Credit: Workers' International Network
Conferences sponsored/held by the CSEW:
Skills, Jobs and Immigrants: What's Working, Who's Working?
October 12-13, 2006
Hart House, University of Toronto
Organized by the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW), OISE/UT and the Toronto Training Board (TTB)
CSEW runs a speakers' series throughout the academic year. Previous speakers and topics have included:
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What is Work? with Margrit Eichler and Ann Matthews, OISE/UT
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Putting the Spotlight on Ivory Basement Work: Essential and Essentially Unseen Work with Joan Eveline, University of Western Australia
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Contingent Faculty in Higher and Adult Education with Joe Berry (Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor-COCAL) and Vicky Smallman (Canadian Association of University Teachers)
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The Challenge of Change: Contemporary Trade Union Organizing and Education Initiatives in Australia with Tony Brown, University of Technology, Sydney
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Towards a Theory of Schooling: Contributions and Perspectives with Newton Duarte (University of Sao Paulo State-UNESP) and David Olson (OISE/UT)
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Does Work Organization Matter? A Study of Workers in American Hospitals with Ann Frost, University of Western Ontario
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The Role of Social Capital in the Learning Process: A Study of Low Wage Workers with Anil Verma and Sara Mann (University of Toronto)
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A New "Strategic Plan" for Labour with Elaine Bernard (Harvard University)
Transcripts or published versions of talks will be added here as they become available, so please check back.
Other transcripts of talks are available at http://www.wallnetwork.ca/events/index.htm .
