Speakers:

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

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

Encountering automation: Storying technological change for future cities
Dr David Bissell
Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, School of Geography, University of Melbourne

Asymmetric Cities
Professor Caroline Knowles
Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Director of Cities and Infrastructure Program, British Academy

Theme 1: Migration and Work in the Urban Setting: Education / Training, Social Life, Labour Rights (Part 1)

Speakers:

“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, Univesity of Northampton
Ms Fuk Ying Tse
Fellow, University of Warwick

Theme 1: Migration and Work in the Urban Setting: Education / Training, Social Life, Labour Rights (Part 2)

Speakers:

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

Theme 2: Creative and Technology Industries as the Future of Work: Identity and Wellbeing

Speakers:

Desiring-production, satisfaction and occupation of Wang Hong: Creative labour in Douyin [TikTok]
Professor Anthony YH Fung
School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ever hopeful? Creative workers’ contested search for meaningful employment through relational sensemaking
Dr Anne Peirson-Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong

AI and automation: New challenges for media professionals in Hong Kong and mainland China
Dr Florin C Serban
Lecturer, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University

Dream a Different Dream of Xi: How Alibaba’s Workers Make Sense of their Clashing Goals
Dr Tommy Tse
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
Associate Board Member, Work, Employment and Society

Geopolitical and local responses: A comparison of Hong Kong’s filmmakers in the 1960s-1970s and the 2000s
Dr Victor KW Shin
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong

Theme 3: Mobility and the future of work: Flexible, networked, precarious, sustainable?

Speakers:

Working holiday makers in Australia: Abused, exploited… and essential to Australia’s food security
Dr Benjamin L Iaquinto
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong

Imagining the flying panda: Social factory and the prosaic geographies of China’s mass innovation/entrepreneurship campaign
Dr June Wang
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong

Small city urbanism: Globalism, translocal worlding and urban experimentation
Dr Junxi Qian
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong

Doughnut economics, recommoning and multifaceted wellbeing: The true meaning of mobility and work
Professor Mee Kam Ng
Director of Urban Studies Programme and Associate Director of Institute of Future Cities and the Hong Kong Institute of Asian Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sharing economy, neoliberalism and sustainable transition: Reshaping space & mobility in urban China
Dr Xiaoling Zhang
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong

Theme 4: Economic Restructuring, Organisational Practices and Workers’ Responses

Speakers:

Evaluating the agile organisation agenda
Dr Ian Roper
Associate Professor, Department of Management Leadership and Organisation, Middlesex University
Editor, Work, Employment and Society

Online social networks and collective action: platform-based motorcycle taxi drivers in Indonesia
Ms Joanna Octavia
PhD Student, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick

“Pulling sheep’s wool: Digital Money, online thriftiness and organizational misbehaviour in a Chinese factory
Dr Tom McDonald
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
Ms Dan Li
PhD Student in Anthropology, London School of Economics

Communicative labour in entrepreneurial activities: Examining interactions between grassroots innovative entrepreneurs and angel investors in Beijing
Ms Yanan Guo
PhD Student, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong

Theme 5: Work, Sustainability, Geopolitics and Social Policy

Speakers:

Precarity, insecurity, and marginalised young people in the future world of work
Dr Mark Wong
Assistant Professor, School of Social and Public Policy, University of Glasgow

The challenges of jobless growth and technological unemployment in the contest of automated work
Professor Bridgette Wessels
School of Social and Public Policy, University of Glasgow

Uncertain shores: Urban transformation and livelihood along Mumbai’s coast
Dr Chitra Venkataramani
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

Consequences of globalisation: A case study of youth from Kinmen, Taiwan
Ms Gina Yang
PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University