Making Bad Work Good
Nottingham Civic Exchange
Join us for the final session of this series exploring how to create a good work city.
- From: Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10 am
- To: Wednesday 10 July 2019, 4 pm
- Location: Dryden 005, Room 005, Dryden Building,
- Booking deadline: Tuesday 9 July 2019, 4.00 pm
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Event details
This full day session will explore how to work with sectors and roles with concentrations of ‘bad jobs’ to foster good work. Drawing together international and local perspectives and hearing from researchers and practitioners as well as employees themselves this event will highlight the challenges and opportunities in challenging business models which create ‘bad work’.
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Programme
10:00 Arrival and registration
10:20 Welcome and introduction to the day
10:30 More dismal work? Young people, employment and the creative economy reconsidered. Keynote talk by Dr Julie MacLeavy, University of Bristol
11:20 Sectoral challenges:
- Social Care: James Pike, Doctoral Student, NTU Department of Sociology
- Private Hire Drivers: Azeem Hanif, United Private Hire Drivers
- Hand Car Washes: Professor Ian Clark, NTU
- Food Processing: Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union
12:15 Lunch and networking
13:00 Tackling Bad Work:
- Worker Cooperatives: Dr Kiri Langmead, NTU Nottingham Business School
- Business Perspectives: Lucy Robinson, East Midlands Chamber of Commerce
- Campaigning on the Living Wage: Andreas Bieler, Nottingham University
- Work in Socialist Cuba: Annie Rutter, Rock Around the Blockade
- Work in Britain Beyond the Capitalist Horizon: Dr Tom Vickers, NTU Work Futures Research Group
13:45 What can we do to make bad work good? Group discussions
15:00 Round up
15:40 Cake and Close
Booking information
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Location details
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Dryden Building
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