Seminar 3: Working lives in post-industrial cities

27th October, LSE

1pm lunch Director's Dining Room, Main 'Old' Building

2pm Graham Wallas Room, Main 'Old' Building

Sarah Radcliffe (Cambridge) Post-industrialism in reverse: entangled geographies of migration, work and lives of Ecuadorian women in Madrid (abstract) (paper - pdf)

Kavita Datta and Cathy McIllwaine (Queen Mary) Work, life and care work among low-paid migrant workers in London: towards a migrant ethic of care (abstract)

3pm tea

3.20pm Sophie Day (Goldsmiths) on sex workers in London (abstract)

3.50 Katie Willis (RH) The Working Lives of British & Singaporean Migration in China's Coastal Cities (abstract)

4.20 discussion - discussant Adina Batnitsky, ESRC Gender Network Research Fellow, University of Oxford (discussant's comments - pdf)

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