New forms of organizing and self-organizing of migrant workers across
community and workplace. Lessons from the US, Europe and the Global South
This day long event will consider international approaches to community
based organising in order to understand how different methodologies are
applied to best effect in drawing in new groups of workers.
Thursday 23 June 2016: 10am-6pm
Please note change of venue: Leeds Museum, Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 8BH
Please register: http://tinyurl.com/jh4t9ey
Programme
10.15: Coffee and registration
10.30: Welcome
10.45-11.45: Dr Jenny Chan: Learning for jobs:
student workers in China
11.45-12.45: Professor Jane Wills: The
strengths and weaknesses of community
organising in relation to labour: lessons from
the living wage campaign in London and
beyond
12.45-1.45: Lunch
1.45-2.45: Dr Janice Fine: Standards in
partnership with civil society: can coproduction
succeed where the state alone has
failed?
2.45-3.45: Dr Jane McAlevey: Building high
participation organizations: whole worker
organizing.
3.45-4pm: Coffee
4pm-5pm: Carlos Saavedra: Movement
building and community organizing in the US
migrant rights movements.
5pm-6pm: Discussion
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Dr Jane Holgate
Professor in 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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Mobile: 07960 798399
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