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WLRI News Issue 6, April 2010
Welcome to another WLRI newsletter, bringing you up to date on the world of work. Read all about trade union initiatives against discrimination in Europe; a new project on the impact of urbanisation on coastal environments; a crisis for black and ethnic minority workers seeking advice in London; the first intake of our new Professional Doctorate in Researching Work; upcoming seminars on Globalisation; a SPHERE project tour of two French towns; the launch of a new web-resource on Striking Women and much more. Please forward this newsletter to your work colleagues, fellow students and interested contacts, encouraging them to subscribe to WLRI news by going here.
We encourage your feedback and comments on this service, so feel free to email us.
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Mapping European trade union efforts to combat discrimination |
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On 22 March 2010 the Working Lives Research Institute held a successful seminar in Madrid as part of the Mapping study on trade union practices in fighting discrimination and promoting diversity, commissioned by the European Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. More than 60 trade union participants from 20 EU Member States and Candidate countries had the opportunity to hear and to discuss several best practice case studies identified in the research.
Read the full story here.
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London Metropolitan University secures major EU grant |
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An inter-departmental collaboration at London Metropolitan University has secured a major research grant from the European Union (EU). A partnership between Allan Williams of the Working Lives Research Institute (WLRI), Graeme Evans of the Cities Institute, and Graham Walters from London Metropolitan Business School (LMBS) successfully bid for the grant of 845,000 Euros.
Read the full story here.
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Social dialogue and the changing role of CAMS in Europe |
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 Conciliation, Arbitration Mediation Services in Europe (CAMS).
The first report of the CAMS project has been published recently. The CAMS project aims to help social partner organisations understand the changing role of industrial conflict arbitration, conciliation and mediation in a European context where a general decline in collective action since the 1980s and a rising trend in individual social conflicts has seen the existing institutions providing conflict conciliation, arbitration and mediation services adjust their roles in relation to the social partners and to social dialogue.
See the CAMS website, and download the first report here
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Ethnic minority workers with no place to turn for advice |
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 The Ethnic Minority Representation at Work project has recently completed interviews with 185 workers who have had problems at work. The interviews have been asking to whom do people turn when they face difficulties at work.
Our findings show that there is a dearth of employment advice available and the situation is getting worse for the most vulnerable of workers and that non-unionised workers, in particular, have little knowledge about how to access (professional) advice and support for the difficulties they face, but also that unionised workers too find it extremely difficult to achieve a satisfactory resolution to their problems.
Read the full story here.
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TUC Library Collections receive grant from Lipman Miliband Trust |
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The TUC Library Collections has received £1000 grant aid from The Lipman-Miliband Trust to translate Russian language documents, posters and photo albums brought back by Labour Movement delegations to the Soviet Union between 1920-1925.
Chris Coates, of the TUC Library Collections and WLRI Associate, said:
"The many photographic and other images in the collection will be of interest to art historians and the media, among other users. The posters and photographic records kept by the delegations provide a fascinating view of life in post-revolutionary Russia. They include contemporary cultural images - from Russian Avant-Garde theatre set designs, to posters from the radical ROSTA group and images with origins in Russian folk-art."
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WLRI papers on Inequalities & Social Justice at BSA |
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 WLRI was represented at the The British Sociological Association annual conference Wed 7th - Fri 9th April 2010 at Glasgow’s Caledonian University.
Demographic change, workforce ageing and the management of older workers is increasingly becoming an issue of policy concern for governments and employers. Social stability, physical security, improved living conditions and economic as well as medical progress have contributed to longer life expectancy and improved quality of life.
Read the full story here.
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Professional Doctorate launch exceeds expectations |
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 The first intake of students started the Professional Doctorate in Researching Work on Thursday 28 January and completed the second two-day study period on 19/20 March.
Fourteen students – from a broad range of backgrounds, from trade union officers, health and probation professionals, IT specialists and consultants – began the taught DProf with lectures, seminars and introductions to the WLRI team.
Read the full story here.
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WLRI DProf Seminar on Globalisation |
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We are delighted to invite colleagues to the Working Lives Research Institute seminar on Friday 21st May. This is a ‘double’ seminar which focuses on aspects of Globalisation and enables two of our esteemed Londonmet colleagues to share their research and writing with us.
Professor Mike Newman will speak on 'The Contradictions of Humanitarian Intervention’ and Dr Lyn Thomas on: 'The construction of Muslim and Irish communities as 'suspect' in Britain 1974-2007: representations and experiences'.
Read the full story here.
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SPHERE Project tours Corbeil-Essonnes in France |
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The Sphere European Framework 7 meeting in Paris was given a tour of the industrial area just South-East of Paris where social identity is being researched by Sylvie Contrepois and the local French project advisory group in January.
This represents ongoing research on a number of European towns and cities undergoing economic regeneration following the impact of such transformations on work identities and regional landscapes. A tour of Corbeil-Essones and of Evry, close to Paris - and a central area examined in the project - provided a fascinating insight into the transition in recent times of the two neighbouring towns. The Paris meeting also centred on methodological questions vital to exploring changing regional areas.
Read the full story here.
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Innovation in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries |
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Allan Williams, together with Gareth Shaw and Adrian Bailey from the University of Exeter, has been awarded a grant of £2,150 from ESRC's Advanced Institute of Management to hold a capacity building workshop on April 28th for early career researchers on the theme of innovation in the tourism and hospitality industries.
Read the full story here.
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Striking Women Website launched |
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The website is based on an exhibition “Striking Women: Voices of South Asian women workers from Grunwick and Gate Gourmet” which was held at The Women’s Library Foyer from October 2009 to March 2010. Londonmet colleagues who assisted with the project include Jane Holgate and Mary Davis from the WLRI, working with Chris Coates and James Goddard from the TUC library Collections, plus Gail Cameron from the Women’s Library.
Visit the excellent Striking Women web-resource here.
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