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WLRI News Issue 7, September 2010
Welcome to another jam-packed electronic newsletter from WLRI. In this issue, we celebrate our move into the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences; announce a new Masters course, as we expand our teaching programme; introduce some new WLRI work, including a Nuffield-funded Justice 4 Domestic Workers project, UNISON’s ‘Hidden Workforce’, and a pan-European project on media reflections of diversity; we highlight some reports published on the Impact of Low Pay on Unison Families, PCS Equalities Reps review, a European ‘Observatory’, plus the latest book by Mary Davis; finally we’re excited to announce a relationship with our close neighbours the WEA, London.
As ever, we encourage your feedback and comments on this service, so feel free to email us. |
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WLRI joins forces with Faculty of Applied Social Sciences |
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WLRI moved into the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (FASS) on 1st August 2010.
Prof. John Gabriel, said: “We are delighted to welcome the Working Lives Research Institute into the Faculty. It brings with it an outstanding reputation and track record in social science research which I'm sure will lead to new and exciting collaborations with staff as well as enhance the learning opportunities of our students.”
Read the full report here.
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MA: Work and Social Change |
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We continue to expand our teaching programme at WLRI, and are thrilled to announce a new Masters in Work and Social Change. The MA Work and Social Change is an advanced masters programme seeking to develop a new area of specialist Masters level teaching, linked to and informed by the cutting edge research undertaken in the field by the Working Lives Research Institute.
The new course overlaps with parts of the MA: Labour and Trade Union Studies; cementing our ties with the Centre for Trade Union Studies in our new Faculty of Applied Social Sciences.
Read the full story here. |
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Unison Report: Impact of Low Pay on Unison Families (WLRI) |
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 “You don’t eat, your children eat. They get their dinner every night. You make sacrifices, you don’t mind, you have to, but sacrifices are where you make their dinners and you put them down and you watch them eat it. And that’s very sad to do.”
A new report: The Impact of Low Pay on Unison Families was launched in July by UNISON. Read the full report here.
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Trade union recognition in the independent healthcare sector |
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At a seminar held on Tuesday 13 July 2010, around 40 regional officers of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) were presented with a summary of two pieces of research conducted by WLRI researchers for the RCN.
Read the full report here. |
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WLRI work with UNISON on Hidden Workforce project |
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WLRI are research partners on a new UNISON project, the ‘Hidden Workforce’, exploring and assessing initiatives of the union to organise workers in contracted-out public services. Read the full report here.
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Nuffield Foundation funds new WLRI research |
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The Nuffield Foundation have awarded WLRI a grant to carry out research with the self-organised migrant domestic workers' group Justice 4 Domestic Workers. WLRI's Nick Clark, working with Leena Kumarappan will be comparing what employers tell the UK Borders Agency about domestic workers' pay and conditions in visa applications with what workers report actually receiving.
Read the full story here.
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MEDIVA: assessing improved reflections of societal diversity in EU media |
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WLRI, as a partner in a consortium of seven European institutions, coordinated by the European University Institute in Florence, has been awarded research funding by the European Integration Fund for Third Country Nationals.
The 18-month project, MEDIVA, starts in January 2011.
Read the full report here
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CLASS AND GENDER IN BRITISH LABOUR HISTORY |
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 Edited by Mary Davis (Published September 2010, Merlin press)
WLRI is excited by the publication of a new book edited by External Associate, Professor Mary Davis, based on papers presented to a WLRI conference on Class and Gender held at the Women's Library in 2006.
“Politics constructs gender and gender constructs politics: this is a central theme in this collection of essays which seek not only to write a history that focus on women's experiences but seeks also to analyse those dynamic forces that have shaped that history.”
Read the full report here.
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WRLI completes evaluation of PCS Equality Rep project |
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 The Working Lives Research Institute has just completed an evaluation of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union’s Equality Representatives’ Training, Development & Support Programme, which found that the project had increased the number and profile of Equality Reps (ERs) within the union and provided a stronger and clearer equality agenda for the PCS.
Read the full report here. |
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European Social Observatory launched with WLRI support |
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 The European Observatory was launched by the European sectoral social partners for the temporary agency work (TAW) sector to provide analysis on the cross border movement for workers and companies in TAW sector, with a special focus on the impact of the implementation of the Posting of Workers and Temporary Agency Work directives.
Read the full report here. |
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WLRI-WEA Partnership forged |
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As part of our burgeoning partnership with Workers Educational Association (WEA) London Region's Trade Union Studies Centre, we are happy to direct you to their core reps programme. From Union Reps Stage 1 to Diploma courses, there is a wide range of courses for trade union reps. See here for more information.
You can also sign up for their newsletter.
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Jane Holgate takes up new post in Leeds |
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 Jane Holgate, who has been at the Working Lives Research Institute for five years, will be taking up a new post in the Work and Employment Relations Division and the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change at Leeds University Business School from 1 October 2010. During her time at the WLRI she has been extremely successful in winning two ESRC grants and in helping secure the first ESRC Case Studentship at London Metropolitan University.
She is not only a highly valued academic, but she has also contributed in a major way to union organising through her work with Hackney Trades Council, TELCO, the campaign for a living wage in London, and through her support for the London region union organisers' network. She has made countless contributions to the TUC Organising Academy and is a lynchpin of the Critical Labour Studies network.
WLRI Director, Steve Jefferys, said: “She will be sorely missed at Working Lives, and we wish Jane every success in her new post and for her future career.”
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