Friday June 11th, 2010
A Public Lecture and Panel Discussion
By
Dr Nik Theodore
University of Illinois at Chicago
LABOUR ACTIVISM AND MIGRANT RIGHTS:
COUNTERING NEOLIBERAL LABOUR-MARKET REGULATION... FROM THE BOTTOM UP?
Discussants: Leah Vosko, Mark Thomas, Steven Tufts (York University)
Nik Theodore is a leading scholar, activist and commentator on US labour
markets and urban neoliberalism. Dr Theodore is Director of the Center
for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
His research agenda is focused on problems of socioeconomic inequality
arising from the restructuring of urban economies. Grounded in community
development practice, his research seeks to combine primary data
collection and analysis, policy assessment and evaluation, and
theory-building to illuminate the complex (and often contradictory)
processes that give rise to economic hardship in urban communities. His
recent research projects include studies of: conditions in low-wage
labor markets; community-based responses to violations of basic labor
standards; the informal economy; and global social policy. In this
lecture, he will address attempts to mobilize against contingent labour
conditions, affecting immigrant in particular, in the United States. The
lecture will be followed by a panel discussion featuring three York
experts on labour market regulation and labour organization:
Dr Leah Vosko (Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy)
Dr Steven Tufts (Associate Professor of Geography)
Dr Mark Thomas (Associate Professor of Sociology)
This lecture is being presented as part of the International Political
Economy and Ecology Summer School at York University (sponsored by the
Faculty of Environmental Studies, and the Departments of Political
Science and Geography). It is also sponsored by the Toronto Immigrant
Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI) at York University.
The lecture will be followed by a reception.
Venue: York Research Tower, Room 519, York University, Keele Campus.
Time: 2pm - 4pm, Friday June 11th 2010.
This is a public event and all are welcome to attend.
