Name: Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 2021
Start: 2021-09-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-17T22:30:00+02:00
Location: Palazzo Strozzi

Monday, 13 September 2021
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Thursday, 16 September 2021

09:00

09:00 - 11:00
Room: Altana
13:00 Opening plenary
Opening plenary
13:00 - 14:00
Contributions

13:00 Guglielmo Meardi, SNS, Italy: Welcome and introduction

13:10 Richard Hyman, LSE, UK: The Contested Futures of Industrial Relations in Times of Plague

13:35 Antonella Ceccagno, University of Bologna, Italy: Weaving and unweaving the Fashion Industry: Postcards from Prato, Tuscany
14:00 Break
Break
14:00 - 14:15
Room: Altana
14:15 Employment regulation and new work inequalities
Employment regulation and new work inequalities
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 INVISIBLE LABOUR VISIBLE WORK: HOME-BASED WORK - Sevda Köse (KOCAELI UNIVERSITY)

14:45 The Code on Social Security (2020) and Workers’ Movements during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India - Catharina Haensel (Scuola Normale Superiore)

15:15 Revisiting insider-outsider approach: The role of identity, moral conviction, and union democracy. - Yooseop Chun (King's College London)
IR and environment
IR and environment
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 A just and green transition post-covid to a carbon-neutral society? union strategies and social dialogue at global level and their local implementation - Linda Clarke (University of Westminster) Melahat Sahin-Dikmen (University of Westminster)

14:45 The role of labour as an environmental regulator – Analysis of the environmental commitments contained in transnational framework agreements - Coralie Guedes (University of Westminster, London)

15:15 Occupational welfare and social sustainability. The union’s scope for action in protecting the environmental and public health - Olga Rubagotti (Università degli studi di Verona)
IR regulation: collective bargaining and beyond
IR regulation: collective bargaining and beyond
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Pushing and pulling towards European wage policies: the Governance of wages and the interaction of different Dimensions and forces - Bernd Brandl (Durham University Business School) Jan Czarzasty (University of Warsaw)

14:45 Product market regulation and working conditions within platform work. A comparison between international and regional food delivery platforms in Poland and Italy - Karol Muszynski (KU Leuven) Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven) Claudia Marà (KU Leuven)

15:15 Sectoral bargaining in Ireland- on the ropes again? - Eugene Hickland (Dublin City University) Tony Dundon (University of Limerick)
15:45 Break
Break
15:45 - 16:00
Room: Altana
16:00 Work and pandemic: IR responses
Work and pandemic: IR responses
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 From proposal to experimentation: the right of trade union assembly at the time of the pandemic - manuel marocco (inapp) Silvia Donà (Inapp)

16:30 “We’re all in it together, we all suffer the same”: Covid-19 and the persistence national variations in employment regulation in France and the UK - Heather CONNOLLY (Grenoble Ecole de Management)

17:00 Pandemic crisis and strategies switch in the firm-level bargaining: some empirical evidence from Italian administrative data - Manuel Marocco (INAPP) Achille Paliotta (INAPP) Massimo Resce (INAPP)
Gig and autonomous work
Gig and autonomous work
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 The unsustainable precarity of the pursuit for freedom: a critical overview of the Spanish “sí soy autónomo” movement - Tiago Vieira (European University Institute)

16:30 Renewing workers’ collective action theories in the gig and precarious world of work - Maurizio Atzeni (CEIL/CONICET) Lorenzo Cini (Scuola Normale Superiore)

17:00 The long haul of the self-employed workers unionisation. European trends 2002-2018 in the service sector and the case of a good Italian organisational innovation - Michele Santurro (Sapienza University of Rome)
IR regulations and gender equality
IR regulations and gender equality
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 What do employers think? The costs and benefits of complying with pay transparency in different sectors - Manuela Galetto (University of Warwick) Claire Evans (University of Warwick) Ying Tse (University of Leicester)

16:30 Is the gender wage gap cyclical? Evidence from the Norwegian labor market - Bjorn Dapi (Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research)

17:00 Effects of Inequality, Diversity, Gender and Migration - Semra Kose (Istanbul Aydın University)
17:30 Break
Break
17:30 - 17:45
Room: Altana
17:45 Safe and decent work in the pandemic and beyond
Safe and decent work in the pandemic and beyond
17:45 - 19:00
Contributions

17:45 ‘Good employers wanted’. Strategies of Polish employment agencies towards posted workers in home care sector - Kamil Matuszczyk (University of Warsaw) Justyna Salamońska Anita Brzozowska

18:10 Critique of EU Action Plan to the 'European Pillar of Social Rights - Joern Janssen

18:35 What happens when a changing migration infrastructure meets COVID-19 pandemic: the analysis of migrant workforce dynamics in the UK healthcare sector - Zinovijus Ciupijus
Transnational IR
Transnational IR
17:45 - 19:00
Contributions

17:45 How labour market regulation shapes the demand for migrant labour: a cross-country comparative analysis of the adult care sectors - Arjan Keizer stefania marino (university of manchester)

18:10 Ryanair Pilots. Unlikely Pioneers of Transnational Collective Action - Darragh Golden (University College Dublin)

18:35 ‘Global Labour Market Actors’ Discourses and Policies on Migration’ - Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick (Birkbeck, University of London)
Negotiation of workplace change
Negotiation of workplace change
17:45 - 19:00
Contributions

17:45 Local resiliency in the negotiation of technological change. A comparison between territorial experiences - Gianluca Scarano (Polytechnic of Turin) Gianmaria Pessina (University of Turin )

18:10 Sense-making and (e)valuation in Local Practices of Performance-related Pay in Sweden - Bengt Larsson (Linnaeus University/University of Gothenburg)

18:35 Trade Unions and Digitalisation: A Comparative Study of Union Influence in Banking in Norway and the UK - Jonathan Payne (De Montfort University) Secki Jose (De Montfort University) Caroline Lloyd (Cardiff University)
19:00 Reception
Reception
19:00 - 20:15
Room: Palazzo Strozzi

20:15 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
20:15 - 22:15
Friday, 17 September 2021
09:00 Work quality and pandemic
Work quality and pandemic
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Altana
Contributions

09:00 Social dialogue at the workplace during the pandemic - Sissel C. Trygstad (Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research) Anne Mette Ødegård (Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research)

09:30 Job quality in worker cooperatives: democratic heavens or institutional loopholes? - Lisa Dorigatti (Università di Milano) Francesco Iannuzzi (University of Padua) Valeria Piro (University of Padova) Devi Sacchetto (University of Padova)

10:00 Saving creative industry during COVID–19 emergency – who are the winners and losers? - Arja Haapakorpi (Tampere University) Antti Saloniemi (Tampere University)

10:30 Negotiate health and safety in remote working at firm-level. A comparative analysis of Danone in Italy, France and Spain - FRANCESCO SEGHEZZI (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Studies of trade unions and employer associations
Studies of trade unions and employer associations
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Pollaiolo
Contributions

09:00 Servicing as a Strategy for Renovating Union Action: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications - Andrea Bellini (University of Florence) Alberto Gherardini (University of Turin)

09:30 Norwegian employer organisations – service providers or industrial relations actors? - Kristin Alsos (Fafo) Kristine Nergaard (Fafo)

10:00 The role of family and intergenerational transmission of union membership in Norway - Elin Svarstad (Fafo) Kristine Nergaard (Fafo)

10:30 Union communication and their grassroots on social media during collective bargaining - Nana Hansen (FAOS, University of Copenhagen) Mark Friis Hau (FAOS, University of Copenhagen)
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Precarious work and migrant labour
Precarious work and migrant labour
11:30 - 13:30
Room: Altana
Contributions

11:30 Manufacturing informality: Global production networks and the reproduction of informalized labour regimes in Europe’s peripheries - Francesco Bagnardi (European University Institute)

12:00 Organizing the Big-Tech. Comparing Unionism at Amazon in Italy and Germany - Riccardo Emilio Chesta (Scuola Normale Superiore)

12:30 Industrial relations from below. The struggle for recognition of food delivery workers in Italy - Nicola Quondamatteo (Scuola Normale Superiore) marco marrone (Cà Foscari Università di Venezia)

13:00 Immigrant workforce integration and ethnic stratification: the role of skills - Aliaksei Kazlou (Division of Business Administration) Karl Wennberg (Division of Business Administration, Linköping University)
Future of work and of its governance
Future of work and of its governance
11:30 - 13:30
Room: Altana
Contributions

11:30 Forms of Network Governance for the European Trade Union Federations – Governance Structures for Coordination of Collective Bargaining at the Sectoral Level in Europe - Patrik Nordin (Tampere University)

12:00 Digitalean at Work: Varieties of Lean Models in Digital Automotive Factories in Italy - Angelo Moro (ARTES 4.0 - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna) Maria Enrica Virgillito (Institute of Economics - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

12:30 Still Embedded in Euro-corporatism? European Trade Unions Within the New European Economic Governance Regime - Vincenzo Maccarrone (UCD)

13:00 The future of work within the Nordic working life model – opportunities and challenges - Kristin Alsos (Fafo) Jon Erik Dølvik (Fafo)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:35
Room: Altana
Contributions

15:00 Mario Pianta, Scuola Normale Superiore. Introduction

15:10 Donatella Della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore: Trade unions as social movement organisations

15:50 Ines Wagner, Institute for Social Research, Oslo: (Un)making European labour markets: the case of shipbuilding