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INDL 7 conference
28-29-30 October 2024, Santiago de Chile
INDL-7 program
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INDL-7 Keynotes
Mark Graham
University of Oxford
Action Research in the Digital Economy: The Fairwork Project
Though the digital platform economy in some contexts has created new employment opportunities, work in the platform economy has been widely criticized for its often precarious and exploitative character. One central mechanism through which digital platforms construct and conceal exploitative employment relations are information asymmetries among platforms, workers, and consumers. These information asymmetries are created through, among other things, a lack of transparency on how platforms allocate work, calculate payments, and use customer reviews for incentive structures and other rating-based work outcomes. Against this backdrop, the Fairwork project conducts action research to tackle these information asymmetries. In this talk, I introduce the Fairwork project and provide critical insights into our engagement with platforms as an action research strategy. I explain how this action research strategy can be effectively deployed both in the gig economy, and across the supply chains of AI.
Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute and Research Affiliate in the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment, among other institutions. Mark leads a range of research projects spanning topics between digital labour, the gig economy, internet geographies, and ICTs and development. Together with colleagues on three continents, Mark, with a group of labour lawyers and labour sociologists, has founded the participatory action research project called Fairwork, which has now grown to an international project team of over 200 people in 39 countries. It has brought together key stakeholders around the world – including workers, trade unions, platforms, and policymakers – to set minimum fair work standards for the gig economy. Mark also leads the ‘Digital Inequality Group‘ of researchers at Oxford. His research has focused on digital entrepreneurship and the ways that conditions in African cities shape practices of local entrepreneurs (as part of a large project about African ‘knowledge economies‘), and on how the internet can impact production networks (of tea, tourism, and outsourcing) in East Africa, and asked who wins and loses from those changes. He serves as editor of the journal Environment and Planning A, and as an editorial board member of Information, Communication & Society; New Technology, Work and Employment; Geo: Geography and Environment; Global Perspectives; Digital Geography and Society; Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation; and the Weizenbaum Journal of Digital Society.
Rafael Grohmann
University of Toronto
Pedagogies of Struggles:
How Workers are Learning to Govern Platforms and AI
Around the world, workers are trying to build collectivities while dealing with platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). Whether in cooperatives, unions, associations, and other collectives, workers are learning to govern these technologies through bargaining and/or technology development. This talk will emphasize the importance of understanding the pedagogies of struggles in the digital labor landscape, as aspects of class struggles. No one is born an organizer, and no one is born knowing all the risks and possibilities of AI. How do workers collectively learn the meanings of platforms and AI? The presentation argues for the need to understand platform/AI governance from below, led by workers, and build on the Latin American tradition of educommunication for a better understanding of AI/platform literacy. The talk will show how Hollywood writers, the Homeless Worker Movement in Brazil, tech co-ops in Argentina and delivery workers in co-ops and unions in Brazil are learning to govern platforms and AI, as prototypes of organizing, amidst challenges, failures and experiments.
Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. He is leader of the DigiLabour initiative and principal investigator of Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP). Grohmann is a Faculty Fellow at the Queer and Trans Research Lab / Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (University of Toronto). He is researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) project. He is also co-lead of Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project. Grohmann is one of the founding editors of Platforms & Society journal and an editorial board member of Big Data & Society and Communication, Culture and Critique journals.
Ludmila Abilio
Universidade de Campinas, Brazil
The centralized and controlled dissemination of just-in-time work: Uberization as a global trend
We define uberization as a new form of labor control, organization, and management (Abílio, 2017). Although it takes shape and becomes recognizable primarily within platform work, it can be understood as a trend that permeates and pressures whole labor markets, especially in the South. We present three main features of uberization. 1) The transformation of workers into just-in-time workers (De Stefano, 2016; Berg,2016; Abílio, 2017). This is a centralized process, promoted by the oligopolies of a few companies, successfully subordinating, and managing large crowds of informal, available, just-in-time workers in a highly rationalized way. Algorithmic management provides the sociotechnical means for this management of workers as pure labor force (Abílio, 2019). 2) Informalization processes (Abílio, 2020), as a powerful synthesis of work flexibilization. It involves the loss of stable, regulated, and recognizable limits to work exploitation; the withdrawal of labor rights and guarantees; and the informal and dispersed transfer of risks and costs to the multitude of workers. 3) Subordinated self-management (Abílio, 2019), as the transfer of part of the management of work to the worker himself, albeit in a highly obscure and subordinated manner. The loss of boundaries of labor time, the non-contractual subordination (Zuboff, 2019), the transfer of unpaid costs and tasks to the worker, involves a rationality in which workers become responsible for intensifying the productivity of their work.
Based on more than 15 years of empirical research with informal and formal low-wage workers in Brazil, we argue that these elements, however, are not new for peripheral workers. The fabric of the Brazilian world of work is woven by life trajectories in a permanent transit between informal and formal work and popular entrepreneurship; of workers who face, resist, and adapt every day to instability, uncertainty, unfairness, and obscure and flexible rules, especially Black workers. In this way, at the center of uberization lies new forms of subordination and the centralized expansion of structural elements that make up the world of work and everyday lives of workers in the South (Abílio, 2017 and 2020)
We present the results of 12 years of empirical research with motorcycle delivery workers, based on interviews guided by life trajectory studies (Revel, 1998), and surveys on labor conditions and health. These studies have allowed us to closely follow the transformations of this work, new forms of control, and new forms of resistance.
Ludmila Costhek Abilio holds a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, a Master’s in Sociology, and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Campinas. She is currently an independent researcher affiliated with the Alameda Institute, where she coordinates comparative research on app delivery workers in Brazil and the UK. Over the last twenty years, she has been investigating informal work and its relation to capitalist accumulation in the Global South. Her main research areas focus are the uberization of work, new forms of management, organization, and control of labor, as well as the relationships between labor exploitation, financialization, and capitalist accumulation. This has made her one of the leading Brazilian references on the uberization of work.
Julieta Haidar
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Plataformas digitales: modelo de negocios y subjetividad trabajadora
Muchos son los estudios y consensos alcanzados en torno al trabajo de plataformas. Sin embargo a la fecha hay dos grandes tópicos que han sido analizados de forma insuficiente y con relativa simplificación: el modelo de negocios de las plataformas y la subjetividad de quienes trabajan. Mientras que sobre el modelo de negocios la afirmación generalizada es que las plataformas son empresas meramente “rentísticas”, en relación a la subjetividad trabajadora la perspectiva dominante es que las/os trabajadoras/es han sido ganadas/os por el discurso del “emprendedurismo”. La propuesta es revisar en forma crítica estas perspectivas, pensar nuevas aristas, categorías de análisis y metodologías para abordar ambos problemas.
Respecto al primer tópico, aquí entendemos que las plataformas son creadoras de mercados, dado que definen y organizan al menos cuatro aspectos que configuran un mercado con fines de lucro: mercantilización, membresía, gobernanza y monetarización. En este proceso las plataformas no sólo capturan valor en forma de renta, sino que a fin de captar más valor, intervienen activamente en la producción de ese valor. Promueven el intercambio, tienen injerencia en la producción de mercancías, arbitran precios. ¿Qué impactos tiene esto sobre la economía? ¿Y sobre las/os trabajadoras/es?
Respecto al segundo tópico, se identifican las valoraciones de las/os trabajadoras/es respecto a las plataformas, muchas de las cuales guardan correspondencia con el ideal del “emprendedor de sí”: ser autónomas/os y proactivas/os. Estas formulaciones, sin embargo, constituyen cosificaciones que reducen la complejidad de los sentidos y ocultan las tramas de su construcción. Los sentidos son ambiguos, tensionales y contradictorios, y están configurados por múltiples determinaciones, entre ellas la estructura socioeconómica y las trayectorias biográficas. ¿Cómo abordar estas complejidades? ¿Cómo incorporar estos sentidos contradictorios y multi determinados a la organización colectiva?
Julieta Haidar is Associate Researcher at the Argentinian Research Council in the Workers’ Innovation Centre (CITRA-CONICET) and Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. She specializes in labour relations, focusing on the future of work, collective organization of workers, and the political economy of trade unionism. She has been Academic Director of the Trade Union Training School at CITRA-CONICET and Academic Director of the Fairwork project in Argentina. Her research, which focuses on work, subjectivities, and collective organization in both online and offline labor platforms, has positioned her as a leading expert on digital labor and the collective organization of platform workers in Argentina and Latin America. She has worked as consultant for the ILO on digital platforms, and published important articles on this topic, as well as the book “Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism” along with Maarten Keune. Currently she is Research Fellow at the Internation Institute of Social Studies in the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Antonio Casilli
Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France
Title: "Digital Workers, Some More Effort If You Wish To Become A Class For Yourself!" New Frontiers of Platform and AI Activism
Digital labor has become an enduring feature of the global economy and a defining aspect of our everyday lives. Over the past three decades, it has manifested in various forms—mediated by software-as-a-service, platforms, and mobile applications. While some groups of digital laborers, such as location-based gig workers and content moderators, have begun to forge international solidarity networks and mount large-scale campaigns for the recognition of their rights, the majority of digital occupations remain unrecognized and unprotected.
By dismantling the artificial divide between the conspicuous global consumption of digital products and the equally global yet inconspicuous production of those same products, we can better understand that digital labor involves not just tech workers, influencers, or Uber drivers, but entire communities of users and producers of technology. Drawing on Latin American perspectives and historical framings of labor, I explore how this growing phenomenon intersects with informality and coloniality, offering new ways to conceptualize it.
Various emerging policy frameworks are addressing the social embedding, environmental sustainability, and community governance of human labor in digital economies. In an era of widespread artificial intelligence production, these frameworks highlight the central role of labor while also offering new opportunities for activism and policy integration.
Antonio is full professor of sociology at the Institute Polytechnique de Paris. He is a by-fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge for the year 2024, and an associate researcher of the “Data, Algorithmic Systems and Ethics” research group at the Weizenbaum-Institut, Berlin. His main research foci are technologies, digital platforms, and digital labor. He has conducted fieldwork in Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and coordinated several international research projects. He is the co-founder of the DiPLab (Digital Platform Labor) research program and of the INDL (International Network on Digital Labor). Among his publications, Waiting for Robots. The Hired Hands of Automation (University of Chicago Press, 2024) and Qu’est-ce que le digital labor? ([What is digital labor?], Editions de l’INA, 2015; with D. Cardon). He has been featured in several international media outlets (Le Monde, Il Corriere, Arte, BBC, Wired, Times of India). To increase public access to academic study of technology, he has co-written two documentaries: “Invisible Clickworkers“ (2020) and “In the belly of AI” (2024), produced by the French national public television broadcaster.
The Data Workers’ Inquiry: Recentering Workers’ Epistemic Authority
Panelist: Milagros Miceli (Weizenbaum-Institute, DAIR, TU Berlin), Camilla Salim Wagner (Weizenbaum Institute / TU Berlin), Adio Dinika (DAIR), Krystal Kauffman (DAIR / Turkopticon), Alexis Chavez, Oskarina Fuentes.
The Data Workers’ Inquiry merges knowledge production with on-the-ground impact by centering workers as the source of epistemic authority and central agents of social change. The project is organized by scholars within research institutions who invite data workers, i.e., those who produce the data that fuels AI systems, to join as co-researchers. The co-researchers define research questions and lead investigative processes in their workplaces. By recognizing workers as experts, the project challenges traditional hierarchies of knowledge and centers the lived experiences of otherwise marginalized groups, shifting the focus of knowledge production.
In this panel, the project team will discuss methodological aspects and explore the limitations of the Workers’ Inquiry approach. The panel will include two data workers and project co-researchers from Venezuela and Colombia, who will delve into data work tasks, labor conditions, collaboration, and organization in the Latin American context. Together, they will discuss findings and explore resistance strategies, paths forward, and academic efforts to enhance workers’ empowerment and epistemic authority within complex knowledge/power networks.
Call for papers of INDL-7
Call for Papers: INDL-7 conference
Digital Labor and Power Dynamics: Present and Future of Work Scenarios
Santiago de Chile, 28-30 October, 2024
(Extended deadline: June 9, 2024)
The International Digital Labor Network (INDL) is pleased to announce its seventh congress, which will be held for the first time in Latin America, in Santiago, Chile, October 28-30, 2024. The theme of INDL-7 “Digital Labor and Power Dynamics: Present and Future of Work Scenarios” aims to explore the different patterns and dynamics of power (domination, resistance, agency) that affect the conditions, experiences and rights of people engaged in different forms of digital labor.
The scope of digital labor has expanded exponentially in recent years, encompassing increasingly diverse modalities, such as the unpaid work of social network users, paid work mediated by digital work platforms (geolocated or Web-based), and formal employment in industries and digital media. Understood in a broader sense, it can also include various traditional occupations, both formal and informal, having undergone processes of digitization, platformization, and intensive use of big data and artificial intelligence.
The INDL-7 congress seeks to advance in the understanding of the way in which the different forms of social domination and control of labor that have characterized capitalist modernity are updated and reorganized, but are also contested and disputed by workers, throughout the different forms of digital labor.
Recent developments have shown that the new technological transformations are far from having fulfilled the utopia of a world with less work and greater autonomy, with significant processes of precarization, increased inequalities and strengthening of capital-labor asymmetries in different scenarios of digital labor. These inequalities and asymmetries in the field of labor intersect with other logics of domination based on gender, ethnicity, age, nationality, territory, among other axes of exclusion that shape the distribution of resources, opportunities and rights in our societies.
However, research has also shown how the various micro-, meso- and macro-power dynamics that cut across digital labor are both contested and controversial terrain. Under certain conditions, the most affected stakeholders deploy their individual and collective agency, re-signify the use of new technologies and create new material, institutional and symbolic resources that strain the various dynamics and mechanisms of power.
Through the communication of empirical studies and/or theoretical-conceptual perspectives, the INDL-7 congress seeks to generate a space for discussion on the way in which these diverse patterns and dynamics of power are constituted and deployed, allowing us to broaden our understanding of the trends towards digitalization, fragmentation and informalization that are transforming labor scenarios, redrawing social life and shaping possible future trajectories of the labor market.
The aim is to generate spaces for encounters and dialogue around studies and analyses that may focus on the different actors involved in power dynamics in digital labor (workers, local companies, digital platforms, multinationals, consumers, policymakers, etc.), on the various forms in which these are expressed (institutional frameworks, organizational and management models, imaginaries, practices, subjectivities, etc.) and on the different levels of social life in which they are deployed (daily interaction, organization, the State, global geopolitics, etc.).
It is of particular interest to encourage attention to the power dynamics between the North and the global South that are at play in the chains of production in which digital labor participates, as well as to those that unfold within the academic field itself dedicated to the study of digital labor (gender asymmetries, coloniality/decoloniality of knowledge, geopolitics of knowledge, etc.). Finally, the INDL-7 conference invites reflection on how the analysis of power dynamics within the territory of digital labor can contribute to the generation of alliances, the construction of political agendas and the design of public policies that contribute to the strengthening of social justice and sustainable development in our societies.
Topics
In this context, some of the topics of interest for the INDL-7 congress include, but are not limited to:
• Conceptual definition and descriptive characterization of labor markets and different modalities of digital labor.
• Specific types of activity or platforms: delivery, ride-sharing, personal care, domestic work, content moderation, freelance work, micro-tasking, data management, among others.
• New forms of rationalization and control of digital labor.
• Gender, racial and socioeconomic inequality in digital labor and/or its impact on the capital-labor conflict.
• The influence of large corporations and digital labor platforms in shaping North-South relations.
• Alienation, dispossession, commodification of the lives of male and female workers in the processes of digital labor.
• Strategies of resistance, collective organizing and empowerment of workers in digital labor environments.
• Effects of digitization and platformization on people working for the State.
• Digital labor in different specific productive sectors in comparative perspective.
• The role of regulatory systems and government policies in the formation of power structures and the protection of workers’ rights in the digital economy.
• Emerging forms of labor organization and trade unionism in the digital context and their ability to influence power relations.
• Work cultures and ideologies in relations of domination and resistance in digital labor.
• Everyday life, identities and local interactions in digital labor.
• Social representations of digital labor in contemporary culture.
• Sociotechnical networks, imaginaries and AI: Implications for digital labor.
• Human and non-human ecology of Artificial Intelligence and digital labor.
• Technologies of the self and emerging modes of subjectification in digital labor.
• Social theory and conceptual frameworks for the study of digital labor.
• Social networks, cultural changes and digitization of everyday life as fields of contestation of meanings and interests.
• Domination, collaboration and resistance among researchers interested in digital labor or between researchers and actors involved in digital environments.
• Challenges of the institutional regulation of digital labor markets.
• Challenges of the global governance of digital labor.
• Social justice, sustainable development and digital labor.
Submissions
Academics, PhD students, researchers, practitioners and experts interested in these topics are warmly welcome to submit abstracts for individual presentations.
Abstracts should have a maximum length of 400 words and can be submitted in Spanish, English or Portuguese. You need to create an account to submit. Uploaded files should be anonymous for reviewers, and should contain:
• Title
• Abstract (object of empirical study or theoretical reflection, main empirical findings and/or theoretical development of the topic, methodology, relevance and contribution to the study of power relations in digital labor).
Abstracts may be accepted for oral or poster presentation.
Graduate students in the early stages of research are invited to submit their work directly for consideration in the poster format by checking the appropriate option when submitting their abstract.
Important Dates
- Deadline for abstract submission: (extended deadline) June 09
May 31, 2024 - Acceptance notification: June 29, 2024
- Registration opens: TBA
- INDL-7 conference date: 28-30, October 2024
We look forward to receiving innovative proposals that will enrich the North-South dialogue on digital labor and power dynamics at the upcoming INDL-7 congress of the International Digital Labor Network (INDL). We are convinced that as in previous editions of this congress, the gathering of this vibrant community will provide the opportunity to create new friendships, networks and fruitful academic collaborations.
This edition of the INDL-7 conference is organized through a collaborative alliance with different research centers and programs of Chilean universities, specifically, the Evolution of Work Millennium Nucleus (MNEW); the Program of Psychosocial Studies of Work (PEPET), Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Diego Portales; the Center for Organizations and Labor Relations (COR), Universidad Alberto Hurtado; the Center for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES); the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Universidad Austral; the Millennium Nucleus Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR); and the Digital Platform Labor (DiPLab) research initiative. The event is also sponsored by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations agency responsible for setting international labor standards to promote social and economic justice.
Information regarding the following will be published soon on this website:
• Scholarships for Registration
• Scholarships for lodging and meals
• Conference membership/registration fees, adjusted to participants’ available funding.
Contact
If you have any questions you may email us at contact@indl.network
We look forward to receiving your submissions and to fostering an engaging and thought-provoking discussion at the conference.
CONVOCATORIA – LLAMADO ENVÍO DE RESÚMENES 7º CONGRESO: Red Internacional de Trabajo Digital (INDL)
Trabajo Digital y Dinámicas de Poder: Presente y futuro de los escenarios laborales
Santiago de Chile, 28 al 30 de octubre de 2024
(Fecha límite ampliada: 9 de junio de 2024)
La Red Internacional de Trabajo Digital (INDL) se complace en anunciar su séptimo congreso, que se llevará a cabo por primera vez en América Latina, en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile, del 28 al 30 de octubre de 2024. Bajo el tema de “Trabajo Digital y Dinámicas de Poder: Presente y futuro de los escenarios laborales”, INDL-7 se propone explorar las diferentes tramas y dinámicas de poder (dominación, resistencia, capacidad de agencia)que afectan las condiciones, experiencias y derechos de las personas insertas en distintas formas de trabajo digital.
El territorio del trabajo digital se ha expandido de manera exponencial en los últimos años, abarcando modalidades cada vez más diversas, como la labor no pagada de los usuarios de redes sociales, el trabajo remunerado mediado por plataformas digitales de trabajo (de geolocalización o basadas en la Web), y el empleo formal en industrias y medios digitales. Pudiendo incluir también, entendido en un sentido más laxo, las distintas ocupaciones tradicionales, formales e informales, que han experimentado procesos de digitalización, plataformización y uso intensivo de big data e inteligencia artificial.
El congreso INDL-7 busca avanzar en la comprensión del modo en que las distintas formas de dominación social y control del trabajo que han caracterizado la modernidad capitalista, se actualizan y reorganizan, pero son también contestadas y disputadas por los trabajadores/as, a lo largo de las distintas formas de trabajo digital. Recientes desarrollos han dado cuenta que las nuevas transformaciones tecnológicas están lejos de haber cumplido con la utopía de un mundo con menos trabajo y mayor autonomía, constatándose importantes procesos de precarización, incremento de las desigualdades y fortalecimiento de las asimetrías capital-trabajo en distintos escenarios del trabajo digital. Dichas desigualdades y asimetrías en el campo laboral se intersectan con otras lógicas de dominación basadas en el género, la etnia, la edad, la nacionalidad, el territorio, entre otros ejes de exclusión que moldean la distribución de recursos, oportunidades y derechos en nuestras sociedades.
Sin embargo, las investigaciones han mostrado también el modo en que las distintas dinámicas de poder micro, meso y macro que atraviesan el trabajo digital son un terreno disputado y cuestionado. Bajo ciertas condiciones, los actores más afectados despliegan su capacidad de agencia individual y colectiva, resignifican el uso de las nuevas tecnologías y crean nuevos recursos materiales, institucionales y simbólicos que tensionan las distintas dinámicas y mecanismos de poder instituidos.
A partir de la presentación de estudios empíricos y/o reflexiones teórico-conceptuales, el congreso INDL-7 busca generar un espacio de discusión sobre el modo en que se constituyen y despliegan estas diversas tramas y dinámicas de poder, permitiendo ampliar nuestra comprensión sobre las tendencias a la digitalización, fragmentación e informalización que están transformando los escenarios laborales, redibujando la vida social y dando forma a posibles trayectorias futuras del mundo del trabajo.
Se espera generar espacios de encuentro y diálogo en torno a estudios y análisis que pueden focalizarse en diferentes actores que participan de las dinámicas de poder en el trabajo digital(trabajadores/as, empresas locales, plataformas digitales, multinacionales, consumidores, responsables de las políticas públicas, etc.), en las diversas formas en que estas se expresan (marcos institucionales, modelos de organización y gestión, imaginarios, prácticas, subjetividades, etc.) y en los distintos niveles de la vida social en que se despliegan (la interacción cotidiana, la organización, el Estado, la geopolítica global, etc.). Interesa especialmente fomentar la atención hacia las dinámicas de poder entre el Norte y el Sur global que se ponen en juego en las cadenas de producción de las que participa el trabajo digital; así como a las que se despliegan dentro del mismo campo académico dedicado al estudio del trabajo digital (asimetrías de género, colonialidad/decolonialidad del saber, geopolíticas del conocimiento, etc.). Finalmente, el congreso INDL-7 invita a reflexionar sobre el modo en que el análisis de las dinámicas de poder dentro del territorio del trabajo digital puede contribuir a la generación de alianzas, la construcción de agendas políticas y el diseño de políticas públicas que contribuyan al fortalecimiento de la justicia social y al desarrollo sostenible en nuestras sociedades.
En ese marco es posible mencionar algunos de los temas de interés para el congreso INDL-7, los que incluyen, pero no se limitan a:
• Definición conceptual y caracterización descriptiva de los mercados laborales y las distintas modalidades del trabajo digital.
• Específicos tipos de actividad o plataformas: reparto, transporte de pasajeros, cuidado de personas, trabajo doméstico, moderación de contenidos, trabajo freelance, microtareas, gestión de datos, entre otros.
• Nuevas formas de racionalización y control del trabajo digital.
• La desigualdad de género, racial y socioeconómica en el trabajo digital y/o sus repercusiones en el conflicto capital-trabajo.
• La influencia de las grandes corporaciones y las plataformas digitales de trabajo en la configuración de las relaciones Norte-Sur.
• Alienación, enajenación, comodificación de la vida de los trabajadores y trabajadoras en los procesos de trabajo digital.
• Estrategias de resistencia, organización colectiva y empoderamiento de trabajadores y trabajadoras en entornos laborales digitales.
• Efectos de la digitalización y plataformización en personas que trabajan en el Estado.
• Trabajo digital de distintos sectores productivos específicos en perspectiva comparada.
• El papel de los regímenes regulatorios y las políticas gubernamentales en la formación de estructuras de poder y la protección de los derechos de los trabajadores y trabajadoras en la economía digital.
• Formas emergentes de organización laboral y sindicalismo en el contexto digital y su capacidad para influir en las relaciones de poder.
• Culturas e ideologías del trabajo en las relaciones de dominación y resistencia en el trabajo digital.
• Vida cotidiana, identidades e interacciones locales en el trabajo digital.
• Representaciones sociales del trabajo digital en la cultura contemporánea.
• Redes sociotécnicas, imaginarios e IA: Implicancias para el trabajo digital.
• Ecología humana y no humana de la Inteligencia Artificial y el trabajo digital.
• Tecnologías del yo y modos de subjetivación emergentes en el trabajo digital.
• Teoría social y marcos conceptuales para el estudio del trabajo digital.
• Redes sociales, cambios culturales y digitalización de la vida cotidiana como campos de disputa de significados e intereses.
• Dominación, colaboración y resistencia entre investigadores e investigadoras interesados en el trabajo digital o entre investigadores, investigadoras y actores que participan en entornos digitales.
• Desafíos de la regulación institucional de los mercados laborales del trabajo digital.
• Desafíos de la gobernanza global del trabajo digital.
• Justicia social, desarrollo sostenible y trabajo digital.
Invitamos cordialmente a académicos/as, estudiantes de doctorado, investigadores/as, profesionales y expertos interesados en estos temas a enviar resúmenes para presentaciones individuales
Los resúmenes deben tener una extensión máxima de 400 palabras y pueden enviarse en español, inglés o portugués. Es necesario crear una cuenta para enviar. Los archivos subidos deben ser anónimos para los revisores, y deben contener:
• Título
• Resumen (objeto de estudio empírico o de reflexión teórica, principales hallazgos empíricos y/o desarrollo teórico del tema, metodología, relevancia y aporte al estudio de las relaciones de poder en el trabajo digital)
Los resúmenes podrán ser aceptados para ser presentados como comunicación oral o bajo el formato de póster.
Se invita a los estudiantes de posgrado, en etapas iniciales de investigación, a presentar sus trabajos directamente para ser considerados en la modalidad de póster, para lo cual deberán marcar la opción correspondiente al momento del envío de su resumen.
La fecha límite para el envío de resúmenes es el 31/05 9 de junio de 2024. Los participantes serán notificados sobre la aceptación de sus propuestas antes del 29 de junio de 2024.
Se espera con interés recibir propuestas innovadoras que enriquezcan el diálogo Norte-Sur sobre trabajo digital y dinámicas de poder en el próximo congreso INDL-7 de la Red Internacional de Trabajo Digital (INDL). Estamos convencidos que como en ediciones anteriores de este congreso, el encuentro de esta vibrante comunidad brindará la oportunidad de crear nuevas amistades, redes de trabajo y colaboraciones académicas fructíferas.
Esta versión del congreso INDL-7 es organizada a través de una alianza colaborativa con diferentes centros y programas de investigación de universidades chilenas, específicamente, el Núcleo Milenio Evolución del Trabajo (MNEW); el Programa de Estudios Psicosociales del Trabajo (PEPET), Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Diego Portales; el Centro de Organizaciones y Relaciones Laborales (COR), Universidad Alberto Hurtado; el Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social (COES); el Instituto de Gobierno y Asuntos Públicos, Universidad Austral; el Núcleo Milenio Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) y el grupo Digital Platform Labor (DiPLab). El evento cuenta también con el patrocinio de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), organismo de las Naciones Unidas encargado de establecer normas laborales internacionales con el fin de promover la justicia social y económica.
Próximamente se publicará en esta página la información referida a:
• Becas de inscripción
• Becas de alojamiento y alimentación
• Cobro de cuota de adhesión/inscripción a la conferencia, ajustada a la capacidad de financiamiento disponible de los participantes.
INDL-7 Scientific Committee
Matheus Viana Braz LATRAPS, Univ. Minas Gerais, Brazil
Martín Tironi FAIR, Chile
Álvaro Soto UAH, Chile
Mariana Bargsted, UDP, Núcleo de Evolución del trabajo, Chile
Francisca Gutiérrez UACh, Chile
Arturo Arriagada UAI, Chile
Antonio Stecher UDP, Chile
Alan Valenzuela UAH, Chile
Antonio Casilli, Telecom Paris, France
Paola Tubaro, CNRS, France
Mila Miceli, Weizenbaum Institute, Germany
Uma Rani, ILO
Julian Posada Yale University, USA
Iraklis Vogiatzis NKUA Athens, Greece
Manolis Patiniotis NKUA Athens, Greece
Amir Anwar University of Edinburgh, UK
Rafael Grohmann University of Toronto, Canada
Ludmila Abilio Universidade de Campinas, Brazil
Donna Kesselman Université Paris Est, France
Mariana Fernández Massi CONICET, Argentina
Julieta Longo CONICET, Argentina
María Belén Albornoz FLACSO, Ecuador
Diego Rivera FAIR