist analysis of union resistance in the labour process at London Underground. Emma Hughes, Tony Dobbins and Doris Merkl-Davies An answer to the activism ‘problem’? A regional study of UNITE Community membership. Iona Byford ‘Wage Bargaining in Post Economic Crisis Ireland Eugene Hickland

Public Sector Restructuring. Chair: Peter Prowse Mercure Meeting Room 3 Remodelling the welfare state and its service providers: forms of subjectivation and subject positions of Swiss public employment agents - a case study. Myriam Gaitsch The user-patients as work relations actors within hospitals: a French illustration with the notions of region and regionalisation. Christelle Havard, Guy Bellemare, Christine Naschberger and Louise Briand The adverse effects of the resilient organization? - Accounting for the flip side of 'positive resources' in prison work. Mette Mogensen and Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen

Management and Professional Work. Chair: Irena Grugulis Mercure Meeting Room 4 Front-line managers’ misbehavior? The elephant in the room? Anastasios Hadjisolomou Controlling the middle managers: professional, normative, bureaucratic control and work intensification. Rebecca Gatt The influence of technology and standards on professionals’ work. Jörg Kirchhoff, Andersen KL, Andreassen HM, Grøndahl VA, Helgesen AK, Skaug E-A, Tvete L-S

Green. Chair: John Calvert Mercure Meeting Room 5 Romance or chimaera? industry policy and job quality in european offshore wind turbine manufacturing. Lisa Schulte Decarbonising the electricity grid: the implications for organised labour. Colin Gleeson Social and employment implications of renewable distributed generation in Mexico. Natalia Rocha Lawton

Digital Labour. Chair: Paul Thompson Mercure Meeting Room 6 The labour process and digital labour. Alessandro Gandini Automatic process control as apparatuses of cybernetic regulation. Simon Schaupp Crowdsourcing and crowdworking and their implications for the organization of work. Sandra Kawalec and Sabine Pfeiffer

16.30-17.00 Tea and Coffee

17.00 -18.30 Parallel Sessions

GVC. Chair: James Wickham Mercure Executive Board Evolution of working conditions in Bangladesh: before and after Rana Plaza collapse. Omar Bin Harun Khan The 2011 tsunami and adjustment along a global production network: evidence from Japanese subsidiaries in South Korea. Lisa Magnani

Migrant Workers. Chair: Fredrik Movitz Mercure Meeting Room 1 Power and voice of migrant labour - the role of migrant networks and civil society organisations. Chibuzo Ejiogu Working abroad: the employment experiences of migrant academics in UK’s universities. Toma Pustelnikovaite

Employment grey zones in global supply chains: “delegalization” or managerial regulation of employment relationship? Patrick Dieuaide

Cotton, capabilities and anti-slavery NGOs in Uzbekistan. Darren Mcguire

Age and Inter-Generation. Chair: Bob Carter Mercure Meeting Room 2 Employment and intergenerational relations. Vanessa Beck and Glynne Williams Re-connecting work and political economy: the local state and work conditions for young people in Greater Manchester. Ed Yates and Ian Clark Planning and implementing youth policies: A critical approach of the Youth Guarantee in Greece. Sofia Boutsiouki

Health Care. Chair: Shionna Chillas Mercure Meeting Room 3 Chains, shops, networks - changing features of hospital work organization. Helge Ramsdal and Catharina Bjørkquist Perceptions of occupational stress and coping among maternity ward attendants (MWAs) in hospital settings in Nigeria. Toyosi Kuforiji, Gwendolen Bradshaw and Julie Prowse Shifting from collective to individualised responses to nurse work intensification in the neoliberal hospital. Ruth Ballardie and Richard Gough

Precarious Work and Labour Market Change. Chair: Adrienne Eaton Mercure Meeting Room 4 Precarity in Poland and Germany. Vera Trappmann and Adam Mrozowicki Labour and structural heterogeneity in Europe. Stefanie Hürtgen Schedule flexibility as a gift or a right? Schedule control, work intensity and the importance of country contexts. Heejung Chung

Class, Gender and Identity. Chair: Stephen Ackroyd Mercure Meeting Room 5 Gender, class and industrial action – shift patterns and work-life balance in the fire brigades. Tessa Wright, Sian Moore and Phil Taylor Occupation, gender and class: identity intersectionality among female operator services telephonists. Abigail Marks and Robert MacKenzie Attitudes towards safety and women – two sides of the same coin in shaping identity in the construction industry. Maria Johansson, Ylva Fältholm and Leif Berglund

Digital Labour. Chair: Xanthe Whittaker Mercure Meeting Room 6 Victory at Vice: organizing digital media workers. Nicole Cohen and Greig de Peuter

The contribution of ICTs to the managerialisation of organizational professional work: observations from a study of IT service professionals. Clive Trusson, Donald Hislop and Neil F. Doherty Precarious labour and labour organizing in Northern Thailand. Saowalak Chaytaweep

18.30 Drinks Reception and Book Launch (The New Digital Workplace).

The Winter Gardens (adjacent to the Mercure Hotel)

20.30 Social Event

‘The Re-Offenders’

The Washington Pub, 79 Fitzwilliam St, Sheffield S1 4JP

(Prowse, Dobbins, Dundon and Taylor Entertainments)

Wednesday 5th April

Wednesday 9.00-10.30 Parallel Sessions

Creative Industries. Chair: Andy Hodder Mercure Executive Board Job seeking tournaments and supportive social ties: the paradox of work in the creative industries. Irena Grugulis and Dimitrinka Stoyanova-Russell

EU Restructuring. Chair: Martin Krzywdzinski Mercure Meeting Room 1 German Ordoliberalism and the asymmetric governance of the Eurozone Crisis. Michel Goyer

Precarity of the elite: labouring in the area of contemporary culture and arts in Croatia. Valerija Barada, Jaka Primorac and Edgar Bursic The art of organic solidarity: the fall of ‘solidarity forever’ and the rise of collaborative organising and participatory art? Marek Korczynski and Joyce Jiang

Sustaining sustainability through co-determination? - the case of German industrial relations. Axel Haunschild, Eva Clasen, Florian Krause, Rita Meyer and Hans-Gerd Ridder Uneven development and the post-crisis Hungarian workfare state. Márton Czirfusz

Retail. Chair: Tasos Hadjisolomou Mercure Meeting Room 2 Between institutions and movements. Comparing union strategies in fashion retail in Italy and US. Stefano Gasparri, Giovanna Fullin and Peter Ikeler Low wage, precariousness and interactions with customers. comparing the experiences of front line service workers in Milan and New York. Giovanna Fullin Retail Work in the 24/7 service society: deregulation, neoliberalism and consumerism. Annalisa Dordoni

History, Community and the Labour Process. Chair: Thomas Hastings Mercure Meeting Room 3 History in use - authenticity in Scottish textile production. Shiona Chillas Collective memory and the labour movement: 1984-1985 Miners' Strike. Helen Blakely The Historical Emergence of the Informal Sector: Law and labour politics in early independent India Karuna Miryam Dietrich Wielenga

Green. Chair: Dean Stroud Mercure Meeting Room 5 Promoting climate literacy in British Columbia's apprenticeship system: evaluating one union's efforts to overcome barriers to low carbon construction. John Calvert and Simon Fraser The role of labour and VET in meeting low energy construction targets. Linda Clarke and Melahat Sahin-Dikmen

Digital Labour. Chair: Xanthe Whittaker Mercure Meeting Room 6 Winner takes all: bidding and contesting for highly skilled work on internet platforms. Jörg Flecker, Pamela Meil, Annika Schönauer and Philip Schörpf Digital gamification as a Trojan Horse: are IT departments conquering low and middle management? Janosch Schobin and Ana Cárdenas Literacies for digitally supported work. Caroline Roth-Ebner

Logistics. Chair: Kirsty Newsome Brearly Suite Novotel Introduction to the Stream. Labour in the global logistics value chain. David Bensman

Productivity. Chair: Jason Heyes Loxley Firth Suite Novotel Welfare capitalism in post-industrial times: trilemma or power over rents? Paul Lewis Public sector labor relations in the United States: austerity, politics, and policy. Patrice Mareschal

Outsourcing Logistics: the impact on working conditions and on unions strategies. Maria Concetta Ambra

What kind of reshoring? An exploration of restructuring in European apparel manufacturing. Nikolaus Hammer

Wednesday 10.30-10.45 Tea and Coffee

Wednesday 10.45-12.15 Parallel Sessions

Regulation and Social Protection. Chair: Paul Lewis Mercure Executive Board Governing labour-related risks in global value chains through international framework agreements. Michele Murgo Hybrid forms of regulation: finding space for worker agency in labour law enforcement. Thomas Hastings Labour inspection, employment regulation and the changing role of state agencies and inspectors in enforcing rights at work. Stephen Mustchin and Miguel Martinez Lucio

Global Unions/Representation. Chair: Jane Holgate Mercure Meeting Room 1 Building relationships between worker cooperatives and trade unions in an emerging market context. Old debates, new settings? Gareth Crockett and Pauline Dibben Subcontracting: from political economy to the labour process, evidence from Chile. Lucas Cifuentes Foreign direct investment, jobs and institutions in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from firm-level data. Christian Viegelahn, Sotiris Blanas, Adnan Seric and Christian Viegelahn

Skill. Chair: Irena Grugulis Mercure Meeting Room 2 Not realising their potential? A comparative analysis of skills development amongst skilled and highly skilled migrants and indigenes. Steve Vincent, Andrew Kozhevnikov and Scott Hurrelll LE(a)P in the dark? Local Enterprise Partnerships, local skills strategies and poor work in times of austerity. Jonathan Payne

Green. Chair: Melahat Sahin-Dikmen Mercure Meeting Room 5 Gamification as employment strategy for greening the labour process. Dean Stroud and Claire Evens

Digital Labour. Chair: Alessandro Gandini Mercure Meeting Room 6 What’s different about digitalisation? Martin Upchurch Good gig, bad gig: job quality in the global platform economy. Alex Wood, Mark Graham and Vili Lehdonvirta

More and better jobs in a low carbon future: provocations and possibilities. Steve Shelley The role of trade unions in the transformation towards a low carbon economy. Bela Galgoczi

Foaming Data: end to end and where will it end? Penny Andrews

Logistics. Chair: Jeremy Anderson Brearly Suite Novotel Exploiting the low-road? self-employment and the ‘last mile’ of parcel delivery in the UK. Sian Moore and Kirsty Newsome Fixing the last mile? How UK telecommunication engineers are responding to industrial change. Catherine Nugent

Performance. Chair: Phil Taylor Loxley Firth Suite Novotel Performance Management - The (Not So) New Workplace Tyranny. Phil Taylor Performance management and job security: what does fair dismissal mean now? Glynne Williams and Vanessa Beck Courting disaster: court closures and staff crisis in the justice system. Roger Seifert

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Plenary: Beyond Varieties of Capitalism. Chair: Jason Heyes

Room City Suite A and B

Professor Lucio Baccaro (University of Geneva) ‘Political economy of growth models: why the crisis of Fordist employment

relations contributes to the instability of capitalism in advanced countries’

Dr Bob Hancké (LSE) The happiness of nations: a comparative political economy approach’

15.00-15.30 Tea and Coffee

15.30-17.00 Parallel Sessions

HRM, Work and Employment. Chair: Chris Smith Mercure Executive Board The political marketization of work, employment and HRM. Tony Dundon and Anthony Rafferty A “slow” manifesto for comparative research on work and employment. Phil Almond and Heather Connolly The vulnerability of commitment focused HRM. Hugh Cook, Christopher Forde and Robert MacKenzie

Insecurity/Precarious Work. Chair: Dennis Nickson Mercure Meeting Room 1 Be careful what you wish for: enforced flexibility and working conditions in Ireland. Alicja Bobek and James Wickham From informalization to incarceration? Regulating the female labour force in the era of globalization. Ana Cardenas Tomazic An endless rise of precarity? Evidence from British tenure data. Joseph Choonara

Trade Unions and Union Action. Chair: Steve French Mercure Meeting Room 2 A critical pedagogic analysis of union learning in the UK: Applying Freire in practice. Tony Bennett The role of trade unions in stress management. Marina Boulos Union action in context of fragmentation of care work: a coordinated strike in senior's residences in Québec. Louise Boivin

Gender, and work-life balance. Chair: Martin Upchurch Mercure Meeting Room 3 Flexible working and consequence for work-life balance: importance of gender occupation and family context. Heejung Chung Community colleges at the intersection of the employment relationship: Balancing students’ and employers’ needs, influencing worker and employer power. Sara Haviland and Michelle Van Noy

Green. Chair: Carla Lipsig Mummé Mercure Meeting Room 5 Panel members, including Dean Stroud, Donald Lafleur, Lisa Schulte and Natalia Rocha Lawton

Digital Labour. Chair: Alessandro Gandini Mercure Meeting Room 6 The very modern and precarious ‘independent worker’: Contemporary forms of labour exploitation, control and organisation. Ludmila Abilio A theory of cybernetic capitalism: Uber’s Big Data labour process platform. Ramon Diab Employment grey zones in globalisation: Emerging figures of work in transforming labour markets and political economies. Christian Azaïs and Donna Kesselman

Logistics. Chair: David Bensmann Brearly Suite Novotel

Performance. Chair: Phil Taylor Loxley Firth Suite Novotel

Logistics workers’ struggles in Turkey: possibilities and strategies for the future. Cagatay Edgucan, Sahin Pekin and Bengisu Tepe Securing the supply chain – conceptualizing commodified security within logistics. Kendra Briken Stream Closing Discussion

Must improve - an analysis of performance management in the UK Civil Service. Steve French “It’s about getting them all on message”: a case study of performance management in the UK fire service. Kim Mather Measuring teachers’ work: Performance Management System in Education, case from Turkey. Burçak Özoglu

17.00-18.30 Symposia

Symposia 1 Mercure Meeting Room 5 Publishing in Work, Employment and Society Mel Simms, Vanessa Beck, Ian Clark, Nik Hammer and Bob Carter.

Symposia 2 Mercure Meeting Room 6 Does Marx's 'Fragment on Machines' offer a better reading of capital and labour than Capital? Ian Towers, F.H. (Harry) Pitts, Paul Thompson and Chris Smith

Symposia 3 Brearly Suite Novotel The future of workers’ power in logistics Jeremy Anderson, Victor Figueroa-Clark, Tom Powdrill, Rhea Chatterjee and Seth Payer

Symposia 4 Loxley Firth Suite Novotel Perspectives on the future of labour history Ewan Gibbs, Diarmain Kelliher, Andy Clark, Sophie Rowland and Paul Brook

19.30 Pre-Dinner Drinks

20.00 Conference Dinner Mercure Hotel Mercure Room City Suite A and B

22.00 – until 01.00 Northern Soul Disco

Thursday

9.00-10.15 Parallel Sessions

Unions and Regulation. Chair: Thomas Hastings Mercure Executive Board The changing face of collective pay determination in foreign invested firms in China. Xuebing Cao The transition of trade unions in Taiwan: from paternalistic autonomy to responsibility for collective union and non-union representation. Hsiao-Hui Tai Challenges of trade union in Japanese automobile sector in the liberalized economy. Manoranjan Dhal

Creative. Chair: Jason Heyes Mercure Meeting Room 1 New intermediaries and ‘online sweatshops’: from moral to market economy in London’s live music scene. Charles Umney Towards a Pathway and Consequence of Precarious Geography of Creative Labour in China. Yan Li Foreign film production and the local labour market: The case of Croatia. Jaka Primorac and Keith Randle

Resistance. Chair: Paul Thompson Mercure Meeting Room 2 Work isn't working. moving beyond a resistance to Work. Vera Weghmann Working away from home: a form of resistance and escape. Gwen Chen Maranda Ridgway When the exception becomes the norm. On rule avoidance, organisational boundaries and institutional change. Lisa Dorigatti

China. Chair: Paul Lewis Mercure Meeting Room 3 The subordination and insubordination of migrant workers in contemporary China. Shuwan Zhang Effect of minimum wage institution on wage inequality in China: an institutional and organizational perspective. Ran Cheng External economic factors’ impacts on employers’ HRM decisions in the Chinese financial service sector. Jiachen Shi

10.15-10.30 Tea and Coffee

10.30-12.00 Parallel Sessions

Job Quality/Satisfaction. Chair: Stephen Procter Mercure Meeting Room 1

Labour and Locality. Chair: Ian Clark Mercure Meeting Room 2

Indigenous peoples and climate change – from victims to change agents through decent work. Rishabh Kumar Dhir, Rishabh Kumar Dhir, Martin Oelz and Marek Harsdorff Job quality among people without higher education in Norway, Sweden, the UK and Ireland. Tove Mogstad Aspoy Job satisfaction and ‘seniority’ (managerial status and job tenure): evidence from the Turkish shipyards for a trade-off frame. Surhan Cam and Serap Palaz

Containing labour in the rising industrial towns of Turkey: class contradictions, religion and locality. Ibrahim Gundogdu Modular retailing and industrial relations: a longitudinal study of German retailing. Carsten Wirth A new political economy of insecurity? AKP and socio-economic actors in re-institutionalisation of Turkish industrial relations. Didem Ozkiziltan

Knowledge Work. Chair: Kendra Briken Mercure Meeting Room 5 Time, place, space and the academic labour process. Amanda Lee, MariaLaura DiDomenico and Mark N.K. Saunders Image, imageability and the intrapreneur: exploring the politics of knowledge work. Tony Huzzard and Susanne Ekman

Digital Labour. Chair: Alessandro Gandini Mercure Meeting Room 6 Algorithms and the labour process. Ian Towers and Timo Daum Work alerts and personal bests: Managing time in the online gig economy. Vili Lehdonvir Gig economy, the latest stage in the Great Transformation of Karl Polanyi. Joern Janssen

12.00-13.30 Plenary: The Future of Work Chair: Jason Heyes

Room Mercure City Suite A and B

Lesley Giles (The Work Foundation)

Adrian Wakeling (ACAS)

Professor Paul Thompson (University of Stirling)

Professor Peter Nolan (University of Leicester)