Dear Paul,

Anne Grey, as seminar organiser (not a member of this list) will
respond to your more cogent (if innacurate) criticisms to the extent
that she sees fit.

But I want to say that you are way off the mark with your (libelous)
assertion that as they are effective researchers who win grants from
the Government and the EU, Martin Jones and Anne Grey's work is
in some way suspect.

You need to read their work before shooting from the hip with
misplaced claims that there are uncritical of new labour's workfare
policies. Both have a long and respectable record of effective and
well researched critique in this area.

Others on the list know that, so I don't really need to defend them.

But I will.

Regards

Pete


> Date:          Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:22:01 +0100
> Reply-to:      Paul Treanor <[log in to unmask]>
> From:          Paul Treanor <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:       LEPU and workfare in London
> To:            [log in to unmask]

> Let me note the facts about the LEPU seminar.
>
>
> 1. No critic of workfare has been invited to speak. The main speakers are
> workfare project officials. The two academic speakers are funded by national
> government and the EU.
>
> 2. No person placed on workfare has been invited to speak, nor any unemployed
> person threatened with workfare.
>
> 3. The admission fee of minimum 65 pounds (102 Euro) effectively excludes the
> unemployed and those placed on workfare.
>
> So who has LEPU invited? A representative of the Reed group workfare project
> in Haringey.
>
> Take a look at what Reed are doing: read this info from the Haringey
> Solidarity Group
>
> http://home.clara.net/hsg/camp/reedleaf.html
>
> quote-------------
>
> gREED...
>  ...is one of the UK's biggest recruitment agencies, with offices on the High
> Streets of most major towns and cities. In 1997, the gREED family fortune
> stood at £50m. So far, their profits have come from their cut of the white
> collar recruitment market (Accountancy, Secretarial, Nursing, etc.). But now
> gREED want to exploit the unemployed.
>
> Already, gREED is running the New Deal in the Hackney and City area of
> north-east London. At the company's "New Deal Campus" in Hackney, gREED staff
> push claimants into jobs at rates as low as the criminal £3.00 per hour
> proposed minimum wage for young people.
>
> end quote-----------
>
> More at the anti-Reed page
>
> http://home.clara.net/hsg/camp/reedpres.html
>
>
> Why has LEPU invited a speaker from Reed and not from, for instance, the
> Haringey Solidarity Group? Do the LEPU approve of forced placements at 3
> pounds per hour? (Incidentally, that is way above the Netherlands minimum
> youth wage).
>
> And if they do not approve, why do they provide a platform for Reed to promote themselves?
>
>
>
> --
> Paul Treanor
>
>
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Peter North
Local Economy Policy Unit
South Bank University, London
Tel: 020 7815-7706
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Website:  http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~lepu/