Audio
This Audio page stores a collection of digital voicerecordings of various seminars and events hosted by WLRI.
Follow the links below for downloads and for more information on the events.
NEW! You can now find a collection of our films uploaded onto our website here.
'Comrade or Brother?: A History of the British Labour Movement'
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Mary Davis: Book launch, June 2009, Bishopsgate Institute
Mary Davis, Professor of Labour History, Deputy-Director Working Lives Research Institute and Head of Centre for Trade Union Studies, London Metropolitan University.
To listen to the presentation, download this file:
See here for more details on the book, and see here for details of this one-off event.
Lunchtime Seminar Series 2009
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"Migration, Risk and Uncertainty: Theoretical Perspectives"
June 3rd
Prof. Allan Williams, Professor of European Integration and Globalization, ISET and WLRI, London Metropolitan University.
To listen to the presentation, download this file:
See here for more details.
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"The Process of National Apperception: A Case of the Proms"
May 6th
Dr Gordana Uzelac
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, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied Social Science (DASS), London Metropolitan University.
To listen to the presentation, download this file:
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here for more details.
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"Obama and the Politics of Hope"
March 4th
Prof. Les Back, Deputy Head of Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
To listen to the presentation (45 min), download this file:
Follow this
link for more info and download the Powerpoint presentation to accompany this talk here:
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"Migration and Development: the case of Albania"
February 11th
Dr Juli Vullnetari, Research Fellow, Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex and
Dr. Nick Mai, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET), London Metropolitan University
To listen to the presentation, click here:
Trade Union Seminar Series 2009
Kim Moody, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.
Deborah Littman, UNISON National Officer.
To listen to the presentation, download the following file:
See here for more details.
Dr. Hazel Conley, Queen Mary's College, University of London.
Ben Patrick, UNISON Legal Officer.
To listen to the presentation, download the following file:
For more information, go here.
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Trade Union Mergers: rationalisation or opportunism?
Roger Undy (Emeritus Reader and Emeritus Fellow Said Business School and Templeton College, University of Oxford)
Tom Wilson (Head of Organisation Dept., TUC)
To listen to the presentation, click here
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‘Across the Great Divide’ - The Globalisation of Call Centres and Trade Union Organisation in India and the UK
Wednesday 21st January 2009
Phil Taylor, University of Strathclyde
Ciaran Naidoo, Press Officer, Unite
To listen to the presentation, click here:
For more information, follow this link
THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM
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A Marxist Analysis by Professor Erinç Yeldan
11 December 2008
Download Professor Erinç Yeldan's introduction here:
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The Global Financial Crisis: What is it and how should trade unions respond?
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Professor John Grahl, Middlesex University
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Helen Camp, Unite the Union
14th November, 2008
You can download the pdf flier here:
Helen Camp, of Unite the Union, spoke about organising workers in the Financial sector. Download her intro from here:
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WLRI Seminar: Does Work Still Shape Social Identities and Action?
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Speakers:  Chris Wall: Introduction & Jane Martin: Occupational Identities, Social Action and Social Change in Twentieth Century England, click link below to download (42 mins 52 sec):
Speaker: Steve Jefferys: Teller, seller, union activist: changing bank worker identities, click link below to download (32 mins 18 sec):
Speaker: Chris Wall: Integrating the visual: photographs and memorabilia in the representation of work identities, click link below to download (36 mins 11 sec):
Speaker: Margie Wetherell: Summing up, click link below to download (22 mins 31 sec):
Date: 16th July 2008
For more information on the talk click on the link below:
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WLRI Lunchtime Seminar Series for 2008: Social Political Identities and Tackling Workplace Discrimination
- Organisation or eradication?: Sex workers, rights and social policy, Catherine Stephens, International Union of Sex Workers. To download the introduction click on the link below:
For more information on the seminar, go here
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- Remaking the Public Services (29 mins 45 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Professor John Clarke, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University
Date: 4th June 2008
For more information on the talk click here.
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- Belonging and the Politics of Belonging (25 mins 10 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Nira Yuval Davis is the Graduate Course Director in Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies at the University of East London
Date: 7th May 2008
For more information on the talk click here.
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- Locating Migrant Workers in Debates about Racism
Speaker: Don Flynn Director of the Migrant Rights Network (12 mins 38 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Wilf Sullivan, Race Equality Officer at the TUC (12 mins 30 sec), click on link below to download:
Date: 2nd April 2008
For more information on the talk click here.
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- New Challenges in the Fight Against Racism (20 mins 56 sec) (Right click on link below and save to download this audio):
Speaker: Arun Kundnani, deputy editor of the journal Race & Class
Date: 5th March 2008
For more information on the talk click here.
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- Modern Day Slavery (32 mins 14 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Rahila Gupta, campaigner and journalist
Date: 6th February 2008
For more information on the talk click here.
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WLRI Trade Union Seminar Series 2008:
- Unorganised Workers: Individualised Industrial Relations and ‘Vulnerability’ at Work
Wednesday 10th December 2008
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Anna Pollert, University of West of England (UWE)
To listen to Anna Pollert's introduction, click here:
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Nicola Smith, TUC Commission on Vulnerable Employment
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Please click link for more information (pdf flier):
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- The Equality Bill: Progress or Missed Opportunity?
Speaker: Sally Brett, TUC Equality Policy Office (23mins 4secs):
Speaker: Pat Cambell, PCS Head of Equality (19mins 17secs):
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- Organising, Militancy and Revitalisation: The Case of the RMT
Speaker: Ralph Darlington (22 mins 49 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Alex Gordon (25 mins 32 sec), click on link below to download:
Date: 16th July 2008
For more information on the talk click on link below:
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- Difficulties in capturing Union Learning
Speaker: Keith Forrester (37 mins 8 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Barry Fuge (21 mins 13 sec), click on link below to download:
Date: 18th June 2008
For more information on the talk, click on link below:
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- The Making of Women Trade Unionists
Speaker: Gill Kirton (32 mins 5 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Chris Coates (21 mins 6 sec), click on link below to download:
Date: 21st May 2008
For more information on the talk, click on the link below:
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- Live Working or Die Fighting - Organising Vulnerable Workers
Speaker: Donna Reeve and Andy Gilchrist (28 mins 13 sec, click on link below to download:
Speaker: Paul Mason (18 mins 10 sec), click on link below to download:
Date: 16th April 2008
For more information on the talk, click on link below:
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- Using the Gender Equality Duty in Collective Bargaining: Opportunities and Threats
Speaker: Hazel Conley, Queen Mary, University of London, (39 mins 21 sec), click on the link below to download:
Date: 12th March 2008
For more information on the talk, click on the link below:
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- 10 years of the TUC Organising Academy: Purpose, Policy and Practice
Speaker: Dr Melanie Simms, Warwick University(25 mins 06 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Paul Nowak, National Organiser, TUC Organising Academy (23 mins 39 sec), click on link below to download:
Date: 20th February 2008
For more information on the talk click here.
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WLRI Trade Union Seminar Series 2007: Unions and the Global Challenge
- Globalisation and its effects on the US labour movement (40 mins 25 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Kim Moody, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire
Date: 13th December 2007
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- Union decline and Community Unionism
Speaker: Jane Wills, QMIL(31 mins 08 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Andy Snoddy, TGWU / UNITE(17 mins 16 sec), click on link below to download:
Date: 29th November 2007
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WLRI 5 year celebration
- WLRI 5 year celebration speech (9 mins 24 sec), click on link below to download:
Speaker: Mary Davis, Deputy Director, WLRI
Date: 22nd November 2007
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