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SUMMARY:Thinking through precariousness: work\, mobilty and voice reconfigurations in the UK
DESCRIPTION:Dr Gabriella Alberti is an Associate Professor in Work and Employment Relations at the\nUniversity of Leeds Business School. Gabriella’s research interests span across the sociology\nof work and migration\, labour and employment relations\, social movements and social\ntheory. \nHer PhD (Cardiff School of Social Sciences\, 2011) explored the everyday experiences\nof migrant workers in London’s hotels and the possibility to organise low-paid sections of\nthe service and hospitality economy. Through an intersectional feminist marxist lens her\nresearch focuses on migrant precarious employment\, intra-EU mobility\, migration and\ntemporary agencies\, trade unions strategies towards migrant workers\, community\norganising and trade union renewal. She has recently co-edited the Special issue of the\nJournal Work Employment and Society “In\, Against and Beyond Precarity: Work in Insecure\nTimes (2018). Gabriella is a member of the Centre for Employment Innovation and Change\nat the University of Leeds Business School and a founding member of the Leeds Migration\nResearch Network. Recent collaborative research funded by European Parliament involved\nthe social protection of gig economy workers\, and the crisis of welfare and free movement\nrights in the EU. She is currently conducting the evaluation research for the Leeds City\nCouncil ‘Migrant Access Project Plus’\, which aims at improving integration of recent\nmigrants and promoting intra-community dialogue locally. \nTalk: Thinking through precariousness: work\, mobilty and voice reconfigurations in the UK \nIn this talk Gabriella wil draw from the last ten year of research she has conducted on\nprecarious employment and migrant labour in the UK. She will reflect on the origins and\nchanging meanings of insecure employment in contemporary Britain\, focusing on the\nintersections of different forms of precariousness for workers through the lens of labour\nmarket\, welfare and migration/mobility. Partly drawing from her recent editorial work with\ncolleagues ‘In\, Against and Beyond Precarity: Work in Insecure Times’ as well as from her\nlocal research engagement with precarious migrants and community organisation in Leeds\,\nher presentation focuses on the ways in which we can re-think exploitation and vulnerability\nof the workforce today not only in light of the ongoing labour market\, economic and\ntechnological tansformations but also from the point of view of the differential experience\nof mobility\, in a context where the free movement of working people across borders\nbecomes increasingly contexted and restrained. Drawing from evidence from a broad range\nof sectors (from the low-paid service migrant economy to the precarising University)\nGabriella will share her propositions for re-thinking forms of voice and solidarity among\nworkers who are made increasingly different\, racialised and fragmented. \n
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