Colleagues may be interested in this forthcoming event:
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Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis (PEDEC)
WORKSHOP 3: LABOUR MARKET VULNERABILITY, PRECARIOUS WORK AND MIGRANT
WORKERS IN THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
The PEDEC research network brings together scholars, practitioners and
activists from the UK, Europe and the US through a series of workshops
to explore the implications of the economic downturn, and coming cuts in
public spending, for maintaining and progressing equality and diversity
standards and for including marginalized groups in economic recovery.
The third workshop will take place on Wednesday 16th November
2011 at Queen Mary University of London and a copy of the draft
programme is detailed below.
Workshop Programme:
09.30 - 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00 - 12.00 Session 1: Labour Market Vulnerability, Precarious
Work and Recession - New Social and Spatial Inequalities?
Anna Pollert, Bristol Business School, University of the West of
England: 'Recession and unorganised workers'
Brendan Burchell, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge:
'Can active labour market policies and economic security protect
vulnerable groups in times of recession?'
Nik Theodore, Centre for Urban Economic Development, University of
Chicago:'Labour standards and inequality after the Great Recession'
Elaine Moriarty, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin:
'Negotiating the recession: Polish migrants in post Celtic Tiger
Ireland'
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 15.00 Session 2: Migrant Workers and Labour Market Inequality
in the Economic Downturn
Nick Clark, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan
University: 'Blocking their escape: forced labour and abolition of the
Overseas Domestic Workers Visa'
Cathy McIlwaine, School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London:
'Transnational capital-negotiating practices among Latin American onward
migrants in Europe: perspectives from the UK'
Barbara Samaluk, Centre for Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary
University of London: 'Radicalised 'price tag': commodification of
migrant labour from post-socialist Europe and its effects on the UK
labour market'
Tonia Novitz, Law School, University of Bristol: 'Migrant workers,
agency and voice'
15.15 - 16.15 Final Wrap-up Discussion, led by Wilf Sullivan, Trade
Union Congress
The venue for the workshop will be the Colette Bowe Room at Queen Mary,
University of London's Mile End campus. Refreshments, including a buffet
lunch, will be provided. Attendance is free.
If you are interested in participating, please let us know as soon as
possible. Remaining places will be allocated on a first come, first
served basis. Please also let us know if you have any specific dietary
or support requirements so that we can accommodate them on the day.
Contact:
Aisling Lyon <[log in to unmask]>
PEDEC Network Administrator
Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis (PEDEC).
For more information on the PEDEC Network, please go to:
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/pedec/
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Dr Al James
Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
Tel: 020 7882 2746
Fax: 020 8981 6276
Email [log in to unmask]
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/jamesa.html
Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis (PEDEC)
http:///www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/pedec
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