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Workers of the WorldExploring global perspectives on labour from the 1950s to the presentSymposium, 28.-30. June 2017, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, GermanyHow can we arrive at global perspectives on labour, which reach beyond teleologies of an all-encompassing “race to the top” (or “to the bottom”), but also beyond the notion of ever-increasing differentiation? This conference explores overarching trends in the political as well as corporate regulation and in the forms of collective organisation of labour. Such an exploration is understood as a precondition for an adequate analysis of the dynamics of current capitalism. It needs to be based on an examination of linkages and similarities, differences and unevenness, as well as of the wide variety of work constellations resulting from such trends in different parts of the world. Towards this aim, we hope to bring together scholars from the social and historical sciences who are prepared to leave the comfort zone of highly specialized area studies, in a common quest for transnational perspectives. The global economic crisis of the mid-1970s should function as a common point of reference, connecting post-war developments to the immediate pre-history of present constellations. Since this conference aims at identifying new empirical approaches to the study of labour in different world regions, references to methods and data are appreciated.Wednesday, 28. June 201715.00 Welcome- Wilhelm Krull (VW Foundation and Foundation Council, University ofGoettingen)15.15 Mapping the field I- Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (SOFI/University of Göttingen)15.45 Mapping the Field II: From the perspective of ... ˗  Peter Alexander (sociology of social change, focus on South Africa,University of Johannesburg, South Africa) ˗  Marcel van der Linden (global history of labour, University ofAmsterdam, The Netherlands) ˗  Rina Agarwala (sociology of informalisation, focus on India, JohnsHopkins University, Baltimore, United States)Chair: Christoph Scherrer (University of Kassel, Germany)117.15 Get-Together with Poster session and Poster Presentation of young researchers18.15 Dinner19.30 KeynoteJan Breman: The end of Social Welfarism?(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Chair: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)Thursday, 29. June 2017Session 1: Political Regulation of Labour: Trends and Contradictions9.00 Papers and discussionChair: Ravi Ahuja (University of Göttingen, Germany) -  Sandrine Kott: Growth and Productivity as Social Policy of the ILO (Université de Genève, Switzerland) -  Bob Hancké: Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradiction and Institutional Change (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)Comment: Christoph Scherrer (University of Kassel, Germany)10.30 Coffee BreakSession 2: Labour at the Site of Production: Labour Process, Control, Quality of Work10.45 KeynotePaul Thompson: Capitalism, Contradictions and Conflict: Reflections on Global Challenges for Work and Workers from a Labour Process Perspective(University of Stirling, United Kingdom)Chair: Martin Krzywdzinski (Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany)12.15 Lunch Break13.30 Papers and discussionChair: Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (SOFI/University of Göttingen, Germany) -  Jörg Flecker: Global digital labour - delocalized work and the international division of labour (University of Vienna, Austria) -  Pun Ngai: “Student-laborers” at the Dormitory Labor Regime in China (University of Hong Kong)Comment: Martin Krzywdzinski (Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany)215.00 Coffee BreakSession 3: Politics of Labour: Collective Action15.15 KeynoteBeverly Silver: Labor and Systemic Chaos: The End of British and US World Hegemonies Compared (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States)Chair: Marcel van der Linden (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)16.45 Coffee Break17.00 Papers and discussionChair: Martin Krzywdzinski (Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany) -  Jennifer Jihye Chun: Protest Cultures and Precarious Workers in South Korea (University of Toronto) -  Rohini Hensman (independent scholar): Workers and unions confronting global capitalism: The need for internationalism -  Sakhela Buhlungu: Unions in South Africa (University of Cape Town, South Africa)Comment: Ravi Ahuja (University of Göttingen, Germany)18.30 Poster session and Presentation of young researchers 19.30 DinnerFriday, 30. June 2017Parallel sessions 4-6 (9.00 – 12.15)Session 4: Political Regulation of Labour: Trends and Contradictions (II)9.00 Papers and DiscussionsChair/Comment: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany) -  Ben Scully (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa): Labour Migration in Comparative-Historical Perspective: Ghana and South Africa 1960s-Present -  Nick Bernards (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada): Governing Irregular Labour: The Politics of ‘Informal’ Work and Unemployment 1970-Present in Sub-Saharan Africa -  Irene Pang (Brown University, Providence, United States): Precarity as a Legal Construction: Lessons from the Construction Sectors in Beijing and Delhi10.30 Coffee Break310.45 Papers and discussionChair: Martin Krzywdzinski (Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany) -  Paul André Rosental, Bernard Thomann (Science Po and Inalco, Paris, France): Job precariousness in the context of economic growth -  Ralf Hoffrogge (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany): Engineering New Labour: Trade Unions, Social Partnership and the Stabilization of British Neoliberalism 1985-2002 -  Iain Campbell (University of Melbourne, Australia): The challenge of casual work to labour movements: a two-step historical perspectiveComment: Lutz Raphael (University of Trier, Germany)12.15 Lunch BreakSession 5: Labour at the Site of Production: Labour Process, Control, Quality of Work (II)9.00 Papers and discussionChair: Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (SOFI/University of Goettingen, Germany) ˗  Jonathan Pattenden (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom): Labour Control Regimes and Collective Action: Capital and Labour in Bangalore’s Construction Sector ˗  Stefan Schmalz, Natalia Berti, Johanna Sittel (University of Jena, Germany and Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá): Precariousness and Informality in the Argentinean Automobile Industry: A Global Perspective ˗  Elena Shulzhenko (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark): Paying for performance in Russia: between the customary and international approachesComment: Martin Kuhlmann (SOFI Goettingen, Germany)10.30 Coffee Break10.45 Papers and discussionChair/Comment: Kristin Carls (University of Göttingen, Germany) -  Praveen Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India): Politics of Labour and Global Production Networks: Some Reflections from Experiences in India -  Brigitte Aulenbacher, Fabienne Décieux, Birgit Riegraf (University of Linz, Austria; University of Paderborn, Germany): Capitalism Goes Care. The Commodification of Care and Care Work, Social Justice and Points of Resistance -  Christa Wichterich (freelance author, researcher and lecturer): Transnational Reproductive Chains and Care Extractivism4Session 6: Politics of Labour: Collective Action (II)9.00 Papers and discussionChair: Marcel van der Linden (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ˗  Chris Tilly and Rina Agarwala (University of California, Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States): Who defends informal workers? A comparison of the roles of trade unions, governments, and informal worker associations in improving labor standards for informal textile and apparel workers in Brazil, China, India, and South Africa ˗  Adam Mrozowicki (University of Wrocław, Poland): Young precarious workers in Poland: the experiences of work and the patterns of coping with the capitalist transformation ˗  Ad Knotter (Maastricht University, The Netherlands): Precarious labour and trade union response in the cleaning industry: a transnational history (1988-2012)Comment: Ingrid Artus (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)10.30 Coffee Break11.00 Papers and discussionChair: Christoph Scherrer (University Kassel, Germany) ˗  Peter Wegenschimmel (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany): Socialist Bargaining: The Power Resource Approach in Socialist Economies ˗  Chitra Joshi (University of Delhi, India): The Promise of the 1950s and the Politics of labour in the Post-independence decade in India ˗  Thomas Goes (Sofi Göttingen, Germany): A permanent revolution? Productive mobilizations, rationalization conflicts and the birth of competition-oriented labour relations in the (Western) German automotive industry 1980-2005Comment: David Mayer (University of Goettingen, Germany)12.30 Lunch Break513.30 Round Table:Globalisation of Insecurity? Workers of the World between Segmentation and Globalised PrecarisationChair: Ravi Ahuja (University of Goettingen) ˗  Birgit Mahnkopf (Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany) ˗  Ludger Pries (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)˗ Gaochao He (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China) ˗ Prabhu Mohapatra (University of Delhi, India)14.30 Final Remarks: Steering Committee 15.00 End of Conference6