Working Lives Research Institute
What do Turkey, Poland and the Dearne Valley have in common? Sphere project exibition launch in the Dearne Valley South Yorkshire.
May 18th - 12.30-2pm
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Friday, 16th March 2012.
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Friday, 13th January 2012.
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Thursday, 24th November 2011.
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Friday 23rd September 2011.
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Friday 15 July 2011 at 12.30- 2.00pm.
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Rohini Hensman and Phil Taylor, 18th May 2011, 4.30pm-6.00pm
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Each year 15,000 visas are issued or renewed to domestic workers from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Read more
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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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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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Thursday 14th April, 6pm
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In memory of John Kirk, 1957—2010
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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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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)
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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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.
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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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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Academic presentation and practitioner contribution by Matt Wrack and Prof. Martin Upchurch.
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