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Vulnerable workers

“Hard Work, Hidden Lives” The Report of the Commission on Vulnerable Employment.

 

This months UIN theme is vulnerable workers. This TUC paper gives the background and key recommendations of the CoVE investigation into the shocking extent of vulnerable work and employment practices attacked as exploitative in the 19th century but still common today.

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Trade Union Engagement with Academia - and Vice Versa Print E-mail
Written by Sheila Cohen   
Saturday, 23 December 2006
How can "academics" relate to, support and even contribute to the revival of an undeniably demoralised trade union movement? Of course, it depends on which academics we're talking about. Those gathered at the Critical Labour Studies conference are, as our self-definition suggests, critical of the "mainstream" of labour studies - or what, today, more often receives the unfortunate title of "Human Resources Management".

 

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