Dear all,

Below is information on a seminar organised by the EGRG, UGRG and 
the International Centre for Labour Studies for September this year.

I hope I'll see lots of you there!

Bests,

Kevin

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LABOURING AND LIVING
IN THE CITY

A half-day seminar organised by the Economic Geography Research Group
(EGRG), the Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) and the
International Centre for Labour Studies (ICLS), University of
Manchester.

7th September 2000, 1.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. 
Room 3.51, Williamson Building, University of Manchester

Recent discussion around an 'urban renaissance' of English cities has
tended to replay some of the debates that characterised earlier
periods of policy innovation.  In particular, issues of employment and
work in the city that follow from the move toward the 24-hour urban
economy have tended to be sidelined, as the emphasis has rested on the
virtues of this model of development and regeneration.  Work by Sassen
(1990) and Zukin (1995) in particular has alerted policy-makers and
politicians to the dark side for labour of the discourses around the
24-hour society.  In addition to new spaces of consumption, new times
of consumption have emerged with all that this means for who and for
what the city is used.  This half-day seminar pulls together a number
of key speakers to explore the evolution of work and play in the city.

Schedule
1. 00 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.	Registration

1.30 p.m. - 2.10 p.m.	Ivan Turok (Urban Studies, Glasgow University)
'The jobs gap in British cities'
2.10 p.m. - 2.50 p.m.	Jane Darke (Planning, Oxford Brookes 
University) 'The man-shaped city' 
2.50 p.m.- 3.15 p.m.		Coffee break
3.15 p.m. - 3.55 p.m.	Eleonore Kofman (International Studies, 
Nottingham Trent University) 'Cosmopolitanism, migrants and European 
cities' 
3.55 p.m. - 4.35 p.m.	Tim Butler (Anthropology and Sociology, 
University of East London) 'Home, work and school: how the middle 
classes make out in London'
4.35 p.m. -5.30 p.m.	                   Discussion led by 
Gordon MacLeod (Geography, Durham University) 

Convened by:
Kevin Ward (School of Geography, University of Manchester), Colette
Fagan (Department of Sociology, University of Manchester) and Jane
Tooke (Department of Geography, QMW, London) 

More information:
Anne Morrow (International Centre for Labour Studies) at
[log in to unmask] or 0161 275 4794 or at
http://nt2.ec.man.ac.uk/icls/

Bookings:
Payment by cheque is stlg10 in advance (stlg5 unwaged), stlg15 on the day (stlg10
unwaged), payable to 'Economic Geography Research Group'. Please send
payments to Anne Morrow, International Centre for Labour Studies, 2nd
Floor, Williamson Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road,
Manchester, M13 9PL.


Notes on speakers:

Tim Butler is Reader in Sociology in the Department of Anthropology
and Sociology at the University of East London. He is director of a
project entitled 'The Middle Class and the Future of London' which is
part of the ESRC 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion' Programme. He
is the author of 'Gentrification and the Middle Classes' 1997, and has
edited (with Mike Savage) 'Social Change and the Middle Classes'
(1995), (with Michael Rustin) 'Rising in the East? The Regeneration of
East London' (1996) and 'Eastern Promise: Education and Social Renewal
in London's Docklands' (2000).

Jane Darke is Senior Lecturer in the Housing and Equal Opportunities
in the School of Planning at Oxford Brookes University. Previously she
worked in local authority housing departments, then taught at
Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author of 'The Englishwomen's
Castle?' in C Booth, J Darke and S Yeandle (Eds.) (1996) Changing
places: Women's lives in the city Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd: London.

Eleonore Kofman is Professor of Human Geography at Nottingham Trent
University. She is co-ordinator of a project entitled 'Civic
stratification and migratory trajectories in three European states'
which is part of the ESRC Research Programme 'One Europe or Several?'
She has published extensively on gender and politics in international
migration, particularly with reference to France. She is author of
'Whose City? Gender, Class and Immigration in Globalizing European
Cities' in R Fincher and J M Jacobs (Eds.) (1998) Cities of Difference
The Guilford Press: New York and 'In Search of the Missing Female
Subject: Problematic Closures and Opening Strategies' in M Cross and S
Perry (Eds.) (1997) Population and Social Policy Pinter: London. 

Ivan Turok is Professor of Urban Economic Development at the
University of Glasgow.  His research and teaching interests include
urban and regional development, local labour markets and unemployment,
and policy evaluation. He is currently leading a four-year study of
economic competitiveness, social cohesion and governance in Scotland's
major cities.  Recent books and reports include The Jobs Gap in
British Cities (with N. Edge, 1999), Edinburgh and Glasgow: Contrasts
in Competitiveness and Cohesion (with N. Bailey and I. Docherty,
1999), The Coherence of EU Regional Policy (with J. Bachtler, 1997),
and Targeting Urban Employment Initiatives (with U. Wannop, 1990).    

Notes on discussant:

Gordon MacLeod is Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Durham.
His research interests include theories of urban and regional change,
governance and the Regulation approach, the inter-relations between
place, scale, political institutions, and identity and the changing
nature of the city. He is currently involved in a University of
Durham-funded project to examine the struggle over public space,
geographies of exclusion, and the strategies deployed by homeless
people to negotiate the contemporary city, drawing on the cases of
Edinburgh and Manchester. Recent publications include 'Renewing the
geography of regions' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
(forthcoming) (with M Jones), 'The learning region in an age of
austerity: Capitalizing on Knowledge, entrepreneurialism, and
reflexive capitalism' Geoforum 31 219-236 (2000) and 'Entrepreneurial
spaces, hegemony and state strategy: the political shaping of
privatism in Lowland Scotland' Environment and Planning A 31 345-75
(1999).


Kevin G. Ward
School of Geography
University of Manchester 
Manchester, M13 9PL
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel.: +44 (0) 161 275 7877 (direct)
      +44 (0) 161 275 3636 (fax)    

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