20-21 October 2005
Paris University VII Denis Diderot, dalle des
Olympiades, bâtiment Montréal, 105 rue de Tolbiac. Paris 13e.
Trade Unions Against Racism will present the results of a 3-year comparative
research project looking at racial and ethnic minorities, immigration and
the role of trade unions in combating racism. The research has been undertaken
by an international team from Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, France and the UK
who have worked closely with workers and their trade unions in the following
sectors: health, retail, public transport and naval engineering, white goods
manufacture, tobacco, textiles and construction. For
further information and a registration form, please click.
For French version, please click.
If you have any queries, please contact Ashika Thanki on a.thanki@londonmet.ac.uk
Researchers from France, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria and the UK have just completed extensive comparative fieldwork in the health sector, public transport, retailing and in several non-service industries, construction, manufacturing, ship-building, tobacco and textiles. Some draft papers by the researchers are available on the www.workingagainstracism.org website.
A two-day conference is being held in Paris on October 20 and 21 to launch the results of their research on how Europe’s trade unions are dealing with racism in the workplace. Catelene Passchier, Confederal Secretary of the European TUC, will be giving a keynote presentation on Friday 21 October.
The first day of the two-day conference, Thursday 20 October, will focus on an open academic discussion of the research issues. This will provide an opportunity to come together and share ideas to researchers from other European Union projects on racism and to other nationally-based researchers concerned with the overarching themes of the character of contemporary racism and xenophobia at work.
We welcome papers on a wide range of themes concerning the workplace dimensions of racism and the struggle against it. Examples could be papers concerned with how:
- racism expresses itself at work,
- management responds to such racism,
- strategies of resistance or survival are developed by ethnic minority workers.
- unions respond to such racism, their demands, what they do in negotiation,
- unions try (or do not try) to mobilise their members, and how
- unions or community and anti-racist organisations develop strategies aimed at involving minority workers.
Paper abstracts should be no more than 250 words and should be sent in
English or French or Italian by September 9 2005 to philippe.poutignat@unice.fr
or to a.thanki@londonmet.ac.uk
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