CLaSP Past Events 2019
10 January, Dae-oup Chang, Department of Global Korean Studies, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. ‘Transnational Labour Regimes and the Mutation of Neoliberal Development in Cambodia’.
14 February, Hannah Schling, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, King's College London. ‘(Re)producing the “disposable” EU worker: Work agencies and worker dormitories in the Czech Republic's export-oriented manufacturing sector’.
7 March, ‘Indecent work and economic growth in SDG 8: The perils of financial inclusion and growth among unfree brick workers in Cambodia’.
Nithya Natarajan, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.
21 March, 'Value, information and resource flows in the Calcutta-Dundee textile value chain, 1870-1919'
Alexis Wearmouth, School of Business & Management, Queen Mary University of London.
2 May, James Brown, School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, ‘Labour geographies of development in Laos: Class formation, care and complex livelihoods’.
16 May, Peter Cole, Department of History, Western Illinois University. Book launch: Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press)
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26 June, CLGP annual workshop ‘Social Reproduction Within and Beyond Production: Old and New Challenges for the Analysis of Work and Workers’.
Organisers: Elena Baglioni (QMUL), Clair Quentin (QMUL), Hannah Schling (KCL)
Presentations by: Stefania Barca, Senior researcher at the University of Coimbra; Gargi Bhattacharyya, Prof. of Sociology, University of East London; Silvia Federici, Professor Emerita of New College, Hofstra University NY; Alessandra Mezzadri, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS; Bridget O'Laughlin, Former researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences (ISS, Netherland) and current editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change; Clair Quentin, Research Associate, KCL Policy Institute, and PhD student at Queen Mary University and Research Associate; and Sigrid Vertommen, Research associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.
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3 October 2019, CLGP research roundtable on ‘what are you up to?’, room 4.27A FB, Mile End
30 October 2019, Hedge Funds, Private Equity and the Shadowy World of Mayfair
A walking tour by Angus McNallly, School of Politics and International Relations Queen Mary University of London.
31 October, ‘Theorising socially responsible public procurement within global production networks’.
Gale Raj-Reichert (School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London), Leonhard Plank (Technical University of Vienna), and Cornelia Staritz (University of Vienna). The City Centre Seminar Room, second floor, Bancroft Building.
13 November, Screening of Workers (2018), followed by discussion with Jay Gearing (Red 7 Productions, Director) and Ben Rogaly (University of Sussex, Producer) - in conjunction with the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences theme on "Work". Room G19, Hitchcock Cinema, Arts 1.
13 November, Workshop on ‘Work at the Margins’ in conjunction with the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences theme on ‘Work’. The City Centre Seminar Room, second floor, Bancroft Building.
15 November, ‘The making of a global commodity: restructuring of the dairy industry’.
Susan Newman (University of the West of England)-Bancroft Building, room: 1.02.3.