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Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING Dear all, There are still a few places available at the ESRC seminar ' Changing Cultures of Competitiveness: Global Production and Labour Relations' , to be held at the University of Manchester, Wednesday 9th of July 2008. This seminar explores the changing global landscape of competitiveness in production and labour relations. 'Roll-out neoliberalism' (Tickell & Peck 2003; Coe et al., 2006; Ward 2005; Habermas 1999) is pursued to promote flexibility but meets growing resistance to the uneven and unequal social and spatial development that results from standard forms of economic competition (Hale & White 2005; Mittelman 2000). Also discusses, therefore, the prospects for changing cultures of competitiveness in firms and labour relations. For more information on the full seminar programme and the ESRC seminar series please go to http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/changingcultures/seminars/seminar3.htm Attendance at the seminar is free. Places are limited, however, so please contact [log in to unmask] to reserve your place as soon as possible. Travel grants are available for UK postgraduate participants and practitioners. ------------- Dr Martin Hess Geography School of Environment and Development University of Manchester Arthur Lewis Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Phone: +44 161 275 3643 Web: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/