Multinational Corporations (MNC) as International Causes

08:30 – 09:00

Reception

09:00 – 10:30

Employer Mobilization and Regulation of MNC                                         Chair: Isabella Löhr (Freie Universität Berlin/ZZF Potsdam)

Marieke Louis (Centre Marc Bloch): ICC and IOE leaders, multinational companies and business diplomacy (20th-21st Centuries)

Maia Müller (Université de Lausanne): The reactions of international business associations to attempts at regulating multinational corporations: a transnational coordinated response, 1964-1992

Sabine Pitteloud (UniDistance Suisse):Swiss Multinationals, International Regulations and Global Contests in the 1970s

Blanche Segrestin (Mines Paris Tech): Multinational Impacts/ Private Governance: Can We Conceive a Law to Hold Multinational Corporations Accountable? (by Zoom)

10:30 – 10:45

– Break –

10:45 – 12:15

MNC in their Territories and Social Mobilization                                          Chair: Sandrine Kott

Marie Huber (Universität Marburg): Corporate Pathways in (PostColonial Contexts: Business Histories, Trade Dynamics, and Skills Development in Africa and Asia since 1950

Jochem Rinsma (EUI): Shop Floor Internationalism: The Transnational Information Exchange, European Auto Workers, and the Birth of Brazilian Neoliberal Democracy

Francesco Petrini (Padova University): Runaway capitalism. Multinational Corporations and Social Conflict during the Long 1970s

Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Leipzig Universität): Multinationals and trade unions: insights from Unilever (1970s-1980s)

12:15 – 13:00

– Lunch break on site –

13:00 – 14:30

MNC and Corporate Social Responsibility

Chair: Marieke Louis

Dorothea Hoehtker (ILO): Regulating MNEs to protect workers and environment? – The 1984 Bhopal chemical accident and the ILO

Laure Bereni (CNRS, Centre Maurice Halbwachs): A transnational category? Comparing workplace diversity programs in U.S and French multinational companies

Sandrine Kott (Université de Genève/New York University): Christian Mobilizations on the Issue of Multinationals and the Meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility

Birgit Müller (EHESS): La quadrature du cercle de la zéro émission nette. Multinationales et gouvernance du climat

14:30 – 14:45

– Break –

14:45 – 16:00

Discussion on network structure and calls for projects

Note that this workshop is, in principle, restricted to the participants. In case of interest by members of the CMB, please contact: marieke.louis@cmb.hu-berlin.de