Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC44 Labor Movements

Program Coordinators: Joerg NOWAK (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil) and Michele FORD (The University of Sydney, Australia)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Labor Movements and Political and Economic Changes in Latin America
Session Organizer: Cirila QUINTERO RAMIREZ

11:00-12:45

Buttressing the Labor Movement: The Meaning of Mobilizing Immigrant Workers
Session Organizer: Nobuyuki YAMADA

13:00-14:45

Sociological Conversations on Palestine - 1
Session Organizer: Simin FADAEE
Chair: Simin FADAEE

The Ecological Crisis and the Dilemmas of Labour Environmentalism (Part 1)
Session Organizers: Nora RATHZEL, Dimitris STEVIS and Linda CLARKE

15:00-16:45

The Ecological Crisis and the Dilemmas of Labour Environmentalism (Part 2)
Session Organizers: Dimitris STEVIS, Nora RATHZEL and Linda CLARKE

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Labour Regimes and Work Processes in the Global South in the Context of a Multipolar World (Part I)
Session Organizers: Maurizio ATZENI, Teri CARAWAY and Elisa GAMBINO

11:00-12:45

Authors Meet Critics: Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest By Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han
Session Organizers: Jennifer CHUN and Ju Hui Judy HAN

What Labour Movement for the 21st Century?
Session Organizers: Joerg NOWAK and Andreas BIELER

13:00-14:45

Centering Domestic Workers in the Global Care Agenda (Part I)
Session Organizers: Jennifer CHUN and Adriana Paz RAMIREZ

Labour and Other Social Movements: Collective Elaboration and Collective Actions in the Evolution of the Modern Age
Session Organizers: Daniele DI NUNZIO and Guglielmo MEARDI
Chair: Guglielmo MEARDI

15:00-16:45

De-fetishising logistics - for a more encompassing understanding of class struggles in the global supply chains
Session Organizers: Joerg NOWAK and Anne ENGELHARDT

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Labour Regimes and Work Processes in the Global South in the Context of a Multipolar World (Part II)
Session Organizers: Maurizio ATZENI, Teri CARAWAY and Elisa GAMBINO

Sociological Conversations on Palestine - 2
Session Organizer: Kaan AGARTAN
Chair: Rima MAJED

11:00-12:45

Authors Meet Critics
Session Organizers: Omar MANKY and Maurizio ATZENI

Labor Action, Strikes, and Beyond (Part I)
Session Organizers: Katia PILATI, Pablo PEREZ-AHUMADA and Natalia MIRANDA

13:00-14:45

Centering Domestic Workers in the Global Care Agenda (Part II)
Session Organizers: Jennifer CHUN and Adriana Paz RAMIREZ

15:00-16:45

Beyond the National: Multi-Scalar Applications of the Power Resources Approach in Labour Studies
Session Organizers: Michele FORD and Michael GILLAN

New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance (Part 3)
Session Organizer: Chris TILLY

19:00-20:30

RC44 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Labor Action, Strikes, and Beyond (Part II)
Session Organizers: Katia PILATI, Pablo PEREZ-AHUMADA and Natalia MIRANDA

Labour Regimes and Work Processes in the Global South in the Context of a Multipolar World (Part III)
Session Organizers: Maurizio ATZENI, Teri CARAWAY and Elisa GAMBINO

11:00-12:45

India’s Migration-Development Regime: A New Analytical Framework for Labor Migration
Session Organizer: Rina AGARWALA
Chair: Rina AGARWALA

Infrastructural Power of Gafam and Worker Power in the Platform Economy
Session Organizer: Adam MROZOWICKI
Chair: Dora FONSECA

13:00-14:45

Sociological Conversations on Palestine - 3
Session Organizer: Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ

15:00-16:45

Centering Domestic Workers in the Global Care Agenda (Part III)
Session Organizers: Jennifer CHUN and Adriana Paz RAMIREZ

Sociological Conversations on Palestine - 4
Session Organizers: Abeer MUSLEH, Aide ESU and Rana SUKARIEH
Chair: Rana SUKARIEH

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Open Session
Session Organizer: Michele FORD

11:00-12:45

Labor Action, Strikes, and Beyond (Part III)
Session Organizers: Natalia MIRANDA, Katia PILATI and Pablo PEREZ-AHUMADA

13:00-14:45

New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance (Part 1)
Session Organizer: Chris TILLY

15:00-16:45

New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance (Part 2)
Session Organizer: Chris TILLY