Conference Agenda

Outsourced Employment and Job Quality

Marta Fana, Enrique Fernandez-Macias, Davide Villani, Giorgio Piccitto

Crisis Reactions in Various Global South Sectors: Insights from the Interaction of Economic and Labor Policies

Christina Teipen

Informalising Labour Regimes in the Global Garment Supply Chain: Addressing Decent Work Deficits in Cambodia’s Subcontracting Industry

Sabina Lawreniuk

Exporting, Firm-specific Institutions, and Labor Conditions: Evidence from Garment Industry Workers

Alessandro Guasti, Matthew Amengual, Greg Distelhorst

Forced Labor in Global Value Chains: Towards a Comprehensive Cross-Country Analysis

Thomas Liess, William Milberg

Human Trafficking and Labour Violations at BYD's Supply Chain in Brazil's Factory: A Call for Corporate Accountability and Decent Work Standards

Liane Durao de Carvalho, Lívia Mendes Moreira Miraglia

Security and Outsourcing in Global Supply Chains: A View from Southeast Turkey’s Cotton Industry

Luisa Lupo

Becoming Partners? Standardization and the Labor Conditions of Outsourced Workers in Chile’s Copper Supply Chain

Miguel Atienza

Keeping Production in the Global Chain: Industrial Relations in Lithium Mining in Chile

Lucas Cifuentes

'Are We Doomed?' Voice-Building and Challenges to Decent Work in Mauritius

Blandine Emilien

How Workers Shape and then Leverage Labor Governance Mechanisms: Labor Reform and the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism in Mexico

Mark Sebastian Anner

Positive Effects from Global Value Chain Due Diligence Legislation for Workers?

Stefanie Doris Lorenzen

Regulatory vs. Voluntary Approaches to Human Rights Due Diligence: Implications for Precarious Workers in Global Supply Chains?

Stephanie Barrientos

Engaging Survivors in Applied Forced Labour Research

Mei Trueba, Alex Hughes

A Matter of Life and Breath: An Examination of Air Pollution and Respiratory Ill-health in the Cambodian Garment Industry

Gráinne Fay, Sabina Lawreniuk, Stephanie E. Coen

Farm Workers' Safety in Pesticide Use and the Legal Framework in India

A Amarender Reddy

Towards a Sixth Fundamental Right: Defending the inclusion of the Right to a Living Wage in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

Ioannis Katsaroumpas, Maria Kotsoni

Trialling Tripartism in Australia: Assessing a New Approach to Promoting Labour Law Compliance

Stephen Clibborn, Tess Hardy, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld

Use of Information Interventions to Achieve Impactful Regulation: Lessons from Australia's Equality Agencies

Anne Hewitt

Innovative Co-Enforcement Approaches of Labour Standards: The Joint Company Inspection in Geneva

Alessandro Pelizzari, Aris Martinelli, Nicolas Pons-Vignon

Navigating Employment Challenges: Addressing Work Permits, Contracts, and Poor Working Conditions for Kenyan Migrant Workers in the Arab World

Samuel Auchi

Restrictions Over Rights: Labor and Migration Rights Awareness Among Filipino Service Workers in the UAE

Bianca Salinas Mandapat, Anju Mary Paul

“Right Making/State Making”: India’s Inter-state Migrants

Ravi Raman

Making Markets for Exploitation: Employer-centric Migration Policy and the Trade in Migrant Lives in New Zealand

Francis Collins, Christina Stringer, Angus Dowell

Migrant Work by Another Name: Differential Inclusion and Precarity in Canada’s International Mobility Program by Leah Vosko

Presentations of the Special Session

Discussant 1

Rupa Banerjee

Discussant 2

Stephen Clibborn

Discussant 3

Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau

Liberating Migrant Labour: Probing “New” Forms of International Mobility in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and the US

Discussant(s): Dalia Gesauldi-Fecteau

Presentations of the Special Session

Privileged guestworkers and settlers-in-the-making: Differential Inclusion and Precarity in Model International Mobility Programs in Canada

Leah F. Vosko, Seulsam Lee, Cynthia Spring

Employer Characteristics, Temporary Permits, and Settler-Colonial Labour Dynamics in Canada

Rupa Banerjee, Cynthia Spring

De Facto Low-skilled Migration Programs and Labour Market Segmentation in Australia

Joanne Flavel, Adelaide Chiang, Stephen Clibborn, Chris Wright

Experimenting in a State of Polycrisis: A Pathway to Better Work?

Presentations of the Special Session

Collective Bargaining as an Instrument for Worker Participation in the Just Transition: Lessons from Quebec's Metallurgical Sector

Jonathan Michaud

The Capacity of Management and Labour to Adapt to Recent Disruptions: Illustrative Vignettes from Quebec (Canada)

Patrice Jalette, Mélanie Laroche

Workplace Regimes Under Digitalization: Markets, Technology and Power in Three Manufacturing Industries

Mathieu Dupuis

Has the Labor Shortage Allowed Immigrants to Improve their Working Conditions? Yes, but

Émilie Genin, Walid Kaddour

Sustainable Solutions for Social and Work Inclusion in Case of Chronic Illness and Transplantation

Discussant(s): Maria Cristina Degoli

Presentations of the Special Session

Towards a New Understanding of Disability: The Challenge of Reasonable Accommodations

Claudia Carchio, Fulvio Cucchisi

The Protection of Workers with Chronic Illnesses: Between (New) Professional Roles and Organizational Solutions

Giorgio Impellizzieri, Francesco Alifano

Employment Inclusion for Young People with Chronic Illnesses and Transplants: Challenges and Possible Solutions

Carmela Garofalo