​We are back again at Historical Materialism Conference London this year, co-organising the Workers and Capital stream (schedule below).

​You can see the full conference timetable here: https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/

Register for our Saturday night party here: https://luma.com/e45u1341

​​Workers & Capital Stream

​​THURSDAY

​​Thursday 5th, 10:00-11:45, Service and White Collar Inquiries, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Alex "Gonzo" Pyne - Worth a shot: reflections on organizing at Blue Bottle Coffee

• ​Benjamin Anderson - Against Craft: A Prison of Our Own Making

• ​Gökçe Tatlisu, Ebru Işıklı & Eylem Akçay - Organising White Collars in Turkey as a New Front in Class Struggle: Plaza Action Platform

• ​Luis Arboledas-Lérida - 'It is what it is': Labour exploitation, 'Technical Control', and research managers' 'Right to Manage' in the academic production process

​​Thursday 5th, 12:00-13:45, Health and Care Work Inquiries, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Hitesh Potdar - Platform Intermediaries in Paid Domestic Work: Continuity, Transformation, and Rupture in Labour Market Mediation

• ​William Byrd - Active Solidarity in Adult Social Care: The Role of Organisation and Leadership

• ​Ezgi Elmas - Segmentation in the German Healthcare Labor Market: The Case of Turkish Medical Doctors

• ​James J. Brittain - Wellness Over Wages: Capital's Benefit

​​Thursday 5th, 14:30-16:15, Labour Control and Exploitation in China's Evolving Production Regimes, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Jiayi Yuan, Liam Campling & Chris McLachlan - The labour regime in Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing: Inside BYD’s workplace

• ​Mohammad Bzeih - Production Architecture and Institutional Transformation in China's Labor Share Dynamics, 1992–2017

• ​Mads Barbesgaard, Jostein Jakobsen & Mariel Aguilar-Støen - When pigs fly? Animal genetics, global agribusiness and the contemporary agrarian question

​​Thursday 5th, 14:30-16:15, Roundtable: Proto-Communist Laboratory in the Hidden Abode: What Socialists Can Learn From Modern Corporations, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Sergey Steblev

• ​Paul Adler

• ​Matt Vidal

• ​Tom O'Brien and Donal O'Coisdealbha

• ​Armen Aramian

​FRIDAY​

​Friday 6th, 9:30-11:15, Practices of Inquiry, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Kevin Van Meter -“Political Materials”: Between Inquiry and Intervention in Radical Social Movement Publications

• ​John Schultz - “... an’ take the machines over”: Worker Theater and Class Subjectivity in the Short 1930s

• ​Zeming Zhu - Worker's inquiry of Chinese Milktea-making sector in London

• ​Larissa Nenning - Global heating, work and the politics of time: the case of labour struggles of Andalusian agricultural workers

​Friday 6th, 11:30-13:15, Platform and AI Worker Struggles, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Gregory Tsardanidis - Here for the long fight? Platform deliver workers’ struggle in Greece

• ​Alexandros Minotakis - Willing Slaves of the Algorithm? Rethinking Control and Coercion in the Age of AI

• ​Christian Nagler - The Nihilistic Grind: Life at the heart of the AI Data Pipeline

​Friday 6th, 14:15-16:00, Roundtable: Organising Politically at Work and Challenging Repression, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Jamie Woodcock - KCL UCU

• ​An anonymous worker organising in the arms industry

• ​Katie Leslie - DESNZ PCS Union

​Friday 6th, 16:15-18:00, The Politics of Unions, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Zoe Adams - Rethinking the Relationship between Labour, Law, and Prefiguration.

• ​Jonathan Rutherford -The Double Mediating Effect of Capitalist Contradiction on Class Struggle: The Case of Trade Unions

• ​Jordan House -Repressive Apparatus Workers, Class and the Labour Movement

​​SATURDAY

​​Saturday 7th, 10:00-11:45, Debates on Class Composition, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Gregorio Demarchi -The Only Commodity That Can Say ‘No’ – Mario Tronti’s Critique of Hegelian Marxism

• ​Jonas Grahn - How to Work Out an Anti-Racist Marxism: The Johnson-Forest Tendency’s Movement from Practice to Theory

• ​Elia Alberici - Ethics, Class, and Political Recomposition in the Italian Gaza Protests

• ​Maurizio Atzeni - The Fallacies and Challenges of Doing Research on Work From a Class Perspective

​​Saturday 7th, 12:00-13:45, Roundtable: Disability and Work, on a Forthcoming Notes from Below Issue, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Lydia Hughes

• ​Arianna Introna

• ​Ioana Cerasella Chis

• ​Luke Beesley

• ​James Brittain

​​Saturday 7th, 14:30-16:15, Roundtable: Hammering the Sky, Collective Action in Care, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Contributors from Issue 25 of Notes from Below

​​Saturday 7th, 16:30-18:15, Roundtable: Remembering Asad Haider, Djam (Lucas) Lecture Theatre (SOAS Main Building)

• ​Ben Mabie

• ​Salar Mohandesi

• ​Robyn Marasco

​SATURUDAY 7TH, 8PM - LATE, NOTES FROM BELOW PARTY, PELICAN HOUSE BETHNAL GREEN (E1 5QJ)

​Register for the party here: https://luma.com/e45u1341

​​SUNDAY

​​Sunday 8th, 10:30-12:15, Roundtable: Techno-Feudalism: Rent or Profits?, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Michael Roberts

• ​Renu Gehring

• ​Tavo Espinosa

• ​AK Norris

​Sunday 8th, 12:30-14:15, Work, Colonialism, and Fascism, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Layan Abhari - Pacification through Work: Palestinian Wage Labor, Settler-Colonial Accumulation, and Genocidal Governance after the Second Intifada

• ​Dominik Winkler - Breaking the Nation-Migration Divide: Trade Unions and Anti-Fascist Strategy

• ​Paülah Shabel, Claudia Cuellar & Ali Yalçın Göymen - The Young and Capital: Expanded Reproduction, Generational Dispossession, and the Fascistic Drift

• ​Paula M. Hiemer - Production of/through exhaustion: Labouring global supply chains amid economic and ecological crises