Seminar Series: Migrants, Workplace and Community: Learning from Innovations in Civil Society New forms of organizing and self-organizing of migrant workers across community and workplace. Lessons from the US, Europe and the Global South This day long event will consider international approaches to community based organising in order to understand how different methodologies are applied to best effect in drawing in new groups of workers. Thursday 23 June 2016: 10am-6pm Please note change of venue: Leeds Museum, Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 8BH Please register: http://tinyurl.com/jh4t9ey

Seminar Series: Migrants, Workplace and Community · 10.15: Coffee and registration 10.30: Welcome 10.45-11.45: Dr Jenny Chan: Learning for jobs: student workers in China Jenny’s

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Page 1: Seminar Series: Migrants, Workplace and Community · 10.15: Coffee and registration 10.30: Welcome 10.45-11.45: Dr Jenny Chan: Learning for jobs: student workers in China Jenny’s

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

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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.