Dear colleagues
Please find the attached programme (below) for
Critical Labour Studies
11th Annual Symposium
28 February - 1March 2014
Ruskin College, Ruskin Hall, Oxford, **OX3 9BZ
I do hope that you will be able to attend.
Please circulate it to anyone you think may be interested.
*Critical Labour Studies*is now in its 1^th year and over that time we
have brought to bring together researchers and activists to discuss key
features of work and employment from a radical and labour-focused
perspective. It has been successful in creating links between the
activities of trade unionists, activists, universities, and researchers,
allowing a broad and critical debate to emerge.
Through *Critical Labour Studies*we have developed an open working group
and discussion forum that engages with many of the challenges facing
researchers and trade unionists within the current environment of work
and employment and we have done this without institutional support or
financial backing.
However, we do need a little money to continue to exist â to pay for
the website and to hold our annual conferences and to be able to support
contributors to the conference who do not have institutional (or
personal) resources on which to draw.
As such we are asking *Critical Labour Studies*supporters to agree to an
annual membership and where possible to also consider making a donation.
If you wish *Critical Labour Studies* to continue holding its annual
symposium and acting as an important link between
practitioners/activists in the labour movement and academia then we
would ask you to considered making a contribution to ensure our
continuing existence (details below - and attached).
http://criticallabourstudies.org.uk/site/
With best wishes
Jane
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PROGRMME...
Critical Labour Studies
11th Annual Symposium
28th February - 1st March 2014
Ruskin College, Ruskin Hall, Oxford, OX3 9BZ
Saturday 28th February
9.00 – 10.00 Registration on Door, Tea & Coffee
10.00 - 10.15 Introduction from CLS & Ruskin
10.15 – 11.00 Strategies of change and renewal in organised labour
Why Trade Unions Should Still Be Interested in Worker’s Control
Hilary Wainwright & John Stirling
Managing Misbehaviour and Exit: is this now the function of Irish trade
unions?
Tish Gibbons
11.00- 11.45 Global Capitalism and Labour
Dock Workers Resistance and Union reform within China’s global supply chain
Jack Xuebing Cao
Crowdwork - Piecework in in the Global Virtual Sweatshop
Martin Risak
Struggling in and Against the State:
The Cases of Domestic Workers and Logistics Workers’ Unions in Turkey
Demet Şahende Dinler
11.45-12.00 Break
12.00 – 12.45 Migration and Labour
10 years on: what have we learnt about organising with migrant workers
since the 2004 A8 accession?
Ben Sellers, Heather Connolly, and UNISON representative
Neoliberalism East and West: the impact of migration on health sector
employment relations in the UK and Romania.
Dragos Adascalitei & Ben Egan
12.45 – 1.45 Lunch
1.45 – 2.15 The European Dilemma and Trade Unions
Beyond Europhilia versus Euroscepticism? UK Unions and the EU in
comparative perspective
Graham Taylor, Sue Milner & Andy Mathers
2.15 – 3.15 Gender, Labour and Socialism
The Future of Socialist Feminism
Sian Moore and Hazel Conley
Leaning on Gramsci – prospects for a gender politics of resistance and
challenge to masculinised labour movements in the long crisis of
neo-liberalism.
Sue Ledwith
Intersectionality: an abstract theory or useful tool?
Tracy Walsh
3.15-3.30 Break for Coffee and Tea
3.30-4.30 Labour and National Identity: fragmentation or opportunity
“The Quebéc Referendums, the Working Class, Capital, and the State”
Jason Russell
"Creatures from the Crypt: Lessons of the Scottish referendum, the
crisis of UK labour party and the demise of the British state."
Paul Stewart & Tommy McKearney
4.30-5.00 The Public Sector and ‘Change’
Firefighters and the winter 2013-14 floods: the FBU perspective
Paul Hampton, Fire Brigades Union
5.00-6.00 CLS Tomorrow & AGM
Into the next decade
John Stirling
6.30 Evening Meal Buffet (Ruskin)
Sunday 1st March
9.00 – 9.45 Coffee/tea available
9.45 – 11.15 International Labour & Trade Union Studies at Ruskin
College: Chairs Pete Dwyer and Tracy Walsh (There may be two sessions
running parallel)
In collaboration with CLS 2015 students and staff of Ruskin College’s
International Labour and Trade Union Studies (ILTUS) programme area have
been offered this forum to generate discussion around current areas of
research and trade union activity:
Matt Hannam MA ILTUS (Ruskin College)
The ascendency of neoliberal ideology in the state school system of both
the UK and Chicago in the US
Trade Union Responses to Sectarianism: A Case Study of Iraq and Northern
Ireland
Paul Williams
Chilayi Mayondi MA ILTUS (Ruskin College)
Unionising young workers in the era of trade union decline
And others
11.15- 12.30 The challenge of change and organised labour
Trade Unions and their control over workers: The murder of Mariano
Ferreyra and the Argentine trade union system
Luciana Zorzoli
The Challenges of Labour-Environmental Alliances
Daniel Jakopovich
Does the labour market duality still explain causes and consequences of
trade unions responses to the rise of contingent labour?
Danat Valizade
Two decades of deregulation of the Italian labour market: a critical
analysis and consequences for unions and politics
Tania Toffanin
12.30-1.15 Lunch
1.15-2.00 Unions and IO Reponses to the new world of work
Phoebe Moore. Martin Upchurch, Pav Akhtar
2.00-3.00 Discussion Glorious defeat or fight from within? The choice
facing trade unions in the new co-operative and mutual landscape.
Cilla Ross coordinator
Ruskin’s Location:
http://www.ruskin.ac.uk/about/location/stoke_house
CLS Website:
http://criticallabourstudies.org.uk/site/
Registration: £90 (£40 Unwaged/Students) (includes lunches/refreshments)
Delegates are welcome send a cheque written out to Critical Labour
Studies in advance, to shorten registration time on the day, to:
Pete Dwyer
Ruskin College
Ruskin Hall
Dunstan Road
Oxford OX3 9BZ
(please include a note indicating who you are, if it’s not obvious from
the cheque)
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Professor Jane Holgate
Professor of Work and Employment Relations
Work and Employment Relations Division
Leeds University Business School
31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05)
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
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