Working Lives Research Institute
13 May 2011 at 4:00 pm
Speaker : Professor Satnam Virdee
Socialism, the working class and the iron cage of nationalism
Through a focus on developments in the 19th century, Satnam Virdee will explore how working class radicalism was blunted through an incremental incorporation of parts of the working class into a nationalist project. Then he will draw out the consequences of this for the racialized Irish Catholics and Jewish fractions of the working class, including in the course of the New Unionism.
Satnam Virdee is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow and the founding director of the University’s Centre for Research on Racism, Ethnicity and Nationalism (CRREN). His current research interests lie in mapping the historical and contemporary relationship between racism and capitalist modernity; racism, class and labour markets; and the study of racist and anti-racist collective action. He has published five sole or co-authored books. His latest book entitled Racism, Resistance and Radicalism will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
Speaker : Wilf Sullivan
Present and future prospects for Trade Union Self organisation
Wilf Sullivan has worked for the TUC since December 2004, when he was appointed as TUC Race Equality Officer. Also Local Government with young people involved with the criminal justice system for ten years and subsequently as a Principal Personnel Officer dealing with recruitment and equal opportunities monitoring. Wilf worked as UNISON’s National Black Members Officer from 2000 before moving to the TUC as the Race Equality Policy Officer.
He is active on race quality policy matters both inside and outside of the trade union movement. He is a member of the Government’s Ethnic Minority Advisory Group, is Vice-Chair of the UK Race and Europe Network, is a co-opted Executive Board member of the European Network Against Racism and sits on a number of race equality research academic advisory boards.
Venue: WLRI- London Metropolitan University,
31 Jewry St, London EC3N 2EY
Room JS2-68 at 4:00 pm
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WLRI Lunchtime seminar series MAY 2011.pdf