The Living Wage Movement in the UK by Jane Wills

Venue: Room 2.21 & 2.22 Research Beehive

Time/Date: 6th November 2013, 16:00

by Jane Wills

Professor of Human Geography, School of Geography and The City Centre: Researching city lives and connections
Queen Mary, University of Londonhttp://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/willsj.htmlThe lecture will take place on Wednesday 6th November 2013 at Newcastle University’s Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Room 2.21/2.22The most recent incarnation of a demand for a living wage movement started in the USA – in Baltimore the early 1990s – and it has since spread to many cities in the USA, before coming to the UK in the early 2000s. Jane Wills and colleagues have pioneered research and activism around the living wage in the UK. The lecture will engages the theory, practice and politics of the living wage movement and its progress in the UK.See http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/livingwage/ Numbers are limited for this lecture so if you would like to reserve a place please register at:  http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=4797 

Published: 5th September 2013