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Date: |
Monday September 9 – Wednesday September 11, 2019 |
Venue: |
Social Sciences Chamber, 11/F, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong |
Monday September 9, 2019 |
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PROGRAMME |
8:00am – 9:00am |
Registration and morning coffee |
9:00am – 9:15am |
Welcoming Speech |
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Professor William Hayward
Dean of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong |
9:15am – 10:15am |
Keynote Presentation (Theme 1)
The Worlds of Work: Past, present and future in Work, Employment and Society
Professor Eleonore Kofman
Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Department of Law & Politics, Middlesex University
Visiting Professor, Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics
Joint-Editor-in-Chief, Work, Employment and Society
Moderator:
Professor Maggy Lee
Department of Sociology
Co-convenor, Cities 2050 Research Cluster, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
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10:15am – 10:30am |
Break |
10:30am – 12:30pm |
Theme 1: Migration and Work in the Urban Setting: Education / Training, Social Life, Labour Rights (part 1)
Panellists:
“Emotional authoritarianism”: state, work and the mobile working-class subjects
Professor Ngai Pun
Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
Last-mile delivery: Labour and logistics in China
Dr Jenny Chan
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Industrial trainees from China and Vietnam in Japan: An entry point into key issues of international labour migration and skill transfer
Dr Kaxton Siu
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Who controls technological progress? A PRC example (Huawei)
Dr Bill Taylor
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong
Associate Board Member, Work, Employment and Society
Contradiction between organisational strategies in achieving sustainability in different dimensions: The Chinese auto parts industry as a case
Dr Jieun Ryu
Lecturer in Business Entrepreneurship, University of Northampton
Ms Fuk Ying Tse
Fellow, University of Warwick
Moderator:
Dr Bill Taylor
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12:30pm – 1:45pm |
Lunch |
1:45pm – 2:45pm |
Keynote Presentation (Theme 2)
The future of work and automation: Why employment is good for you in small doses
Dr Brendan Burchell
Reader, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
Moderator:
Dr Tommy Tse
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
Associate Board Member, Work, Employment and Society
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2:45pm – 3:30pm |
Break
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3:30pm – 5:00pm |
Theme 1: Migration and Work in the Urban Setting: Education / Training, Social Life, Labour Rights (part 2)
Panellists:
Masculinity and precarity: Taxiing as a masculine service niche in the Global South
Professor Susanne YP Choi
Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
"I feel free here": An intersectional study of ethnic minority migrant women in the UK
Ms Seonyoung Hwang
PhD Candidate, Warwick Business School
Dr Alexandra Beauregard
Reader, Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
Editor, Work, Employment and Society
Gendering the generation of Chinese workers in vocational schools
Dr Anita Koo
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The work-life experiences of an invisible workforce – The case of live-in women migrant domestic workers in Malaysia
Dr Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya
Lecturer, Department of Organizational Psychology, Birbeck, University of London
Editor, Work, Employment and Society
Gender (in)equality and women’s capability in China’s gig economy: A case study on female “gig” workers in Didi Chuxing
Ms Haley Kwan
PhD Student, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
Moderator:
Professor Susanne YP Choi |
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