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University of Zurich: Work and Social Justice: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age

13 December 2024 at the University of Zurich

Program:

08:30 Welcome coffee/tea

09:00
IMPLICATIONS OF PLATFORMISATION IN DOMESTIC AND CARE WORK
Camille Budon, Jessica Pidoux, Núria
Sánchez-Mira UNINE
The platformisation of domestic and care work in French-speaking Switzerland: a typology

Christiane Meyer-Habighorst UZH,
Christina Mittmasser HESGE, Karin
Schwiter UZH
“This big shadow that we need to turn into light” – How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work

Loïc Pignolo HSG
Between formalisation and reinforcement of inequalities: theambivalent role of digital platforms for paid domestic work in Switzerland

10:30 Coffee & tea break

11:00
PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PLATFORM LABOUR
Aju John, Nicolás Palacios ETHZ
Digital labor, migratory regimes, and social reproduction: the case of platform delivery workers in Berlin and Barcelona Luca Perrig HSG How ethical is crowdsourced ethical hacking?

12:00 Lunch buffet

13:00
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE WORLD OF WORK
Maria Cattaneo SCCRE, Christian Gschwendt UNIBE, Stefan Wolter UNIBE
How scary is the risk of automation? evidence from a large-scale survey experiment

Jana Z’Rotz HSLU/UNIL
From flexibility to stress? The impact of telework on paid work-life balance and well-being

Helena Hof UZH
Participation in the labour market through transnational entrepreneurship: Migrant entrepreneurs navigating professional work in Singapore and Japan

14:30 Coffee & tea break

14:45
REGULATING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Kurt Pärli UNIBAS
Labour and social security status of platform work in Switzerland – status quo and legal policy developments

Uma Rani ILO, Nicolas Pons-Vignon SUPSI
Power relations in the digital economy

15:45 Coffee & tea break

16:00
AWARDING THE SWISS PRIZE FOR LABOUR RESEARCH
Vania Alleva, president of the labour union UNIA

16:30
Apéro & networking

17:30 Symposium end

Location
DSI Eventroom SOC-E-010,
Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zürich

Registration
Attendance is free of charge and includes lunch & coffee/tea. Please register by December 2:
>>> ema.uzh.ch/R94CM <<<
Seats are limited and will be assigned in order of registration.

Organising team
Brigitta Bernet UNIA/UZH
Nicolas Pons-Vignon SUPSI
Karin Schwiter UZH
Peter Streckeisen ZHAW

Contact
karin.klein@uzh.ch,
conference administrator

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