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Central London BUIRA Seminar: Changing industrial relations in China Prof Willy Brown (University of Cambridge) Emerging industrial relations in China Dr Tim Pringle (SOAS) Labour organizing, trade union reform and working class power in China Friday 25 January 2019, 10.30am - 12.30pm, followed by buffet lunch University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS (opposite Madame Tussauds and nearly opposite Baker Street tube) Room tbc For further details and to reserve a place, contact Linda Clarke ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) This regular monthly seminar is focused on the important subject of changing industrial relations in China and we are fortunate to have two expert speakers. Willy Brown is emeritus professor of industrial relations at Cambridge University and honorary professor at Renmin University of China. He will provide an overview of recent developments in IR in China drawing on the recent book he co-edited, The Emerging Industrial Relations of China (just published as a paperback by Cambridge University Press), with Chang Kai of Renmin University, and a group of young Chinese scholars, as well as Tim Pringle who provides a comparison of 'marketisation' of labour in China, Russia and Vietnam. Tim Pringle is a senior lecturer in Labour, Social Movements and Development. His research is focussed on East Asia, in particular labour relations, trade union reform and social movements and labour migration in China and Vietnam. He is also the editor of China Quarterly. Tim will present research focuses on the extent that the Party-led All-China Federation of Trade Unions is able to establish functioning trade union branches at enterprise level, drawing on a case study of the Yantian International Container Terminal. Tim will argue that the YICT union developed a system of annual collective bargaining in order to 'tame' the power of militant dockworkers and prevent strikes. This required an effective enterprise-level trade union that was able to manipulate members' somewhat ambiguous acceptance of its role. Tim recently published with Quan Meng, 'Taming Labor: workers' struggles, workplace unionism, and collective bargaining on a Chinese waterfront', ILR, 71(5), Oct 2018, pp 1053-1077. This seminar is an opportunity to air and discuss these issues in an open forum and consider their implications for industrial relations. Anyone interested is welcome to attend this event. These meetings can be full though so, if you would like to attend and to help forecast catering provision, please Contact: Professor Linda Clarke, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 020350 66528 Professor Linda Clarke Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE) Westminster Business School, University of Westminster 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Tel: 00044 (0)20350 66528; email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES&A=1 The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES&A=1