20-22 July 2023
2023 SASE Conference
Windsor Florida Hotel, Rio de Janeiro
Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
Since 2018, CRIMT holds an annual conference (Network K conference) within the framework of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Network K aims to foster exchanges on organizational and institutional experimentation and its power to improve (or deteriorate) work.
27-29 October 2022
CRIMT International Conference
HEC Montréal, Canada
Better Work for a Better Society. Actor Resilience and the Power of Experimentation
Over the past few decades, significant changes have been disrupting the world of work: digital technologies, the breakdown of corporate boundaries, the reshaping of global supply chains, climate change, global pandemic outbreaks, shifts in identities and values, political unrest, resurgence of geopolitical tensions, and changes in public policy, to name only a few.
Such changes are having widespread and profound effects, which in a lot of cases seem out of synch with the aspirations for better work, by which we mean productive, innovative, healthy and inclusive work, in which individuals live free from excessive insecurity, unaccountable control over their working lives, conflicts between personal and professional life, and can express their voice individually and collectively. These effects are not conducive to achieving better, more just, peaceful, sustainable, open and democratic societies.
However, these disruptions also open the way to various forms of experimentation, reflecting the resilience and mobilization of actors in the world of work. The challenge is to describe, analyze and compare these experimentations – including those conducted in response to the major challenges of our time (for example, geopolitical tensions, Covid-19 or the climate crisis) – in order to better understand how certain actors or groups of actors are able to appropriate, mobilize and transform institutions of regulation in favour of an improvement (or deterioration) in the quality of work, or the societies in which these experimentations are carried out. We need to draw lessons from these experiences.
It is with that in mind that the CRIMT International Partnership Project on Institutional Experimentation for Better Work, which brings together the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work(CRIMT) and an international network of associated partner centres and researchers, hosts a conference on BETTER WORK FOR A BETTER SOCIETY: Actor Resilience and the Power of Experimentation.
This conference took place at HEC Montréal (Montreal, Canada) from Thursday, October 27th to Saturday, October 29th 2022. The conference was held in person and included a hybrid component to encourage some level of remote participation.
9-11 July 2022
2022 SASE Conference
University of Amsterdam
Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
Since 2018, CRIMT holds an annual conference (Network K conference) within the framework of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Network K aims to foster exchanges on organizational and institutional experimentation and its power to improve (or deteriorate) work.
2-5 July 2021
2021 SASE Conference
Virtual Conference
Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
Since 2018, CRIMT holds an annual conference (Network K conference) within the framework of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Network K aims to foster exchanges on organizational and institutional experimentation and its power to improve (or deteriorate) work.
26-28 May 2021
58th Annual Conference of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA)
Better Work I & II: Understanding What Makes Work Better or Worse. CRIMT and its partnership project on institutional experimentation for better work CIRA workshops
CRIMT, in collaboration with the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA), held two roundtables entitled Work: For Better or for Worse at the Association’s 2021 Conference.
Bringing together ten members of the CRIMT Partnership Project, these roundtables provided an opportunity to discuss how to think about better and worse work. Each panel featured the ideas of four researchers who drew on their research findings to address the issue.
The panelists answered a series of questions from a common grid covering three constituent dimensions of work: risk, whether economic, health or social; control or autonomy, i.e. the ability to exercise control over one’s work and its limits in relation to other aspects of one’s life outside of work; and expressiveness, i.e. the dimensions that relate to voice, as well as to the possibility of achieving one’s potential at work.
Roundtable 1 [with simultaneous interpretation]
Moderator : Mélanie Laroche (Université de Montréal)
Philippe Barré (Université de Montréal)
Le travail des artistes professionnel.le.s au Québec
Louise Boivin (Université du Québec en Outaouais)
Le travail du ‘care’ rémunéré dans le secteur privé au Québec
Urwana Coiquaud (HEC Montréal)
Le travail sur plateformes numériques au Québec : le cas de UBER
Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau (UQAM)
Le travail des ouvrier.è.s sylvicoles au Québec
Roundtable 2
Moderator : Gregor Murray (Université de Montréal)
Mat Johnson (University of Manchester)
Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven)
Jim Stanford (Centre for Future Work)
Olga Tregaskis (University of East Anglia)
For those who did not have the opportunity to attend the CIRA conference, or for those who attended and would like to see it again, we are pleased to make the full recording of both sessions available on our YouTube channel.
We also invite you to visit the multimedia section of this site to see more recordings of events.
18-21 July 2020
2020 SASE Conference
Virtual Conference
Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
Since 2018, CRIMT holds an annual conference (Network K conference) within the framework of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Network K aims to foster exchanges on organizational and institutional experimentation and its power to improve (or deteriorate) work.
24-27 June 2020
ILERA 10th Regional Congress for the Americas
Virtual Conference
Special Colloquium : CRIMT Partnership Project on Institutional Experimentation for Better (or Worse) Work
Organized jointly by the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA), Ryerson University Ted Rogers School of Management and ILERA, in association with numerous partners, including CRIMT, ILERA’s 10th Congress for the Americas aimed to provide a space for the study of work and employment from a global, multidisciplinary perspective, firmly rooted in the reality of workplaces and open to the diversity of ideas, interests and points of view as well as to critical thinking.
CRIMT held a special colloquium (6 workshops) mobilising the work of several coresearchers and student members of its Partnership Project on Institutional Experimentation for Better (or Worse) Work.
13-16 June 2020
LERA 72nd Annual Meeting
Virtual Conference
CRIMT Symposium: Institutional Experimentation for Better (or Worse) Work
The annual meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) aims to provide an open forum for labour researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss the latest issues affecting the world of work and employment. CRIMT held a symposium entitled Institutional Experimentation at Work: For Better or Worse in the context of the 2020 meeting.
27-29 June 2019
2019 SASE Conference
The New School – New York City, USA
Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
Since 2018, CRIMT holds an annual conference (Network K conference) within the framework of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Network K aims to foster exchanges on organizational and institutional experimentation and its power to improve (or deteriorate) work. At the 2019 conference, Network K hosted 16 workshops on the theme of organisation and institutional experimentation.
5-7 June 2019
56th CIRA Congress
UBC Sauder School of Business
Special Colloquium : Institutional Experimentation for Better Work
The 56th Congress of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA) aimed to share studies on work and employment from a holistic, multidisciplinary perspective, firmly rooted in the reality of workplaces and open to a diversity of ideas, interests and points of view as well as critical thinking.
CRIMT held a special colloquium (4 workshops) mobilising the work of several coresearchers and student members of its Partnership Project on Institutional Experimentation for Better (or Worse) Work.
12-14 February 2019
33rd AIRAANZ Annual Congress
RMIT University
Special Colloquium : Experimentation for better work
The theme of the 33rd Congress of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (Global Work, Quality Work?) invited researchers and practitioners in the world of work to examine the dilemmas arising from growing disparities in the quality of jobs, particularly in the context of the rapidly changing landscape of global capitalism, labour regulation, labour migration and movements.
CRIMT held a special colloquium (3 workshops) mobilising the work of several coresearchers and student members of its Partnership Project on Institutional Experimentation for Better (or Worse) Work.
23-25 June 2018
2018 SASE Conference
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
Since 2018, CRIMT holds an annual conference (Network K conference) within the framework of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Network K aims to foster exchanges on organizational and institutional experimentation and its power to improve (or deteriorate) work. At the 2018 Conference, Network K hosted 11 workshops on the theme of experimentation within the framework of the 2018 conference.
25-27 October 2018
CRIMT International Conference
HEC Montréal, Canada
What Kind of Work for the Future? Perturbations, expérimentations et re-régulation
This conference offered original contributions from academics and practitioners on two related themes: changes that disrupt the world of work and lead to the re-regulation of work and employment, and the forms of organisational and institutional experimentation that underpin or accompany these processes of change and re-regulation. Bringing together four panels of international specialists, more than 250 researchers from 21 countries in some 40 thematic workshops, followed by a one-day Community Forum, this conference brought together some of the world’s leading experts on work and employment.
29 June – 1 July 2017
2017 SASE Conference
Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
SASE Mini-Conference: Disruption and Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
CRIMT’s mini-conferences at SASE (2015-2017) helped refine CRIMT’s research programme on organisational and institutional experimentation for better (or worse) work. The Lyon mini-conference included 11 workshops on the theme of experimentation.
