Dear all, this is a reminder of inviting expressions of interest to contribute at the 4 seminars in an ESRC-sponsored seminar series being run over the next 2 years.
The theme is young workers with a particular interest in their precarious employment and the difficulties they face in entering the labour market.
Papers examining patterns and causes of exclusion and barriers to secure work are welcomed. We particularly invite papers with an international and comparative perspective.
A more detailed summary of individual seminar themes, dates and location appears in the attached flyer and below.
By the end of the seminar series we aim to organize a special issue of the European Journal of Industrial Relations that addresses the topic of precarious employment among young workers from an international and/or comparative perspective.
We have asked for 500 word expressions of interest by 28th November 2010.
If this is too ambitious, please contact us by next Monday and we can be flexible - particularly in relation to the later seminars.
Meanwhile, if you have any queries, please contact one of the
organisers:
Lefteris Kretsos: [log in to unmask]
Miguel Martinez Lucio: [log in to unmask]
Melanie Simms: [log in to unmask]
or visit our website at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/research/irru/ywesrc
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Seminar 1 - Friday 11th March 2011: International Patterns of Precarious
Work Amongst Young People (Coventry University)
The focus of the first seminar will be on national variations in
precarious work and will set the framework for discussion and analysis in future
sessions which will focus to a greater degree on the UK. An international
perspective is important because of the influence of national institutions
(e.g. systems of employment regulation and government policies) in structuring
the nature and form of precarious work. The aim of this seminar is to begin
to identify patterns of similarity and difference underlying precarious
work in different institutional contexts.
Seminar 2 - Friday 23rd September 2011: Causes of Precarious Employment
Amongst Young Workers (University of Warwick)
Here the focus will turn to the UK context and speakers will be invited to
lead a critical appraisal of the causes of the rise in precarious
employment among young people. The analysis here is interdisciplinary drawing on
research from social policy labour economics, industrial relations,
sociology, labour geography and political economy. The intention is to develop
themes related to youth labour market transitions, specifically paths of entry
and exit into and out of the labour market, wages, trade union
representation, skills, employment protection etc. Employer policy will also be of
direct relevance here but the intention is to understand employer decision
making within a broader socio-economic context that recognises the importance of
labour market and policy influences on employer behaviour.
Seminar 3 - Friday 16th March 2012: Union Responses to Young Workers*
Precarious Employment (University of Manchester)
This seminar will focus on trade union reactions to the rise in precarious
employment. Several levels of union response to precarious forms of work,
ranging across recruitment strategies, internal union structures, provision
of services, representation in bargaining and grievance procedures,
informal regulation at the workplace, regulation through collective agreements,
and interaction with government policy (including regulation not only
through labour law in the narrow sense but also through training and education,
employment programs, and social security).
Seminar 4 - Friday 21st September 2012: State and Policy responses
(Coventry University)
The final seminar will explore the implications of precarious employment
among young people for governments and other public policy oriented
organizations. We intend to include topics such as minimum wage legislation and
policy, work placement schemes, gender equality schemes, social security
policies etc.
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