Sub-theme 84: Work and Employment at Multiple Crossroads: Building Better Futures from the Present
Convenors:
Markus Helfen, Hertie School, Germany
Patrizia Zanoni, Hasselt University, Belgium
Andreas Pekarek, University of Melbourne, Australia
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P0-02
Multiple Crossroads in Diverse Places
Chair: Andreas Pekarek
Christine A. Riordan, Hye Jin Rho, Yeaseul Hur and Patricia Tabarani
Brokerage from the bottom up: Union leaders as algorithmic brokers in hotel housekeeping work
Kritika Katyayan and Bhaskar Chakrabarti
Life's work in flux: Navigating work amid climate change in rural Uttarakhand, India
Alessandro Niccolò Tirapani and Francesca Ciulli
‘Actually, we have no algorithm’: A neo-luddite approach to democratic organisations in the gig economy
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Caring about Care? – Part I - Room: U7-P0-02
Chair: Markus Helfen
Ivana Pais
Digital care platforms at the crossroads of multiple institutional logics
Laura Thäter
Revitalization for the common good? Alternative union organizing in the field of live-in care in Austria
Mark Gatto and Ana Lopes
Organising for power? Theorising the mobilisation of parents and carers in UK universities
Parallel Stream B: Collective Bargaining in Transition [Roundtable] - Room: U7-P0-15
Chair: Rick Delbridge
Angelika Schmidt
Criticism of the prevailing power relations in labor relations at Austrian universities
Nele Dittmar
Collective bargaining for a just transition?
Jennifer Kuebart
Never waste a good crisis – The impact of crisis in collective bargaining
Indira Kuburas and François Pichault
How can experimenting with a new committee for social dialogue provide an opportunity to enrich the action repertoires of
unions operating under different institutional logics? A case study of the Hybrid Committee
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Caring about Care? – Part II - Room: U7-P0-02
Chair: Patrizia Zanoni
Mathilde Mondon-Navazo, Annalisa Murgia and Alina Dambrosio Clementelli
In/visible intersectional organising: The case of ‘Sindicat Helpling’ in Berlin
Chiara Corvino, Mara Gorli, Benedetta Colaiacovo, Barbara Muzzulini and Luca Vecchio
An emergency within the emergency. Exploring new ways to intervene and impact the sustainability of emergency healthcare work.
Shaima C and Devi Vijay
Beyond the hippocratic oath: Physicians and multiple forms of infrastructural work amidst unequal healthcare infrastructures
Parallel Stream B: Logistics Work across Space and Time [Roundtable] - Room: U7-P0-15
Chair: Markus Helfen
Aneta Pieczka and Miłosz Miszczyński
“Relative satisfactions”: Locating the meaning of work in platform capitalism
Miłosz Miszczyński and Aneta Pieczka
Territorial labour of first/last mile delivery couriers under the logistics revolution
Kornelia Anna Kerti, Brigitte Kroon, Inge Bleijenbergh and Marloes van Engen
Navigating identities in warehouse distribution: A critical autoethnography of a labor migrant’s shifting sense of self
Shiba Satapathy and Soumya Rajan
Dual pathways of algorithmic influence: Empowerment and precarity in gig economy
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Heterogeneous Futures of Work - Room: U7-P0-02
Chair: Andreas Pekarek
Wei Wei, Tony Royle and Wei Huang
Does business model innovation bring better outcomes for workers? Evidence from the Chinese online ride-hailing sector
Alban Ouahab, Stéphane Jaumier and Genevieve Shanahan
Alternative
organizations and the future of work: A value criticism perspective on new wave
food coops
Bui K. Petersen and Gordon B. Cooke
Exploitation or empowerment: Technology and agency in the work of musicians
Parallel Stream B: How to Achieve Sustainable Work? [Roundtable] - Room: U7-P0-15
Chair: Rick Delbridge
Joanna Konstantinou
Undeclared employment in the retail sector
Rowena E. Ditzell
Towards
sustainable work: A study of critical success factors and implementation
challenges of a 100-80-100 four-day work week trial in a New Zealand consumer
goods organisation
Cassandra Lippert
You can't live on claps: A narrative scoping review.
Eleonora Picco, Federico Ceschel, Cristiano Ghiringhelli, Lucia Marchegiani, Michela Marchiori and Massimo Miglioretti
How do we approach workers’ value? A systematic literature review under the lens of sustainable employability
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: What's the Worth and Value of Work? - Room: U7-P0-02
Chair: Patrizia Zanoni
Anna Schneider, Jean-Pascal Gond and Bernadette Bullinger
Destigmatizing refugee workers through valorization work: An economies of worth conceptual toolkit
Azure Cook and Ren Lovegood
Rethinking labor valuation: An intersectional analysis of subminimum wage, tipped employment, and disability inequality
Jana Costas and Patrick Vonderau
What is music creation worth? The issue of fair remuneration as music meets tech
Parallel Stream B: Voice and Organizing: New Directions? [Roundtable] - Room: U7-P0-15
Chair: Rick Delbridge
Charline Monin
How to democratize work? A question at the crossroad of direct and indirect participation spaces which require to seriously
think their complementarity
Hiranya Bandara
Gaming the game: (Re)Manufacturing consent and dissent for global online labor
Laura Galuppo, Marta Piria and Vanessa Trapani
New spaces of solidarity for work: Non-standard workers’ solidarity to face inequality challenges
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Organizing the New union around Identities? - Room: U7-P0-02
Chair: Markus Helfen
Andrea Signoretti and Lorenzo Frangi
Organizational gratitude towards past occupation: The case of union officers
Elisabeth Bethge and Mike Geppert
Local contexts shaping global Ideas: Uberization in the discourse of nations
Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme
The role of trade union identity, emotions and framing processes in shaping mobilisation in the context of healthcare marketisation
Parallel Stream B: Ideas & Concepts [Roundtable] - Room: U7-P0-15
Chair: Rick Delbridge
Michel Ajzen, Laurent Taskin, Michal Izak and Stefanie C. Reissner
The making of the ‘ideal worker’: A re-regulation perspective in the context of new ways of working
Philippe Lorino and Justine Arnoud
Organizing work beyond controlling: The pragmatist concept of inquiry as a critical alternative to the controlling perspective
Scarlett Salman
Well-being at work: A pathway to a better work organization or a focus on the edge of the iceberg?
Max Bogaert, Nicky Dries and Joost Luyckx
Imagining radical hope for the future of work: A discourse-theoretical analysis of dystopian science fiction films
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Resistance for Meaningful Work? - Room: U7-P0-02
Chair: Andreas Pekarek
Avital Baikovich, Tair Karazi-Presler and Varda Wasserman
Ritualized resistance: Religion, gender, and work in business conferences among religious female entrepreneurs
Olga Lelebina, Séverine Lemière and Michelle Greenwood
The drama of activism: Bringing systems psychodynamic theory to organizational activism
Annette Yunus-Pendrey, Jean-Pascal Gond and Andre Spicer
Going back to my roots: Stability despite liminality in the search for meaningful work
Parallel Stream B: Bringing Management in? [Roundtable] - Room: U7-P0-15
Chair: Rick Delbridge
Lucie Bouchet and Benoît Journé
Overcoming clichés about moonlighting: The opportunities, challenges and conditions of multiple jobholding for organizations
John Hassard and Jonathan Morris
Homeworking and the manager
Laverne I. Chore, Anna Schneider and Julia Brandl
Making reskilling work: How HRM stakeholders engender a better future for temporary workers
Mahreen Khan, Christopher Woodruff and Atonu Rabbani
Management training for female garments workers and impact on factory working conditions in Bangladesh
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P0-02
Closing Session: Scaling New Heights?
Chair: Patrizia Zanoni
Casper Hoedemaekers and Jana Patey
The spectre of solidarity: A case study in the uneasy relationship between management and workplace friendship
Tyron Love and Michael Hall
University biopower and the exploitation of Indigenous academic labour
Jana Stefan, Arianna Marcolin, Marco Guerci, Maria Laura Toraldo and Edoardo Della Torre
Relative ‘artisan’ satisfaction through small gains? The case of blue-collar workers in a craft firm