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RC 44 Workers’ movements
Mouvements ouvriers
Movimientos obreros
Session 12: Robert Lambert, University Western Australia, Australia
Subject: “Recovery of the workers’ movement in the era of globalization”
Organizer: Rob Lambert, University of Western Australia, Jennifer Chun, University of British Columbia,
Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts and Robyn Rodrigues,Rutgers University
Saturday, September 6, 09:00-11:00
Session 01A: Re-defining Labor? Working
Class Struggle & Movement Renewal Part I
Chair: Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts
Location: UB-RB-109
Session ID: RC44_01A
Authors and Papers:
Katherine Muir (University of Adelaide)
Working families, ‘union thugs’ and activists:
Identity and labor politics in the Australian
‘Your rights at work campaign’
Chris Rhomberg (Yale University)
De-institutionalisation & mobilization: reconstructing
strike theories in post-accord United
States.
Donella Caspersz (University of Western Australia)
Community solidarity & Trade Union Revival in
Australia
Saturday, September 6, 09:00-11:00
Session 01B: Gender and Re-empowering
the Labor Movement
Chair: Robyn Rodrigues, Rutgers University
Location: UB-RB-117
Session ID: RC44_01B
Authors and Papers:
Suzanne Franzway (University of South Australia/Arizona
State University)
The body making labor politics
Jennifer Chun (University of British Columbia)
Reconceptualizing militancy: the gender and
labor politics of irregular employment in South
Korea
Trish Todd/Eveline (University of Western Australia)
Gender pay equity: Is there a way forward?
Millie Thayer (University of Massachusetts)
The Leverage of the Local: Class and gender
struggles in rural Northeast Brazil
Saturday, September 6, 11:30-13:30
Session 02A: Homeworkers panel discussion:
New Ways of organising women home
based workers in the era of globalization
Chair: Jane Tate, Federation of HomeWorkers
Worldwide, (FHWW)
Location: UB-RB-109
Session ID: RC44_02A
Authors and Papers:
Guida Vieira (Union of Embroidery Workers,
Madeira)
Organizing home workers into a trade union in
Portugal
Gulsam Coskun (Turkey HomeNet (National
Solidarity Network of Wom)
Building women home based workers’ organizations
in Turkey
Dilek Hattatoglu (FHWW)
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