- About
- Conveners
- Programme 2015-16
About
Rethinking Work will consider the changing spaces, temporalities and legalities of employment and how these alter conceptions, expectation and practices of work and worker relations to the broader economy. If work (increasingly) includes activities at the margins of or beyond ‘formal’ economic practices, this opens up a range of empirical and theoretical possibilities concerning the nature of such labour, and how this plural but largely precarious kind of work is reconfiguring the economy. Therefore, the group will bring together a diversity of approaches to work, drawing from both the Global North and South, and from a variety of occupations including labour that may be considered illegal, vulnerable, informal, and unpaid. The activities of the group are organized into four themes (Negotiating law and work; Vulnerable work; Informal and Precarious Labour; Unpaid work) each of which will involve two sessions. One will be a more formal event with a panel of (three) invited speakers and the other an informal event to follow two weeks later orientated around readings and discussion carried over from the first session.
Administrative assistance: gradfac@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Conveners
Conveners
Dr Lizzie Richardson (Department of Geography, Cambridge)
Dr Tatiana Thieme (Department of Geography, Cambridge)
Dr Brendan Burchell (Department of Sociology, Cambridge)
Faculty Advisors
Dr Amy Ludlow (Department of Law)
Dr Mia Gray (Department of Geography)
Programme 2015-16
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Negotiating Law and Work (Session 1) 14 Oct 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Amy Ludow (Cambridge), Peter Rogers (Sheffield), Pietro Saitta (Messina)-Rethinking work |
Negotiating Law and Work (Session 2) 28 Oct 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Reading group – Rethinking Work |
Vulnerable Work (Session 1) 11 Nov 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Louise Waite (Leeds), Francisco Calafate Faria (Goldsmiths), Lydia Hayes (Cardiff) – Rethinking Work |
Vulnerable Work (Session 2) 25 Nov 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Reading group – Rethinking Work |
Informal and Precarious Labour – Choice or Last Resort 20 Jan 2016 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Maria Abreu and Brendan Burchell (Cambridge), John Earls (Unite the Union) – Rethinking Life |
Information and Precarious Labour (RG) 3 Feb 2016 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Reading group- Rethinking Work |
Unpaid Work – Claiming Value 17 Feb 2016 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Brian Sloan (Cambridge), Chris Harker (Durham), Carmen Teeple Hopkins (Oxford) – Rethinking Life |
Unpaid Work (RG) 2 Mar 2016 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Reading group- Rethinking work |