Conference papers
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| Session/Title of Paper | Presenter(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 5 October 2017 | ||
| World Economic System and Livelihood Vulnerabilities (1A) Venue 1 | ||
| Vulnerabilities and Insecurities – A look out for alternatives for the adda coolies in Hyderabad | Abstract | Srujana Boddu |
| Nexus between Climate induced Vulnerability and Migration in India | Abstract | Minaketan Behera |
| Unfreedom and Wage gaps for Disabled Persons in India | Abstract | Pankaj Soni |
| New Neoliberal Wave - a risk for domestic workers’ new labor rights in Brazil | Abstract | Juçara Portilho & Alexandre Fraga |
| Changing World of Work and its Impact on Workers (2A) Venue 2 | ||
| Worker Cooperatives and Labour Centred Development: An Indian Case Study | Abstract | Yadu CR |
| What has changed: a new Farewell to the Working Class? | Abstract | Victor Filgueiras |
| Trajectories and Outcomes of Informalisation of Employment in India since the early 1980s | Gurpreet Singh | |
| Employee identity and organising strategies: The case of the Indian IT industry | Abstract | Ernesto Noronha & Premilla D’Cruz |
| Trade Unions and Global Supply Chains (3A) Venue 3 | ||
| Trade Unions Organizing in the Nigerian Telecommunication Industry | Abstract | Muttaqa Yushau |
| Building Transnational Solidarity Along the Value Chain: Experiences from a German and South African Union Initiative | Abstract | Carmen Ludwig & Hendrik Simon |
| Wage Bargaining, Worker Organising and Capitalist Hegemony in the Cambodian Garment Industry | Abstract | David Cichon |
| Economic Nationalism and Trade Union Responses: The End of Transnationalism? | Abstract | Michael Fichter |
| Increasing Precarisation, Decreasing Capacities for Collective Action: Reinventing Union Power at the Nodes of Global Production | Abstract | Edwin Anisha |
| Strategies against Neoliberalism (4A) Venue 4 | ||
| Strategic options before trade unions in organised sector of EU | Abstract | David O'Connell |
| Negotiating Resource Control and Ethnicity in Central India: Issues of Identity, Nationality and Statehood in Imaginations of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha | Abstract | Radhika Krishnan |
| The 4th Industrial Revolution, Changes in the World of Work and Trade Union Strategies | Abstract | Kristian Weise |
| Economic Transformation and Neo-Liberalism (1B) Venue 1 | ||
| What is popular power? The rise of market authoritarianism and its consequences for labour under the recent coup in Brazil | Abstract | Marcelo Schmidt |
| The CGIL's interpretation of the Italian economic decline from the introduction of the Euro until the Piano del Lavoro (2002-2013) | Abstract | Nicolò Giangrande |
| Radical Restructuring of Neo-liberalism for Inclusive Growth | Abstract | Indira Hiraway |
| Macro Economies and Changing Landscape of Work (2B) Venue 2 | ||
| Catch-up strategies not due to but despite globalization | Abstract | Bea Ruoff and Hansjörg Herr |
| The State and Capital in India and Turkey: A Comparative Perspective | Abstract | Santosh Verma & Ismail Karatepe |
| Globalization of Production and the World of Work: Is Race to the Bottom Inevitable? | Abstract | Rizwanul Islam |
| The Impact of Technology Innovation on Chinese labour | Abstract | Xiaoya Dai |
| Policy Frameworks for Global Supply Chains (3B) Venue 3 | ||
| GVCs, the Distribution of Knowledge and Labour Regime | Abstract | Dev Nathan |
| Manufacturing Policy Transformation and Innovation of Labor’s Skill Development in China | Abstract | Xingguo Li |
| Analysis of industrial relations & globalization strategy, with a focus on Korea’s Hyundai Motor | Abstract | Kyungran Kim |
| The Bangladesh Accord as a “model” for new global framework agreements? | Abstract | Reingard Zimmer |
| Labour Movements and Resistance (4B) Venue 4 | ||
| Rhetoric of Colonialism and Globalisation as defence mechanisms for the normalisation of child labour among fisher folks in a fishing community in Ghana | Abstract | Shaibu Bukhari |
| Young workers and trade union movement: resistance in a neoliberal’s context | Abstract | Natália Cindra & Marco Aurélio Santana |
| No Title | Abstract | Elaine Hui |
| Friday 6 October 2016 | ||
| Economic Transformation and Neo-Liberalism (1C) Venue 1 | ||
| Some Macro theoretical Foundations of Jobless Growth | Abstract | Saratchand |
| What are the lessons to be learned from the current political and economic crisis in Brazil | Abstract | Marcelo Manzano & Carlos Salas |
| The Regulatory Regime in the Global Apparel Production Network as a Challenge for Building Emancipatory Union Practices – Experiences from the TIE ExChains Network | Abstract | Tatiana Lopez |
| Changing Technology and the Implications for Employment (2C) Venue 2 | ||
| Internet + trade union”: new media technology and innovation with Chinese characteristics | Abstract | Song Hui |
| External Crowd working – Options of Influence for Worker Participation | Abstract | Tobias Schröder |
| The Age of Cybertariat and the Labor Question | Abstract | Monojyoti Maitra |
| Understanding Work and Control in Delivery Service of E-Retailing | Abstract | Padmini Sharma |
| Linkage between Irrigation, cropping pattern and employment: A Case Study of Gang Canal Region | Abstract | Navpreet Kaur & Amanpreet Kaur |
| Labour Conditions in Global Supply Chains (3C) Venue 3 | ||
| Working conditions and collective agency in the tea supply chain: the role of fair trade certification’ | Abstract | Karin Astrid Siegmann |
| Workers in Paddy Value Network: A Case Study of Two Indian States (Punjab and Bihar) | Abstract | Manish Kumar |
| Next-door Relocation without Much Improvement: Garment Done-for-Brands Industry in Ukraine | Abstract | Oksana Dutchak |
| Racing to the bottom? Precarisation of employment relations in the Indian and South African Auto industries | Abstract | Lorenza Monaco |
| Challenges before Labour Movements (4C) Venue 4 | ||
| Neo-Liberalism and Emerging Labour Relations in ECOWAS Region: Present Trends and Future Challenges | Abstract | Dauda Yunus |
| Is blue the new red for workers? – Urgent questions in face of the rise of the German AfD | Abstract | Kathrin Birner & Stefan Dietl |
| Flows and counter flows, two periods of Latin American politics. Argentinian and Brazilian cases | Abstract | Laura Carla Moisa Elicabide & Nicolás Alberto Moreno Reyes |
| Trade union revitalization and the prospects of an ‘ecosocialist’ working class politics: the case of South Africa | Abstract | Devan Pillay |
| Solidarity and Alternatives to Neo Liberalism (1D) Venue 1 | ||
| Transformative Politics and the Solidarity Economy | Abstract | Michelle Williams & Vikas Satgar |
| Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Conditions of Precarity: Rethinking Strategies for Socio-Economic Development and Labour Union Solidarity | Abstract | Bonn Juego |
| Alternative Paths to Neoliberalism: A Comparison of India and Brazil | Abstract | Rahul Sirohi |
| Labour Market during Crisis: Questioning the “German Model” | Abstract | Ravi Tripathi |
| SOCIALLY AND ECONOMIC JUST ALTERNATIVES | Abstract | Bognani Tshabalala |
| Women, Work and Employment (2D) Venue 2 | ||
| Breaking occupational segregations or merely readjusting traditional patterns? An empirical study of urban women workers in India under neo-liberalism | Abstract | Sona Mitra |
| Women, Labour and Technology in Coal Mines: A Case Study of the Impact on Local Economy of Korba District (Chhattisgarh) | Abstract | Sujata Soy |
| Syrian Women in Working Life: Slavery or Emancipation? | Abstract | Bilge Pınar Yenigün & Özge Berber-Agtaş |
| Market Authoritarianism and Care Extractivism | Abstract | Christa Wichterich |
| Global Supply Chains and Workers’ Conditions (3D) Venue 3 | ||
| The Impact of the Sourcing Squeeze on Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains: Analyzing the Evidence using the Labour Rights Indicators | Abstract | Mark Anner |
| Export Processing Zones, Economic Liberalisation and the Impact on Labour in Sri Lanka | Abstract | Niyanthini Kadirgamar |
| Does subcontracting create dynamic entrepreneurs or exploited workers? Remarks from a South African case study | Abstract | Nicolas Pons-Vignon |
| Interest of Global Capital and Workers in Gig Economy | Abstract | Uma Rani and Marianne Furrera |
| Workers’ Movement in the Changing Economies (4D) Venue 4 | ||
| The importance of migrant workers in 21st Century: if trade unions don’t take them into account, then Mr. Trump will do it | Abstract | Luis Campos |
| Re-building the trade union movement through Power Resources | Abstract | Edward Webster |
| Illegalized Migrants and Trade Unions: a Strike in Paris | Abstract | Neva Loew |
| No Title | Abstract | Ana Paula Melli and Clair Siobhan Ruppert |