Speakers
Mario BecksteinerClaudia BonkCao Xuebing
Antonella CeccagnoAnita ChanChang KaiChih-Jou Jay ChenChuang Ya-HanChung SukiSpeakersPaolo DoHermann DworczakPeter FrankeDaniel FuchsMary GallagherRolf GeffkenWolfgang GreifHan MiaoHuang JisuLau Ka MeiAndrea KomlosyAstrid LipinskyLiu SuyuLu HuilinTim PringlePun NgaiGianni RinaldiniThomas SablowskiWolfgang SchaumbergRoger SeifertJackie SheehanJonathan UngerWang KanFrido WentenMonina WongWu BinXu JiankangYang Keming
Mario Becksteiner
Mag. Mario Becksteiner teaches at the University of Vienna. Trainer for the GPA – DJP and ÖGB. Research Fields: Industrial Relations, Industrial Conflicts, Social Movements, Labour Studies. Labour activist, member of the “Betriebsrat für das wissenschaftliche Personal der Universität Wien”. | Abstract
Claudia Bonk
Claudia Bonk, born in Hamburg, Germany. Studies of Economincs and Political Sciences at the University of Hamburg, followed by a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Vienna. Since 1998 with Sudwind in different positions, now campaign manager of "Stop Toying Around!" - International Campaign for fair working conditions in Toy Industry. | Abstract
Cao Xuebing
Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK | Abstract
Antonella Ceccagno
Antonella Ceccagno is associate professor of Chinese culture and Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy. She has been the Managing Director and Research Director of the Centre for Immigration Research and Services, Prato, Italy , the place with the highest concentration of Chinese migrants in Italy, with a Chinese community constantly covered by international media because of its controversial success in taking over part of the fashion industry. For several years (1994-2007) she has acted as consultant to the local government in formulating immigration policies for socio-economic inclusion of the Chinese migrants. At the Centre in Prato she has developed different research projects based on interaction of research and services to migrants, making the provision of services to Chinese migrants a moment for better understanding not only migrants needs but also which directions research on migration should take. | Abstract
Anita Chan
Anita Chan is a research professor at the China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published widely on Chinese labor issues, rural China, Chinese youth, and comparative labor. She is co-author, of Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization (2009) and editor of Walmart in China (Cornell University of Press, 2011) and Labor in Vietnam (ISEAS Publishing, 2011). Her current research project is on the industrial relations of China’s auto industry. | Abstract
Chang Kai
Chang Kai is Director of the Labour Relations Research Institute of Renmin University (Beijing) and Professor of the School of Labour and Human Resources. He has published more than ten books on labour relations in China and overseas countries and has been closely involved in national policy-making on labour-related issues, such as the Labour Contract Law (2007). During the strike wave in the Chinese automobile industry in Summer 2010, he also participated in the Honda collective wage negotiation on behalf of the workers. | Abstract
Chih-Jou Jay Chen
Chih-Jou Jay Chen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University in 1997. He is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of Academia Sinica in Taiwan, a jointly appointed Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, and Director of the Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He is the author of Transforming Rural China: How Local Institutions Shape Property Rights in China (London and New York: Routledge/Curzon, 2004). His articles on China’s transformation appeared in Issues & Studies, Corporate Governance – An International Review, and Taiwanese Sociology. His current research projects examine popular protests in contemporary China, the government-business relations for Taiwanese businesses in China, cross-national comparisons of social networks between China, Taiwan, and the US, and social impacts of cross-Strait relations between China and Taiwan. | Abstract
Chuang Ya-Han
Ya-Han Chuang, born in Taiwan in 1982, is writing her phD dissertation entitled “Beyond 'Integration': new chinese migrants' social and spatial mobility in Paris” in Paris-IV Sorbonne University. She conducts a transnational ethnography and tries to observe chinese migrants' process of identification between the mounting influence of China's rise on overseas chinese and France's almost imposing emphasis on “integration” model towards foreigners. Having engaged in several NGOs that tackle precariousness in Taiwan before conducting PhD research, she is currently involved in the organization of Chinese migrant workers in Paris. Her research interests include fields such as sociology of migration, of collective action, urban sociology, and critical theories. | Abstract
Paolo Do
Paolo Do is researching on cognitive capitalism, education and social struggle at the global level. He is founder member of COMMON journal (www.commonrivista.org) and of the Free Metropolitan University project in Rome (www.lumproject.org). He is doing a PhD at the Queen Mary University of London on the transformation of the universities in East Asia. For this reason he has spent more than one year doing research field in China, studying the relationship between migration and the global higher education. He had the chance to enquire the struggles at Honda Foshan in Guangdong last summer, and I have published a book about this issue ("Il tallone del Drago", Derive Approdi press, 2010). He is living between Rome and London and I would be grateful if you give me the chance to debate with the interesting people invited to this conference. | Abstract
Peter Franke
Peter Franke is sociologist and inititator of the Forum Worlds of Labour – China and Germany (http://www.forumarbeitswelten.de/). Born 1950 in China and mother Chinese he has been involved in development education, solidarity- and information work in Germany since 1975 focussing on Southeast Asia. He was cofounder (1983) and long time director of the South East Asia Information Centre in Bochum as well responsible editor of the German language quarterly Südostasien Informationen until the end of 90s. In that capacity he was cofounder of the German Asia Foundation and Asienhaus (http://www.asienhaus.de) in Essen. He joined Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA) in Hong Kong 2002 to 2005 to help initiate a systematic process of engaged communication and dialogue between civil societies in Europe and Asia. Upon his return to Germany he increasingly focussed on China and labour issues, first working with the German Asia Foundation and later independently organizing information exchange and encounters between labour concerned activist and trade unionists in Germany and China. He teaches methods of empirical research at the University of Applied Social Sciences in Bochum and is also involved in a research project on informal urban-rural linkage in China at the TU University Dortmund. | Abstract
Daniel Fuchs
Daniel Fuchs writes his MA thesis at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna on changing working class-composition and workers’ autonomous agency in China. He works as a teaching assistant at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, University of Vienna and is active in the group „Perspektiven“ (www.perspektiven-online.at). His research interests include labor and social movements (with research done on/in China since 2006), migration, and Marxist social theory. He co-edited the book Aufbruch der Zweiten Generation. Wanderarbeit, Gender und Klassenzusammensetzung in China, Assoziation A, 2010. | Abstract
Mary Gallagher
Mary E. Gallagher is an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan where she is also the director of the Center for Chinese Studies. She is also a faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research.
Professor Gallagher received her Ph.D in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. She was a foreign student in China in 1989 at Nanjing University. She also taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing from 1996-1997. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2003 to 2004 at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, China where she worked on her current project, The Rule of Law in China: If They Build It, Who Will Come? This project examines the legal mobilization of Chinese workers. It was funded by the Fulbright Association and the National Science Foundation.
Her book Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China was published by Princeton University Press in 2005. She has published articles in World Politics, Law and Society Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Asian Survey. She is the co-editor of several new volumes on Chinese law and politics, including Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China (Cambridge 2011) and From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China (Cornell 2011). | Abstract
Rolf Geffken
Director of the Hamburg based Labour Institute ICOLAIR and the China Competence Centre Hamburg. Member of the Chinese European Arbitration Centre. Lecturer at the University of Oldenburg. Labour Lawyer in Hamburg since 1977. Various publications about German and International Labour Law and specifically about Chinese Labour Law and Chinese Labour Relations: “Labour and trade unions in China”, Editor: European Trade Union Institute, Brussel 2006; “The New Chinese Labour Contract Law”, (German/English(Chinese) VAR-Verlag Cadenberge, 3rd edition 2011; “Strike in China too?” (German/Chinese), VAR-Verlag Cadenberge 2011; newly published the novel “Shanghai Angel in Germany” (German), Schardt-Verlag Oldenburg 2010 and the report “Seamen in front of courts” (German), NW-Verlag Bremerhaven 2011. He organized the 1st German-Chinese Conference on Labour Law in Guangzhou 2004, the 1st German-Chinese Lawyers Conference in Tianjin 2008 and the German-Chinese Conference on Unions, Collective Bargaining and Strikes in Oldenburg 2010.
(Labour Institute ICOLAIR Hamburg) | Abstract
Wolfgang Greif
Wolfgang Greif, born on November 11, 1961, studied history and political science at the University of Vienna; post-graduate studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna. Since May 2001 Head of Department of Europe and International Relations in the Union of Salaried Private Sector Employees, Graphical Workers & Journalists, Austria (GPA-djp); since October 2002 Austrian member in the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Various publications on the history of the labor and trade union movement as well as on sociopolitical developments related to the European Integration. | Abstract
Han Miao
Miao HAN is a PhD candidate at Durham Law School in the United Kingdom. Her principal academic discipline is in the field of banking and finance law, especially at the international context. Currently she is conducting a comparative study to explore the role played by central banks in maintaining financial stability for her PhD degree. Miss Han has massively employed comparative studies for academic purposes, especially between China and the UK. Besides, her experiences of being disciplined in law both in China and in the UK have contributed to profound knowledge, logic-oriented thinking, details-focused attitude, and rational-driven analysis. Moreover, as a junior legal assistant, Miss Han has been engaged in some primary disputes concerning employment contract in China, which equipped her with genuine interest, as well as first-hand insights into this particular area. | Abstract
Huang Jisu
A scholar and intellectual, works currently as the deputy editor of International Critical Thought as affiliated with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Huang Jisu writes extensively on contemporary political, social and cultural issues, with the most recent publications including China is Unhappy (coauthored, 2009) and Keep Distance with the Elite (2009). He is also the author of the poetical theatres Che Guevara (staged 2000) and We Marching on the Grand Road (staged 2006) and the adaptor of Dario Fo’s The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (firstly staged in 1998). | Abstract
Andrea Komlosy
(Department of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna, Austria) | Abstract
Lau Ka Mei
Lau Ka Mei, Program Coordinator of the Chinese Working Women Network (CWWN). CWWN was set up in 1996 as a Hong Kong based non-governmental organization with the mission of promoting betterment for the lives of Chinese migrant women workers and developing feminist awareness of workers’ empowerment. Core members are labor organizers, feminists, university professors, researchers, social workers, cultural activists, workers and students. Our goal is to facilitate migrant women workers to fight for sustainable development in China. | Abstract
Astrid Lipinsky
The author is assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology of the University of Vienna. She mainly focuses on women's and gender rights questions in her teaching and research. She has extensively discussed the Regulations on women worker committees (gonghui nüzhigong weiyuanhui tiaoli) of 2004 that were praised as a new route to women workers empowerment in the Labour Federation in her PhD (published 2006, „Der chinesische Frauenverband. Eine kommunistische Massenorganisation unter marktwirtschaftlichen Bedingungen“, pp. 77ff). | Abstract
Liu Suyu
Linacre College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. I have a variety of research interest on the Chinese labour market, which is a fascinated topic that attracts a wide attention from researchers and activists. My PhD thesis is about the human capital accumulation in Chinese higher education, and its relationship with the wage determination in the labour market. In recent years I also paid attention to the adverse-direction migration of Nongmingong, the female-male and urban-rural income gap, returns to human capital, as well as the international dimension of domestic migration and labour market reforms in China. | Abstract
Lu Huilin
Lu Huilin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Peking University. He received his Ph.D. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was a Harvard-Yenching Visiting Fellow from 2002 to 2003. His research focuses on rural development and migrant workers in China. He is co-author (with Pun Ngai) of „A Culture of Violence: The Labor Subcontracting System and Collective Actions by Constructions Workers in Post-Socialist China“ (The China Journal 64, July 2010). | Abstract
Tim Pringle
Dr. Tim Pringle has been working on labour relations in East Asia and China since 1994. Tim moved to Hong Kong in 1996 and spent a decade working with trade unions and non governmental organisations to promote labour rights in Hong Kong and Mainland China. In 2004, he was appointed executive director of the International Confederation of Trade Unions’ Hong Kong Liaison Office responsible for informing and developing the international labour movement’s China policy. Tim returned to the UK in 2006, taking up a research post at the University of Warwick on an ESRC-funded project and completing his PhD. Tim published two books two books this year: Chinese Trade Unions: the Challenge of Labour Unrest (Routledge) and The Challenge of Transition: Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam (Palgrave) with Professor Simon Clarke. He has written for numerous trade union and human rights organisations and in peer-reviewed academic journals. | Abstract
Pun Ngai
Pun Ngai is Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Deputy Director of the Social Service Research Center, a joint project of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Peking University. She is author of „Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (Durham, 2005), co-author (with Li Wanwei) of „dagongmei. ArbeiterInnen aus Chinas Weltmarktfabriken erzählen“ (Berlin, 2008) and co-author of „Aufbruch der Zweiten Generation. Wanderarbeit, Gender und Klassenzusammensetzung in China“ (Berlin, 2010). She has also founded the „Chinese Working Women Network“, a Hong Kong-based labour NGO. | Abstract
Wolfgang Schaumberg
Magazine worker (logistics department) from 1970 – 2000 at the GM/Opel car factory in Bochum/Germany and for many years a member of the workers council, now retired, still IG metal member and active in the Opel-factory workers´ group GoG (“resistance without borders”), since 1981 active as a member of T.I.E. (Transnationals Information Exchange),also active as president of Labournet Germany ( www.labournet.de), and as a contributor in the "Forum Worlds of Labour – China and Germany", a project for a regular exchange between workers, activists, and researchers from China and Germany. (www.forumarbeitswelten.de) He was a co-organizer at 3 political education trips to China 2005 / 2006 / 2007 with activists, members of works councils, elected union delegates on grassroot level, and scientists and journalists, and at three similar “Germany tours” of Chinese guests. He took part at the World Social Forum 2003 in Porto Alegre, Brasil and 2004 in Mumbai, India. | Abstract
Roger Seifert
Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, Visiting Professor at Chanco University, Malawi; State Midlands University, Zimbabwe, and at the University of Beijing Institute of Science and Technology (2000-2006). Editorial Board member of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations; World Review of Political Economy; and Federation News. | Abstract
Jackie Sheehan
(School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) | Abstract
Jonathan Unger
Professor Jonathan Unger, a sociologist, is Director of the Contemporary China Centre at the Australian National University. He has published fifteen books about China, including Education under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools (1982), The Transformation of Rural China (2002) and, as co-author, Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization (2009). He co-edited, with Anita Chan, one of the leading journals in modern China studies, The China Journal, for 18 years from 1987 through 2005. | Abstract
Wang Kan
Wang Kan is lecturer at the Department of Employment Relations (China Institute of Industrial Relations and (since September 2010) Huges Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). His academic interests include: Collective action, international political economy, labor and employment relations, NGO and social movements. He has worked in several labor NGOs and is currently involved in the research project “NGO Advocacy and Effectiveness in China”. His various publications on labor issues in China include the article “The Changing Arena of the Chinese Industrial Relations: What is happening after 1978” (in Employee Relations, Volume 30, Issue 2, 2008). | Abstract
Frido Wenten
Frido Wenten writes his PhD thesis at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London on questions of workers' agency in the global political economy. He has done research on labor and social movements, especially in the Global South, and on Marxist social theory. His publications include: Aufbruch der Zweiten Generation. Wanderarbeit, Gender und Klassenzusammensetzung in China, Assoziation A, (co-edited, 2010); Arbeiterbewegungen in der globalisierten Welt. Eine kritische Würdigung des Ansatzes von Beverly Silver, in: H.-G. Thien: Klassen im Postfordismus, Westfälisches Dampfboot (co-authored, 2010). | Abstract
Wu Bin
Bin WU is a Research Fellow in China Policy Institute, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. With an interdisciplinary background, he has conducted many empirical studies in internal and international migration, and compact on both sending and receiving communities in China, Ital and UK. He has published or jointly edited five books (Routledge and Ashgate), one special issue (Journal of Contemporary China), many research reports and more than 30 academic articles in English and Chinese in range of themes including rural sustainability and farmer innovation, global seafaring labour market and Chinese seafarer mobility, working conditions of Chinese migrants in Italy and UK. | Abstract
Xu Jiankang
Professor, Economic Managing Editor, and the English Managing Editor in Social Science in China Press, a journal undertaken by The CASS. Since 2005 returning to China, publishing a series of articles in Chinese journals, including “The Challenge Faced by Guangdong Province’s Economic Internationalization”, “The Object of Marx’s CAPITAL and the Fetishistic Formation of the Capitalist Mode of Production”, “The Debate of China’s Paths to Reform and Open its Economy”, “The Bankruptcy of the Global Reform Programs Made by New Liberalism”, “The Theory of Economic Long Waves” etc.| Abstract
Yang Keming
Dr Keming Yang is a lecturer of sociology at the University of Durham, United Kingdom. He is the author of Entrepreneurship in China (Ashgate, 2007) and Making Sense of Statistical Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2010). He is currently working on a book to be published by Palgrave MacMillan on the political status of capitalists in China. | Abstract
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