Dear Network members,
THIRD WORKSHOP: LABOUR MARKET VULNERABILITY, PRECARIOUS WORK AND
MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
The third PEDEC workshop will take place on Wednesday 16th November
2011 and a copy of the draft programme is attached and detailed below.
The specific research questions it will address are:
1. What are the major labour market consequences of the current
economic crisis for low-waged workers and their families?
2. In what ways have recent waves of corporate restructuring and
welfare cuts in response to the economic downturn generated new
patterns of social and spatial vulnerability amongst low-waged
workers, or else reinforced long-standing inequalities?
3. To what extent have recent legislative changes around immigration,
citizenship and welfare entitlements exacerbated or reduced the
negative outcomes of the economic downturn for migrant workers in the
UK (e.g. labour market racism, competition for jobs with UK nationals)?
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 Wokers 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 wokers,
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 (previously
called the Council Room) at Queen Mary, University of London’s Mile
End campus. Refreshments, including a buffet lunch, will be provided.
If you are interested in participating, please let me know as soon as
possible. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Please also let me know if you have any specific dietary or support
equirements so that I can accommodate them on the day.
Best wishes,
Aisling Lyon
PEDEC Network Administrator
Queen Mary University of London
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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