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

RC30 Sociology of Work

Program Coordinators: Guzel BAIMURZINA (Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation), Maria Eugenia LONGO (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada) and Ndeshi NAMUPALA (University of Namibia, Namibia)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Entrepreneurship and Enterprises from the Lens of Justice
Session Organizers: Paromita SANYAL, Jillet SAM and Rajorshi RAY

New Forms of Employment and Sustainable Development: Contradictions, Challenges and Opportunities
Session Organizers: Guzel BAIMURZINA and Andrei POPOV

13:00-14:45

Interpellations to Precarious Work in North and Global South: Expressions, Articulations, Accelerations and Social Resistance
Session Organizers: Dasten JULIAN VEJAR, Dr. Francisco FAVIERI and Dr. Flora BAJARD

15:00-16:45

Transforming Work in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Session Organizers: Maria Eugenia LONGO, Ndeshi NAMUPALA and Saadeddine IGAMANE

19:00-20:30

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenging Work: Job Displacement and Re-Skilling.
Session Organizer: Amado ALARCON ALARCON

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

More Than Great Resignation. about Work in the Age of Polycrisis (Part I)
Session Organizers: Fatima FARINA and Domenico CARBONE

11:00-12:45

Emotions at Work: Stress, Self-Management and Digital Dynamics
Session Organizers: Pedro LISDERO, Mustafa Berkay AYDIN and Cagdas CAGDAS CEYHAN

More Than Great Resignation. about Work in the Age of Polycrisis (Part II)
Session Organizers: Fatima FARINA and Domenico CARBONE

13:00-14:45

Metrics for the Future of Work
Session Organizer: Siqi HAN

15:00-16:45

Emerging Professionalism in Dirty Jobs/Works: A Focus on the Margins and the Borders of Professions and Work
Session Organizers: Diego COLETTO and Lara MAESTRIPIERI
Chair: Lara MAESTRIPIERI

Work & Employment - Authors Meet Critics Session
Session Organizers: Maria Eugenia LONGO and Guzel BAIMURZINA

19:00-20:30

Gender Disparities and Work in Traditional and New Forms of Employment
Session Organizers: Dr. Flora BAJARD and Andrei POPOV

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Justice in the Modern World of Work: From Classical Concepts to New Ideas
Session Organizers: Guzel BAIMURZINA and Andrei POPOV

11:00-12:45

The Dead Ends (routes, zones, concessions, ports) of Migration and Labour Market Segmentations. When Inequalities Come into Play. These Spaces and Labour Markets at the Limits of Capitalism.
Session Organizers: Delphine MERCIER, Doudou Dièye GUEYE and Kamal MELLAKH

13:00-14:45

News Tendencies in the Global Work. Comparative Scales of Informality, Precarity and Unemployment
Session Organizers: Deepthi SHANKER and Dr. Francisco FAVIERI

15:00-16:45

From Shop to Container to Landfill: Has Work Become a Global Production Chain of Circulation and Recycling?
Session Organizer: Delphine MERCIER

19:00-20:30

RC30 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Labour and Environmental Crisis: Any Space for Transition? (Part I)
Session Organizers: Marco ALBERIO, Davide ARCIDIACONO and Maria Eugenia LONGO

11:00-12:45

Labour and Environmental Crisis: Any Space for Transition? (Part II)
Session Organizer: Marco ALBERIO

13:00-14:45

Issues and Changes in Legal Work in the Age of the Anthropocene and AI
Session Organizer: Corinne DELMAS
Chair: Elizabeth CHAMBLISS

15:00-16:45

Critical Social and Labour Policies in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Ndeshi NAMUPALA, Tania GARCIA-RAMOS and Daniel KUENZLER

19:00-20:30

Older Workers in Shrinking Societies
Session Organizers: Koji TAKAHASHI and Tomohiko MORIYAMA
Chair: Koji TAKAHASHI

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Digital Labor in the Modern Age: Work Conditions, Well-Being, and Market Challenges (Part I)
Session Organizer: Saadeddine IGAMANE

11:00-12:45

Digital Labor in the Modern Age: Work Conditions, Well-Being, and Market Challenges (Part II)
Session Organizer: Saadeddine IGAMANE

13:00-14:45

The State of the Urban Informal Sector
Session Organizers: Daniel AMOAH, Crispen CHINGUNO and Appiah PATRICK

15:00-16:45

The Nexus between Transformative Social Protection and the World of Work
Session Organizer: Ndeshi NAMUPALA