Dr. Tatiana LÓPEZ-JULIES
Lecturer (expected to be on parental leave until 07/2025)
Tel.: +49 931 31-81177
E-Mail: tatiana.lopez-ayala@uni-wuerzburg.de
Institute of Geography and Geology
Am Hubland
97074 Wuerzburg
Campus Hubland South
Geography Building
Room 128
since 01/2023
Research associate at the Institute for Geography and Geology, Chair for Economic Geography, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
05/2022
PhD in the Department of Economic Geography, University of Cologne
Dissertation topic: Labor Control and Labor Agency in Global Production Networks – A Case Study of the Bangalore Export-garment Cluster
07/2021 – 01/2023
Research associate in the research group Globalization, Work, Production at the Berlin Social Science Center
07/2015 – 08/2021
Research associate at the Institute for Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne
07/2014 – 06/2015
Event manager at the Mercator Institute for Language Promotion and German as a Second Language at the University of Cologne
06/2013 – 06/2014
Project coordinator Brazil at Kindernothilfe e.V.
09/2012 – 05/2013
Carlo Schmid Fellow/Consultant at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), New York
10/2006 – 08/2012
Diploma in Latin American regional studies in Cologne and Campinas (Brazil)
Scientific publications
Fuchs, Martina/ López, Tatiana/ Wiedemann, Cathrin/ Riedler, Tim/ Dannenberg, Peter (2024): Digital work and the struggle for labour representation: the food and grocery online retail sector in Berlin (Germany). In: Vale, Mario/ Ferreira, Daniela/ Rodrigues, Nuno (Eds.): Geographies of the platform economy. Critical perspectives. Cham: Springer Nature.
López, Tatiana/ Feuerstein Patrick , Vera, Janine de, Varaschin, Giulia, Karlıdağ, Zeynep, Graham, Mark (2024): Cloudwork als Chance für den Globalen Süden? Einkommens- und professionelle Entwicklungschancen von Online-Plattformarbeiter*innen im Übersetzungs- und Transkriptionssektor. Standort. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-023-00904-8 Online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-023-00904-8
Nociolini Rebechi, Claudia/ Aragão Oliveira, Marcos/ López, Tatiana/ Valente, Rafael Grohmann/ Salvagni, Julice/ et al. (2023): Avaliando relações de trabalho na economia de plataformas: o Projeto Fairwork no Brasil e na América Latina. In: Schneider, Aaron (Eds.): Soberania popular na era digital. São Paulo: Hucitec Editora, Fundação Perseu Abramo & Instituto Lula.
Alyanak, Oğuz/ Cant, Callum/ López Ayala, Tatiana/ Badger, Adam/ Graham, Mark (2023): Platform Work, Exploitation, and Migrant Worker Resistance: Evidence from Berlin and London.The Economic and Labour Relations Review. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1017/elr.2023.34
Neise, Thomas/ López, Tatiana/ Angga Reksa, Fikri Abdul (2023): Rethinking labour risk in global production networks: Resilience strategies of cruise ship workers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Geoforum 145 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103842
Ecker, Yannick/ López, Tatiana/ Schlitz, Nicolas (2023): Wichtiger denn je! Ein Plädoyer für eine intensivere Auseinandersetzung mit Arbeit in der kritischen Stadtforschung. In: Sub/Urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung 11 (1/2): 265-281. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v11i1/2.841
López, Tatiana (2023): Labour Control and Union Agency in Global Production Networks: A Case Study of the Bangalore Export-garment Cluster. Springer Economic Geography Series. Cham: Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27387-2
Butollo, Florian/ López, Tatiana (2023): Globale Wertschöpfungsketten und internationale Arbeitsteilung. In: Bohn, Rainer; Hirsch-Krainsen, Hartmut; Pfeiffer, Sabine; Will-Zocholl, Mascha (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Arbeits- und Industriesoziologie. 3. Auflage. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Fuchs, Martina/ Dannenberg, Peter/ López, Tatiana/ Wiedemann, Cathrin/ Riedler, Tim (2022): Location-specific labour control strategies in online retail. ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0028
López, Tatiana/ Fütterer, Michael (2022): Warenketten – aktuelle Konflikte und transnationale Solidarität. In: Zeitschrift für Marxistische Erneuerung, Nr. 129/ März 2022: 85-96.
López, Tatiana / Riedler, Tim / Köhnen, Heiner / Fütterer, Michael (2021): Digital value chain restructuring and labour process transformations in the fast‐fashion sector: Evidence from the value chains of Zara & H&M. Global Networks. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12353
López, Tatiana (2021): A practice ontology approach to labor control regimes in GPNs: Connecting ‘sites of labor control’ in the Bangalore export garment cluster. In: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53(5):1012-1030. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0308518X20987563
López, Tatiana/Fütterer, Michael (2019): Gewerkschaft als internationale soziale Bewegung – Das TIE-Orangensaftnetzwerk. In: Ludwig, C., Simon, H., Wagner, A. (Hg.): Entgrenzte Arbeit - (un-)begrenzte Solidarität? Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 174-90.
López, Tatiana/Fütterer, Michael (2019): Herausforderungen und Strategien für den Aufbau gewerkschaftlicher Verhandlungsmacht in der Bekleidungswertschöpfungskette – Erfahrungen aus dem TIE-ExChains-Netzwerk. In: Ludwig, C., Simon, H., Wagner, A. (Hg.): Entgrenzte Arbeit - (un-)begrenzte Solidarität? Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 222-238.
López Ayala, Tatiana (2018): Multi-level Production of the Local Labour Control Regime in the Bangalore Readymade Garment Cluster.In: Butsch, C., Follmann, A. und Müller, J. (Hrsg.): Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien: 8. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 19./20. Januar 2018. Geographien Südasiens, Band 10. Köln, Heidelberg, Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks, 20-23.
Fütterer, Michael/López Ayala, Tatiana (2018): Challenges for organizing along the garment value chain. Experiences from the union network TIE ExChains. RLS Studien 2/2018. Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
López Ayala, Tatiana (2017): Das Buen Vivir als alternatives Entwicklungskonzept? Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Einordnung. Arbeitspapiere zur Lateinamerikaforschung Nr. III-28. Köln: ASPLA.
López Ayala, Tatiana (2016): Nord-Süd-Kooperationen in den Wissenschaften. Von der Kolonialität des Denkens zu einer neuen Perspektive der Pluralität und Interkulturalität. Online: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105514-12
López, Tatiana (2015). Impulsos del Vivir Bien para una Descolonización de las Ciencias: Desde la Colonialidad del Saber hacia una Perspectiva Plural e Intercultural. In: Fikus, M. / Oberliesen, R. / Tancara, C. (Hrsg.): Estudios de Postgrado en el Contexto transnacional y transcultural - Innovación y Transformación. La Paz / Bolivia, S. 235-256.
Blog posts
Bertolini, Alessio/ López, Tatiana/ Ustek-Spilda, Funda/ Graham, Mark/ Feuerstein, Patrick/ Budu, Joseph (2022): What Does the War in Ukraine Mean for Platform Workers? International Review of Sociology Blog. Online.
Bertolini, Alessio/ Alyanak, Oğuz/ Cant, Callum/ López, Tatiana/ Agüera, Pablo/ Howson, Kelle/ Graham, Mark (2022): Gaps in the EU Directive Leave Most Vulnerable Platform Workers Unprotected. Reshaping Work. Reflection on the Proposed EU Directive. Online.
López, Tatiana/ Graham, Mark (2021): The Fairwork Pledge: Digital labour platforms, precarious work and interventions for a fairer gig economy. OECD Network Forum Series: Tackling Covid-19. Online.
Transfer publications
Feuerstein, Patrick/ López, Tatiana/ Varaschin, Giulia/ Graham, Mark/ Karlıdağ, Zeynep/ De Vera, Janine (2023): Not fair at all. Working conditions on online platforms for language services. WZB-Mitteilungen Nr. 180, Juni 2023. Online Supplement: https://www.wzb.eu/en/article/not-fair-at-all
López, Tatiana/ Alyanak, Oğuz/Feuerstein, Patrick/ Agüera, Pablo (2022): Lots of work, poor conditions: Health Risks for Workers in the German Platform Economy. WZB-Mitteilungen Nr. 175, März 2022. Online Supplement.
Fairwork (2022): Labour Standards in the Platform Economy: Fairwork Paraguay Ratings 2022. Oxford, United Kingdom, Berlin, Germany.
Fairwork (2022): Working Conditions in the Global Platform Economy: Fairwork Translation and Transcription Platform Ratings 2022. Oxford, United Kingdom
Fairwork (2022): Work in the Planetary Labour Market: Fairwork Cloudwork Ratings 2022. Oxford, United Kingdom.
Fairwork (2022): Fairwork Brazil Ratings 2021: Towards Decent Work in the Platform Economy. Porto Alegre, Brazil; Oxford, United Kingdom, Berlin, Germany.
