| Georgetown University, 37th and O St. NW | |
| 12:00pm | Registration, Presenter check-in |
| 12:30pm – 12:45pm | Conference Welcome |
| 12:45pm – 2:15pm | Plenary for On Shifting Ground: The ILO and its Global Impact Chair: Leon Fink, Labor: Journal of Working Class History in the Americas, United States Jill Jensen, University of the Redlands, United States “World Employment and the ILO: From Social Justice to Basic Needs” Sandrine Kott, University of Geneva, Switzerland “A Useful Enemy: Communism and the ILO” Norberto Ferreras, Universie Federale Fluinense, Brazil “The Challenges Facing Indiginous Workers in Latin America: The ILO and Free Versus Forced Labor” Jens Lerche, University of London, United Kingdom “Unions and Conventions at the Bottom of Society: Organizing against Discrimination of Low Caste and Indigenous Tribe Labour in India” José Luis Gil, University of Alcalá, Spain “Fundamental principles and rights at work as an international social public order” |
| 2:15pm – 2:30pm | Coffee and light snacks |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm | Plenary for Building Workplace Power: Rethinking the Bargain, a Roundtable Discussion Chair: Lane Windham, Georgetown University, United States Joseph McCartin, Georgetown University, United States Karen Kent, UNITE HERE, Local 1, United States Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants, United States Saket Soni, National Guest Workers Alliance, United States |
| Organization of American States, 200 17th St NW | |
| 6:00pm – 8:00pm | Special Reception at the Pan American Union Building Welcome and Opening Remarks: Kevin Cassidy, ILO Office in the United States, United States Keynote Panel Chair: Cathy Feingold, AFL-CIO and ITUC, United States Adelle Blackett, McGill University, Canada Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 Daniel Maul, University of Oslo, Norway The International Labour Organization: 100 Years of Global Social Policy |
| Georgetown University,37th and O St. NW | |
| 8:30am | Coffee, Registration, and Presenter check-in, continued |
| 8:15am – 8:45am | New Primary Source Access for Labor Research Nathalie Duval, Alexander Street/ProQuest, United States Daniel Lewis, Employment, Work, and Labor Unions in the History Vault, United States Jill Jensen, Women and Social Movements Library Projects, United States |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Panel Sessions The Future of Working Time? Today’s Patterns and Challenges for Future Labor Standards
On Shifting Ground: The ILO and the Future of Work Chair: Brigid Schulte, Good Life Initiative/Better Life Lab at New America, United States
Lonnie Golden, Penn State University, United States “Working Time Mismatches and Worker Well Being Across 34 Countries” Jon Messenger, INWORK, ILO Geneva, Switzerland “Working time and the future of work around the world: Challenges for labour laws and policies in the 21st Century” Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute, United States “Challenges posed by nonstandard work, self-employment, and ‘gig work’” David Weil, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, United States “Ratcheting Federalism and the Fight to Expand Overtime Coverage in the US” Rewriting the Rules: Labor Governance for the 21st Century
Building Workplace Power: Rethinking the Bargain Chair: James Benton, Georgetown University, United States Lorenzo Frangi, University of Quebec, Canada and Tinting Zhang, Western New England University, United States “Improving Fundamental Labour Rights through Stronger Global Union Federations: Strategies to Elicit Affiliates’ Commitment” María Luz Rodríguez Fernández, University of Castile-La Mancha, Spain “Trade Unions in the Digital Age” Robert Stumberg, Georgetown University Law Center, United States “Transparency as a Governance Tool” Charlice Hurst and Dan Graff, University of Notre Dame, United States “Introducing a Just Wage Framework and Tool” Regulating Women’s Labors: Workplace Hazards and Activism
Gender, Sexuality, and Labor Rights Chair: Eduardo Contreras, Hunter College, United States Rosemary Ndubuizu, Georgetown University, United States “D.C.’s Community Defenders: Black Mothers and their Housing Battles against Financial Extraction” Isabelle Lespinet-Moret, Center for Social History of the 20th Century, Université Paris Pathéon-Sorbonne, France “ILO, Occupational Health, Universalism and Equality” Liz Faue, Wayne State University, United States and Amanda Walter, Wayne State University, United States “Understanding Workplace Risk through a Gendered Lens” Eloisa Betti, University of Bologna, Italy “Women’s Work and ILO Conventions Between Production and Reproduction: Women’s Activism, State Regulations and Work-place Mobilization in 20th Century Italy.” The ILO and International Labor Migration Global Workers, Global Supply Chains, Global Lives Chair: Jill Jensen, University of the Redlands, United States Charlie Fanning, University of Maryland, United States “The Past and Future of Migrants’ Work: The ILO, Global Migration Governance, and Precarious Employment” Rachel Micah Jones, Migrant Rights Center, United States “Using Trade Agreements to Empower Migrant Workers and Promote Labor Standards in North America” Neha Misra, Solidarity Center, United States “The Role of Workers Organizations in Protecting Migrant Workers and Preventing Workplace Abuses including Forced Labor.” Nicola Piper, University of Sydney, Australia “Global Governance of Labour Migration – the Myth of Safety, Regularity and Order” |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | Panel Sessions A Century of Conflict and Cooperation: The ILO in Latin America
On Shifting Ground: The ILO and the Future of Work Chair: Nancy Mirabal, University of Maryland, United States Patricio Herrera González, Universite de Valparaíso, Chile “Socially and economically weak children’: Child Labor, Legislation and Welfare in the American Technical and Labor Debate, 1936-1949” Diego Ortúzar, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, France “Proletarianize the Andes: Successes and Defeats of the Andean Indian Programme (AIP) in Bolivia, 1953-1969” Andres Stagnaro, Argentine Research Agency, CONICET, Argentina “Workers representatives, governmental representatives or Peronism representatives? Argentinean Workers delegates at the ILO´s Annual Conferences between 1943 and 1954” Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles, United States “‘Work for all Who are Available for and Seeking Work’: Full Employment and the Quest for Economic Development” Towards a Workers’ Agenda for New Technology
Building Workplace Power: Rethinking the Bargain Chair: Annette Bernhardt, University of California, Berkeley Labor Center, United States
Andrea Dehlendorf, Organization United for Respect, United States Derecka Mehrens, Working Partnerships USA, Silicon Valley Rising, United States Michelle Miller, Coworker.org, United States Haeyoung Yoon, National Domestic Workers Alliance, United States Home Labors
Gender, Sexuality, and Labor Rights Chair: Jennifer Fish, Old Dominion University, United States
Silvia Mwansa Chimpampwe, Development Consultant, Zambia “Domestic Workers’ Organizing and the Quest for Decent Work – The Case of Zambia.” Anna Rosinka, University of Massachusetts – Lowell, United States “Organizing Household Labor – What is the Role of Race and Ethnic Background in Advocating for Domestic Workers’ Rights?” Janine Berg, ILO, Switzerland “Learning from the Past, Fighting for the Future: Regulating Homework in the Digital Age” Protecting Migrants and Refugees Working in Global Supply Chains: New Directions for the ILO
Global Workers, Global Supply Chains, Global Lives Chair: Sabi Ardalan, Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic, United States Igor Bosc, ILO, India “Work in Freedom: ILO interventions beyond the traditional policy arena for migrants in the garment industry” Suneetha Eluri, ILO, India “The ILO-supported migrant worker center in Jordan’s Al Hassan special economic zone” Georgina Vazquez, ILO, Mexico “The evolution of the ILO’s REFRAME Programme to guarantee fair recruitment for migrants to Mexico” Jennifer Gordon, Fordham Law School, United States “Refugees as Workers: The ILO and refugee jobs compacts in Jordan and Ethiopia” |
| 12:30pm – 1:00pm | Carry-in lunch |
| 1:00pm – 2:15pm | Plenary: From Grassroots to Global: ILO Convention 189 Intro: Eileen Boris, SADSAWU, South Africa Chair: Shawna Bader-Blau, Solidarity Center, United States Josh Kellermann, RWDSU, United States |
| 2:15pm – 2:45pm | Coffee Break |
| 2:45pm – 4:15pm | Panel Sessions Protecting Workers on the Move and on the Factory Floor
On Shifting Ground: The ILO and the Future of Work Chair: Julie Greene, University of Maryland, United States
Ben Armstrong, Brown University, United States “Lessons for Gig Workers from the Shop Floor” Hui Xu, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany “Robotization in Manufacturing and the Changing Labor Power in China” Luisa Piart, Martin-Luther University & Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany “Labor Governance in the Shipping Industry and the Maritime Labor Convention 2006” David Lantarón Barquín, University of Cantabria, Spain and Elena Sychenko, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia “Is Decent Work Indeed for All? The Story of Irregular Migrants” Labor Law Regimes and the Freedom of Association, including the Public Sector
Building Workplace Power: Rethinking the Bargain
Chair: Guilherme Machado Dray, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Lance Compa, Cornell University, United States “The NLRA and ILO Freedom of Association Standards: Consistency or Conflict?” Alison Braley-Rattai, Brock University, Canada “International Labour Law in Canadian Freedom of Association Litigation” Pedro Madeira de Brito, University of Lisbon School of Law, Portugal “Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Southern Europe and the Latin America Case” John Logan, San Francisco State University, United States “Union Avoidance Goes Global” Activists Speak Out: Ending Gender-Based Violence at Work
Gender, Sexuality, and Labor Rights Chair: Tula Connell, Solidarity Center, United States
Robin Runge, Solidarity Center, United States Lupe Gonzalo, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, United States Marley Monacello, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, United States Antonia Peña, National Domestic Workers Alliance, United States Emily E. LB. Twarog, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States National and Regional Experiences with ILO Standards
Global Workers, Global Supply Chains, Global Lives Chair: Janice Bellace, University of Pennsylvania, United States Anna Salmivaara, University of Helsinki, Finland “National Labour Dispute Settlement in Buyer-Driven Value Chains: The Case of the Arbitration Council in Cambodia” Jeff Wheeler, American Federation of Government Employees, Georgetown University, United States “ILO v. ISO: Competing or Complementary Approaches to Labor Rights in Supply Chains?” Fabian Mehl and Petra Dünhaupt, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany “Labor Power in the Global South: Social Upgrading Paths in Different Sectors and Countries” Melanie Sheehan, UNC Chapel Hill, United States “Development and Demise: US Labor’s Failed Efforts to Improve International Labor Standards in the Post-World War II World” |
| 4:15pm – 4:30pm | Break |
| 4:30pm – 6:00pm | Plenary for Global Workers, Global Supply Chains, Global Lives: The Struggle for Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains
Chair: Ariane Hegewisch, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, United States Sungjoon Cho, Kent College of Law, United States “Connecting the Regulators: Institutional Foundations for a Global Supply Chain Regulatory Structure” Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University, United States “Governing supply chains and the role of the International Labour Organization” Genevieve LeBaron, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom “Combating the Global Business of Forced Labor in Agricultural Supply Chains” Scott Nova, Workers Rights Consortium, United States “From Deregulation to Reregulation: Strategies to Restore Corporate Accountability and Labor Rights Enforcement in Global Manufacturing” |
| 6:00pm – 6:15pm | Closing Session |