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MARCH 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Tuesday\u00a08 March 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Title :\u00a0<\/strong>Sectoral Experimentation – Constructing New Sectoral Institutions and Regulatory Mechanisms: Are They Fit for Purpose? \/ L\u2019exp\u00e9rimentation sectorielle – Cr\u00e9ation de nouvelles institutions et de nouveaux m\u00e9canismes de r\u00e9gulation sectorielle.\u00a0Sont-ils adapt\u00e9s aux besoins ?<\/em> <\/p>\n\n

Time :\u00a0<\/strong>06h00-07h45 (Vancouver) ;\u00a09h00-10h45\u00a0<\/strong>(Montr\u00e9al) ;\u00a014h00-15h45<\/strong>\u00a0(London) ; 15h00-16h45 (Paris \/ Brussels) ; 22h00-23h45 (Beijing) ; 01h00-02h45 (+ 1 Day \u2013 > Wednesday 9 March, Melbourne)<\/p>\n\n

Language :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Bilingual (French-English)<\/p>\n\n

Zoom Link :\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/umontreal.zoom.us\/j\/82219394528?pwd=OENTeGFSNHJTcDVyWEs0RnI3QXRjQT09<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Leon Gooberman<\/strong> \u00a0(Cardiff University),\u00a0Marco Hauptmeier<\/strong>\u00a0(Cardiff University)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Union coalition building, strategic framing and the agricultural wages panel in Wales<\/em><\/p>\n\n

This case explores the creation of a union coalition that introduced a new employment relations institution: The Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales, a bipartite institution that sets statutory wages and employment conditions for all farm workers. Building on social movement theory, we argue that the union\u2019s strategic framing within a conducive political opportunity structure enabled the coalition to form and pursue its goals. The union engaged in a specific frame alignment strategy, frame bridging, to explore and mobilize intersections and shared interests between its own frame and those of its coalition partners. Frame bridging prompted actors to reverse their policy preferences and participate in the coalition, which was facilitated by a political opportunity structure formed from the political salience of the agricultural sector and pre-existing social ties in the \u2018small state\u2019 political economy of Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau\u00a0<\/strong>(UQAM)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Unpacking the Working Conditions in the Forest Management Sector: An Empirical Assessment of a Multiscale Institutional Experimentation<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n

In Quebec, in 2013, the introduction of the new forest regime set forth a new dynamic in the governance and management of the public forest. By doing so, the Quebec government wished to promote the contribution of the public forest to economic development but also to ensure its sustainability. Among the changes made by the new forest regime, it was decided that the State would now assume full responsibility for the execution of non-commercial activities, which oversee the growth composition, health and quality of forest stands. While one of the goals of the state with the new forest regime is to \u201cmaintain the many socioeconomic benefits society derives from forests\u201d, the practices and strategies of the different key-actors of this regime shape working conditions for better…or for worse. Drawing on empirical materials, we will consider how the restructuration by the state of the employment system of a core sector has led to trade-offs that largely shape the degree and patterns of risks that workers face.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Discussants : Pier-Luc Bilodeau<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 Laval), Janice Fine<\/strong> (Rutgers University)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Moderator : Gregor Murray<\/strong>\u00a0(Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al) <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Friday\u00a025 March 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Title :\u00a0<\/strong>Experimentation in the Gig Economy: What Kinds of Institutions, What Kinds of Organizations? \/ Exp\u00e9rimentation dans l\u2019\u00e9conomie de plateforme : Quels types d’institutions, quels types d’organisations ?<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Time :\u00a0<\/strong>07h30-09h15 (Vancouver) ;\u00a010h30-12h15\u00a0<\/strong>(Montr\u00e9al) ; 14h30-16h15 (London) ; 15h30-17h15 (Paris \/ Brussels) ; 22h30-00h15 (Beijing) ; 01h30-03h15 (+ 1 Day \u2013 > Saturday 26 March, Melbourne)<\/p>\n\n

Language :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>English<\/p>\n\n

Zoom Link :\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/umontreal.zoom.us\/j\/89621224493?pwd=cWxzbG8ybzhvNytnTEQzK1dpRHRPUT09<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Maria Figueroa\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>(SUNY Empire State College)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Achieving Worker Protections in the App-based Food Delivery Industry of New York City<\/em><\/p>\n\n

More than a year of worker organizing and policy advocacy efforts culminated this past November 2021 with the passage of a set of municipal laws, which provide basic protections for the 65,000 workers in the app-based food delivery industry of New York City (NYC).\u00a0The new regulations, which are the first of their kind in the U.S. platform delivery industry, provided basic protections such as access to bathrooms, trip distance limits, safeguards against unfair banking fees, and most importantly, a minimum pay.\u00a0
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At the center of this case of experimentation for better work is the local worker organization Workers\u2019 Justice Project\/Deliveristas Unidos (WJP\/LDU), which in alliance with progressive legislators and labor unions, is replicating the institutional experimentation initiated by platform rideshare workers in NYC and Seattle. As in the case of rideshare workers, WJP\/LDU focused on achieving local level protections for platform workers, and did not engage in the state and national level policy debate about employment status in the platform economy.\u00a0
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The case of NYC app-based delivery workers is situated in Phase T1 on the experimentation continuum, as it involves the formation and implementation of new labor standards in this largely unregulated industry. The case analysis draws on applied research (including worker surveys and focus groups) conducted in collaboration with WJP\/LDU.<\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Hannah Johnston\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>(Northeastern University)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

\u2018Don\u2019t let them bury us alive\u2019: Worker organizing and the New York City campaign to #EndCabbieDebt<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n

In November 2021, New York City agreed to guarantee a debt restructuring plan that would provide taxi medallion owners with affordable monthly payment and forgive tens of millions of dollars of owner-driver debt.\u00a0\u00a0The agreement was brokered between the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), New York City, and Marblegate Asset Management, the largest holder of NYC taxi medallion loans.\u00a0
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High levels of owner-driver debt are attributed to the city\u2019s historic failure to regulate the industry. This led first to rapidly inflated medallion prices and pervasive predatory lending practices. Then, following the arrival of ride-hailing services like Uber, the valuation of medallions precipitously dropped causing many drivers to find themselves mired by toxic assets. The agreement came on the heels of a 15-day hunger strike and a 45-day protest held by members of the NYTWA and their supporters.\u00a0
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This case presents this debt relief agreement as NYTWA\u2019s most recent victory in its decades-long quest to improve working conditions for drivers in the for-hire transport sector. Drawing on campaign materials, participant observation, and interviews with drivers, it situates debt relief as part of a multi-year and multi-faceted campaign for industry-wide regulation. In doing so, it examines the NYTWA\u2019s complementary use of associational and symbolic power resources to achieve institutional recognition and industry reform.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Discussants : Raoul Gebert<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke),\u00a0Kurt Vandaele<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(ETUI)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Moderator : Vincent Pasquier<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0(HEC Montr\u00e9al)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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APRIL 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Friday\u00a08 April 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Title :\u00a0<\/strong>Les technologies num\u00e9riques et l’exp\u00e9rimentation institutionnelle : les industries des services automobiles fran\u00e7aise et qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise dans une perspective compar\u00e9e \/ Digitalization and Institutional Experimentation: The Cases of the French and Quebec Auto Services Industry in Comparative Perspective<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Time :\u00a0<\/strong>06h15-08h00\u00a0(Vancouver) ;\u00a09h15-11h00\u00a0<\/strong>(Montreal) ;\u00a014h15-16h00<\/strong>\u00a0(London) ; 15h15-17h00\u00a0(Paris \/ Brussels) ; 21h15-23h00\u00a0(Beijing) ; 23h15-01h00\u00a0(+ 1 Day \u2013 > Saturday 9 April, Melbourne)<\/p>\n\n

Language :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>French (this workshop will take place in French only<\/strong> \u2013 no interpretation will be provided<\/span>)<\/p>\n\n

Zoom Link : <\/strong>https:\/\/umontreal.zoom.us\/j\/85068677055?pwd=dXcydmd4MnRIcGgrSUJlaldYV0RUZz09<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Bernard Julien<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(ENS-Cachan),\u00a0Emmanuelle Dutertre<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(ESSCA)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

La r\u00e9gulation institutionnelle des processus de transformation num\u00e9rique : l’action collective de la branche des services de l’automobile face aux processus de digitalisation des activit\u00e9s qui l’affectent<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n

En France, la gestion de la formation professionnelle rel\u00e8ve du paritarisme. Ce principe, souvent pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme une sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise, est fond\u00e9 sur la mutualisation des fonds et sur une cogestion de leur affectation par les entreprises (organisations professionnelles) et par les repr\u00e9sentants des salari\u00e9s qui rel\u00e8vent d\u2019une m\u00eame branche. La mise en \u0153uvre de ce paritarisme de gestion est confi\u00e9e \u00e0 des OPCA (Organisme Paritaire Collecteur Agr\u00e9\u00e9) \u00e9galement dot\u00e9 d\u2019une gouvernance paritaire et charg\u00e9s de d\u00e9ployer la politique de formation ainsi d\u00e9finie. Les r\u00e9formes successives ainsi que le renforcement de l\u2019individualisation et de la personnalisation des droits \u00e0 la formation, de m\u00eame que l\u2019incitation faite aux entreprises de former leurs salari\u00e9s sur fonds propres tendent \u00e0 fragiliser ce mode de gestion.\u00a0

A la faveur de notre implication dans un vaste programme d\u2019\u00e9tude et de r\u00e9novation des contenus de formation financ\u00e9 par l\u2019Etat et men\u00e9 par l\u2019OPCA de branche des services de l\u2019automobile entre 2017 et 2022 apr\u00e8s qu\u2019il ait gagn\u00e9 l\u2019appel d\u2019offre lanc\u00e9 en 2016, nous avons pu \u00e0 la fois\u00a0enqu\u00eater sur les enjeux tr\u00e8s concrets des transformations num\u00e9riques du travail au sein des garages et observer ces m\u00e9ta-organisations \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre (organisme de branche) en tant qu\u2019organisme paritaire dans la mise en \u0153uvre de politique de formation et de pr\u00e9servation de l\u2019emploi et de la qualit\u00e9 du travail.

Notre pr\u00e9sentation rend compte de nos observations et propose une \u00e9valuation de l\u2019aptitude de ce dispositif institutionnel \u00e0 r\u00e9nover, \u00e0 accompagner voire \u00e0 modeler les processus de \u201cdigitalisation\u201d des diff\u00e9rents services de l\u2019automobile. Il s\u2019agira plus particuli\u00e8rement de s\u2019interroger sur la capacit\u00e9 des organisations paritaires \u00e0 r\u00e9guler la demande des acteurs dominants (constructeurs et autres \u201ct\u00eates de r\u00e9seaux\u201d) et \u00e0 maintenir la qualification des professionnels de l\u2019automobile. Plus largement, nous nous interrogerons sur le devenir du paritarisme face \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0la double menace\u00a0\u00bb potentielle que sont l\u2019avanc\u00e9e technologique et la\u00a0r\u00e9forme de la formation professionnelle entr\u00e9e en vigueur en 2019. De fait, impliqu\u00e9s depuis 2016 dans cette exp\u00e9rimentation institutionnelle qui a co\u00efncid\u00e9 avec une acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration des entreprises de digitalisation des diff\u00e9rents services de l\u2019automobile d\u2019une part et avec d\u2019assez profondes r\u00e9formes de la gouvernance et des financements de la Formation Professionnelle en France d\u2019autre part, nous b\u00e9n\u00e9ficions d\u2019un poste d\u2019observation privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 pour proc\u00e9der \u00e0 une telle \u00e9valuation.

L\u2019analyse propos\u00e9e s\u2019appuie donc sur une \u00e9tude de cas, le secteur automobile et plus particuli\u00e8rement le domaine de l\u2019apr\u00e8s-vente. Il s\u2019agit d\u2019un secteur ancien, compos\u00e9 de petites entreprises, confront\u00e9 depuis ses origines aux \u00e9volutions technologiques. Plus r\u00e9cemment, il est fortement incit\u00e9 au d\u00e9veloppement digital par les constructeurs automobiles ou les t\u00eates des autres r\u00e9seaux op\u00e9rant dans ces m\u00e9tiers. Les \u00e9volutions num\u00e9riques sont de diff\u00e9rentes natures\u00a0: traitement des donn\u00e9es issues des v\u00e9hicules connect\u00e9s, d\u00e9veloppement des services propos\u00e9s sur Internet (RDV en ligne, devis en ligne, avis en ligne), arriv\u00e9e d\u2019outils num\u00e9riques dans les process organisationnel (Tablette de r\u00e9ception de la client\u00e8le), \u00e9volution des DMS (Dealer Management Systems) vers des mod\u00e8les fortement int\u00e9grateurs afin de soutenir ce d\u00e9veloppement du num\u00e9rique.\u00a0

Au-del\u00e0 des diagnostics que notre participation aux diff\u00e9rentes \u00e9tudes conduites nous permet de formuler sur la nature et les enjeux des processus de transformation digitale en cours, notre cas permet d\u2019\u00e9valuer le sort qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9serv\u00e9 par les acteurs impliqu\u00e9s dans ce programme \u00e0 l\u2019ambition que ses commanditaires avaient de r\u00e9nover le pilotage des changements de contenus des formations initiales et continues pour le rendre plus \u201cr\u00e9actif\u201d que ne l\u2019est d’ordinaire le syst\u00e8me paritaire. Nous croyons pouvoir d\u00e9fendre \u00e0 ce niveau que si une part significative des travaux a pu se conformer \u00e0 cette exigence et permettre une acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration des processus de r\u00e9novation, cela n\u2019a pas emp\u00each\u00e9 l\u2019exigence paritaire de continuer de pr\u00e9valoir quand il est apparu \u00e9vident que des enjeux professionnels et syndicaux forts \u00e9taient en cause.\u00a0

Dans deux cas tr\u00e8s significatifs qui concernaient les \u201cmetteurs en main\u201d d\u2019une part et les \u201ce-vendeurs\u201d d\u2019autre part, le programme a \u00e9t\u00e9 suspendu apr\u00e8s la phase d\u2019\u00e9tude pour laisser au dialogue paritaire le temps de se nouer. Alors le narratif de \u201cl\u2019urgence op\u00e9rationnelle\u201d qui \u00e9tait au fondement du programme financ\u00e9 par l\u2019Etat n\u2019a plus pu op\u00e9rer et, en mobilisant l\u2019outillage traditionnel de la n\u00e9gociation sur les grilles de qualification et de r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration, les acteurs sont parvenus \u00e0 exercer un r\u00e9el contr\u00f4le sur le processus de digitalisation et ses cons\u00e9quences sur le travail. Le paritarisme loin de refluer a ainsi paru r\u00e9affirmer et r\u00e9actualiser sa participation \u00e0 une gestion n\u00e9goci\u00e9e des transformations technologiques de la branche.<\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Gregor Murray\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>(Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al),\u00a0Mathieu Dupuis<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>(Universit\u00e9 Laval),\u00a0Meiyun Wu<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Perturbations num\u00e9riques et exp\u00e9rimentations\u00a0: Le cas des techniciens des services automobiles au Qu\u00e9bec<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n

M\u00eame si la technologie est souvent pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e comme ayant des effets inexorables sur le travail et l\u2019emploi, l\u2019histoire des changements technologiques et des travaux qui s\u2019y sont int\u00e9ress\u00e9s nous enseignent que ceux-ci doivent \u00eatre compris \u00e0 la fois comme une force perturbatrice, mais aussi comme un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne en proie \u00e0 un remodelage par les syst\u00e8mes sociaux dans lesquels ils s\u2019ins\u00e8rent. L\u2019incertitude de leurs r\u00e9sultats et la co-influence entre technologie et ordre n\u00e9goci\u00e9 est le point de d\u00e9part de ce cas d\u2019exp\u00e9rimentation. Les changements technologiques et la num\u00e9risation exercent de fortes pressions sur ces compromis institutionnalis\u00e9s dans le monde du travail, provoquant ainsi la remise en cause des r\u00e8gles n\u00e9goci\u00e9es et l\u2019exp\u00e9rimentation autour de nouvelles formes de r\u00e9gulation.\u00a0
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Secou\u00e9e par une double perturbation \u2013 les transformations num\u00e9riques et la crise climatique \u2013 cette industrie vit un changement paradigmatique quant \u00e0 la nature des produits fabriqu\u00e9s. Plus particuli\u00e8rement, ce cas porte sur le m\u00e9tier des techniciens qui assurent l\u2019entretien et la r\u00e9paration des v\u00e9hicules. Le changement des modes de propulsion vers les v\u00e9hicules \u00e9lectriques et hybrides et l\u2019int\u00e9gration des technologies num\u00e9riques dans les nouvelles g\u00e9n\u00e9rations de v\u00e9hicules bousculent l\u2019industrie et remet en question les compromis institutionnalis\u00e9s pour les personnes qui assurent l\u2019entretien des v\u00e9hicules. Le changement climatique s\u2019imbrique dans l\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration des nouvelles technologies num\u00e9riques.
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Discussants : Isabelle Daugareilh<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>(COMPTRASEC – Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux), Jean Charest<\/span> <\/strong>(Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)<\/p>\n\n

Moderator : Pier-Luc Bilodeau<\/span> <\/strong>(Universit\u00e9 Laval)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thursday\u00a021 April 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Title :\u00a0<\/strong>Unfree Labour\u00a0: Experimental Remedies \/ Esclavage moderne\u00a0:\u00a0rem\u00e8des exp\u00e9rimentaux<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Time :\u00a0<\/strong>14h30-16h15 (Vancouver) ;\u00a017h30-19h15\u00a0<\/strong>(Montr\u00e9al) ;\u00a022h30-00h15\u00a0(London) ; 23h30-01h15 (Paris \/ Brussels) ; 05h30-07h15 (Beijing) ; 07h30-09h15 (+ 1 Day \u2013 > Friday 22 April, Melbourne)<\/p>\n\n

Language :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>English<\/p>\n\n

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CASE # 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Judy Fudge<\/strong> \u00a0(McMaster University),\u00a0Jonelle Humphrey<\/strong>\u00a0(McMaster University)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Experimental regulation to address forced labour in supply chains: What will Canada choose?<\/em><\/p>\n\n

There have been successive unsuccessful attempts by private members and senators to enact legislation that would require Canadian companies to take steps to avoid practices in their supply chains that could result in violations of human rights norms. The first bill was introduced in 2009 and it was designed to promote environmental best practices and to ensure the protection and promotion of international human rights standards in respect of the mining, oil or gas activities of Canadian corporations in developing countries. Since concerted business opposition defeated this bill, Conservative and Liberal federal governments have been reluctant to make any form of corporate social responsibility initiative mandatory. Beginning in 2018,\u00a0\u00a0there has been a flurry of private member and senate bills that would impose an obligation on Canadian corporations to disclose the steps that they have taken to ensure that there is no forced or child labour in their businesses or supply chains. This type of transparency legislation is modelled on similar modern slavery laws in California, the UK and Australia. On November 30, 2018, Canada, Mexico and the United States signed the\u00a0Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement\u00a0<\/em>(CUSMA), which requires each party to prohibit the importation of goods that have been produced in whole or in part by forced or compulsory labour.\u00a0
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Domestic political pressures have combined with Canada\u2019s international commitments to prompt the Liberal Minority government elected in 2021 to commit to introducing legislation to tackle forced labour in supply chains.\u00a0\u00a0Concerned that transparency laws do not work, advocacy groups promoting labour rights and corporate responsibility have urged the government to move beyond such laws to impose\u00a0\u00a0mandatory due diligence obligations. This case study addresses two questions: how will the federal government respond to these pressures and what type of regulation will it choose? Relying on key informant interviews and documentary analysis, this case study explores the role of social actors in shaping Canada\u2019s response to calls to introduce regulation to tackle forced and child labour in supply chains. It also assesses the range of regulatory experiments on offer and locates Canada\u2019s experiment amongst them<\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Shelley Marshall\u00a0<\/strong>(RMIT)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Neo-liberal expansion or regulatory assemblage aimed at taming supply chain capitalism? Australia\u2019s Modern Slavery Act after one year<\/em><\/p>\n\n

In late 2018 the Australian government passed its\u00a0Modern Slavery Act\u00a0<\/em>(the Act): its response to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and its substitute for more rigorous human rights due diligence legislation of the type seen in the European Union. Australian companies captured by the Act are now lodging their second statements in accordance with its reporting requirements. This paper reflects on responses to the Act so far to address a global debate about this model of regulation. Does the response by companies confirm fears that the\u00a0Modern Slavery Act<\/em>\u00a0represents a neo-liberal expansion of corporate agency? Or alternatively, is it part of a broader, fragmented regulatory extension of Australian labour regulation beyond the bilateral employment relationship to global production chains?\u00a0
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The paper will discuss the findings of a comprehensive study of Modern Slavery statements lodged by reporting entities in the first reporting cycle of the Act, as well as a broader assessment of regulatory innovation in Australia. On the one hand, the study shows few reporting entities accounting for actions that represent practical responsibility for egregious human rights abuses or action that might result in less bonded and forced labour. The most common actions reported entail passing responsibility for human rights protection onto suppliers. In this sense, the Act legitimates the expansion of governance power by lead firms over the production chain. But while the study confirms fears that big corporations are mainly using the Act to virtue signal without substance, there are some examples of firms that have been the target of labour rights campaigns taking more substantial actions. There is also normative power that can be harnessed by worker organisations from the public signalling by large corporations that they bear responsibility for labour conditions in production networks. If this were combined with legal actions made available to unions thanks to a raft of other reforms undertaken in recent years in Australia, it might provide an avenue for the expansion of worker agency rather than corporate agency. The paper \u2018tries out\u2019 the argument that the\u00a0Modern Slavery Act<\/em>\u00a0is best understood as part of a regulatory and policy assemblage aimed at moderating supply chain capitalism, and ends with a call to action to unions to better utilise this assemblage.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Discussants : Isabelle Martin<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al), Ren\u00e9e-Claude Drouin<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Moderator : Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau<\/strong> (UQAM)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Monday\u00a016 May 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Title :\u00a0<\/strong>Experimenting for Better Work? Assessing Models for Organizing along Value Chains\u00a0\/ Exp\u00e9rimenter pour am\u00e9liorer le travail le long des cha\u00eenes de valeur. Quelques mod\u00e8les d’organisation sous la loupe<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Time :\u00a0<\/strong>06h30-08h15 (Vancouver) ; 9h30-11h15\u00a0<\/strong>(Montr\u00e9al) ;\u00a014h30-16h15<\/strong>\u00a0(London) ; 15h30-17h15 (Paris \/ Brussels) ; 21h30-23h15 (Beijing) ; 00h30-02h15 (+ 1 Day \u2013 > Friday 1 April, Melbourne)<\/p>\n\n

Language :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>English<\/p>\n\n

Zoom Link :\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/umontreal.zoom.us\/j\/87305050959?pwd=OFJBcjkrTXRIeGdHM0xPRUdrQ3lLQT09<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Huw Thomas<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Bristol)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Experimenting with Institutional Power: Worker and Consumer Power in the Sri Lankan Tea Sector<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n

Completed work on the tea sector in Sri Lanka looking at experimental worker power in global value chains. Argument is that certification schemes (Rainforest Alliance, ETP, Utz) at best have no effect and at worst are associated with indecent forms of work. These multi-stakeholder\/private forms of governance did not provide an additional source of institutional power (failed experimentation). Conditions of work were improved and guaranteed through structural and associational power, combined with workers experimenting with different forms of institutional power (institutional experimentation) such as the ILO, its technical cooperation projects and its labour standards.<\/p>\n\n\n

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CASE # 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Jean Jenkins\u00a0<\/strong>(Cardiff University),\u00a0Helen Blakely<\/strong>\u00a0(Cardiff University), Rekha Chakravarthi<\/strong> (Cividep India), Rhys Davies<\/strong> (Cardiff University), Catriona Dickson <\/strong>(Cardiff University), Katy Huxley<\/strong> (Cardiff University), Sam Maher<\/strong>\u00a0(\u2026), Noa Serban-Temisan<\/strong> (Clean Clothes Campaign), Kaveri Thimmaiya<\/strong>\u00a0(\u2026)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Clean Clothes? The Never-Ending-Story of Exploitation in the International Garment Sector<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n

This paper is based on two pieces of research into conditions in the international garment sector.\u00a0\u00a0
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The first research project is the main focus for our analysis in this paper, and was a qualitative longitudinal study of workers in garment factories located in Bangalore, India. It was funded by the ESRC Global Challenge Research Fund and Indian and UK partners worked together in a research study that systematically recorded workplace grievances reported by workers to a small grass roots trade union organising in the locality over a period of 30 months. Detailed case notes on more than 350 workplace grievances were compiled between September 2018 and August 2021, supplemented by around 20 interviews with workers (conducted in their homes and other venues away from the workplace), plus observation of workers\u2019 forums and meetings, and review of documentary evidence.\u00a0
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The second research project was also funded by the ESRC Global Challenges fund, and focused more broadly on the international sector, as it involved a collaboration with the Clean Clothes Campaign to create a database of Urgent Appeals submitted to them by their network partners and associates around the globe. This project compiled a more user-friendly database, primarily intended for reference as a practitioner tool for Urgent Appeals Coordinators within the CCC Network, as well as providing an evidence-based research resource.\u00a0
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By using the evidence from both projects, we are able to move from the individual grievance into a broader understanding of their position and relevance for industry norms.\u00a0\u00a0Thus, our findings in the Indian context come into sharp relief when pictured as a case in point \u2013 the \u2018state of the industry\u2019 becomes particularised and made human in the experiences of the individual worker.\u00a0\u00a0We see how exploitation happens, how it affects workers in their daily lives, and how remarkable are the forms of collective organisation that fight for workers\u2019 rights and greater social justice at workplace level, despite facing the most immense odds in transnational space.\u00a0
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Empirically, the paper opens up the concrete experiences of workers on the ground, as well as affording insight into industry trends that form the backdrop for such conditions. Theoretically, it speaks to the possibilities of grass roots mobilisation in the face of uneven development and the collusion of states and corporations to negate in practice the international standards to which they commit in public.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taken together, the findings from the two research projects connect the international, the national and the local. It becomes possible to look in detail at workers\u2019 experiences of work that is defined by societal norms, gendered employment practices and multiple levels of socio-economic disadvantage, alongside data that illuminates changing trends in the broader geographies of exploitation along the international supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Discussants : Judy Fudge<\/strong>\u00a0(McMaster University),\u00a0Kevin Banks<\/strong>\u00a0(Queen\u2019s University)<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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