Changing patterns of segmentation & polarisation:
Causes, consequences and counter strategies
(Fairness at Work Research Centre)
2nd International Conference
Reconstructing Fairness:
the Contested Terrain of Fairness and Decency at Work
10th-12th September 2014
Manchester Business School
The University of Manchester
08.30 - 09.30: Registration – coffee
09:30 - 11:15 Plenary and welcome
Room: MBS EAST B10 Chair: Janine Berg (ILO)
Author(s)
Rafael Munoz de Bustillo
Llorente, José-Ignacio Antón
Rodrigo Rodrigues-Silveira
Enrique Fernandez-Macias,
John Hurley
Emily Murphy, Daniel Oesch
Paper
Changes in the structure of employment in the long run: the Spanish
case 1977-2013
Changes in Employment Structure in Brazil: 1991-2010
Exploring the drivers behind recent job polarization and upgrading in
Europe
Does technological change inevitably lead to occupational polarization?
Census-based evidence for Ireland and Switzerland 1970-2010
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee
11:45 - 13:00
Room: MBS EAST B3 Chair: Maria Karamessini
a) Gender, austerity and inequalities in southern Europe
Author(s)
Marcella Corsi, Valeria Cirillo
Caroline Recio, Teresa Torns
Maria do Pilar Gomez
Paper
Quality of employment in a gender perspective: the case of Italy
Gender inequalities in Spanish Labour Market: the continuum between
precariousness and informal work
Economic Crisis and Austerity Policies in Portugal: effects on the middle
classes
Room: MBS EAST B8 Chair: John Burgess
b) Non-standard employment
Author(s)
Adriana Marshall
Merja Kauhanen, Jouko
Nätti and Satu Ojala
Agnieszska Piasna
Paper
The incidence and structure of flexible employment in Latin American
countries: revisiting the evidence and explanations
Incidence and intensity of employer-funded training in Finland – does
the type or motive of temporary or part-time work matter for the
outcomes?
Consequences of non-standard working hours for work intensity: a
cross-national comparative perspective
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:40
a) Mare Curie workshop
Room: MBS EAST B3 Chair: Jill Rubery
Author(s)
Joan Miquel Verd
Vanessa Gash
Marti Lopez Andreu
Maria Karamessini
Paper
The impact of recession on trajectories and life chances viewed
through the lens of the Capability Approach
The Polarisation of Job Insecurity in Europe after the Great Recession,
comparing outcomes for atypical workers
Employment transitions and turning points in individuals’ life course in
times of recession and austerity: the cases of Spain and the UK.
Greek youth in the great Greek depression: from difficult transitions to
emigration
b) Migrants
Room: MBS EAST B8 Chair: Philippe Mehaut
Author(s)
Iain Campbell, Martina
Boese and Joo-cheong Tham
Chris Brennan
James Wickham
Paper
Two temporary migrant workers programs in Australia: Implications for
labour markets and labour market analysis
Disposable Tourists: Australia’s Working Holiday Maker Program
Workplaces, careers and conjunctures: migrant professionals in the
construction industry moving through time and space
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:40
a) Job structure and quality
Room: MBS EAST B3 Chair: Damian Grimshaw
Author(s)
Satu Ojala, Jouko Nätti and
Merja Kauhanen
Francis Green, Alan Felstead
and Duncan Gallie
Deok Soon Hwang
Chris Warhurst and Sally
Wright
Paper
Job quality in part-time and temporary employment in finland from
1970s to 2010s
The evolution of the level and distribution of job quality in Britain
Changes in Korea's job quality: 2001-2013
Job polarisation in Australia
b) Trajectories/youth
Room: MBS EAST B8 Chair:
Author(s)
Paolo Borghi, Guido Cavalca
Vanessa Di Paola, Philippe
Mehaut, Stephanie Moullet
Guillemette de Larquier,
Geraldine Rieucau
Rostislav Kapelyushnikov
Jackie O’Reilly
Paper
New representation strategies against job segmentation among
Italian professionals
The Poor Lonesome Young French in the Crisis
Labour market segmentation and youth employment insertion in
France: a job-finding channels approach
Structural change without job polarisation: the Russian case
09.00 – 10.00: Registration and coffee
10:00-10:15 Welcome – Opening of FairWRC Conference
10:15-11:15 plenary Room: Crawford Lecture Theatre Chair Helge Hoel
Author(s)
Gerhard Bosch
Paper
The bumpy road to a minimum wage in Germany.
Stephanie Barrientos
Buying with a conscience - fairness at work in buyer-supply chains
11:25- 12:40
a) Wages
Room: MBS EAST B3: Chair: Sebastian Ugarte
Author(s)
Matt Johnson
Anna Lukiyanova, Nina
Vishnevskaya
Karen Jaehrling
Paper
The living wage in UK local government
The Decentralization of Minimum Wage Setting in Russia – Courses
and Consequences
Compliance and enforcement of minimum wages
b) Inequalities and Work Room: B10: Chair Sheena Johnson
Author(s)
Andy Charlwood
Jo Cartwright, Gail Hebson
Paper
Is the distribution of subjective well-being at work fair?
Understanding inequalities in job satisfaction by class and gender
‘I’m not in Harvey Nichols…I’m not a personal shopper!’: Exploring
Colette Fagan, Karen Hassell,
Liz Seston and Nina Teasdale
the relevance of the triangular relationship and the performance of
emotional labour: the case of the retail industry.
Women’s under-representation in the university sector: an
exploration of the gendered nature of scientific leadership
c) Fairness and Labour Markets Room: B1 Chair: Miguel Martinez Lucio
Author(s)
Oxana Krutova, Liudmila
Lipiäinen and Pertti
Koistinen
Damian Oliver, John
Buchanan
Paper
Stable Employment, Permanent Adaptation or Labour Deprivation?
Considering Trajectories of Labour Market Integration among
Immigrants in Finland
Australia’s Fair Work Reforms: Refining, not redefining, a new
working order
Maria Hudson
Ethnicity and low wage traps: the importance of informal workplace
processes in labour market segmentation
d) Changing job structures
Room: MBS EAST B7: Chair: Jorg Flecker
Author(s)
Dominique Anxo
Damian Grimshaw, Anthony
Rafferty
Arja Jolkkonen, Pertti
Koistinen, Arja Kurvinen,
Liudmila Lipiäinen, Tapio
Nummi & Pekka Virtanen
Paper
Long-term Changes in the Swedish Job Structure: Upgrading or
Polarisation?
Long-run trends in the UK jobs structure: A story of upgrading with
some polarisation but not for all workers
Good and bad times of Displacements - Labour Market Attachment
of Displaced Workers after Plant Closings
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch
13:40 - 15:20
a) Production systems
Room: MBS EAST B3: Chair: Iain Campbell
Author(s)
Jorg Flecker
Al Rainnie, Caleb Goods,
John Burgess, Grant
Michelson
Phil Almond, Maria C.
Gonzalez
Damian Grimshaw, Jo
Cartwright, Arjan Keizer and
Paper
The devil takes the hindmost – precarisation of work from a valuechain perspective
Separating workforce from community: Fly in Fly Out Workers and
the West Australian resource Sector
Segmented production, business system competitiveness and
geographical contests for inward investment: Observations from the
UK and Spain
Cleaning contracting in the UK
Jill Rubery
b) Gender
Room: MBS EAST B7: Chair: Paola Villa
Author(s)
Dominik Postels, Christine
Slomka
Martine Dieckhoff, Vanessa
Gash, Antje Mertens, Laura
Romeu-Gordo
Brendan Burchell, Vincent
Hardy, Jill Rubery, Mark
Smith
Hugo Figueiredo, Vera
Rocha, Ricardo Biscaia,
Pedro Teixeira
Paper
The Swedish Welfare State in Times of Crisis: Resilience and Success
Dependent earners and part-time employment in the household
context
A Data Visualisation approach to understanding Occupational Gender
Segregation
Gender pay gaps and graduate labour markets in Southern Europe
c) Safety and New Fairness Issues Room B10 Chair Gail Hebson
Author(s)
Drusilla Brown
Dewhurst, E. Johnson, S.
Lynch-Wood, G. Horton, D
Noemi Sinkovics
Elinor O’Connor
Paper
Verbal Abuse, Contract Practices and Overtime Violations: Evidence
from Apparel Firms in Vietnam
Compulsory - Retirement: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Modern forms of workplace servitude
Work-related Stress in the Veterinary Profession
d) Age, Gender and Work Room B1 Chair Isabel Tavora
Author(s)
Helen Norman, Colette
Fagan
Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni
Niven, K. Johnson, S. Yap, M.
Farrow, T
Anne McBride, Gail Hebson
and Jane Holgate
Paper
What makes fathers involved? Exploring the relationship between
paid work and childcare
The right to work in the 21st Centry: Legal promotion of employment
for young people in Italy, Sweden and the UK
Compulsory Retirement: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Preaching to the ‘unconverted’: the broader benefits of taking an
intersectional approach
15.20 - 15.40 Coffee
15:40 – 16:55
a) EU
Room: MBS EAST B3: Chair: Anna Simonazzi
Author(s)
Anne Eydoux
Paola Villa, Mark Smith
Tiina Soininen
Paper
More or better jobs? The gender biases of employment trends and
employment policies in Europe
Gender equality, European leadership and the economic crisis – the
case of gender pay equity in the EU
Changing employment stability? Longitudinal analysis of tenures in
Finland 1991-2008
b) Multiple Disadvantage & Health Room B1 Chair Jo Cartwright
Author(s)
Carol Woodhams, Ben
Lupton & Marc Cowling
Helge Hoel, D. Lewis, Anna
Einarsdottir
Helen Mortimore
Paper
Multiple disadvantage and its impact on pay: an analysis of the
“snowballing” penalty effect
Straight talking/Talking straight: heterosexuals’ accounts of lesbians,
gay men and bisexuals’ struggle for fair treatment at work
Good managers know to check with HR: the doing of equality
compliance at work
c) The state, regulation and change Room B7 Chair Debra Howcroft
Author(s)
Aristea Koukiadaki & Aurora
Tiff
Miguel Martinez Lucio
Elizabeth Cotton
Paper
Does one-size fit all? Restructuring collective bargaining institutions
in Romania and Greece during the crisis
New Management Practices and the Question of Regulation: A
Reflection on the Incapacitation of State Intervention
An emancipatory model for building mental health at work: the
unique role of trade union education
17:00 – 18:00 plenary Crawford Lecture Theatre Chair Damian Grimshaw
Author(s)
Paul Stewart
Dieter Zapf
Paper
Fairness as Worker Control: the case of the European Automobile
Industry
Fair treatment of older workers
09.00 - Coffee
09:30-11:00 plenaries Room Crawford Lecture Theatre Chair Stephanie Barrientos
Author(s)
Colette Fagan
Tracey Warren
Paper
'Swimming upstream or being washed out to sea? Progress
towards gender equality in the UK'
Fairness at work in Britain: gender, class and economic wellbeing in
the economic crisis
Sara Charlesworth
Gender, migration and decent work in aged care: The Australian
case
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:10
a) The context of austerity
Room: MBS EAST B1: Chair: Gerhard Bosch
Author(s)
Annamaria Simonazzi
Josep Banylus, Albert Recio
Steffen Lehndorf
Dominique Anxo
Paper
Taking Summers seriously. Secular stagnation and the labour share
Generating poverty in Spain: productive structure, employers
strategies and public policy
Living in different worlds? Challenges to transnational labour
solidarity in the Eurozone crisis
The Swedish Welfare State in Times of Crisis: Resilience and Success
b) New forms of work and organising
Room: MBS EAST B10: Chair:
Author(s)
Eva Katharina Sarter
Stefania Marino, Heather
Connolly, Miguel Martinez
Lucio,
Siobhan Austen, Therese
Jefferson & Rhonda Sharp
Lucy Taksa, Alison Barnes,
and Sasha Holley
Arjan Keizer
Paper
From public to private - Contracting out, public procurement and
equal opportunities
Justice for Janitors ‘goes Dutch’
Using the IAD framework to examine dirty, dangerous and underpaid
work in aged care
On Borrowed Time: Restructuring, labour hire and its impact on
Qantas employees’ lives, incomes and security prospects
c) Recession and Change at Work in a Comparative Perspective
Room B3: Chair Helge Hoel
Author(s)
María C. González
Menéndez and Gabriel
Pruneda
Isabel Tavora
Eleni Sifaki
Fiona Macdonald & Sara
Charlesworth
Paper
The Spanish labour management model: Crisis? What crisis?
Employment, welfare and gender equality under recession and
austerity in southern Europe: The case of low educated women in
Portugal
Sustaining the GPN in times of crisis? Women’s unwaged work as
fallback position in the table grape GPN in Archanes, Greece
Disability services workers under individualised funding models: new
challenges for fairness and decency at work
d) Change at work Room B7 Chair Matt Johnson
Author(s)
Helen Norman, Nina
Teasdale, Colette Fagan
Sebastian Ugarte, Damian
Grimshaw, & Jill Rubery
David Holman & Anthony
Rafferty
Debra Howcroft and Birgitta
Bergvall-Kåreborn
Paper
Building a supportive infrastructure for gender equality in the UK?
Gender pay equity at the organisational level: exploring the impact of
formal, consistent and transparent HR practices
The influence of national institutions on the convergence and
divergence of job design in Europe from 1995 to 2010
Crowdsourcing labour: a study of Amazon mechanical turk
13:10-14:10 Lunch
14:10 – 15:25
a) Precarious employment
Room: MBS EAST B 1: Chair: Dominique Anxo
Author(s)
Simon Deakin
Jill Rubery
Paper
Institutional solutions to inequality and precariousness in labour
markets
Regulating for gender equality in an age of increasing inequalities
b) Fairness, Diversity and Inequality Room B3 Chair Miguel Martinez Lucio
Author(s)
Francine Morris
Nicholas Black
Juliet Nagy
Paper
Barriers facing mature graduates in the labour market
Organisational Income Inequality and the Financialisation of British
Universities
A critical examination of diversity and leadership progression in small
and medium enterprises (SMEs)
c) Voice and Fairness Room B7 Chair Stephen Mustchin
Author(s)
Manolchev, C and Lewis, D.
Steve Higginson (UNITE)
Joel Rudin
Paper
Channelling Employment Voice against Pressures of Workplace
Displacement: A Network Approach to Fairness at Work
Keep the Movement Moving
Reconstructing the Fairness of Health Care in the United States
15:25 – 15:40 Coffee
15:40 – 17:00
a) Issues of Wellbeing Room B1 Chair Juliet Nagy
Author(s)
Gitte Meyer
Paper
Well-being: Thick concepts and strict science
Matthew Alford
Ugo Orazulike
Public governance and multi-scalar contestation in global production
networks: crisis in South African fruit
Hermeneutics of OSH Regulation: empirical application of equal
standards for a determinate unprotected group
b) Governance and Wellbeing Room B3 Chair Jill Rubery
Author(s)
Sara Guediri
Philippe Méhaut & Cathel
Kornig
Martin Dietz & Christopher
Osiander
Paper
The role of formal and shared leadership in improving safety climate
and safety performance
Health and safety at work, psychological risks in the public urban
transports
What could all the money do? Designing training measures to
increasing job opportunities for low skilled unemployed
c) Fairness at Work Research Centre Session - The challenge of impact in our research
Room B7 Chair Sheena Johnson
Roundtable with FairWRC advisors and practitioners on the role and challenges of research in a
context of dissemination
17:00-17:10
Closure of Conference