Making Bad Work Good

Nottingham Civic Exchange

Seminars | Workshops

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’.

Don’t forget to share and tell us what you think via #GoodWorkNotts

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

Address:

Room 005
Dryden Building