NOMOREZERO-HOUR

CONTRACTS

Centre for Professional Work and Society

Organising the unorganisable?

Voices from the bottom up

Researchers and Activists Foru

m on Precarious Work

Loughborough University 23-24

April 2015

This is a free event, but spaces are limited so please book your

seat with Ruth Cuf in:

R.Cuf in@lboro.ac.uk 01509 228839

Sponsored by Universitys Research Challenge Communication, Culture

and Citizenship and Centre for Professional Work and Society

ITSNOT SAFE

WE DEMANDBETTER SAFETY

STANDARDS AT WORK

Thursday, 23 April 1-6pm

Global South: practices of

organisation and resistance

An insight view of workers strug

gles in China

Ralf Gongchao Collective

The organisation of work in Ch

ilean Ports and

dockworkers organisation

Lucas Cifuentes, Advisor of the

dockworkers Union/

Universidad de Chile

Addressing forced labour in sup

ply chains

Fabiola Mieres, Durham Univers

ity

Workers organisation in textile

s sweatshops

in Argentina

Jeronimo Montero, Ministry of L

abour and

CONICET Argentina

Organising informal transport w

orkers in

developing countries

The Global Labour Institute and

the International

Transport Federation

Friday, 24 April 9am-5pm

Global North: practices of

organisation and resistance

Migrant organising in the UK

Gabriella Alberti, Univ. of Leeds

and Independent workers

of Great Britain; Joyce Jiang, Ro

ehampton Univ. and J4DW

(Justice for Domestic Worker)

Workers in retail distribution ce

ntres in the UK and in Italy

Workers Initiative Poland (Inicja

tywa Pracownicza), Angry

Workers of the World, Devi Sacch

etto Univ. of Padua/

Connessioni Precarie and Giorg

io Grappi, Universit

di Bologna/Coordinamento mig

ranti di Bologna e di

Connessioni precarie

Trade Unions activism and prec

arious work,

experiences of organisation

Alumni MA Trade Unions Studie

s Ruskin College

Pedagogical insights of produci

ng knowledge for and

with activists and union organis

ers

Ian Manborde, Ruskin College, O

xford

Focusing on the rank and le: t

he experience of

Labor Notes and Trade Unions

News

Sheila Cohen and Kim Moody