WORKSHOP
Inequality and Poverty and Inequality and Industry
25 – 26 June 2014
Organisers:
Research Group ‘Industry and Inequality in Eurasia’, MPI for Social Anthropology
‘Programme of Research on Inequality and Poverty’, Department of Anthropology, LSE
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 25th June 2014: Inequality and Industry Day
Venue: Guest House Seminar Room of the MPI of Social Anthropology
9.00 – 9.20 Coffee and get-together
9.20 – 9.30 Welcome by Jonathan Parry
9.30 – 11.00 Session I: Kazakhstan
Eeva Kesküla
Gender, Kinship and Risk. Fieldwork in mining communities in Kazakhstan
Tommaso Trevisani
Regular and Auxiliary Workers in Temirtau’s Steel Plant
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Session II: Steel plants
Dina Makram-Ebeid
Class, Property and Conflict at in Egyptian Steel Town
Dimitra Kofti
‘Socio-logic’ versus ‘Competition’: Solidarities and tensions among employees with different work statuses in a Bulgarian steel industry
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch break
14.15 – 15.45 Session III: South Asia
Michael Hoffmann
Permanent vs. Contract Labour in a Modern Food-Processing Factory in Western Nepal
Andrew Sanchez
Scrap Value: Power exchange and enterprise in the Indian metal trade
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
Session IV
16.15 – 16.45 Introduction to Inequality and Industry Programme
Presenters: Eeva Kesküla and Andrew Sanchez
16.45 – 18.00 Comments and general discussion
Discussant: Gavin Smith
Thursday, 26th June 2014: Inequality and Poverty Day
Venue: Main Seminar Room of the MPI of Social Anthropology
9.30 – 10.00 Introduction to Inequality and Poverty Programme
Presenters: Brendan Donegan and Richard Axelby
10.00 – 11.20 Session I
Vikramditya Thakur
Integration into Agrarian Capitalist Economy and Consequences for Livelihoods and the Domestic Cycle
Jayaseelan Raj
Economic Crisis and the Oscillation of Dalit and Adivasi Labour in South India
11.20 – 11.40 Coffee break
11.40 – 13.00 Session II
Brendan Donegan
Dispossession and Industrialisation in Rural Tamilnadu
Dalel Benbabaali
Development-and-Conflict Induced Displacement
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.40 Session III
Richard Axelby
From Peasants to Petty Commodity Producers: New forms of poverty and inequality in rural Himachal Pradesh
Lewis Beardmore
Marginalisation and Local Cross-Border Livelihood Strategies
Thomas Herzmark
An Ethnographic Study of the Governmentalisation of Social Inequality
15.40 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 Grand discussion
Discussant: Gavin Smith
