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Working Lives E-Newsletter, April 2010
The latest issue of WLRI's Electronic
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Unison Report: Impact of Low Pay on Unison Families (WLRI)
. …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. Read the report
Striking Women Website launched
The website is based on an exhibition “Striking Women: Voices of South Asian women workers from Grunwick and Gate Gourmet”. Read the full report.
TUC Library Collections receive grant from Lipman Miliband Trust
The TUC Library Collections have 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 1920-1925.
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WLRI papers on Inequalities & Social Justice at BSA
WLRI was represented at the
THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE Wed 7th - Fri 9th April 2010 at
Glasgow Caledonian University...
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Ethnic minority workers with no place to turn for advice
The research on Ethnic Minority Representation at Work has recently completed interviews with 185 workers who have had problems at work... Read the full report.
Mapping European trade union efforts to combat discrimination
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... Read the full report.
Innovation in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries
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 report.
London Metropolitan University secures major EU grant to study the impact of urbanisation on coastal environments
An inter-departmental collaboration at London Metropolitan University has secured a major research grant from the European Union (EU).
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Professional Doctorate launch exceeds expectations
The first intake of students started the Professional Doctorate in Researching Work yesterday, Thursday 28 January, at Working Lives... Read the full story.
SPHERE Project tours Paris
The Sphere European Framework 7 meeting in Paris was given a tour of the region by Sylvie Contrepois and the local project advisory group on Thursday 21 January...
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Working Lives E-Newsletter, January 2010
The latest issue of WLRI's Electronic
newsletter is out now. Read examples of old issues by going
here, and subscribe to our mailing list to get all future issues
here.
WLRI publish 2009 Annual Report
WLRI has had another thriving year, which we summarise for you in our Annual Report, 2009... Read the full story.
