Day 1 Programme

Session 1A

Chair: David Bailey
Digital technology and work 1

“Delivering at the limits” - A framing analysis of a German trade union’s campaign for platform food delivery workers

Saba Rebecca Brause (Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society & TU Berlin) and Samantha Edwards (University of Cambridge)

Platform labour and structured antagonism: a quantitative approach to understanding the origins of protest in the remote gig economy

Alex Wood (University of Birmingham), Nik Martindale (University of Oxford) and Vili Lehdonvirta (University of Oxford)

As I ride through the shadow of the Silicon Valley: Lived experiences of work and resistance in London’s gig-economy.

Adam Badger (Royal Holloway)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94386537115

Session 1B

Chair: Steve Williams

Covid-19 and employment relations 1

Safety and Health in Portuguese Call Centers. Social activism in a COVID-19 pandemic age

Isabel Roque (University of Coimbra)

The human cost of ‘feeding the nation’: Covid challenges and food retailing in the UK

Abbie Winton (University of Manchester)

Predicting the presence and location of informalised workplaces in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic

Ian Clark, James Hunter, Richard Pickford, Jack Barratt and Nidhi Sharma (Nottingham Trent University)

Zoom link:https://zoom.us/j/93817623549

Session 1C

Chair: Tony Dobbins

Precarious work 1

The Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority and Precarious Workers In The UK

Caroline Hewitt (Sheffield Hallam)

Insecure work and work-life imbalance in Nigeria: factors and workers’ responses

Moses Dang (Northumbria University) and Roseline Wanjiru (Northumbria University)

Moving beyond rules: Trade unions, public procurement and the re-politicisation of precarious work in the UK and Germany

Mathew Johnson (University of Manchester), Stephen Mustchin (University of Manchester), Karen Jaehrling (IAQ Universität Duisburg-Essen) and Christin Stiehm (IAQ Universität Duisburg-Essen)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92909888513

Session 1D

Chair: Jo Cutter

Gender and employment relations

Employment Relationships and Returning to Work

Adrian Wright, Douglas Martin, and Gemma Wibberley (University of Central Lancashire)

The women-only organisation Clean Break: hierarchies and the shape of employment relationships

Deborah Dean (University of Warwick), Anne-marie Greene (University of Leicester), Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sarah Bartley (Queen Mary, University of London)

Exploring and conceptualising work attitudes and labour market behaviour of South Asian British Muslim older women in the UK: A translocational approach

Sajia Ferdous, Jill Rubery and Jenny Rodriguez (University of Manchester)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97128655632

Session 2A

Chair: Tony Dobbins

Mobilisation, and migration

New agents of resistance? Solidarity and collective identity in the French ‘gilets jaunes’ movement

Heather Connolly and Anne Antoni (Grenoble Ecole de Management)

'So who are they representing?' Networks of distrust in the mobilisation of platform-based motorcycle taxi drivers in Indonesia

Joanna Octavia (University of Warwick)

The evolving migration regime in the UK and stakeholders' role in the making of Brexit

Chris Forde, Gabriella Alberti, Ioulia Bessa, Zyama Ciupijus, Jo Cutter and Maisie Roberts (University of Leeds)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98420376198

Session 2B

Chair: Stephen Mustchin

Restructuring, public sector IR and social media

Exploring long term experiences of industrial restructuring: a comparative study of displaced steelworkers in the UK, Sweden and Australia

Chris McLaughlin (University of Leeds), Robert Mackenzie (Karlstad University), Roland Ahlstrand (Dalarna University) and Alexis Rydell (Dalarna University)

Trade Union Role in Employment Relations in Nigerian Public Sector Enterprises: How the Hunter became the Hunted.

Adeyemi Dawodu (DAAM & Associates, Nigeria), Yomi Abdulranman Akobada (University of Lagos) and Babatunde S. Brown (DAAM & Associates, Nigeria)

Engaging with social media in a context of fragmentation and change: the case of a company-level union in Chile and their use of Internet technologies

Daina Bellid de Luna (University of Manchester)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91489723169

Session 2C

Chair: Paul Lewis

Climate change

Unemployment, precarious work and climate crisis: an insight from Greece

Vasiliki Krommyda (National Technical University of Athens), Stelios Gialis (University of the Aegean) and Anastasia Stratigea (National Technical University of Athens)

Trade Union responses to Climate Change – lessons from Germany and the UK

Jo Cutter (University of Leeds), Vera Trappmann (University of Leeds), Felix Schulz (University of Leeds) and Jack Daly (University of Leeds)

Environmental commitments contained in global framework agreements – implications for labour actors as agents of environmental change

Coralie Guedes (University of Westminster)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/96904743097

Session 3A

Chair: Eleanor Kirk

Compliance

Labour market non-compliance in the UK? Understanding the occupation of sector space by unregulated workplaces

Ian Clark, James Hunter and Richard Pickford (Nottingham Trent University)

Using ‘creative compliance’ and ‘normalisation’ to demolish the bad apple theory of employment rights abuse

Nick Clark (Middlesex University)

Workplace bullying from interpersonal to institutionalised and back: A research agenda

Ria Deakin (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97370805326

Session 3B

Chair: Andy Hodder

Trade unions 1

Navigating between a rock and a hard place: struggles of domination and disruption in European labour movements.

Monica Clua-Losada (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

Statutory union recognition in Britain: the experience of the third procedure

Gregor Gall (University of Leeds)

Workplace Mediation and UK Trade Unions: Friends or Foes?

Virginia Branney (University of Central Lancashire)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/96439905624

Session 3C

Chair: Yvonne Rueckert

Employee voice 1

Capacity Building for Effective Social Dialgue in the European Union

Christian Welz (Eurofound) and Marina Patriarka

Employee voice at board level: an analysis of responses to the revised UK Corporate Governance Code.

Chris Rees (Royal Holloway) and Patrick Brione (Involvement and Participation Association)

Taming the dragon: An analysis of the local works councils’ strategies in German subsidiaries acquired by Chinese MNEs

Tina Miedtank (Rotterdam School of Management) and Johann Fortwengel (King's College London)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97522692183

Session 3D

Chair: Paul Lewis

Labour History 1

Economic and Political Determinants of the South African Labour Share, 1971-2019

Giorgos Gouzoulis (University College London), Collin M. Constantine (University of Cambridge) and Joseph Ajefu (Northumbria University)

Union identities, niche union identities and the problem of organising the unorganised: are some of the answers in the past?

Bob Smale (Independent Researcher)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91444790274