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Dear all (apologies for cross posting) The first Manchester Industrial Relations Society meeting of 2020 will be taking place at 6pm on Thursday 30th January 2020 in G27 MMU Business School (building 6 on the attached map). Dr Phoebe Moore, Associate Professor, Political Economy & Technology, University of Leicester, will be giving a talk titled: 'Work, Technology and What Counts: Surveillance and Monitoring and Worker Responses '. Dr Phoebe V Moore argues that new surveillance workplace technologies impact the employment relationship. Identification, profiling and analytics are generated via algorithmic means rather than traditional methods of often clandestine human and analogue investigations. In some contexts, workers now seemingly volunteer information and opt in to programmes where they share extensive data about themselves to their employer. This must be viewed through the lens of mobility; flexibilised contracts; less job security; and the volatility of the labour market. Coercion, function creep, trust issues and discipline are increasingly noted in the employment relationship and Moore looks at the implications this has for workers. This will be followed by our next meeting on Thursday 13th February 2020, this is a joint meeting with the Industrial Law Society where Professor Lizzie Barmes, Professor of Labour Law, Queen Mary University will be giving a talk titled 'Individual Labour and Equality Rights at Work Through the Lens of Bullying and Harassment'. On 19 March, Ian Clark and colleagues will be presenting on ‘Employment Relations in the Informal Economy? The Spatial Dynamics That Shape the Presence of Hand Car Washes’, and our annual Shirley Lerner memorial lecture will be held on 14 May with Jane Holgate on the topic of ‘Union Organising and Power: Is This The Missing Link in Union Revitalisation?’ More details are available at https://www.mirs.org.uk/meetings.php Best wishes Dr Stephen Mustchin Secretary, Manchester Industrial Relations Society University of Manchester ######################################################################## 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