"Time and Money: Themes in Labour Relations"
International Workshop
International Centre for Advanced Studies "Metamorphoses of the Political"/Georg-August-University, Göttingen
18-19 December 2017, CeMIS, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
This conference is designed to consider two central themes of work relations: labour time and wage payments. The regulation of the working-week, working-day, and working hour on the one hand, and the varying modes of remuneration of work on the other, have been the source of major struggles within capitalist production relations. They have impinged upon the everyday lives of workers, and shaped both working and managerial practices at the point of production. Working hours and wage-payments can be understood both as separate forces shaping worlds of labour, and also in terms of their links with each other. This conference seeks to stimulate discussion on both of these dimensions of time and money in working lives and work structures. Labour-time and forms of remuneration vary widely, across different kinds of agricultural, industrial, and service work, as well as between formal and informal-sector labour. We intend this conference as an exploration of "time and money" across the full range of work regimes and experiences in modern and contemporary societies.
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Papers
Prerna Agarwala: The Problem of the 8-Hour Day in the First Decade of Independence Download
Görkem Akgöz: Dubious Data, Multiple Actors and Conflicting Stories: Debates over Factory Wages in Early Republican Turkey
Supurna Bannerjee: 'Leisure in Work': Understanding the Perceptions of Work-Day of Tea Plantations Workers of Dooars, India Download
Pratim Ghosal: Crisis and Transformations in the Tea Plantations of North Bengal Wages, ‘Social Security’ and Workers Politics Today Download
Chitra Joshi: Time, Work and Wages: Regulating Labour on the Road in 19th century India Download
Arun Kumar: The Night of Factory Workers: Capitalism and the Non-Working Time in the Working Class Mohallas (Bombay and Cawnpore, 1880s-1940s)
Enrique Martino: Dash-Peonage: The Contradictions of Debt Bondage in the Colonial Plantations of Fernando Pó Download
Dhiraj Nite: Whatever Happened to Work-Time? An Enquiry into the Manufacturing of Industrious Revolution in an Indian Coalfield, 1895-1970 Download
Vidhya Raveendranathan: Exploring tensions within the Wage Form: Famines, Grain and Urban Poor in Nineteenth Century Madras Download
Aditya Sarkar: Wage-Arrears, Bonuses And Strikes: Towards A Genealogy of the Wage-Form in Bombay’s Cotton Mills, 1917-1925 Download
Nitin Sinha: In the ‘Shadow’ of Regulations Download
Aardra Surendran: Marshalling or Meandering? 'Special Leave' and Worker Mobilisation in the Indian Public Sector Download
Suramya T.K.: The Factories Act and Regulation of Hours of Work in the Madras Presidency Download
Nargis Vasundhara: Domestic Work: Female Labor and Waged Intimacies Download
André Weißenfels: Neoliberal Bureaucratisation of Labour Relations. The Case of ISO 9001:2015 Download
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