Program

09:30 - 09:45 (15min)

Stratified AI: Intra-National Inequalities and the Coloniality of Digital Labour

Pankhuri Agarwal, King‘s College London - Damian Grimshaw, King‘s College London

09:45 - 10:00 (15min)

Building Fair AI Supply Chains: Governance, Accountability, and the Fairwork Certification Scheme

Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Patrick Feuerstein, Berlin Social Science Center

10:00 - 10:15 (15min)

Digital Colonialism and AI Supply Chains: Labour and Infrastructure in Indonesia's Data Centre Economy

Petra Molnar, Berkman Center for Internet and Society [Harvard University], York University [Toronto]

10:15 - 10:30 (15min)

Cooperative-AI-Substrate Platform: A Multi-Scale Architectural Inversion for Human-Centric AI Supply Chains

Jonathan Jones, Liana Banyan Corporation

09:30 - 09:45 (15min)

Affective traces of AI labor: workers' emotions, job-market narratives, and emerging vulnerabilities in Madagascar

Aina Anjara Fitahiana Razafimahenina, Africa Center For Artificial Intelligence - Myriam Raymond, Université d'Angers

09:45 - 10:00 (15min)

Artificial Degradation: Generative AI and the Deskilling of Creative Labor

Wiktor Sokół, University of Gdańsk

10:00 - 10:15 (15min)

Encoding Marginality: AI Supply Chains and Linguistic Data Work in India

Lorenzo De Lellis, Ca' Foscari University [Venice, Italy]

10:15 - 10:30 (15min)

Psychosocial and Health-Related Risks in AI value chains: the Case of Latin American Data Workers

Matheus Viana Braz, State University of Maringá - Lucas Souza, Fluminense Federal University [Niterói] - Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - Mathilde Abel, Télécom Paris - Antonio Casilli, Télécom Paris

09:30 - 09:45 (15min)

A gig within a gig: A comparative study of intermediation and market creation in ride hailing and home services platforms in India

Anna Elias, Erasmus University Rotterdam

09:45 - 10:00 (15min)

“Is This Really Gonna Help Someone?” Alienation Among European Data Workers

Floor Fiers, Universiteit Utrecht, Universiteit van Amsterdam

10:00 - 10:15 (15min)

Algorithmic Control, Gamification, and Resistance among Platform Delivery Workers in Mexico City

José Angel Cerón Hernández, El Colegio de México A.C. - Minor Mora Salas, El Colegio de México A.C.

10:15 - 10:30 (15min)

HETEROMATING MACHINES, ISOLATION, INVISIBILITY AND THE USAGE OF TIME: A DISCUSSION ABOUT CHILEAN MICROWORKERS SUBJECTIVITY.

Diego Rivera, Universidad de Chile, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, FAIR

09:30 - 09:45 (15min)

Active Algorithmic Transparency as an Operational Principle of Location-Based Platform Work

Laura Mantilla León, Derechos Digitales

09:45 - 10:00 (15min)

Centring Microworkers' Needs in EU Platform Regulation

Luisa Burchartz, Universiteit Utrecht

10:00 - 10:15 (15min)

Between Welfare and Control: Rethinking Social Protection Policies for Platform Workers in India

Kinchan Chakma, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies (ADCPS), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

10:15 - 10:30 (15min)

Beyond the Black Box: A Comparative Analysis of Algorithmic Management Regulation in Latin America (Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay) and Lessons From the Global South

Federico Rosenbaum Carli, Universidad Católica del Uruguay [Montevideo, Uruguay]

11:30 - 11:45 (15min)

The Social Penalties and Rewards of AI-Augmented Work.

Gemma Newlands, Universität Zürich - Christoph Hassler, Universität Zürich

11:45 - 12:00 (15min)

Mapping workers skills across AI supply chains across geographies

Uma Rani, International Labour Organization - Morgan Williams, International Labour Organization

12:00 - 12:15 (15min)

One arm of the Assembly line of AI. EU data workers and privacy regulation

Thomas Le Bonniec, Télécom Paris

12:15 - 12:30 (15min)

Visible Yet Unseen: Unpacking the (In)visibilities of Food Delivery Riders in Public Space

Emilia Bruck, Vienna University of Technology

11:30 - 11:45 (15min)

An Exploration of Instability: The Association of Fluctuating Conditions in Microwork with Workers' Daily Well‑Being through Basic Need Satisfaction

Sofie Schuller, Universiteit Utrecht

11:45 - 12:00 (15min)

Intermediary assemblages and platform fetishism: understanding entanglements of AI-enabled tools, subcontracting, and platform-mediated labor

Quinn O'Dowd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

12:00 - 12:15 (15min)

Artificial Intelligence in the movie industry and live entertainment

Eliana Como, Fondazione Di Vittorio

12:15 - 12:30 (15min)

The Global Color Line of AI Labor: Digital Colonialism in the OpenAI–Sama Supply Chain

Anis Rahman, University of Washington

11:30 - 11:45 (15min)

Bonded to the algorithm: how ratings shape platform-based domestic work in India

Eleonora Paesani, School of Oriental and African Studies

11:45 - 12:00 (15min)

Cartography of Digital Labor: The De-reterritorialization of Delivery Workers through the Co-creation of Maps

Igor Dalla Vecchia, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg - Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg

12:00 - 12:15 (15min)

Chinese Delivery Workers on Short Video Platforms: From Everyday Self-Media to Alternative Video Activism

Ke Huang, Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry

12:15 - 12:30 (15min)

Contesting Control: Algorithmic management in the era of platform work regulation

Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

11:30 - 11:45 (15min)

Decoding Algorithmic Management through Workers' Calculative Power: Potential and Limitations of a Participatory Methodology for AI Accountability in Platform Labour

Jessica Pidoux, PersonalData.io, Université de Neuchâtel - Núria Sánchez-Mira, Université de Neuchâtel

11:45 - 12:00 (15min)

Labour Control in Delivery and Care Platforms: A Comparative Study from Chile

Francisca Gutiérrez-Crocco, Universidad Austral de Chile, Data4workers - Monserrat Greene Núñez, Data4workers

12:00 - 12:15 (15min)

Data Rights and Platform Labour Markets in Uruguay

Luciana Zorzoli, Essex Business School - Catalina Wins Porta, University of the Republic of Uruguay

16:00 - 16:15 (15min)

Ethically Distant? Awareness of Hidden Labor in AI Supply Chains Among Remote Workers

Barbara Švagan, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management

16:15 - 16:30 (15min)

From microtask to requester: prompt commoning against the fragmentation of AI labor

Adrián Lombera, Universitat de VIC, Universitat Central de Catalunyo

16:30 - 16:45 (15min)

Shadow AI at Work: Labour Control and Everyday Resistance

Alex Miltsov, Bishop's University

16:45 - 17:00 (15min)

Outside the Doughnut: A Socio-Economic Framework for the True ROI of Human-Centric AI Supply Chains

Prachi Sharma, Future Shift Labs - Vidhi Sharma, Future Shift Labs

16:00 - 16:15 (15min)

From Bad to Microwork: Playful Work Coping and the Loss Cycle

Yuri Scharp, Universiteit Utrecht

16:15 - 16:30 (15min)

Is it exploitation? Platform work through a human trafficking lens

Salomé Lannier, University of Luxembourg

16:30 - 16:45 (15min)

Algorithmic Management and Wage Dynamics: an Individual-level Survey Evidence

Claudia Collodoro, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Milano] - Maria Enrica Virgillito, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Milano], Institute of Economics of Sant'Anna [Pisa]

16:45 - 17:00 (15min)

From Algorithmic Management to Organizational Cognitive Ecology

Manuela Paulon, The Adecco Group

16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)

PANEL: Corporate Accountability in AI Supply Chains: the AI-Workers' Rights Litigation (AI-WORLd)

Luca D'Ambrosio, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / École de droit de la Sorbonne - Baptiste Delmas, Institut de Recherches Juridiques de la Sorbonne - Rachel Beausejour, CGT-FAPT - Samira Alaoui, CGT-FAPT – Ephantus Kanyugi, Data Labelers Association - Joan Kinyua, Data Labelers Association - Anthony Kimani, Oversight Lab Africa - Anonymized, Independent scholar

16:00 - 16:15 (15min)

When Machines Manage: Workers' Demands and Trade Union Responses to AI

Paolo Agnolin, Princeton University

16:15 - 16:30 (15min)

The Limits of Social Dialogue in Algorithmic Work: Institutional Mismatch in Labour Governance Across Employment Forms

Branka Andjelkovic, Re:People - Centre for Society and Technology

16:30 - 16:45 (15min)

Technological Change, Occupational Structure, and Wage Inequality in India: The Role of Trade Unions and Labour Regulations

Prachi Tayade, Indian Institute of Technology [Bombay] - Kiran Mhaske, Indian Institute of Technology [Bombay]

16:45 - 17:00 (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