HRM Research Seminar: Trends and Debates in Post-socialist Labour Studies

Event Date: 27 April 2016

Speaker: Professor Violetta Zentai, Co-Director, Center for Policy Studies/Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology/School of Public Policy
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 

Date: Wednesday, April 27 

Time: 5pm

Location: Strathclyde Business School, Cathedral Wing, CW406a

This seminar will review recent scholarly trends, approaches, and debates on post-socialist transformations of labour and labour relations. Neoliberal labour regimes, emerging new precarious conditions, and reconfigurations of labour organization are discussed against local varieties of global capitalism, recent crisis management, and transformations of the welfare regimes. Debates are emerging around master paradigms of post-socialist transition and interpretations of global trends of capitalist reproduction in conjunction with ideological, conceptual and generational divides among scholars concerned. The seminar will focus on qualitative inquiries pursued most importantly in social anthropology, sociology and other cross-cutting fields such as gender and migration studies.  

Professor Zentai is visiting the Department of Human Resource Management from April 18 - May 8. Her Centre is one of the partners in the four-year Marie Curie Initial Training Network - ChangingEmployment - which is coordinated in the Department, as well as being a partner on the EPRC/School of Government & Public Policy led Horizon 2020 project, COHESIFY: Understanding the impact of Cohesion policy on European Identity

Published: 21 April 2016