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Events

Working Lives hold one off conferences, regular seminars and workshops, so subscribe to our Mailing list for regular news of upcoming events. You can view our Archive pages for events from previous years and if you missed an event you wanted to attend, go to the Audio page for free downloads.


 

WLRI January 2012 Lunchtime seminar- Social Capital.

Friday, 13th January 2012.

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WLRI November 2011 Lunchtime seminar.

Thursday, 24th November 2011.

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WLRI September 2011 Lunchtime seminar.

Friday 23rd September 2011.

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Doing research in a virtual world: the ethics of internet mediated methods A joint FASS/WLRI workshop.

Friday 15 July 2011 at 12.30- 2.00pm.

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Central and Eastern Europe's experience of Foreign Direct Investment and Globalizing Employment Relations

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Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India

Rohini Hensman and Phil Taylor, 18th May 2011, 4.30pm-6.00pm

Read more info and download the flier here.


Turning a blind eye: the British state and migrant domestic workers' employment rights

Each year 15,000 visas are issued or renewed to domestic workers from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Read more


In memory of John Kirk, please give to Brain Tumour UK.

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Striking A Light: The Real Bryant & May Matchwomen

In the summer of 1888, fourteen hundred matchwomen walked out of Bryant & May’s factory in the East End of London, and into the history books.

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Professor Sonia McKay inaugural lecture: Lives in transition – intentions, hopes and realities

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Malcolm Gillies, invites you to attend an inaugural lecture by Professor Sonia McKay: Lives in transition – intentions, hopes and realities.

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Book Launch: ‘Class and Gender in British Labour History’, edited by Mary Davis

Thursday 14th April, 6pm

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Class and Identity in Today's Europe: a meeting in memory of John Kirk

In memory of John Kirk, 1957—2010

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WLRI Seminars - Book Launch 21st January 2011

Speaker: Professor Ben Fine (SOAS)

Title: 'Theories of Social Capital: Researchers behaving badly'

Time: 11am-12:30pm

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Speaker: Professor Beverly Skeggs (Goldsmiths)

Title: 'What Matters': Person-Value, Respect and Affect'

Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm

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Book Launch 'New Trade Union Activism : Class Consciousness or Social Identity?' , by  Dr.  SIAN MOORE

Time: 5:30 - 8:00 pm

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WLRI Seminar - 20th January 2011

Speaker: Tom Woodin (Institute of Education)

Title: 'Raymond Williams and issues of working class'

Time: 1pm - 2:30pm

Venue: Jewry street, EC3N 2EY (room JS2-74)


Due to unforseen circumstances the following seminar has been canceled. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

WLRI Lunchtime Seminar Series:

Title: Abstract Labour in the twenty-first century: 
Work and Employment in Distribution and Warehousing.
Kirsty Newsome 26th November 2010

Kirsty is a senior lecturer in the department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde.

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WLRI Trade Union Seminar Series:

Title: A different politics is possible: community organising and the living wage
Deborah Littman   25th November 2010

Deborah Littman is a National Officer for UNISON specializing in bargaining research and campaigning on low pay and living wage.

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WLRI Lunchtime Seminar Series:

Title: Oral History- Theory and Practice
Professor Joanna Bornat  25th November 2010

Joanna Bornat is emeritus professor of oral history at the Open University where her teaching included topics in ageing and social policy as well as oral history.

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Help and representation for problems at work

What has happened to support networks and advice centres? A report on ethnic minority workers in London, Monday 13 September 2010.

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WLRI Lunchtime Seminar: Organised Labour, Politics and public sector cuts

Academic presentation and practitioner contribution by Matt Wrack and Prof. Martin Upchurch.

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Archived events


You can download the fliers, read the introductions to the presentations, and even listen again to old seminars by browsing the WLRI archive pages.

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