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The University of Southampton
Southampton Education School

Work after globalisation: building occupational citizenship Seminar

Time:
13:15 - 14:45
Date:
11 February 2011
Venue:
Room 2209, Life Sciences Building (B85) (adjacent to the School of Education, B32) University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ

For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Peter Jones on +44 (0)23 8059 2642 or email p.d.jones@southampton.ac.uk .

Event details

In association with the Lifelong and Work-related Learning Research Centre and Work future Research Centre.

In this seminar, Guy addresses the collapse of industrial citizenship since the 1970s and the global transformations which are making inequalities and insecurities unsustainable. Guy explains why the desirable egalitarian response to the problems caused by globalisation should be a strategy to build occupational citizenship. This should be based on rights to economic security and institutions to enable everybody to develop their capabilities and to work whilst respecting the ecological imperatives of the 21st century.Details to be announced.

Speaker information

Professor Guy Standing , Professor of Economic Security, Dept of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. Guy Standing has just completed a book on occupations, linked to the global transformation of work and labour. Recurrent themes of his research, often drawing on extensive household and workplace surveys, have been the insecurities faced by workers in the wake of reforms of labour law, labour regulation and social protection, and the rationale for moving towards unconditional income transfers. A key question linking these themes is whether or not a global labour market model is emerging.

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