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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008


Research Committee on
Labor Movements RC44

Main theme
Re-empowering the labour movement


Programme Coordinator
Rob Lambert, (President RC44), University of Western Australia, Australia, Jennifer Chun (Vice President), University of British Columbia, Canada, Dan Clawson (Vice President), University of Massachusetts, USA, Robyn Rodrigues (Treasurer), Rutgers University, USA.

Venue of RC44 sessions:

Edifici Rambla de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra
La Rambla 32
08002 Barcelona, Spain, map

Session 1.a: Re-defining labor? Working class struggle and movement renewal. Part I

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, USA, clawson@sadri.umass.edu

Session 1.b: Gender and re-empowering the labor movement

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Robyn Rodrigues, Rutgers University, USA, Robyn.m.rodriguez@rutgers.edu

Session 2.a: Homeworkers panel discussion: New ways of organising women home based workers in the era of globalization

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Jane Tate, Federation of HomeWorkers Worldwide, FHWW, janetate@gn.apc.org

Session 2.b: European Labor. Part I

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UK, R.Hyman@lse.ac.uk

Session 3.a: Work restructuring and new union strategies. Part I

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Edward.Webster@wits.ac.uk

Session 3.b: European Labor. Part II

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UK, R.Hyman@lse.ac.uk

Session 4.a: Labor’s other?

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Karl von Holt, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, karl@yeoville.org.za

Session 4.b: Trade union responses to labor migration

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Donella Caspersz, University of Western Australia, Australia, dcaspersz@biz.uwa.edu.au

Session 5.a: Panel discussion, Transnational campaigns

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Gay Seidman, University of Massachusetts, USA, seidman@ssc.wisc.edu

Session 5.b: Work restructuring and new union strategies. Part II

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Jennifer Chun, University of British Columbia, Canada, jjchun@interchange.ubc.ca

Session 6.a: Authors meet critics

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Peter Waterman, The Hague, Netherlands, p.waterman@inter.nl.net

Session 6.b: Panel discussion: Body work

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Rachel Cohen, University of Warwick, UK, R.l.cohen@warwick.ac.uk

Session 6.c: Re-defining labor? Working class struggle and movement renewal. Part II

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: David Peetz, Griffith University, d.peetz@griffith.edu.au