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ILPC 2012 30th International Labour Process Conference

Timetable

27-29 March 2012

1

Tuesday, March 27th, morning and mid-day

9.00-12.00

Registration- Aula Magna Foyer, Stockholm University Frescati campus

10.30-11.30

Light lunch available, Aula Magna Foyer

11.30-13.00

Welcome and Keynote by Michel Freyssenet and Joan Greenbaum-Aula Magna Great Lecture Hall

13.15-14.45

Parallel Session One

Session title

Theory: Elaborations and influences 1

Flexibility and work-life balance

From Local to Global Labour Conflicts

Changing professions And public sector jobs 1

Skills and Interns

Chair Bob Carter Vivian Shalla Tony Dobbins Chris Warhurst Jonathan Payne Room AM1:

Bergsmannen AM2: Polstjärnan AM3: Mimer AM4: Spelbomskan AM5:

Kungstenen Steve Vincent

Just in Case? Developing Single Case Studies for Critical Realist Labour Process Researchers Axel Haunschild Peformance Ideologies – A Critical Analysis of Principal Agent Theory from an Employment Systems Perspective Paul Brook The Heart, Head and Hand: Exploring and elaborating the dynamic unity of labour power capabilities in ‘whole person’ mobilization

Gwen Chen, Wu Ting & Uen Jin-Feng Boundary between work and life: a comparative study of Taiwanese domestic employees and expatriates Andrew Smith & Gill Hogg ‘The Magnificient 7[am]?’ Work-care articulation beyond the 9[am] to 5[pm] ‘norm’ Ursula Holtgrewe & Karin Sardadvar Micro-flexibility and its tools: reciprocity, inequality and the mobile phone in commercial cleaning

Manfred Elfstrom Chinese Taxi Strikes from a Perspective of Local Worker-State Relations Steve Williams Spaces of Mobilization: globalization and the transformation of labour conflict

Pascal Marichalar Prevention or production. Autonomy and subordination in occupational medicine (France 1970-2010) Monica Andersson Bäck & Johan Calltorp Psychiatry care is not possible to privatize!...? Myth and facts about experience and perceptions of private actors in Swedish mental care Jörg Kirchhoff & Jan Ch Karlsson Nurse Managers – Nurses or Managers

Por-Yee Lin Compulsory internship courses and its (dis)consent: a case in Taiwan Chris Smith & Jenny Chan Working for Two Bosses: Student Interns and the integration of education into the factory control system in China

14.45-15.15

Coffee break; sandwiches – Aula Magna Foyer

2

Tuesday, March 27th, morning and mid-day

9.00-12.00

Registration- Aula Magna Foyer, Stockholm University Frescati campus

10.30-11.30

Light lunch available, Aula Magna Foyer

11.30-13.00

Welcome and Michel Freyssenet Keynote-Aula Magna Main Hall

13.15-14.45

Parallel Session One

Session title

S1: Lean in Ideology and in Practice: Historical Perspectives

S2: Putting Labour in its Place 1

S3: Work or Nature 1

S4: Comparative Political Economy: Low-wage Work

Chair Per Sederblad Phil Taylor Victoria Lambropoulos

Marco Hauptmeier

Room U26 U28 U27 U29 Tommaso Pardi

At the Roots of Lean: the poitical and institutional determinants of consensus Ian Hampson & Thunyalak Weerasombat Between ‘Lean’ and ‘Reflective’ Production: The Case of Toyota Motors Thailand Monica Rolfsen & Jonas Ingvaldsen Unions and the Lean Concept

Phil Taylor Introduction to the stream Jörg Flecker & Annika Schönauer Conceptualising service value chains and networks – what is in it for labour process theory Kirsty Newsome, Paul Thompson & Johanna Commander Labouring Under the Supply Chain: Work and Employment in the UK Supermarket Supply Chain

David Uzzell & Nora Räthzel Green Skills, Green Jobs and Other Magic Wands Nora Räthzell & David Uzzell How do Trade Unions’ North-South Relations Influence their Climate Change Policies? Dean Stroud & Claire Evans Greening the steel work: Varities of capitalism, the green skills agenda and the ‘greening’ of the labour process

Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen Sectoral Systems of Production and Work – the Example of Low-Skilled Industrial Work Burce Gultekin & Zafer Saltoglu Labour process in Istanbul Film Industry: Flexible specialization or “The cheapest labour is in our Country”? Melanie Booth Coping with Job-Related Uncertainties – A Comparison of Precariously Working Women in East and West Germany

14.45-15.15

Coffee break; sandwiches – Aula Magna Foyer

3

Tuesday, March 27th, afternoon and evening

15.15-16.45

Parallel Session Two

Session title

Theory: Elaborations and Influences 2

Working Time – Time for Work?

Industrial Relations & Partnership 1

Changing professions And public sector jobs 2

Skills, Measurement and Interns

Chair Paul Brook Ursula Holtgrewe

Caroline Murphy Tony Huzzard Donald Hislop

Room AM1: Bergsmannen AM2: Polstjärnan

AM3: Mimer AM4: Spelbomskan

AM5: Kungstenen

Jan Ch Karlson, Egil Skorstad & Inger Lise B. Hansen When Cultures Clash-a study in the Tracks of Lysgaard’s Theory of the Worker Collective Roland Paulsen Resistance Incorporated? Reflections on functionalism and the emancipator potential of workplace resistance studies Paula Mulinari What morals and affects is there in tipping? Exploring the concept of moral and affective economy

Kirsty Newsome & Ian Cunningham ‘Pressed for Time – A comparative two-sector study of changes to working time in supply firms Satu Ojala How to manage informal overtime work at home? Lars Ivarsson Hardly Deviant: How Internet is used for recovery

Tony Dobbins & Tony Dundon Moderation and militancy as contradictory Dialectic in the Labour Process Andy Danford, Sue Durbin, Mike Richardson, Paul Stewart & Stephanie Tailby ‘About as useful as a chocolate teapot’. The Limitations of workplace partnership in the UK’s high skill sector Alan Tuckman, Lynette Harris, Derek Waitling & Bernadette Downes Doing employee engagement: Third party intervention and the politics of workplace change

Jane Lethbridge Welfare state reforms as seen through changing skills and knowledge Albert Recio & Sara Moreno The outsourcing auxiliary activities in public services in Spain Fernando Ramalho Martins & Jacob Carlos Lima Changes in public bank employment in Brazil: perceptions of bank jobs by two generations of bank workers

Nicholas Jephson School leavers wanted: An exploration of professionalism and professional socialization in ‘mid-tier’ UK accounting firms Leif Berglund A model about the assessment of knowledge and skills at the workplace Thembinkosi Twalo Skill, the complicated ingredient of the work process: Challenges with its measurement, determination and supply

18.30-20.30

Reception, Stockholm City Hall

4

Tuesday, March 27th, afternoon and evening

15.15-16.45

Parallel Session Two

Session title

S1: Lean in Ideology and in Practice: Theoretical Perspectives

S2: Putting Labour in its Place 2

S3: Work or Nature 2

S4: Comparative Political Economy Comparative employment relations I: Work systems

Chair Lena Abrahamsson Jörg Flecker Dean Stroud Matt Vidal Room U26 U28 U27 U29 Michel Freyssenet

‘Lean’ and actually existing ‘production models’ Martin Kuhlmann Lean Production in Germany: Two Waves and Current Perspectives

Mireia Valverde, Maria Tatiana Gorjup & Gerard Ryan Examining Labour in Global Value Networks: a study of the Argentinian call centre sector Al Rainnie, Susan McGrath-Champ & Andy Herod Global production networks, labour and small firms

Jan Van Peteghem & Monique Ramioul Greening the construction: not a straight road to good job quality Ernst Hollander Halting Global Toxification? Forces which might Detoxify Global Production Chains Vassil Kirov & Hans Torvatn Green and decent: stakeholders’ strategies to address quality of work in the construction

Rachel Cohen The logic, possibilities, and problems of Comparative Employment Relations Analysis (CERA) Marlies Kluike The host-country location fit of foreign subsidiaries and ER practices: Does one shoe fit all? Fidelma Murphy & Terrence McDonough Spatially Restructuring Work: The Cross-Border Case of Automotive Manufacturing in Mexico and the US Markus Helfen Transformative change in wage-setting institutions: How to account for (global) inter-firm networks?

18.30-20.30

Reception, Stockholm City Hall

5

Wednesday, March 28th, morning

09.00-10.30 Parallel Session Three Session title Theory:

Technology and the labour process

Wages and the Unequal rewards of work

Industrial Relations and Partnership 2

Changing Professions and Public Sector Jobs 3

Enhancing Equality and Diversity

Chair Chris Smith Alan Tuckman Rachel Cohen Hans Pruijt Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger

Room AM1: Bergsmannen

AM2: Polstjärnan

AM3: Mimer AM4: Spelbomskan

AM5: Kungstenen

Michel Freyssenet The importance attached to machines in division of labour research: a brief critical history Benedito Moraes-Neto The Topiclity of Smithian Manufacturing: Reflections Based on the Foxconn Case Anita Greenhill & Gordon Fletcher Labouring in virtual worlds: are labour processes being replicated within virtual game worlds?

Craig Holmes & Ken Mayhew Are the Winners winning in the hourglass labour market? Craig Lair & Kathleen A. Ragon Minimum Wages and Working Times in the EU

Mike Rigby & Miguel Angel Garica Calavia Extra-judicial systems of collective conflict resolution and the limits to their autonomy: the Spanish experience John Burgess, Keith Townsend, Adrian Wilkinson And the Contested Terrain Remains: Collaboration and Conflict in the Australian Service Industry

Debora Zuin & Patricia Findlay Analysing Occupational work: the content, context and lived experience of contemporary medical and legal secretarial workers Maja Lindegaard Moenstad & Tobia Fattore The struggle for recognition of different ideals of care: implications for the labour process in disability support work Shaun Ruggunan The invisible labour process and labour market in the South African health care system: A case study of Anatomical Pathologists in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Sue Bond & Emma Hollywood Emerging Practice in Equality and Diversity Robert Perrett Mentoring as a strategy to promote gender proportionality: A case study of a public sector union mentoring programme Vanesa Fuertes, Valerie Egdell & Ronald McQuaid Social Experimentation for Active Aging: Age Management Policies and Practices in SMEs in Scotland

10.30-11.00 Coffee break – Aula Magna Foyer

6

Wednesday, March 28th, morning

09.00-10.30

Parallel Session Three

Session title

S1: Lean in Ideology and in Practice: Global Perspectives and Implementations

S2: Putting Labour in its Place 3

Work as Meaning, Duty and Ideology

S4: Comparative Political Economy: Trade Unions: Strategy and Renewal

Chair Andy Danford Al Rainnie Jan Ch Karlsson Markus Helfen Room U26 U28 U27 U29 Ian Hampson & Thunyalak

Weerasombat Skill and Control in the Toyota Production System: The Case of Toyota Motor Thailand (TMT) Raman Anuratha Responses and Outcomes of Corporate Change Management-A Case Study of Inventory Margareta Oudhuis Naïve copying of a Japanese influenced lean production model?

Pamela Meil Here, there and everywhere: a look at the roles of country and sector in determining work outcomes in global value chains Charlotta Hedberg ‘Grapes of wrath’: labour mobilities and translocal effects within the global value chain of the berry industry Ernst Hollander Halting Global Degradation? – Forces which might Reverse the Spread of Toxic Work

Falk Eckert Work for living or living for work? The meaning fo work and life regarding individual life-scripts under the cultural imperative of achievement. Narratives and work-life patterns of German employees Kirrily Jordan Paid Work as personal responsibility: Ideologies of work and wellbeing in Aboriginal Australia Heather McKay Depression: A Product of Unemployment in America Today

Martin Upchurch Political congruence in trade unions; a factor in renewal? Lisa Dorigatti Institutional change, labour market segmentation and trade union action. Explaining variety of union strategies in outsourcing processes. Raoul Gebert New trade union capabilities and institutional entrepreneurship: understanding union strategies in the context of economic integration

10.30-11.00

Coffee break – Aula Magna Foyer

7

Wednesday, March 28th, mid-day.

11.00-12.30

Parallel Session Four

Session title

The Politics of Labour

The Challenges of Temporary Agency Work

Resistance & Opposition 1

Changing Professions and Public Sector Jobs 4

Gender and Recruitment

Chair Janet Miller Chris Warhurst Phil Taylor Steve Vincent Sue Bond Room AM1:

Bergsmannen AM2: Polstjärnan AM3: Mimer AM4:

Spelbomskan AM5: Kungstenen

Jean-William Dereymez The Labour Notion in the Actual Political French Debate: The Case of the French Socialist Party Gordon Lafer The attack on unions in the U.S. state governments, 2011 Guglielmo Meardi Employment relations under external pressure: Spain and Italian reforms in 2010-11

Lars Mitlacher & John Burgess The ugly duckling? The image of the temporary help industry in Germany and Australia Christina Purcell, Paul Brook & Rosemary Lucas Coming in from the cold? Assessing the challenges of union organizing of agency workers in the French car industry Sven Svensson Involuntariness in non-standard work

Alan Tuckman & Herman Knudsen Under workers control: Occupying an alternative? Working-in and sitting-in at Briant Colour Printing and Imperial Typewriters Caroline Murphy Fear and Leadership: the Role of Workplace Activists in Union Organising Campaigns Oriol Barranco Manufacturing labour consent and resistance simultaneously. The case of the hypermarket’s proletarians

Linda Colley Public service labour markets during the economic crisis: Further erosion of the model employer reputation? Vaughan Ellis & Simon The Managed Academic? An examination of the academic labour process Fredrik Movitz & Michael Allvin The Unavoidable Labour Process Game of Academia: Buffering no More?

Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: On the Gender Bias of Recruitment Abigail Marks, Shiona Chillas, Laura Galloway & Matylda Grzelak Why are there fewer and fewer women entering ICT work in the UK? Geeks, Sexism and the Professionalisation Agenda Nobina Roy Cross-cultural analysis of the gender ratio in the Indian and German IT-industry

12.30-13.30

Lunch – Aula Magna Foyer

8

Wednesday, March 28th, mid-day.

11.00-12.30

Parallel Session Four

Session title

S1: Lean in Ideology and in Practice: European Perspectives

S2: Putting Labour in its Place 4

S3: Work or Nature 3

S4: Comparative Political Economy: Employment relations in European social economies

Chair Martin Kuhlmann Kirsty Newsome Nora Räthzel Martin Upchurch Room U26 U28 U27 U29 Tommaso Pardi

Working for Toyota: the myth of lifetime employment Andrew Smith, Bob Carter, Andy Danford, Debra Howcroft, Helen Richardson & Phil Taylor Inactive Banana Time: Lean Production and the Degradation of Work in the UK Civil Service Christina Bodin Danielsson Different Perceptions of Lean in Office Design

Patrick Feuerstein Modes of work reorganization in the course of the IT industry’s internationalization Peter Pawlicki Control in an internationalized labour process. Engineering work in the semiconductor industry

Victoria Lambropoulos The Aarhus Convention and Labour Carla Lipsig-Mumme, John Calvert, Charles Campbell, John Holmes & T.J. Albrecht Can the World of Work Save the Environment? Karine Weiss, Isabelle Richard & Bouchra Zouhri Farming activities face to climate change in south Greenland: representations and practices

Bernd Brandl An Investigation of the Policies and Politics of Social Pacts: When the Time is Right Hajo Holst & Ingo Simge Informalization in a highly formalized context – Work and Employment in the German Parcel Delivery Industry Ann Westenholz When the Chinese settle in Scandinavian

12.30-13.30

Lunch – Aula Magna Foyer

9

Wednesday, March 28th, afternoon and evening

13.30-15.00

Parallel Session Five

Session title

Concentration of Capital: Risks and Perceptions

Flexibility, Autonomy and Work Intensification

Labour Identity and Collective Organising

Changing Occupations

Skills Utilization and Policy

Chair Axel Haunschild Tony Huzzard Gordon Lafer Jörg Flecker Pamela Meil Room AM1:

Bergsmannen AM2: Polstjärnan

AM3: Mimer AM4: Spelbomskan AM5: Kungstenen

Beatrice Appay Economic concentration and precarization, power and profitability: doing more with less? June Corman, Ann Duffy & Norene Pupo Vulnerability to Market Imperatives: Abandoned Factories, Unemployment, Dislocated Families and Community Disruption Arvid Bäckström Business Firm Societal Responsibilities in the Public Mind: Public Attitudes in a Swedish Context

Donald Hislop Work-Related Journeys: Another Domain of Work Intensification Jouko Nätti, Timo Anttila, Tomi Oinas & Armi Mustosmäki Job autonomy, work intensity and later work career Linda Hamann The double bind in communicating empowerment as HRM/HRD measure. A theoretical analysis

Hsiao-Hui Tai Labour Identity and Worker Representation in Taiwan: Union Strategies Zhe Jiang The limitations of community organizing approach: the elevance of community organizations and informal social networks for Polish Immigrant workers in South Somerset Steffen Fischer Combined or Uneven Agencies? Labour and Conflict in Liberia

Adrian Wilkinson, Keith Townsend & R. Russell Rise, Demise – and Resurrection? Front Line Managers in Contemporary Workplaces Maria Karepova, S Mason & I Zakaria Exploring hybridization of professional work: executive remuneration consultancy service and defensive professionalization Jan Johansson & Lena Abrahamsson Work Culture and Gender Issues in an Iron Mine in Sweden

Patricia Findlay & Chris Warhurst What we know, what we need to do and what isn’t being said about skills utilization Jonathan Payne & Caroline Lloyd Skills utilization: is there a policy future? Susan James, Johanna Commander, Gerbrand Tholen & Chris Warhurst Graduate skills or the skills of graduates, what matters the most? An analysis from a graduation occupation

15.00-15.30

Coffee break – Aula Magna Foyer

15.30-17.00

Symposia

Title Symposia 1. 20 years after: what have we learnt from Volvo Uddevalla

Symposia 2. Swedish Working Life Research in an International Perspective - Change Agent, Zeitgeist Traveller or Data Driver?

Room AM1: Bergsmannen AM2: Polstjärnan Participants Anders Boglind, Michel Freyssenet, Ingemar

Göransson, Martin Kuhlman, Lennart Nilsson & Åke Sandberg

Kenneth Abrahamsson, Carin Håkansta, Kaj Frick, Elisabeth Lagerlöf & 2 commentators

17.30-18.30

Book Launch: Aula Magna Foyer

20.00-00.00

Gala Dinner – Spårvagnshallarna

10

Wednesday, March 28th, afternoon and evening

13.30-15.00

Parallel Session Five

Session title

Harassment from within and outside

Symposia 3. Unions in restructuring and labour development processes – strategy, relations and knowledge support

S3: Work or Nature 4 S4: Comparative Political Economy: Comparative political economy

Chair James Richards David Uzzell Enda Hannon Room U26 U28 U27 U29 Paula McDonald, Sara

Charlesworth & Tina Graham Prevention and response in a workplace sexual harassment: Integrating theories of workplace injustice with practical wisdom from professionals in the field Caroline Murphy, Juliette McMahon, Michelle O’Sullivan & Thomas Turner Bad work experiences and the effects on personal well-being and work effectiveness Johan Sandström Working for a dirty organization

Lars Sundström & Mikael Eriksson (moderators), Per Tengblad, Denis Gregory, Aslaug Johansen, Nils-Åke Carlsson, Johan Ravn, Charlotta Krafft, Jason Crawford, Maarten van Klaveren & Roger Nilsson

Corina Mirela Ilin, A Docea & D Moza The effects of environmental regulations on attitudes, values and daily practices at work Adrian Groglopo Pulp mills going south: The impact of TNC in local and regional relations Dean Stroud, Joanne Blake & Peter Fairbrother Developing green jobs and skills in the transition from high to low carbon economies: An international comparison

Jason Heyes, Paul Lewis & Ian Clark Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Crisis Sanjay Pinto Nations and Occupations: Towards a New Political Economy of Work Matt Vidal Postfordism as a Dysfunctional Accumulation Regime: A Comparative Analysis of the US, UK, Germany and Denmark

15.00-15.30

Coffee break – Aula Magna Foyer

15.30-17.00

Symposia

Title Symposia 3 (continued). Unions in restructuring and labour development processes – strategy, relations and knowledge support

Symposia 4. Financialization and the Workplace - Applying and Extending the Disconnected Capitalism Thesis

Symposia 5. Flexibility for whom? Variable Schedules and Control of Working Time in North America and Europe

Room U28 AM4: Spelbomskan AM5: Kungstenen Participants See above Paul Thompson, Ian Clark, Sally

Wright & Michael Rafferty François-Xavier Devetter, Steffen Lehndorff, Elaine McCrate & Sebastian Schief

17.30-18.30

Book Launch: Aula Magna Foyer

20.00-00.00

Gala Dinner- Spårvagnshallarna

11

Thursday, March 29th, morning

09.00-10.30

Parallel Session six

Session title

Internationalisation of Labour, Capital and Management

Paths to Employment

Resistance and Opposition 2

Emotional Labour

Migration and Mobility

Chair Beatrice Appay Martin Kuhlmann Keith Townsend

Henrietta Huzell Claudio Morrison

Room AM1: Bergsmannen AM2: Polstjärnan AM3: Mimer AM4: Spelbomskan

AM5: Kungstenen

Miao Zhang, Huiwu Pang, Yiling Wang & Christine Edwards International Labour Management in Chinese MNCs and the Implications for Chinese Outward Investment in Current Economic Conditions Samanthi Gunawardana Sweatshop to Ethical Sourcing Destination? A Labour Process Analysis of Export Processing Zones in Sri Lanka

Hans Pruijt Employability, empowerment and employers, between debunking and appreciating action. Nine cases from the ICT sector Stefanie Gundert, Paul Schmelzer & Christian Hohendanner Different pathways from fixed-term contracts to permanent employment

Janet Miller Speak up, we can’t hear you: worker voice in the small firm Eivind Falkum Impact of opposition in merger integration Safak Tartanoglu The Conditions and Consequences of Informal Organisation in Turkish Call Centres

Sian Moore & Phil Taylor ‘Severe Turbulence’: The Cabin Crew Labour Process, Employer and Worker Mobilisation and Union Action at British Airways Stina Bergman Blix Facilitating emotion management. Organisational and individual strategies in the theatre

Zinovijus Ciupijus Moving to an unpromised place: the dynamics of migrants’ labour market experiences in a restructured local economy Geraldine Hammersley Second-Generation Irish Experiences in the Labour Market: Still Nursing and Navying? Ranji Devadason The Golden Handcuffs: What makes transnational professionals keep on moving?

10.30-10.45

Coffee break – Aula Magna Foyer

12

Thursday, March 29th, morning

09.00-10.30

Parallel Session six

Session title

Work as Risk and the Risk of unemployment

S2: Putting Labour in its Place 5

Work and Disability S4: Comparative Political Economy: Institutional theory and institutional change

Chair Lars Mitlacher Al Rainnie Sue Bond Matt Vidal Room U26 U28 U27 U29 Eric Verdier

Small companies and the prevention of occupational hazard: the efficiency of collective action Benjamin Hopkins Understanding the causes of Variations in Accident and Absence Rates of Permanent, Temporary and Agency Workers Magnus Hansson, Rune Wigblad & Alexis Rydell Plant Closures, temporary workers and a management controlled setting: Further evidence on the Closedown Effect

Ben Taylor Creating, Transforming and Organising a Workforce: The importance of local context Amira Khattak Social Upgrading of South Asian Apparel Firms in Global Value Chains Marco Caligari Dock work process and global production networks: Genoa port and containers revolution from 1969 to today

James Richards Improving inclusion in employment for people with Asberger Syndrome: Towards practices that recognize theories of Asberger syndrome and contemporary employment Ignacio Concha-Ferreira Corporate-driven technologies of the active society: employability promotion and working-life integration of the disabled self

Göran Ahrne & Nils Brunsson Globalization, organization and institution Enda Hannon, Katie Truss, Kathy Monks, Edel Conway, Grainne Kelly & Patrick Flood Within-Country Institutional Diversity and Employment: the UK Pharmaceutical and Food Manufacturing sectors compared Marco Hauptmeier The Reconstruction of Labour in Multinational Companies in Germany, Spain and the USA

10.30-10.45

Coffee break – Aula Magna Foyer

13

Thursday, March 29th, mid-day

10.45-12.15

Parallel Session seven

Session title

Facets of Financialisation

Shifts to Uncertainty

Union Company Influence

Service Work Migration, unions and Industrial Relations

Chair Paul Thompson Eric Verdier Paul Brook Ian Hampson Geraldine Hammersley

Room AM1: Bergsmannen

AM2: Polstjärnan AM3: Mimer AM4: Spelbomskan AM5: Kungstenen

Sally Wright & Mike Rafferty Financialization of Construction Work Tony Huzzard, Inge Lippert, Ulrich Jürgens & William Lazonick Work Organization in Automotive Supply: Tracing the Impact of Shareholder Value Jo Grady & Stephen Ackroyd The decline of the UK pension system: A Marxian Re-examination

Vivian Shalla Work Transformation in the Airline Industry under Neo-Liberalism Markus Tuente & Hannelore Mottweiler The German publishing industry in flux: Qualified service work between permanent employment, flexible work organization and precarious working conditions

Inger Marie Hagen Board level employee representatives (BLERs) in Norway, Sweden and Denmark Anne Munro, Emma Hollywood & Sue Bond Managers’ perceptions of trade unions in the UK Fredrik Movitz & Klas Levinson We like to say it’s good for everyone, but is it really? Estimating effects of union influence on Swedish firms employees

Joe Greener ‘Organisational incontinence’: Routinisation and work intensity as determining the frequency and experience of incontinence in elderly residential care Monique Ramioul Formalised domestic cleaning and office cleaning: variations on a theme Vassil Kirov, Monique Ramioul & Jan van Peteghem Quality of work in the cleaning industry: a complex picture based on sectoral regulation and customer driven conditions

Kristina Lovén Seldén & Bengt Furåker Laval, Wage Dumping and Statutory Minimum Wages: Issues for European Trade Union Cooperation Nathan Lillie, Ines Wagner & Lisa Berntsen Intra-EU labour migration and the circumvention of national industrial relations systems Claudio Morrison & Devi Sacchetto Post-Socialist Transformation ‘Italian style’: social relations in the unregulated SME sector in South East Europe

12.15-12.30

Coffe break

12.30-14.00

Plenary Panel Discussion: The Scandinavian Labour Market Model in Perspective, Aula Magna Main Hall

14.00 Lunch, Lantis

14

Thursday, March 29th, mid-day

10.45-12.15

Parallel Session seven

Session title

Creative and Cultural Industries

S2: Putting Labour in its Place 6

S4: Comparative Political Economy: Comparative employment relations II: Conflict and voice

Chair Chris Smith Phil Taylor Marco Hauptmeier Room U26 U28 U29 Dimitrinka

Stoyanova & Irena Grugulis Entry tournaments and latent entry in UK television Eva Clasen Channelled Creativity – Engineers Between Control and Autonomy Adrian Wright Examining the Labour Process in the Cultural Industries and Digital Gaming

Ben Selwyn Labour Process, Labour Regimes and upgrading in Global Commodity Chain Analysis: A Theoretical Contribution with Evidence from North East Brazilian Export Horticulture Pamela Robinson & Helen Rainbird Global Value Chain Analysis and the Labour Process: Implications for understanding labour agency

Annette van den Berg The impact of representative employee participation on organisational performance. A comparison of four neighbouring countries – Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom Giedo Jansen & Agnes Akkerman Strikes in EU companies. Trade union effects in different institutional settings Sebastian Schulze-Marmeling Comparative Labour Market Institutions and External Conflict Resolution

12.15-12.30

Coffe break

12.30-14.00

Plenary Panel Discussion: The Scandinavian Labour Market Model in Perspective, Aula Magna Main Hall

14.00 Lunch, Lantis