I co-convened a really excellent panel at this year’s American Anthropological Association meeting, on trade unions in different contexts. It went very well indeed, and we are talking about how we might take it forward. We welcome any comments, collaborations, etc. Here is the panel description, and list of papers: Labor, Law, and Cultures of… Read More AAA panel on Labour, Law and Cultures of Mobilization

I worked with Anne Alexander, at CRASSH, on a conference in Cambridge held in July 2014. The conference explored  the role of workers organisations in periods of mass mobilisation associated with – in particular – the ‘turn to the left’ in Latin America, the Arab Revolutions, and the anti-austerity mobilisations in Europe. We have pulled together a… Read More ‘Bread, Freedom and Social Justice’: Organised Workers and Mass Mobilizations in the Arab World, Europe and Latin America. Conference July 2014.