EUROPEAN WORKING LIVES IN CRISIS

4 - 5 June 2009

Istanbul Bilgi University


Program

4 JUNE, THURSDAY

12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:30 Opening & welcome
13:30-15:30 Session 1
Convenor Fikret Senses (METU)
Temporary Work Agencies, Labour Mobility and Regulation in the European Union Nick Clark (WLRI)
Transnational Networks: Filipino, Indonesian and Ghanaian Transmigrant Seafarer Communities in Rotterdam Erol Kahveci (WLRI)
Reproduction of Poverty as a hegemonic Apparatus during AKP Rule Galip Yalman (METU)
15:30-16:00 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Session 2
Convenor Erol Kahveci (WLRI)
Trust and the Employment Relation Theo Nichols (Cardiff University) and Ali Cevat Tasiran (Middlesex University)
Are the Unproductive Workers in Turkey Exploited? E.Ahmet Tonak (Bilgi University) and Yigit Karahanogullari (Ankara University)
Dynamics of Informality in the Times of Crisis Zeynep Basak (METU) and Erol Taymaz (METU)
19:30-22:00 Dinner

5 JUNE, Friday

11:00-13:00 Session 4
Convenor Ali Cevat Tasiran (WLRI)
The Making of the English Working Class Re-visited: Labour History and Marxist Theory Mary Davis (WLRI)
Rethinking the Labour Movement in Turkey: A Critical Analysis of the Trade Unions' Responses to Global Crisis Gamze Yücesan Özdemir (Ankara University)
Metropolitan Cities in Turkey in the Wake of Economic and Political Crisis Tarik Sengül (METU)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Session 5
Convenor E.Ahmet Tonak (Bilgi University)
Labor and Global Crisis Erol Balkan (Hamilton College)
The Crisis of Capital and the Crisis of Labor Sungur Savran
Surveying Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Europe Steve Jefferys (WLRI)
16:30-17:30 Discussion and assessment
20:00-24:00 Dinner

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