Sub-theme 65: Reimagining the Institutions, Actors, and Practices of Good Work

Convenors:
Patrizia Zanoni, Hasselt University, Belgium
Markus Helfen, Hertie School of Governance, Germany
Andreas Pekarek, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 9
Worker Representation: The Changing Landscape
Chair: Patrizia Zanoni
Jennifer Kuebart
Contested industrial relations in the airline industry in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis
Discussant(s): Milosz Miszczynski
Miłosz Miszczyński and Patrizia Zanoni
Algorithmic Management and Workplace Learning: Worker Body and Mind in Amazon’s Warehouse in Poland.
Discussant(s): Rene Lührsen & colleagues
René Lührsen
In search for the digital commons in open-source software: We need to talk about money
Discussant(s): Jennifer Kuebart
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 9
Institutional Enablers of Good Work
Chair: Markus Helfen
Manuel Nicklich, Marco Blank and Sabine Pfeiffer
Good work of good work’s guarantors? The pivotal position of organizational VET trainers in times of multiple transformation
Discussant(s): Kornelia Anna Kerti & colleagues
Laverne I. Chore, Julia Brandl and Mario Junker
Providing VET for temporary workers: A pragmatist view of common-good
Discussant(s): Manuel Nicklich & colleagues
Kornelia Anna Kerti, Brigitte Kroon, Inge Bleijenbergh, Marloes van Engen and Charissa Freese
Living in blurred uncertainty: Stakeholder perspectives on the position of Central and Eastern European migrant workers in Dutch food production and the social hierarchy
Discussant(s): Laverne I. Chore & colleagues
Session III: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 9
Trade Unions in Transition: Rethinking Collective Action for the Future of Work
Chair: Andreas Pekarek
Andrea Signoretti, Marcello Pedaci, Sabrina Perra and Katia Pilati
Multiple unions’ frames and representation of workers
Discussant(s): Pierrette Howayeck
Pierrette Howayeck
Trade unions organizational learning and “fault -lines” toward an alternative form of action: The case of two French confederations with algorithmic management
Discussant(s): Sara Pérez Lauzon & colleagues
Sara Pérez Lauzon, Cassandra V. Bowkett, Julie M.É Garneau and Christian Lévesque
Digitalization of work in aerospace manufacturing: A comparison of trade unions’ assessment and response for “good work”
Discussant(s): Andrea Signoretti & colleagues
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 9
Digital Workplaces by Algorithmic Management?
Chair: Rick Delbridge
Elke Schüßler, Sara Maric and Laura Thäter
Digital capitalism without firms? Consequences for the organization and regulation of work from an employment systems perspective
Discussant(s): Jannes Zwaenepoel
Jannes Zwaenepoel and Patrizia Zanoni
Deploying algorithms to individualise service: Changing ontologies in a Belgian public employment service
Discussant(s): Andrea Bottalico and Sarah Straub
Andrea Bottalico and Sarah M. Straub
Same same but different? On the working conditions and interest representation of truck drivers in Italy and Germany
Discussant(s): Elke Schüßler & Laura Thäter
Session V: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 9
Good Work in Global Value Chains?
Chair: Patrizia Zanoni
Abraham Walker
Europe’s Mexico in the Heart of Dixie: Foreign Direct Investment and Labor Standards in the American South
Discussant(s): Christelle Havard & colleagues
Denis G. Arnold and Peter Muchlinski
Sweatshops, good work and the ethics of ignoring the law
Discussant(s): Abraham Walker
Christelle Havard and Jocelyne Barreau
GUF led international trade union networks as proponents of “good work” at the international level: Which organization for which efficiency?
Discussant(s): Denis G. Arnold & Peter Muchlinski
Session VI: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 9
Well-being at Work
Chair: Markus Helfen
Brigitte Kroon, Kornelia Anna Kerti, Kaiyang Qin and Shuai Yuan
Good work for migrants: Processes of othering in employment practice and migrants’ wellbeing
Discussant(s): Scarlett Salman
Frida K. Feyer and Richard Rekdal
It is time to level the playing field of basic psychological needs: The concept of need levels as a convergence of constructs of individual differences in basic psychological needs
Discussant(s): Brigitte Kroon & colleagues
Scarlett Salman
From work stress to well-being, the drivers of a managerialization process
Discussant(s): Frida K Feyer & Richard M. Rekdal
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 9
The Quality of Work
Chair: Rick Delbridge
Carsten Wirth
Decent work via insourcing: A case study in the German manufacturing sector
Discussant(s): Lisa Chamberlain & colleagues
Jonathan Morris and John Hassard
Fragmentedwork and the fuzzy work-life interface: The impact of constant connectivity andavailability in managerial work
Discussant(s): Carsten Wirth
Lisa Chamberlain, Emma Hughes and Rory Donnelly
Work quality as a spiral: A new dynamic and integrated multi-level framework
Discussant(s): Jonathan Morris & colleagues
Session VIII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 9
Knowledge, Power, and Resistance at Work
Chair: Andreas Pekarek
Avital Baikovich and Rick Delbridge
Cultural value discretion as productive resistance: The impact of managerial discretion in an intercultural context
Discussant(s): Penelope Muzanenhamo & colleagues
Jan-Philipp Reineke
The contradictory situation of disability representation: A critical phenomenonology of patient representatives in a psychiatric hospital
Discussant(s): Avital Baikovich & Rick Delbridge
Penelope Muzanenhamo, Rashedur Chowdhury and Amal Abdellatif
Bullshit empowerment: Why Black and Brown scholars fail to effect change in business schools
Discussant(s): Jan Reineke