PoliticalInternat :ional International Initiat Triveends for and N Promotational Diffiengrenc Poles ISEGit i| 7-9cal 2016 E conomylisbon, Seventh Annual Conference in Political Economy

Political Economy: International Trends and National Differences

Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) (School of Economics & Management) University of

September 7 – 9, 2016 Lisbon, Portugal

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1:30 – 2:30 PM. LUNCH ROOMS 2:30 – 4:30 PM. SESSION 3 AND LOCATIONS 4:30 – 5:00 PM. COFFEE BREAK 5:00 – 6:30 PM. PLENARY. Current Currents in Room 306 3d floor Political Economy. Auditorium CGD Auditorium CGD 2nd floor Diane Elson. The Political Economy of ‘Economic Inequality’ and ‘Gender Inequality’ Auditorium 2 2nd floor Auditorium 3 2nd floor Malcolm Sawyer. The Contributions of Political Economy to the Understanding of Financialisa- Novo Banco 4th floor tion Amphitheater 14th floor 6:30 – 8:00 PM. COUNCIL MEETING. Edifer6:30 Amphitheater 3 4th floor – 7:30 PM. Poverty Working Group meeting. Amphitheater 4 4th floor Auditorium 3 Delta 3d floor Edifer 2nd floor Rm 308 3d floor WEDNESDAY 7 New Building (Francesinhas 1) 09:00 – 11:00 AM Amphitheatre 21 Second floor SESSION 1 Amphitheatre 22 Second floor Amphitheatre 24 Second floor Auditorium CGD Neolib I. Neoliberalism and economic policy TUESDAY 6 - Stagnation and institutional structures. David Kotz IIPPE pre-conference Training Workshop Economic openness, domestic institutional qual- ity & income inequality. Farah Khan location (Tuesday only): Instituto Superior de -The social legacy of Quantitative Easing: an Economia e Gestão (ISEG) (School of Econom- Australian perspective. Peter Willans ics & Management), Auditorium 2 -South-south integration as neoliberal passive 9:30 - 9:50 AM. Registration. (people attending revolution: the case of Morocco. Fátima Fernández this can also register for the Conference at the beginning of this Workshop) Auditorium 3 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM. IIPPE Training Workshop. Neolib X. Industrial Policy Value and Price. under Neoliberalism 1 Coordinated by Simon Mohun The problems of intra-regional imbalances in South East Asia. Naphon Phumma Industrial restructuring and organisations of WEDNESDAY 7 labour in . Satoshi Miyamura Conference Location: Instituto Superior de Different patterns of selective policies? Automo- Economia e Gestão (ISEG) (School of Econom- tive in Southeast Asia and . Chiara Pollio ics & Management) -Public Development Banks – dispensable relics of the past? Anne Henow Conference HQ: Room 306 (for late registration, and any information or other conference needs) Novo Banco 7:45 - 10:00 AM. CONFERENCE REGISTRA- TION, in Lobby. After 10:00 in Room 306 for the Finance I. Financialisation And Well-Being I rest of the conference. -Embedded neoliberalism in Portugal: finance and the welfare state. Nuno Teles 8:30 – 8:50 AM. CONFERENCE WELCOME. -The material and culture of financialisation.B en Fine Auditorium CGD. -Material cultures of water financialisation in Eng- 9:00 – 11:00 AM. SESSION 1 land and Wales. Kate Bayliss 11:00 – 11:30 AM. COFFEE BREAK -The making of a global commodity: restructuring 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM. SESSION 2 of the dairy industry. Susan Newman

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Amphitheater 1 -A class perspective on migrant’s rights. Char- Finance X. Speculation, Monetary Policy and lotte Gath International Currencies -Endogenous money and monetary policy: a AMPHITHEATRE 22 structuralist critique to QE. Olivia Bullio BDS I. Developmentalism and Latin America -Currency internationalisation in China, -Developmentalism at the periphery. Luiz F. de Jan Grumiller and . Paula -Does the Palestinian Monetary Authority oper- -The rise and fall of the New Developmental Dina Zabaneh ate under the loanable fund theory? State in Brazil. Judit Ricz -Latin America in the wake of the world crisis: Amphitheater 4 the limits of neo-developmentalism in political crises. Abelardo Marina-Flores Agrarian Change I. Theoretical Interventions -Putting the ‘Political’ back into ‘Agrarian Political Economy’. Subir Sinha AMPHITHEATRE 21 -What is political about agrarian political econo- Environment I my? Leandro Vergara-Camus -Linking environment and conflict: the collapse. -Chain (re)structuring and everyday politics in a Mauricio Alvarez Philippine town. Robin Thiers -Coherence, realism and relevance, and systems -Food regime theory and food sovereignty: Marx thinking in ecological economics. Dennis Badeen or Polanyi? Mark Tilzey Auditorium 2 Delta Activist Session I. Moving Beyond Capitalism (MBC) I. Worker struggles for self-determination in the Varieties of refusal: direct action, horizontalism, UK arms industry. Film: anti-austerity The Plan (110 min). Steve Sprung -The (continued) problem of organisational form: mapping the party in Negri and Badiou. Oliver Harrison WEDNESDAY 7 -Capitalism in : history and perspectives. Juan Barrios 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM -Community tourism as a solidarity economy SESSION 2 practice. The experiences from . Sandra Fernandez Auditorium CGD Neolib II. Neoliberalism and Finance 1 Edifer -The end of finance-led capitalism in the US? Social Capital I. Trevor Evans -Dealing with debt – looking beyond neoliberal- -A map of embeddedness: social capital accu- ism. Katarina Sehm Patomaki mulation, opportunities & constraints. Eleonora -Harnessing private finance to attain public poli- Lollo cy goals in times of austerity. Julian Müller -Social capital, perceptions and economic per- -Cultures of debt resistance. Johnna Montgomerie formance. José Hernández -Bridging divided ethnic groups through busi- ness cooperation. Ana Kopren Auditorium 3 -Biosphere reserves as spaces for inclusive terri- Neolib XI. Industrial Policy under Neoliberalism 2 torial governance. Silvia Sacchetti & Colin Campbell -The political economy of selective industrial poli- cies. Marco Di Tommaso Rm 308 -Industrial policy in the transformation of post-so- Program Committee I. Refugees cialist . Besnik Pula -Alternatives to neoliberal reception of refugees -Manufacturing development and industrial policy. in southern Europe. Giacomo Bazzani The Korean way. Mattia Tassinari

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-Transforming into Europe’s China: new in- Delta dustrial and employment strategies. Melda Yaman MBC II. Varieties of refusal: direct action, hori- zontalism, anti-austerity Novo Banco -Challenging the age of austerity: disruptive agency after the global economic crisis. David Finance II. Financialisation And Well-Being II Bailey -An exploration of the varied conduits through -Transformations and perspectives of capitalism which financialisation impacts on well-being.A na in . Antonio Campa Santos -Finding an alternative to global capitalism: the -Financialisation and well-being: the effect of the Sunflower Movement in Taipei, and the Umbrella global in 5 EU countries. Cláudia Movement in . Yao Hung (Ted) Huang Lopes -Crisis and collective struggle: lessons from the -Assessing the impact of austerity and financial Greek indignants. Maria Bakola crisis on well-being. Andrew Brown -How has the crisis affected well-being? Work conditions and financial situation. Helena Lopes Edifer Amphitheater 1 Social Capital II. Finance XI. Financialisation of the Globe and -Revisiting social capital in EU rural development Regulation as a Challenging Alternative policy in Southern Europe. Asimina Christoforou & -Recent developments of global crisis and stag- Elena Pisani nation. Arturo Guillén -Local and rural development: territorial cultures -The impossibility of depoliticised macropruden- and networking in Portugal. Luis Moreno tial regulation: the Swedish case. Claes Belfrage -Social capital and innovation in the Évora local -Having it both ways: financialisation and regula- platform experience. Patricia Rego tion in the financial sector. Ellen Quigley -Social capital and the economy of the rural poor. Jaco Vermaak Amphitheater 3 Marxist PE 2. Rethinking Production, Rm 308 Accumulation, and Growth Program Committee II. -Late Marx and the conception of ‘Accumulation -The Political Economy of the EU: an imperialist of Capital.’ Paul Zarembka project in crisis. Stavros Mavroudeas -A new quality of industrial production: political -The Depression in the South: Comparing economy analysis. Sergey Bodrunov Greece and Portugal. Nikos Stravelakis -The dual nature of commodities and economic -The Effect of Labour Share Divergence in the growth. Heesang Jeon . Ricardo Molero-Simarro -TiSA/TTIP: transnational capital, global com- -Power asymmetries behind Eurozone dynamics: mons, and virtualised accumulation. Yuliya Yurch- the role of . Maria Gavris enko -The Eurozone: a core-tailored suit or a comforta- ble straitjacket for all? Valentina Curcetti Amphitheater 4 Agrarian Change II. Work, AMPHITHEATRE 22 Food and Cooperation BDS II: Developmentalism in Asia and Africa -Patterns of food consumption and crop com- -The political economy of SME development in mercialization in Uzbekistan. Lorena Lombardozzi Vietnam. Christine Ngo -Employment generation and in -Development pessimism in the age of neo-liberal- India. Poulomi Dasgupta ism: experiences from Ethiopia. Joanne Tomkinson -The problems of an agroindustrial cooperative -A neo-Poulantzasian perspective on the Devel- in the north of . Andrea Chavez opmental State in Korea. Pauline Debanes -Agricultural cooperatives in the XXI century: the -Industry and technology policy: experiences in good, the bad and the ugly. Raquel Ajates Gonzalez and Korea. K. Ali Akkemik

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AMPHITHEATRE 21 Amphitheater 1 Environment II. Extractivism Finance XII. Spread of Financialisation across -The limits of redistributive extractivism in Latin the Periphery America. Murat Arsel -Debt and financialisation in Turkey and Brazil. -Extractive industries and sub-regional develop- Annina Kaltenbrunner ment: the case of Italy. Lorenzo Pellegrini -Financial crisis and monetary policy: evidence -Mining investment and social protest – analysis from Turkey. Ulas Sener of Tete province in Mozambique. João Feijó -Constructing South-Eastern European varieties of dependent financialisation. Marcel Zeitinger Auditorium 2 -Financialisation and low-income economies. An- tonia Settle Activist Session II. Poetic video essays on the lega- cy of the Spanish civil war, and on ideology. Films: Amphitheater 3 - Not Reconciled (40 min). Jill Daniels - Metaphysics and Democracy (60 min). Luis Ortiz Marxist PE 3. Marxist Political Economy as a ‘Social’ Science -Marx reads Quetelet. Julian Wells WEDNESDAY 7 -Beyond the (rational) agent: theory of money in Karl Marx and Niklas Luhmann. Edemilson Paraná 2:30 – 4:30 PM -Political economy of : statement of SESSION 3 the problem. Natalya Yakovleva

Auditorium CGD Amphitheater 4 Neolib III. Neoliberalism and Finance 2 Agrarian Change III. Focus on Mozambique -Do the rich fill the fiscal coffers? Myths and reali- -The agrarian counter-reform in Mozambique. ty in neoliberal capitalism. Marika Karanassou Máriam Abbas -Orderly and disorderly neoliberalism in the UK. -Political economy of agribusiness in Mozam- Markus Kallifatides bique: The case of ProSAVANA. Natacha Bruna -The housing question under neoliberalism in -Micro poverty traps and policy ineffectiveness: Brazil and the US. Mariana Fix a study from rural Mozambique. Bernardo Calda- -Constructing alternatives to privatisation: in- rola sights from the Turkish case. Ahmet Zaifer -Gendered labor crises and Mozambican agrari- an transformation. Alicia Lazzarini Auditorium 3 Neolib XII. Industrial Policy under Neoliberalism 3 Delta -Industrial policy in Vietnam between export-led MBC III. Trade unions and new forms of resist- growth and selective planning. Antonio Angelino ance -Neoliberalizing renewable energies? Tobias Haas -The enduring crisis of neoliberal globalism and -Commercializing research and interplay be- the development of radical political unionism. tween neoliberalism and collaboration. Seiko Martin Upchurch Kitajima -Occupation at Work: Lessons from Latin Ameri- ca. Adam Fishwick Novo Banco -New immigrants’ struggles in Italy’s logistics in- dustry. Lucia Pradella Finance III. Risk and Conceptualising Finan- -Double speak and self-calculation as accelera- cialisation tion: The quantified working self. Phoebe Moore -Why value theory needs to include risk. Dick Bry- an -Risk representation and class domination in the Edifer neoliberal age. Bruno Hofig Social Capital III. -From the tipology of financialization to a new -Social capital in conflict zones: application De- era of capitalism. Filipe Ferreira partment of Meta (). Paola Llanes Dueñas -Female labor market and social capital, care needs

- 5 - Political Economy: International Trends and National Differences ISEG | 7-9 2016 lisbon, portugal and financial inclusion.P atricia Lopez-Rodriguez THURSDAY 8 -Quantity or quality? Social networks and wom- en empowerment in Indonesia. Virginie Vial -Microfinance and social capital: why some mi- 9:00 – 11:00 AM. SESSION 4 crofinance schemes failed?A mee Yostrakul 11:00 – 11:30 AM. COFFEE BREAK -Micro- and rural poverty: Chiapas experi- 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM. SESSION 5 ence. Aylin Topal 1:30 – 2:30 PM. LUNCH 2:30 – 4:30 PM. SESSION 6 Rm 308 4:30 – 5:00 PM. COFFEE BREAK Program Committee III. Education for Work 5:00 – 6:30 PM. PLENARY. National Develop- and Development in Neoliberal Times ments in Political Economy. Auditorium CGD -Education for work – curriculum, labour markets, labour process, the economy. Yael Shalem --Training for subordination: Employability prac- Aleksandr Buzgalin. Prolegomena to New Quali- ties and Limits of the Market, Money and Capital. tices of shadow state institutions. Vera Weghmann - Nursing education in crisis: a story of casualiza- Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism tion and disinvestment. Miriam Di Paola Samir Amin. Reading Marx’s Capital, Reading His- - A political economy of #feesmustfall in South torical Capitalisms, the Challenge Today Africa. Stephanie Allais 6:30 – 8:00 PM. MEMBERSHIP MEETING. Audito- rium CGD AMPHITHEATRE 22 From 8:30 PM. SOCIAL CONFERENCE DINNER PE and Religions (bring your conference name badge for en- -The role of the religions for the formation of trance!) New European Development Models: a compar- ative analysis. Salvatore Drago CASA DO Restaurant -Islamic economics and basic principles under Rua Portas de Santo Antão (58 1150-268). the light of verses and hadiths. Ismail Seyrek It is located in the (picturesque) city centre, near -Analytical power of political economy and effec- Restauradores Square tiveness of religion. Yadollah Dadgar It is a 30 minute walk (1.5 miles) from ISEG AMPHITHEATRE 21 A map for walking or the tube is at https://goo. gl/maps/ZRoFhFBMY9v PE of Poverty Nearest tube stations: Restauradores (Blue line) -The roots causes of poverty in Sudan. Khalid El- or Rossio (Green line) beely -The urban political economy of spaces of exclu- sion. Manuel Aalbers -The government of poverty from industrial ex- pansion to financial inclusion.M arco Fama -Austerity, welfare and poverty in Europe’s dein- dustrialised city regions. David Etherington

Auditorium 2 Activist Session III. Protest movements in Brazil/Turkey, and Is- land. Films: - Acabou o Amor (Love is Over) (48 min). Mert Kaya - Reykjavik Rising (55 min). Danny Mitchell

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Amphitheater 3 THURSDAY 8 Marxist PE 4. Profit Rate, Output, Consump- tion, Value and Class 09:00 – 11:00 AM -Aggregate output – the US, UK and Greece: a value theory approach. Victor Kasper SESSION 4 -Contradictions of utility and value in market and goods consumption process. Yuner Kapkaev Auditorium CGD -Class, culture, and resistance: the Gezi Park pro- Neolib IV. Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Por- tests in Turkey. Adem Yesilyurt tugal 1 -A class rate of profit for the US economy, 1948- -Portugal’s neoliberal crisis management: what 2012. Simon Mohun were the social forces behind it? Victoria Stadheim -Political and the troika Amphitheater 4 memorandum - what kind of change? Ioannis Agrarian Change IV. The Agrarian Political Kompsopoulos and South Africa (I) -Coping with surprise: the IMF and the Portu- -Agrarian change in contemporary South Africa guese bailout experiment. Ana Costa and India. Ben Cousins -Crisis, inequalities and conspicuous consump- -Agrarian transition in India in comparative per- tion in Portugal. Cristina Matos spective. Jens Lerche -The politics of ‘classes of labour’ in rural India. Jonathan Pattenden Auditorium 3 -Effect of family relationships, co-operation & Neolib XIII. Neoliberalism and the Crisis in on accumulation in farming. Amelia Genis Greece 1 -The legacy of a fractured Eurozone: The Greek Delta dra(ch)ma. John Hatgioannides

-Neoliberal Eurozone framework - defeat of the PE China I. China and Global Capitalism -What the UK’s turn to China means for China’s Keynesian Syriza programme in Greece. Zoltan rise, and Sino-American relations. Rory Coutts Pogatsa -Understanding change through crises: USA - -Fictitious capital and the current crisis of Greek China relations. Melek Ozkesen capitalism. Demophanes Papadatos -China’s strategy of insertion in world capitalism. Maria Dias Novo Banco Finance IV. Banking Edifer -Financialisation in the Euro Area: anatomy of the

Eurozone Banking System. Juan Pablo Painceira Social Capital IV. -The networks at times of economic crisis: the - European Banking System, a normal accident role of family workers. Isabella Santini in progress in TRIPOD interpretation. Dimitrios -Young people in the – mobi- Soukeras lising social capital. Mel Evans -On the gendered logic of the megabank: an -Social capital in perspective of socio-economic exploration. Eirini Petratou crisis. Case of . Jerzy Przybysz -Social capital, government performance and Amphitheater 1 local elections in Italy. Luca Andriani PE of Institutions I -Why is corruption contagious? Bo Sui & Chun-Ping Rm 308 Chang -Corruption and innovation in OECD countries. Africa I. Paradigms of State and Regions in Africa Gen-Fu Feng & Jun Wen -Post-commodity Africa: industrial policy as as- -Democracy in the age of neoliberalism. Shawky semblage. Pádraig Carmody Arif - CFAfranc: where do we stand? Bruno Tinel - Liberal peacebuilding vs. the DSP: post-conflict reconstruction in Nigeria. Eka Ikpe

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AMPHITHEATRE 22 blame for? Alexis Ioannides Progressive European Policies WG I -An econometric approach of the alternative -Basic income as a transformative strategy. Gabor strategies for Greece. Ioannis Vardalachakis Scheiring -Regional industrial mix, specialization & under- -Wage-led and profit-led economies. The case of employment across Greek regions. Stelios Gialis within the Eurozone. Ignacio Alvarez & Jorge Uxó -Unequal exchange or absolute advantage in the -EU foreign direct investment policy and human trade between Germany and Greece? Christina rights. A normative power Europe? Sérgio Pedro Paraskevopoulou

AMPHITHEATRE 21 Novo Banco Activist Session VIII. Finance V. Financialisation in Turkey Workshops: -Different phases of financialisation in Turkey: - How Institutional Investors can Seed the New state and finance capital. lifE Karacimen Green — and Fair — Economy (60 min). Ellen Quigley -Financialization and care in Turkey. Ipek Eren Vural Auditorium 2 -A systems of provision (SOP) approach to hous- ing loans in Turkey. Andrew Cruickshank Activist Session IV. -Housing in Turkey in the context of financialisa- Artist videos on migration, cultural activism, tion of social reproduction. Ezgi Unsal protest and racism. Films: -The growth-current account paradox of the - No More Beyond (41 min). Matthias Kispert Turkish economy in the financialisation era. Aylin - Caminata Nocturna (22 min). Karl Ingar Røys Soydan - Burmese Days (17 min). Karl Ingar Røys - Disturbdance (3 min). Guli Silberstein Amphitheater 1 - Cut Out (4 min). Guli Silberstein - Video Work (4 min). Guli Silberstein PE of Institutions II - Comfort Zone (5 min). Gabrijel Savic Ra -Paradoxes of an agrarian urban law: the Brazil- ian case. Luís Massonetto -The political economy of rent mobilisation in the and Colombia. Charmaine Ramos THURSDAY 8 -Institutional implications of the Greek socio-eco- nomic crisis. Proestou Maria 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM -The global crisis and the peripherisation of the SESSION 5 Slovene capitalism. Ana Podvrsic

Auditorium CGD Amphitheater 3 Neolib V. Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Por- Marxist PE 5. New Imperialism: Nature and tugal 2 Alternatives -The economic crisis: return to democracy or rise -New imperialism: Russia, Ukraine and the West. of the cultural wars? João Carlos Graça & Rita Gomes Aleksandr Buzgalin Correia -Evolution and prospects of Russian capitalism. -Productive structure and the pitfalls of the Portu- Viktor Barkhatov guese economy in the EMU. Ricardo Mamede -Capitalism and post-capitalism embryos in dif- -The political economy of austerity: implications ferent countries. Dmitri Pletnev of the crises’ resolution. Eugénia Pires -The debate on the breakdown of capitalism: im- -A stock-flow consistent model of the Portu- plications for theory and praxis. Cecilia Escobar guese economy. Pedro Pratas Amphitheater 4 Auditorium 3 Agrarian Change V. The Agrarian Political Neolib XIV. Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Economy of India and South Africa (II) Greece 2 -Livelihoods and social differentiation in -Real unemployment rate in Greece. Who to ‘post-agrarian’ South Africa. David Neves

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-Reflections on deagrarianisation in western Ta- AMPHITHEATRE 21 mil Nadu. Nithya Natarajan Activist Session IX. Workshop: -Dynamics of agrarian change in Joint ventures - A practical guide to neoliberal language (work- on communal land in South Africa. Brittany Bunce shop) (30 min). Raúl de Arriba, María Vidagañ & Ma- -Patterns of accumulation in South Africa’s nuel Branco grain-livestock complex. Alex Dubb - Impact of the neoliberal model. Alternatives to it. (60 min). Portuguese Delta Platform NO to the Transatlantic Treaty. PE China II. China and the Developing World -Developing or under-developing? Implications Auditorium 2 of China’s “Going Out.” Dic Lo Activist Session V. -An alternative view on China’s “Go Global.” Sam- Garment worker struggles in Bangladesh, Kee Cheng and eco-postcapitalism in Brazil. Films + Pa- -The political economy of distribution in China per: and Brazil in the 2000’s. Isabela Nogueira - Rana Plaza (film) (63 min + 6 min).C arla Novi

Edifer Urb & Reg: Financialisation of Urban Political Economies I THURSDAY 8 -“Neoliberal rationality” in the financialization of 2:30 – 4:30 PM housing policy: the case of the Brazilian bank SESSION 6 Caixa. Huana Carvalho -Brazilian financialization and the peculiarity of Auditorium CGD building certificates. Laisa Stroher -Severance indemnity fund and mortgage-backed Neolib VI. Neoliberalism, Ideology and Social securities: the Brazilian case. Luciana Royer Theory -Faces of global players in São Paulo real state -Economics, mathematics and ideology. Dimitris financial complex.P aula Santoro Milonakis -On the resilience of neoliberal ideology. Mat- Rm 308 thew Eagleton-Pierce -State neoliberalism: when the neoliberal ideolo- Africa II. Economy and Agrarian Transforma- gy occupies the state apparatus. Rubens Sawaya tions in Africa -Party funding in the age of neoliberalism. Dan- -Labour regimes across farm scale: evidence ielle May from Tanzania and Uganda. Elisa Greco -Post-neoliberal? Analyzing Brazil’s insistence -New peasants and African farm workers reinter- with neoliberalism. Renato de Gaspi preting food sovereignty in Italy. Giulio Iocco -Discarded by capitalist agriculture: what future Auditorium 3 for S. Africa’s rural people? Nancy Andrew Neolib XV. Social Policy under Neoliberalism AMPHITHEATRE 22 -Politics and economics in the political economy of social policy and development. Andrew Fischer Progressive European Policies WG II -How financialization reframed social policy in Intro: Economics & austerity in EU: gendered im- Brazil. Lena Lavinas pacts & sustainable alternatives. Hannah Bargawi -From social policy to faith-based poverty man- u- -Explaining austerity and its gender impact. S agement in Turkey under JDP. Yavuz Yasar san Himmelweit -Public social services in Brazil: the missing link. -Costing a feminist plan for a Caring Economy: Celia Kerstenetzky free universal childcare in the UK. Jerome De Henau -Engendering economic recovery: modelling al- Novo Banco ternatives to austerity in Europe. Giovanni Cozzi -Crisis, policy responses and gender: the Italian Finance VI. Greece: Aspects Of Financializa- case. Giovanna Vertova tion And Problems Of Development

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-Capital controls in the Eurozone: first it’s Cyprus, Edifer then it’s Greece. George Labrinidis Urb & Reg: Financialisation of Urban Political -Appropriating natural resources and conditions Economies II in the time of crisis: Greece. Andriana Vlachou & -Three discourses on vacancy and remaking Georgios Pandelias Dublin after the crash. Cesare Di Feliciantonio & Cian -Capital, economic growth, and socio-ecological O’Callaghan crisis: a critical perspective. George Liodakis -Ponzi financing sociospatial transformation in northwest England. Callum Ward Amphitheater 1 -Regional development and separatism. Ivan Rajic -Planning economic recovery: limits and poten- PE of Institutions III tials of regional policy in Brazil. Humberto Martins -Drivers of the public expenditures in 19th cen- tury Europe. Mehmet Cetin -British capitalism and European unification, Rm 308 from Ottawa to Brexit. Christakis Georgiou Africa III. Labour, Social Reproduction and -The productivity analysis between discourse Capitalist Transformation in Africa and reality in Turkey: a critique of New Institu- -Capital accumulation in agriculture: land, labor tionalist Economics. Gizem Şimşek and finance in Northern Uganda.D avid Olanya -Relations of power between men and women in Amphitheater 3 southern Mozambique. Aleia Rachide Agy -Paradigms of regional migration and labour mo- Marxist PE 6. Contemporary Forms of Repro- bility in West and Southern Africa. Hannah Cross duction -Rethinking social reproduction. Paul Cammack -Continuous proletarianisation & social repro- ANFITHEATRE 22 duction at the frontier. Alex Nunn Teaching PE -From the materiality of labor to the political -Resources for teaching political economy: strength of the working class. Juan Iñigo-Carrera macroeconomics. A critical companion. Ourania -Micro-savings and the financialisation of social Dimakou reproduction. Sophia Price -Teaching economics in the 21st century. Samuel Decker Amphitheater 4 -Some reflections on trying to get a book pro- posal accepted. Kevin Deane Agrarian Change VI. The Agrarian Political -Resources for teaching political economy. Elisa Economy of India and South Africa (III) van Waeyenberge -Class formation across borders: migrant workers in Southern African borderlands. Helena Pérez Niño -Class formation and accumulation in South Afri- AMPHITHEATRE 21 ca’s ‘New Qwaqwa Farms.’ Mnqobi Ngubane Activist Workshop X -Livestock, grazing and land reform in Zimba- Feminist economics as activism: the experi- bwe: A theoretical perspective. Tapiwa Chatikobo ence of the UK Women’s Budget Group -Land occupations in Shamva Zimbabwe - a Jerome De Henau, Diane Elson, Susan Himmelweit commoning perspective. Kirk Helliker Auditorium 2 Delta Activist Session VI. PE China III. China’s Economic Structure Migration and housing struggles in London. -China’s development plans: the government’s Films + Activist Session: choice of its industrial pillars. Elisa Barbieri - Limpiadores (film) (40 min). Fernando Mitjáns -Is the Chinese economy unbalanced? Jonathan Clyne - Concrete Heart Land (25 min film + 30 min ac- -The development wage labor relations since tivist session). Rastko Novaković China’s reforms. Meng Jie -China’s switching crisis? From a crisis of produc- tion to a real estate bubble. Steve Rolf

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FRIDAY 9 Novo Banco Finance VII. Non-Financial Companies, Real Sector, Capital Accumulation I 11:00 – 11:30 AM. COFFEE BREAK -The mesoeconomics of financialisation.Fou ad 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM. SESSION 8 Ferdi 1:30 – 2:30 PM. LUNCH -Divergent responses to financialization in UK 2:30 – 4:30 PM. SESSION 9 big pharma? GSK versus AZ compared. Pauline 4:30 – 5:00 PM. COFFEE BREAK Gleadle -Finance, short-term profitability dynamics and 5:00 – 6:30 PM. PLENARY. We Told You So: the business cycles in the U.S. Sergio Cámara Izquierdo Centrality of Political Economy. Auditorium CGD Amphitheater 1 Nuno Ornelas Martins. Political Economy and He- gemony: Comparing the Surplus Approach and Finance XIII. Extension of Finance into Land, the Scarcity Approach Agriculture and Pensions -Financialization and capital accumulation in agri- Ana Cordeiro Santos. A Research Program for Fi- nancialisation: Reflections from the Portuguese culture. Mauro Conti Case -Fixity, motion, and the use of land as a financial asset in Majorca. Ismael Yrigoy -The distributional dynamics of financialisation in the US agri-food sector. Joseph Baines -Analysing the relation between financialisation FRIDAY 9 and pension reforms. Serap Saritas 09:00 – 11:00 AM Amphitheater 3 SESSION 7 Marxist PE 7. Evolution of the Former Socialist Economies Auditorium CGD -PE of Russian capitalism: lessons from China and Vietnam. George Tsagolov Neolib VII. Neoliberalism and Authoritarian- -Geopolitical economy of reindustrialization. Vik- ism 1 -Interrogating ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’: defi- tor Rjazanov -Role of Central and Eastern Europe in global ac- nitions, histories, and challenges. Matt Ryan -Neoliberalism, race, and authoritarianism post- cumulation of capital. Annamaria Artner 9/11. Cameron Smith -The fascist flipside of neoliberalism.A ndrea Micoc- Amphitheater 4 ci & Flavia Di Mario Agrarian Change VII. Capital, Labour and the -The rise of a new authoritarianism in Brazil. Alfre- State do Saad Filho -Proletarianisation process and local class strug- gle: the case of Soma, Turkey. Cosku Celik Auditorium 3 -Public domain against commons? Access to common resources in Burkina Faso. Antoine Dol- Neolib XVI. Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Europe cerocca -EMU: a currency for all or a trap mechanism? -Primitive accumulation and strong state: chang- Oyku Safak-Cubukcu Leonardus Wicaksono ing agrarian relations in Turkey. -Paving the ground for neoliberalism: Greek and Cypriot media before the Troika. Gregoris Ioannou Delta -Reforming the UK pension regime; a risk based MBC IV. Historical and International Cracks in analysis. Or Raviv Capitalism -Long run distributive cycle in Europe: the race to -The Olympian political economy of ancient the bottom 1990-2015. Marzia Ippolito Greece: an alternative to the market system. Don- ni Wang -Islam and grassroots resistance: the emergence

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of the anti-capitalist Muslims in Turkey. Leor Ueste- Auditorium 3 bay Neolib XVII. Latin America after the ‘Pink Tide’ -Understanding the dynamics of a revolution. Pe- -A decade of extractivism? Legacies of the com- dro Luis Rubio Terés modity boom in Latin America. Juan Grigera -Paris 1871 and Fatsa 1979: revisiting the transi- -Neoliberalism, the Pink Tide and class inequality tion problematique. Onur Acaroglu in Brazil. Pedro Loureiro -Income distribution, productive structure and Edifer growth in South America. Claudio Amitrano -Financial vulnerability in Brazil and the foreign Urb & Reg: Financialisation of Urban Political direct investment. Vanessa Corrêa Economies III -Financialization of the periphery: the case of Por- to Maravilha. Mayra Mosciaro Novo Banco -Just another round of financial innovation? The Finance VIII. Non-Financial Companies, Real case of Fintech Village, Brussels. David Bassens & Sector, Capital Accumulation II Michiel Meeteren -Mechanisms of financial liquidity and wrong-way -Mapping the changing nexus between finance logic of financialisation.Du ncan Lindo and Belgian local governments. Laura Deruytter - Financialization in the non-financial sector of emerging markets: evidence from Turkey. Sercan Rm 308 Sevinc -The effects of financialization on non-financial PE Work I. Precarity and Insecurity at Work companies’ investment in EU15MS. Daniele Tori -Precarity in the not-for-profit employment servic- -Financialisation and investment in the EU: bene- es sector. Carlo Fanelli ficial or prejudicial effects? Ricardo Barradas -Precarious employment experience of stu- dent-workers: a case of Turkey. Ali Özkesen -Economics for the right to work. Manuel Branco Amphitheater 1 Finance XIV. Debt and Its Impact AMPHITHEATRE 21 -Financialisation and debt regime as social sub- jection and machinic enslavement. Ziya Can & Emre Activist Workshop XI Özcan Change economics from below(60 min) -The causes of rising in OECD The International Students Initiative for Pluralism countries. Glennie Moore in Economics (ISIPE) -The IMF’s Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) and the Euro crisis. Christina Laskaridis FRIDAY 9 Amphitheater 3 Marxist PE 8. Theoretical Issues in Marxist Po- 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM litical Economy I SESSION 8 -Modern economic theory and its structure. Alijan Babayev Auditorium CGD -Effective demand and Say’s Law in Marxist theo- Neolib VIII. Neoliberalism and Authoritarian- ry: an evolutionary perspective. Tomas Rotta ism 2 -On the issue of political economy evolution: -Crises in or of neoliberalism? Turkey’s experi- Marxist approach. Gleb Maslov -Knowledge, labour and value through the lenses ence in the 2000s. Galip Yalman -Neoliberal populism and the strange return of of Karl Marx. Rodrigo Marques -Temporal and spatial analysis of value theory: authoritarianism in Turkey. Yonca Özdemir -Monetary integration in the Eurozone and the integrating Marx and Lefebvre. Adem Açar rise of transnational authoritarian statism. Sune Sandbeck & Etienne Schneider Amphitheater 4 - Crisis, austerity and nationalist reaction: The as- Agrarian Change VIII. Small-scale Producers cendancy of the Orbán regime. Adam Fabry and Commodity Chains

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-Land redistribution from below in South Africa: Panel: Left Wing Populisms across Europe a new alternative? Ricardo Jacobs - Variants in strategic culture in the Corbyn-La- -Scope and limitations of industrial development bour project. Lewis Bassett & Joseph Leigh through soy agro-processing. Lotta Takala-Green- - Podemos 2.0: towards a party-movement? Pab- ish lo Castaño Tierno -Rural development processes and local added - Between social movements and 2017 elec- value in the north of Buenos Aires Province. Dan- tions: new challenges for the French left. Arthur iel Somma Moreau -Conflict of in the fruit sector of San Pe- - Left Block: A party between parliamentary com- dro, Argentina. Sebastian Grenoville mitment and the need to radicalize the political struggle. Amarílis Felizes Amphitheater 22 MBC V. A Political Economy to Save Planet Earth? -Anti-capitalism, subjectivity and critique of polit- FRIDAY 9 ical economy in 21st Century. Soner Çubukçu 2:30 – 4:30 PM -The New Left and the war of position: a new co- SESSION 9 herence or further fragmentation? Owen Worth -Inventing the future: contributions on autono- Auditorium CGD my, heteronomy and radical democracy. Wanda Vrasti Neolib IX. Inequality and Neoliberalism -Distributive theories and inequality in Brazil. -Weaponising social reproduction. Keir Milburn Róber Avila -A non-market ecosocialist exit from capitalism. -Economic policy and inequality: a proposal for Anitra Nelson a change in economic policy. Carlos Ochando -The effect of income distribution, taxes and Edifer public spending on growth. Thomas Obst Urb & Reg: Financialisation of Urban Political -Income distribution, gender equality and public Economies IV spending effects on employment. Evrydiki Fo- -The Low Countries, towards entrepreneurial and topoulou financialized urban development? Jannes van Loon Auditorium 3 -Financial opportunity as motivator of urban pol- Neolib XVIII. Neoliberalism in Latin America icy in the post-crash city. Sinead Kelly -Main policies implemented in Mexico after the -The creation of “social housing market” against 2008-09 crisis: a critical view. Alejandro Valle Bae- the crisis of neoliberalism. Sıla Demirörs za -Squatting post-crash and its transformation of -The Mexican economy after the crisis of 2008. housing provision in Madrid. Thomas Youngman Gloria Martínez -Developmentalism can be transforming in Bra- Rm 308 zil? Niemeyer Almeida Filho PE Work II. Approaches to Analysing Inequali- -¡No! It’s a trap! The political economy of ty, Falling Wages, and Unpaid Overtime in the wake of the referendum. Aiko Amaral & Car- -Evaluating labour: an output based approach oline Freitas for unpaid overtime in the UK. Eleni Papagiannaki -Determinants of the wage share: a cross-coun- Novo Banco try comparison using sectoral data. Alexander Finance IX. Growth and Finance Guschanski -Finance-growth nexus and GDP computation -The moral effect of neoliberal work policies on in the second phase of neoliberalism. Richard white collar workers. Ester Ruben Itaman -Rethinking financial deepening in Africa: why AMPHITHEATRE 21 banking does not spur growth. Ewa Karwowski Activist Session XII. -Debt-led & export-led growth regimes: some

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issues on thier complementarity. Juan Barredo-Zu- legacy of the Spanish civil war, and on ideol- riarrain ogy. - Not Reconciled (40 min). Jill Daniels Amphitheater 3 Not Reconciled (2009) is an open-access 40-minute documentary film. It tells the history Marxist PE 9. Theoretical Issues in Marxist Po- of Belchite in Spain, ruined in a 3-week battle litical Economy II during the Spanish Civil War and left deliberately -Public debt: the bourgeois state while emitting in ruins by Franco to symbolize his victory. There fictitious capital.F ernando Junior was no Truth Commission at the end of the Fran- -The fictitious capital: revisiting a controversial coist era, no purge of the army or police and no category. Pedro Rossi assessment of the crimes of the regime. The film -Credit and banking system in Marx: critical reflects on the continuing presence of the Civil notes on the Harvey’s approach. Alexis Saludjian War and the existence of mass graves, through -Marx on the credit-system in Volume I of Capi- the creation of the ghosts of Republican and Na- tal. Janaína de Faria tionalist fighters, filming of the inhabitants of the rebuilt town and extensive shots of the ruined town. The two central ghosts represent young RM 308 Republican fighters, Rosa and Carlos, killed in Activist Session XIII. the Civil War and buried in mass graves. They are waiting to be found. Workshop: - Handling an Internal Armed Conflict (90 min). Pedro Rubio - Metaphysics and Democracy (60 min). Luis Ortiz This is the first of series of two artist films re- Auditorium 2 searching ideology. It shows 57 shots of 1 min- ute duration each, which contain observations Activist Session VII. of advertisements, texts, images and landscapes The contradictions of the aid industry in Afri- in the city of Berlin, made in part at the time of ca. Film: the last election of the European Parliament. In We Will Win Peace (98 min). Hannah Cross the first part the images are accompanied by a voice reading the text Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, a milestone of philosophical speculation in liter- ature, by Jorge Luis Borges. In the second part FILM DESCRIPTIONS we listen to interviews taken from the documen- tary film Encirclement. Neoliberalism Esnares Democracy by Richard Brouillet, which includes Activist Session I. Worker struggles for guests such as Ignacio Ramonet, Noam Chom- self-determination in the UK arms industry. sky and others. They discuss Ramonet’s concept - The Plan (110 min). Steve Sprung of Pensée Unique. The Plan is a film about the 1976 Lucas Aero- space Workers Alternative Corporate Plan. As an answer to being threatened with closure and Activist Session III. unemployment workers, who had previously Protest movements in Brazil/Turkey, and Is- made parts for jets, developed a range land. of alternative products, including a wind turbine - Acabou o Amor (Love is Over) (48 min). Mert and a hybrid car. The film is about the journey Kaya of their political development, reflecting on the Acabou o Amour… is a documentary film that significance of what they did and why their cam- tells the story of the 2013 June protests in Brasil, paign couldn’t be supported by both Labour from a viewpoint of the participants of the Gezi and Conservative governments as the world Resistance in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2013, while we turned in the direction of neo-liberalim. The aim were reclaiming common spaces and starting to of the film is to re-visit their story when there is act in accordance with our dreams in Gezi Park the need more than ever for this sort of initiative. in Turkey, people in Brazil were also protesting The Plan will be shown as a work in progress for to claim back their streets, squares and cities. discussion at the conference. The title Acabou o Amor… is taken from a slogan often heard during the Brazilian protests, which Activist Session II. Poetic video essays on the became the initial source of inspiration for our project. While protestors were chanting ”Acabou

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o amor, isso aqui vai virar a Turquia!” (Love is initially appears to document. In actuality, the over, soon this will turn into Turkey!) a straight video depicts a facsimile of such events, a tourist line was being drawn between these two coun- sideshow put on by the inhabitants of the town tries by the protestors. of Alberto 2000 kilometers from the border. Em- bedding the spectator between the dual screens and actively embracing the difficulties of repre- - Reykjavik Rising (55 min). Danny Mitchell senting a facet of capitalist economics—such as In October 2008 was hit with one of illegal migration—ensues that Røys foregrounds the biggest financial disasters any nation in the this question in the work. In as much as the video world had experienced. In response, citizens is about the trials of economic migration within took to the streets creating what is now known as global capitalism—labour necessarily following the “Pots and Pans Revolution”. the flows of capital at the risk of severe penal- In response to widespread media silence and a ties—it is also about the very dissimulation into growing global trend towards people-led move- experiential facsimile and images played out in ments, this documentary explores how and why Caminata Nocturna. the people of Iceland resisted the measures im- posed by their government following the crisis - Burmese Days (17 min). Karl Ingar Røys of 2008 and how they forced their government to resign in an attempt to forge a new political Burmese Days (2014) looks at cultural produc- path. tion in Yangon – Burma’s former capital – and how it has managed to co-exist within the politi- The documentary meets the instigators of the cal regime. This multi-channel video installation revolution and follows the most important Na- takes its name from George Orwell’s novel of the tional Referendum in Iceland’s history. Through same title. Orwell is seen as a prophet by many this we explore the Icelanders’ story of their na- Burmese who regard his books as prescient: tion and their revolution, but also what lessons tracking Burma’s recent history from colonial op- can be learned globally from their experiences. pression in Burmese Days, the socialist military coup in Animal Farm, to the tyrannical dictator- Activist Session IV. Artist videos on migration, ship portrayed in his most famous novel 1984. cultural activism, protest and racism.

- No More Beyond (41 min). Matthias Kispert - Disturbdance (3 min). Guli Silberstein No More Beyond is a video essay about bound- A young woman is blocking two armed soldiers aries filmed in the city of Melilla, a Spanish en- from firing at protesters in a Palestinian village. clave in northern Morocco, where 11.5 km of The image, picked up from a TV news report heavily patrolled triple wire fence separate EU found online, is digitally processed and slowed territory from migrants trying to enter. The pro- down, and the soundtrack is replaced with lyrical ject takes its title from the city’s motto: Non Plus music. The scene is turned to a peculiar dance, Ultra. almost romantic, highlighting the magical and This phrase and its possible readings provides a rare human connection created in the heroic act, starting point for various operations of collision captured and transmitted by digital technology. and collage performed across three screens. Ma- terials used include interviews recorded on site, - Cut Out (4 min). Guli Silberstein video footage of the city and its surroundings, the architecture of its barriers, and the encamp- A radiant, raging girl is shouting and punching ments of those who attack these barriers, as well the empty space in front of her. She is roughly as extracts from film, advertising, corporate PR, cut out from her surroundings by a computer journalism, theoretical writing, and historical algorithm struggling to contain her, and her documentation. enemies are rubbed off the frame. Is she real? Is she a dream? Gradually, more fragments of No More Beyond takes the boundary not just the scene are revealed, and the context is made as the line of separation, but also as the thresh- clearer. The video-processing highlights the old where the violence that sustains inequality documented scene as image, both of a fight for erupts and is forcibly revealed. freedom, and a media event.

- Caminata Nocturna (22 min). Karl Ingar Røys - Video Work (4 min). Guli Silberstein Caminata Nocturna documents both the flight Department store workers break out in dance and pursuit of illegal economic migrants across protest, demanding social justice, respect and the Mexico-US border. Or at least that’s what it

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freedom. The documentation, which was posted classes at some of London’s most prestigious online, is turned by video processing to black- universities. and-white grainy texture. The scene moves to a - Concrete Heart Land (25 min film + 30 min ac- place existing between documentation and art, tivist session). Rastko Novaković between realism and abstract, between ‘video’ Concrete Heart Land exposes the social cleans- and ‘work’. ing of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, - Comfort Zone (5 min). Gabrijel Savic Ra South London. It marks the moment that the This video is dealing with racism. The base for estate was finally lost as social housing to make Western society is dialectics; we always have to way for an unjust ‘regeneration’ scheme. Over have two opposing sides that come together the course of 2012 and 2013, we filmed pano- through synthesis for creation of anything in ramic video images of the estate and interiors our civilization. That’s theory, but it is evident of some of the Heygate flats. Assembled from that when it comes to problem of racism that’s 12 years of archive materials, our film charts the not happening, from overt racism to very subtle struggles of the local community to keep their forms, it exists, feeding the paternalistic deter- homes. Throughout the film we hear the com- minism that one is always lower and less worthy munity engaging in some of the crucial battles than the other. But, what happens when we with elected officials, planners and barristers, in pain(t) different picture, when we change color municipal planning meetings, public enquiries of each other’s skin, when we monumentally and interviews. stand together with self-consciousness revital- Inserted among these recordings are various ized, not following dialectical synthesis, but rath- sections of a performance we staged in 2012 er acceptance of individual uniqueness that is on the then still-inhabited estate. An assembled not followed with “but”. group of past and present residents, community activists and critics of the Heygate plans, chant Activist Session V. Garment worker struggles texts composed from phrases used in the Re- in Bangladesh. generation Masterplan. The performance paro- dies the technical language of regeneration and - Rana Plaza (film) (63 min + 6 min). Carla Novi the aspirational language of gentrification. In February 2013, Carla Novi visited a garment The screening is preceded with an introduction factory in Bangladesh to work on an art project by the filmmakers to housing and planning involving women workers. Two months after struggles at the Elephant and Castle, an area of Novi returned to the UK, the factory that she South London facing intense development pres- visited, Rana Plaza, collapsed, leaving more than sures. 1000 workers dead, becoming one of the worst industrial disasters in history. In the wake of the tragedy, Novi returned to Bangladesh to make a Activist Session VII.. The contradictions of the documentary film that follows her personal jour- aid industry in Africa. Film: ney: from her first visit to Dhaka before the fac- - We Will Win Peace (98 min). Hannah Cross tory collapsed, to her return a year later, where Seth Chase spent several years making market- she witnesses the aftermath of the tragedy. As ing and advocacy videos for aid organisations in the artist deals with her own pain and loss, she Central and East Africa. Now, turning the camera embarks on a mission to try to find the fifteen back on his industry, he explores the unintended garment workers that she met in Rana Plaza be- but often harmful impact this work can have. We fore the catastrophe. Will Win Peace goes behind the scenes of hu- The documentary will be followed by a screen- manitarian advocacy and activism in the United ing of a short film documenting a collaborative States – via the forests and mines of eastern Con- performance between Rana Plaza survivor Dilora go - to reveal the hidden dangers behind good Begum and artist Carla Novi, presented during intentions. Document 12 (Human Rights Documentary Film Festival) at the CCA, Glasgow. Activist Session VI. Migration and housing struggles in London. Films + Activist Session: - Limpiadores (film) (40 min).Fe rnando Mitjáns Limpiadores’ captures the life and struggles of the invisible migrant workers that make sure offices and classrooms are clean and tidy before professors and students arrive for their morning

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