CERIC Spring 2021 Webinar Series

The Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change launch their latest research webinar series.

The Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change invites you to join our Spring 2021 webinar series, where we will continue to showcase the Centre's diverse research interests and sustained record of research on social inequalities, voice and representation and digital futures of work. We are also pleased to welcome a number of guest presenters. The scheduled sessions will include:

27 January, 14.00 – 15.30 Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Subverts Democracy and Disciplines the Working Class by Ian Greer (Cornell) and Charles Umney (Leeds) Watch this webinar

17 February, 16.00 – 17.30 Suturing Sugar Agro-Capitalism: Labor Intermediaries and Seasonal Labor Migration in Rural Western India by Pronoy Rai (Portland State University, USA) Watch this webinar

3 March, 14.00 – 15.30 ‘We are not all in this together’: Understanding international inequalities in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on work and employment by Mark Stuart, Danat Valizade and Manhal Ali (Leeds) Watch this webinar

17 March, 14.00 – 15.30 New Technology and Industrial Relations by Simon Joyce (Leeds) Watch this webinar

29 March, 15.00 – 16.30 Liberation and Limitation: Eco-emancipatory politics and the authoritarian turn by Ingolfur Blühdorn (University for Economics and Business in Vienna). This is a joint webinar with LESS Group. Watch this webinar

CANCELLED to be rescheduled for April or May – 31 March, 14.00 – 15.30 Employers’ use of furlough in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic 

21 April, 12.30 – 14.00 Intertwined boundaries: how professions adapt to artificial intelligence by James Faulconbridge (Lancaster) Watch this webinar

26 April, 15.30 – 17.00 Calculating The Climate: The Hegemony of Models and Experts in Climate Adaptation by David L. Levy (University of Massachusetts, Boston). This is a joint webinar with LESS Group. Watch this webinar

5 May, 14.00 – 15.30 Trade unions and climate change by Jo Cutter and Vera Trappmann (Leeds) Watch this webinar

19 May, 14.30 – 16.00 Linked ecologies of organizations and the transformation of professionalism: the case of management consulting by Prof Daniel Muzio andProf Ian Kirkpatrick (York) Watch this webinar

21 June, 16.00 – 17.30 Towards a Feminist Green New Deal by Professor Stefania Barca (University of Uppsala). This is a joint webinar with LESS Group. Watch this webinar

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