Dear all,
the programme for the first conference of the EASA network on the
Anthropology of Labour co-organised with Focaal: Journal of Global and
Historical Anthropology, is now online:
https://easaonline.org/networks/aol/aol_workshop.shtml
The conference is hosted and co-sponsored by the Moving Matters group at
the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam.
If you happen to be in/around Amsterdam, do come by.
Mariya
on behalf of organising team:
Luisa Steur
Mariya Ivancheva
Dan Hirslund
Dastan Abdali
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Key issues in the anthropology of labour in the context of flexible
capitalism
*University of Amsterdam, Sep 30 –Oct 1, 2019*
Venue: Common room of the UvA anthropology department (REC B5.12) at
Roeterseilandcampus.
PROGRAMME
*Day 1: September 30*
*10.00-10.30* *Welcome and introduction*
- Anthropology of Labour Network: Dan Hirslund, Mariya Ivancheva
- Focaal & Moving Matters: Luisa Steur
- UvA & Practicalities: Dastan Abdali
*10.30-12.00*
*Panel 1: Industrialism under change *
- Daniela Elena Ana "Work-rhythms and the experience of time for workers
in a Moldovan winery"
- Fulvia D'Aloisio "From *Mitbestimmung* to *partecipazione*. Shapes of
work and new industrial relations in the case of Automobili Lamborghini"
- Oksana Dutchak "Marxism, on Time: Labor-Power Reproduction on
Ukrainian Garment Factories in Global Supply Chains"
- Denys Gorbach "Informality, voice and exit at “new” and “old”
factories in Ukraine"
- Hege Høyer Leivestad "The Container Class: Logistics Labour at the
Strait of Gibraltar"
*12.00-12.15* *Coffee/Tea break*
*12.15-13.45*
*Panel 2: Labor regimes in transition *
- Kira Brenner "Neoliberal workers: Women in export factories in Tunisia"
- Jiazhi Fengjiang "Negotiating work's worth: grassroots philanthropy in
post-Mao China"
- Ingo Schröder “Labor as a Field of American Indian Incorporation: A
View on Anthropological Engagements with the Longue Durée of Colonialism in
North America”
- Geice Silva and Souza Q, Allan "Labour reform in Brazil: local labour
markets and sexual division of family labour"
- Lerato Thakholi "Invisibilized conservationists: Exploring low-wage
labour in South Africa’s private nature reserves"
*13.45-14.45** Catered Lunch*
*14.45-16.15*
*Panel 3: Reconceptualizing 'ordinary' work *
- Camilla Mevik "Skill and discretion: New patterns of division of
labour in global shipping"
- William Monteith "Ordinary work in the post-wage economy: Reflections
from a Ugandan marketplace"
- Joana Nascimento "Making tweed, working with uncertainty: labour
histories and resourceful engagements in the textile industry of the Outer
Hebrides of Scotland"
- Tanja Visic "Making a place to make it work: Hyper-precarity, Motility
and Gendered Work Cultures"
- Garima Jaju "Friends, Enemies and ‘Dirty Politics’: Studying petty
politics on the work-floor in New Delhi"
*16.15-16.30 **Coffee/Tea break*
*16.30-18.00 *
*Panel 4: Thriving Informal Economies*
- Marc Morell “The profits of tourism deserve our sacrifice»: On labour
and the double character of extraction in the tourist city.”
- Gergö Pulay "Popular Politics and the Management of Precarity in a
Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest"
- Alessandra Radicati "Phatic work in the real estate market in Colombo"
- Valentini Sampethai "Informal economy of sex work in Omonoia, Athens"
*18.00-19.00*
*Special Event: Presenting new publications in the field *
- Etienne Bourel & Judith Hayem “Subjectivations at/of work? Journal des
Anthropologues special issue
- Jan Breman “The social question in the twenty-first century” (2019,
co-autored Marcel van de Linden, Dennis Arnold)
- George Morgan (2018) “he creativity hoax: precarious work and the gig
economy” (2018, Anthem Press, co-authored with Patrice Nelligan)
*Day II: October 1*
*09.00-10.00* *Anthropology of Labour Network Meeting*
*10.00-11.30*
*Panel 5: New Precarities *
- Delia Badoi " Normalising precariousness through flexible labour in
the neoliberal academia - A conceptual model based on a theory-set for the
case of Romania"
- Neda Deneva "Employee-Leasing and the Value of Labour in the IT
sectors in Romania and Bulgaria"
- Slobodan Golušin "Labor relations on platform labor markets:
Hierarchies and cooperation between UpWork freelancers in Serbia"
- Alexandra Oanca " Digital Self-care as Unpaid Labor: An Ethnography of
the Production of Big Data and Self-tracking Digital Cultures"
- Miriam Schestak “There’s No Such Thing as Free Basics: Data and value
in Facebook’s failed scheme to connect all of India”
*11.30-11.45** Tea/Coffee break*
*11.45-13.15*
*Panel 6: Flexibility costs *
- Pablo Ampuero "Resistance in precarity: The case of the *Sanhe Dashen *in
Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China"
- Jacob Nielsen "The quest for work free lives: capitalist utopias and
dreams of total alienation amongst London’s precariat"
- Guiseppe Troccoli "Building flexibility: the articulation of precarity
and autonomy in construction worker’s movements in Belize City”
- Olivia Vicol and Vinzenz B. Escobar "Work Outside the Wage in
Catalonia and the UK: the Promise and Pitfalls of Freedom in the Post-Wage
Economy"
- Hassan Moctar “"Living labour and the selective permeability of the EU
border in Nouadhibou, Mauritania"
*13.15-14.15** Catered Lunch*
*14.15-15.45*
*Panel 7: Social reproduction revisited *
- Stefano Ba' "Precarious mothers: struggling to reconcile precarious
work and care"
- Victoria Brown "Gendered consequences of global economic downturn in
agriwork Spain"
- Ana Cirstea "Trajectories of Romanian labour migrants in north-west
London"
- Laura A. Tufă "Precarious post-retirement workers. Concurrent ageing
regimes and class mobility in pre-retirement and post-retirement work
transitions"
*15.45-16.00** Tea/Coffee Break*
*16.00-17.30*
*Panel 8: Unionism and worker struggles *
- Volodymyr Artiukh "Work precarization and labor immobilization under
the Belarusian passive revolution"
- Rebecca Ashley "Discontented midwives: protest, wages and the politics
of care work in Iceland"
- Jeroen Merk "Spatialized labour control strategies and multiple scales
of activism: PT Nikomas Gemilang, Nike and freedom of association in
Indonesia"
- Lotte Schack "'To be in a collective is to be not alone, in the end':
the importance of care and reproductive labour in anti-precarity activism"
- Joe Trapido "Organising the cleaners at Ernst and Young (and other
outsourced spaces), an ethnographic study of an organising project for
outsourced migrant workers"
*17.30-18.00 **Closing Remarks*
You can download the programme by clicking here
<https://easaonline.org/downloads/networks/aol/AoL%20Amsterdam%20workshop%20program_Version_15-08-2019.pdf>
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Dr Mariya Ivancheva
Lecturer in Higher Education Studies, University of Liverpool
http://liverpool.academia.edu/mariyaivancheva
@mivanche
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