Invitation to
ESRC Seminar Series: Migrants, Workplace and Community: Learning from
Innovations in Civil Society
SEMINAR 2:
*New forms of organizing and self-organizing of migrant workers across
community and workplace.**
**Lessons from the US, Europe and the Global South*
This seminar 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: 10.30am-6pm
University of Leeds Business School, Meadows Teaching Room 2, Leeds, LS2
9JT
*Programme*
10.15:Coffee and registration
10.30:Welcome
10.45-11.45: Dr Jenny Chen: Learning for jobs: student workers in
Chinaenforcing labour
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 co-production 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
6pm: Drinks and dinner
NOTE: places are limited. You must register by emailing
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*Civil society is a heterogeneous field comprising an array of diverse
organisations, groups, networks, associations and initiatives. It is
often attributed salvationist functions whether from a neoliberal or
Gramscian perspective at the time when the state’s role and presence is
changing and shrinking.*Yet these debates have limited empirical
grounding and research documenting the role, challenges and
opportunities of specific civil society initiatives is fragmented.
Furthermore, academic research tends to see the realm of civil society
and ‘the community’ as analytically separate from other important arenas
such as the workplace.
Migrant workers are a valuable vantage point to explore current
transformations in civil society and its role in fostering social
justice, social cohesion and a fairer society. They perform an important
role in contemporary society and economy yet they are constructed as one
of the key contemporary problems in current public and political
discourse. Crucially, there are sectors of British society that are
working, often at the grassroots level to build cohesion from the
bottom-up in communities and workplaces.
This series will foreground, reflect on and theorise the interface of
workplace and communitycollective actors (e.g. between religious and
labour organisations through broad-based coalitions), paying particular
attention to the question of migrant workers. It will draw on
interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to provide a deeper
understanding of the factors that make civil society initiatives ‘work’.
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Professor Jane Holgate
Professor of Work and Employment Relations
Work and Employment Relations Division
Leeds University Business School
31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05)
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
email: [log in to unmask]
Mobile: 07960 798399
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Professor Jane Holgate
Professor of Work and Employment Relations
Work and Employment Relations Division
Leeds University Business School
31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05)
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
email: [log in to unmask]
Mobile: 07960 798399
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