Organizational Justice and Participation at Work in the Global Digital Age

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE010 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee)

Language: English, French and Spanish

The world of work has been changing with digitalization and globalization to the point of bluring long held distinctions between employers and employees in the platform economy, automatizing workers control through algorithm management, and increasing the division of labor through a myriad of global supply chains.

Academic debates have started to address the issue of the future of work mostly from the perspective of the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on jobs and skills, but there are numerous other dimensions to be debated such as increased job precariousness and inequalities, discriminations, legal and social injustices, detrimental environmental impacts, attacks and challenges to collective bargaining and human rights, to name just a few.

This session invites communications addressing the new meanings of worker participation and democracy at work through the study of issues such as justice, fairness, democracy, and participation in the global digital workplace as a way of fostering knowing justice in the Anthropocene.

Session Organizer:
Isabel DA COSTA, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France
Oral Presentations
Discontent and Resistance in Platform Work. Crowd Workers’ Communities and Orientations in India, the USA and Germany
Markus HERTWIG, Faculty of Social Science, Germany; Korn ANNA, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; Patrick WITZAK, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Platform Capitalism, Delivery Work and Precariousness in Portugal
Nirsan GRILLO DAMBRÓS, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas/ Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; Fátima ASSUNÇÃO, ISCSP - University of Lisbon, Portugal
After Industrial Relations Reform: French Unions Coping with the Loss of Decentralized Works Council Structures
Kahmann MARCUS, France; Kevin GUILLAS-CAVAN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), France
The Impact of Brexit on European Works Councils: Forms and Factors of Continuity and Change
Kahmann MARCUS, France; Anna FRISONE, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), France