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Programme9H00-9H10 Welcome9H15-9H30 IntroductionCarlotta Benvegn&#249; and David Gaborieau,&#160;Logistics as an approach to analyze labour transformations inside global supply chains9H30-13H00 Labour in warehousesDiscussant : C&#233;cile Cuny, Universit&#233; Paris EstC&#233;dric Lomba, CNRS : Drug supply chains: pharmaceutical managers and warehouse workers in a highly standardized organizationBettina Haidinger, University of Vienna: The role of liberalisation of postal and transport services for fragmented and precarious employment in parcel delivery in the EULucas Tranchant, University of Paris-Ouest: From one warehouse to another. Temp work at the core of a local logistics labour marketCarlotta Benvegn&#249;, University of Paris 8: Comparing labour process in parcel delivery: Padua and ParisHaude Rivoal, University of Paris 8: Masculinities in the workplace : a gendered analysis of a supply chain company14H00-17H30 Labour transformations in logistical capitalism&#160;Discussant : David Gaborieau, University of Paris-EstPavlos Hatzopoulos, University of Athens : Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour, Precarity and StrugglesMoritz Altenried, University of London: Labour, Technology, Space: Logistics in Contemporary CapitalismJack Wilson, California State University: The Logistics Revolution and the Impact on LaborPhillip Staab, University of Hamburg: Raising productivity in consumption - the political economy of e-commerce&#160;17h30-18h00 Conclusion, Giorgio Grappi, University of BolognaOrganizationCarlotta Benvegn&#249; (Unipd, Cresppa-CSU) / carlotta.benvegnu@gmail.comDavid Gaborieau (Universit&#233; Paris Est, Lab&#8217;Urba) / david.gab@wanadoo.frJourn&#233;e d&#8217;&#233;tude internationale (en anglais) organis&#233;e dans le cadre du programme de formation-recherche CIERA &#171; Les mondes de l&#8217;entrep&#244;t &#187;, associ&#233;e au programme ANR WORKLOG, cofinanc&#233;e par le CIERA, l&#8217;Universit&#233; Paris-Est et le CSU-CRESPPA.ArgumentDuring the last 30 years, the logistics sector has become a key function of the global economy. Nevertheless, social sciences have only recently taken into account the importance of this transformation, trying to depict its impact on the economic systems as well as on working conditions. This conference aims at fostering a dialogue between different researches that, on an international scale, address logistics as an object, a perspective, or even as an analytical concept.Ensuring the circulation of commodities, semi-finished products and raw materials, logistics can be conceptualized as the infrastructure of globalization. The reorganization of the economies into transnational systems that criss-cross national borders, linked to the transfer of industry plants in low-wage countries, as well as the development of just-in-time production, have impulsed the important growth of the sector. But the development of logistics as an autonomous sector is also the result of the externalization fostered by the big companies of those functions previously considered as marginal or not strategic. At the same time, the evolution of the logistics sector can also be connected to the growth of the retail industry and, more recently, to the expansion of the e-commerce - which hidden face is the concentration inside warehouses of commodities destined to supermarkets or directly to customers. Therefore, depending on the way we observe it, logistics can be presented as a key sector or as a subaltern function, as an innovation or as the prolongation of something older. However, its development has undoubtedly impulsed major transformations of the economic systems, which explains why logistics is today considered as a crucial tool to analyse contemporary capitalism.From a managerial standpoint, logistics promotes an ideal of smoothness and fluidity, perhaps even the ideal of a dematerialized economy regulated by flows of information. On the contrary, observed from the bottom up, logistics appears as an industry where a large labour force is increasingly needed in order to assure the circulation of goods and raw materials, rather than a continuous flow requiring little interventions. This workforce is either concentrated inside warehouses, ports and airports, or scattered within various companies. Logistics activities are heterogeneous relying on the type of products and markets, and recruitment processes depend also on the sectorial, regional and national contexts. However, logistics shows a number of characteristics that allows to study it as a whole: subcontracting chains, flexibility, traceability control and growing pressure on working conditions. Some important trends have also been observed concerning the employment structure, in particular processes of precarization and racialization of the workforce, as well as the weakening of labor unions. This leads to ask the questions of what a &#8220;logistics working class&#8221; might be, which place it might occupy inside the social hierarchy, which kind of subjectivity it expresses, as well as to investigate the forms of resistance that are played in this sector.Programme9H00-9H10 Welcome9H15-9H30 IntroductionCarlotta Benvegn&#249; and David Gaborieau,&#160;Logistics as an approach to analyze labour transformations inside global supply chains9H30-13H00 Labour in warehousesDiscussant :&#160;C&#233;cile Cuny, Universit&#233; Paris EstC&#233;dric Lomba, CNRS :&#160;Drug supply chains: pharmaceutical managers and warehouse workers in a highly standardized organizationBettina Haidinger, University of Vienna:&#160;The role of liberalisation of postal and transport services for fragmented and precarious employment in parcel delivery in the EULucas Tranchant, University of Paris-Ouest:&#160;From one warehouse to another. Temp work at the core of a local logistics labour marketCarlotta Benvegn&#249;, University of Paris 8:&#160;Comparing labour process in parcel delivery: Padua and ParisHaude Rivoal, University of Paris 8:&#160;Masculinities in the workplace : a gendered analysis of a supply chain company14H00-17H30 Labour transformations in logistical capitalism&#160;Discussant : David Gaborieau, University of Paris-EstPavlos Hatzopoulos, University of Athens :&#160;Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour, Precarity and StrugglesMoritz Altenried, University of London:&#160;Labour, Technology, Space: Logistics in Contemporary CapitalismJack Wilson, California State University:&#160;The Logistics Revolution and the Impact on LaborPhillip Staab, University of Hamburg:&#160;Raising productivity in consumption - the political economy of e-commerce&#160;17h30-18h00 Conclusion,&#160;Giorgio Grappi, University of BolognaArgumentaireCes trente derni&#232;res ann&#233;es, le secteur logistique s&#8217;est affirm&#233; jusqu&#8217;&#224; revendiquer une place centrale dans le fonctionnement de l'&#233;conomie mondiale. Toutefois, ce n'est que depuis une p&#233;riode r&#233;cente que les sciences sociales ont pris la mesure de ces transformations et ont essay&#233; d&#8217;en saisir les caract&#233;ristiques et les r&#233;percussions du point de vue des syst&#232;mes &#233;conomiques, de l&#8217;emploi et du travail. Cette journ&#233;e d&#8217;&#233;tude ambitionne de faire dialoguer des travaux de recherche qui abordent &#224; l&#8217;&#233;chelle internationale la logistique comme objet d&#8217;&#233;tude, angle d'approche ou concept d'analyse.Assurant la circulation mondiale des produits finis, semi-finis et des mati&#232;res premi&#232;res, la logistique peut &#234;tre consid&#233;r&#233;e comme une&#160;infrastructure de la globalisation. La r&#233;organisation des &#233;conomies en syst&#232;mes transnationaux, li&#233;e au transfert d'une partie des installations industrielles dans les pays &#224; bas co&#251;ts de production, ainsi que le d&#233;veloppement du syst&#232;me de production en juste-&#224;-temps, avec peu de stocks interm&#233;diaires,&#160;ont en effet entrain&#233; une forte croissance du secteur. &#160;Mais l&#8217;&#233;mergence de la logistique en tant que secteur autonome est aussi li&#233;e &#224; l&#8217;externalisation par les grands groupes industriels et commerciaux de leurs fonctions auparavant jug&#233;es annexes ou pas suffisamment strat&#233;giques. Elle peut &#233;galement &#234;tre rattach&#233;e &#224; l&#8217;essor de la grande distribution et plus r&#233;cemment du commerce en ligne, dont la face cach&#233;e est la concentration et la manipulation en entrep&#244;t des produits &#224; destination des supermarch&#233;s ou des particuliers. Selon la fa&#231;on dont on l&#8217;observe, la logistique peut donc &#234;tre pr&#233;sent&#233;e &#224; la fois comme un secteur clef ou comme un acteur subalterne, comme une nouveaut&#233; ou comme un prolongement. Dans tous les cas, son d&#233;veloppement induit des transformations fondamentales dans les syst&#232;mes productifs, ce qui explique que la logistique soit d&#233;sormais mobilis&#233;e comme un angle d'approche pour l'analyse du capitalisme contemporain.Du point de vue manag&#233;rial, la logistique propose un id&#233;al de connectivit&#233; et de fluidit&#233;, voire d&#8217;une &#233;conomie d&#233;mat&#233;rialis&#233;e r&#233;gul&#233;e par des flux d&#8217;informations. Mais observ&#233; par le bas, le secteur renvoie une tout autre image que celle d&#8217;un &#233;coulement continu n&#233;cessitant peu d&#8217;interventions. Il se pr&#233;sente sous la forme d&#8217;une industrie qui, pour produire la circulation des biens et mati&#232;res du capitalisme, a recours &#224; une main d&#8217;&#339;uvre nombreuse. Tr&#232;s majoritairement ouvri&#232;re, cette derni&#232;re est concentr&#233;e dans des entrep&#244;ts, des ports et des a&#233;roports, ou bien diss&#233;min&#233;e dans les entreprises qui ont recours &#224; cette fonction. Les activit&#233;s logistiques ne sont donc pas homog&#232;nes et diff&#232;rent notamment selon le type de produit manipul&#233; et le type de march&#233; desservi. Elles mobilisent &#233;galement diff&#233;rents types de salariat selon les contextes sectoriels, r&#233;gionaux et nationaux. Pour autant, la production du flux rassemble bien certaines caract&#233;ristiques qui encouragent &#224; observer la logistique comme un tout&#160;: la pression des commanditaires, la variabilit&#233; des volumes, le contr&#244;le de la tra&#231;abilit&#233; ou la p&#233;nibilit&#233; li&#233;e au port de charges. Des tendances lourdes ont &#233;galement &#233;t&#233; observ&#233;es dans les formes d&#8217;emploi, en particulier la pr&#233;carisation croissante des statuts, l'affaiblissement de la repr&#233;sentation syndicale, et des processus de racialisation de la main d'&#339;uvre. Ces proximit&#233;s en termes de conditions de travail et d&#8217;emploi encouragent &#224; poser la question de ce que peut &#234;tre un prol&#233;tariat logistique, de la place qu'il occupe dans la hi&#233;rarchie sociale, des subjectivit&#233;s qu'il exprime, ainsi qu'&#224; interroger les formes de r&#233;sistance au travail et &#224; l&#8217;emploi d&#233;grad&#233;s.