Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

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1 CONFERENCE Regular and Precarious Labour in Modern Industrial Settings 6 9 May 2015 Organisers: Research Group Industry and Inequality in Eurasia PROGRAMME Wednesday, 6 th May Keynote Lecture: Precarious Politics or the Politics of Precarity Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley Reception Thursday, 7 th May Registration Introduction to the Workshop by Chris Hann and Jonathan Parry 1

2 Panel I Chair: Chris Hann Ching Kwan Lee University of California, Los Angeles Varieties of Capital, Fractures of Labor: A comparative ethnography of precarization on the Zambian Copperbelt Discussant: Sharryn Kasmir Dimitra Kofti, Halle Scales of Precarity: Regular and casual industrial labour, precarious households and declining solidarities in Bulgaria Discussant: Gavin Smith Coffee break Panel II Chair: Jonathan Parry Eeva Kesküla, Halle The End of Reproduction of the Old Working Class in Kazakhstan? Discussant: Sarah Ashwin Sian Lazar University of Cambridge Union Responses to Stability and Precarity in State Employment. Why do pay grades matter? Discussant: Sharryn Kasmir 2

3 Lunch break Panel III Chair: Luisa Steur Daromir Rudnyckyj University of Victoria Regimes of Precarity: Buruh, Karyawan, and the politics of labor identity in Indonesia Discussant: Mao Mollona Dina Makram-Ebeid, Halle God-given Work and State-given Work: Religious cosmology and the interpretation of precarity on the margins of an Egyptian steel town Discussant: Frances Pine Coffee break Panel IV Chair: Jens Lerche Christian Strümpell Heidelberg University The Twofold Precarisation of Labour in an Eastern Indian Steel Town Discussant: Jan Breman 3

4 I-Chieh Fang, Halle Caste-like System, Expendability and Peasant Workers in Contemporary China Discussant: James Carrier Concluding Comments of External Discussants Jens Lerche, Gavin Smith, Don Kalb Dinner at restaurant Alchimistenklause Friday, 8 th May Panel V Chair: Lale Yalçın-Heckmann Elisabeth Schober University of Oslo The (Un-)Making of Labour: Capitalist accelerations and shattered bodies at a South Korean shipyard in the Philippines Discussant: James Carrier Tommaso Trevisani, Halle Work, Precarity and Resistance: Company and contract labour in Kazakhstan s former Soviet steel town Discussant: Mao Mollona Coffee break 4

5 Panel VI Chair: Frances Pine Michael Peter Hoffmann University of Cologne Asking for and Getting Isthai Kam: Maoist unionists and the regularization of contract labour in industries in Western Nepal Discussant: Jan Breman Geert De Neve and Grace Carswell University of Sussex Precarious Labour Market Participation in the Tiruppur Garment Cluster: Skill acquisition, gender, age and caste Discussant: Jens Lerche Lunch break Panel VII Chair: Kirsten Endres Luisa Piart University of Bern Dis/entangling Labor Relations and Equivocal Entrepreneurship in Istanbul s Garment Industry Discussant: Gavin Smith Rebecca Prentice University of Sussex Microenterprise, Industrial Labour, and the Romance of Precarity in Trinidad Discussant: Frances Pine Coffee break 5

6 Concluding Comments of External Discussants James Carrier, Sarah Ashwin, Mao Mollona Dinner at restaurant Budapest Saturday, 9 th May Panel VIII Chair: Luisa Steur Andrew Sanchez University of Kent, Canterbury Relative Precarity: Decline, possibility and the politics of work Discussant: Jens Lerche Coffee break Jeremy Morris and Sarah Hinz University of Birmingham and Friedrich Schiller University Jena Free Automotive Unions, Industrial Work and Precariousness in Provincial Russia Discussant: Sarah Ashwin General Discussion Chair: Gavin Smith Don Kalb: Conference Summary; Open discussion Lunch break Final Impressions Michael Burawoy 6