Working Lives Research Institute
Seminar one
Title: Oral History – Theory and Practice
Date: 25 November 2010
Time: 13:00-14:30
Location: 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY- Room JS3-95
Speaker: Professor Joanna Bornat
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. She is also visiting professor at the University of Leeds. Her most recent research interests are both empirical and methodological and include the experiences of overseas-trained South Asian geriatricians in the NHS, the oldest generation and family life, the re-use of archived qualitative data and comparative oral history.
Seminar two
Title: A different politics is possible: community organising and the living wage
Date: 25 November 2010
Time:16:30-18:30
Location: 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY- Room JS3-95
Speaker : Deborah Littman
Deborah Littman is a National Officer for UNISON specializing in bargaining research and campaigning on low pay and living wage.
Deborah has helped UNISON to build alliances with local community organisations working on living wage campaigns. She is Vice-Chair of the Trustees of London Citizens, a broad-based alliance of community organisations and trade union branches, and sits on the Advisory Committee of the Trust for London Special Initiative on Living Wage. To advance living wage campaigns, Deborah has commissioned, supported and coordinated a range of research projects that focus on the real costs of low pay to UNISON members and the wider community. She has written and spoken on the issues of poverty, low pay, minimum and living wage.
Title: Abstract Labour in the twenty-first century: Work and Employment in Distribution and Warehousing.
Date: 26 November 2010
Time:12:30-14:00
Location: 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY- Room JS1-41
Speaker: Kirsty Newsome
This seminar examines the 'politics of production' within grocery warehouse and distribution, in doing so it also highlights the complex connections and linkages betwen logistics companies and their dominant customers. It is concerned with exploring how employment change with grocery distribution and warehousing necessarily involves mapping these linkages and examining how and in what ways they impact on capital: labour relations.
Kirsty is a senior lecturer in the department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA, Los Angeles. Her recent research interests (with colleagues Professor Paul Thompson and Johanna Commander) have been concerned with exploring employment and labour process change in the supermarket supply chain.
This event is free, open to all and there is no need to register.