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LAST REMINDER - RADICAL STATISTICS CONFERENCE
Please don't leave your booking to the last minute as food must be ordered

Please reply to Pete Latarche.

On the Margins: Low Pay or No Pay


27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE RADICAL STATISTICS GROUP
Room A220 London School of Economics, Houghton St, London
    Saturday February 24th 2001, 10am-5pm

10 - 10.30              REGISTRATION
10.30 Low Pay Statistics - the broad picture (provisional title)
        Bharti Patel (The Low Pay Unit)
11.00                   COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Low pay and social exclusion
        Ruth Levitas (Bristol University)
12.00 Pay Inequality: a new source of statistics on pay differentials
        Prem Sikka and Bob Wearing (Essex University)
12.30 Low paid work and family life: Reflections on recent policy
        developments
        Hartley Dean (Luton University)
1.00                    LUNCH
2.00 Basic Income: Effects on employment and wages
        Stuart Duffin and Paula Desai (Citizens Income Trust)
2.30 Speenhamland Revisited
        Holly Sutherland and Frank Wilkinson (Dept of Applied Economics,
Cambridge University)
3.00                    TEA BREAK

3.30 - 5.00 Radical Statistics AGM

NOTE: Vouchers will be provided to buy refreshments in the Brunchbowl
cafeteria, 4th floor


Saturday evening: Social and meal at The George, 213, The Strand (Oliver
Goldsmith's and Sam Johnson's local). Food will include fish and a range
of vegetarian options.

CONFERENCE BOOKING FORM
Surname                                         Forename
Address                                         Telephone No.
                                                Email
Do you require a creche for children? What age(s)
(a creche will be provided if there is sufficient demand)
Do you require special facilities due to disability? Please specify

Conference fee (includes lunch and other refreshments):
Radical Statistics members              #20 waged/#10 unwaged
Non-members                             #25 waged/#12.50 unwaged
(For non-members the fee includes a year's introductory membership of
Radical Statistics)
PAYMENT MUST BE MADE BEFORE THE CONFERENCE

The evening meal at The George costs a further #8.50 per person but must
be booked on this form and paid for in advance.

Cheque enclosed #20             #10             #25             #12.50
Plus #8.50 if you will be coming to the evening meal
Total
Do you require a receipt?
Yes                     No


Please send the completed booking form and your cheque, payable to
Radical Statistics, to:
Pete Latarche, 10, Ruskin Avenue, Heaton, Bradford BD9 6ER

Getting there:
Nearest tube station is Temple (Circle line), 5 mins walk north to LSE,
located on north side of Aldwych
From Holborn tube (Central line), take a bus (68, 91, 168, 505) or walk
10 mins south to Aldwych
From Euston take a bus (as above) south from Upper Woburn Place via
Southampton Row and Kingsway
Room A220 is in the Old Building, 2nd floor. Choice of two lifts or
stairs. The route will be signposted.

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