Critical Labour Studies 11th Symposium
Location: Ruskin College, Ruskin Hall, Oxford, OX3 9BZ
28th February – 1st of March 2015
Saturday 28th February
9.00 – 10.00 Registration on Door, Tea & Coffee
10.00 – 10.15 Introduction from CLS and Ruskin
10.15 – 11.00 Strategies of Change and Renewal in Organised Labour
Why Trade Unions Should Still be Interested in Worker’s Control
Hilary Wainwright and John Stirling
Managing Misbehaviour and Exit: is this Now the Function of Irish Trade Unions?
Tish Gibbons
Chair: Sian Moore
11.00 – 11.45 Global Capitalism and Labour
Dock Workers Resistance and Union Reform within China’s Global Supply Chain
Jack Xuebing Cao
Crowdwork – Piecework in in the Global Virtual Sweatshop
Martin Risak
Struggling in and Against the State: The Cases of Domestic Workers and Logistics Workers’ Unions in Turkey
Demet Şahende Dinler
Chair: Paul Stewart
11.45 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 12.45 Migration and Labour
10 Years On: What Have we Learnt about Organising with Migrant Workers Since the 2004 A8 Accession?
Ben Sellers, Heather Connolly and Roger MacKenzie UNISON representative
Neoliberalism East and West: the Impact of Migration on Health Sector Employment Relations in the UK and Romania
Dragos Adascalitei and Ben Egan
Chair: Miguel Martinez Lucio
12.45 – 1.45 Lunch
1.45 – 2.15 The European Dilemma and Trade Unions
Beyond Europhilia versus Euroscepticism? UK Unions and the EU in Comparative Perspective
Graham Taylor, Sue Milner and Andy Mathers
2.15 – 3.30 Gender, Labour and Socialism
The Future of Socialist Feminism
Sian Moore, Hazel Conley, and Rahila Gupta (Southall Black Sisters)
Leaning on Gramsci – Prospects for a Gender Politics of Resistance and Challenge to Masculinised Labour Movements in the Long Crisis of Neo-liberalism
Sue Ledwith
Intersectionality: an Abstract Theory or Useful Tool?
Tracy Walsh
Chair: Jane Holgate
3.30 – 3.45 Break for coffee and tea
3.45 – 4.45 Labour and National Identity: Fragmentation or Opportunity
The Quebéc Referendums, the Working Class, Capital, and the State
Jason Russell
Creatures from the Crypt: Lessons of the Scottish Referendum, the Crisis of UK Labour party and the Demise of the British State
Paul Stewart and Tommy McKearney
Chair: Hazel Conley
4.45 – 5.15 The Public Sector and ‘Change’
Firefighters and the Winter 2013-14 Floods: the FBU Perspective
Paul Hampton, Fire Brigades Union
Chair: Tracy Walsh
5.15 – 6.15 CLS Tomorrow & AGM
Into the next decade
John Stirling
6.30 Evening Meal Buffet (Ruskin)
Sunday 1st March
9.00 – 9.30 Coffee/tea available
9.30 – 11.00 International Labour & Trade Union Studies at Ruskin College
Chairs: Pete Dwyer and Tracy Walsh (There may be two sessions running parallel)
In collaboration with CLS 2015 students and staff of Ruskin College’s International Labour and Trade Union Studies (ILTUS) programme area have been offered this forum to generate discussion around current areas of research and trade union activity:
Workers Organisations and Schools: The Ascendency of Neoliberal Ideology in the State School System of both the UK and Chicago in the US
Matt Hannam MA ILTUS (Ruskin College)
Organising Young Worker: A Comparative Study of the UK and Zambia
Chilayi Mayondi MA ILTUS (Ruskin College)
Trade Union Responses to Sectarianism: A Comparative Study of Iraq and Northern Ireland
Paul Williams (Ruskin College)
The Impact of Trade Union Education of Women: A Comparative Study of the UK and South Africa Nokwazi Magwaza (Ruskin College)
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.00 Unions and International Responses to the New World of Work
Quality Jobs in the 21st Century: Trade Unions and Local Negotiating
Pav Akhtar (UNI Global Union)
The Quantified Self at Work
Phoebe Moore
Chair: Simon Joyce
12.00-12.40 The Challenge of Internal Politics in Organised Labour (a)
Trade Unions and their Control over Workers: The Murder of Mariano Ferreyra and the Argentine Trade Union System
Luciana Zorzoli
The Challenges of Labour-Environmental Alliances
Daniel Jakopovich
Chair: Cilla Ross
12.40-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.10 The Challenge of Internal Politics in Organised Labour (b)
Does the Labour Market Duality Still Explain Causes and Consequences of Trade Unions’ Responses to the Rise of Contingent Labour?
Danat Valizade
Two Decades of Deregulation of the Italian Labour Market: a Critical Analysis and Consequences for Unions and Politics
Tania Toffanin
Chair: Cilla Ross
2.15 – 3.00 Discussion
Coordinator: Cilla Ross
Glorious Defeat or Fight from Within? The Choice Facing Trade Unions in the New Co-operative and Mutual Landscape
Location
Ruskin’s Location: http://www.ruskin.ac.uk/about/location/stoke_house
CLS Website: https://criticallabourstudies.org.uk/site/
Email: critical_labour_studies@yahoo.com
Registration: £90 (£40 Unwaged/Students). Includes lunches/refreshments.
Delegates are welcome send a cheque written out to Critical Labour Studies in advance, to shorten registration time on the day, to:
Peter DwyerRuskin College
Ruskin Hall
Dunstan Road
Oxford
OX3 9BZ Please include a note indicating who you are, if it’s not obvious from the cheque. To make a bank transfer please email critical_labour_studies@yahoo.com to request details.
YOU HAVE TO REGISTER BEFORE COMING DUE TO SPACE RESTRICTIONS
Accommodation Suggestions
Limited B&B accommodation is available at Ruskin for approximately £55 per night. Email Sally Courtney to book this: scourtney@ruskin.ac.uk
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Dr Jane Holgate Professor of Work and Employment Relations Work and Employment Relations Division Leeds University Business School 31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05) University of Leeds LS2 9JT email:j.holgate@leeds.ac.uk Mobile: 07960 798399
This event is supported by Historical Materialism, Capital & Class, and the BUIRA Marxist Study Group. If you wish to set up a voluntary subscription to support CLS and its activities please contact either Jane Holgate or Miguel Martinez Lucio.