​Historical Materialism London, full timetable here: https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org

​Friday night HM Party!

​Notes from Below and the Workers & Capital stream are hosting the HM Friday night party at Pelican House! Come and join us for (affordable!) food and drinks with DJs and comrades. We'll start after the panels finish and go on until late. Pelican House is a social centre for worker organising, movement building, experimental arts, and culture.

​It takes 30 minutes to get there from SOAS. Walk to Tottenham Court Road station and get the Central Line (red) to Bethnal Green. The full address is: 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 5QJ

​Workers & Capital Stream

​THURSDAY

​Thursday, 6th 10:00-11:45, Platform Work, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Ricardo Antunes, Who is the new services proletariat in the digital age? Are the uprisings of the uberised labour flourishing?

• ​Renato Assad, Ramiro Manini, A Historic Strike: Breque dos Apps and the Platform Delivery Workers’ Struggle in Brazil

• ​Joe Kearsey, Communities of Co-Research and Working Class Organisation: Private Hire Drivers, Platforms, and Class Struggle in the Gig-Economy

• ​Jesús Comesaña Márquez, You drive less, or you make less stops, or you take more coffee. The gist of working as a rider in the city of Seville.

​Thursday, 6th 12:00-13:45, Relieving Them of Responsibility - Workers' Struggles Against Capitalist Depletion and How to Take Control Ourselves, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Lars Karlsson, The Aitik strike that could have changed the course of events

• ​Jari Söyrinki, Struggle for safety underground

• ​Tommy Hjertberg, The collapse of the Swedish battery industry

• ​Filip Tedelund, Workplace Grown Class Opposition

​Thursday, 6th 12:00-13:45, Class Composition in South Asia, BBK-MAL-251 (Birkbeck Malet Street)

• ​Archisha Rai, Vikrant Singh Jadon, Of Brass Pots and Copper Pans: The Political Economy of the Thathera Community in Delhi

• ​Matilde Adduci, Exploring the Politics of Subalterns in Defence of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India within the Context of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

• ​Viswesh Rammohan, “We wish to inform you that your union is not recognized”: Rethinking strikes in the colonial city

• ​Muhammad Umar Ali, Class, Caste, and Gender at the Margins of 'Informality': Labour Power and Organization amongst Sanitation Workers in Lahore

​Thursday, 6th 14:30-16:15, Theories and Contexts of Exploitation, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT) (SOAS Main Building)

• ​Katherine Nastovski, Assessing Prospects for Radical Worker Education

• ​Camila Vergara, Lenin on Labour Law: from Tsarist Russia to the Gig Economy

• ​Charlie D Porter, “On a purely humanitarian basis”: The Chile Defence Committee, Amnesty International and the limits to resistance in the neoliberal era.

• ​Pedro Henrique Evangelista Duarte, Caio Sgarbi Antunes, Joana Alice Freitas, Sérgio Henrique Barroca, Contemporary slave labor in the state of Goiás, Brazil

​Thursday, 6th 14:30-16:15, International Inquiries, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Jon Las Heras, Union Strategies configure the Political Economy of a Country: the Basque Case

• ​Fathimah Fildzah Izzati, Exploitation and depletion in the social reproduction and production terrains of Indonesia's export-oriented garment factories

• ​Valter Sandell-Maury, Producing labour, extracting value: a workers' inquiry into welfare governance

• ​João Francisco Gomes de Pinho, Between (mere) curiosity and the (capitalist) application of scientific knowledge: an ethnographic study in an engineering research center

​Thursday, 6th 16:30-18:15, Mobility and Logistics Work, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Carlotta Benvegnù, Mobility Power and Labor Struggles in Logistics: Rethinking Working-Class Resistance Beyond the Production Site

• ​Benjamin Anderson, Pushing, Pulling, and Profit: Tugboat Work in Capitalist Accumulation

• ​Nikos Vrantsis, From Circulation to Struggle: Infrastructural Labor in the Social Factory in Post-Crisis Greece

​FRIDAY

​Friday, 7th 09:30-11:15, Disability, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Parker Johnson, "The Worst Day Brigade": Unemployed and Disabled Worker Discipline and Methods of Resistance

• ​Alec Cali, Ida Nikou, Repressive Accessibility: AI, Productivity, and the Individualization of Disability

• ​Benjamin Horn, The Introversion of Sacrifice: Neoliberalism, Ableism and the Ideology of Work

• ​Arianna Introna, ‘Di Spalle a Questo Mondo’: The Class Politics of Welfare Justice as Compositionist Desertion

• ​Gaard Kets, Daniel DeRock, Making it Work for Everyone: Giving Neurodiversity a Voice in Democratized Workplaces

​Friday, 7th 11:30-13:15, Health and Care Work, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Nicky Sharma, Precarity and Exploitation in the Live-in Care Sector: Perspectives from Migrant Workers

• ​Aylin Turer, The Migration of Nurses from Turkey to Germany: How Do Nurses Navigate Precarious Working Conditions?

• ​Jonny Jones, Struggling through sickness: Health, work and the spatial politics of resistance

​Friday, 7th 14:15-16:00, Roundtable: The Crisis in HE: What is to be Done?, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Debate chaired by Notes from Below

​Friday, 7th 16:15-18:00, Roundtable: Notes from Below: Arts and Culture, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Rehana Zaman

• ​Jenny Warren

• ​Austin Kelmore

• ​Respondents from Notes from Below

​Friday, 7th HM London Party at Pelican House!

• ​Hosted by Notes from Below!

​SATURDAY

​Saturday, 8th 10:00-11:45, Roundtable: Workers’ Inquiry in the United States: Café, Care, and Nonprofit Workers, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Alex Pyne

• ​Anastasia Wilson

• ​Andrew Osborne

• ​Kevin Van Meter

​Saturday, 8th 12:00-13:45, Work and Its Others: Antinomies of Freedom in Capitalist Labour, Khalili Lecture Theatre (SOAS Main Building)

• ​Tia Trafford, Lukács and Wynter: Social form, Slavery, and the Split-subject

• ​Pil and Galia Kollectiv, The Artist as Subject-Object and the Myth of Artistic Freedom

• ​Rebecca Carson, The Immanent Externality of Reproductive Labour

• ​Adam Walker, Boundaries, Frontiers, Thresholds and Influencers: Magic Mirrors of Freedom

​Saturday, 8th 12:00-13:45, Food and Hospitality Work, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Manuel Trevisan, From associational to structural power resources: the latent power of fast-food workers.

• ​George Briley, Degrading Work - Real subsumption, shit bar work, and the marignalisation of useful labour

• ​Filip Tedelund, The Case of the Halls Meat Factory Closure - Looking at processes through the eyes of the workers

• ​Kshiraja Krishnan, Deregulate, Demarcate, Degustate: Platform workers, food culture, and the shifting urban landscape in Bangalore

​Saturday, 8th 14:30-16:15, Book Launch: Legal Workers Inquiry, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Tanzil Chowdhury (editor)

• ​Jamie Woodcock (editor)

• ​Suddhabrata Deb Roy

• ​Kate Bradley

​Saturday, 8th 16:30-18:15, Roundtable: Labour History from Below B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Eleanor Davies, the 2009 Lewisham Bridge primary school occupation

• ​Roberto Mozzachiodi, the 1995-98 Liverpool dockers dispute

• ​Matthew Lee: Downing cans and smashing bottles, the militant milk carriers of forest hill and catford

• ​Callum Cant, The 1926 General Strike

​SUNDAY

​Sunday, 9th 10:00-11:45, The Current Crisis in Capitalism and Its Implications for Working Class Struggle, Khalili Lecture Theatre (SOAS Main Building)

• ​Michael Roberts, The Current State of World Capitalism

• ​Kim Moody, The End of the Lean Production Paradigm

​Sunday, 9th 12:00-13:45, Rural and Agricultural Work, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Lucas (Zeming) Zhu, Co-operative Capitalism? Agrarian Change with capitalisation in China

• ​Larissa Nenning, Social murder in Europe’s fields: Investigating the changing precarisation of agricultural labour in the climate crisis

• ​Jack Edmunds-Bergin, Grounds For Workers' Inquiry: Migrant Social Reproduction in Rural Ireland

​Sunday, 9th 14:45-16:30, Deskilling and White Collar Work, B203 (SOAS Brunei Gallery)

• ​Joshua Long, Pandemic, Precarity, and Power: reflections on theory and practice from the rank and file of United Tech and Allied Workers

• ​Felix Birch, Civil engineering as the mobilisation of alienated labour

• ​Matt Canute, Conflicting Feelings: Sociological and Computational Sentiment in Workplace Sentiment Surveillance

• ​Nihal Evirgen Kabal, The Class Characteristics and Labor Relations of Architectural Workers