Maurizio Atzeni has organised a fascinating, international line-up of speakers around the theme of workers' organisation and precarious work at Loughborough University 23-24 April.
The event reflects key themes of his last book (http://tinyurl.com/k5tbvpt) which is a result of the research arising from his Marie Curie Fellowship: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sbe/inspire-08/bottom-up/
Maurizio taught on the MA ILTUS in October whilst there invited myself and students to attend the event to discuss how teaching trade unionists at Ruskin reflected/projected theory/practice around precarious work and organising.
The event details are below, and I welcome those who read this blog to come along. Please contact me for further details.
Organising
the Unorganisable?
Voices from the Bottom Up
Researchers
and Activists Forum on Precarious Work
Loughborough
University 23-24 April 2015
An insight
view of workers struggles in China-
Ralf Gongchao CollectiveThe organisation of work in Chilean Ports and dockworkers organisation- Lucas Cifuentes, Advisor of the dockworkers Union/Universidad de Chile
Migrant organising in the UK-Gabriella Alberti, Univ. of Leeds and Independent workers of Great Britain; Joyce Jiang, Roehampton Univ. and J4DW (Justice for Domestic Worker)
Workers in retail distribution centres in the UK and in Italy- Workers' Initiative Poland (Inicjatywa Pracownicza), Angry Workers of the World, Devi Sacchetto Univ. of Padua/Connessioni Precarie and Giorgio Grappi, Università di Bologna/Coordinamento migranti di Bologna e di Connessioni precarie
Forced Labour in Brazil (and beyond), Fabiola Mieres, Durham University
Workers’organisation in textiles sweetshops in Argentina- Jeronimo Montero, Ministry of Labour and CONICET Argentina
Pedagogical insights of producing knowledge for and with activists and union organisers- Ian Manborde, Ruskin College, Oxford
Organising informal transport workers in developing countries- The Global Labour Institute and the International Transport Federation
In Solidarity
Ian
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