9th Conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-9)
Geneva (Switzerland)
9-11 Sep 2026
Program
9:00
4 sessions
Gender and digital labour
9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)
Room II - R3 South
Chair: Núria Sánchez-Mira, Université de Neuchâtel
09:00 - 09:15 (15min)
Camille Budon, University of Neuchatel - Sofia Kypraiou, Personaldata.io, University of Neuchatel
09:15 - 09:30 (15min)
Homemaking for the Algorithm: Reimagining Households as a Space for ‘Productive' Work
Sneha Roy, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies
09:30 - 09:45 (15min)
Coordination Labor and Reset: Naming the Invisible Time of Platform Childcare Work in South Korea
Minjeong Shin, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University (Seoul)
09:45 - 10:00 (15min)
Reproductive Labor in Cross-Border Online English Teaching
Jelena Košinaga, Universität Graz
9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)
Gender and digital labour
Room II - R3 South
Chair: Núria Sánchez-Mira, Université de Neuchâtel
› Digitalisation and Market Heterogeneity in the Domestic Economy: Workers' Profiles and Working Conditions across Formal and Platformised Markets in French-Speaking Switzerland
- Camille Budon, University of Neuchatel - Sofia Kypraiou, Personaldata.io, University of Neuchatel
09:00-09:15 (15min)
› Homemaking for the Algorithm: Reimagining Households as a Space for ‘Productive' Work
- Sneha Roy, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies
09:15-09:30 (15min)
› Coordination Labor and Reset: Naming the Invisible Time of Platform Childcare Work in South Korea
- Minjeong Shin, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University (Seoul)
09:30-09:45 (15min)
› Reproductive Labor in Cross-Border Online English Teaching
- Jelena Košinaga, Universität Graz
09:45-10:00 (15min)
Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop
9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)
Room V - R3 South
Chair: Amanda Biazzi, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil] - Matheus Viana Braz, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil]
09:15 - 09:30 (15min)
“The world is not ready to listen to people behind AI”: Recognition and Justice for Data Workers
Tianling Yang, Weizenbaum Institut [Berlin]
09:30 - 09:45 (15min)
Muranga Kandanda, Youth Initiative for Development
09:45 - 10:00 (15min)
Behind the Screens: Emotion work in GenAI content moderation
Gianlorenzo Meggio, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen] - Tanusree Jain, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen]
9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)
Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop
Room V - R3 South
Chair: Amanda Biazzi, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil] - Matheus Viana Braz, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil]
› “The world is not ready to listen to people behind AI”: Recognition and Justice for Data Workers
- Tianling Yang, Weizenbaum Institut [Berlin]
09:15-09:30 (15min)
› From Digital Inclusion to Ethical AI Supply Chains: Centering Refugee Youth in the Future of AI-Mediated Work
- Muranga Kandanda, Youth Initiative for Development
09:30-09:45 (15min)
› Behind the Screens: Emotion work in GenAI content moderation
- Gianlorenzo Meggio, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen] - Tanusree Jain, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen]
09:45-10:00 (15min)
New frameworks for a “human-centric” AI supply chain
9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)
Room IX - R2 South
Chair: Marco Marrone, Università del Salento
09:00 - 09:15 (15min)
Maria Cervantes Macias, University of British Columbia [Canada]
09:15 - 09:30 (15min)
Datacraft: Digital Bodies in the Data Economy
Kanikka Sersia, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies, Université de Lausanne - Filipe Calvao, Graduate Institute Geneva
09:30 - 09:45 (15min)
Yang Zida, Peking University - Cao Yuxuan, Peking University [Beijing]
09:45 - 10:00 (15min)
From Atomized Workers to Digital Solidarities: Everyday Resistance among Egyptian Data Workers
Myriam RAYMOND, GRANEM, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Angers - Henrique Oliveira Da Motta, Capgemini [Berlin]
9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)
New frameworks for a “human-centric” AI supply chain
Room IX - R2 South
Chair: Marco Marrone, Università del Salento
› Credentialized Gatekeeping in AI Supply Chains: Toward a Human-Centric Framework of Labor Market Entry in North America
- Maria Cervantes Macias, University of British Columbia [Canada]
09:00-09:15 (15min)
› Datacraft: Digital Bodies in the Data Economy
- Kanikka Sersia, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies, Université de Lausanne - Filipe Calvao, Graduate Institute Geneva
09:15-09:30 (15min)
› From Human-in-the-Loop to Workers-in-Governance: A Labour Bill of Materials for Human-Centric AI Supply Chains
- Yang Zida, Peking University - Cao Yuxuan, Peking University [Beijing]
09:30-09:45 (15min)
› From Atomized Workers to Digital Solidarities: Everyday Resistance among Egyptian Data Workers
- Myriam RAYMOND, GRANEM, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Angers - Henrique Oliveira Da Motta, Capgemini [Berlin]
09:45-10:00 (15min)
Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance
9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)
Room Jura - R2 South
Chair: Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST, CNRS)
09:00 - 09:15 (15min)
Marie Labussiere, Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales (Sciences Po, CNRS)
09:15 - 09:30 (15min)
Platform Work and Older Workers in the Global South: Evidence from Brazil and Chile
Lourival Chaves Júnior, State University of the Tocantins Region of Maranhão - Marcio Cassandre, Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Arturo Arriagada, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
09:30 - 09:45 (15min)
You Can't Be “Unbiased” on a Moving Train: The Framing of Consensus in Community Notes
Aishik Saha, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
09:45 - 10:00 (15min)
Gamification, Algorithmic Management, and Governmentality on Digital Taxi Platforms
Eamonn Sullivan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, ADAPT Centre, Taighde Éireann
9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)
Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance
Room Jura - R2 South
Chair: Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST, CNRS)
› AI Beyond Job Loss: the Role of Labor Rights in Workers' Attitudes and Policy Preferences on AI regulation
- Marie Labussiere, Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales (Sciences Po, CNRS)
09:00-09:15 (15min)
› Platform Work and Older Workers in the Global South: Evidence from Brazil and Chile
- Lourival Chaves Júnior, State University of the Tocantins Region of Maranhão - Marcio Cassandre, Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Arturo Arriagada, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
09:15-09:30 (15min)
› You Can't Be “Unbiased” on a Moving Train: The Framing of Consensus in Community Notes
- Aishik Saha, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
09:30-09:45 (15min)
› Gamification, Algorithmic Management, and Governmentality on Digital Taxi Platforms
- Eamonn Sullivan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, ADAPT Centre, Taighde Éireann
09:45-10:00 (15min)
10:30
2 sessions
10:30 - 11:00 (30min)
Coffee Break
Gobelin - R2 South
10:50
2 sessions
Group photo
10:50 - 11:00 (10min)
10:50 - 11:00 (10min)
Group photo
Please convene to take a collective picture of participants to the conference!
11:00
Keynote: From Rengong (artificial/human labor) to Intelligence: Rethinking AI and Labor in and from China by Julie Yujie Chen
11:00 - 12:00 (1h)
Room II - R3 South
Chair: Maria Mexi
11:00 - 12:00 (1h)
Keynote: From Rengong (artificial/human labor) to Intelligence: Rethinking AI and Labor in and from China by Julie Yujie Chen
Room II - R3 South
Chair: Maria Mexi
https://indl-9.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Keynote2_Julie_Chen_1.pdf12:00
4 sessions
Gender and digital labour
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Room II - R3 South
Chair: Mariana Fernández Massi, CONICET
12:00 - 12:15 (15min)
Markéta Švarcová, Institute of Sociology of Czech Academy of Science
12:15 - 12:30 (15min)
Navigating precarity and algorithmic control in digital care platforms
Isabel María Barrero Velázquez, Universidad de Cádiz
12:30 - 12:45 (15min)
Sonam Rai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Gender and digital labour
Room II - R3 South
Chair: Mariana Fernández Massi, CONICET
› Gendered precarity in platform labor: invisible work, care responsibilities and algorithmic management in the Czech platform economy
- Markéta Švarcová, Institute of Sociology of Czech Academy of Science
12:00-12:15 (15min)
› Navigating precarity and algorithmic control in digital care platforms
- Isabel María Barrero Velázquez, Universidad de Cádiz
12:15-12:30 (15min)
› The Underside of the AI Supply Chain: Ghost Workers, Occupational Health, and Gendered Vulnerability in India's Content Moderation Industry
- Sonam Rai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
12:30-12:45 (15min)
Transparency and traceability in the AI models and their supply chains
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Room V - R3 South
Chair: Ivana Pais, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore
12:00 - 12:15 (15min)
Artificial Intelligence and the Firm: Transformations, Impacts, and Patterns of Innovation
Simone Vannuccini, Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion
12:15 - 12:30 (15min)
Luukas Heydemann, UNCTAD - Nicolas Maystre, UNCTAD
12:30 - 12:45 (15min)
Mapping Labor's Leverage Points in the AI Hardware Global Production: The Case of Samsung
Brandon Hunter-Pazzara, Georgetown University
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Transparency and traceability in the AI models and their supply chains
Room V - R3 South
Chair: Ivana Pais, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore
› Artificial Intelligence and the Firm: Transformations, Impacts, and Patterns of Innovation
- Simone Vannuccini, Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion
12:00-12:15 (15min)
› Tracing Value Added in the AI Hardware Supply Chain: An Analysis of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Server Rack
- Luukas Heydemann, UNCTAD - Nicolas Maystre, UNCTAD
12:15-12:30 (15min)
› Mapping Labor's Leverage Points in the AI Hardware Global Production: The Case of Samsung
- Brandon Hunter-Pazzara, Georgetown University
12:30-12:45 (15min)
New frameworks for a “human-centric” AI supply chain
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Room IX - R2 South
Chair: Mathilde Abel, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
12:00 - 12:15 (15min)
Labor as Critical Infrastructure: Worker-Verified Traceability for Human-Centric AI Supply Chains
Yang Zida, Peking University
12:15 - 12:30 (15min)
Origins of data work: Thinking about “lead” obligations for the data work sector
Ritvik Gupta, Aapti Institute - Sreya Nair, Aapti Institute - Aditi Shah, Aapti Institute
12:30 - 12:45 (15min)
The human labour force in supply chains: Digital technologies and warehouse automation in India
Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
New frameworks for a “human-centric” AI supply chain
Room IX - R2 South
Chair: Mathilde Abel, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
› Labor as Critical Infrastructure: Worker-Verified Traceability for Human-Centric AI Supply Chains
- Yang Zida, Peking University
12:00-12:15 (15min)
› Origins of data work: Thinking about “lead” obligations for the data work sector
- Ritvik Gupta, Aapti Institute - Sreya Nair, Aapti Institute - Aditi Shah, Aapti Institute
12:15-12:30 (15min)
› The human labour force in supply chains: Digital technologies and warehouse automation in India
- Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
12:30-12:45 (15min)
Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Room Jura - R2 South
Chair: Kanikka Sersia, Geneva Graduate Institute
12:00 - 12:15 (15min)
Task creep: The hidden expansion of unpaid labour in platform work
Prakriti Dasgupta, National University of Ireland Maynooth
12:15 - 12:30 (15min)
Julieta Haidar, Workers Innovation Centre, National Research Council
12:30 - 12:45 (15min)
Algorithmic Management and the Erosion of Procedural Accountability
Gonzague Isirabahenda, ''1 Decembrie 1918'' University of Alba Iulia
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance
Room Jura - R2 South
Chair: Kanikka Sersia, Geneva Graduate Institute
› Task creep: The hidden expansion of unpaid labour in platform work
- Prakriti Dasgupta, National University of Ireland Maynooth
12:00-12:15 (15min)
› Unpacking Collective Organization of Platform Workers: A Multi-Level Analysis of Three Sectors in Argentina
- Julieta Haidar, Workers Innovation Centre, National Research Council
12:15-12:30 (15min)
› Algorithmic Management and the Erosion of Procedural Accountability
- Gonzague Isirabahenda, ''1 Decembrie 1918'' University of Alba Iulia
12:30-12:45 (15min)
13:00
13:00 - 14:00 (1h)
Lunch
Cafetaria - R2 North
14:00
2 sessions
Organizational, legal and financial perspectives on the rate of investment of ethical AI and challenges of regulatory compliance
14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)
Room II - R3 South
Chair: Timothy Newman, Tech Equity
14:00 - 14:15 (15min)
Deep Labor: Beyond the Platform/BPO Divide in Data Work
Antonio Casilli, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
14:15 - 14:30 (15min)
AI and the Rebalancing of Open Source Contributions
Dong Yue, Verona University
14:30 - 14:45 (15min)
Oscar Javier Maldonado, Universidad del Rosario [Bogota] - Derly Sánchez Vargas, Universidad del Rosario [Bogota]
14:45 - 15:00 (15min)
AI Supply Chains and the New Technological Feudalism: Standard Hegemony and Labor Co-Construction
Miaotong Yuan, School of Music and Recording Arts, Communication University of China
14:45 - 15:00 (15min)
Worker Voice and Post-Deployment Governance in AI Supply Chains: Evidence from Unionised Workplaces
Claudine Tinsman, Queen Mary University London - Anjali Krishan, Queen Mary University London
14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)
Organizational, legal and financial perspectives on the rate of investment of ethical AI and challenges of regulatory compliance
Room II - R3 South
Chair: Timothy Newman, Tech Equity
› Deep Labor: Beyond the Platform/BPO Divide in Data Work
- Antonio Casilli, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
14:00-14:15 (15min)
› AI and the Rebalancing of Open Source Contributions
- Dong Yue, Verona University
14:15-14:30 (15min)
› Making promises: Ethical Investment, Regulatory Compliance and the enactment of Labour in the Pacific Alliance AI policies.
- Oscar Javier Maldonado, Universidad del Rosario [Bogota] - Derly Sánchez Vargas, Universidad del Rosario [Bogota]
14:30-14:45 (15min)
› AI Supply Chains and the New Technological Feudalism: Standard Hegemony and Labor Co-Construction
- Miaotong Yuan, School of Music and Recording Arts, Communication University of China
14:45-15:00 (15min)
› Worker Voice and Post-Deployment Governance in AI Supply Chains: Evidence from Unionised Workplaces
- Claudine Tinsman, Queen Mary University London - Anjali Krishan, Queen Mary University London
14:45-15:00 (15min)
PANEL: Regulating AI supply chains in the sector of logistics, European Union and comparative national legal perspectives
14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)
Room V - R3 South
Chair: Claire Marzo, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12
14:00 - 14:15 (15min)
Banning subcontracting and AI supply chains in Germany
Manfred Walser, Hochschule Mainz/University of Applied Sciences
14:15 - 14:30 (15min)
Reshaping logistics supply chains in Italy: the role of AI and digital technologies
Silvia Borelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
14:30 - 14:45 (15min)
Towards a European Union regulation of AI supply chains
Claire MARZO, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Silvia Borelli, Università di Ferrara
14:45 - 15:00 (15min)
Monitoring AI supply chains in the sector of Logistics via due diligence in France
Claire MARZO, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Barbara Palli, Université de Lorraine
14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)
PANEL: Regulating AI supply chains in the sector of logistics, European Union and comparative national legal perspectives
Room V - R3 South
Chair: Claire Marzo, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12
› Banning subcontracting and AI supply chains in Germany
- Manfred Walser, Hochschule Mainz/University of Applied Sciences
14:00-14:15 (15min)
› Reshaping logistics supply chains in Italy: the role of AI and digital technologies
- Silvia Borelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
14:15-14:30 (15min)
› Towards a European Union regulation of AI supply chains
- Claire MARZO, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Silvia Borelli, Università di Ferrara
14:30-14:45 (15min)
› Monitoring AI supply chains in the sector of Logistics via due diligence in France
- Claire MARZO, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Barbara Palli, Université de Lorraine
14:45-15:00 (15min)
15:30
15:30 - 16:00 (30min)
Coffee Break
Gobelin - R2 South
16:00
3 sessions
Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop
16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)
Room V - R3 South
Chair: Julie Chen, University of Toronto
16:00 - 16:15 (15min)
Not all equal: A multidimensional vulnerability indicator for platform data workers
Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST, CNRS)
16:15 - 16:30 (15min)
Karthika Nadarajah, Radboud university [Nijmegen]
16:30 - 16:45 (15min)
Sofie Schuller, Universiteit Utrecht
16:45 - 17:00 (15min)
Digital Autoethnography and the Affective Economy of Data Work in the Global South
Matheus Viana Braz, State University of Maringá
16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)
Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop
Room V - R3 South
Chair: Julie Chen, University of Toronto
› Not all equal: A multidimensional vulnerability indicator for platform data workers
- Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST, CNRS)
16:00-16:15 (15min)
› Remote Control: A Cross-platform Analysis of How Algorithmic Control shapes Platform Satisfaction in Online Gig Work
- Karthika Nadarajah, Radboud university [Nijmegen]
16:15-16:30 (15min)
› From Laptop to Living Room: Spillover-Crossover Effects of Microwork on Workers' and Their Partners' Social Well-Being
- Sofie Schuller, Universiteit Utrecht
16:30-16:45 (15min)
› Digital Autoethnography and the Affective Economy of Data Work in the Global South
- Matheus Viana Braz, State University of Maringá
16:45-17:00 (15min)
Role of social dialogue in governing AI-mediated work
16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)
Room IX - R2 South
Chair: Morgan Williams, Research Officer, ILO
16:00 - 16:15 (15min)
Mapping worker-led AI governance in the global cultural industries
Rafael Grohmann, University of Toronto - Helena Wright, University of Toronto
16:15 - 16:30 (15min)
Paula C. Santos Menezes, Laboratório de Território e Comunicação/UFRJ
16:30 - 16:45 (15min)
Labour at the margins: how European public discourse forecloses social dialogue on AI and work
Nikos Smyrnaios, Université de Toulouse - Charis Papaevangelou, Université de Toulouse
16:45 - 17:00 (15min)
Md Mahmud Hasan, Assistant Professor
16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)
Role of social dialogue in governing AI-mediated work
Room IX - R2 South
Chair: Morgan Williams, Research Officer, ILO
› Mapping worker-led AI governance in the global cultural industries
- Rafael Grohmann, University of Toronto - Helena Wright, University of Toronto
16:00-16:15 (15min)
› Counter-Laboratories for reimagining AI: What does "ethical AI" mean for Social Digital Movements from the South?
- Paula C. Santos Menezes, Laboratório de Território e Comunicação/UFRJ
16:15-16:30 (15min)
› Labour at the margins: how European public discourse forecloses social dialogue on AI and work
- Nikos Smyrnaios, Université de Toulouse - Charis Papaevangelou, Université de Toulouse
16:30-16:45 (15min)
› Absence of Social Dialogue and Vulnerability of Digital Labourers: AI-Mediated Freelancing Platforms and Agency Exploitation in Bangladesh
- Md Mahmud Hasan, Assistant Professor
16:45-17:00 (15min)
Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance
16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)
Room Jura - R2 South
Chair: Anthea Bicakcioglu, ILO
16:00 - 16:15 (15min)
Labour Control and Supervision on Delivery Platforms in Portugal
Patrícia Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
16:15 - 16:30 (15min)
From algorithms to the shop floor: Labour process dynamics and job quality in AI supply chains.
Daina Bellido de Luna, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
16:30 - 16:45 (15min)
Shikha Shalini, Research Scholar - Dr. Sweta Singh, Associate Professor
16:45 - 17:00 (15min)
Giovanni Gaudio, University of Turin - Law Department
16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)
Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance
Room Jura - R2 South
Chair: Anthea Bicakcioglu, ILO
› Labour Control and Supervision on Delivery Platforms in Portugal
- Patrícia Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
16:00-16:15 (15min)
› From algorithms to the shop floor: Labour process dynamics and job quality in AI supply chains.
- Daina Bellido de Luna, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
16:15-16:30 (15min)
› From Protest to Policy: How News Framing of Gig Workers' Strikes Influence on Social Security Code Implementation in India.
- Shikha Shalini, Research Scholar - Dr. Sweta Singh, Associate Professor
16:30-16:45 (15min)
› Reconciling risk and workers' rights: the EU's risk-based approach to algorithmic management and its implica-tions for labour law
- Giovanni Gaudio, University of Turin - Law Department
16:45-17:00 (15min)
18:00
Cocktail: Restaurant Ariana
18:00 - 20:00 (2h)
Rue de Montbrillant 83, 1202 Genève https://www.restaurant-ariana-geneve.ch/
18:00 - 20:00 (2h)
Cocktail: Restaurant Ariana
Rue de Montbrillant 83, 1202 Genève https://www.restaurant-ariana-geneve.ch/
