Guest guest Posted October 24, 2001 Report Share Posted October 24, 2001 The following event announcement is being forwarded to your mailing list or listserv from the EVENTS CALENDAR section of SARAI. Please contact event organizers directly for any further info. David Magier SARAI --------- "Daniel M. Bass" <dbass (Sorry for multiple postings) Globalization, Labor, and South Asian Communities November 9-10, Michigan League, University of Michigan Ann Arbor How have political and economic shifts in the global economy in the late twentieth century been experienced by South Asian labor across the subcontinent and diaspora? How have workers, unions and state regulations responded to neoliberalism and the globalization of capital? How do struggles over specific forms of gendered laborsuch as sex work/ trafficking or domestic workuse the language of universal labor rights, and at what cost? What forms of legal redress have South Asian labor unions sought, and how do union strategies reflect the tensions between trade liberalization and workers' rights? How have labor regulatory regimes been affected by temporary work, and how might they respond? This conference will attempt to address these questions and more through discussion between academics and activists working among South Asian communities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, South Africa, the U.K. and the U.S.A. Conference Schedule Friday November 9, 2001 2:00 - 4:00 pm @ Henderson Room, Michigan League Panel 1. Regulating Labor: Changing Law, Changing Strategies Chris Candland, Political Science, Wellesley College Reorganized labor Kamala Sankaran, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India Labour standards and the informal economy in South Asia Babu Mathew, National Law School, Bangalore, India Globalisation and its impact on Industrial Relations Law in India Discussant: Kevin Kolben, South Asian Studies and University of Michigan Law School 4:30 - 6:00 pm @ Henderson Room Keynote address Bill Freund Economic History, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa New Forms of Slavery, New Forms of Freedom: Consciousness and Material Life in the History of Indian Workers in South Africa Introduced by David Cohen, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan 8:00 - 10:00 pm @ Angel Hall Auditorium B Representing South Asian Labor on Film "Secrets of Silicon Valley," 2001, 60 min. Produced and directed by Alan Snitow and Deboerah Kaufman. www.secretsofsiliconvalley.org Discussion with star and activist with temporary workers in Silicon Valley Raj Jayadev Coordinator of Silicon Valley De-Bug: the Voice of the Young and Temporary, and writer, Pacific News Service, Ca. "Occupation: Millworker," 1996, 20 min. Produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan. Saturday November 10, 2001 8:30 - 10:30 am @ Henderson Room, Michigan League Panel 2. Commodifying Sex: Sex Work and Trafficking in the Global Economy Svati Shah, Anthropology, Columbia University Sex work, trafficking and feminism: intersections of anti-abolitionist anti-trafficking positions with globalization and labor Sushma Joshi, Anthropology, New School University Simana: The politics of border and labor control Discussant: Jayati Lal, Sociology and Womens Studies, University of Michigan 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Panel 3. Marginality, Community and Protest: Local Struggles over Globalization Arun Kundnani, Institute for Race Relations, London, England The Violence of the violated: rebellions in the north of England Caitrin Lynch, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University From grievances to sexuality: globalization and the gendering of labor protest in Sri Lanka Chitra Aiyar, New York University Law School The Harkin Bill and the young garment workers of Bangladesh Discussant: Daniel Bass, Anthropology, University of Michigan 2:00 - 4:00 pm Panel 4. Diasporic Labors: Domestic Workers and Taxi Drivers in the USA Sameer M. Ashar, Clinical Law, New York University Domestic worker litigation and the replication of socioeconomic hierarchy in the South Asian Diaspora in NYC Nisha Varia, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University The struggle to organize: South Asian domestic workers in NYC Ali S. Taqi, International Studies, Loyola University, Chicago Desi driver: identity and social mobility in the South Asian American taxi driving community Biju Mathew, New York Taxi Workers Alliance and Information Systems, Rider University. The Ethnic Trap: Notes on community and immigrant labor organizing Discussant: Rachel Sturman, History and Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan 4:00 - 6:00 pm Panel 5. Rethinking the Future of Labor Politics in South Asia Saadia Toor, Development Sociology, Cornell University Swimming against the high tide: working-class politics in Pakistan in the age of neoliberalism Gautam Mody, Centre for Workers' Management, New Delhi, India Socialising ownership or socializing debt? The case of Kamani Tubes and other worker-owned firms in India Padmini Swaminathan, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India Labour-Intensive Industries but Units Without 'Workers': Where does ILO's Social Dialogue Begin? Discussant: Sharad Chari, Anthropology, History and Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan Sponsors: This conference is made possible through the generosity of the Center for South Asian Studies, the University of Michigan Law School, Rackham Graduate School, the International Institute, the South Africa Initiative, the Institute for the Humanities, the Department of History, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Sociology, the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic and Multicultural Affairs, the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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