Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT)

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		CRIMT’s audio-visual collection holds the recordings of more than 450 conferences that cut across all five major research themes of the Centre. To view them, a high-speed internet connection is required (preferably LAN), the installation of the Quicktime Reader (installed by default on Macintosh – for users of Windows XP, Vista and 7, the reader has to be installed by the user), Windows Media Player (free and preinstalled on Windows XP, Vista and 7) and, on Macintosh, the installation of Windows Media® Components for QuickTime (free, from third party supplier Flip4Mac).

		2012

		11 April 2012 • Master Class Thinking about social regulation : theoretical and practical issues Christian Thuderoz INSA-Lyon, France (Still) thinking about social regulation (negotiation), 50 years after Walton and McKersie and Allan Flanders, 30 years after Howard Raiffa and Bill Zartman: is it useful? Yes, because it establishes a rational-negotiated (and more efficient) model of decision-making at a time when traditional hierarchical institutions are in decline, the demands for employees to participate in decisions concerning their lives and work are increasing and it is becoming urgent to rethink work and its institutions in light of new social regulations which bring about new and more intense arrangements. We must, therefore, think about this (negotiated) re-written landscape of how we live together within the business organization. What theoretical tools do we apply? To achieve what kind of changes? How do we equip the actors? Christian Thuderoz and Reynauld Bourque, both CRIMT co-researchers, are the authors of Sociologie de la négociation (2011), published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes. This seminar was held at University of Montreal. Download the PowerPoint presentation (In French). Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference (In French).


		2011

		24 November 2011 • Research Seminar Jumping Scale, Crossing Space: The JfJ and Organizing Cleaners for Global Strength Luis LM Aguiar Sociology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, British Columbia Arguably neoliberalism has done the most damage to the already vulnerable workforces in the economy. Building cleaners, as part of this workforce, have suffered from privatization, contracting out, as well as post-industrial labour legislation and the fiscal crisis of the welfare state. The result is a sweatshop citizenship (Aguiar 2006) bordering on ‘advanced marginality’ (Wacquant 2008) threatening to permanently expulse cleaners (and other low wage workers) to the desertion fields of (neo)neoliberalism (Crouch 2011; Boltanski and Chiapello 2004; Bauman 2007; Agamben 2005). To counter this assault on cleaners, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has globalized its justice for janitors organizing model for the purpose of building global strength to deal with the neoliberalism of global cleaning companies, and in the process, secure protection and achieve gains for cleaners everywhere. Is the justice for janitors (JfJ) model the model for organizing in the 21st century? How is this model transitioning into transnational organizing and places, and by what mechanisms and structures is this being done, is the focus of this seminar. Luis Aguiar will examine (1) the JfJ model, (2) mechanisms and structures of transnational organizing and (3) the meaning of partnerships between the SEIU and partner unions (e.g. FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands; LHMU in Australia [and perhaps the SIPTU in Ireland]) set-up to arrest the erosion of cleaners’ rights and stymie the proliferation of the sweatshop citizenship status. Through interviews at the SEIU HQ in Washington, as well as fieldwork in Australian, and Amsterdam, the author seeks to understand the flexibility of the JfJ model and the meaning of partnership in the context of a union with global ambitions. This presentation will end by discussing the idea of “solidarity transformed” (Anner 2011), and the extent to which the SEIU’s globalizing of the JfJ is an example of this concept. This seminar was held at University of Montreal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference.



		14 October 2011 • Regular Seminar La notion de 'politiques publiques' vue par la sociologie du droit Jacques Commaille Professor Emeritus, Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, ENS-Cachan Held at the University of Montreal, this seminar explored the relationship between law and public policy. By highlighting the complexity of this relationship and detailing the debates it has given rise to, Jacques Commaille addressed the prospects for linking law and public policy, especially in the current context. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference.



		14 April 2011 • Research Seminar Unions and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies Peter Fairbrother RMIT University, Australia / CRIMT Held at HEC Montréal, this seminar reviewed the questions facing unions in relation to a low carbon economy. The focus was on the politics of transition and the drivers that underpin such shifts in union pupose and capacity. It consider the recent history in the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, where four major electricity generators and their open cast mines produce over 80 per cent of the electricity requirements for Victoria. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference.



		30 March 2011 • Research Seminar The ILO. ...Whys and Wherefores Patrick Carrière Distinguished consultant on labour law and former Senior Legal Officer of the Freedom of Association branch at the International Labour Office in Geneva. Held at McGill University, this seminar was organized in collaboration with the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory and the Law Faculty at McGill University. The Université Laval joined live via videoconferencing. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference.



		11 March 2011 • Research Seminar La place de la négociation collective dans six pays européens : de la cohérence des systèmes à la construction des acteurs Christian Dufour Associate Researcher, CRIMT Adelheid Hege Institut de recherches économiques et sociales (IRES), France / CRIMT Summary (French only): Au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, des transformations profondes ont affecté les organisations syndicales et leur place dans les sociétés au sein lesquelles elles sont nées. Les environnements économiques ont été bouleversés et les anciennes cohérences identitaires se sont étiolées. La négociation collective, activité centrale des syndicalismes quelle que soit la diversité des approches et des agencements à l’œuvre, ne pouvait pas ne pas en être affectée. À la demande de la CFDT et de la CGT en France, et pour l'Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES), Christian Dufour et Adelheid Hege viennent de compléter une étude sur l’évolution des stratégies de négociation collective mises en œuvre par des organisations syndicales de six pays européens (Allemagne, Espagne, France, Grande-Bretagne, Italie et Suède). Ce séminaiire visait la présentation de résultats d'enquêtes combinant un travail de synthèse des grands changements intervenus en Europe au cours des 25 dernières années, avec une approche de terrain fondée sur des enquêtes auprès d'acteurs collectifs oeuvrant au sein des pays concernés. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference.


		2010

		8 November 2010 • Research Seminar Chairing the United Nations Treaty Body on Disability: Problems, Pitfalls and Reform of the Treaty Body System Ron McCallum University of Sydney, Australia / CRIMT Held at the University of Montreal (retransmitted in Université Laval via videoconference) and organized in collaboration with the Office des personnes handicapées du Québec, the seminar focused on the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006 ) to which Canada is a signatory since March 2010. Ron McCallum, who chairs the UN committee responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Convention at the international level, discussed the work of the committee, including the challenges encountered in performing their duties. Click on image (on the right) to watch the clip.



		23-24 September 2010 • International Conference On September 23rd and 24th 2010, an international conference entitled Union Action Without Borders was held in Montreal, Canada. Organized in collaboration with the CISO, the CSQ, the CSN and the FTQ, this activity aimed to take stock of the various solidarity initiatives implemented by trade unions at the local, national and international levels. Over fifty scholars and trade unionists, both from Canada and abroad, have shared their research and testified of their experiences of international solidarity. This conference was part of CRIMT’s series of outrearch activities designed to foster exchanges between scholars and labour market partners. Visit the post-conference Website to watch the full video content of the conference (over 35 presentations).



		16-18 June 2010 • International Conference On June 16th, 17th and 18th 2010, an international conference entitled Employee Representation in the New World of Work: The Dynamics of Rights, Voice, Performance and Power was held in Quebec city. Organized in collaboration with the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA), this conference focused on a number of key issues relating to employee representation in the new world of work, including: the relevance in today's workplace of the founding principles of different representative systems; how different types of employee representation regimes deal with issues facing the contemporary worker; the emerging models and actors for employee rights and representation; the kinds of public policy, actors, strategies, capabilities and research that are necessary to rethink employee representation in the contemporary workplace. Visit the post-conference Website to watch the full audio-video content of the conference (over 285 presentations).



		16 April 2010 • Outreach Seminar For over 75 years, Quebec's collective agreement decrees regime has evolved to adapt to different realities. Periodically, there are voices saying that this "anomaly" of the industrial relations system should be abolished. Others, however, highlight the need to keep the regime, and seek to improve it because of its ability to better the conditions of vulnerable workers and increase their say in the determination of their own working conditions. On April 16, 2010, a seminar entitled Perspectives on the Quebec collective agreement decrees regime (QCADR) was held in Montreal. Organized in collaboration with Quebec’s Joint Committees Association (Association des comités paritaires du Québec, or ACPQ), this seminar aimed to present different perspectives on the QCADR, as well as to stimulate exchanges between scholars and labour market partners about its future.

		Click on image (on the right) to watch Patrick Martel (University of Montreal / CRIMT) and Jean Charest (University of Montreal / CRIMT) talk about the impact the abolition of the collective agreement decree had on workers in the Quebec garment industry.

		Click on image (on the right) to watch Christiane Bigras (Director general, Joint committee, Public bulding maintenance), Mélanie Laroche (University of Montreal / CRIMT) and Jacques Rouillard (University of Montreal) share their historical, contemporary and future perspectives on Quebec's collective agreement decrees regime.



		14 April 2010 • Research Seminar Au-delà de la crise économique en Europe: analyse de l'agenda Europe 2020 Philippe Pochet Director, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium / CRIMT Philippe Pochet cast a critical eye on the exit strategies social partners deployed in the face of the global financial crisis, and in particular on the debates surrounding the Europe 2020 agenda and the future of the European employment policy. This seminar was organized in collaboration with the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. ETUI Policy Brief-AN ETUI Policy Brief-FR Europe 2020 - Consultation document - European Commission



		29 March 2010 • International Semimar (Outreach Activity) More than forty years after having recognized the urgency of a study on the working conditions of domestic workers, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is on track to adopt an international labour standard on decent work for domestic workers before the end of 2011. The ILO’s 2009 report, which seeks to provide an account of the situation and working conditions of domestic workers across the world, can be consulted Online. Supported financially by Human Resources and Skills Development, and organized in collaboration with the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, this international seminar aimed to bring together social partners, including domestic workers' associations, and international and interdisciplinary researchers specialized in the field in order to encourage an intensive consultation between the various participants concerned by the issue of decent work for domestic workers. This seminar also presented an opportunity for exchange between researchers and social partners to identify the policy issues involved and to compare different regulatory approaches adopted in various countries. It also seeked to provide an opportunity for social partners to share their reflections on the presentations and their expertise in the area before the two upcoming sessions of the International Labour Conference in Geneva in June 2010 and 2011. Finally, this activity offered a chance for Canada to celebrate the 90 years since the ILO was established in 1919. To that end, a special exhibit commemorating the time during which Montreal was host to the ILO during the Second World War was presented in the Atrium of McGill University's Faculty of Law. Visit the post-seminar Website to listen to the full audio content of the seminar (over 15 presentations).



		11 March 2010 • Research Seminar Organiser la résistance contre un plan social en France. Le travail d’entrepreneurs militants Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet Reims Management School, France Summary (French only): En France, l’annonce de « plans sociaux » suscite dans bien des cas l’organisation d’actions collectives par les salariés et leurs représentants. Des actions visibles de résistance collective sont menées dans un contexte de survie (Amossé et al., 2008), donnant lieu à des conflits « défensifs » (Groux et Pernot, 2008) qui sont souvent intenses. In this seminar held at HEC Montréal, Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet addressed how resistance to restructuring is organized and, more specifically, touched on the creative role the ‘entrepreneurs militants’ play in shaping the conflict. This seminar was organized in collaboration with the Strategy as Practice Study Group of HEC Montréal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Accompanying Document



		18 February 2010 • Research Seminar Le syndicalisme européen : quelles crises ? Marco Ancelovici McGill University, Canada Christian Dufour Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES), France / CRIMT Adelheid Hege Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES), France / CRIMT Dominique Labbé Institut d'Études Politiques de Grenoble, France George Ross Brandeis University, USA / University of Montreal, Canada Participants in this seminar held at the University of Montreal have taken an uncompromising look at the state of European trade unions (German and French, especially), the forms of unionism they practice and the opportunities posed by the many challenges they face. Accompanying Document - C. Dufour et A. Hege TOUJOURS MOINS ! Déclin du syndicalisme à la française - D. Labbé

		Click on image (on the right) to watch the presentations of Dominique Labbé (Institut d'Études Politiques de Grenoble) and Adelheid Hege (Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales - IRES / CRIMT).

		Click on image (on the right) to watch the presentations of Marco Ancelovici (McGill University), George Ross (Brandeis University / Université of Montreal) and Christian Dufour (Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales - IRES / CRIMT).


		2009

		14 December 2009 • Round Table (Outreach Activity) Crise économique et dialogue social Michel Arsenault President, Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec Assane Diop Executive Director of the ILO Social Protection Sector, Geneva Jean Charest University of Montreal, Canada / CRIMT Summary (French only): Mettant en vedette Michel Arsenault (FTQ), Assane Diop (BIT) et Jean Charest (UdeM), cette table ronde visait à faire le point sur la nature et les conséquences de la crise financière sur le monde du travail au Québec et au Canada, sur le rôle du dialogue social en période de crise, sur l'avantage institutionnel lié au modèle québécois de concertation et sur l'avenir du dialogue social à l'ère du 90e anniversaire de l'Organisation internationale du travail (OIT). Held at the University of Montreal, this round table was organized in collaboration with the School of Industrial Relations at the University of Montreal, the Fédération des travailleurs et des travailleuses du Québec (FTQ) and the Fonds de solidarité FTQ. Click on image (on the right) to watch the round table.



		2 December 2009 • Research Seminar Labour Law and Economic Crisis - A European Perspective Sir Bob Hepple Clare College Cambridge University, United-Kingdom Held at McGill University, this seminar focused on labour law and the financial crisis and was organized in partnership with the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, the Law '77 Project Fund (McGill Law Class of '77) and the Law Faculty at McGill University. The Université Laval joined live via videoconferencing. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference.



		5 November 2009 • Research Seminar Constitutionalizing Labour Rights: Paradox, Peril and Promise Judy Fudge University of Victoria, Canada / CRIMT Held at the University of Montreal, this seminar was organized in collaboration with the Facutly of Law at the University of Montreal. While on the European reality, debates that insued allowed for the Canadian case to be placed in context. In 2007, in Health Services and Support – Facilities Subsector Bargaining Association v. British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada expressly overruled twenty years of jurisprudence that interpreted the freedom of association as excluding collective bargaining. In 2008, in Demir and Baykara v Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights followed suit and overruled its earlier decisions on the matter to hold that the right to freedom of association in the European Convention on Human Rights includes collective bargaining. The recent successes before courts have led some observers to suggest that it may now be a propitious time for a co-ordinated and proactive litigation strategy to vindicate labour's collective rights. In this presentation, I considered what gave rise to these remarkable decisions and what they portend for the role of the courts in labour relations in Canada and beyond. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference.



		29 October 2009 • Research Seminar Les relations industrielles en Europe Centro-Orientale: fin ou extension du modèle social européen ? Guglielmo Meardi Warwick Business School University of Warwick, United-Kingdom Held at HEC Montreal, this seminar outlined the main points of an in-progress book (Where Workers Vote with Their Feet), which elaborates ideas first presented in some earlier articles, based on a decade of fieldwork in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia. It first described the emergence of a new Central Eastern European 'model' of industrial relations, combining relatively high degrees of state regulation with disorganized industrial relations, and then discussed the implications of EU accession, in terms of regulations, 'social dumping', transnational effects and consequences for the EU as a whole. It ended with an argument as to whether a system so far based on marketisation and employee 'exit' logic (migration, absenteeism, organisational disloyalty) can develop new forms of employee 'voice'. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference.



		6 October 2009 • Research Seminar Struggles on the Frontier of Control over Professional Identity: Leading Cases from Canada Larry Haiven St-Mary's University, Canada / CRIMT Professions and unions have often been positioned as opposing alternatives or logics of action in labour theory. The professions embrace a spirit of individualism and mystique, privileged by a social status, while unions are collectivist and seek respect and to usurp power from a dominant class. How might we reconcile the professions and their increasing efforts to achieve collective bargaining in the workplace? We propose that collective representation of professions is not an indication of the ultimate decline of professions in bureaucratized workplaces, but rather is the expression of a new arena of power for labour playing itself out at the forefront of work regulation in Canada. A sample of labour disputes of professionalized workers, illustrates that collective bargaining is an occupational closure strategy that alters the boundaries of a profession in an attempt to maintain distinct professional identity. Each case highlights the struggle over the exercise of discretion within the professional domain through which the boundaries regulating professional work are being rewritten. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. PowerPoint Presentation



		10 March / 19 February / 15 January 2009 • International Seminars Organized in collaboration with the Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal (CREUM) and the Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Research Chair at Université du Québec à Montréal, the seminar brought together international experts on the social regulation of the global firm. Following an open architecture, this activity mobilised several CRIMT coresearchers and PhD students, as well as many other researchers from Canada and abroad. 10 March 2009 Ethics and the Social Regulation of the Firm Wayne Norman (Duke University), Stéphane Rousseau (University of Montreal), Diane Girard (HEC Montréal), Harry Arthurs (York University / CRIMT), Marie-Claude Desjardins & Dominic Roux (Université Laval / CRIMT), P. Martin Dumas (Université Laval / CRIMT), Ulrich Mückenberger (Hamburg University), Pierre-Yves Néron (University of Toronto), Michel Coutu (University of Montreal / CRIMT) et Thomas Beschorner (University of Montreal). 19 February 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility and the role of the state: the case of tax competition Peter Dietsch (University of Montreal), Jean Charest (University of Montreal / CRIMT) et Stéphane Rousseau (University of Montreal) 15 janvier 2009 L'entreprise comme vecteur du progrès social : la fin ou le début d'une époque? Corinne Gendron (Université de Québec à Montréal), Renée-Claude Drouin (University of Montreal / CRIMT) et Daniel Weinstock(University of Montreal) Visit the post-seminars Website to watch the full audio-video content of the seminars (over 15 presentations).


		2008

		7 October 2008 • Research Seminar Employee Voice in Multinational Companies: Do Country of Origin Effects Matter? Paul Marginson University of Warwick, United-Kingdom / CRIMT At the junction of themes 1 and 5 of CRIMT's research program, this seminar (held at the University of Montreal) addressed the effects of the country of origin on employee voice in multinational companies (MNCs). MNCs from different countries of origin are widely held to have distinct preferences regarding the presence of employee representative structures and the form that employee ‘voice’ over management decisions takes. Such preferences are said to derive from the national models which prevail in the different countries of origin in which MNCs are based. Findings from a large-scale survey of the UK operations of MNCs point to significant recent innovation in representation and voice arrangements by this key group of employers. Country-of-origin influences on patterns of representation and the relative emphasis on direct or indirect channels of employee ‘voice’ are found to be attenuated by other factors, notably sector and method of growth. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Click on image below to watch the questions and answers. PowerPoint Presentation Accompanying Document



		18 September 2008 • Research Seminar Vers une nouvelle façon d'aborder les restructurations à l'échelle européenne Marie-Ange Moreau European University Institute, Italy / CRIMT Summary (French only): Ce séminaire portait sur le projet AgirE, dont Marie-Ange Moreau, cochercheuse au CRIMT, a assuré la coordination scientifique. Répondant à la nécessité de construire des analyses et des instruments qui permettent la mise en place de mécanismes d'anticipation des restructurations, le projet AgirE s'est intéressé au rôle des politiques européennes dans la structuration des conditions d'anticipation, tout en faisant la lumière sur le jeux des acteurs de l'entreprise et du territoire dont les dynamiques conduisent à de nouvelles pratiques centrées sur l'idée d'innovation pour une meilleure anticipation et conduite du changement. Idée force : c'est en intégrant systématiquement les niveaux d'action de l'entreprise, du territoire et des politiques (régional, national et européen) en une approche multidimensionnel, multi-niveaux et multi-acteurs que sur le plan de la recherche, la construction d'une typologie qui tienne compte des interdépendances complexes présentes dans les processus de restructuration devient possible, et que sur le plan de l'action et des politiques, l'adéquation à la complexité des processus de restructuration peut être atteinte. This seminar was held at HEC Montréal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Click on image below to watch the questions and answers. PowerPoint Presentation



		8 May 2008 • Research Seminar Quelle est la place des réseaux sociaux dans les activités d'innovation ? Réflexions à partir de deux enquêtes récentes Michel Grossetti Université de Toulouse le Mirail, France Summary (French only): Quel que soit l'angle sous lequel on l'aborde, l'innovation apparaît comme une activité collective qui implique des collaborations, des échanges et des relations interpersonnelles. La place prépondérante de ces relations peut s'expliquer par le fait que, par bien des aspects, les activités d'innovation se rapprochent des activités artisanales ou du marché du travail : faible standardisation, importance des relations personnelles, effets de proximité spatiale. Les dispositifs de communication qui structurent largement les échanges marchands pour les produits de grande consommation jouent ici un rôle moins central. Pourtant, tout ne passe pas par les relations interpersonnelles dans les activités d'innovation. Interviennent aussi ce que l'on peut appeler des «ressources de médiation», c'est-à-dire des ressources qui permettent aux acteurs de se coordonner sans passer par des relations personnelles. À l'occasion de ce sémninaire, l'auteur a discuté de ces notions en s'appuyant sur deux études empiriques, l'une portant sur les relations entre laboratoires académiques et entreprises et l'autre sur la création d'entreprises innovantes. Ces études permettent d'évaluer l'importance relative des réseaux et des ressources de médiation dans les processus d'innovation, mais surtout d'analyser la façon dont ils interagissent. This seminar was held at HEC Montréal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Click on image below to watch the questions and answers.



		10 April 2008 • Research Seminar Does China Have a Labour Movement? Prospects for Industrial Relations Reform in China Bill Taylor City University of Hong Kong The official representative organisation of labour, the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) looks set to regain its position within the core membership of the ILO. This has been hotly debated in the international trade union movement because the ACFTU is not a labour union. This seminar (held at HEC Montréal) touched on the reasons why the ACFTU, despite its progressive elements fails the union test. This was illustrated through examples of union organising strategies, collective agreement procedures and recent legislative successes. As a conclusion, an attempt was made to outline a case that including the ACFTU is a significant step in the road of eroding the meaning of labour movements internationally. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Click on image below to watch the questions and answers. Accompanying Document (institutional access required)



		9 April 2008 • Round Table Les enjeux syndicaux européens : local, national, régional ou global ? Philippe Pochet Director, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium / CRIMT George Ross Brandeis University, USA / University of Montreal, Canada Christian Lévesque HEC Montréal, Canada / CRIMT Gregor Murray University of Montreal, Canada / CRIMT Held at HEC Montréal, this round table was organized in collaboration with the Institute for European Studies and the Jean-Monnet Chaire in European Integration. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Click on image below to watch the questions and answers.



		4 April 2008 • Research Seminar Pluralisme juridique et droit du travail Jean-Guy Belley Chaire William C. Macdonald Faculté de droit, Université McGill, Canada Guy Rocher Centre de recherche en droit public Université de Montréal, Canada This seminar was held at the University of Montreal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the presentations of Guy Rocher (Universitéy of Montreal) and Jean-Guy Belley (McGill University). Click on image below to watch the questions and answers. Accompanying Document



		3 April 2008 • Research Seminar The Nature of International Integration and HR Policies in Multinational Companies Tony Edwards King's College London, United-Kingdom This seminar was held a HEC Montréal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Click on image below to watch the questions and answers. PowerPoint Presentation Accompanying Document


		2007

		30 November 2007 • Research Seminar Workers' Rights as Human Rights:The Perspectives of US Courts,Labor Arbitrators and Human Resources Departments James A. Gross Cornell University, USA Held at HEC Montréal, this talk focused on workers' rights as human rights, particularly in regard to freedom of association (including collective bargaining), workplace safety and health (as addressed by US labor arbitrators),with additional comments about how human resources violates workers' human rights in certain most important ways. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Click on image below to watch the questions and answers.



		14 September 2007 • Master Class Itinéraire d'un sociologue Philippe Bernoux GLYSI-SAFA, Université Lumière Lyon II, France Summary (French only): Dans le cadre de ce cours de maître, Philippe Bernoux a retracé trois grandes périodes de sa carrière de chercheur : (1) la sociologie du travail dans les années 1960-70 en France – théories en vogue et pratiques de terrain – les enquêtes sur le syndicalisme – plongée dans les ateliers en observation entièrement participante  ; (2) de la sociologie du travail à la sociologie des organisations à travers l'analyse stratégique de Michel Crozier : enquêtes sur les changements institutionnels (lois Auroux), les changements négociés (aciéries Usinor) – le concept de pouvoir explicatif des organisations ; (3) changements dans la sociologie des organisations : de l'analyse stratégique à la théorie des conventions (« ce qui fait tenir ») et à la théorie de la traduction (le changement est une traduction). This seminar was held at HEC Montréal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Click on image below to watch the questions and answers.



		24-26 May 2007 • International Conference As part of its project 'Rethinking Institutions for Work and Employment in the Global Era', funded by the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2003-2007 grant), the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) held a major international Conference on public policies for work and employment in the era of globalization. This took place on the 24th, 25th and 26th of May 2007 at HEC Montréal. Issues at the heart of the Conference included: public policies for work and employment and their socio-economic pertinence, institutions best able to define and apply them, the spaces (national or transnational) in where they should be developed and the role (and renewal of the role) played by social actors in their development and implementation. Built around six plenary sessions and twenty-four workshops, this conference brought together over 130 international researchers and 320 participants. Visit the post-seminars Website to watch the full audio-video content of the seminars (over 110 presentations).


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