Wednesday, 23 August

Registration opens

Registration desk is open every day during the scientific programme. 

Session 1 (available for meetings, ad hoc sessions)

Coffee

Coffee is served at the Agora main hall by the registration desk. 

Opening remarks

Anne Kovalainen
Professor, Chair of the Conference, University of Turku

Jukka Kola
Rector, University of Turku

Keynote

Alex J. Wood
Dr, Senior Lecturer, Work, Employment, Organisation and Public Policy Group, University of Bristol
Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

The politics of platforms: power, precarity and protest

Chair: Senior Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor Seppo Poutanen, University of Turku, FI

Session 2 (parallel tracks)

1. CLIMATE CHANGE AND WORK
2. DIGITALIZATION AND ROBOTICS IN WORKING LIFE
15. TECHNOLOGY AND EVERY DAY LIFE

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Lunch

Lunch is served at the restaurant Galilei, entrance near the registration desk. 

Keynote

Virginia Doellgast
Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution, ILR School, Cornell University
Senior Research Fellow, Wirtschafts-und Sozial-wissenschaftliches Institut (WSI), Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

Democratizing technological change at work: Collective responses to digitalization and AI

Chair: Professor Anne Kovalainen, University of Turku, FI

Coffee

Coffee is served at the Agora main hall by the registration desk. 

Session 3 (parallel tracks)

1. CLIMATE CHANGE AND WORK
2. DIGITALIZATION AND ROBOTICS IN WORKING LIFE
5. FUTURE WORK BEYOND PLATFORMS
7. HYBRID WORKING – A PATHWAY TO BETTER WORKING LIFE?
13. SILENCES AT FRINGE AREAS: EMPLOYEES, WORK PLACES AND INSTITUTIONS IN ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL DISRUPTION
15. TECHNOLOGY AND EVERY DAY LIFE
17. WORK AND FAMILY

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Conference Get-together

Thursday, 24 August

Session 4 (parallel tracks)

4. EDUCATION, WORK AND LEARNING
6. GENDERING WORK
7. HYBRID WORKING – A PATHWAY TO BETTER WORKING LIFE?
8. INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS
10. OPEN STREAM
11. PLATFORM WORK: THEORY, RESEARCH AND ACTION
18. WORK, HEALTH AND WELLBEING

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Coffee

Coffee is served at the Agora main hall by the registration desk. 

Keynote

Valeria Pulignano
Professor of Labour Sociology and Industrial Relations, KU Leuven
ERC Professor, KULeuven

Theorizing adaptations to precarious work in an era of digital transformation

Chair: Professor Anne Kovalainen, University of Turku, FI

Session 5 (parallel tracks)

3. ECOLOGICAL-TECHNICAL TRANSFORMATION AND SOCIAL IMPACT
4. EDUCATION, WORK AND LEARNING
7. HYBRID WORKING – A PATHWAY TO BETTER WORKING LIFE?
8. INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS
9. LEARNING AND WORK
10. OPEN STREAM
11. PLATFORM WORK: THEORY, RESEARCH AND ACTION
18. WORK, HEALTH AND WELLBEING

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Lunch

Lunch is served at the restaurant Galilei, entrance near the registration desk. 

Author meets Critics

Misconceiving Merit. Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering

Mary Blair-Loy
Professor, Department of Sociology, UC San Diego, US

Erin A. Cech
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, US

Discussants: Associate Professor Izabela Wagner, Collegium Civitas University in Warsaw, PL & Professor Linda Rafnsdóttir, University of Island, IS

Chair: Professor Jerry A. Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania, US

Coffee

Coffee is served at the Agora main hall by the registration desk. 

Session 6 (parallel tracks)

7. HYBRID WORKING – A PATHWAY TO BETTER WORKING LIFE?
8. INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS
9. LEARNING AND WORK
10. OPEN STREAM
11. PLATFORM WORK: THEORY, RESEARCH AND ACTION
16. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMING CARE WORK AND PROFESSIONALS
18. WORK, HEALTH AND WELLBEING

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Conference Dinner

Friday, 25 August

Session 7 (parallel tracks)

11. PLATFORM WORK: THEORY, RESEARCH AND ACTION
12. PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT AND DIGITAL WORLD
18. WORK, HEALTH AND WELLBEING

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Coffee

Coffee is served at the Agora main hall by the registration desk. 

Keynote

Niels van Doorn 
Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
PI of the ERC-funded Platform Labor research project

Managing migrant gig workers at scale – A para-algorithmic approach to platform power

Chair: Senior Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor Seppo Poutanen, University of Turku, FI

Session 8 (parallel tracks)

11. PLATFORM WORK: THEORY, RESEARCH AND ACTION
12. PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT AND DIGITAL WORLD

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Lunch

Lunch is served at the restaurant Galilei, entrance near the registration desk. 

Session 9 (parallel tracks)