seminar series: migrants, workplace and community · 10.15: coffee and registration 10.30: welcome...

Seminar Series: Migrants, Workplace and Community: Learning from Innovations in Civil Society

Newformsoforganizingandself-organizingofmigrantworkersacrosscommunityandworkplace.

LessonsfromtheUS,EuropeandtheGlobalSouthThisdaylongeventwillconsiderinternationalapproachestocommunitybased

organisinginordertounderstandhowdifferentmethodologiesareappliedtobesteffectindrawinginnewgroupsofworkers.

Thursday23June2016:10am-6pmPleasenotechangeofvenue:LeedsMuseum,MillenniumSquare,Leeds,LS28BH

Pleaseregister:http://tinyurl.com/jh4t9ey

Programme10.15:Coffeeandregistration10.30:Welcome10.45-11.45:DrJennyChan:Learningforjobs:studentworkersinChina11.45-12.45:ProfessorJaneWills:Thestrengthsandweaknessesofcommunityorganisinginrelationtolabour:lessonsfromthelivingwagecampaigninLondonandbeyond12.45-1.45:Lunch1.45-2.45:DrJaniceFine:Standardsinpartnershipwithcivilsociety:canco-productionsucceedwherethestatealonehasfailed?2.45-3.45:DrJaneMcAlevey:Buildinghighparticipationorganizations:wholeworkerorganizing.3.45-4pm:Coffee4pm-5pm:CarlosSaavedra:MovementbuildingandcommunityorganizingintheUSmigrantrightsmovements.5pm-6pm:Discussion

CarlosSaavedraLeadtrainerfortheAyniInstitute.CarlosisaleadingorganiserintheUSimmigrantrightsmovementswithafocusontheDREAMermovement.HewilltalkabouthowhehelpedbuildthismovementandthenextstageofthemigrantrightsstruggleintheUS.

JaneMcAleveyPostDoc,HarvardUniversityLawschool,LaborandWorklifeProgramRatherthanbuildingcommunity-labouralliances,thewholeworkerorganizingapproachmergesworkplaceandnon-workplaceissuesintoatightblend.Janehadyearsofexperienceincommunityorganizingpriortobecomingafulltimeunionorganizerandnegotiatorandherapproachesflowfromthecombinedexperienceofunionandcommunityorganizing.Thesemethodshavebeensuccessfulinwinninglocalpoliticalcampaignsinadditiontoworkerorganizingcampaigns.

JaneWillsProfesssorofHumanGeography,QueenMary,UniversityofLondonJanewillprovideabriefhistoryofthelivingwagecampaignthatstartedinLondonin2001andwilllookatthemodeloforganisingdeployedanditsimplicationsforengaging,orotherwise,organisedlabour.

JennyChanLecturerinSociologyandChinaStudies,SchoolofInterdisciplinaryAreaStudiesJuniorResearchFellow,KelloggCollegeUniversityofOxford.Jenny’spresentationwilllookathowsocialscientistshaveassessedthefastexpansion,andcommercialization,ofChineseeducationundermarketreformssincethelate1970s,andhavedelvedspecificallyintothequalityofvocationalschoolteachingandclassroomlearning.Therehasbeen,however,scantattentiontostudentinternsastemporaryorcontingentworkersintheactualworkplacesetting.

JaniceFineAssociateProfessorinLaborStudiesandEmploymentRelationsattheSchoolofManagementandLaborRelations,RutgersUniversityJanice’spresentationwillfocusontheproblemofnoncompliancewithlabourstandardsinlow-wageworkrequiresseriousreconsiderationofaformalroleforworkersandworkers’organizationsingovernmentenforcementefforts.Routine,institutionalizedcollaborationsbetweentheseorganizationsandfederal,stateandlocalDepartmentsofLaborhasthepotentialtoaddressmanyofthegapsidentifiedingovernmenteffortstoenforcelaborstandardsinthelow-wagecontext.