44th International Labour Process Conference (IPLS): Labour Process and the Environmental Crisis in a Multipolar World

Santiago de Chile | 23 –  25 April 2025 

Labour Process and the Environmental Crisis in a Multipolar World

The International Labour Process Conference is one of the longest established and bestknown global events for empirical and theoretical discussion of work, employment and capitalist transformations. Every year, the conference brings together researchers and
policy makers from a variety of countries in order to share knowledge and initiate new
collaborations. We are pleased to announce that the International Labour Process
Conference will return to South America in 2025.

The ILPC welcomes papers on a wide range of topics regarding the labour process,
labour markets, labour relations, reproduction of labour and capitalist transformation.
This year special focus will be on the interlinkages between the multipolar changes of
the world system, the environmental/ecological questions, and the processes of change
in labour processes, regimes of exploitation, systems of regulation and working-class
action and resistance. This focus becomes particularly relevant for a conference that is
being hosted in a Latin American country. Global South’s regions are, indeed, the territories in which resource extraction (of natural resources and human beings, through migration and brain drain), environmental degradation and global regimes of exploitation, converge to a greater scale, reproducing new forms of imperialism and dependency. This requires an effort to read and interpret classical labour process topics and analyses with
a less Eurocentric and de-colonial approach. In line with this focus, we particularly welcome abstracts, symposia and streams proposals with a comparative South/South
and South/North angle and addressing labour studies from the perspective of sociology,
anthropology, geography, development studies, history and political economy.

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